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with whoever labeled Shawn Lazarus a sleeper recruit.

Unless his team loses on Saturday, at which point he will be excoriated for not "getting it." 

Whoa.

Jonathan Goodwin was from South Carolina, but was on the Ohio U roster before transferring to Michigan.  Not sure why he went to OU first; his big brother Harold Goodwin had graduated and was on the staff at EMU by the time Jonathan arrived.  Note that Harold is now the OL coach for the Indianapolis Colts.

Justin Kurpeikis' (PSU)  big brother Chris was on the Michigan roster for one season (1995) after being at Notre Dame.  Don't know if he ever played.

It went unused for three years after AC, two years after Terrell, and now eight years after Braylon.  Granted there hasn't been a lights-out WR during that time (Manningham possibly excepted) but still.

I haven't watched the highlights but if the leveling of the Syracuse TE by the 180-lb Todd Howard is not featured, it's a crime.  Howard had a middling career but he was good for the occasional astonishing hit.  I also recall him sending a Purdue running back cartwheeling.

I remember Lloyd's teams habitually losing their first road games of the year, but the numbers really don't back this up.  It happened five straight times (2001-2005 by 5, 2, 4, 8, and 3 points respectively) but overall he was 7-6 in such games.

I was born in Detroit, but did most of my growing up in Solon.  Mad Dog was before my time but I believe his "kick ass and take names" quote in Bo's book comes from a HS coach of his who was still around when I was in school...the youth minister at my Catholic parish btw.

I now live in Mentor, OH, home of former Baldwin-Wallace QB Jim Tressel.  When Lee Tressel coached at Mentor High he encouraged his player Bill Kolesar to attend Michigan because Lee didn't like Woody Hayes.  So we have Lee Tressel to thank for Bill's son John.

I was standing above the tunnel entrance waiting for my brother.  I recognized Sandusky when he walked in from the parking lot, within 30 minutes of kickoff.  It was Penn State's offense that failed them that day, but I remember thinking their team was at a disadvantage if its coaches weren't showing up on time.

At the time I wondered if Sandusky was hung over from the night before.  In the past year I have wondered if he was doing something else.  Ugh.

Speaking of Bellisari, who would have thought that an OSU QB getting arrested shortly before the Michigan game would help their cause?  I posit that Bellisari's supreme generosity (instead of Stingy Krenzel) with the pigskin would have been worth at least seven points in 2001.

MOAR dunx plz kthx.

IMHO the blue should be very dark, like the original blue on the outside of the stadium.  The official maize color looks too orange to me.  I don't want us to be Cal or West Virginia.

Lighting makes a huge difference though.  Witness the gap between the blue stripes on our Sugar Bowl uniforms (looked almost royal blue) and the blue on the helmets (very dark).  Same problem always plagues the Minnesota Vikings, whose purple jerseys looked much bluer than their helmets under the Metrodome lights.  AOTS people, weigh in here.

I was about to start stretching and now I feel like it would get me in trouble.

Ace, I live in Mentor.  I have half a mind to pull a Drew Peterson and film you at the game.

I graduated from Solon so I was conflicted about the Mentor @ Solon game, but it was nice to see Mentor's defense be part of the story.  Both teams have been blowing people out.  Mentor's O did their usual thing but the D shutting down Solon's scoring was more impressive, especially on the road.

Also a guy who can get you things:

Two months ago Ben Axelrod may have gotten beat up for writing that piece.  I wonder if the fanbase is so beaten down that they will agree with him.

I can't believe that an actual official AD production.  Great stuff.

Maybe they hired away the brains behind Louie Caporusso: Love Expert

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"I like 'em both."

Tressel's problem was not the inability to make a decision.  It's that he knew his star QB plus some other players were ineligible for the 2010 season, and he had two choices:

1. Suspend his stars, inform Compliance and the NCAA, and watch his chance at a national title go by the wayside, or

2. Play dumb and lie his ass off, hoping that nobody would find out about the rulebreaking and that he knew, thus potentially preserving his chance at a second national title.

He chose what was easy instead of what was right, and that shows his true character.  Stuff all the man of integrity bunk, high moral standards codswallop, Woody wannabe military jock-sniffing, Scripture quote deception, and elaborately feigned suprise into your stinky cooler, OSU.  He had a choice and he chose to cheat.  The university and AD let him because he won a bunch of games.  This way to the garbage can of history, fellas.  Take a big whiff.

BTW, Horace Prettyman told me he was disappointed you didn't ask him to be a groomsman.

Getting American cars for free showed what a true patriot Pryor was.  Now he is dead to me.

