Thought experiment for 2121
Happy holidays, hope all are well. To distract anyone who needs it from the holidays, here’s a sci fi thought experiment.
A family member (Michigan PhD) is one of the world experts in AI and Esports. Several of his students are gunning to be the first in the world to be head coaches in professional sports. They have no or relatively little athletic experience outside of video games.
In 2121, will Michigan football be more likely to have a coach who’s tie is to Michigan football as a player or a gamer? Or both...???
December 24th, 2020 at 1:45 PM ^
Started drinking early today huh?
December 24th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
It's the anti-Brandon approach . . . get out of bed and start drinking.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:32 PM ^
I think he was drinking in bed.
December 24th, 2020 at 5:57 PM ^
mental illness mgoblog healthy escapism for the holidays. Love to you and yours!
December 24th, 2020 at 1:48 PM ^
Enjoying a Christmas Eve joint?
December 24th, 2020 at 1:49 PM ^
Do you honestly think in 2121 that anyone will spend any time outside of their chosen VR world and avatar?
December 24th, 2020 at 2:19 PM ^
I have no clue what Michigan football or the world as a whole will look like in 2121.
I do, however, have a very good idea what things will be like in the year 2525 (and beyond) thanks to these two fortune tellers
December 24th, 2020 at 2:26 PM ^
I love that song and forgot about it! Thanks!
December 24th, 2020 at 1:51 PM ^
I am also drunk.
December 24th, 2020 at 3:15 PM ^
I just cracked open some Lagavulin. I see you have at least an hour and a half head start on me. I’m on it though.
December 25th, 2020 at 2:04 PM ^
Still like Laphroaig better
December 26th, 2020 at 2:03 AM ^
That deserves re-peating
December 24th, 2020 at 1:52 PM ^
Thanks, e-sports, for taking the world one step closer to "Wall-E"
December 24th, 2020 at 2:00 PM ^
Technology is great and all but that is a sad, lazy existence.
Besides, Skynet will have taken over by then anyway.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:24 PM ^
If that's what becomes of the human race, then I fully embrace robots replacing us so as not to embarrass us when Earth's representatives encounter alien lifeforms.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:31 PM ^
Btw, speaking of the future, I watched the Netflix film "The Midnight Sky".
George Clooney plays a scientist who discovers Jupiter has a moon that is habitable called K23.
They flashback to his younger self and he is giving a speech about his discovery and in the after party gathering, a woman comes up to him and asks:
"Oxford? and he says no....Michigan "
So we can count this movie as one where UofM is mentioned.
The movie was very interesting but a tad slow.
December 24th, 2020 at 1:52 PM ^
I’m not sure what I’m trying to guess, so Justin Feagin?
December 24th, 2020 at 1:52 PM ^
so i'm on a train going the speed of light, i whip out my flashlight............
December 24th, 2020 at 2:34 PM ^
Ron, please don't whip it out, Christina Applegate is probably not interested...
December 24th, 2020 at 3:05 PM ^
Fleshlight is so 2020. We'll have better tech by then for solo fun.
December 24th, 2020 at 1:53 PM ^
As an experiment, I may try thinking.
But only if it's not too hard.
December 24th, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
I wouldn't' be surprised if football declines in popularity like boxing did by 2121. More and more parents aren't letting their kids play.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:34 PM ^
Participation in sports is drooling across the board.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:39 PM ^
This was my initial thought as well. Football as we know it today won’t exist anymore, well before 2121 IMO.
December 24th, 2020 at 3:21 PM ^
A lot of this stuff is going to come crashing down long before 2121, professional and collegiate sports as we know them included.
December 24th, 2020 at 3:34 PM ^
I think there are also fewer total school-age children now than in the first decade of this century. The birth rate dropped in the 2000s and hasn’t recovered.
December 24th, 2020 at 5:24 PM ^
All you have to do is look at the plunge in college enrollment at most Michigan universities and colleges to see that.
December 24th, 2020 at 4:36 PM ^
Rollerball will take over.
December 24th, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
Who is this AI you speak of?
December 24th, 2020 at 3:20 PM ^
He's the guy who doesn't give a damn about practice.
December 24th, 2020 at 3:37 PM ^
Ohhhh..... so we talkin’ about PRACTICE! PRACTICE!
December 24th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
I also used to dabble in getting drunk while high. Words of wisdom, no one else is on your level, it's better to keep your "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy" in your own mind.
December 24th, 2020 at 1:58 PM ^
Honestly, if by 2121 humanity hasn’t already nuked the earth into oblivion or otherwise rendered it completely uninhabitable, I’ll be surprised.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:22 PM ^
Nope, you'll be dead and unsurprised.
December 24th, 2020 at 3:32 PM ^
Touché, salesman
December 24th, 2020 at 2:54 PM ^
Who cares? We'll all be dead and our descendants will all be serfs.
December 24th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".
-Albert Einstein
December 24th, 2020 at 4:14 PM ^
People have been predicting the end of Civilization by those means, or in a similar being, all my life. One thing I'm sure is, they don't have any idea what they are talking about.
December 24th, 2020 at 1:59 PM ^
Even in 2121 Michigan Man is still a thing?
December 24th, 2020 at 2:01 PM ^
My concern is that we still don't have any DTs or CBs in the 2118-2121 recruiting classes.
Regardless of the coaching, how are we going to stop Ricky White's great-great-grandson on those dreaded fly routes?
December 24th, 2020 at 2:04 PM ^
I'm guessing Michigan football no longer exists. Either football itself is gone or colleges have gotten out of the intercollegiate athletics business entirely.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
So, this would be a first, as a coach, but similar things have happened. Nissan held a contest in conjunction with Gran Turismo and the winners became drivers for Nissan’s new team. It actually worked out pretty well. Now, for this, I think these folks would be more geared to playcalling and route creation. I think half or more of the success of a coach is credibility. No 18 year old kid is going to trust a coach who only has gaming experience. I don’t doubt that they know formations and would do a great UFR and film breakdown, but being a coach is way more than just that.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
If I had to serve with a fellow marine who either made it out of basic training or was world champion at call of duty, I wouldn't even have to think about it. Playing games, which merely simulate real conditions, is a poor means of measuring whether someone can do something in real life. God help us.
December 24th, 2020 at 4:27 PM ^
This is accurate and fair. However the question was about coaching aka leading and scheming. Your comparison would be more relatable to a video gamer trying to go be a football player, and that’s not the question. I agree with your point tho! That said, someone who shows a great grasp on military strategy based on video games may not be a bad choice as someone to be in charge of troops heading into combat, which I think more appropriately pertains to your analogy. That said, if I’m heading into battle and you’ve never shot a real gun or been shot at, never trained in the swamps and mountains and ran 5K with your rucksack on etc, no way in hell I care what you have to say
December 24th, 2020 at 2:22 PM ^
I think if you’ve watched Ted Lasso you’re qualified to lead anyone. In anything.
December 24th, 2020 at 2:23 PM ^
I have a hunch the world will end by 2070.
December 24th, 2020 at 4:46 PM ^
Is that the year they wake you from your cryogenic slumber?
December 24th, 2020 at 5:15 PM ^
My disembodied avatar isn't just for show!
December 24th, 2020 at 5:19 PM ^
October 2069: Apocalyptic meteor scheduled to strike Columbus, Ohio at 12:34pm local time.
Penn State has disbanded their team to allow players to be with their loved ones. Ohio State Athletic Director Zach Smith IV reacts "they're just ducking us. Our boys are ready to play!"
