MGoBlog Call for Papers
Attention. Captain Alvin Mercer leaves for a honeymoon in Tokyo at oh-nine hundred hours. Any nurse wishing to be the bride please contact the captain. No experience necessary
--M.A.S.H. 4077 PA announcer
With Major Cook honeymooning in Seoul, your friendly officers Misopogeye Pierce, RadarVH, and Trapper Tim will be getting a bit more liberal with the Bump buttons.
With that in mind, I'd like your help in generating a list of topics you'd like to see covered over the next few weeks. If you've got an idea you want help developing, we can help with that. Otherwise let us know what you'd love to read...I'll publish what we come up with on the main page and see if we get any takers.
Good and Bad Examples:
- Do early commits work out better than late ones?
- Which recruiting site has been the most accurate with M players over X years?
- What happens in the event that figure 'A' is attracted to figure 'B' and wants to get married, but figure 'A' is already married to figure 'C' and figure 'B' is engaged to figure 'D', but figure 'A' can't keep his hands of figure 'B' because she's got such agreat figure?
Quantum Physics and the Importance of Thinking Positive as Fans: Effect of Negativity and the Existential Quandry of Michigan Success Relative to Fans and Thier Lives : Overcoming Typical Michigan Sports Negativity and Achieving Your Personal and Sports Related Dreams
I really want to read this paper. Jump on that, guys.
I would like to read a detailed post-game description of the game versus Western Michigan. You could give it a catchy name like......oh, I don't know......"Upon Further Review" or something along those lines.
I would be very interested in a breakdown of what SDSU (and to a much lesser degree BSU and Auburn) did on offense the under Hoke/Borges. For example, how often they were in which formations, how frequently they shifted, what their personnel looked like, what their blocking schemes were, what routes their receivers ran, etc.
And ultimately, how that compares to what we want, think, and/or expect from the offense this fall and beyond.
This is only one game, but here's a good thread to that effect.
Thank you for that; it will occupy my mind for a while. I would still like a look at the season as a whole.
I strongly suggest that all new diaries be written in Penthouse Forum format. Let's make this entertaining whilst Brian is off cavorting in exotic locales while we struggle with the daily grind of deciphering what M-related news to fret about.
I'll begin:
"It was a sultry late summer evening. I was slumped lazily on my front stoop with a six-pack of lukewarm suds and the sounds of barely audible rawk music drifting from a battered radio. It had been a tough week on the road trying to convince high-end football prospects to ply their trade in Ann Arbor for the next four years of their lives, and the thought of slowly nursing a beer while my eyes grew progressively heavier seemed very appealing. But not as appealing as a smile-inducing memory of a recent recruiting trip to Kettering, OH. I was in heavy pursuit of a touted 5-star linebacker....a touted linebacker with a (INSERT FAVORITE DREAM FANTASY HERE...hot older sister with a 5-star body? Buxom step-mom wearing a maize and blue sweater vest?)
I'm a sophomore at a large midwestern university. I never thought your letters were true until one night when I was studying in the library...
How about an article on the recruitment of the Athlete position? I'm kind of curious to see how these athletes have translated into a football position.
I only did a brief search of Rival's 'Athletes' and looked at a small smattering, but couldn't really put a face to some of the names or anything.
a "Where Are They Now" feature. Personally I'd like to see 1975-1990 (my sweet spot) but any era will do. Stefan Humphries anyone? (Rehab doc in Spokane).
Go figure.
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<br>How about using those press credentials to some good use? Maybe some coverage of the new staff that not mainstream media is going to do, and the only people that will are pay sites. I mean, all off-season we should have been getting SDS analysis rather than Rich's offense analysis, or looks back at Michigan/ND/Florida's defense, as has been mentioned. But what you could be doing is asking for interview permission. No, Tim shouldn't go fighting over Hoke, or Mattison, or Borges. But what about all the other assistants we know so little about? They're training, experiences, how they're liking it at Michigan... They should be happy to get some attention and probably willing to speak in the slowest month. It gives us an idea what they actually do, and frankly, puts a more human face on people with families who put in hours upon hours for Michigan without getting tons of money, and zero guarantees. Might make someone think twice before screaming to fire someone. And at least gives a human view and makes the program easier to root for.
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<br>I's do it myself, but not sure I could weed through the redtape in 2 weeks. Media Relations contacts, the Blog could.