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Is this necessary. I mean: Have students on campus done this in the past?

You seem a little eager to get your middle-aged-complacency groove on.

His Dudeness is saying he does have a job and supports himself, and hence isn't able to enjoy the games and drink beer all day. Like most of us, I assume he's staring down decades of uninspiring work for this or that company.

Did you mention something about obsessing?

You stormed the lobby at work over PSU? Come on man, us out-of-staters need to save that for the big games.

People have been saying, "the Board is worse than it used to be, what's with all these people...." since I started following this blog over 3 years ago, and probably since day one (or day two, ha ha). I guess I disagree with this outlook.

What are the origins of slapping the floor? I don't get it.

Who cares. Let's beat the Hoosiers and win this conference.

It's amusing that everyone who thinks Michigan might lose is being labeled a Troll.

Zack Novak's coming back to play football (second from left)?

Good. I've never understood why we need flighter planes coasting over stadiums. The patriotism at sporting events can really be over-the-top at times. Given the 20th century, I think such excessive displays of patriotism will always make some people uncomfortable.

It's also the most Buckeyes thing ever to post about Michigan's OC on the same day some other middle-tier B1G school hires one of your old OCs.

Of course, they could bypass the whole baby thing. You're allowed to do that now.

I do not think this is an elite team. Indiana looked cleanly better than us, and so has Ohio State. The offense wilts whenever we face a good defense. MSU... well, given what we saw this weekend it seems to me that if we play them 100 times, we'll get clobbered 100 times. Here's hoping I'm wrong.

I like Vitale as well. I like the goofy things he says and just how happy he is to be watching college basketball. But, full disclosure, I also really like Musberger and Herbie, and a lot of you seem not to like Musberger (how can you not like someone who refers to the Michigan-Michigan State game as "this ole donnybrook"?).

He didn't say he wasn't interested.

Wow, I disagree with that MgoBlog comment you blockquoted. This place had always been a bastion of Rodriguez loyalty. One would get neg-banged and howled at for daring to pipe up and question, oh I don't know, why our defensive staff didn't even use the same terminology under RR.

True, there's a contingent that is now just as fanatically loyal to Hoke, and equally unable to withstand any criticism, but it doesn't seem quite as fervent as the Rodriguez-fever this site had back in the day. Granted, that's likely because of stuff like the Freep and a part of the fanbase that never gave RR a chance.

Basically, what I'm saying is that if you really think that even MGOBLOG is somehow "anti-Rodriguez," you might be a little paranoid. This place has just moved on (well, except for His Dudeness).

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I don't think being intelligently critical about coaches' decisions is out-of-character for Brian.

I also disagree that the Michigan online base appreciates thoughtful dissent: On the whole, they do not.

Given how well having Gardner and Robinson in the backfield worked in the 1st half, it is beyond comprehension keeping him off the field for that much of the 2nd half.

The 2nd half was truly disastrous offensive playcalling.

I think that's precisely the type of thing he had in mind. Denard has come a long way. He's long past the nail-biting victories over the likes of Indiana.

No. Horrible fit, pointless addition.

I think part of the damage control of the rabidly pro-Rodriguez contingent was to seperate and scapegoat GERG and keep the rest of the staff free from criticism, instead of seeing the problem coming from the top down. Ah, old times.

Um, you sure have been discussing it at length. :)

It's always nice to get visits from Arizona fans.

And RichRod is all Carr's fault. And really Moeller's at fault for Carr. And Bo's the one who had Moeller with him....

Hah, that was just a friendly jab at our leader. I'm all for Fitzgerald being mocked.

Careful: Making fun of Pat Fitzgerald on this blog could result in you being sent to Bolivia.

I just hope he ignores the press. 

And the coaches are so pissed they encourage their players to injure opposing teams' players.

Southern Cal University of Michigan?

There is nothing wrong with couldn't care less.

