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It's only halftime.

You need to watch this while drunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by5xSt-T0So&feature=youtu.be

No way it could be as good sober.

Try New Holland's Accumulation Ale. I'm not actually a Fat Tire fan (WAY overrated), but Accumulation is excellent.

Almost had a nice little rain dance on the sideline there ala 2010 Hemmingway to bust it open.

Also - STALLONE YOU ARE 70 YEARS OLD STOP MAKING BOXING MOVIES.

He's trying so hard to be entertaining. He's just socially-unaware. That doesn't make him immature!

Yeah, I'm drunk.

2:45 minutes to go 15 miles? My daily commute is 54 miles each way, and it wouldn't take that long with a Zamboni prepping the expressways. Ouch. Another reason to love Michigan.

Uncovered a Lazarus pit recently? You're gonna need it. Bobby Layne laid his curse well, and EMU? Well... just 'cmon. Be realistic.

seriously... too many people have gotten burned by one of his little cuts when the charge him in the box....

But Lynch is a god, seriously. If you did NOT see his first TD pass tonight, watch that thing.

They solve everything!

Getting that FG just shows me that Hoke is getting it done. Poorly coached teams don't execute like that.

Now, imagine for a moment that you've got a team that can execute like that, but flops around like a pack of slovenly idiots on normal offensive plays. I think the blame there falls squarely on the guy responsible for coordinating these well trained athletes into a capable pack.

In conclusion: FIRE BORGES!

Well, my wife might not like it, so...

But Walton still out on the floor. Smart. He needs the time.

STst player with the floor slap. LOL.

But seriously, SCst has been pretty good from very deep. They'd be minus 9-12 most nights.

Michigan dance squad girl with the long, wavy dark hair... I'm in love.

Spike is a bad dude. That little hip check there to push the defender out on his bench was nasty.

A sparty.

I was there, and these are the things I can report:

Lohan will be out a couple of weeks at least. He left for the locker room shortly after going off the ice. He was keeping all of his weight off of his right leg, AND seemed to be favoring his right shoulder a lot. He's not just hurt. He is injured. two teamates had to help him off the ice.

Hyman SHOULD be injured, but is evidently fine. He got nailed by a tech player a few inches bigger htan him right on the corner of the boards at the north end ofthe Michigan bench. If the padding weren't on that coner, he'd have spit his face open. Nasty.

Red made a TON of line changes. I was questioning it, becauseit seemed we had trouble getting anything going offensively with all the changes, but it paid off in OT big time.

Tech is way more talented and skilled than their record indicates. HOWEVA, they didn't do much creation. Their shots came on effort plays to get breakaways or catch a puck in front of the net. They rarely got into an offensive set.

Clare should get some freedom to come up more on O. He won several foot races for pucks or to get into a defensive position, and definitely has speed.

Racine is a little rusty if his pregame practice means anything, but his glove is lightning and he's still your starter when he shakes off the rust.

You actually answered my question! Thanks!

So one year for player development, and no specific cut off date for that development to take off, so long as the development is evident SOMEWHERE in production.

Although I'm not nearly so negative on him (he single handedly won as many games as he single handedly lost), you just said exactly what I said. He was too good to take off the field (plus we had no other options), but because of the way he was built, as a QB, our offense had to be the DENARD OFFENSE. It takes time to make a paradigm shift from the DENARD OFFENSE to something else. How long?

That's fair. However, I'm not sure I would agree that taking over mid-season for a player that everyone expected to come back within a week or two (initially. Remember, nobody thought he'd be out through the end of the year.) counts as much, because I don't think they spent much time adapting the offense. They had fewer QB runs, but overall, they still ran it like it was Denard's offense, under the assumption that he was coming back.

Remember, I'm not talking about Gardner improving (which he has, albeit in fits and starts). I'm talking about finding the right formations and playcalls to get the most out of the players you have now.

But since Denard left, do you think it makes sense to give more traditional, I-Form power running an honest go? And since we haven't done it in years, do you think an honest go is half a game, or half a season, or what?

