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If so, I think it's time to break off from litigation hell and form our own business/firm

Since when is Florida closer to Arizona than Michigan?

There's a youtube video of some top chef going through a bunch of motions, including Denard's eating motion. A poster posted that video on here the first time Denard did that, claiming that the team was mimmicking the chef. I think the whole board though that poster was crazy at the time, but now I think he may have been on to something.

...for drafting and filing a grand jury report? I imagine its based on testimony, but not necessarily accurate in all instances?

I can tell you that every time we file something under seal, its an adventure. Inevitable some secretary always manages to file the wrong thing. Not saying that's what happened here, but I wouldnt be surprised.

In my opinion, it's clear that JoePa didn't understand the magnitude of what was going on around him, and probably figured that enough people (i.e. the police in '98, and the AD) were aware of the allegations. Reading his statements, I actually feel bad for JoePa, who was obviously blindsided and now feels both betrayal and guilt. I agree with his retirement, but don't understand why people are so intent on punishing JoePa as if he were anywhere near as culpable as Sardasky himself.

Carr recruited his players, and it would have been pretty shitty of him to refuse to sign their transfer papers. It doesn't say that Carr encouraged anyone to transfer, just that we wasn't going to hold anyone hostage. I don't hold it against him.

I want to point out that Gholston was pretty aggressive after every tackle he made. I don't recall all the plays, but if you watch yesterday broadcast, you'll see that he "lays" on top of the ball carrier after tackles and makes sure to land a few hits while pretending to get up. He did things like that on virtually every tackle he was in on.

And nobody has questions the veracity of the video? I wonder if he can throw as hard as Mike Vick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu8XNJmQsCI

Just kidding. Sort of. Very cool video, but my skeptic-alert is mildly triggered.

Why do you have to wait for it? Why not just read it tomorrow?

Though I would be down for a cheeseburger

Everyone knows that you don't want to be the guy that follows the legend (i.e. Barwis)

Is weird. Basically nobody really knows what happened, and nobody really cares, either. Also, what ever happened to spending a semester at CC and then coming back?

I would have loved to see him get his act together, come back, and succeed at Michigan, but alas it appears that won't happen.

I wonder how Denard will throw in an offense that isn't based on the zone read. In RichRod's offense, Denard accumulated most of his yards on short screens, and hit receivers who were wide open after defenses overplayed the run.

I'm curious to see if Borges can create similar situations for Denard, or alternatively, how Denard will fare against defenses that arent looking to defend his running abilitys.

I am a little mixed on the hire. I thought he did a nice job with the Raven's D, so +1 for Michigan. On the other hand, there were a lot or rumblings that the Ravens wanted him out, and I suspect that the Michigan job is a convinient way for him to leave the Ravens on good terms.

That said, I don't really care whether the Ravens still wanted him or not. I think he'll do well at UM.

In my opinion the bigger concern is keeping the competition at the QB position going. As much as I love Denard, I think he needs to keep working on his passing and no player should be guaranteed a starting spot.

Clients have an idea of how much they want to pay per action, and that's all they'll pay. As such, a lot of my prosecution buddies are working their asses off and not able to bill for anything. They work like 4 hours and end up billing 1, since the clients are starting to have the power to pay whatever they feel like.

But I doubt that Borges will give itmuch attention. One thing I've learned from all these coaching changes is that each coach does things his own way and doesn't really care what other coaches do. So any spread concepts we see will be Borges' and not copied from richrods playbook

I don't think anyone said it was ok not to win NCs ... Just the original poster speculating. I doubt his post reflects DB's thought.

It's not like we're asking a BCS caliber HC to take a demotion to DC ... Hoke's current position is HC at SDSU, which is not really a big stage. I'd say that taking the DC position at UM is, at the very least, equivalent to his current position.

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if anything, "Out of respect" = "To get a bigger contract at LSU"

The difference betweeh JH and RR's third year is the JH came on stong at the end of the year, whereas RR kept getting blown out. For instance, in week 9, Stanford beat the #8 Ducks by 9 in a shoot out, and followed that up by travelling to #8 USC and abolustely annihilating them (the "What's YOUR deal" game).

Michigan, on the other hand finished the season by going 2-6.

For comparison, JH's losses were by 7, 10, 10, 6, and 4. RR's losses were by 17, 10, 10, 20, 30, and 38.

