I love it when evil is compelled to screw over other evil.

But alas, I am a mere clarinetist and have no job with the Met. I'd love to hear his thoughts on the Marriage of Figaro Overture bassoon excerpt - he's probably played it live plenty of times by now!

Terrelle's in good company.

I sure love shorthanded defense. Reminds me of playing shorthanded chess (e.g. two knights down at the start of the game, or a rook, etc.) against friends.

Ah yes, the good old days of 2004, when everyone and her mother were 120bpm Sousa march specialists. "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was never so well subdivided as when conservatory students were only allowed to practice at 120bpm. 140bpm? Have you tried to single tongue 16th notes at 140bpm? Now try playing the famous bassoon excerpt from "The Marriage of Figaro Overture."

21st century preparation and tactical weaponry.

The best part of living in Ohio is when Ohio loses at sports. Soooooooooooooo many long faces.

Fun fact: There is a deja vu in Toledo. I pass by it on Byrne when I drive home from the medical campus.

This is the posbang thread for me.

My eyes. My beautiful eFG%. Look at those turnover%.

I'll resume ignoring the irrelevant bowl game immediately.

Can we get Lombardi back as GM and Art Modell back as owner?

We got this.

Czech Republic

I have Internet through a Time Warner subsidiary. Now I'm back to paying Comcast filthy lucre unless I want to get in bed with AT&T. Fantastico.

It's like Road Warrior and Thunderdome.

Road wins make everything better.

WANT.

Burn!

Look for the logos on the playing surface.

One question to ask is, "How many degrees would you like to earn before working in the field?" If she wants to be a traditional vocal performance major, she can expect to certainly get a master's degree, and most likely a DMA and/or some time in a Young Artist's Program (YAP). These are journeyman art organizations designed to give young graduates of conservatories stage time as they work their way up to the Metropolitan Operas of the world. Some, but not all, pay their artists. Employment tends to be seasonal. I played in a YAP (pit orchestra) after I graduated and had a wonderful time. To be considered is the stress, expense, auditions, 10+ year time commitment before breaking in, etc. The human voice does not fully mature as an operatic musical instrument until the 30s.

On the other hand, having an undergrad degree in music therapy may be enough to find employment. I'm not an authority on the subject but the field is new enough that there is opportunity out there and it is relatively free of the 400-people-apply-for-one-spot scenarios many performance majors face.

One last thing - majoring in something other than performance does not stop one from taking performance classes. In the case of vocalists, this takes the form of weekly coachings with a studio voice teacher, one-on-one. In fact, if she got into a good studio but was not a performance major, she may not even have to sing in a school of music choir (most of the voice majors I knew at M were not pleased about this requirement).

NBC is a terrible media company and their coverage of the events will be inane.

Maybe DD has the speed and skill to fix arena league defense.

Somewhere - somewhere close - Jim Tressel smiles.

I'm only watching to see if we score 100 points. (please yes)

Clearly all of our missing luck from last game showed up for this game.

King and Maravic were the best players Michigan has had in a decade. Neither were anywhere near going pro.

The last true pro-type player Michigan had was Victor Amaya, I believe.

No way.

Manic depression goes hand in hand with a lot of things. Shopping at the supermarket. Holding a decent job. Raising a family. Starting kindergarten.

Totally not punishment, you guys.

Everybody biffed on free throws! And settled for long 2s that did not work for us but of course worked for them.

More missed free throws. No one can make it happen today.

Excuse me while I extract these needles from my eyes.

Please make your free throws. Thank you.

Hold this for me. [presents hand]

As long as they cockblock Saban every year I could not care less if they claim every national title awarded in the last 120 years.

"Welcome to the February Festivus Thread. Let your OT rage direct your keyboard as you gripe about things you could easily skip over. Or take a whack at the moderators. justingoblue? More like justingohome. BiSB? Was the vowel not cool enough for you when you squashed your name to fit on one line of the census form?"

Some people can't handle OT threads.

Yes. Very good.

I've enjoyed the B1G season so far. I'll still love the team even if they don't win at Assembly hall, but if we win there, I will love them even more!

Many point. Wow. Such transition.

Nebraska Basketball Appreciation Thread anyone?

The guy who coaches his players to injure people who take jump shots.

Union 69 - Rebels 66

It would be like owning a cat and not having to feed it or take care of its poop. We pay our dues to enjoy the good times in sports fandom, unless you're a Browns fan and spend an eternity in Hell.

The lesser of two evils prevailed!

Iowa deserves to lose.

That is, head and shoulders, the creepiest picture of Tom Izzo I have ever seen.

At U-M, most of the major scholarships I knew about were academic-based. However, they were awarded to incoming classes after playing their entrance auditions, and by and large the best scholarships went to people who performed the best at their auditions and came in ready to play. Maintaining the scholarships was a function of grades as far as I know. Some folks kept their schollies - half-rides in some cases - for all four years, and had notable careers in Symphony Band or University Symphony Orchestra. Not all went pro, but they had paths at Michigan similar to varsity student-athletes.

