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You better get there to watch.

is known as a great slap coach. Looks like it this inning.

I'm always trying to help out the pitcher.

Dreisenga had managed to get through similar situations all game. The lead runner was on with an error. The hit looked like duck snort to me. For most coaches I have known- lesser personages than Hutch- they would wait until the game was tied to make the change. Hutch put it all on herself by making the change at that time, and on Wagner coming in with a ton of pressure. Maybe because Michigan does not have a true ace, but an A and an A1, she has more confidence to change earlier? I still wonder, when they get in the big tournament if one of them will get the ace treatment.

(edit) I looked up the Nebraska series boxscores, as a small sample size for instance: Game 1, Dreisenga starts, Wagner relieves down 0-2, M loses 6-1 (pitching change does not work so well.) Game 2: Wagner starts, falls behind 0-3 after 5, no pitching change, M wins (ace treatment?), Game 3, Dreisenga starts (ace treatment, starting 2 of 3 in key series?), pitching change in 6th with 4-2 lead, M loses 4-7. I like the way the pitching change worked out last night, but I don't know what I would do next time in the same circumstance.

but it was fun. No clue about regionals.

to play in Ann Arbor! Good luck to her.

Dreisenga is 1st team and Wagner is second team. One has a better era and the other has a better W/L record. When crunch time comes, which one will Hutch treat as the ace?

is appalling.

That's a pitcher doing her job, right? Drill them in the posterior. Don't hurt them, and don't give up the tater.

told him all about Michigan academics.

Sure, sometimes I was right in the backfield, or right behind the secondary. I never complained, because you don't see what you don't see. Only now, as BTN plays the Greatest Games am I beginning to see what I missed. Thank goodness for Section 24 now. PS: I can't get to OSU. What are my seats worth?

You couldn't hope for a more beautiful campus, great sb facility, great academics, perfect weather. That's where I would go. Just off the top of my head, they should have Emily Lockman, Kelani Ricketts, Lauren Sweet, and Sierra Romero. They are 7-12 in conference.

Bookmarked.

No way to see or track the game. No ncaa score updates until the final score appeared. Too late to do anything to help.

SB. I am disappoint.

and I can't believe this thread is still active. From UM News Service: "U-M prepares for Zombie Apocalypse". It's about time the School of Public Health takes this threat seriously. I am half way through World War Z, and the threat seems grave indeed.

is for any rule change that favors the defense, and favors front line football players. Also, I'll bet that whoever invented the foul did not do so with the intention of giving an advantage to the rule-breaker. A foul should hurt the team that fouls.

right now. 4-0 over IU.

but, holy cow, look what softball did to Sparty yesterday. Hutch needs to have a word with Big Ten coaches about getting competitive!

to Pitino's. The way Pitino jumped and danced and complained about calls, you would think he was getting the short end of the stick. But Beilein- under control, professional, an example of how he would have his players behave. I could not be more proud. Who wants complainers like Izzo or Crean? They distract from a sport that ought to exist for the players.

keeping track in Europe. I have a friend in Brazil who manages to keep up. I am worried because I will be air born at tip-off, or changing planes in Denver. The airline offers the wrong networks, so I will try to follow on my iPhone. Woe is me. This is what I get for not believing 2 months ago.

because Pitino has a racehorse and his kid is the new coach at Minnesota. We should be happy that we got this far. Plus, the President picked Louisville on his bracket.

Really?

while watching my daughter's team play in person. I fear that we may not be done in time for Syracuse. argggh.

from West Virginia? Brilliant!

I don't think so anyway, so I'll repeat myself. At half time it looked to me like they had not had time to scout Michigan since Friday night. They did not seem to think Nik was a threat, even after (3) 3's. I said at halftime that we were leading by one Stauskas, and we ended up winning by a Stauskas, too. I was glad for the short turnaround between games.

I've been waiting for some perspective to appear here. This happened to me. No one cried or prayed or threw up. I did not really feel pain until after surgery. I could get around on crutches the next day. I never had athlete speed, but I could run distance after a year or so.

Yea!

Ha!

Sean Higgins!

were to get him in the air, and get him in foul trouble. Not a whole gameplan, just what McGary was going to try with Withey. After those two attempts, I did not see any more fakes or flops. 

I wonder how often, when we see something like the nutcracker play or Zeller's fake nutcracker play, we are seeing the coach's hints being carried out clumsily, or we are seeing players' own ideas. Not one bit to compare John Beilein's tactics to Tom Crean's, for headfakes and taking charges are nothing like staging a flagrant. Speaking of which, in IU's loss, I thought Zeller upended that Syracuse guy on purpose, and risked a concussion. He was pretty frustrated by then.

I think Michigan was prepared to give up the 2 and go to 2nd OT. The instructions may have been to not foul and guard the 3 point line. We had been snakebit enough all season by desperation 3's, and we won the RPS game.

