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Is it signed, unsigned, or two's complement?

I think you can make the case either way, but what I felt ultimately made that a block was the guy make ZERO effort to twist to get to either side of Morgan even though he clearly should have known Morgan was likely going to beat him to that spot.

If he shifted at all and hit Morgan more to the side, that's a block or a no-call I think, but the way he proceeded to knowngly crash right into the middle of his chest I think sealed his fate.

Gotta remember the second one.

But there's getting a break or two to fall your way and then there's the crap ND and OSU have gotten away with this year.

Ohio I don't know got an excessive about of luck; only the MSU fumble really stands out to me. ND, however, has gotten every break and every call. They barely beat a terrible Purdue team, they only beat us by a TD even though we gave them 6 turnovers, they needed two gifts from the officials to beat Stanford and Pitt, and they managed to get USC one week after their starting quarterback went down with a shoulder injury. That is more than luck, that is backing into a title game, but I guess that's okay because you need a lot more than luck to beat Alabama.

Should have taken the tickets. If going to the game means I have to wait until we win at the end to stand up and cheer, so be it, it is worth it to attend.

I know ND gets a lot of brand-points to put them in over either of them, but ND has played almost every game very close and KSU and Oregon have been blowing out pretty much everyone,

It would be a travesty for ND to get in ahead of either of them the way they are playing right now. I'd say Oregon would get the nod by virtue of the extra game they will play against a theortically quality opponent in the PAC-12 title game. If they should fall though, I still have to believe K-State's resume is good enough to overcome the bias if they win out.

I've been wondering this for a while now. Definitely not happy about the date change though. I just submitted my holiday time-off requests and changing them might not be possible if it gets moved up, and it might interefere with a bowl trip if it moves back.

I really don't think we were doomed to lose that game from the start. There were a LOT of plays in the first half that, had they gone our way, we would have been very competitive and perhaps even won the game.

In particular, Denard several times overthrew wide open receivers that would have at least gotten a first down. Alabama also got two trouchdowns off of two turnovers on us. Don't forget that missed facemask that, as a result of Lewan's penalty on the same play, effectively killed the drive rather than force a do-over on the down. Make a few of those receptions and take away the turnovers, and we're maybe down a touchdown at the half, if that.

Make no mistake, Alabama has the better team, and that's why the things that happened, well, happened, but even in our current state, they were in fact beatable. We just didn't execute anywhere near well enough to make it happen and it'll be a year or two before we can go toe to toe with them and be able to recover form some of the mistakes we made.

If we lost two of those three we'd be kind of screwed this year.

Definitely thought the same thing, and then got REALLY confused when I read "Denard Robinson" and "game used" as I was scanning the OP for the link.

Then the eBay page loaded and it all made sense.

My goodness, somebody in recruiting dropped the ball bigtime on that one.

At Michigan, we don't need to dedicate a department to that. We have Halderman to teach everything these is to know about things that can be remotely considered a computer.

Have to admit though, I was voting for Reeths-Puffer if it was on that list. Then I saw it wasn't a state of Michigan thing, so I was okay voting for Muskegon.

But is does not change the fact that as an athletic department we still turn a profit, and even if it means making a little less this year, we should not be embarassing ourselves and doing a disservice to the team by not sending our band to a game as big as this.

The baseball team has definitely taken a step back, but to address specifically what I am assuming is your distaste for losing to BG and Toledo, it should probably be noted that due to the nature of college baseball, every B1G school knows there is no way they are making the tournament unless they win the conference. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I would assume with that in mind we do not use our best pitching for mid-week non-conference games because of that, preferring to make sure we have every advantage we can for conference play.

We should probably still be able to beat MAC schools by simply scoring more runs (I would think they would also save their best for conference play), but the pointlessness in playing such games cannot be understated.

One step forward and two steps back. Why isn't the basketball team allowed to keep its head above water? Football and hockey have been doing it for decades.

Good luck to Trey, but man, I wish he'd come back for another year. Never saw him as a one-and-done. I think he can use that extra year as much as the team can.

Chris is one of the few guys I figured as certain to come back. He almost certainly had captain status locked down and I figured he realy liked it here.

*sigh* There goes a lot of my hope and expectations for next year. I'm sure we'll still make the tournament and everything, but I'm not so sure next season will have the potential to be as special as I thought it could be without Chris.

Although admittedly, I am thinking about trying to get someone to buy tickets on my behalf, since my ID is still good through 2015.

Due to the crappy home slate though, I'm actually more thinking of getting someone to buy me tickets to the Alabama game. $50 is a great price and the seats are good too. Either that or ND and/or Ohio would be pretty good pick-ups to (or maybe even Nebraska, as I hear Nebraska fans are pretty hospitable and it's a fun trip to go on).

