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but they're a marketing communications/graphic design firm. They do a fair amount of web stuff, so they may need a developer/technical expert on staff.

I can 100% understand and sympathize with his reaction and his decision if that's what it was for Trickle. I've lost close family members to it, and IMHO there is no fate worse than dementia/Alzheimers/decaying brain diseases.

Appy State. That would be the crowning cherry of ridiculousness.

http://umjobs.org/search?career_interest=210&work_location=4&position=F&regular_temporary=R&keyword=

I've also got two good friends who work at this interactive agency: http://www.enlighten.com/

Welcome to AA. I've got deep Missouri roots on both sides of my family, with a large number of relatives still in the St. Louis area.

The Northwood Apts out on North Campus are a great deal; when we first got hitched we had a three-bedroom townhouse in Northwood V with a full basement. Tons of little screaming kids around, but that might be better than tons of drunk screaming sophomores pissing on your porch.

How about Brandon promises to pay for chrome helmets for our marquee opponent?

We've got Appy State at home on August 30, 2014, and an open date in 2016 on Sept.10.

How about ditching Appy St. and filling those two dates with a home-and-away with a real opponent that we'd actually get credit for beating?

I'd be happy to go back to the 12-team conference.

will bump up against craptastic home schedules, and the no-shows in the student section won't be the only thing Mr. Never Say Never to Chrome Helmets has to worry about.

I grew up in Grosse Pointe, and up until 2005 I made frequent trips back there. You have no fucking idea what in the hell you're talking about, much less how to spell it correctly.

there is an uncanny resemblance, voice-wise.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4183

Hoke's comments about ND pretty much took the air out of any remaining controversy about the chicken thing. The Domers will have to work real hard to keep it as bulletin board material over the summer.

you don't have Peppers on it.

Unfortunately there will be a certain portion of the Michigan fanbase that will abuse him on the twitters if that happens. Just look at the abuse that Wiggins has been subjected to after committing to Kansas.

The problem is that he thinks he'll be able to make a living as a rapper. He'd be better off ditching that adolescent fantasy and learning a trade like plumbing or electrical, but that ain't glamorous.

on both sides. Should be really enlightening.

or schizophrenia, or outright hypocrisy, take your pick.

A staple repeat discussion on MGoBlog concerns Michigan's home football schedule, with focus on MAC-ky cakes, UMass, and other unworthies that we've faced, and will face in the near future. When somebody like me says I want to schedule teams like Texas or Georgia or OK for home dates when we have ND on the road, inevitably there is a sizeable contingent of diehard Michigan fans who say that's crazy because it makes getting into a BCS game that much more difficult because our conference season is so difficult, what with the gauntlet of Illinois, MSU, Purdue, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, PSU, and OSU. There's no heaping of scornful abuse on those with this view.

Yet when ND makes a scheduling decision for what appears to be the same exact reasoning—to make their schedule less difficult—all of a sudden they're chicken-hearted cowards. Their scheduling of Purdue and MSU is sneered at, even though those two teams have been part of our own allegedly tough conference scheduling forever. Rutgers and Maryland have been thoroughly derided here by everybody, yet the fact that they're now going to be yearly opponents of ours doesn't seem to enter into the one-sided view of how strong our schedule will be versus ND's, who will be facing Florida State, Va Tech, Clemson, Oklahoma, and Texas in upcoming seasons, in addition to their games with USC and Stanford.

It didn't even become Nike until 1978, and even then only made shoes. Leach's unis were probably Champion or Russell or some other old-time manufacturer.

I think that's the real explanation.

Due to multiple light sources, Jabrill has two perceptible shadows, one ahead of him and one behind. However, the one ahead of him is far lighter than the one behind him, and it completely disappears by the time he gets close to the finish line, while the one behind him is still very evident. Unless the explanation has to do with finish line cameras that see things differently than is evident in the video, something's goofy here.

http://www.maizenbrew.com/2013/5/11/4321620/jabrill-peppers-is-kinda-fast

but I haven't seen any confirming details anywhere.

none of these kids know what in hell we're talking about. Punks.

I have a hard time believing he's going to be healthy enough in the fall to get any real PT. Hope I'm wrong.

They either found out their daddy took their credit cards, or they're pregnant.

Hope reality matches paper.

Uhhh, no, I wouldn't. Nor would a lot of fans.

I don't regard Magnus's opinions as the sole gospel about any player, any more than I'd regard Sam Webb as the only arbiter of truth, but both guys know a lot more about various aspects of football and recruiting than I do. On occasion I disagree with some of Magnus's conclusions, but so what? Without differences of opinion, MGoBlog would have no reason to exist, nor would most of the internet.

