How did your Mgoblog life start?

Wandered the internet looking for an alternative due to the UMGoBlue forum. That place was getting really bad with the bickering so I stumbled across here. And the rest is history.

For me, as an analyst, I just got sick of Google search results taking me to Bleacher Report. Once I found out about this place, and the level of thoughtful analysis Brian puts into the UFRs, and what guys like The Mathlete and LSAClassof2000 bring to the table, it was game over. Lurked for a couple months, then once I joined up I never looked back.

Was an Engineering Intern for the city of Ann Arbor back in 2008, we had lots of free time on the computers...a co-worker who was UM Grad brought it up. I've been addicted since. Also, if you wonder how the city was in financial struggles, I could give you a few reasons as to why being an intern.

Heard the front page of MGoBlog was bashing the MMB somewhere around the fall of 2009.  After a few months (and the rampant band support that ensued), I decided you guys weren't too bad.

From your mom.....nice

I was born into this.

"Hey, this michigan blog says Lloyd Carr is going to retire." Right around Ohio State 2007.

Me: "What? BS, yo."

The blog (this blog) was right. I visited for the first time, saw the rumors, read a thorough preview of the game that told me what to watch for (Preview Ohio State, 2007)

I was just a sophomore at UM and I went to that game, screamed my lungs out, watched Beanie Wells repeatedly run at us. Awful game.

Came back and the blog had a moving piece up about Carr (the osu game column 2007). Then it was on to the joyful Capital One Bowl, I was digging through the archives all the way back to 2005, and the hilarious/ bungled coaching search was soon underway. I was hooked.

I owe him.

I think it was when we were in the hiring process for a new coach that my brother goes yeah so this site mgoblog they are crazy they are following like what plane rides Michigan higher ups are taking to try and figure out what coaches they are going to visit to interview for the job. Plus they follow recruiting a lot you should check it out.

I started following MgoBlog when my buddy David AKA Lloyd Brady was "discovered" on here and all of the photoshops of him were being made.  I didn't join until last year when I wanted to start chiming in on the discussions. 

My buddy always looks at bleacher report, and acts like he is doing me a favor every time he reports something to me. So I was bored, check out the site a couple times the first week. It took me about 3 days to figure out that it was complete garbage.

But I was fixing for some Michigan football news. I didn't know where to look. Googled "Michigan Football Blogs," this one seemed legitimate. So I kept coming back around a few days, made an account and have been addicted ever since. It took me forever to get the inside jokes, and I think for the first 2 months, I never got a comment up-voted. It was a proud moment when someone actually agreed with what I was saying on here.

/embarassing

One day during the coaching search that eventually hired Rich Rod, I saw a random retweet about some weird flight tracking website.  I checked the guy's twitter page and it had some references to MGoBlog.....so I checked it out.  Been visiting multiple times a day ever since. :)

EDIT: It was actually the search that eventually hired Hoke and people were stalking flights.

eHarmony.com



We had at match on about 90% of our computability likenesses.

...if I need to know what is going on with Michigan sports or otherwise...chances are there is a thread here.

I needed a site where I felt I wouldn't be browbeat with what happened from a non-michigan perspective. I later started commenting.

I was a reader for several years actually, almost going back to a game in 2007 which shall not be mentioned. It was only in early 2011 (as you can see) that I decided to create a posting account in order to discuss the coaching transition with others and my own views on it. Within days, I found myself expressing my opinion and sharing information / knowledge / stories with a group of Michigan fans that were as passionate about everything Michigan as I was and I never quit contributing - I even began to find ways to proactively contribute, and I don't plan to stop that either. 

Even better, by some strange coincidence, I now have scary powers here.

Indeed, this very browsing session is over two years old now. 

One-stop-shopping.

I have no patience, and need instanst gratification.

After a couple days on MGoBlog I realized that if there is something important to read (from any of the dozen media outlets that I was looking at every couple of days) then it would be discussed, and always linked, on this site.

One of the first posts I made was about a story I read from a news outlet and I did not link the story.  Backlash from the board was harsh.  But I realized quickly that most (but not all) of the backlash on this board is to assure that the relay of information is credible and current.  No other blog, and even some news outlets, can match MGoBlog's integrity and accuracy.

I was posting on the old Freep board many years ago and then they shut that board down.  The members all moved over to a Worldcrossing board.  The level of content and the users were really good for a couple years, but then the trolls hit.  One of the members suggested coming here and have never looked back.  I try to read more than I post, but I am good and truely hooked.