So the guy wasn't prepared to handle the stresses of getting that much attention that quickly.

It's kind of ironic, but it doesn't really say anything about the video and its purpose just because the guy who made it had a bad day.

Say what you want about the video, but Kony is still not a very cool dude, and bringing more attention to him is certainly not a bad thing.

Been wondering who they were going to get. Given that the previous three were Larry Page, the President, and the Governor, I can't say I was expecting much though, so in light of that, I'll take it.

At least my class won't have to deal with all the griping the last two classes did. Inviting a political figure makes the opposite side act like children, and it really showed the last two years. I don't care whether you agree with Obama or Snyder or not; they are an important figure that's taking the time to come speak at your graduation ceremony, and you should be at least respectful of that fact.

Regardless of name though, not much of anybody gives a good graduation speech. Page's wasn't that good, Obama's frankly wasn't all that great, and while I did not listen to Snyder's, I have heard it wasn't great, and having heard him speak before, I know he's only a so-so speaker (which, I imagine, is why he likes town-hall style so much).

Absolutely abysmal performance by the defense. They had a ton of doorstep chances they failed to capitlize on that I can't believe we gave up to a team as bad as them. We also flubbed some great oppurtunities of our own, and what do you know, one Hunwick screw-up followed by a completely unacceptable turnover later and we've blown the game.

That pick on Merrill is the type of thing that gets pros sent to the minors for a while. We're not talking about a BG player doing his best Datsyuk impression, we're talking about a complete lack of attention and effort by him and he should be absolutely ashamed.

I hope and am relatively confident Red ripped them a new one in the locker room. If so, I predict we will make them look like a high school team tomorrow, and I hope they will use tonight as a lesson not to give less than 100% going into playoff season.

So I'm guessing Jack is going to want to get out of there as soon as possible. He signed a 7-year deal with LA last year, so is he still stuck with the 5 years and change remaining on that contract in Columbus? I never actually learned what comes of contracts like that when a player is traded.

I always thought seeing Jack come home was a pipe dream since he liked LA and they seemed to like him, but now that this is happened, I feel beter about it maybe happening some day. No way Jack is going to tolerate playing down there any longer than he has to.

Jon will almost certainly come back. If he was going to make the jump there is no way he would have endured a half-season suspension when he could have just gone to the OHL and kept playing. The Devil's are also aware of why he was suspended and will probably be cool with him taking at least another year to develop and mature, not to mention the fact they have a good track record of letting us keep our players for 4 years.

Hunwick will definitely be missed, but I don't expect Rutledge will be a liability by any means. He may not immediately put up the numbers Hunwick did, but I expect him to be solid, and I expect the defense to improve next year with the guys coming in. Next year will probably be a bit of a slow start while the freshman get used to the college game, but we tend to finish strong as it is, and with the talent we will have, we can do some serious damage next year.

I'm always up for trying a non-chain pizza place. Obviously we'll only be able to hit up one though. Since you seem to be familiar with them, which would you recommend between Myle's and Pollyeye's?

Getting my weekly dose of hockey before heading out of town for Spring Break (first-round bye is all but assured at this point, so have to get in what I can).

Been to BG a couple times in March for something non-sport related, and I've never discovered anything that wasn't a chain resturaunt unfortuantely. I'm sure there's something, but given I have to be up around 6 the next morning, sticking with fast food and non-alcoholic beverages is probably a better plan anyway.

and then realized it was about basketball and not hockey.

When they got called for the 12-men, it made me realize that, save for the final play, it was to the Giants distinct advantage to just throw everybody on the sideline out there and take the penalty. The Pats need a touchdown, and time is more important than the 5 yards, so until the penalty would extend the game (untimed play if there is a penalty on the defense), why not just load the field up?

Of course, going overboard on that would almost certainly result in a major rule change with the ensuiing outcry, but doing it with 12 or 13 and passing it off as a mistake, why not? I do kind of wonder if Coughlin did that on purpose, but I'm sure he'd never admit it if he did.

I definitely think the NFL shows us that any football playoff in college needs to be limited. I don't think anybody wants a playoff just so a 2-loss team can potentially show up for a few games and suddenly erase their regular season deficiencies; we want a playoff so that nobody gets screwed by the fact only two teams get in and a bunch of computers and pollsters get to decide who the lucky teams are.

Personally, I favor doing another split in D1 for football and doing an 8-team playoff (NFL is 12, but the NCAA has way more teams so 8 is actually a lot less than it looks, comparatively) using the champions of whatever conferences exist at the top level at that point plus 1-3 at-larges depending on the conference count to account for independents (if there are any left) and situtations of disputed conference titles (for example, if a conference produced two teams with the same record that didn't happen to play each other and lacked a conference title game, like was theoretically possible before Nebraska joined the Big Ten).

