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That's a great question...I just noticed that discrepancy. After looking at it a little more closely, I think maybe all the posts on that site get tagged with "Posted by Chris Webber." My bad, I guess I engaged in some Free Press level "investigative journalism" there.

So Jimbo Fisher waits three years for the HC job at FSU to open up, gets the job via an acrimonious force out of the legendary Bobby Bowden, and then leaves after one year? No.

This guy went to the Big 12 championship game two straight years and brought that program back from mediocrity. Also, its not like he's coming from a subpar football program. Nebraska is a legendary program. And now, people actually expect him to leave all that to coach a team that's not only in his conference, but in his division? A fanbase that just ripped a non "Michigan man" to shreds over three years? So he's going to go from probable division dominance and conference contention for at least the next 3-5 years to what is currently a middle of the road Big Ten team with a furious fanbase? Are you serious?

We're really grasping at straws here. 

Did Gerg design that roundabout? Such sweet disorganization could only be a creation of the White Wizard himself!

really? what do you think Oregon would have done to us this year?

Besides the injuries, that list doesn't exactly scream out "Rich Rod is a great recruiter." One guy in jail, a washout in Turner, a guy who was injured in college, a guy who "didn't pan out," and two guys (you forgot Witty) who couldn't qualify. Add in the fact that Floyd wasn't very good even before he got hurt, and the fact that, contrary to revisionist history, Woolfolk wasn't exactly a lockdown corner before he got hurt, and I'd say that's pretty damning. And yeah, I know he didn't recruit all those guys; not sure on the numbers but I think he recruited all but Woolfolk? Anyway, I think that's all counter-productive to your argument. And finally, I'm about 51/49 in favor of Rich Rod staying, so I'm not trying to make a point about hiring Harbaufh or firing Rodriguez.

Charles Rogers was a beast, he just turned out to be a weed head with fragile bones. There are much, much worse examples of Millen's ineptitude you can refer to, like the aforementioned Mike Williams.

I hate all the bars and graphs and obscure stats and deviations above normal that accompany so many of the posts here. You can't see the future by analyzing a bunch of fucking pie charts. Maybe we should analyze, you know, the way the players play on the field. There was one recurring post that a lot of people were worked up about, because it said our predicted record (delta or azimuth or some such shit that I give not one fuck about) was 10-2. People actually believed that shit, even AFTER our defense was revealed to be something other than decent. There was a complicated chart to go with it, but apparently neither the coaches nor the team saw that shit; somehow, they went 7-5. Thanks for the insight, nerds.

^ writes like Terry Foster.

semi OT, but I usually go with the ostrich, and it's worked most times EXCEPT:

1998 World Cup... Brazil and France won the final four games to get into the championship game. I couldn't watch the games, so I taped one and was going to watch the other one on the late replay. The late replay was the Brazil fame, and ESPN flashed the final score of the game on the ticker DURING the actual replay. So that sucked. Then I was out with my girl during the France game, and I heard a bunch of honking horns, looked up, and there was a guy screaming and waving a French flag out of his car window. So that sucked too.

The ostrich is probably still the way to go but you have to be really, really lucky to not hear about the game, in my opinion.

If I remember correctly, we also punted a couple times on 4th and 1 in areas where we could have gone for it...so yeah, we definitely had an opportunity to score well into the 50's and maybe even the 60's.

I would love to see harder hitting. I feel we've been missing that here for years, even before RR took over.

missing throat slash = joke.

is "POW(!)" an accurate acronym for the way he's been playing?

Gayverines? That's not even a well-thought out play on words. It bears no resemblence to the original word. That's like me calling the Spartans the "Sparbitches" or the "Failtans"

Also, thanks for that "hot Spartan beef" offer. I'm gonna pass, though.

I watched the game at Champion's in East Lansing. I saw a couple MSU fans exchange a high five when Denard got hurt. The worst part is they weren't college brahs or anything...they were probably 60 and 55, respectively.

hahahahha ...yeah...I think flair and swagger are completely different. definitely don't want to see the defense out there with scarves, decorative buttons, and rhinestone jersey numbers. that might have the opposite of the intended effect.

raise your hand if you agree with this guy...

- every football fan in the country raises their hand -

next.

...exactly how I feel, for what it's worth.

See, that's what happens when you screw up three or four late game situations...you find yourself having to explain yourself in a rambling monologue to a rabid, drunk, potentially violent ESS EEE CEE fanbase. The funniest part is he looks like a kid trying to explain to his parents how the flat screen TV ended up on fire.

If this was the first time it happened, that video is :45, tops. Let's not all go crazy and extrapolate this into meaning he would have been a bust at Michigan, though. We'd have a surplus of beastly defensive recruits at the very least.

...I think 9-3, but a weird 9-3. Like beat OSU and Wisky but lose to Purdue 9-3. We're gonna have a chance to win EVERY game on our schedule, and lose most of them too. Damn, I really, seriously have never been so excited about a Big Ten conference season. Maybe 61% excitement, 30% fear, 9% emotion to be named later.

I'm just as excited as everybody else...let's just hope we can play defense by then. I don't want to see another Florida State or Oregon. I fully expect us to be much improved on D, but we're talking two seasons...thats not a lot of time considering how thin we are on D. Im not trying to be pessimistic, but I feel like we're a long way from fielding a national championship caliber D. This will be a shootout with immense national attention ala OSU 2006, and dammit I just want to come out on top this time. Defense will be the key.

ah, I get it... thanks again.

thenku, kind sir.

The play of the offensive line and the RB blocking were what really stood out for me...besides the obvious of course: Denard's play was eye-opening and completely shocking. But watch some of those big plays a few times, and you'll see a GREAT job blocking by the O-line and the RBs.

It's crazy that we need a reminder to enjoy life sometimes. Especially fitting given all the problems with our programs the last few years.

Four of those...well, four and a half really, cuz I did a car bomb too.

sorry if this question has already been answered...I just couldn't stomach reading 156 posts about this.. trying to just let it play itself out and not get absorbed in the speculation and fearmongering. Thanks!

On the 30+ yd. TD run, both Smith and Shaw picked up key blocks to spring Denard. Shaw took out a crashing DE on the 3rd down conversion slant to Stonum, and Vincent Smith took out a LB when Denard converted that 3rd and 16 (!!). I watched the replays in slow motion and took a lot of still photos, and the RBs seemed to make the blocks they needed to make every time...and not only did they make the blocks, but they were really good, solid blocks that opened crazy running lanes for Denard.