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I see very few midwest and northeast recruits.  It's mostly 4/5-star guys from CA and the South.

Harbaugh is a confident man, but we're late to the party and we're competing with the local programs who happen to also be elite top-of-the-food-chain programs.  We're in a lot of top 5's for these guys, but not in a lot of leader slots.  As you siad, we're going to miss out on most of these guys.

At what point does Harbaugh move on to the guys more likely to actually commit to Michigan?  Is that something that he feels can wait until summer or even the fall?

It's seems inside-out from the way Meyer and even Tressel did it, where they would solidify their core of local guys early and then branch out from there for the national 5-star type guys.

Hate to break it to you all, but the epic Toronto Raptor face plant was staged too :(

When they lit up the Empire State building in red because Rutgres was in the NIT Final, I said to my wife: "That's going to get them in the Big Ten."

The link seems to say he could.

And then take the kid if he accepted it.

We should offer every Ohio State kid who is the child of a famous Buckeye, whether they are D1 material or not.  Make Urban have to match our offers or take crap from the fanbase.

How old is Herbstreit's kid?

I hope he snaps out of it for the BTT.  He needs to adjust to the game as it happens and not play the percentages based on how they track over the length of a full season.  

We can't afford to play the last 5 mins of the first half with both Irvin and MAAR on the bench in tournament games.

But look how quickly they got to the second level.

Those two linebackers are fucked.

They are shopping for a rival.  Normally it would be Penn State, but not in basketball.  

I live in Maryland, in the DC area.  They are in awe of Michigan, actually.  They don't view it as beating a depleted team.  They view it as beating Michigan.

They honor us by caring so much about us.

Surprisingly, we could have withstood their great 3 point shooting and our piss-poor three point shooting.  But we missed too many easy shots around the rim that they then rebounded.  There were at least 5 of those in a game that was decided by 10 points.. 

We missed a lot of bunnies too.  We really could have won it, in spite of everything..

What exactly do we do on Senior Day?  Send out some cheerleaders?

Empty seats.  Not quite the big draw we would have been last year.

The Testudos from the 40's are pretty down and out, but the ones from the 30s are very cool.

The reptile was a Playa, yo.

The first loss, of course.  Duh.

Never gets old.

I'm sure we'll get a new one by November.

What am I saying?  We'll probably get a new one by the end of Spring Practice.

Hurry, I'm suffocating.

"All Friday PosBangs shall start no earlier than 12:00 AM Friday, Ann Arbor Standard Time"

          So it is written, so it shall be done.

Neither can Urban.

I love his comment about how nobody is born being an O lineman, that little kids don't go play in the yard and pretend to be OL, they pretend to be QBs, WRs, and RBs.

OL is a learned skill through technique and repetition.

The most important thing to me is to be able to see Michgian first, and B1G games that impact us second.

ABC/ESPN has a lot of outlets that let that happen . . . ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN News, and ESPN360 on line.  

I never miss any games now.  I would not want to lose that if the Big Ten moves to Fox or NBC.  Where would they put all the games? 

And that's the only reason.  I could not stand him before that.  I thought he was just a loud mouth entertainer.

Now of course, he's a witty, insightful analyst.

I thought it was when you feel it.

That would be stupid, having a non-football sport try to look like the football team.  We would never do that.

. . . oh, wait.

The main reason that Bo did not win NC's is that Bo was not allowed to play for NCs.  

Based on the polling system at the time, his teams were locked out of NC consideration before the game was even played.  There was not a single bowl game played during Bo's tenure where Michigan knew that if it won the game, it would be the NC.  Not once.

Under today's system, his '71, '73, '76, '80, '85', '86, '88' '89 teams, at minimum, would all have had a shot at a National Championship. 

It's not unreasonable to assume that he could have won at least one of those years in an environment where he knew he wass playing for the NC, and he was not always having to do it in the other team's backyard in the Rose Bowl.

They finished in the AP top 5 for like a decade straight.  Every single year.  Amazing dominance.

Yes, this is what the BYU guy meant be "realignment coming".  it's not all of CFB, it's the Big 12.  he wants to be in the discussion when it happens.

I loved when the VT player asked him if he was out of bounds.  Harbaugh, in the middle of his intense fit of BCS Bowl Game competitiveness, said "No, you were in bounds. You're good."

The game means to much to him to lie and ruin it's integrity.  That's why he's so insane about it.

Hell, we will not be apologizing for driving a stake in someone's heart.

What are they going to say? "No, we do not endorse you using your own money and means to do something that other people are already doing on the internet."

No, they should say "Go do whatever the fuck you please, we don't care.  Just do not put our name on it and claim that you represent the University of Michigan and its fans, and then ask us to endorse it.  Now go away."