Of course, that system could and would have its controversies witht he at-larges, but losing an argument for being 8th best and a remote shot at a title draws a lot less sympathy for doing undefeated and being shut out of any shot at all. Plus, it would be versatile enough to handle future developments, such as the scenarios mentioned or the possibility of a band of second-teir teams forming a conference and moving up, kind of like what the Mountain West almost did.

Here's to hoping the team can step up the defense and at least preserve the home streak until Jimmy is back. Our fate is kind of attached to him...

*Doesn't want to give MSU attention for their actions*

*Makes thread about their actions on MGoBlog*

Deciding to go to the OHL during your recruitment is a perfectly valid thing to do, even if you have verbally committed to a school. It's a terribly unfortunate thing to sacrifice a free education from a world-class university for an illusion of having a better shot at the NHL, but it is their choice to make, and the school then knows to pursue other recruits.

Once a LOI is signed and/or a player is on campus though, that's frankly a binding commitment. The fact that these sleezes still recruit kids after that point is dirty, backhanded, and unprofessional. How would you feel about your wife jumping spouses on you after signing a marriage charter? When your girlfriend dumps you, it sucks, but you get over it. At some point though, there's a firm commitment, and if that's broken, you've been legitimately cheated.

They like to put on a show about how they're a better path to the NHL, but that simply isn't true. If you're good enough to play in the NHL, you will play in the NHL. If you're not, you will spend your career in the AHL or lower, just like any other college or OHL player who didn't turn out to be NHL material. To be fair, there are a handful of players (like one of our very own users here) who take full advantage of the OHL's college program, but regardless of what you think about the concept of a student-athlete in the NCAA, that is non-existent in the OHL. You have to do school completely on your own and if you want them to pay for it, I believe you have to do far better than most average students would do as well.

Those are really good for $50. Too bad I'm graduating this year. Maybe I can get somebody to buy one of my behalf...

I put the blame for the NE/BAL game on the guy who dropped the game-winning touchdowns. They are both goats, since that was a short field goal, but why leave it to your kicker to tie and got to OT when YOU CAUGHT THE BALL IN THE ENDZONE AND LET A GUY KNOCK IT OUT OF YOUR HANDS MICROSECONDS BEFORE IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED ANYWAY.

All caps brought to you by a friend of mine whom I know will look very depressed when I next see him.

But my rage at Stu continues to push him into Tristan/Burlon territory. Every time we went on a run, I feel like it ended with Stu. He airballs a wide open three, he drives right into two defenders and turns the ball over, he blows it on defense to give them a bucket.

I know a lot of people love him, but I just can't take it. When you play as much as he does, one timely three at MSU is not enough to make up for all the crap I see him do otherwise. He drives me crazy, and I will always appreciate his love for Michigan, but I can't wait for him to graduate.

I don't see anything about Morgan, but mine does have a "Did you know" about Jake Ryan and his grandfather. Maybe it's a localized thing? Find it hard to believe Wikipedia would let someone do that nationally on a regular basis.

EDIT: I just asked a bunch of people I play video games with that are in various parts of the country to tell me what they have in their "Did you know." They all have Jake Ryan as well, so apparently we do have an operative at Wikipedia, because it is not different in Texas, New York, or Wisconsin. Waiting for another guy to stop being away who lives in the UK to see what he has...

From a school that's permanent cross-rival is Indiana.

I would also like to point out something else dumb about VT's fake punt that may or may not have been on TV that I saw clear as day at the game.

Not only did they take the timeout, but the guys were huddled up with a coach on the field talking quite a bit. After that, a couple of the lineman and Coale sprinted out and started lining up when the coach called them back over into the huddle to talk some more. I don't think there was anybody in the building who didn't know they were going to fake it. Nobody chats that much, and paticularly nobody calls the punter back in again, on a punt after a timeout.

Pretty sure we noticed to, because we blew that up. Too bad for Coale, because he still had plenty of time to punt it rugby style but chose to keep it and try anyway. Good for us though!

And that's why I am leaving New Orleans as soon as the game is over and driving all night to get back for class the next day.

I'm still going to miss my first class, but I've had the professor before and I believe he's recording his lectures these days, so I'm not too worried about him as long as I let him know. My MDE later that afternoon, however, is a whole different story. I should make it back in time, but driving that far you never know what can delay you along the way.

There seems to be a problem with FSD, too. I'm trying to watch the game right now and the channel is completely black. If I hit guide, I can see the tiny version, but otherwise nothing. Anybody else having this problem? (We have Uverse, BTW)

The only one in this story that gets truely screwed is Rodriguez. He got 90%+ of the heat, and he got precisely zero help dealing with it, from a PR standpoint, a payroll standpoint (no contracts for the assistants? REALLY?!), or any other point, really.