He's obviously tremendously talented, but the whole "I want to be better than Woodson" stuff leaves me cold. The kid might have trouble fitting his head into a Michigan helmet after another year of people telling him how great he is.

Easy there pal... I'm 60 now and still kicking. Just more slowly.

probably at the end of the academic year, so Bo wasn't even AD for the entire year of 1988. Then, in early March 1989, Bo fires Frieder, who was coach when Martin first gained access to the Michigan program. It was well-known at the time that Bo had no use for Frieder, so firing him must have been a satisfying decision for Schembechler. Bo was hardly in a good position to fire Fisher after Michigan won the NC in 1989, and then Bo leaves in early 1990 to join the Tigers. So in other words Bo probably didn't have even two full years on the job as AD. I don't think blame should be laid at his feet for this clusterfuck.

over Michigan, LSU, Ohio State, Stanford, Alabama, Florida, Notre Dame, and Oklahoma, it would be the biggest recruiting upset in a long, long time.

He'll be serving time in prison by the time he's 35, and he won't live beyond 60. The trajectory he's currently on is labeled "crash and burn."

Just out of curiosity, what exactly are you referring to? Long shorts? Black socks? Trash talking? They were hardly the first basketball players in history to engage in trash-talking. Larry Bird was one of the all-time greats at talking shit on the court:

http://www.complex.com/sports/2013/01/the-25-greatest-trash-talkers-in-s...

http://hoops-nation.com/community/topic/62408-larry-bird-most-unheard-of...

since the Florida legislature refused their request for taxpayer assistance to build a new stadium. Maybe Ross should use more of his billions down there. He obviously won't see his lifestyle affected much.

I've been on MGoBlog numerous times over the last 4 hours and have only seen this one.

Uh, no. It's not like night games were never played in college football during his career; he just believed that they should start at noon on Saturdays and was adamant about that.

Yeah, fucking up the language in a comment is so much more pathetic than killing a defenseless animal for fun. That guy's a loser. Ha ha.

Yep, no doubt— every other GM In the NBA would have picked Darko before Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, and Dwayne Wade.

LOL.

Figures that numbskull Rex Ryan would draft him. I doubt that even the Lions would be that stupid.

What year did you graduate from UM?

and I've got both.

...assuming that there hasn't been a head coaching change in the last five years that's completely turned the program around from recruiting to assistant coaches to the teaching of fundamentals.

If Devin and Taylor go down with season-ending injuries in fall camp. If they stay healthy, 7-5 is the worst case scenario. And I'm the pessimist around here.

UT thinks its natural place is to be the dominant player in whatever conference it's in, which means it ain't going to the SEC or the B1G or PAC12. That attitude is a big part of why Nebraska, TA&M, and Missouri all left. If Texas leaves the Big 12, it will be to a new conference with the Longhorns as the big shit on the block and in control of most of the money.

The B1G needs Texas like it needs a cancerous tumor.

"Enticements could include "impact seats," which vibrate on a large hit..."

 All the fans in these seats should be fitted with helmets that translate the force of the "large hit" directly to their cranium. That way they can really suffer right along with their gridiron heroes.

The next iteration will be full-body suits that transfer the sensation to the wearer of his favorite WR scoring with the slutty cheerleader after the game.

but I'm not convinced that Nike or UnderArmour are really going to be completely free of labor issues in their overseas factories themselves. It's really endemic to the apparel and shoe industry in general.

You're probably too young to know this, but the game of football at both the collegiate and professional level is a very different game from what it was 50 years ago, if you look at the nature of the contact, especially in tackling technique. If you watch this youtube of an old NFL championship game, you'll see a virtual absence of leading with the head, or attempted kill shots. Instead, it's stodgy-looking form tackling. When you couple the dramatic increase in size and strength over the last three decades with the far more violent nature of the contact, it would be unreasonable to assume that there has been no increase in head injuries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0kYhDrktvg

and then I open up a second-floor window and declaim them Shakespeare-style in a loud stentorian voice.

Some marketing/branding/PR firm that's getting a big box of money for doing so.

To me it looks like a couple of parentheses enclosing some nonsensical bit of punctuation.

Supporting a 12-game schedule, conference expansion, and a conference playoff, and then complaining about the playoff's impact on the players seems a bit hypocritical to me.

Nobody in Brandon's position ever seems to explain how the football players at every level below D1A manage to play a more extensive playoff system than we're going to get now, and have for many years.

petulance is never your friend.

There've been plenty of other NFL franchises who've been as crappy as the Lions at various times in their existence, but none of them have gone as long as the Lions have without even sniffing a league title. My annual skepticism about them isn't based on thin air.