Any indication whether we would retain RR if JH is unavailabe?

But why does it look like the guy in the gray suit should have been tressel?

My wish list includes someone analyzing whether the way we run our offense puts the defense in unfavorable positions. That includes putting the defense out there without rest, increasing the number of plays the defense must defend, and potentially even a field position analysis (I'm wondering if our offense is so feast-or-famine that we often don't move the ball before punting?).

I'm not saying that it's necessarily the case, but I'm very curious to know if some of our gaudy offensive numbers are coming at the cost of the defense, or if the defense just sucks completely indepently of the offense.

I remember just a few weeks ago, after we beat ILL in OT, a lot of posters were proclaiming that RichRod had turned the corner. Apparently that win over ILL was a milestone which would cure all problems. Sucks that the season ended as it did, now that ILL win is basically worfthless.

Either Oregon v. Auburn; or Boise St. vs. a "traditional power" such as LSU.

I don't really want to see Boise St. v. Oregon for some reason. I feel like both BSU and OU are kind of "surprise under dogs" and don't want to see them face off against each other.

I think there's a good chance that Tate is better than Devin next year. If that turns out to be true, then it would be pretty natural for Devin to red shirt. Rarely do we need a 3rd QB.

Hemingway will have a long gain to beat Iowa? Sweet!!!

At the cost of the RBs - although we don't really have good RBs at the moment. But a lot of the QB's yards in our offense would be distributed to RBs in any other offense. The QB running and throwing those short screens are good for the QBs stats, but the overall offense comes out to the same yardage

first of all, its not really comforting to know that Vince Young didn't beat OU until his senior year (I though VY didn't stick around for his senior year, anyways?). By analogy, that means we have two more losses coming to OSU. Just cuz VY did it doesn't make it acceptable.

Secondly,and more importantly, I dont think anyone is saying that Denard sucks or that he'll never amount to anything. The point, IMO, is simply that Tate (or Devin) should get a chance to rotate in when Denard is struggling.

RichRod talks about having three QBs that he can win with. Last year we also talked about the change of pace that Tate/Denard bring.

Frankly I think that Denard earned a long leash, but I think it's pretty short now. Obviously I don't see what happens in practice, but I have to imaging that Tate/Devin get a chance to show their stuff if Denard struggles again next week. Tate's no slouch, and Devin is apparently our 2nd string QB, so maybe he should get some snaps too.

I am pretty sure Tate is the second best QB on the team (who knows how he compares to Denard, it might be closer than we think). The reason Devin got those snaps was a combination of Devin being good, and Tate learning a lesson. If Tate hadn't gotten in the dog house, then I'd bet Tate and Denard would have split the snaps, and Devin would have taken the red shirt.

It wouldn't hurt Hagerup to make more solid contact on punts, either.

Fortunately ND's punter was pretty bad this week, too. Sloppy kicking by both teams, IMO.

100% chance Denard gets the start tomorrow. I can't imagine a scenario in which RichRod rewards Denard's performance against UCONN by letting Tate start. I know we're all about the team and working hard in practice etc, but WTF kind of message would that send to Denard?

If his secret is related to playing time, then it's probably something along the lines of a few series in the 2Q or something ...

I think Tate probably meant what you suggested - that he's out of the lineup. I also agree with you that Tate is better than DG, and that RichRod had something in mind by keeping Tate out of the game.

However, I think that RichRod had in mind is to teach Tate a lesson. See, for example, Mike Forcier's comment about disciplinary action.

I don't think RichRod is keeping Tate out in order to mess with ND. Quite frankly, we aren't good enough to be messing around like that. I think the idea of "hiding" stuff is overblown, and RichRod would probably agree: if we play with focus and max effort, then we'll probably win. No need to play mind games.

It's called a hot dog vendor

I'm pretty sure players can't get a scholarship after transferring within the conference. So the options are1) paying his own way at OSU; or 2) playing at WVU.

Going to WVU was a pretty logical decision - no backhanded stab at RichRod to see here.

BG wants to keep working out with Barwis rather than showing up at the Eagles puny workout facility.

i was using my wives old laptop

 

How many you got?

I realize Dez Bryant's situation is different, but I was kinda lazy about elaborating.

But my point remains: the kid got suspended by the NCAA, but he had built enough of a reputation to get himself drafted. So by analogy, if his situation were similar to that of Reggie Bush, then he would have made out like a bandit while his school was left holding the bag.