Exactly.

To pimp this thing before they've even written a song is delusional.  As if we're all going to bow down just to the mere idea of it alone.

How self-absorbed can you be?

Go do something that has merit, then come talk about it.

the goal of the project is to unite and energize the University community

Mission accomplished.  We are all united in our vigorous hatred of them and their pointless, self-absorbed "Look at Me!" idea.

Now go the fuck away.

Watch at :44.

Harbaugh has the eyes of a bird of prey, like an eagle or a falcon.  They are always darting around, probing, scanning the horizon for something to attack. 

At least it sort of means something and was not just spit out of a cookie pattern like most of the rest of these.

The Chargers one looks cool.  By the time they got to Minnesota, they appear to have gotten bored.

I love Harbaugh's "can we get even 1 mph faster, can we get even 1% better" theme.  No complacency here.

It's not.

I see future Securities Fraud Defendants in that pic.

Those Browns/Ravens won 2 SuperBowls.  The new Browns . . . not so much.

He may not call people out pubicly

He has that Bill Parcells way of getting in your head and calling you out with out actually calling you out.  He'll definitely get his message across. 

Man, he rolled right over.

Here are some keys:

- Ability to understand what you mean quickly.  A lot of us are sneaking an update-look while at work.  It helps to know what you mean without having to hover over your post for half a minute while the boss walks by.

- Ability to understand what you mean on a mobile device where the font is usually really, really small.  Run-on sentences and not using paragraphs will get you killed.

- Not blatantly embarrassing the rest of us.  Typos and grammar slip ups are a time honored part of blogging.  But the obvious stupidity that we make fun of . . . "for all intensive purposes", "pre-Madonna's" . . . that kind of stuff, we draw the line.  It makes it so much harder to make fun of RCMB when we do that. 

That's exactly right.  I looks like they just fed school colors and a logo into a computer and pushed "go".  Then they went to lunch.

That they're 1's, of course.

'Crootin.

Give it up.  It's over.   They won and looked good doing it.

We'll have something to say about it next round.

Well then we need to stop giving him mistakes to profit from.

It makes sense.  I just think there is such an automatic visceral reaction to the specific word "Return" among Michigan fans because it is so heavily associated with Notre Dame and its never ending self-delusion.

This was like, three failed coaches ago:

We don't want to go down that road (any further than we already have).

It's just for pretty.

Yeah, that word makes me a little nervous in a Notre Dame "Return to Glory"TM sort of way.

Recovery, maybe, in that we stopped self-inflicting damage to the program. 

If you are from Palo Alto, you get an additional discount you can apply to either your Versace purse or your parent's mortgage.  Your choice.

The internet in 1997 was not quite as kerosene powered as you make it out to be.  It was slow and no MGoBlog, but it was still pretty functional for things like following/arguing about Michigan football.

As anoying as it can get, I like this stuff too.  Who says we all heve to like the same music/women/politicians/regoin of the country/etc.?

As long as we all like the same team.

Awesome.

Just cut and paste this on the board each day, and we can all go home.

NITology is a thing?

Who does it, Junior Lunardi?

Exactly.

Yay for us!

Beilein loses his top players to:

- Graduation

- The NBA

- Transfer

- Injury

. . . and still beats OSU's 5-stars.

It was Bruce Kimball, Michigan and US Olympic diver.  Hence the very nice form diving for Brutus' legs.

A Floridian who plays Pro football in Florida, spending his time in Michigan in February for a college basketball game.

I love Denard.

Thanks go to Baughlieve for making it from a youtube clip of it during the 1983 game in A2.

Pos him next time you see him.

Best 18 minutes of the season.

Hard to believe he's not already a fifth year Senior.

Whoopie!!  More inbounds.

MAXimum effort.

Does he have a twin we didn't know about who was bored today and decided to show up here?

I really like when they show the view from the top of the key on TV for a whole possession.  I wish they would show it that way more.

The game was a big deal because we were already a Cinderella story, having made it the the semi-final against the Soviets during the height of the cold war.

The game was tape delayed until evening, so I spent all day trying to avoid any coverage of it.  But I slipped up and heard the final score was 4-3 on the radio.  I didn't know who won, but just knowing that it finished that close was a victory for us no matter what.  Now I was jazzed to watch it that night.

It was an intense tight game the whole way so it was not until near the end when we got that 4th goal that I figured out that we were the winners.  Even still, I was holding my breath until the end in case I heard it wrong.  It certainly looked like the Soviets could take it from us at any time.