Try 50 years of futility and incompetent ownership. Ford assumed total control of the franchise prior to the 1964 season.

they had the opportunity to draft him at #132, and then gamble that Devin Taylor would be available five slots later at #137. Their decision to take Taylor at the earlier pick is an indication of what their priorities were.

Not being a Lions fan I don't regret at all that the Lions pass on drafting any Wolverine, but it's unfortunate for Denard that he ended up with one of the few franchises in the league that are actually worse than the Lions.

Nice to have an opportunity with one of the more competitive franchises at the moment.

even if it's the Lions. As one of the 2008 recruits he endured some pretty dark days yet stayed the course.

He actually looks like "WTF the Jags."

or his ears were really itchy.

So the Lions had #132 and #137 and allegedly wanted Denard. They didn't want him bad enough, which is fine with me.

As bad as J'ville has been perhaps he'll get a real chance to see what he can do.

that James Madison, William & Mary, and Valdosta State had players selected before Michigan did.

Cherlius signed with the Colts in March, which means taking Fluker would have been a strong move.

As for BYU, their independent schedule is a mix of teams like lesser programs like Weber St., Idaho, San Jose St., New Mexico St., Hawaii, and Utah St. mixed in with a handful of quality teams like ND, Oregon St, and Boise. It's hardly the kind of opposition that a program in the PAC 12 or the SEC faces.

That "frail" teammate won the Jim Thorpe Award as that nation's best DB for the 2012 season.

with an Absolut Peppar martini. Skol.

I have a wife, a daughter, a sister, and numerous female cousins who I love very much. I have a number of female friends and/or colleagues who I have a great amount of affection and respect for.

For that reason alone, my attitudes about rape boil down to this: castrate the motherfucker. Without painkillers. Yes, I know we don't do that, but that's my impulse. That's what laws and Constitutions are in place to protect against.

To equate the mere adoption of an athletic logo with active or tacit support of a rape culture is simply stupid and juvenile, and indicates a thoroughgoing misunderstanding of our cultural nuances. That's what you get with 20-something college students. I was an undergraduate in the early '70s, so I have a deep familiarity with earnest but comically naive jeremiads against popular culture.

But, subjecting her to mocking threats of rape and other kinds of abuse is equally stupid, and to the extent possible under the law, the idiots making those threats should be prosecuted.

Moral of this story: the internet is flypaper for morons.

Are you a coach, or did you work with him in some other capacity?

I feel sorry for Ansah.

And I doubt he was an Aerosmith fan either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Edwards

thanks, Wolv. Since I was born during the Eisenhower administration, I need occasional translation assistance.

What in the freaking Hell does that mean.

being a great choice to join the Big Ten was delusionally misguided. Bringing that wealthy and good-looking but ridiculously high-maintenance and nut-kickingly obnoxious sorority girl into the conference would be a decision that everybody would soon regret. It's too bad that Nebraska got screwed, but it just points out how cutthroat high academia can be.

I'd have to see some recipes.

I thought this was going to be about some new Carnival cruise ship sinking off the coast of Germany.

You people crack me up. Look at what I wrote—I used the term "consistently."

I've said on MGoBlog before more than once that Nik is going to have a really nice career here, but the hype he's gotten for what he's actually done in games is a little over the top. He's had some really good games like Florida, but he's also had a number of other games in which he was an absolute non-factor offensively. In the first loss at OSU, he had zero points 23 minutes. In the two losses to Wisconsin, he had 9 points total, going 1-9 from the three. In the two Final Four games he was 1-7 from the field in 37 minutes for a grand total of 3 points. Against Syracuse he was a big fat 0-5; luckily we had just enough from the rest of the team to make up for that.

None of this means he's a bad player, especially for being a true freshman, but neither does it prove—yet—that he's the second coming of Glen Rice.

If I get much older, I'll be dead since I'm 60.

I got news for you—it doesn't matter what you do when you're my age—young people either look right through you as if you aren't there, or they smile at you like you're their senile uncle.

Personally, I think all fans should be fitted with shock collars that are calibrated to the amount of noise the wearer is making. 30 seconds of silence = a jolt to the neck. If the decrepit old bastards can't take it, give their tickets to people who are vocal.

One entertaining half-time activity would be to take an old geezer out of the stands and force him to try field goals. If he doesn't make it, an iPhone app lets the crowd give him a zap.

but Brandon's fooling himself if he thinks that alone it will cure the no-show problem. The only thing that will cure the problem is to cut back the student section by 5,000 seats and make those available to non-students. Not only that, if student demand exceeds supply, I would make past attendance a prime criteria for receiving tickets. And any student whose ticket didn't scan by the time of kickoff to Michigan State or Ohio State will not get the chance to purchase tickets at student prices the following year.