Fact is, we baited a really good coach who cares deeply for his players into leaving his dream job at his alma mater just so he could ultimately have his life torn to pieces. Then we had the gull to make him believe we weren't going to fire him so we could pay him less on the buyout and make it less likely the players leave, at the expense of his pocketbook and his employment status for the last year.

RR made his mistakes, but none of them were things we couldn't accuse Carr of doing (Bad coordinators made to look good by awesome players). We gave him the biggest screw job It hink any coach has ever gotten, and it embarasses me to think MY school did it to him. If we ever play Arizona in the Rose Bowl, I won't even feel bad if we lose. We kind of deserve it. If anybody on this board ever meets him down the road, they owe it to him to apologize for what we did to him and wish him well. I know I will.

Anybody have an over/under on number of coaches who actually filled out their ballet instead of handing it to an assistant?

Hanson is still a great kicker. Nobody makes EVERY 55-yarder, and the block was a missed offsides.

Our best corner, two punters, three running backs, and I believe also a safety are injured. Can't do much about that. O-Line we definitely need though.

Nick Saban is using medical harships to force his players to give up football. BSing a medical redshirt is trying to make it so the player can play MORE football. That's a huge difference in intent.

I still have a hard time believing they won't lose a bowl game. I feel like a bowl game is mandatory just because of the Sugar Bowl fiasco that the NCAA took a lot of heat for.

I suppose it wouldn't be inconceivable, seeing as how the NCAA already caved into them for the Sugar Bowl in the first place, but given that turned out to be a bad decision, I feel like a one year ban is likely, even if it only ends up being a retraction from this year's 6-6 bowl. If not, that just goes to show that the NCAA needs to go and OSU can get away with cheating, which is why its all the more important that we destroy them on the field to show that still isn't enough to beat Michigan.

Worst I've ever seen the team play. Literally no effort by anyone but Hunwick. I think Hunwick is learning how Jeff Lerg felt his senior year. The defensemen just let their forwards skate right on by them to create breakaways, the forwards kept fumbling around with the puck, they did a terrible job getting the puck out of the defensive zone, the list goes on.

Hate to say it, but I've pretty much lost hope. Last Saturday was the worst I'd seen to team play, as I have not seen us lose a game in which we socred 5 goals since getting here, but tonight beat it by a mile. I've seen the team sleep a game or two before, but I have never seen them give up breaks all night long because they simply let themselves be outskated, much less by a team like Northwestern.

Also, the AD can go to hell for their student ticket policy. Despite giving us a game for Sunday and knowing the OSU game was the next day, they didn't include the ticket, and unlike previous years made absolutely no effort to let the students know tickets were available for break games. I happened to find out they had them available to us, but even then they stuck us in the endzone so they could money grab the normal seats (Although I moved over just behind the benches anyway). There was a HUGE block of Northeastern fans in what is normally the student section, which was almost as embarassing as the way the team played.

Yost should have been on the trphy int he first place if they think Stagg is worthy.

But I can't really say that surprises me too much either. I'm not sure we are really in a decent position to judge the mindset of PSU fans. As much as I'd like to believe we at least wouldn't throw stuff at a guy like that, I'm not sure it wouldn't happen here or anywhere else.

The situation at PSU is tragic, but this guy is really doing little more than adding salt to a very fresh wound. Can you image how it'd feel to us if we found out something like this happened under Bo? I sure know I can't, and PSU loves Joe just as much as we loved Bo. I don't think their fanbase has had enough time to absorb what has just happened yet, and having a guy insisting that they just throw the rest of the season after their 46 year coach was just fired is not exactly helping.

We can talk all day about how horrible it is that Penn State is thinking about their football program more at a time like this, but we also didn't experience the storm they went through for the last week. That doesn't excuse the behavior against the guy, but I don't expect the reaction he received would not happen at any other program that experienced something like that. We see the reality that the victims in this seem to be overlooked, but we're not seeing it with the previous view of Paterno being a legend and a hero, so that isn't nearly as hard for us to do.

We definitely didn't look great last night, but we didn't exactly go peddle to the metal, either. There was plenty of time for pretty much everyone on the bench, and in the end we pulled away like we should.

I'm not worried, but I do have to admit I was not impressed with our defense. Ferris only scored 33, but that's because they are really bad. They had a ton of open looks they couldn't get to go down. We'll know where that we're at after Maui, I think, and don't forget either that basketball is a lot different from football when it comes to David and Goliath. Duke almost lost last night if you want any recent proof.

The biggest argument IMO against the spread in the pros is the risk of injury. Now every team, even the bad ones, have really good players (in terms of college) that would love to destroy your players.