The game has been so hyped over the years that poeple forget that it was not the Gold medal game.  That came later against Finland. By the time that game came on, I just knew we were going to win, even when we went down a goal.

It was the most amazing run of any team or person in US olympic history.

I was in upstate New York the year after that on a trip, and I made it a point to drive an hour out of my way just to see where it happened.

The next time we played the Soviets in hockey, they cleaned our clocks and order was restored.  But for that one shining moment in 1980 in Lake Placid, the world was turned upside down. 

Wow, I'm here because I like Inconsequential discourse about Intelligent things.

We should hang out.

Did you know that Carlos is really the 80 year old guy who knows who Taco Pants is?

But that's OK, this is the internet.

You're probably a male porn star.

Is that Carlos?

Your new avatar still makes me giggle.  Very clever.

I HATE the grammer lessons.  For all intensive purposes, the people that try to give them are literally morans.  Their all pre-Madonnas.

Sorry, we won't have true unity until they write that song.

Despite how junked up it can get, I really like the board.  I will often go here before I go to the front page.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly and comprehensively anything to do with Michigan sports makes it on here . . . recruiting, coaching, games, schedules, conferences, opponents, uniforms, Kate Upton . . . anything.

It's also a surprisingly good source of non-Michigan news that's of any magnitude.  I think I learned we got Bin Laden on this board.

That's why I'm very tolerant of redundant posts and "trivial" posts that many others bitch about.  I'd rather it get posted and let me decide for myself if I want to read the 4th thread of the day on Weber or some guy's kid's acceptance to the Engineering school.  I don't mind at all. 

The people from all walks of life that post on here are amazing.  Where else do you have a Law Partner and a teenager on equal footing discussing an interesting topic that does not involve a criminal trial? 

The quality of the board is one of the many things that set MGoBlog apart from other fan sites.

You mean Glenn Mason's wife isn't really hot?

It's only innocent for you, Wendy ;)

Agreed, but 8-10 wins will keep them committed here.

Hey, Jim Harbaugh is just another middle class guy from Palo Alto.

I've been advocating for this for years, because not only would it look awesome, it's an authentic throwback.

Back before balck and white TV forced home color against away white to get a readable contrast, teams used to play each other color vs. color.

The newspaper accounts of the dedication game of Michigan Stadium in 1927 talk about the scarlett-clad buckeye players on the field.

The Maize and Blue Nation post is actually wrong on this, it has been done before . . . and we should do it again.

She could have saved herself a lot of backlash if she just picked one of her two topics she tried to cover.

"Purchasing power is different in Ann Arbor than Palo Alto" or "My conspicuous consumption is so much cooler than yours".

Trying to mix them both was a bad idea.

There's a little more Sparty in us than I had thought.

Thanks for asking on my behalf as well.

I thought it was Dave Giantasshole Brandon.

They are desperately trying to get famous and are looking for a vehicle to do it with.  Any vehicle.

It does not really matter to them what it is, it just happens to be our luck that they are students at Michigan so they latched on to this. 

If they were British kids, they'd be working on a pump up hype video to accompany "God Save the Queen" and reUNITE the British Empire.

Whatever gets them noticed.

Great job with these, 12R.

That video could be about anything.  It has no connection at all to what they are claiming to try to do.

It could have been a promo for the "Victors Walk".

The kid's inate asswipe-ness stands on its own merits.  There is no need to take shots at the girls who happen to be in the pictures.

Besides, only in the fantasy world of the internet are they "5's".  If one of them smiled at you in an actual math class, you'd follow her around like a puppy for the rest of the semester.

Another reason to look forward to Spring.

Exactly this.

If he and his groupies wanted to make a song (and a documentary about how cool they looked doing it) to be played at Frat parties, we'd be like, whatever, knock yourself out.  Try not to get beat up.

But I deeply resent this self-promoting tool douchebag hijacking the honor and traditions of Michigan to do it.

And then insulting us by asserting that those traditions are somehow lacking, and they need a gimmicky song to "unite" the fan base, and that he's the chosen one to create said song.

Look, change the name of your group to "I'm desperate for a way to get famous so I am going to make up a pointless song that you will then ignore", and we'll all be friends. 

"Look at this video, it's sweet, so hype!"

Comments like that tell you all you need to know.  Hype indeed.

He's just a douchebag self-promoter.  He cares about nothing about what's good for Michigan, he's just using it as a platform to get recognition.

Did Dave Brandon have a college-age son that we didn't know about?

That's what I'm talking about.

That does way more for me than it should.

I thought so.

Ahhh, Allison Brie.  Every nerd's fantasy girl.  (And I know of what I speak).

I'd take her over Kate Upton, and it's not even close.

Who is it?