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It won't be easy to go and win this game on the road, especially against a team desperate to get off to a good start. But UConn is a veteran team that's ready for this kind of challenge, and it was simply a better team at the end of last season than the Wolverines were. If the game is close, expect Michigan to start doubting itself again. I give an ever-so-slight nod to UConn pulling a very mild upset.

The prose is slightly more pro-UConn on his BigEast blog, but that's not to say he's not raising a good point-- I'm a bit worried about what might happen if UConn jumps out to a lead or comes from behind.

...I stole several porn magazines from the local Crown Books store. I would've bought them had they let me.

Eating pizza with chocolate milk turns fat into fast-twitch muscles.

...but now there's no ambiguity.

...but ain't nothin' wrong with workin' your mullett.

I can't handle the truth.

Seriously-- excellent read.

...but it resulted from what happened before kick-off.

...or perhaps "Concentrate and ask again."

I kinda wish we'd given ND the opera music and done something a bit more on the crunk side for Delaware State.

...to my mgoBrooklynites (if there are any): I'd love to get a critical mass of us together in the borough of BK for game-watching. Holler if there's any interest.

It seems like posters have been especially reckless in the days leading up to the Delaware State game. I wonder if fans' typical preoccupation with worthier opponents just isn't there this week...leading to all this craziness.

Just an observation.

...but I never would've thought "stinger" would've been on there; I didn't think it was that common of a term. Thanks for asking. Having never played organized sports, I was clueless.

I just bought the new PS3 slim a couple of weeks ago. It was a tougher choice (360 v. PS3) when the PS3 was $100 more, but the new slimmer design and lower price point sold me. I'm a very casual gamer, though; serious folks might have a more informed opinion.

...I heard a soundbite on WTKA this morning- an ad for Cowherd's show- where he was going on about how RR will get it done in Ann Arbor if he's given four years. To paraphrase: he said RR is a proven winner (i.e., won at WVU) and that he'll be a thorn in OSU's side because he's aggressive and Tressel is conservative (He also defended Weis, saying he won Superbowls). I'd like to think we'll be more than just a thorn in Tressel's side, but he caught me off guard with all the positivity, to be honest. He may not like the fans but it sounds like he likes the coach.

...is that- in my opinion- broadcasts pay too much attention to offensive alignments and you don't see much focus on the secondary, which is key. They break to the sidelines or booth in between plays when it would be great to see what's going on pre-snap. The offense gets to see where/how the defense lines up but TV broadcasts don't lend themselves very well to that.

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Did you play football for U of Alaska or Michigan, Toney?

My very first HDTV, and it's being delivered the evening before. I'll probably be running checks to make sure I have everything set up right before kickoff.

But I also think that by staying silent now, he's also undermining any potential influence he could have in the future if/when RR turns things around (and I trust that he will).

Magnus also did this math elsewhere, but to put it in the context of the quoted text:

Saturday + Sunday = 12 hrs
Monday = OFF
Tuesday = 3.5 hrs (i.e., "three to four hours")
Wednesday = 3.5 hrs
Thursday = 3.5 hrs
Friday = OFF (???-- not mentioned)
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Freep Total = 22.5 hrs

USA Today average = 44.8, so we're 22.3 hours below the USA Today average. Not sure where the other 20 hrs you implied are coming from.

...and I understand that. But my question is-- were the violations listed in the Freep article egregious enough to warrant current/former players running to the press? In my epinion, they weren't.

...sign me up for The Beast-- he looks like he'd make a great buffalo wing (or Beast Wing).

...but if they want to give reps to all three, I'm good with that. RR et al. are not in the business of making our QBs happy; they're doing what they think will help the team win.

...Graham- as the DC at East Central University- thwarted RR's Glenville State offense in the 1993 NAIA National Championship. And Rice fans would argue that there's a special place in hell for douchebags like him.

I know I'm more than 8 months late on this but that's how pandas roll.

Everyone's talked about how much stronger/better-conditioned the players are this year, but going from 1 to >30 on the power clean? That's nuts.

...I'll probably remember this joke more so than the OP.

FWIW, I wasn't necessarily advocating the culture shock argument as much as I was simply acknowledging what posters were saying elsewhere.

Another thread recently discussed the fact that Bo's spring practice started with 140 players and ended with roughly 75; perhaps culture shock wasn't evident in the W-L column b/c Bo still had the personnel to field a decent team after all the defections.

I'm sure other factors, including "No-Manningham shock," "No-Arrington shock," and "No-[insert player here] shock" all contributed to the debacle that is known as Michigan's 2008 football season.

I remember a Rodriguez interview where he basically said that a lot of what Walker was doing with the spread was straight from the Clemson/WVU playbook to the point that they didn't even change their signals, etc., yet Brown credits Walker (and Meyer) with the "great leap forward" in the spread/zone-read.

I don't know who to believe, but Brown doesn't seem to be particularly fond of Rodriguez for anything more than being the pioneer of the spread; he's also said that RR's passing game lacks a conceptual foundation.

Hopefully we'll see another great offensive leap at Michigan.

...or is Ethan Suplee (the dude from My Name is Earl) a doppleganger for Justin Boren? Looking at the picture without any initial context, I thought that was JB all the way.

...I think Wermers meant that his teammates were not interested in joining his a capella group.

I initially thought that the down arrow should be reserved for trolls but I now see the need for it in other cases. But, like you, I don't anticipate using the down arrow much given how quickly others get at the idiots.

...and then Brian posted that image in one of his stories. I couldn't stop laughing, and knew that the WTF-Panda had to be me. Glad to hear that someone else finds it amusing.

…but I think this board did a fairly decent job of encouraging discussion and reining in morons before the point system was in place. The installation of the point system seems to have been a direct response to the growing troll problem (which seems to have been abated for the most part).

Whatever happened to the old days where inflammatory remarks got reined in with a simple, “calm down, asshole”?

I think there’s some utility to having a point system but the issue of point allocation should probably be addressed in more detail by Brian and users at large.

I would say Logo 3, then Logo 2, then 4 and finally 1 (but 4 and 1 hurt themselves by not sketching jerseys). I also liked the primary, secondary, and tertiary marks as well as the specifications. Very professional.

Did I just say giggle? I think Chitown was going light on me b/c I'm a n00b.

...and doesn't leap to another school, I'm sure they'll get a series going even if it doesn't meet annually.

...and then an additional "mid-season revision" after 4 or 6 games. That way, folks could still be held accountable for their first prediction while allowing everyone to make a more realistic prediction after viewing available data.

I'm not saying Lloyd's gesture- if true- wasn't nice, but doesn't he live in Ann Arbor or the surrounding area? It's not like he flew from his Florida retirement home to visit Grady. I'm sure that there are a ton of retired coaches that wouldn't visit a jailed former player but there are also certainly a lot (more than a "few, if any") that would.

Again, not knocking Lloyd's legacy as a father-figure HC-- just sayin' that I don't find this particular instance all that noteworthy.

...in my humble opinion.