College Football Nerds (Formerly SEC Fans) posts Michigan Preview
August 12th, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
The YouTube crowd has discovered that Michigan fans are very online.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
Yes we are. Always have been.
PINE email at the Fishbowl....
The stalkery "finger" function to figure out where on campus other PINE users were....I loved that one....
You ever take a VHS movie over to the MLB and go watch it on the 3rd floor where they had little booths featuring TVs with built-in VCRs, and just watch in peace, no interrupting roommates, between classes? That was like 1995 Youtube.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
That’s...oddly specific.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:31 PM ^
You are speaking right to me and my ilk. My thickest memory of that technology era was when I would go back to (insert small Western Michigan town here), Michigan over the holidays or summer and try to check Pine via dial-up. So many frustrated nights losing touch when shit didn't line up perfectly. That was like Matthew Broderick trying to hack into the WOPR drunk at 2am.
August 13th, 2019 at 3:11 AM ^
I was such a stud at online games in the late 90s because of UofM's ethernet while the rest of the world was on dialup. Ah memories.
August 13th, 2019 at 7:04 AM ^
Quake?
August 13th, 2019 at 8:42 AM ^
Puh-lease.
August 13th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
Quake hahahaha.
I remember guys playing that and DOOM at the South Quad basement computer center, which was a very dank space at 1am back then.
August 13th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
Marathon. Now there was a game.
August 13th, 2019 at 8:19 PM ^
^ this deserves two woots!
Also, I still remember the awesome startup song. MARATHON!
September 10th, 2019 at 7:44 PM ^
MUDs not, well mostly one called Duris, that has connective tissue with Everquest that then took most of it's players....not that you'll ever see this!
August 13th, 2019 at 11:59 AM ^
I only had to go as far as just outside Ann Arbor to go home for the holidays, but same problems. Well, similar problems. My parents typically pioneered Internet access capability in their subdivision (e.g., being the first on the street to get a DSL line, for example), but even at that, dialing into the campus network at the time was still a frustrating experience. If it had been WarGames, I probably would have been too late to save everyone from WWIII.
August 13th, 2019 at 6:59 AM ^
I still have the "Blue Disc" I got when I first came to campus that has all the installers for Telnet and the other UM computing software
August 13th, 2019 at 7:08 AM ^
True story: When setting up my uniqname, I requested pine. (We had a lot of those around our house in my hometown.) I faintly recall being told that it would cause a general name conflict because of the e-mail program. I went with another tree.
Didn't know about the MLB mini-cineplex option ...
August 13th, 2019 at 7:33 AM ^
What year did you graduate? (93 for me) In 1988 the internets was not really a thing as of yet. Our class was the first with the new picture ID. E-mail was something we got in the engineering school (before I decamped to LSA for an Econ Degree). Cool fun times!
August 12th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
Im drinkin' the kool-aid
August 12th, 2019 at 11:08 PM ^
11-1 would probably be enough to make the CFP with our schedule, provided we still win the conference and don’t lose poorly super late in the season.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:10 PM ^
They cover that. The theory is that if they lose to Notre Dame or Ohio State then odds are that team gets in over Michigan. If it's to, say, Penn State, then UM would probably get in haven beaten OSU and ND
August 12th, 2019 at 11:53 PM ^
That sounds fair. Having OSU so late in the year has really been shitty for Michigan lately. We lack depth so end up worse than we were in the middle of the year in a way that OSU doesn't.
It would be hard for Michigan to ever get to the CFP with a loss to OSU. If OSU is similarly good, either they get in over us or neither of us do. If they beat us and aren't good, then we have a "bad loss" late in the year and get left out.
August 13th, 2019 at 8:23 AM ^
I’m not sure the problem is how the schedule so much as, you know, never beating OSU.
August 13th, 2019 at 10:11 AM ^
How many times does OSU face the best version of Michigan? There's no way you can watch Michigan kick the shit out of Wisconsin early in the season and not think that the team lost a step by the time they were playing mediocre Indiana.
Michigan needs to beat OSU for sure. However, for the last 10 years OSU has had more talent AND much better depth. That shows up late in the season.
August 13th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
I think we shot our load against PSU. Rutgers was a comedown game and IU was the traditional "let's just think about OSU and not really show anything in our playbook" game. The offense reached the end of November intact but the DL was toast.
August 13th, 2019 at 12:17 AM ^
Michigan absolutely 100% will not be left out if they're 12-1 with the only loss to Notre Dame. They'll have beaten Army, Iowa, MSU and OSU at home, Wisconsin and PSU on the road and the West champ in the conf title game. No way they get left out.
Four teams make it. Not one.
Either ND will also get in if they have one or zero losses (they have a tough schedule: @UGA, @Stanford, home USC, UVA) or they'll have two or more losses and Michigan will still finish ahead of them and all other teams but three.
