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But that doesn't mean he wouldn't be a vast improvement over the collection of bricklayers the Hoosiers have on their roster now.

I was a student for that game. Yes, that cheer happened. Houston was capable of scoring points on Michigan's defense.

And not a single mention of Naked Guy yet? 

but I hope that doesn't happen. Don't get me wrong, I love KenPom's system as a method of evaluating the true strength of teams (won my tournament pool last year by picking the team ranked higher in KenPom to win), but I think the attributes he uses to rate teams differ from what the selection committee should use to determine tournament-worthiness. The committee should be evaluating teams based on who they played, where they played them, and who they beat, not the per-possession efficiency of a team.

Are tickets already available for these games? If so, I bet a ton of Spartan fans have already purchased them in anticipation of MIchigan State playing there. I'm sure their favorite pastime (cheering against Michigan) would be a perfectly acceptable consolation prize.

17-7 Michigan

He's only "blocking Hopkins" in a sense that, once Hopkins hits him, they're engaged and there's no way of him getting out to another defender. Hopkins could have avoided right off the bat, but chose not to.

And they just got swept by the Royals.

He's been there:

http://mgoblog.com/content/unfortunately-rose-parade-was-highlight-day

It's not a true home game, but to treat this as the same thing as the trips to Oregon or Washington is disingenuous as well, as Michigan is giving up a home simply because Jerry Jones was willing to give the athletic department a huge amount of money.

You don't say.

http://nderpnation.tumblr.com/

They normally try to place the #1 seeds in the regional closest to their campus, with overall #1 getting placed first and overall #4 getting what's left at the end (unless one of them is a host). From there, they generally try to maintain bracket integrity (overall #1 with #8, #9, and #16, etc.) as best they can while following the rules that:

• Host teams must be placed in their home regional.
• Avoid interconference matchups in the first round.

Given those statements, I kinda sorta disagree with mfan's belief that they'd put Michigan in St. Paul. I think they'd place Michigan in Green Bay since it's closer. That would then allow them to place Duluth in St. Paul, which is a much shorter trip for their fan base.

How the fuck did Nebraska win three conference games?

It's called "all the other games they played this season." They often have they ability to outweigh the results of a single weekend. We've spent considerable effort on this site trying to explain that to Michigan State fans lately.

That's what I thought.

Wisconsin did make a return trip to Arizona. It was a mess of a game played in a downpour with a significant lightning delay, but the Badgers won 9-7.

If anybody asks what your costume is, just say that you are a junior high school, no class asshole.

State has had the same coaching staff for five years now. Michigan has been changing quarterbacks or offensive systems for four consecutive years. Guess which team can do all sorts of fancy stuff and adjust on the fly and which team has trouble doing anything it didn't explicitly spend practice time on that week.

I have to be honest, Brian: you're completely wrong if you think the core customer isn't the players. The athletic department knows that people will continue to donate money and buy tickets and merchandise no matter how much bitching is done on the Internet. A majority of their focus is on determing how to convince 17 year olds with very fickle tastes to come to Ann Arbor.

The URL ends in .co.cc? Looks legitimate to me...

I tagged myself earlier, but now the tag has disappeared. I never get a confirmation email in any of my new attempts. I think the system has been overwhelmed.

The message gets even more pathetic when you remember that they dropped several other Texas schools without any remorse when they joined the Big XII. I can only imagine how much TCU and Houston fans laugh as they read that page.

Whoa. We don't want to be accused of spreading ridiculous rumors around here, so let's stick to what we know for sure and leave the tire irons out of it.

Brain is mocking all the other countdown lists that exist all over the CFB blogosphere this time of year. The lack of any sort of connection is intentional.

ETA: Did the post right below this one break the internets for anybody besides me?

A. Alabama

B. Florida State

C. TCU

D. Notre Dame

E. West Virginia

Unranked: Michigan

grumble grumple Canadians grumble grumble...

The tiger is Clemson. EDSBS has a bit of a running joke about him, but I couldn't even begin to explain it.

I bet there would be a landing spot for those teams in the WAC of CUSA. They might not like that, but I doubt the people running the athletic department care.

Welcome to the world of college football recruiting...

Too bad these two teams won't see each other again this year. Need to keep it in the memory bank for when the brawl breaks out next year.

Looking at the sketch, I'm pretty sure this is it. There is significant space around the top and sides.

Dragons:

EDIT: Aww, what the heck, is embedding disabled now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gz1DIIxmEE&t=2m34s

The problem is that further irrelevance (and the resulting financial hit) will force most of them to give up and fold their hockey programs. Hockey already has an exceedingly small number of programs to begin with, and this would also have implications for the size of the NCAA tournament.