From the article it sounds like Self wanted to foul instead of allowing a 3, but Nik's pancake may have saved the day.

for "Bitch McGary". I can't believe that Spartan Tailgate really represents MSU grads. The few I know are not that stupid, and they do know some about basketball. I was disappoint for the B1G that they did not beat Duke last night. 3 in the final 8 would have been a good thing.

Did he wear down? He did not seem the same in the 2nd half.

So it is Good Friday, and the biggest Michigan basketball day in a generation or so.   If I stay home, and Michigan loses, will it be my fault? If I go to church and Michigan wins, I will have missed it. If I watch the game in church on my cell phone, is that the worst of all options? These are not religious comments, just superstition where the rubber meets the road. I know we have some clergy on the board. Perhaps they have some advice.

vs Diii power Pomona College in beautiful Claremont CA. Brainy kids.

I don't dare test my linking skills, but Nate Silver may be of some help. He gives Michigan a 2.4% chance of winning the champoinship, better than Wisconsin or MSU.

I find that I do not hate Buckeye basketball so much. This weekend I realize that I prefer them to Wisconsin, MSU and Indiana other things being equal. My preference is not helping at the moment.

is appalled at B1G style play.

As I lick my wounds it helps to tell myself that in the southern hemisphere, that is a W and a B1G championship.

called him Izzo during the game.

Let's hope they play selfishly and are looking ahead to the final four already.

had even less chance at IU a few days ago.

I think that Big Ten softball has all women coaches, whereas it seems to me that men are more prominent in the SEC and PAC 12 conferences. Do you think the Big Ten is intentional about that? Do you think men and women take different approaches to softball, in that men are likely coming from a baseball background? How would your own experience serve you in coaching college softball, should the event ever arise?

I thought there was supposed to be big news coming out of there yesterday.

(edit) Wow. How did all those replies get ahead of me?

Some guys had the job of wrapping her in blankets and rubbing her to keep her warm. What a trouper she was.

looked like over the back. Or else Morgan slammed the back of his neck into someone's chest.

was a favorite of mine. 1st round pick, 10 year career, all-star.

and IU!

get rid of the charging call'

you can't go wishing your life away. I wish it was July 20 years ago.

must be sewn on with titanium thread. Will it survive the episode?

I had no thoughts or plans for college in my crappy high school until I lucked out on National Merit, the first qualifier from my school in a decade. My counsellor told me to go to Michigan and offered to fill out the application for me. I met the lovely and talented Ms. Lampjaw there and we all lived happily ever after. On the other hand, I got very involved in my kids' college searches. Both were accepted to Michigan, neither went. I am still hoping for M grad school for them.

if it is a shot to the 'nads, but-if anything- I think it mght have been an elbow to the solar plexus, with an incidental brush across the nether regions. Izzo seemed quite sad in his post-game interview, and mentioned all the "distractions this week". Were the distractions tweets, or #1 v. #5, or did I miss something?

and it is a little awkward sometimes, because I hope that I am anonymous, so it seems like an unfair advantage. Also, I have gradually become aware that some bloogers live quite nearby. I would like to reach out to them, like to watch a big game together or road trip to Ann Arbor, but what are the unwritten rules about that? And I guess it is time to admit this, but how exactly do you upvote someone? I don't see a button for that, and I am afraid of accidently down-voting or moderating them instead.

that it seemed like season one had higher production values. I remember the strange dead torsos and body parts moving around more. I thought of that when they focused on the dead guy in the tower, and it seemed for a moment that he was going to reanimate before our eyes, but no, sadly. I suppose it saves some fx money if he got shot in the head, but I miss some of that. It's still my favorite show, unless Breaking Bad is, or if The Amerikans continues to build tension. (Strange how attached I can get to KBG agents.)

Even with K. U.? Not that I am watching, because NW v Illini is on.

go IU. Go road teams.

I heard about that last summer from a friend who coaches in LA. What seemed odd to me was that he said the issue is she does not want to pitch anymore, but the coaches did want her to pitch. In my experience, pitchers always want to pitch, but this is the 2nd situation like this that I know of this year.

the regular season championship. I will gladly accept it alone or as a tie, but I will trade it right now for the B1G tournament championship. I am really glad that it is not in Indy this year. But I predict one more loss (at MSU?) in the regular season, a final four loss in the B1G tournament, and then clear sailing through the NCAA's!

he's got his qb again. Not that I looked at their site or anything. Wouldn't be prudent.

I don't know how many of those last 14 consecutive free throws were intentional, but it seems like they ought to be in a separate category. At a certain point our only hope was to swap threes for free throws in the hope that they might miss one. There is a free throw advantage for any team that has such a high average margin of victory, I should think.

and will be dominate the whole game.

with the date and time on that? Will it happen this afternoon, or was it in China?

I, too, have one. Why does the internet think I am interested in Zulily, the color pink, and People Magazine (judging by the ads to the left of the page here)? Have I shown too much interest in the Manti Te'o drama? NTTAWWT

We are the red-headed orphan of the Big Ten! Wait- wrong blog. Sorry.

