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meh, kinda cool that the last game of the series has Denard on the cover though. 

This is the most moronic thing I've heard in awhile.

Where's the block button on this board?

There's obviously going to be some parallax, but using JT's hand for scale and distance I think a math person might be able to calculate approximately how far away from the line that ball was given the angle. 

I've read that first down is the middle of the line btw, not the edge of it. 

I mean... this argument would hold more weight if it hadn't happened before. (see Kings vs Lakers western conference finals)

Refs don't even have to be aware of what's going on to have an effect. Just pick refs you know/suspect to have a bias in favor of teams you want to help/against teams you want to hurt. 

This conference is set up to have Ohio State win the whole thing as often as possible, going as far down as the officiating. 

Yesterday's game reminds me of the 2014 OSU vs Penn State game. That game ended in a 2OT victory for OSU too and featured inexplicably horrible calls going the way of OSU. Penn State complained and it was so bad even the head ref had a press conference but ultimately nothing happened and the officiating is as bad now as it was then. 

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/10/25/7071291/ohio-state-interception-gif-penn-state

As I've said before I'm done with college football until either the refereeing improves substantially or we leave the B1G(which, I'm not delusional, there's not even a .00000000001% chance of that).

Some of you guys should relax... I don't get all the hysteria... 

These refs missed a lot.

Many of you are complaining about the defense but look at the replays specially at the line of scrimmage. MSU could've stayed in the game even vs Bama with these refs. What's up with B1G refs this season? They cost Wisconsin their game vs OSU and could've easily cost us this game.

They just don't call the obvious holds. We should get jerseys that rip easily to shame them into calling it.

For the decade I think Michigan, Miami and Tennessee lead the "doing less with more" ranking, Georgia would be high up there too though.

lol BYU vs Miss State still going on at 2am is insane. 

What did you study? I have a BS from LSA and the majority of my classes were not graded on a curve... actually, only a small handful were and I'm 100% sure you can get a BA from LSA  without taking a single one of them. 

I wonder if some Bama fans thought the same thing when they lost 9-6 vs LSU in 2011. 

Looks like you erased Indiana from your memory. 

https://twitter.com/jedkolko/status/654752821242232833

Going by the data, people in Ohio seem to die less often than people in Michigan per mile driven, but they're both above average states. OP was complaining about Washington(Seattle area) and those drivers also seem to be better than Michigan's at not getting killed.

The worst drivers in America seem to live in Montana while the best seem to live in Wyoming. Minnesota and Massachusetts drivers also seem to be pretty good.

Nah, his height isn't really due to hormonal "imbalances". Kid's family is just insanely tall, his dad and uncle are super tall too. Reminds me of the Plumlee family.

I remember watching that game while doing my chemistry homework... 

http://player.tritondigital.com/embed.php?embedid=11761

All the facts will NEVER be in and this is not the standard we have used to criticize other schools. 

Jeez... Michigan fandom turns some of you into flaming hypocrites.

You can't... most people know this, but they're just slow playing it and hoping some miracle happens between now and signing day that makes the impending oversigning excusable. Brian and most of the fan base will just shrug and say "playing time transfers" as if that's not exactly the same thing Alabama does(and what this fanbase criticized Alabama for doing every single year.) 

It wouldn't bug me as much as it does if these people would just admit that the faux outrage in the past didn't really have anything to do with the kids and everything to do with Michigan not doing it too. Kinda like what Brian asks SEC and ACC fans to do regarding satellite camps. 

"and not hold onto guys that they don't think will perform (e.g., Derrick Green)"

Speak for yourself, if Derrick Green wanted to stay I would absolutely want the coaching staff to hold on to him. A promise is a promise and if my alma mater promised a kid 4 years of education, I want them to keep it. 

Have Indiana and Alabama players come out saying they're being forced to transfer?

How are those transfers any different?

Lol

I realize you're being sarcastic but some people make exactly this argument with a straight face.

I'm not going down this road. We can argue motives, it'll all be speculation. It is what it is. 

Pipkins already said last year he was being pressured into signing a medical scholarship so......

Alabama, Indiana, Tenn, OSU, Arkansas under Petrino, and many other schools could have made exactly that same argument. I've said as much on some of those occasions. When I make your argument on threads about Indiana bball or OSU/Alabama football oversigning I get negged to hell...

The truth is Brian has never cared where that attrition is coming from. He's always seen it as shady no matter what, and that was the popular opinion people had in this forum less than a year ago. 