"When the country's most huggable offensive coordinator and a quirky young blogger inaugurate a wacky friendship over a series of press conferences, the comedy that ensues leads them to discover the tremendous nature of their bond, and that what's considered a bubble screen is really in the eye of the beholder."

I really think Little Brother is more than just a meme, and is in fact a psychological reality. Sparty players themselves have referred to themselves using the term (though probably not post-Mike Hart).

It is a phrase that perfectly encapsulates Sparty's resentment and inferiority complex.

McGloin = Brett Favre.

We all know this and have experienced it.

The way Sparty played spoke for itself.

It seems like someone says that every week.

"Hoke fans"?

That was my sense as well.

The average age at these places is, to me, repellant. I'd rather go to a laid-back neighborhood bar. The Forum's all right sometimes.

I haven't analyzed the game or anything, but it seemed to me that the offensive playcalling was pretty solid throughout. We moved ball pretty well all game. Even the call to have Smith pass seemed all right. It was just a horrific pass (and I'm assuming they've practised this, so it wasn't the first time Smith had thrown the ball this year).

I don't know what kind of playcalling will stop Denard from making gaudy turnovers.  

Cool, I was wondering what Joe Cowley thought about all of this....

"Denard is best QB in the country."

This is a laughable assertion.

WHEN

I clicked the link. At the top of the link was a Hyundai ad, which stated that Hyundai is the official sponsor of M. I assume we've never had such a sponser in the past.

Yes, after I got over the immense relief and joy that we finally beat the Buckeyes, I thought that aspect of the postgame was disappointing. It must have been difficult to contain the desire to just enjoy it and goof around, but you should first get your handshakes in with archenemy in the greatest rivalry of sports. Both teams owe each other that. That's part of what makes this rivaly superior to a certain other "rivalry" we have.

Wow, I don't know, I agree with Section 1. How gleeful people were after the grenade thing; imagine if Sparty did it (easily imaginable, isn't it)? And the Let's Eat thing comes off to me as unecessarily cocky (and obnoxious). Well, part of me thinks this. The other part is just happy to see Denard happy.

I guess I wanted to chime in because I'm surprised no one else is seconding Section 1's thoughts (and at the moment, basically every one of his comments is grayed out; not unusual, I know, but this time I think that's unfortunate).

ND is the corniest team in college football.

Those crinkled jerseys look a tad effeminate, don't they. 

So do you think losing fumbles is simply bad luck as well? I remember in the RR years our horrible turnover numbers were continually dismissed here as pure chance (and we all know they never "returned to the mean" (I think that's how it was put)). And I get what you're saying, but man it's hard not to think coaching has at least something to do with it when there was such a stark turnaround last year. Just lining up appropriately in a given situation has to increase your chances of forcing and getting a turnover.

Yes, my brain does understand the argument against (Bama's turnover rate, Rodriguez kind of taught football too, etc.), but part of me will likely always think it's due to Hoke/Mattison magic.

There's nothing wrong with starting a sentence with Also.

We were ranked ahead of them last year and MSU handed us our asses.

To be fair, they could come on here and mock us northerners for misspellings (apparantly) and misused words (fluid).

:)

Dear everyone else: Please take all of my advice.

Everything I said is pure myth, or just the part about not running on concrete? Go ahead and do so, but there are many people with supposedly proper form and excellent running shoes who corroborate what I said about running on concrete. It's high risk, that's all. If you Google running and sore knees the Internet basically explodes with horror stories.

Concerning free weights: I just meant that I usually don't feel like doing it alone or bothering some dude at the gym to spot me. I have incredible form, though, rest assured.

Do we have room to offer a scholarhip to a "catcher," who would then hand it off to the kicker?

Don't these Spartys have their own blogs for Sparting?

Concerning your last bullet point: I assume you don't think it was beyond our AD's mental grasp to judge the performance of our coach. It didn't take a defense scientist, after all, to perceive that our defense was an atrocity for three years (blame for which I really think falls on Rodriguez, and not the commonly scapegoated Gerg).