<blockquote>

"I don't think it's anything but greed that's creating it right now on behalf of the agents," Saban said in a rant at the Southeastern Conference media days. "The agents that do this -- and I hate to say this, but how are they any better than a pimp?

"I have no respect for people who do that to young people. None. How would you feel if they did it to your child?" Saban said. </blockquote>

For someone with a reputation as a rule bender, Nick is really taking the lead in speaking out against agents. The obvious joke: he's probably trying to distance himself.

EDIT - What am I missing with that blockquote???

Between the insurance and all the maintance costs, I wouldn't be surprised if his monthly bill is higher than most people's mortgage.

Back when this was breaking news, a few people suggested that the fact that Demar was not admitted to UM is evidence of discord within the University. As if there were a conspiracy to undercut RichRod by the admissions department.

Instead, I think you're right on the money. He may be a good kid, but simply not college material. I don't know, but the fact that FSU wouldn't take him, and UL seems to be having issues, I think that suggests he may have legitimate academic issues.

Whats the candy bar of choice?

I have the same problem.

Here I was thinking I could rest on my laurels after getting enough points for super powers.

Guess I gotta get back to work (*starts looking for funny comics*)

How about just skipping your math class the first semester and adding an easier elective? Then you and jump into Math 116 the following semester, at a time where you 1) feel more comfortable with college; and 2) are not taking the chem class?

Or just speculation at this point?

They can't protect against change in direction. Say the RB is running straight, and gets drilled by Brandon Graham crashing down the line. The brain is going straight forward, but the head turns away. This causes the brain to "twist" inside the skull. I have no medical training, but I'm pretty sure that the twisting force is not a good thing to have.

Got me good!

So let's say hypothetically that I wanted to put streaming steaming video on my iPod ... how would I do that?

I don't think you can generalize like that and say its not a loss because the Tampa police force isn't the best. The focus should be on these two, and it doesn't appear that they did anything to "deserve" being shot (to the extent that its even possible to "deserve" that).

The article does not mention what their operations were. Its one thing to have a spy in the pentagon, but quite another to have a spy hanging out at the beach and the mall, as another poster put it.

I get the sense these spies were in the latter category, though we'll have to see how the story develops.

I swear someone has posted that exact same story on here before. Anyone remember that?

I'm hoping the B12 can keep it together. I'm not a fan of these mega-conferences, so I'd like to see the B12 add TCU and/or Utah and keep playing.

It depends on the size of the scholarship and the ranking of the two schools. Personally I was accepted to schools in the 30-60 range. I did not attend the top school I was admitted to, instead I accepted a substantial scholarship to attend a lower school. I would make the same choice again, without a doubt.

If I had gotten accepted to a top 15 school, then the choice would have been harder.

...I think I must admit that subtracting Terrelle from OSU, and adding him to UM, probably would have caused a pretty big shift in outcomes. In fact, probably bigger than any other recruit.

DeBord had his share of problems, but I think they're vastly exaggerated

I'm glad to see Brian taking an open point of view. Brian is correct that "inside information" is very tough to protect. I'm glad to see him accepting that for what it is and allowing us to post (relatively) freely.

Too many sites try to restrict content, and it's frustrating and ultimately futile. So yeah, Kudos to Brian for taking a view that makes much more sense, yet isn't followed nearly enough.

But it didn't take me six years to see that Amaker wasn't working out.

You and the poster above nailed it. If we suck in 2010, what make people think we'll magically get better in 2011?

Sorry. I for one am not buying this magical turned around somewhere in the future. Fans will always pin their hopes on the future, but at some point we need to see results.

I said above that I think Brandon will be lenient with RichRod. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say 7 wins total (bowl included); or 6 wins - with a few big wins and a few close losses.

If we go 5-7 again, then I don't really care to see what kind of magic we can conjure up in 2011.

When will we ever beat OSU again? I'm getting tired of waiting.

But if we suck in 2010, are you sure that it doesn't require advanced football knowledge to see how good we'll be in 2011?

... maybe Harbaugh?

Not advocating for it, but not ruling it out, either. And, FWIW, I think that a coach like Harbaugh could do fine with RichRod's personnel. He's more pro-style than spread option, but I think Harbaugh would make out just fine with a QB like Forcier.