The process may be different at a Colburn or a Juilliard - these top conservatories offer pure music degrees without the liberal arts requirements the flagship B1G music schools require.

Three frame masterpiece.

It has had TVs in the men's room since 2006 or earlier. Theirs are not as nice as the ones in the Nebraska johns.

Ski jump!

Love it. Go Blue!

Wanted to get in the assist before the whiny bitches showed up.

Cleveland Frowns thinks the hit was an imperial tantrum - remember, it was Haslam's dad that built the Pilot empire, and Jimmy was born with the silver spoon in his mouth. I still think it's hilarious that the anointed successor to the horrors of Shurmurball was canned after doing as well as anyone could have expected in year 1.

This is OT. Waaaaah.

/s (obviously)

We could have had Chip Kelly, instead we have this clownshow. Can we put Haslam in prison yet?

That's the media age we live in. At least he handled it well.

It's not that favorites or home teams get outplayed, it's that they crash and burn in horrible ways. Scoring zero second-half points, or an elite secondary completely wilting under pressure.

By contrast, in bouncy ball games, the garbage B1G teams have much better records and outlooks, and the power B1G teams would hold their own in any conference around the country.

So, yes.

Bang this boys.

Angry bankers

They husked 'em.

I got something in my eye.

Believe

NFL launches investigation into Jaguars Pro Bowl "DT" Denard Robinson, famous for lining up on the D-Line one play per game and converting 2's the rest of the game.

TDs are worth 5 and teams must go for 2.

Threet vs. Wisconsin sighting!

Wisky and Ohio are still highly ranked because they play in the B1G. It's an SEC Football-like effect.

Enjoy it while we can maintain the aura as a conference.

Michigan Wolverines. Cleveland Browns. Pats in the playoffs.

Come to think of it, the Pats are the only palatable option for winning the league this year. Evil vs. Evil in the NFC. I don't care where Jimmy played ball, he still hypocritically talked trash about my school when in fact his club was doing the exact same thing with its players.

<3<3

*Unless you are a 30-year-old skeezeball stealing the virginity of 18-year-old undergrads...then I have a problem with that. And yes, this actually happened.

My flash drive stores 8gb and it's not even a top-of-the-line model! I have word documents on my hard drive larger than 10mb!

"um...too many spaces here, file is too large...yeah, just string all the words together without spaces, then we can save...got it."

I'll go ahead and screenshot that post for handy reference. So much incompetence.

Thanks, I suppose. Low enough for minimal pressure, but ranked nonetheless.

that Texas is most directly responsible for ExpansionFest. Without their unequal revenue sharing or LHN, the coasties don't join the B1G and our conference is slightly more respectable. (In this scenario our brain trust may have stuck with the L&L divisions - but Delaney is terrible in all timelines.)

I've been here off and on since the late Carr era. This account serves me well and I will maintain it in the forseeable future. I wrote a few diaries concerning Michigan Men's Tennis which were definitely high points of my career. Preview for 2014: Men's tennis is middle of the pack, Women's tennis can and will compete for a B10 title.

Future plans involve keeping it real and holding myself and others accountable for their words and actions.

-Birthday coming up in a few months. Generally I despise birthdays but I will make an exception for my MGoBirthday, November 14th.

-Having firsthand experience with technology that was already outdated by the time I got my hands on it, e.g. handheld cassette players. An old car of mine had a cassette deck (mfg. in 2000). My first Windows was 3.1. All-time favorite was Windows 95. Among the modern windows I like XP the best; unfortunately Microsoft will stop giving it security updates soon. I also used a 56K dial-up modem for almost eight years.

-Not recovering as quickly from injury. Classic aging!

-Talking about Chris Perry attacking the sidelines and getting blank stares from my friends.

Nuss is great. Amazing even. I wonder who the new position coaches, if any, will be.

Iowa and Penn State this year, impressive collapses. Zero second half points at Ohio in 2012. My confidence with this staff is C- that next year we will have nine wins. With what we know now in January, I expect 8 wins, or 7, with only one rival win - Ohio is the most likely in my judgment but all three are formidable. This is not yet my official season prediction - 2013 I felt 10 wins was within reach, and it clearly did not happen.

;-;

I still feel Borges should go, Jackson should retire, and Funk should have gone if he had pride, but they are still Michigan coaches and I will send just as many Concern Rays as I did in 2011 and 2012 to bolster their performance and that of the team.

Comments are not indicitive of the strength or the relevance of the content - very few MGoUsers comment in the threads, something like fewer than 15% of the readership also writes. So pageviews are far, FAR more important to the health of a thread. This thread is three hours old with 2,782 views - not great but above average. I'm sure Brian appreciates the views.