When Lloyd Brady knocks you down, you don't get back up.

You may be confusing him with Skylar Schofner.

IIRC the concept of a walkaround costume mascot was proposed ~1990.  It was almost as dorky looking as the fake Michigan mascot being pummeled by MSU fans that made it onto that Bryant Gumbel HBO show.

And much dumber than the Willy The Wolverine that prowls the sidelines at Grove City College in PA (red wings/stripes on white helmets btw):

Envision a speed/agility contest between Drew Henson, Jermaine Gonzales, Brian Griese, and John Navarre.  Who finished last?  The big guy, probably by a mile.  Maybe that's why it worked so well, the defense paid even less attention to him because of his stereotype-reinforcing ways.

I loathed Griese as a starter before 1997.  One buttressing memory was him catching the transcontinental and falling down with 30+ yards of open grass in front of him, I think against Alabama in the bowl game.  He pulled it together.  His scramble for 40+ yards against Penn State in 1997 was epic.

For his encore he will sing Pore Jud.  Is there any figure in college sports that elicits less sympathy than Lane Kiffin?

Back when Brian was a wee tad.

Must have been a tough year for the top 10 as we were #1 going into the MSU game despite being 3-1.

The losses were by 4 to then #1 ND, 1, and 1, thus we were still ranked afterwards.  Rightly - we won the rest of our games by an average score of 31-13 to finish (in a four-way tie for the Big Ten and) ranked #7.

George Schulz.

A crummy "modern" house made mostly of wood.  Sig Eps turned in their charter just before it would have been revoked by the school/IFC due to hazing.

So the house was unoccupied when it caught fire, possibly because of squatters.

IIRC Kevin and Kelvin Grady simply had "GRADY" on their jerseys last fall.  I bet the Talbotts go with "TALBOTT" for both.  People who care enough to look should be able to distinguish a 6'4" 270-lb DL from a 5'11" 170-lb DB, and if they can't, they probably can't read the back of a jersey anyway.

When I was a kid the Browns had both Robert E. Jackson (OG) and Robert L. Jackson (LB) on their roster.  I think their jerseys had their names as I typed them.

Finally, I think there was a plethora of R. Smiths on the OSU roster 20 years ago, thus the running back with ROBT. SMITH on his back.

The pink shorts rocked.  I noticed them on the replay too.

I missed that announcement.

So somebody, apparently not Brutus, risked getting caught stealing an oddly shaped part of Michigan's M, when it's going to be removed and probably sold or given away in a few weeks anyway?

I assume the athletic department will sell the carpet in pieces like they did in 1991. If so, I want a piece that Dusty hasn't stood on.

He bumped UGLis.

Rosenberg and Sharp (right?) attended UM. I expect they want us to have a good program.

Did they think that by tearing down Rodriguez they could get the school to dismiss him and hire somebody "better?" Sharp has always been a no-talent hack. Rosenberg used to write positive things, which seemed to turn the moment that Rodriguez was hired. Was he so tight with the Carr staff that he was simply grumpy about his inside sources getting the ziggy? Does he think that by chainsawing the program he'll get an in with the Rodriguez replacement staff? Or is he going to parlay his hatchet job into a lucrative career like Jim Carty did?

Probably not news, but Everson wrote for The Michigan Daily in the mid-90s. He failed to pass on any common sense to his teammate on the IM football team of Daily staffers, Michael Rosenberg.

Go Big Blue.

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Looks like it could be the same woman. Perhaps there is a whole Michigan/squirrels fan world of inside jokes out there that mgoblog readers are missing.

They showed the UM-Clemson game here in Cleveland until the Akron-Gonzaga game tipped off. They may have gone back to it during Akr-Gon halftime, but I wasn't watching then. I got to see the final 30 seconds (game clock) of the UM game, including Novak's free throws and Clemson's final heave. They showed about five seconds of UM celebrating and switched back to Akron-Gonzaga.

Whither the NBC Olympics triplecast?

Incredible albinos Julius Curry, Todd Howard, and Larry Foote in this AP photo from the 2000 OSU game. It was printed in the Det News in roughly these shades.

http://www.mikedesimone.com/m00/ohiostate/ap03.jpg

Eastern Iowa Community College is bringing Tom Brokaw and Mike Singletary to Davenport.  Tickets on sale now!  Can Dan Rather and Richard Dent be far behind?

He was a redshirt freshman, same as Threet.

Dreisbach might have been pretty good at running Rodriguez' offense.  He had a 72-yard TD run against Illinois in 1996.  Michigan has recorded only three longer runs in the 148 games since then.