Tebow is a guy who seems pretty durable and can take it for the most part, but that's not to say he's going to always get back up. Given the resistance to quarterbacks like him, though, I could see a scenario in which an NFL team could pick up two or three of these quarterbacks just because they aren't wanted by anyone else and make it work. That would be an interesting experiment.

Those are a whole lot more expensive than I thought they'd be. I think I'm going to hold off on tickets and try to score some on eBay or when they relaize they won't be selling out and are dumping them off for cheap. I want to go to this, but I'm not paying $50 for tickets and I'm not going to waste my time if I have to sit in the outfield while the rink is at home plate.

But I still don't understand why all the focus is on him punching Lewan. That stuff happens all the time, especially in rivalry games.

The reason I hate Gholston is because he piled onto our quarterback while he didn't have the use of his arms or legs and tried to break his neck. That, IMO, warrants at least what he ended up getting, and if he had actually seriously injured Denard, should have landed him a criminal charge. If I intentionally twisted the head of anybody in real life, even if he weren't defenseless, I would get in a bunch of trouble.

Got to love Sparty though. Sticking up for an indefensible act by one of their players and blaming the repercussion for it on Michigan being the "protected" team, even though they have a streak going against us and managed to win the next week anyway. Maybe some day they'll realize they make it way too easy for us to make fun of them.

That can happen in college and high school because you are allowed to return the attempt the other way for two after a block/fumble/int on the scoring team. In the NFL though, the attempt is called dead if the defense comes into possession of the ball, so the offense would have to somehow manage to get it back that far on their own.

Unless something changed, the Pep Band has absolutely no official status with the school. They are a totally student-run organization and every one of them that shows up to the GLI does so on their own time and dime as a poor college student who probably isn't even from nearby to cheer for a team that has won as many games in the last 3-4 years combined as Michigan has in 2/3s of any given season. They are no more of a "hack job" than the alumni band and I'd take them at the GLI any day. Unless you are a flat out homer who would take a guy with a kazoo over anything else just because he's a Michigan fan, I don't see how anybody else could either.

I'll take the alumni band over nothing, but if Tech can get their people to show up, I don't know why we can't let our regular band play with whoever can make it to the GLI. I'm not apologizing because I get sick of the same stuff (beyond the givens) every year.

But I really don't care for the alumni band. They play really slow, and they play the same stuff over and over again. I know its not really their fault, since they all have real lives to worry about over learning and practicing new songs, but it is kind of embarrasing when they play Seven Nation Army for the 10th time and MTU's band keeps count of it. I'd rather have whomever of the regular band can make it to the games.

I will say that they beat the daylights of State's alumni band though. They DO play stuff other than the standard stuff, and State's band pretty much sticks to their crappy fight song and Dudley Do Right, and they are also bad at doing it.

Purdue is better than we thought, but I still don't think handling them should be a problem. They scored all 21 points in the first half and then did nothing with the ball in the second. I'm more concerned about the offense beating itself than Purdue defending it.

Just for making the thread. I'm happy SOMEBODY realizes we're playing Purdue this Saturday.

I only saw the second half of the game, but it looks to me like Purdue jumped out of the gate and just kind of went into hold-on mode. They did precisely nothing in the second half and until late in the game, I could say the same for Illinois.

I think both of these teams are capable of more than they're showing. Illinois did beat ASU after all. I think we should beat both of them, but I think Illinois has the higher upside and we get them on the road.

Strings of penalties which sound pretty weak they way they are saying it on the radio. Now its a tie game.

I remember that game well. Got what they deserved in the end though.

My experience with Northern fans is that they are the MSU of the UP. Maybe that's my MTU connections and the school colors talking (Plus Mel), but my experiences backs it up and so do the school rankings.

But from the sounds of it, the referees want this to turn into the Miami game a few years ago all over again.

They are calling this one-sided all the way, and its why I can't stand the CCHA. Northern has been taking cheap shots all night and they eject our GOALTENDER. These guys are just as big of clowns as always, and this is why I can't wait for B1G hockey. Probably only going to get worse since the Big Ten "started" the realignment and now they're going to lose their side jobs in a couple years.

Unnecessary hits happen in a game like this, paticularly with your rivals. Scrums are bound to happen too, like they did with Boston and Woodson.

What State did was pure intent to injure. Its one thing to even throw a cheap punch, its another entirely to throw a cheap punch at a players neck. Its one thing to pile on late, its another thing entirely to try and break a defenssless players neck. Its one thing to give a check from behind, its another thing entirely to slash an unconscious player in the neck with a hockey stick.

There's no sugar coating this, Michigan State harbors a disproportionate number of criminal players on their teams, and their coaches not only fail to address that problem, they encourage it. That has been evident from the no-punishment and the slaps on the wrist they recieve for their wrong-doing. A quarter of your team causes trouble at a fraternity? One game suspension. Attacking Kampfer in the neck with a stick? Suspended for small remainder of an already long-lost season (and then reinstated and made an assistant captain). Yesterday's antics? I'm betting the punshment will be nothing if left to Dantonio.

