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No help at all from the hitting.

Not good, Bob.

F

Make 'em pay.

Washington has stranded half their lineup so far.

Time to make them pay for that.

SWEEET.

Way to limit the damage.

Because it lets us afford things like former Super Bowl coaches and Performance Centers.

As a cold-weather school that is not dedicated to cheating as a way of life, it's the one advantage we do have. 

I have no problem at all with us taking full advantage of it.  And we are finally starting to do it.

I cherish the day when we beat USC in the Rose Bowl because they could not afford that one extra pair of eyes on the staff that noticed a snap count tell on a 4th and 1 alignment.

I like her.

You could always count on Charlie Weis to do something stupid to prove how smart he was.

Like throwing the ball on third and long against our 5-star DB instead of running down the clock to a few seconds left in the game in 2009.

It was incomplete of course, and it gave Tate enough time to engineer a drive for the game winning TD.

Miss you Big Guy.

XOXOXO

His biggest "win" was a loss to USC.

The man could sell it.

Yes, there is more to it than just Ohio State.

It has.  Nobody in attendance should have been surprised.

Yeah, I'd even settle for a dos a cero win.

Count on it.

Harbaugh is a unicorn.

Not many programs have somebody like that.

Reminds me of last night . . . 

Me too!

Are you my lost twin?

Bang me, it's my Birthday!

But you'll let us know if he does . . . 

How's those audits going for The Donald?

Been taking forever.

My hunch is that they use some of that $5-10 million to go somewhere warm in the winter for extended periods of time..

Access to DTW, a major hub, is a big recruiting advantage that I hope all of our coaches beat the hell out of.

It's very easy to get in and out of Ann Arbor from most places in the country, and flights are plentiful and reasonably priced compared to most other places.

As a student, you and your family can get there without much fuss.  As an alumni, which you will be for many years longer than you were a student, it's easy to go back regularly.

Not the same story in Tuscaloosa or Happy Valley or Lincoln. 

Yeah, I'm sorry, but Ricks is the most single overrated place ever.

+1.

Harbaugh-approved comment.

Move.

Duh.

It's because they have a lot of the proverbial guys with no Plan B.

Guys that are incredibly driven and focused.

Please, please, powers that be . . . make this happen.

He said they take easy courses.

But at least they take them.

Re-opens the Pahokee Pipeline?

Hope so.

James Franklin is still looking at it.

When he's done.

I heard he said "Muck Michigan" during his recruitment.

What always bothered me most about his comment is that it reinforced what we have seen from Adulphus Washington, Andy Katzenmoyer, and others consistently over the years . . . that Ohio State does not make you go to school if you are an elite football player.

Somebody will "take care of that" for you.

They send the clear message that you can just go hang out there for a few years until you jump to the NFL.  You don't have to do any academic work.

Let's not kid ourselves, that's an appealing message for a lot of guys who think they are NFL locks.  Who gave Cardale the impression that he could go to a university and not do any school work in the first place?  He got that from somewhere. 

Meanwhile, Harbaugh pushes the academic side of things and even wants you to have a summer job.

Make no mistake, it gives them a recruiting advantage over us for a lot of guys.

I'm glad Cardale got his degree (hopefully a real one, based on real work), but to me he will always be the poster child of academic abuses at Ohio State.
 

What's really scary is that he could have easily won seven Super Bowls.

Of course, he could have also just as easily lost 3 or 4 more.

Five is good.

Yes, Atlanta choked.

Tom Brady made them choke.  

He gave them the yips.  They were jumping at shadows and making stupid decisions.

He does that to teams.

If it was any other QB, do you really think that Atlanta would have choked like that?  No way.

We are not saying he was part of it.

We are saying he knows about it now and yet continues to actively deny it and has even sued the university.  

He's defending it because of his association to Joe Paterno.

So yes, "guilt by association" in that sense.

His father's sins are not his, but he insists on making them his.

The comments against him in the post were scathing though.

He's not getting a free pass in the general public.

Heineken and Tacos.

I'm in!

I'd like to buy a vowel.