Some of us actually have integrity, backbone, and consistency in our opinions. 

When we do it..

"Harbaugh obviously knows who is leaving"

When Urban, Crean, Saban, ect do it..

"omg, NCAA sucks, obvious oversigning, kids getting pushed out the door, bogus medical redshirt.." 

I don't necesarily have a problem with us doing it, although I certainly wish we didn't.

What I do have a problem with is the faux outrage that's gone on over the past few years within some elements of the fanbase. (I could point at examples but just search for "oversigning" in the site search. Those same people who were angry about the "spring creaning" in indiana, or St Saban Memorial Hospital, ect ect ect are now doing the math trying to figure out who we should encourage to transfer. It's just embarassing. 

Yup...

I'll be waiting for Brian's faux outrage piece once signing day comes and we're over the 85 scholarship limit. (I know it won't come) This is precisely why I'm always slow to judge other schools when they do shady stuff. Too much egg on the face when your own team does it. 

All American sports leagues are run in a "socialist" system to preserve small market teams. If you want capitalism you need to follow Euro sports.

2007 preseason....

:-/

Hope he's renting then.. I bet he gets to move a year from now. 

I thought so too until he hired Ari Fleischer...

That's like a murder suspect stopping by Home Depot to get himself a shovel and a bag of quicklime right after getting questioned by the police. 

Of course they don't count officially. Teams that oversign don't wait until players count officially to start their "roster management." 

Honestly I don't see how we're under 85 after NSD. People here are going to say "but the coaching staff knows who's already leaving..." which is exactly the same excuse other fanbases use when it happens to their team..

Fact of the matter is some kids are going to end up getting pushed out the door one way or another...

Hackenberg would easily be projected as a 1st or 2nd overall pick had he gone to any school other than Penn State. Even without an OL, some people still think he goes top 10 if he declares this year. 

Well, you said they weren't "getting drafted" and he just gave you a list of a bunch of first rounders. Also, I'm honestly not sure that the spread offense QBs that bust are any worse or more frequent than those coming from pro style offenses.. Look at JaMarcus Russell and Blaine Gabbert...

Florida runs a hybrid offense just like Alabama and FSU...

Pat White got injured during that Pitt game. I'm pretty sure they would have won if that hadn't happened. It was super rainy on an away rivalry game and your starting QB injures his throwing hand..

Rodriquez? lol

Dantonio is not a better coach than Saban, you're insane.

Because their current field position was worth more than 3 points and being up 16 isn't that great. They should have just run the ball up the middle, but they chose to lose a bunch of yards instead.

Yeah, but I wish I could mark/block the usernames so that I know who they are in other threads. Kinda like a moron tag.

Like every game thread where 25% of posts consist of "fans" insulting players.

Why isn't there a block button/auto hide on this board? It's hard to keep track of the names of all the imbeciles.

Defining races by a single trait(skin tone) is useless and arbitrary.

The reason people with a background in science who are familiar with the topic will tell you there's no scientific basis for races within the human species is because as a species we're not genetically that diverse.. Moreover, defining a race as "black" is pretty ridiculous given the fact that people with African ancestry have more genetic diversity between them than between Africans and Eurasians.

*affect

Auburn did it with Gus Malzahn... and IMO Herman's year at Houston has been more impressive than Malzahn's year at Arkansas State. 

Franklin probably gets fired next year..

You do realize that a lot of the players playing for OSU had Michigan offers right? That whole "bringing in the right guys" bullshit doesn't really work with football.

None of those jobs are better than OSU. Texas is a lateral move and all the others are downgrades.

Well, I was planning to skip Shannan's tomorrow but the free round sounds compelling. X'D

Iraq and Syria. Good luck...

Honestly, I really really hate half of our fanbase. If I didn't know the score I'd guess we were losing by 3+ scores. wtf?

Gee, I don't know, you mean the same Ohio team that went into the locker room losing by 10 to this same Indiana team?

You people.need to chill the f out. Ohio State went into halftime trailing this same Indiana team 10-0 and only managed to beat them by 1 score.

I really hope we pile on the points quickly so people stop acting like we're losing by 20.

I'm ashamed to be rooting for the same team as half of the whiny idiots posting here.

When people talk about white privilege a lot of times they're talking about white Anglo-Saxon protestants and not white people in general. For example, there's thousands of white Hispanics living in the states who can only be identified as part of a minority because they don't have the right name/accent. "Whiteness" is a constantly evolving criteria. That's why I agree that the term is a bit iffy.