No, I thought he should have went to the spread in 2008. A large part of that reasoning, though, is that I believe the 2008 offense was destined to be a gigantic pile of fail no matter what scheme it ran. I have no problem with Borges eventually moving to his ideal offense (to be fully implemented by either Gardner or Morris), but I think the potential of the current players would justify a more gradual transition this time around.

That statement is not condemning the offense, but that's not the type of statement Brian is arguing against. He's arguing against the belief that Michigan must move away from the spread in order to have any real success. That offense would've been plenty good enough to succeed if it wasn't teamed with the worst defense in Michigan history.

But they have very little control over how many points the other team scores (turnovers leading to scores are the exception here). Nobody would've been so upset over the offense's first half performance if the defense hadn't given up 28 points. Since the defense was a complete atrocity, though, people felt it was acceptable to condemn the offense.

Percentages would be useful if they weren't completely arbitrary and gamed to favor your point of view. 

Several people have mentioned it already in this thread, but I'll repeat it: NBA teams draft off potential, not production. There is little he could have done next year to change their opinion on his potential, making those percentages you stated unrealistically optimistic. He couldn't have improved his value enough to justify giving up a year's pay.

Let me know if I should edit anything.

It worked for me. Thanks!

There's no link provided for citation of that statement, and it's disputed in the Talk section. I'm going to keep searching the Internet, but I think you're being fooled by some schmuck who knows less than he thinks he does.

EDIT: Found it. Rule came into effect in 1998.

No it was not. They couldn't do that when the Big Ten and Pac-10 weren't part of the Coalition and Alliance.

We need an O/U on the number of comments on this post.

I'm probably going to take the over no matter what it is.

He's getting Herbstreit'd.

Makes me not want to post...

You can't do that, you'll lose even more points.

Anybody saying that Michigan should go back to Nike should be forced to look at this and this, and this for 15 minutes each.

Remember, Nike thinks of schools as an advertisement for the Nike brand.

They wouldn't sign them all immediately because of money and roster spots. Why take up spots at the bottom of the roster with people who you don't think will be ready for 3 years (and pay them enough to convince them to sign) when you can let them get seasoning in college for free and only pay them when they're ready to contribute?

This is the same reason college hockey players are drafted right out of high school but don't get signed until they're clearly ready (and that's with a viable minor league to drop them into).

The link under "Heads should roll" is wrong, unless you were intending to link to a Barking Carnival story about Power O.

No, it's the Gophers. They're going to get a home game two years in a row. I have no idea why.

The other step in the evolution is a running back who can do the little things besides running that allow the coaches to trust him. That way he can do more than put up fun highlights against Bowling Green that have know-it-all bloggers clamoring for him.

Fuzzy memories are some of my happiest, too. Holy Cross beat Minnesota in 2006 before losing to the host Sioux

If obsessing over a handful of outliers wasn't an acceptable Internet argument strategy, do you realize how many things people would have to stop complaining about?

FWIW, I DVR'd the replay on ESPNU and was watching it this morning. My wife (Purdue grad school, St. Norberts undergrad, somewhat angry that they are showing the Michigan game tonight instead of the D3 championship game her Green Knights are involved in, as much as a neutral party as I'm going to find) wonders why there is even a controversy. It was clearly in, according to her, when you look at the end zone view.

Add another point in favor of the "it has to do with the wings on the helmet" side.

Your state and university has done the Big Ten no favors by being a complete embarassment, support-wise, for years and completely leeching of the money all the other schools have generated. Michigan and Ohio State can point to the fact that their game has been the primary driving force behind the gigantic revenue stream that everbody in the  conference enjoys today. Minnesotans want to take the one positive contribution they have and keep it for themselves.

I don't think Pairwise is a good idea for CBB because the basketball committee hasn't proven itself incapable of leaving out brand name teams having subpar seasons. My hockey knowledge isn't deep enough to provide specific examples (is anybody from HSR around?),  but there were several instances in the 90's of name teams underachieving and still getting in the tournament ahead of teams that were clearly more deserving. Since the basketball committee has shown that they can won't make the same type of decision (for example, North Carolina last year), there is no need to move their sport to a flimsy mathematical model for tournament selection.

Do either of the threads have any sort of non-vague details that could be worth wasting a 7-day free trial on?

You are severely underrating the value of simply making the tournament for confidence/recruiting purposes and overrating the value of four games against sub-NCAA tournament caliber competition.

You forgot to put "ROLL TIDE" at the bottom of your message.

Quick poll: anybody who is surprised that none of the Deadspin articles that Brian linked to were written by AJ Daulerio, raise your hand.

That's what I thought.

Considering how things have gone recently with others of his ilk, I've assumed his chances were over since it was first announced that he failed to qualify.

I think that the people who religiously follow Tom Beaver also listen to John Edward.

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Let's weigh our options

Option A: "Insider" is a moron who doesn't know that Gallon is running the scout team.