And if Everyone Murders is WD, it's cosmically freaking brilliant.

BTW, I'm not WD.

Or am I . . . ?

USC figured it out in the 2nd half of the Rose Bowl.  Put a DB on the sideline at the 20 on McSorely's right, and just fair catch his arm punt.

Yeah, I agree.  I wasn't calling out your comment . . . they will probably do exactly what you said, for purely cynical reasons..

I was just arguing with them out loud in advance.

Oops, you're right.

I forgot about WD.

If he was a Purdue fan, they'd be #1.

Make no mistake, schools like the University of Michigan are "for profit".

They just keep all of it for themselves.

There are no angels here.

Indeed.  Every sport wants to own your kid's soul, all year long.  There is no ability to sample things like we could as kids.  

And it's self-important adults that are doing it.  They are all trying to live out their failed childhood sports fantasies through your kids.  

My wife is from the south and she introduced me to the Waffle House . . . "scattred, smothered, and covered".

They are awesome in all their trailer park glory.

They have them up north now, so you can hate the SEC without having to hate on the Waffle House.

"an educational opportunity afforded to the entire student body"

Like Clemson's personal mini-golf room for football players only?

At least Michigan's "impermissable benefit" has some redeeming academic value. 

All things he could have easily done if he wasn't busy tripping on his swinging dick.

+1 Insightful.

Hey, whatever.

Just as long as they keep Joey Galloway.

/s

When was Nebraska getting all those draft picks?  

Even in their glory years of the '90s, they weren't doing it with unreal NFL talent.  

They were doing it more with a specific system (and steroids).

He thinks Paul Finebaum is a smart, handsome man.

They lost because of the absence of Zeke Eliott, and the presence of JT Barrett.

They had a very containable running game, and Barrett could not make up for the overpursuit with downfield passing.

You keep going 3-and-out after 3-and-out against Clemson, they are going to score 31 points while you score 0.

Mmmmmm . . . poutine.

No, really.

Harbaugh-Badger don't care.

We won't beat the Ohio State record, but it shows we are on a par with them.

Little by little we are eroding the huge advantage they have had over us the last decade.

History shows when we are roughly even with them, so is our record against them.  Then it comes down to a few plays here and there . . . mostly just luck at that point.

Jim Harbaugh is doing what he came to Michigan to do, and why we paid him all those millions to do it.

Don't see that happening in any foreseeable timeframe with any other coach we had a shot at.

Do you really need to pay Jemele Hill a million dollars?  Tell her she gets half of that, end of conversation.

Where else is she going to go on her limited talent and make a half a million dollars?

The most Don Brown thing ever.  He fights just like he coaches.

Two words in Italian:

Marisa Tomei.

The 16-year-old in me is in love.

The parent in me thinks she is going to get all that hair caught in her bat one of these days.

"MGoBlogging from work."

Happy Friday!

Spring is in the air!

I've seen it.  Lived in Ohio when it was happening.

It's not pretty.

It's "their".

You've been stuck in Ohio too long.

Only Galloway left to go.

I can't flush this conversation from my mind.

I'm not really surprised.  This happens with my kids . . . you take them somewhere totally unique with indigenous sights and activities you can't see or do anywhere else, and they want to go to the movies and amusement parks.

Kids will be kids.  You have to pick your targets and mix it up.

You can't give them all vegetables, you have to throw in some desert too or they go south.

Coaching and OC changes probably hurt Gardner more than any other player during Michigan's entire history.

I'd feel really bad for him if it wasn't for the fact that he'll probably be CEO of something someday. 

Even one paragraph would have helped.

Where did I put the Goody's Headache Powder?

Oh, here is is, next to my #3 hat.

Yeah, what's up with the entitlement mentality?

We want the networks to rain money on us for sparkling facilities and coaches salaries and even to potentially pay the players.  

Yet we don't want them to expect anything for all that program-changing cash.

That's not how the world works, whiny children.

They need a return on that hefty investment, or they won't do it.

Swoon.

I found the problem:

Screw that, I want to beat them 120-0.