You hit nail on head.

+ eleventy thousand.

Not to mention it's also a valuable exercise in concentration and foot-eye coordination to try to climb 98 stairs while shitfaced.

is testament to the depressing truth that the prospect of man truly extending his permanent presence beyond earth is far more remote than many of us imagined in our youth. I grew up reading science fiction, and it's always been an article of faith within the genre that man would inevitably colonize the rest of the Solar System, and that as-yet-undiscovered technologies would enable us to become a truly interstellar species. Much of the stuff I read when I was a kid was premised on timelines of solar system colonization happening by the end of the 20th century, and "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a perfect movie presentation of this optimism.

Given where we're at in terms of solving the huge engineering and technological hurdles that Space Coyote and others here have mentioned, I think we're at least a century away from achieving what Kubrick and Arthur Clarke envisioned.

rights to their media presence if they leave that conference? That's nuts.

That's like signing a legal agreement with your wife that if you divorce her, she still gets half your income.

Oh wait.

will be enormous, and the parasites who'd like to get attached to him are undoubtedly already licking their chops and counting their money.

Deadspin hit it right on the head, referring to "his eventual one-year Kentucky career."

which means I don't want any of them to end up with the Lions, or with any of the other sad-sack franchises. It would be just like the Lions to draft head cases like Mathieu or Teo.

Whether we're talking about hockey, football, or basketball, most talk about academics is eyewash. I've heard that assertion plenty over the last decade, and most often the kid ends up at a school that isn't even in the same universe as UM from an overall academic perspective. Remember Myron Rolle? He put UM recruiting geeks into a state of euphoria with his stated desire to go to medical school; after all, how could any kid who wants to become a doctor turn down UM? Lots of people thought he was a slam dunk to be a Wolverine.

He went to Florida State and ended up a Rhodes Scholar.

I'm not disputing that Hand and Peppers have said academics are important to them, but saying that doesn't necessarily lead to choosing Michigan. Unless they are extremely unusual kids, their primary goal is to play in the NFL first, and they'll base their choice on which school they think will best help them reach that goal.

Michigan fans who are going to religiously genuflect in front of the statue of St. Bo need to keep in mind that the Big Ten during his first glorious decade was completely craptastic. Ever hear of the "Big 2 and Little 8?" If you criticize the quality of opposition, keep in mind that you're criticizing the thing that helped make Bo a legend.

Somebody posts a random OT about something interesting, and like clockwork one after another regular chimes in with informed, authoritative commentary about something I didn't know anything about before. I pick up a bit about naval engineering and Norway's dangerous coastline, in addition to information about zone blocking and the difference between 3-tech and 5-tech. I should figure out a way to make this tax--deductible as an educational expense.

I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a real Russian-language site and a fake one. My Cyrillic-reading skills are a little rusty, as in non-existent.

http://vk.com/id160300242

Any MGoBloggers know Russian/Cyrillic?

Well, how else are you going to have all the group sex and wild orgies that grad students at UM are renowned for?

Everybody knows that alcohol isn't a stimulant.

I love the part about diving headlong with your arms stretched out taking the full brunt of the impact on your chest, and then being advised to find some grass or sand first. That would suck on pavement.

And how in God's name does a cold shower after situps improve your conditioning?

Seriously, this stuff seems really quaint now, especially for a coach who was regarded as a true innovator.

Yep, today's the first really nice day all spring. C'mon, Brian, time for a jog.

If you include a scene involving tampons, you're golden.

of rheumy-eyed perverts, ne'er-do-wells, scoundrels, mountebanks, scalawags, cross-dressers, scrofulous catamites, and tubercular dogs. Lafayette is where real Americans and true Detroiters eat.

The medical term for that condition is "Recruitus Interruptus."

Considering everything that I read here about how that 2008 spring game went, I think it's fortunate that so few people saw it. Unfortunately, it definitely presaged how that season was going to go.

damn tiny phones with their tiny buttons.

that he's running for re-election and pretending it's some sort of momentous statement. Who cares when Trey announces, and what he says? It's a done deal regardless.

Must.... fight...urge...

Which is just one reason I love David Molk.

And Jack Miller is wayyyyy wise beyond his years. He will go far, whatever he does.

if he hadn't bolted to the NHL.

They'll be vastly cheaper, so if one rips it's no big deal.

Plus it would be great to see Devin in an orange no contact jersey with "Worst State Ever" on the front.

Hardly; what I don't know about rules specifics in football would fill an encylopedia.

But this I do know: if that situation was exactly reversed and it was a Nebraska OL with a fistful of Frank Clark's jersey, the vast majority of Michigan fans would all be screaming—loudly—for a flag.