RPS is a way of controlling player point values.

If a D has been blitzing all day, you don't wanna give a reciever +3 every time a screen goes for 30 yards.An RPS call in this case demonstrates that the O Coordinator recognized that a blitz was likely and called the appropriate play to make them pay for their blitzing.

Occasoinally, especially early, an RPS can be luck if a team is doing something they haven't shown a lot of in the past.  If a team enters a game playing a very soft D that they've not run before, kind of like our ND defense was, the O coordinator might get a "luck" RPS for an early short field throw. However, as the D keeps doing that, more and more of those plays can be attributed to the coordinator putting the offense in the right position to take advantage.

An RPS +1 Means a play was just the right call by the O or D coordinator to take advantage of the opposing team's O or D. A +2 or +3 means they did that really well.

An RPS -1 -2 or -3 means M's coaches made a terrible play call that was just what the opposing coordinator wanted them to do. 

He has them.

I owe you one!

Seems like good starts for THJ and Trey (Trey especially considering his Summer League issues). Good to see Sims finally getting some NBA run as well.

It's interesting you would say that. I never said or implied that we NEEDED another presence at RB. Just that it would be interesting to see and I hated wasting his athleticism. When you say "no choice", it sounds like you're very dissatisfied with the talent we have at RB now. If you really are dissatisfied with it, why would you not want to try other bodies there?

DB is his position, for sure. But with his RS burned, it just seems sad to leave that athleticism off the field.

I don't think two TERRIBLY SURPRISING REVERSES per game really qualify as a few carries.

8 Posessions - 5 TD's. Fantastic.

13 of 17 passes were at least catchable. 14, really. That one was over Dileo's head, but he had two hands on it. Your WR's need to make plays. QB's are rearely going to be dead on for every throw.

When we weren't running into a stacked box, we got penetration and holes to run through.

Remove the sack, the bad snap fumble and the rushes from the 4th quarter clock kill drive starting at 7 minutes, and suddenly we rushed for 4.6 YPC. I'll take it up down left and right.

Have we had a QB since that could see and make that little toss at the :55 second mark? Of course, Devin would just run for it (correctly). The caverns that were opening up in the middle on pass plays were hilarious.

Also, not this game, of course, I can't think about Navarre vs. Minny without thinking about the Transcontinental in 2003. Best Transcontinental ever.

And yet, this is the way it should be. Things like this game should never have existed. Then we wouldn't be in the current crap house we're in.

But in Ep1, he tried to shoot himself after gassing Emilio and Krazy-8. Safety was on, but he pulled the trigger. It shows that when he can't come to terms with all the bad he's done, that's his way out.

I think Jesse is simply going to find Walt lying dead in bed one morning from the lung cancer, and everyone is going to go "WTF!?! SEINFELD!"

The value of the scholarship already affects where students go to school. Why should intern pay be any different. You have employees, you're entitled to pay them what you want. If they don't wantto work for that money, they can go somewhere else.

People, this isn't hard. If you want to argue about something on the internet, fine, do it (just not here). But if you EVER think that trolling sounds like a good idea, you need to step away and take a few deep breaths.

He is either a zombie or an extra from Planet of the Apes. I mean in real life.

Alright, so, he's been decent, but NOT living up to the hype to date. I agree there. But now you've got a 278 lb DE with incredible athletic ability... Someone taking snaps for Akron is going to be made of bruises Sunday.

But now add drunken Juggalos to the equation.

Schnitt! That's terrifying.

Play this while watching.

He maybe tweaked a hamstring. At first, I thought it was his back, but then he wouldn't be back in. Probably be sore and stiff this week. He might do well from a week off against Akron (speculation only, here).

Cam Gordon laid a couple of big licks tonight, but they were at the end of plays, rather than at the LOS or in the backfield. He was dropping rather than charging. Mattison really showed a LOT of respect for Rees arm tonight, to the point that it opened things up big time for the ND Rush game.

The members of this blog should be put to work in diamond mines. Not as an insult, mind you, but because they're just so good at unearthing gemstones!