And yes, a fair number of the comments are pure griefers, or parliamentarians looking to pick fights for no apparent reason. Is this Diarist of the Week behavior we are seeing here, bronxblue? Did you even read the comically oversized LINK articles I provided for you and the rest of the thread? If you want to fuss over the rules, that is your right. My goal here is to spur discussion with a classic case study of institutional failure. And the articles are well-written and full of interesting stories and material.

I would have no problem with periodic New York Jets updates. If someone wants to write this material, then someone will write it. Butterfield had a good weekly NFL breakdown for awhile before he got purged. I would have no problem whatsoever with in-depth breakdown of any of the 32 NFL teams as long is it is OT season, or a Lions-common opponent, or a team 4 hours away from Detroit, although not in the same division.

You are correct, sir, that this site gets pretty bad when it devolves from UM-centric discussions. Intolerance and aggression become commonplace. There has been much MGoPopcorn to go around in this thread, much of it from your keyboard. My favorite part is that you, sir, have done as much as anyone to make my thread a resounding, popular success on a relatively slow snow day when there is nothing to do. Thanks!

I went to a WBB game at the Schott once. I believe Ohio won 60-50 and everyone was happy because if the home team scores 60 the fans get some sort of free concession stand item - fries maybe. I wasn't happy about that result, but it sounds like WBB has come a long way since then!

Women's tennis is also doing well, winning the regular season B10 title in 2012, 2010, and 2009. No tournament championships in recent years, though.

I am envious of the family life and the Browns season tickets you enjoy. Even with losing games, I enjoy going to outdoor football games with tens of thousands of other people and seeing what I can see. The experience is more visceral and replay is readily available is one is jotting notes or terminology to research. Even if they never do lose to Cal at the Shoe, it is fun to watch 105,000 people get hot around the collar.

JMcD is a solid choice, if he is willing to work with a potentially radioactive locker room - a sight all too common in Cleveland. "I just don't know, man." Six draft picks and $25 million + in cap space and a Belichick boy in command. How will we crash into the mountain with our picks and management this time? Maybe if JMcD owns the team in 30 years then moves it to Oklahoma City or something.

Yes it does.

I see seven of the righteous and seventeen of the initiates have seen fit to vote upon this fair thread of mine. Voting is truly weeding out the sick and elevating the strong on this brave new MGoBoard of ours. At least my pageviews will keep me warm in the Level 3 snow emergency.

If someone is willing to put in the time and research to pen two lousy paragraphs about their U12 girl's soccer team in Wyoming with a score table, I do not see how such an effort would not constitute a valid thread in OT season.

I did fail to mark "OT" in the thread title at first. Apologies to all.

As of this writing, this thread has 1339 views and 33 comments vs. 474 views and 41 comments for the "OT - 49ers vs. Packers OPEN THREAD". That is 2.82489 more views for my thread than an NFL PLAYOFF THREAD. What I'm trying to say here is, you are incorrect, bronxblue, this is certainly relevant material.

Spock, a highly intelligent being such as yourself surely must value perseverance and patience.

Have an upvote.

buys the Browns for $1 billion, an observer expects that he has a coherent plan for fixing the franchise. We were treated to "six-hour-meetings with Chip Kelly" in the media. Instead he settled on Chudzinski. I'm OK with that, and he had a nice three-game winning streak while Hoyer was still playing. Then Hoyer hurt his knee and the year tanked. I had hope for the future with Hoyer back or a good QB in this year's draft and coaching continuity. How many times did Shurmur beat CIN or BLT? We may switch from a 3-4 back to a 4-3 AGAIN.

I was of the mindset that Mangini should have been retained, but Lerner was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and could not tell talent from a hole in the ground. I'm just incredibly frustrated. It's not a rewarding activity. I should be spending more time on serious things that improve my earning potential. I enjoy football more when I check the scores after the game is over anyways, and I'm not jumping on the SF or Denver bandwagons.

NO

The Fumble.

"You're welcome."

Sad Braxton Miller!

That 4th down stop was good for America.

Clearly the biggest playmaker this season, for any team.

Let's have a nice LOOOOONGGGGG break with car ads and all that good stuff in the middle of the game. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole telecast takes 4 hours.

She's my choice for QB the next time we have a backyard scrimmage. Option looks every time.

Terrible season all around for CFB. Too many bad guys winning, not enough good guys winning. I'll be glad when it's over.

To answer the OP's question: Go Green, and it's not even close. Ohio does not deserve to back into a NC with a tissue soft schedule and the fact that they're even in consideration is a big part of why this season is so awful.

Of course our opponents bring their A++++ game when they play us. Of course.

Guaranteed garbage every year (Maryland/Rutgers), even-numbered years are worse than ever, massive required donations, no parking, still stuck with Al Borges.

Inertia, and there isn't much else to do in Ohio besides go to the mall and enjoy entirely manufactured American culture. But hey, clean water and low cost of living.