Their conduct did not have changed the outcome yesterday. The flags they DID get we failed do anything with, and while you can argue that the ejections that should have occured would have changed something, our offense shouldn't need that to take advantage of what we were given. I'm pissed because we lost to thugs like them and because they accept behavior that can result in serious, debilitating harm to our players. I am proud of our guys for not retaliating with equally dangerous conduct, but I am not proud of the fact they couldn't play up to beat thugs when given golden oppurtunities to cash in.

We look down on Spartans for a reason. I was at the game today and didn't see the severity of some of their personal fouls because I was looking for the ball. Their team acted like their fans today, which is a new low for them. My hatred for State went up a few notches today after listening to some TV watchers and seeing some of it for myself.

ND fans, on the other hand, I gained a lot more respect for when I went there last year. It as almost creepy how nice and welcoming they were, and I will always remember that when I interact with ND fans (until they give me a reason to do otherwise).

I actually had a guy imply that the game was called against them today. Absolutely dispicable. Dantonio shouldn't be allowed to coach if he's going to encourage that behavior and his players shouldn't play. Michigan and Ohio State is the greatest rivalry in sports, but there is a mutual respect that goes with that such that, while there will be scrums, nobody tries to break somebody elses neck. Spartan's don't understand that, and that became that much more clear today.

The way I'm reading it, the new system requires you to donate a bunch of money to get yourself season tickets. They are saying that "a bunch of money" has to be at least $500 but could be more depending on how many people give more than $500 in $100 increments (cooresponding to priority points).

After that, you need only maintain a minimum donation every year to keep your seats, which is a little to a lot less than $500 depending on how good your seats are (but of course, if you can afford donating enough to get the priority points to get seats on the 50 yard line, $500/year for that zone is probably not a big deal).

Also, being a graduate, former athlete, etc really helps boost your priority points, but you still have to fork over the $500 the first time if you don't already have season tickets.

I have also taken Bacon's class, and I know from it that it wouldn't be in there if Bacon were't willing to stake his credibility on it.

If this book makes Carr look that bad, I will believe he deserved it. I also am willing to bet by default that if Carr was not interviewed for this book (which as far as I know was NOT what Brian or anyone else said) he probably didn't want to be. As it has been said, that would be in-line with his entire stance during RR's tenure, and frankly, I think that's part of the problem. Bo has said that Bump's support was important to his success in coming to Michigan as an outsider, so I don't know why it would have killed Lloyd to do the same if he really cared that much about the program. I know I am making my own assumptions on Carr's actions post-retirement here, but where Carr's side being or not being in the book has not been said, I think its easy to hypothesize from Brian's post that Carr was definitely not there for RR or else he probably wouldn't have reason to hate the book.

One thing is for sure though, the more crap that goes on around the program, the more I miss Bo. We've always loved Bo for everything he did for Michigan, but after reading Bo's Lasting Lessons and seeing the happenings since and including The Horror, it has made me realize that it wasn't just what Bo did that made me love him, it was who he was as an individual. I really think that if he were alive today, the last three years would have gone VERY differently. Consider how much impact Bo's public support would have had after Practicegate. For that matter, I wonder if the dolphin puncher would have ever written the article if Bo had been around to support RR from the very beginning.

Do you believe, knowing Bo the way you did and to a large degree how things where before RR and obviously during his tenure, that the last three years would have gone differently if Bo were still alive? Would Bo have publicly stuck up for him? Would his support and presence likely have led to greater success in recruiting, play, morale, former player support, etc to the point that maybe we still have RR as our coach today? Would Bo have supported him at all?

I think the OSU happenings are a poor reason to withold them from the players, and as such I am happy the AD is going to let them keep them. I understand what the writer is worried about, too, so maybe if they were kept around but the players weren't physically allowed to keep their jersey until after their career is over?

2008 Northwestern - Everything that can be said about this game has been said. It was freshman year for me, I had watched the Michigan I had known all my life fall to unthought of lows, and the weather sucked, but we were only down 7 and it was the last game I would see for another 8 months, so I went down to row 1 with another group of diehards and I stayed the whole game.

2010 @Purdue - Pretty much 2008 Northwestern, but it was above freezing enough that it was only rain and I was FAR more prepared this time. Not all THAT bad thanks to being ready for the crap weather, and it was all worth hearing the Purdue fans boo thier local weatherman when he went out on the field during a break and they put him on the big screen.

2009 @MSU - Again, this was actually not all that bad, but I don't have any other games that really qualify as every other game I've been to that it rained for it was plenty warm to make up for it and I was well-prepared for the weather.