When I was in college in the 2005-2006 range, I remember my roommates, a couple of whom have memberships here, discussing some website.  I remember thinking, "That sounds a lot like the University's Athletic Website, whatever, I won't correct them, give me a beer".

In a brief sober period during the same timeframe, one of them actually showed me the website, "OH MGoBLOG, I get it now", and so I read it, thinking, MAN, I understand none of this, the stadium is right there, and LaMarr Woodley is probably at Rick's.  GIVE ME A BEER"

After college I spent much more time at desks, and slightly less time drinking, and discovered that there was some semblance of structure and community involved with this place, So around 2008, I started reading Every.Single.Post.

I eventually made a usename around 2010, undoubtedly because someone posted something on the board that i found unconscionable, irreconcilable, or totally f'ing awesome, and had to SAY SOMETHING AND DEFEND MY FAMILY'S HONOR.  I don't know, maybe someone can help my find my first post.

Back when "Google Realtime" was available, I kept seeing this guy named TonVH tweeting important stuff about Michigan recruiting and the Hoke/RR transition.  So I kept watching his twitter, which led me here.

I stalked the site for about 6 months and finally made an account in June 2011.   Been hooked since.

I think it was Sam McGuffie's recruitment that brought me here. Couldn't say for sure, though. 

I used to write blog posts that very few people read, and it got boring because nobody read them/commented.  So I did a Google search for "Michigan football blog" or something like that, and MGoBlog popped up.  It was pretty professionally done (for being on Blogspot) and discussed a lot of things that interested me, so I stuck around.  This was in 2006, I believe.  I've been visiting pretty much daily since then.

The year was 2008 and I googled "Michigan Football Blogs".  The rest is history.

1: Born! Winning.

2: ???

3: Went to Michigan, wanted all the footballs.

4: Google

5: MGoBlog

6+: MGoBlog.

I don't really remember because it was so long ago.  I remember this place used to really different with the WLA guys around.  Those were some good times with lots of interesting trolls (McFarlin, Emo, etc.).

Does anyone from way back when remember a lawyer who said he would sue us all because we said he looked like a pedo?  He was being a pretty big troll and someone found his website and posted his picture.

but I remember it being at your mom's place.

2 years ago, during the basketball season. Football had obviously been disappointing and this was the Darius Morris year for basketball where we were on the buble. I was looking for any coverage I could of Michigan basketball to drown out the sorrows of football. I was on ESPN's CBB blog right before the home MSU game and saw this site linked in the side bar. Came here, have been hooked ever since.

The coaching search was the first main reason i ever checked on the site, plus Time posted about Michigan lacrosse even when they were club (since then he started his own blog greatlaxstate.com).  Kept on coming back, never really have been a heavy poster on topics but the reading is great and the threads produce some of the funniest things i have ever read on the internet.  Plus the personalities on here are great, still one of my favorites of all time is KOB.

A high school buddy of mine tipped me off about it shortly after The Horror. I finally committed and made a user account when before the 2009-10 basketball season.

Michigan and my roommate's team UNC were ranked in the top 25 preseason. We made a bet about who would go further in the NCAA Tournament and I wanted the MGoCommunity's opinion of whether I made a good bet. As many may remember, we didn't make it to the tournament that year, and I apologize for jinxing the team. Luckily me for, UNC didn't either, causing that bet to result in an unlikely draw.

I found the site originally in summer 2006 when I was randomly looking for Michigan football video clips to try to make my own highlight films with.  I didn't come back again for a few years, when RR was hired, and I was trying to consume as much info about him as possible.  I lingered as a reader for a little over  a year until I finally gave in and made a user account.    

My brother had told me about MGoBlog a few times and I was just like "yeah whatever" but at some point during the 2007 season I checked it out and thought it was cool but nothing special.  Then Brian got the leak that Lloyd was going to announce his retirement the day after the Ohio State game and I was like "yeah whatever" and Sam Webb got on his show and was like "yeah whatever" and then it happened and I was like "that was perty cool."

And that is how life begins.

I use to periodically follow a Michigan blog that no longer exists. I also followed rivals and scouts pretty heavily. When the blog begin to shut down I started looking at other sites that it had mentioned. That is when I stumble across Mgoblog. It would be 3 years before I would post on the message board for the first time, but I read everything though. I still don't post to often, but I do still creepily read everything. I've got to witness Brian's staff change, the Jyhad, and The Horror, but my most favorite is being a part of fandom insurance III. I have the merit badge.

http://mgoblog.com/content/perverse-joy-abject-stupidity

Years ago I saw references to SB Nation and MaizeNBrew on cbs sports website, when I went there I saw references to Mgoblog, so I started coming here...