The giant noodle will cause problems. I mean, seriously, is there a better stoner magnet than giant mac & cheese?

Dear Kraft -

Neither I, nor my extended family, will buy ANY Kraft products (or Kraft family brand products) until this noodle is gone. I'm not even kidding.

With sugar on top, change the damn colors.

The deep ball from Gardner looked like it nearly touched the roof! Beautiful.

Are a traitor and you will be ostracized from here on out. Wearing red clothing... yech.

I wouldn't mind it if Green were running away from everyone so fast that he was redshifted.

PRACTICE jerseys. Chill.

The only way to tell is to look ahead to November 16th and see if the Wildcat in the box is alive or dead.

Sigh... so sad. But at least he died doing something he loved. If we let fear rule what we did, life would be depressing.

Used to say that he didn't think Wormley was as high a level prospect. However, as I recall, we determined that had something to do with Wormley being injured as a senior in HS.

I wish I'd thought of the OMG Jake Butt thing...

he'll get the same preparation needed being in practice

Somebody never played a lick of football.

But I had a couple of things I noted:

1: Loved the hig by Rawls, then on his other runs he kept trying to go around and I kept going, "NO! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?" I fear he will never develop. The wood laying power is there, but he seems afraid to use it. You're not a homerun threat! You are a battering ram!

2. I wish Gunderson had developed skill wise. Just massive.

3. Norfleet.

They were spending the day practicing out in front of the frat houses. He landed on the BOX house.

Digg says so.

But for a co,lege football coach to say, "My athletic specimen of a young man who is trained to react quicly and with force, and is at the very least held high in esteem by most that he meets was struck by a woman and it's all her fault" is ind of inviting guffaws and some serious 'blame the victim' hate, true or not. We will let htis play out, but probably issuing a suspension, even if he knew right away, was the only option.

"Somebody talking about me?"

Is not OT.

"Barking at a police dog" is the stupidest thing I can think of. You've had too many. You see a dog. "Hey, man! Look at that dog! Woof, Woof, dog! Woof! Oh cool. He barked back at me." This is not an arrestable offense. Then there was the resisting arrest, but I swear, that gets tagged on to every single arrest I've ever heard of.

"Excuse me, Officer, but why are you arresting me?"

"QUIT RESISTING, YOU!"

I hope this is true. I hope that nobody was seriously injured and that if innocent, Mr. Hyde is restored to full and active status with the Buckeyes as he should be. I furthermore hope that if the woman in question did, in fact, make a false statement against him, as it seems, that she is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I can, in fact, see that being quite likely in that, if she is a policeman's daughter, she could be angry at him for whatever reason, and she could simply decide to go 'crying to daddy' to get him in trouble. It's becoming more and more frequent as women quickly look for ways to give back all the headway honest feminists have been building over the years. (One story of the rise from just the other day in Scotland - Link).

I don't deny taking great joy in OSU's pain here, but I never said one bad comment about the individuals involved.

Won his first home game as UofM starting QB that day. A BIG, BIG deal.

"The police had no suspects."

Left out of the article was a quote with the investigating officer.

"Man... that thing was rank. There was corn, and what looked like HAIR! I wasn't getting near it. If you want to investigate further, be my guest."

You never know when you might need it.

But I'm still waiting ot hear about a PV cell that has a lifespan long enough to allow it to produce more energy than it took to create it.

But you can't take Columbus out of the player.

Nice Ink, Trey. We appreciate you waiting until Ann Arbor was behind you.

I think if you've got a 300+ pounder that is extremely good at DT, you're probably okay with him losing half a step speed wise. That's not a planet. That's Unicron.

XKCD has turned me on to innovative statistical graphing, but I never really thought about where it all originated.

At any rate, this is the cylical result of SEC dominance, but as I said, it's cylical. History has shown that highly successful organizations eventually end up headed by people who either assume that success is their birthright, and so do not try, or by the truly overzealous, wherin they cannot sanely lead the program as they adhere to bygone ways with a nearly religious bent. In either case, this eventually leads to organization backslide. Schools like Kentucky are cleaning up not because of their own successes, but because they offer student athleetes the chance to play on the biggest stage, against the cream of the crop.