LSU wasn't playing to win the whole 4th quarter. They just didn't want to get their asses kicked. I consistently see better late game clock management from random people playing Madden.

How would he leave after this season? He's a true Sophomore....

Ummm.. you're wrong...

Just go to a regular sports bar. If no "michigan friendly bar" is listed anywhere it's because there probably isn't one. 

Harbaugh coaching Michigan in 2011 probably gets to the national championship. The two games we lost that year were very winnable. 

Good luck on Saturday. What position do you play? 

The domer board is the worst offender. 

football players will always find someone to drive them around... 

Honestly we have Mike Hart to thank for that one. The guy basically has an eternal grudge with us. He'll always give us his absolute best, even at the expense of other games on their schedule. 

Damn, I don't think Rutgers will ever be able to stop MSU's running game.

You should post more often. 

Depends on what was covered by the scholarship.

Tuition, fees and books don't count as taxable income. Room and board does.

You're crazy

I'd rather have Kentucky win the natty 20 years in a row than watch MSU get another one. 

I actually love the first down passing. I've had enough zone runs to the left side on first down to last me 10 lifetimes. 

Hmmm.. you're replying to something that got deleted right? I don't quite follow. 

Ummm.. what? How is what I said racist.

It might be a stereotypical statement to say deep southern states tend to have more racist people in them... but that's certainly not a racist statement. 

Lance Thomas purchased 100k worth of jewelry his senior year at Duke. He made a 30k down payment for it. If that's not fishy, I don't know what is. 

Only reason NCAA didn't get involved is no one would talk. 

Hugo Boss? Marc O'Polo?

That's not true, MDs are highest followed by dentists. Lawyers and finance workers are pretty high up the list too.

No one knows the real reason. Probably all the hoops people have to jump through makes the professions self selecting for a certain type of personality.

The truth is... and this might be a tough pill to swallow for a lot of people... that we really can't compete with those programs anymore. At least not on a yearly basis. Hard to achieve recruiting parity when your home state has less than half the talent of Florida, Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, ect. There's going to be years when things line up and we're able to be competitive vs those schools, but expecting to go .500 vs them (recruiting and on the field) is honestly unreasonable. :( 

The only one that comes to mind is actually Lloyd Carr. Say what you will about him, but his players loved him, no doubt about that. 

When they say "education" they don't mean university rankings in most cases. What they're talking about is academic support staff, graduation rates, ect.

Eat a few bags of sugar free chocolate or gummy bears. 

Well, it's fairly simple. Take away the millions that the universities invest in these athletes, don't replace it with anything, see how it goes. I mean... where do you expect that lost money to come from? Congress? You can't compare our model to China's or Russia's because they fund their athletes directly from a very early age. Here that will never happen. 

Academically, comparing Rutgers and Maryland with Kansas and Mizzou is like comparing U of M with Western or State. They'd both be at the bottom of the conference with Nebraska by a comfortable margin. 

Also, I'm pretty sure Maryland is closer to Michigan than Nebraska and Kansas, but don't quote me on that one. 

wtf? How are we spending more money than Ohio State? 

People were also worried that he was a year older than all the kids he was playing against.

Honestly it sounds like a really good detergent. 

I've had Hydrox cookies fall apart on me before I can even bring them to my mouth. They're of low quality and poor design. 

I have shitty Nike shirts that have fallen apart on me too. That doesn't mean anything, it's all anecdotal evidence tainted by brand loyalty. 

Wouldn't you get nervous if a computer was able to do the same thing you do for a living but faster?

I'll grant you that those doctors insurance companies hire to do peer to peer reviews and audits are shady as F. But there's quite a jump between that and head of sports medicine department at a university hospital.

If the kid ends up playing for Auburn I'll probably entertain the idea that the doctor's opinion might have been influenced/coerced, but until then someone with those credentials gets the benefit of the doubt from me.

So he's already playing for Auburn then?

Auburn gets to take a look at him and go the medical hardship route if it doesn't work out.

Meniscectomy + ACL reconstruction can be career threatening depending on the grade and location of the tear. I am sure there are many MDs in this forum that can confirm this, but I'm pretty sure you will find any amount of evidence lacking because of your vast knowledge on meniscal injuries and repair.

I'm honestly just about done with this fan base.

Whether or not he oversigns has no bearing on the fact that the doctor's medical opinion was that he should not continue to play football. You're suggesting the doctor is straight up giving a false assessment and I find that very hard to believe, oversigning or not.