I will look forward to my tickets being in my mailbox then, since I only live across the state...

Obviously you don't remember that we were the last team to beat you guys. Rodgers was injured in that game and you promptly failed to score a touchdown. I might also add that we were very close to beating you guys in Green Bay as well, but couldn't get it into the endzone ourselves and couldn't come up with that last field goal.

The Lions are the Lions, and we've alreay lost someone we were hoping would really help our running game, but one thing we definitely have is a D-line, and they love them some pass-happy teams. If we stay healthy and can finally overcome, well, being the Lions, winning the NFC North isn't so far-fetched. On paper its very possible, but again, it relies on breaking out of being the Lions, which we are hoping will finally happen given the nice run to end last year.

I know GB just won the Super Bowl, but that doesn't make them the team to beat because they put together a good playoff run. They had to win their last game of the season to even get into the playoffs, so there are weaknesses to be exploited.

I still can't believe how awesome our recruiting has been. We have a brand new staff that hasn't gone through a single game yet, and we've gotten this many high-level commitments up until now, the start of fall camp. If all of these guys stay Blue, we'll be back on top and taking no prisoners for a good long while.

I just hope (Hoke?) that we can compete for a title this year and then the next when our schedule is brutal and these guys are freshman. We want to keep that recruiting momentum going and I'm just plain sick of losing. I haven't looked this up to confirm, but I'm pretty sure the class of 2011 was the first since the B1G bowl rules changed to never see a Rose Bowl, and I'm in line to be the second if we don't make it this year.

Comparable or not, I'm a senior this year, not next year, and having to deal with Floyd while they don't have to deal with Stonum is garbage. Neither of them should be playing.

Hagerup needs to get his head in gear, too. I do not want to repeat the punting debacle at OSU last year, and now both punting and kicking fall to a freshman.

Their old ones weren't too bad, but those just look bad. I'm especially not liking those numbers.

Red Wings, Tigers, Pistons

In that order, because hockey is as important to me as football, baseball I've never been that into but it goes on almost every day in an otherwise dead summer, and I really don't care for pro basketball in the least but I'll pay attention if the Pistons are looking to close out a good year and make a playoff run.

NASCAR I have pretty much given up on because its become a sport of the most resources to get that little extra edge with the cookie-cutter cars. Its just not as interesting anymore (insert joke about NASCAR being interesting at all for the haters), and I think I'm just as tired as most guys of Johnson winning the stupid thing every year. When I do decide to watch a race though, Carl Edwards.

There are two problems with your argument:

1. Kalis defected about 7ish months away from signing day. Ohio State has that long to replace him, even if its not with a prospect of his hype. Gibson is doing this 1 month before he was suppose to be on campus getting ready to play for us this season, and well, WELL after signing a LOI for us. We have absolutely no ability to replace him at this point per NCAA rule, and with the way hockey recruiting goes, puts us seriously behind for trying to replace his absence in the following year.

2. We have shown displeasure at the rather rude timing of his decision, but I think most of the reponses have shown far more disdain to the dirty, backhanded conduct of the OHL. They never give up on poaching college commitments, even after they've played a year in college (See: Northeastern), and they like to sell their education package to people like it could compare to a bachelor's degree at pretty much any one of the D1 schools. It takes a guy like JimLahey for it to actually matter for anything because he recognized the importance of an education on his own without somebody like Red pounding it in his head, because no OHL coach is likely to. I really wish the NCAA would get their head out of their butt and give hockey coaches more tools to compete in the unique environment of hockey recruiting. Just letting them keep in contact would be a huge step.

I really hope hockey works out for him and he does indeed make it to the NHL and has the wisdom to use his earnings to prepare for his future. Regardless of his reasons though, this has set our goaltending situation back worse than I can ever remember it being. Unless Janecyk turns out to be Hunwick 2.0, we're completly hosed if 1.0 goes down and again next year if we can't snipe a goalie from somebody else in the next several months.

And another Michigan school hires a better coach than Michigan State.

No place you'd rather go when you're sick around here than Ann Arbor. I wonder how much our ranking will go up when the new addition opens? If the University can attract the right people when it opens, we might very well end up with one of, if not the, best children's hospital.

I thought Jeter's allegiance was common knowledge aorund these parts. Its kind of too bad he's as good as he is or else he'd have come here and probably single-handidly brought us a couple of baseball titles. In fact, IIRC, he said once he still intends to some to school here when baseball ends for him. He's totally still eligible to play baseball for us, right?

Except MSU. I don't think they have any commitment to getting good again when Michigan tech hires a better coach than they do.

Michigan EECS wins! (And will again if we are needed on the Facebook poll. We beat cheating by cheating better.)

That's what I thought, but then sometimes I've seen people with a positive number for a bad adjective. Does it just show the doiminate one then? Like, if two people vote troll, but three people vote 3 different pluses, it would be +1 Trolling?