Option B: Rodriguez is trying to install a secret weapon at a practice reporters and other riff-raff are attending.

Hypothetically, either option could be true. I know which one I think is more likely, though.

Unless you know a way to bypass it, people can only use it if their ISP pays ESPN money for the service. There are some significant providers (like Qwest, which I have), which do not do this.

Have you seen what happens when most of our players try for a transition layup in the past 3 years?

I'd much rather have them settle by the 3-point line.

Denials coming in.

Perhaps we should wait until this rumor gets mentioned by a website that doesn't need to post a hot chick picture in over 50% of its posts before we lend it any credibility?

The part I trust—the one that called Brandon as the likely new AD and tipped me off about the Alabama game—is far from certain except about one thing: anyone who says anything with certainty is full of it.

http://mgoblog.com/content/being-dave-brandon

What's your deal?

blasphemy

No goals half way through the second period. What the hell is this shit?

419

It's not as bad as getting Croom'd.

EDSBS

@vasityblue: Dave Brandon: Detailed and thorough investigation proves that Freep report was intentionally misleading.

Sic 'em, Section 1.

I don't know. If he was that devoted to the school, why wouldn't he have committed in January like he originally planned instead of waiting to see the first half of the season?

60-40 Michigan.

To me, that sounds like an attempt to provide a non-answer to a ridiculously loaded question. Rodriguez knew people were going to jump to all sorts of conclusions based on it (like you just did), so he made as vague of a response as possible. Didn't want to make people think Robinson's done at the end of the year, didn't want people to think he was reneging on a promise should there be a staff change anytime in the future.

Time for a "I played in high school" response:

We had a trick play called Transcontinental that was similar but not quite the same. It involved a handoff to the running back, who acted like he was running a sweep before turning around and passing back to the QB. The quarterback also took off downfield instead of setting up for a screen like Michigan does.

The only time we ran it, it got picked off and returned for a touchdown.

Brian, this play seemed very TGDCD-ish to me, at least with the QB-RB exchange. Are the lineman just not blocking the same way other teams do on that counter draw?

EDIT: Awwww, screw you lightbox. Go to 3:15 of the video.

It happens because the game that DirecTV is showing on 209 is also being shown by your local ABC station. By some FCC agreement or something, they always black out the cable station so that you have to watch it on the local station.

I keep hoping they add in an HD oveflow channel soon.

Over at Maize N Brew, this map came up as a person was asking about bar locations. When that happened, I noticed that the location for Albuquerque is not correct. The Fox & Hound is located about two miles south of the listed location. Thought that would be useful to help prevent people from getting lost.

I looked at the voters list for entries with blank names, and it's a blog that supports Cal. Tried looking at Cal Golden Blogs sidebar to find the culprit, but didn't find anything.

mgoblog: Mark May is Melanie Collins without the upside, people.

First Roundtree, now Stonum. I think they should have mandatory vision screening for every football player when they come to Michigan.

TheMWC The Mountain West Conference has extended an offer of membership to California State University, Fresno and the University of Nevada, Reno.

First: Your new look doesn't allow for linking to specific posts. That just made the board less useful.

Well, if you want a workaround until Brian fixes this here you go: if you click on the reply button for the particular comment it takes you to mgoblog.com/comment/reply/xxx/yyy. You can convert this into a link by appending #comment-yyy to the URL for the page.

For example, your comment is located at http://mgoblog.com/content/usability-improvements-locked#comment-582651

Chris Bryant, Jordan Walsh, and Nick Martin seem like some of the most realistic prospects to fill any remaining OL spots.

Hmmm, appears somebody wrote up the first draft of this more than a few days ago.

http://redvsblue.com/archive/?sid=rvb

Watch this instead of negging antoo.

This came up last year, and I'm going to make the same suggestion I made then: everybody should learn the actual lyrics to the song and sing them.

Let's hope this turns out right:

Not cooperating so far.

Don't feed the trolls.

... that means we can officially cross Miami off the list.

By WC 2022 on US soil, I'd wager we're in the seeded pot.

Pretty safe bet, considering the host team is always seeded.

Because they'd be a net drain, taking bowl appearances while failing to provide any noticeable revenue or academic bump.

A Kansas City TV station is reporting that Texas and A&M plan on petitioning to join the Big Ten with Oklahoma applying to the SEC.

And what about Texas? If the Pac 10 won't take Baylor, they've got to be back in play, right?

Patience, patience... Delaney's got this shit figured out.

Does anybody have any idea how reliable this website is? It's weird that nobody else has mentioned this.

If this is true, I think it's a pretty big deal.

As if on cue, a Texas politician starts demanding that Baylor replace Colorado in the Pac-10 expansion.

... unless the 64 teams just leave the NCAA altogether.