Would you mind helping me understand some of the subtleties of preferred shares? I understand most of the concepts from financial classes I've taken, but I have a hard time taking a prospectus and translating it into terms I can understand.

I'm surprised nobody is curious about him. The implication with all this talk about Denard and Devin is the Tate hasn't really progressed that much. Is he still injured? Is he really as unspectacular as message board posters make him out to be?

Because the potential that Tate showed last year was pretty incredible. I'm sure Denard has learned some new things, and I'm sure that Devin is quite the physical specimen. What I can't figure out is how Tate went from being one of the top freshmen in the country to "spring practice afterthought" with a lot of people.

But like I said in my post above, plenty of QBs put together stats like his every year.

Point taken though, I wouldn't mind being in the title game. You're right about that part.

I can see why you bring him into the conversation ... but Vick hasn't really accomplished that much in his football career (no offense to him). He's certainly not the "game changer" you seem to imply.

Manning and Brady are bigger "game changers" than Vick, but I suspect I can see why you didn't mention them.

(Sorry Dark Blue, that wasn't directed at you specifically)

There's no real difference as they are both the internet. Some sites just pick up your IP as a cellular device and automatically forward you to the mobile version.

Ok, that's what I suspected. So theoretically the cell phone should be able to run the full version of any website, right? That makes sense, since it can run the full version of MGoBlog, but not more mainstream sites like ESPN, MLB.com, etc.

Thanks.

$125k is nothing when you consider the importance of the position being filled. If this had been a CEO search, it probably would have run quite a bit higher.

Given the amount and quality of work required by the search firm, I think this is a good price to pay.

Careful, there. Surely you mean 20 hours per week, on the dot.

You're gonna need a pretty big backpack for that, especially if your gym gear includes an extra pair of shoes.

In my opinion, you're gonna need to look for something bigger and higher quality than that backpack you linked. I've had good experiences with North Face products, so I would recommend one of their bigger backpacks to you.

Also, consider something that has loops to which you can tie your shoes. You'll save tons of space by tying your shoes to the bag, rather than putting them in the bag.

By the way, props to you for taking your bike to work. Sounds like a hassle, but you're doing a good thing!

I'm saving a years worth of cable and instead I go to the bars for 4-5 football games. Sure, the individual bar trip will be a little expensive, but not compared to the annual cost of cable.

More importantly, though, I'd probably be going to the bars sooner or later anyways!

Personally, I don't have fun watching games that I stream online. And it's tough to justify paying for cable right now, because my building (which has kind of high rent to start with) has a open internet point in the lobby, and I can access it from my apartment. And I think that Comcast is really expensive if you don't get at least two of their services (internet/phone/cable).

My building has a big lobby and a gym, both of which get ESPN. Unfortunately, BTN has been shaky in my building (I think they keep switching to the cheapest package).

So for BTN games, I'll hit up my friend's apartment or Buffalo Wild Wings.

I think you're right on this one. If his college resume had been highly impressive, then the 40 time wouldn't be the end all be all.

Just look at Manningham - he was clearly 1st round talent, with issues of inconsistency and a poor 40 time (and the pot issue, to boot). Yet, he "only" fell to the third round. I think that's evidence that scouts are willing to look past the 40 time.

Now, in Manningham's case the issue appeared to be poor technique on the 40. Donovan might just be a slower dude, and maybe he can't improve on his 40 time.

However, his bench was relatively poor, too, by NFL standards.

Combine his 40 time, his bench, and his body of work in college, and I think scouts just aren't blown away. I'm sure some team will pick him up around round 4-5 on the premise that they can coach him up; however, I'm part of the crowd that thinks he could have earned himself some better money by being "NFL ready" prior to entering the draft.

Obviously the OSU game is blocked from memory, but I remember being kinda disappointed about the obvious deep routes that we had Denard run. I thought OSU just gave him a ten yard cushion and then ran with him easily?

So far I trust that Brandon will make the right choice. He seems to understand the importance of backing RichRod, but is capable of balancing it with the possibility that RichRod is not the future coach of Michigan.

It sounds like Brandon is dynamic and sophisticated enough to put aside any "magic number" for next year and make an intelligent decision about the future of Michigan football.

We look at it as "twice in a year can't be good." Mean while, Ben's camp is trying to spin it as "see, this kind of stuff happens all the time, no big deal. They're all fake."