I have no concrete evidence of this, but there might have been some actual special teams coaching last year as well.

So Rittenburg considers Washington to be a "brand name" football program? I know a few Washington grads who'd laugh at this.

"Disgusting"? "Abuse"?

Man, it's going to take a lot more than this minor thing for me to think of Brandon this way. On two occassions when it's mattered the most--the NCAA violations and hiring a new coach--he came through in a big way. But that's brushed aside and everyone complains because he's not 100% transparent about his actions (and who on this level is?) and sometimes our unis look a little funny.

Brandon rocks.

Even if Brian starts talking about Ohio State like he talks about Northwestern, I'll be sick. 

Here at Michigan, we're often sanctimonious.

I think everyone on this site misspells definitely.

Konz and Swift win.

If it's not blind optimism and homerism, it's trolling.

Sparty's defense was better than pretty good. They made our offense look helpless last fall. Their D alone will keep them in most games.

Yeah, "Iraq policy," that was a dumb thing to say. Just trying to indicate their nonresponsibility for 9/11.

There was always a hope that the long-term results of attacking Iraq would pay off, but almost nine years in there is no end in sight to the sectarian violence.

And you're right, concerning the 100,000 or so civilian deaths, it is estimated that the US is directly responsible for about 35% of them. I don't know what the Pentagon's official numbers are, but I seem to remember them reporting perhaps 20,000 or so fewer deaths than presumably unbiased (if there is such a thing) sources. That still leaves you with around 80,000 civilian deaths, and about a third of which are at the hands of the US. 

But it does seem to gloss over the reality that there ultimately are no "good" and "bad" guys. This is what makes it propoganda.

This looks like one long commercial for the military.

The logo has totally grown on me though. I love it.

Sorry, this was a lame, failed attempt at Drew Sharp satire (from the initial Hoke press conference). I needed to lay it on a little thicker for it to have any chance of being effective. Plus, what I'm making fun of was an exchange that took place over a year ago. 

He did it again!?!? Man, Dantonio really has some nerve.

It is true that losing a few football games doesn't really dent Michigan arrogance (for better or worse). We expect to win, and certainly we expect to beat State every year, no matter what.

I do not say this lightly: I think Beilein's dancing makes me even happier than Denard's does.

It's all Carr's fault!!!

No, it's simply an accurate description for a state of things. That's why it's lasted.

Hey, shouldn't you be spending time on Arizona blogs at this point? Bear down!

I'll start it.

I don't have a link, but I seem to remember Gibbons earlier this season saying that part of what's helped him is the encouragement and confidence the present staff gave him. I took that to mean "as opposed to getting a face-full of coach for every mistake."

I don't see going from WVU to Arizona as a lateral move. I see it as a step down.

Thus, I'll be surprised if it happens. But if it does, I guess it'll be interesting to see how RR does with the one DC in the entire world he is able to work with well.

Section 1, I understand your desire for the Truth, but for the University to convene a symposium to investigate  and theorize about how a fired football coach--who went 15-22 and fielded the worst defenses in school history--was treated less than kindly by local media and some other people, is hugely absurd.

This will sound excessive, but in general I don't read anything by Rittenberg because his obsession with Dantonio and MSU is so repellant.

I assume it's some kind of commentary on the inevitable RR-inspired debates.

Well, this may be the first unforgivable thing RR has said since being fired. It's a really petty way to minimize the obvious accomplishments of Hoke et al. He should stop talking so much. I heard he also said he had nothing but walk-on QBs when he got to Michigan. How can anyone take people like this seriously?

Did he actually say "10-2 or better"?

I know we're digging a horse up from its grave and brushing it off in order to beat it again, but he failed at Michigan because of three years of incompetent coaching of defense and special teams. 

Karl Pohrt? He does look a little like Bob Currie, I have to say....