UNLESS, I suppose, if Michigan pulls an OSU and gets spanked by ND (or anyone, really) that might be too much to overcome. They'd still probably make it at 12-1, but that could open the door to the committee leaving them out.
August 13th, 2019 at 1:18 AM ^
Agreed. If we are 11-1 with the only loss to ND then we are in the CFP. Because ND will have at least two losses with their schedule. No way ND has only one loss in the regular season in 2019.
August 13th, 2019 at 9:12 AM ^
Who else do you think ND loses to though? They have to come to Michigan and go to Georgia but outside of that their schedule is pretty manageable. In your scenario, If Michigan loses to ND I could pretty easily see them going 11-1.
Stanford could win but ND handled them last year pretty easily (38-17, yards were 550-229). Virginia could if they are able to muck it up and ND still has a hangover from going to Georgia. USC is not going to be good, BC and VT both go to ND, Duke and Louisville both suck. Then you have Navy, New Mexico & Bowling Green.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:26 PM ^
We wont win the big ten unless we switch to maize pants on the road. I hate the all whites...
August 12th, 2019 at 11:55 PM ^
This is the kind of hard-hitting analysis we haven't been talking about enough.
August 13th, 2019 at 12:12 AM ^
Yes exactly. Scratch all of the other bullshit and observations, it's the maize pants that will get er done.
August 13th, 2019 at 12:14 AM ^
I actually disagree and hope they keep the all-whites.
August 13th, 2019 at 12:42 AM ^
Same here. I think they look great with the thick stripes along the sides.
August 13th, 2019 at 7:30 AM ^
Love the all Whites combined with the helmets. Classic look.
August 13th, 2019 at 10:56 AM ^
Yes. The maize pants remind me of all the painful road losses of the late-Carr, RichRod, and Hoke years.
August 13th, 2019 at 11:52 AM ^
White pants always look like pajamas to me.
August 13th, 2019 at 11:44 AM ^
And the maize piping on the jersey too.
August 13th, 2019 at 1:49 AM ^
Could be worse - could be debating whether we’ve missed the chance to see a certain former viper play all-time RB even though he has been in the NFL for a couple years now...
August 13th, 2019 at 11:05 AM ^
But he wore maize AND white pants during his career, amirite?
August 12th, 2019 at 11:58 PM ^
Agree, need to wear maize pants on the road.
Come on Coach, good enough for Bo.
August 13th, 2019 at 9:57 AM ^
I loved the maize pants coming back for the penn state game two years ago for about 3 minutes.
August 13th, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
I like talking about pants, is something I never say.
August 13th, 2019 at 9:46 PM ^
That was the only nice thing about that awful game. I heard somewhere that the maize pants were to counteract Penn State's white out so maybe we'll see them again this year. I miss them
August 13th, 2019 at 3:12 PM ^
All of you are wrong. It's the tiny pads. If they go back to the 70s and 80s style pads, they're bigger and more intimidating. Bigger pads=bigger wins!
August 12th, 2019 at 11:31 PM ^
I really hope the Michgian Wovlerines have a good season!
August 12th, 2019 at 11:50 PM ^
It’s a trap—they’re just trying to lull us into complacency.
August 13th, 2019 at 12:13 AM ^
"As a fan you're probably like pencilling in the back-up last year to be a superstar this year."
This guy knows Michigan fans.
August 13th, 2019 at 12:46 AM ^
They are definitely sucking up to the respective fan bases. I watched their OSU preview and both of them predicted OSU to go 11-1 and beat Michigan easily. It was the OSU guy who countered and predicted that they lose more games, including Michigan. This is to say, I lost respect for their glowing comments about Michigan, because they are sucking up to us for views just like they are everyone else.
August 13th, 2019 at 5:04 AM ^
Lol, reminds me of an ESPN article a couple of years ago predicting NFL wins for each team. I added them all up and found that, according to their predictions, 256 NFL games would result in a cumulative league record of 312 wins and 200 losses (each game results in two outcomes - win or loss).
August 13th, 2019 at 8:48 AM ^
That's because it was different people doing the predictions for each team.
August 13th, 2019 at 7:25 AM ^
Ehhhhh. We don't do that (guy in the video here). As mentioned in the beginning of the video, we were very honest in our assessment of Shea Patterson to start the season last year, and it won us no friends in UM circles.
We went on Kyle Lamb's show last year (the OSU guy in the OSU preview) and predicted Michigan to beat OSU by double digits.
We're universally scorned on YouTube for the exact opposite of what you're saying.
It's the preseason, so I'm not going to unreasonably dog any team. I'll point out strengths and weaknesses - but we're a data-driven show. Until we get data, everything is theoretical. Preseason discussions are more about possibilities than guarantees. Anyone saying otherwise values their projections more than they're worth.
August 13th, 2019 at 8:12 AM ^
Math nerds that like sports and follow up trash talk with a sound argument are fun!