So much for Western being that power that goes to that new hockey conference. Their future just went from bright to right back where they've been for decades.

They can't come up with 2 millions votes in 7 minutes. Not worried about FSU, either. They're ND beatdown is inflated by ND's alck of botting. There are only about 2 million total votes in that poll to our 20 million, so I'm confident we can out-bot them.

It changes over at noon, and i don't think they can catch us in the time remaining. I think I better go start reinstalling Linux just in case though.

Send that script my way.

mrrobot@umich.edu

The guy who left and for some reason nobody can seem to forget about.

And I thought today was going boring. It just got a whole lot better!

and doens't know what he's talking about. Numbers were common on helmets once upon a time, and were once also on our helmets. Just because Alabama is the only one who still has them doesn't mean we took it from them.

Here I was all happy that I was getting about $700 more in financial aid this year. Now I know why...

Vancouver has one of the most loyal fanbases in hockey, and after 40 years it still hasn't paid off. I imagine wha fans weren't rioting were drinking heavily yesterday evening because at this point you have to wonder if they will ever win the Stanley Cup (Hint: No).

He's using a Mac.

If we'd have played Nebraska that year, we'd have beaten them. Probably quite handily. I don't think our defense would have had any problem slowing down Nebraska's running game. I'm sure they'd have gotten some yards, but there is no doubt in my mind we could have forced them to throw more than they'd have liked to, and then it'd have been open season for Woodson.

If it were, they'd have to deal with 100,000 boos raining down on them as they announce that we're going to looksilly for our first night game. Hopefully ND has equally dumb looking jersies so we don't have to feel bad.

I would prefer to keep the kickoffs aroundg, given that they are often returnable and result in some good memories (ND '09 anyone?), but in terms of player safety, the value of this change cannot be understated. Punters would become valuable recruiting targets, that's for sure.

Personally, I would like to see every safety option to keep the kickoffs around exhausted first, but I think this is an entriguing and clever alternative if things get to the point where the kickoff simply must go.

As far as issues of always going for it goes, keep in mind you're at your own 30. You pretty much have to pass the ball, so you're likely giving up 3 points for failure. 99% of coaches are going to punt when they aren't in the market for a comeback with little time left. Besides, if that turns out to be wrong, just make it 4th and 20.

The only question I'd have is what happens with penalties on that play. Are there automatic first-downs? Do you replay the down if the offense commits a penalty?

"We talked for about 15 minutes," Kalis said. "His spirits were pretty high. He didn't want me to worry about him. He said, 'Now that I'm gone, I'm just one of those old guys.' He said that he only lives 12 miles away and I should stop and see him any time."

I feel like that is some kind of recruiting violation.

If they did that, they might just as well not play football this season. Its the end of May. You can count the number of available coaches for any position, from head to special teams, on one hand. The only way to recooperate the half of your team you kicked off would be to pick random kids from the student body. They honestly probably wouldn't win a single game next year; definintely no B1G games.

Does anybody know what ever became of the L-I-A-R shirt with the I-dotting design? I remember it coming out and I thought it was going to be an actual shirt, but I can't find it in the store.

I'm in need of a few new shirts and there are plenty of other good choices, but that one in paticular I was looking forward to.

If it turns out to be a housing scandal like the rumors say, it almost implies that the people around Columbus knew it was happening but never said a word until a reporter came along and then they went online and said "This is bad guys, they're on to our housing scam," hence the rumors.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the way I've been reading it, it seems a decent number of people knew about this and are just figuring this was the next thing that has been uncovered. Seems like every two weeks something new gets added to this. They might just get it worse than USC at the rate this is going. They got it for what mostly Reggie Bush did (that being the only football player ever caught, if I recall). At OSU, they may end up with evidence that half or more of the team has been consistently involved with this stuff going back who knows how long.

Ohio players who come here are just the ones smart enough to get out, and they often stay out.

My fundamental flaw turned out to be assuming you ended up playing for us, meaing I never had any chance and guessing your identity in the first place.

Sorry you didn't get to play at Michigan, but it sounds like you made the best decision available to you and it all worked ou for you in the end. After all, you played in the OHL and enjoyed your time doing it; its not like you went to Ohio State or something.

Still glad to have you in the MGoCommunity, and thanks for the story. I now hate the NCAA's dumb rules more than ever.

I'm going off the top of my head. so if I screwed something up, give me a break. Only reason I everm know Couture's age is because he plays for the Sharks and the Wings just came up short of a 3-game comeback against them.

Our Canadians this year were Louie, Brandon, and Lindsay, right? Am I failing to account for somebody?

Hello: Anonymous Recruit

That's what i call some extreme recruiting. "At Michigan, we save your life."