61.5 to 59.1. Man, I hope NW can't muddy the game that much.

at The Fort.

that someone as hyper-competitive as Harbaugh would say or do whatever he thinks will help him. Also, when I was too young to know better, I wanted to be a Yankee. With a little more maturity I came to prefer the Tigers. Now, if it were in any way useful to me, I can honestly claim to have been a Yankee fan. 

I agree that he should top the list of a future coaching search, and I don't think it will be out of the question. As someone posted earlier, a little bird also told me that his decision to go to the '49ers was Mrs. Harbaugh's call, and it came at a tender point in their child's nativity. Who can doubt that it is possible for him to wear out his welcome in San Francisco?

didn't even send him a full-body shot.

I liked the sound of "Snokeflakes", but I could not find a hidden meaning, and now it is gone.

Common mis-usage makes everything correct, an accelerating trend on the internet.

Saban teams don't make many.

In a column about Father Hesburgh yesterday, he cited a requirement about 2 math courses, which I did not understand. Whether they are required for admission or for graduation, I do not know. His point was that those requirements are what separate ND from the others, in recruiting.

I understand why most everyone seems to be identifying Minnesota as the threat, but what the heck happened up there in the first half yesterday? If they score 17 in the first half on Michigan, I think it will be over. Granted, they made up for it in the 2nd half, but what kind of team scores 17 at home against Northwestern?

They should hire you to run these numbers before naming the MVP. It seems like you have also made a case for Ellington: 67 vs 27 for the Clowney hit. (Two/too/to/tew, rabble rabble). 

Now I think that the official making the call did not agree with the spot, and had already made up his mind about the first down. If I recall, I think he started to make the 1st down motion once or twice earlier, before the chain was stretched. Also, the guy holding the pole seemed to lean it back over the ball to make it look better. There were a few times this bowl season where I noticed officials on each end of plays spotting the balls in different locations. Maybe the guy who placed the ball saw it short, while the guy making the call had already decided first down and did not even want the measurement. Captain Obvious, I suppose.

I was very frustrated that they never showed the right foot inbounds, much less possession and the foot inbounds. There must be such a view, because of the linked video. I can't stop it at the right instant to see it, however. Someone out there must have some HD skills for us. Maybe Brian has seen the one millimeter. Absent evidence to the contrary, I am free to ascribe to a make-up call conspiracy theory.

I can't think of any product of your digestion that might be bearable to us sissies. I don't just mean your digestion, in particular, but the results of anyone's digestive processes. My dog, for some reason, seems especially attracted to such things.

These have been my favorite diaries this year. On the 9.99 first down, I thought the wrong signal just came out of his arms. Seems like a mistake I could make. I would have preferred to get that call overturned in exchange for the following touchdown call. I never did see that his right foot landed inbounds. Possible make-up call?

I loved when the smallest guy on the field put the biggest guy out of the game, temporarily, of course. Clowney got him back, and then some, later.

Because of Iowa, we know that he can. But why, on God's green earth, won't he, sometimes? Was the Notre Dame game his undoing?

What could there possibly be here to downvote, and in what way could this be off-topic? Happy New Year!

At Mullett Lake for the holidays. Got to get a snowmobile one of these days.

Hard to track from Istanbul.

She asked for a chainsaw, but really wanted something else? I thought it might also make a nice centerpiece.

I'll never forget the Flintstones Shooting Gallery I got one year. Best ever.

12-10 Michigan.

I don't quite get the moderation on this thread. Maybe someone is playing whack-a-mole. Anyway, regarding USF, I just read a WSJ article on how some colleges are providing resort-style living for housing, and the USF resort looked pretty attractive.  If I were a kid looking for a college, that would warrant a visit from a 17-year old me.

I never accused him of being a mailman.

Because we don't know our cannibals from our ... non-cannibal criminals?

Edit: Sorry. I see Jeffrey dabbled in some cannibalism in addition to his other interests.

I wish they would show more of the building, inside and out. It seems amazing.

Been waiting for a special occasion.

Something always has to happen to take the shine off an exciting win. See USC upset.

When he is back for kickoffs, I enjoy how he rocks his head and flexes his arms like the Fox robot. I just saw some of the Northwestern game for the first time and noticed Taylor Lewan doing it too. Good moves for an offensive lineman. Come to think of it, seems like Taylor may really love college football? I hope?

Fun sport. College women vb players are awesome athletes.

What does this do to Manziel's chances of winning 4 Heisman Trophies? Has a change at OC ever infuenced a qb's success?

Not taking sides in politics here, but with all of the attention on Lansing this week, and all of the attention in Madison last year, isn't the pay level of public employees kind of a tender issue right now? Does someone have asbestos underwear up there?

for use of the lost positive "sipid". I would like to start a list, and bring them all back from the byss.

Whoa! A temporary karma level of 2 for me, thanks to the posbang thread.