In truth, the poor recruiting of the rest of the big ten can be placed somewhat upon the shoulders of failure at Michigan and, to some extent, OSU. Kentucky ain't winning any more BCS games than Minnesota is. Tennessee is still in tatters (SHOWER DISCIPLINE!). But the continued success of Bama, LSU and their incredibly high profile conference mates makes them more attractive by extension.

"Okay, we're not 'Bama. But by god, we play them all four years that you'll be here, and EVERYONE will be watching to see if you can stop their steamroller."

Coaches used to be able to say the same things about Michigan and OSU. Then OSU lost national title games in horrifying fashion. Michigan lost to A - ENTRY NOT FOUND. Now the chance to play against those schools is less attractive. I hope there's a new 10 year war. It puts attention right on the Big Ten where it needs to be.

That's what they think at PSU.

Peiton's brother.

HEIKO FOR PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD!

Personally, I think the best way to introduce scotch drinkers to scotch is to start with a Rusty Nail made with Dewars or JW, then buy them their first bottle of single malt, preferably a 12 year GlenLivet, for a birthday.

Ideally, get them the bottle on their 21st birthday, help them ease into and appreciate scotch, and crack the GlenLivet on their 22nd (or 20th and 21st, if it's a responsible house.)

I would love to see them sport a cool helmet with the oil-slick, color changing style rainbow laid into the clear coat. Tell me that wouldn't look awesome.

To make it clear there was ABSOLUTELY no question.

Yeah, but you gotta remember that the calf is subject to a ton of flexion and stress, and it's not a high scar tissue problem area. You need to stitch it strong so it can handle stretching during the healing process, and it's not a big deal if you get a gangly scar on there.

Plus, if that's cotton stitching, it'll heal into the wound a bit and hurt like hell to remove. In that case, you want as few stitches as possible.

Stribling was my favorite recruit this year mostly for the way he absolutely blew up after he committed. I hope he does things BIG TIME.

Maybe.

I see something about pencils, dogs and prenant wives. When did we turn from a discussion of stuffed peppers to a kinky porno?

ALSO! My Spanish is excellent if you're from Venus.

Sounds to me like this may have been a discussion with parents/coach:

"Do you really want to go as far away as Stanford?"

"I don't think so. It's too far."

"Alright, lets cross them off then. But I think you should visit one other school in the region to make sure you're making the right decision."

/baseless speculation

You're just presaging the future. Seriously, this is a quote from the Fandango message boards today:

Dec 5th 2012 11:17AM iamgus11 said... this looks like a ripOff of the Hunger Games

I hate you.

Yeah, but I can re-read that book and enjoy it just as much as the first time, so I'm not too concerned.

Just took a quick look at some Jaguar forums. They're jazzed about getting him. I guess they're going to a full Zone Block scheme, which we know definitely benefits Denard.

"Hey, Mom! Lets watch the video of my college graduation! I want to see me and my frat bros being stupid again!"

"Oh, honey, uh... I don't think you're on that video."

"Wha... wait. What?"

"Well, that was the last chance I was ever going to have to get video of Denard on the field at The Big House!"

http://commencement.umich.edu/spring/

But! Michigan fans are no longer allowed to use the term "worst case scenario". It uh... invokes problems.

You can call it a myth all you want, but this F-Lion says that don't make it so.

They brought Sprite to another generation.

Is why the dude is just this side of unhittable.

Yeah, it looks really cool. HOWEVA: It does bring up one important question. Doesn't anybody go to football games to WATCH FOOTBALL anymore?

Oh, heck no. We need screens EVERYWHERE. Fireworks. Moving parts. A 100 yard long bar!

I have had the best football experiences of my life in Michigan Stadium and the Glass Bowl in Toledo. In the bleachers. Sometimes while getting rained on. The amenities at each game were "hotdogs and pop".

This is clearly simply an homage to some great American history.

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