What if it was?

It's a deal.

Bo didn't like the forward pass either, yet his starting QB when he retired was Elvis Grbac, a pocket passer who threw the ball all over the place.

People need to give the man more credit, he adapted more than we think.  

He would have adapted to the current environment just fine.  Because he was a smart man who knew what it takes to win consistently.

People take a statement he made 40 years ago in a different era  . . . toe meets leather at 1:00 and so on . . . and act like that defines him for eternity.

Bo would take one look at how night games take a mediocre program like Penn State and make it a Big Ten champion and say "We need to do some of that."

Want.

Went on a trip to Italy, took the train from Venice to Florence to Rome.  Stayed a few days in each city, with some side trips.  It was Epic.

Rented a car in Florence and drove to Sienna.  It was cool.  Driving in Italy is easy, but parking when you get back at night is a bitch.

Saw all the sights in Rome and went to the Vatican.  Also rented a car in Rome and drove to Valmontone, my grandparent's home town.  

That was interesting because all the other places I went were tourist places, so everybody spoke English.  But not in Valmontone even though it is only like 15 miles from Rome.  Lots of pointing and drawing pictures to communicate.    

Also went to Frescati on the top of a dormant volcano where they make Frescati wine which you can get in any good wine store.

I want to go back and to Rome south to Naples next time.

Can you blame him?

I walked in the footsteps of Pickett's soldiers at Gettysburg, up to where the Union line was.  

Suicide.  

I had a lump in my throat the whole time, and it was just pretend 150 years later.

Wow did he really admit that?

Not the type of thing you expect to hear from a QB.

Wow did he really admit that?

Not the type of thing you expect to hear from a QB.

Speight to UCLA.

Why do people assume he will retire in his mid 60s?  Lots of coaches in all sports are coaching well into their 70s.  

Hell, the President of the US is 70 and he just started.

People are living longer and they are active longer.  It will bankrupt Social Security, but in this particular case . . . it works in our favor.

If it was MSU in Rome, Sportscenter would be . . . elsewhere.

Heh.

Cool.

It sucked, but the 2016 OSU loss is very encouraging versus the 2015 loss.  

After 2015 it did not look like Mcihigan had any answers for OSU and would not for a looong time.

Yet in 2016 it was all even, game came down to a "coinflip" bad call.  Michigan is good enough now for luck to take over.  That's tremendous progress.

This is the progression of turning a losing program around into a winning program:

- Lose big,

- Lose small,

- Win small,

- Win big.

Michigan is on track versus our rivals.  

We are up to step 3 for MSU and I expect to hit step 4 this year.  We are at step 2 for OSU and you could even make the case we are de-facto at step 3.

So, did Ownenu get two seats on the flight?

There is no way he can fit in a normal airplane seat.  The seatbelt would not even wrap all the way around him.

So does jailbreak screen.

MGoBloggers are not your ordinary Americans.

We use the internet for good.

Good point about MSU and OSU.  They won, but they had to have zero confidence in the repeatablity of those wins.

Durkin's Donuts.

And our defense has gotten even better with the arrival of Don Brown.

Heh, heh.

Yeah, unfortunately the "Worst losses from the Harbaugh era thread" is going to be a lot easier to comment on at this point.  

The dude's been snakebit a little in close big games . . 2015 MSU, 2016 OSU and Iowa, the Orange Bowl.

Gotta learn to finish.  In 4 of his 6 losses, he had the lead with less than a minute reamining in the game but still lost.

He'll get there   

Nicely done.

I was at that game . . . it was sweeeet.
 

Is that like an eight foot net?

Or start banning ours because they are too cheap and lazy . . . 

Psssst, Pope . . . I'll pay you 20 Euros to conduct a mass wearing that Michigan helmet instead of the fancy schmancy Papal hat.

You know you want to.

Welp.

That's that then.

Kate Upton won't return my phone calls.

I'm such a stud.

You are making it too complicated.

He's going to Miami for their Engineering program.

I wish I was Jim Harbaugh.

That is all.