I wonder if the Google connection is fast enough for trading. Right now, a ton of firms pay to have their servers "co-located" with those at the stock exchanges, though that practice is controversial and may get banned (eventually)

The nice thing about the NFL is that most 18, 19 and 20 year olds are just not physically able to hang with a 25-30 year old athlete. So the NFL has a bit of a natural barrier to entry, unlike the NBA. That makes NCAA football a lot better, IMO.

I don't think this is controversial at all. Between the geographic and economic requirements to participate in these winter sports, I think its clear that "white" people will be in the majority of participants.

Moreover, a lot of these sports require culture/know-how: Even if an African country dedicated tons of money to bobsledding, who would coach them?

RichRod was also working on other things in 2008, like installing the new playbook, Barwisizing the players, and recruiting (for both the 2008 and 2009 classes).

So while it's true that the 3-8 record should probably just be forgotten about, that doesn't mean that we weren't using that year to build for the future.

I read the complaint once, and I didn't see it mentioned the way you describe. Yet, Brian and others on this blog seem to accept it as a fact that one violation was for punishing players who missed class.

Simply put, I'm not sure what's fact and fiction in this case. Surely a resident expert can clear it up?

Don't make me bust out MS Paint and show you the "unedited" version of what was going on.

But I'm pretty sure that anything you can see from outside the premise is fair game.

Maybe its you that he's flying to meet then? Instead, the two of you should just conduct your meeting on MGoBlog?

That's kinda my reading of it, too.

What I don't get are Brian's suggestion that one incident involved a QC staff getting involved in academics (it's be nice, because then we could play the "we care about school, so sue us") - instead, it sounds like they were running the informal practices.

Also, Brian or Tim suggested there was an issue with whether stretching counts as playing time - that doesn't appear in the allegation, either?

I'm kind of confused though why we're using only 7 teams. And within those 7 teams, the sample size at each school tends to be quite small, too - like Utah's 1/6 split. I have to imagine that could have very easily been a 2/5 or whatever, which would have quickly changed the percentage.

Also, if you look at the "BCS crashers total," you'll notice there are only 50 samples for the 3*, compares to 194 samples for the 2*. If one or two of those 3*s had somehow managed to squeeze into the draft, then the percentages favor the 3*s again.

I understand that data collection is a bitch, but shouldn't we sample some of the upper echelon programs, too? Out of the three "better" programs, I'd say the results for Iowa and Oregon are surprising, but VaTech's data clearly favors 3*s.

**slowly walking away from MichMike before lightning strikes him**

I'm not sure where to draw the line between "possession receiver" and "home run threat," but I don't think the Saints receivers were particularly explosive?

I'm not sure why the posters below are so down on him. He looks like a solid fit at outside receiver.

How many more receivers can we take, though?

You might want to reassess your form if dead lifts are hurting your back. I don't think they're supposed to hurt.

I always think of it as "shaving my legs with the bar" (not that I know what that would be like) until I get the bar up to my knees. At that point, the movement shifts to the hips.

On the way down, think of it as if you're trying to close a door with your ass.

My gym has two machines that I'd call "fixed squat"

The first is similar to a standing calf raise machine, except you do squats on it.

The second is basically an upside down leg press, except you use it like a squat machine. I'm sure you know what I mean, I just can't really describe it.

I cut them out of my routine a few years ago because I didn't trust myself to get the form right. But then squats started to hurt my knees and recently I started up the dead lift again. It's possibly my favorite lift now.

Brazilian Ji Jitsu? By the way, what gyms are you looking at that offer martial arts?

I think its too tough to separate him golf from his failed attempt to script the perfect image for himself. I'd have a lot more respect for him if he hadn't tried to pull the quick one on the public.

Each conference gets equal invites, and the conference that scores more points gets the first game of the finals?

I wonder if he just said this to make Scout happy. Interesting, nonetheless:

Question: How much of that recruiting service stuff do you think is just bunk; where it is just guys who maybe no more qualified than anyone else besides you at this table?

Greg Robinson: “I do not know that. I do not know. I like to think that they find ways. What they do is that they do a lot of talking to people too and it is really a process of elimination in some ways. I think that they do a pretty good job. They provide a lot of information to a lot of people. Not all of it is gospel.”

You get 85 scholarship athletes, regardless of where that scholarship comes from. Could be a football scholarship, the Braylon Edwards scholarship, or an academic scholarship (I think).