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Yup. Feel like I'm…

Yup. Feel like I'm sorrounded by pod people the way folks are reacting.

If you strip away the regional nature of conferences, you are just stripping away one of the few things left that make college sports distinct. 

Might just switch to following the NFL at this point.

Seriously might stop caring…

Seriously might stop caring about college sports if this is the case. Between this and Michigan still acting like its 1999 on the NIL shit, what is the point? It's just turning into a junior league version of the pros, except without the things the NFL has to induce at least a little parity. 

I'll always hope Michigan does well, might even still watch some of their games, but absolutely gonna downshift my emotional investment in a major way.

Nah, Ace is a decent writer…

Nah, Ace is a decent writer but he's become so relentlessly negative these days, especially regarding football (even beyond what I think the program's current doldrums warrant) and I don't need that in my life. He has one of the worst cases of twitter brain that I have seen in a long time.

Even though the content…

Even though the content might be sad, I am really liking Roose's write ups. Partially because it's nice to have a writer besides Seth who acknowledges football exists, but also because the prose really shows promise. If these series of articles are a try out of sorts, my vote is to bring him on board to replace Ace. He'd be an upgrade.

This is moronic and does…

This is moronic and does nothing to help minorities and underprivileged groups today. A man in the 30's conceded to racist pressure from a southern school and didn't play a black player at a time when most programs, north or south, didn't even have a black player on their teams.

I'm not against renaming buildings or taking down statues when appropriate, basically when the figure being commemorated is specifically being held up BECAUSE of the bad things they did. The ur-example for this is confederate statues, which were specifcally built to honor a treasonous movement that sought to preserve human enslavement. 

No one honors Yost or thinks he was good or notable because of his racial views or policies. If you want to expand narratives about him on campus to note that he was a man of his times on race, fine, that's a good compromise. Renaming the building helps no one, and merely serves as empty virtue signaling while the university happily continues to reap the benefit of unpaid black labor in basketball and football.

(also funny to note that there is not a whisper of his much more pronouced anti-catholicism, but as a catholic I've long come to grips with the fact that people are fine with casual bigotry on that front)

No, and they should increase…

No, and they should increase the period this banner stays up by six months every time one of these stupid threads is created.

Alternatively, never change…

Alternatively, never change this banner. It is hilarious and pisses off the stupidest portions of the readership.

Definitely! I have the games…

Definitely! I have the games set on alert on the CHN app.

Since I am on the east coast, I obviously can't attend any games, and it is extremely rare to get the game televised, but I always read up on the results the next day.

It does seem like we have…

It does seem like we have the worst luck in that regard. The quarter back will throw up a wild duck, our DB will be perfectly in position, yet somehow the receiver will come down with that ball.

 

Brad Hawkins didn't pay the gypsy woman.

8-4, with 7-5 more likely…

8-4, with 7-5 more likely than 9-3.

The team is stacked everywhere except at offensive tackle (and  to a much lesser extent, defensive tackle) but the weakness at Tackle is so friggin bad that it doesn't really matter that QB and WR play is much improved.

Just play Hudson and…

Just play Hudson and Mayfield. They literally cannot be worse. Runyan was atrocious. JBB was too but that was to be expected.

Agreed. People take for…

Agreed. People take for granted how frigging amazing this blog is, and how rare among college fandoms a single-program-dedicated blog of this quality really is.

I'm legitimately curious,…

I'm legitimately curious, not attacking him at all. Not sure how you got that.

we joke, but for all we know…

we joke, but for all we know he could be in Budapest.

2010 was definitely worse,…

2010 was definitely worse, and that wasn't a transition year.

The Buick ads from the last two years

Not so much the ad contents, but more the hellish little jingle they play every time.

 

You know the one.

The news about Joe Milton is indeed encouraging.

For Joe Milton, in in the next year or two. He will not be higher than third string this year, and I will be stunned if he does not RS.

As a former scout, I think is great

There is really no reason for why troops couldn't have had girls from the start.

Even if you are an engineer/performing arts/architecture major,

You don't want north campus as a freshman. The majority of your classes will still be on central, and that is where EVERYTHING you'd want to do/see/go to is.

I lived in Bursley as a freshman, and while I had good memories (it is still your freshman year at Michigan, duh) being on north and having to take the bus was definitely a bug, not a feature. In particular, riding the bus back up after a football game (or late at night after basketball/hockey) was always unpleasant. 

 

The breakdown I always saw

was 



100% (or near it) live on campus as freshmen

50% live on campus as sophomores

12-15% live on campus as juniors/seniors. (and this number is likely lower now since they flipped selection priority after 2011-2012 school year so that sophomores pick before juniors and seniors).



I lived on campus my first three years and loved it. Burlsey, then Stockwell, then North Quad. And honestly I kinda wished I could have done it senior year too, but that was after the flipped selection priority went into effect, so I knew anything I'd get would be terrible.

Yeah, but

almost all of his issues against Indiana were not weather related. If it was weather related, you'd mainly be criticizing him for inaccurate passes, passes getting blown off course, etc. And while that applies to a couple of his passes, the bigger issue was the dude acted like he'd never seen a pass rush in his life, and would do dumb things like bug out and run 15 yards backwards. That aint a weather issue.

Warde doesn't need another year to "find the best coach"

If Red returns, it is either because Warde wants him to continue coaching, or he is too scared to fire him. Either is a damning indictment of his leadership ability.

Red has been over the hill for at least 5-6 years now, if not longer, and believing that he still has the ability to lead the team would mean Warde is clueless. 

If he doesn't believe Berenson has what it takes, and has encouraged Red to step down, then not firing Red when he refuses to step down would make him gutless. 

One year can absolutely set the team back for years to come. This year probably made the rebuild take a year or two longer than it would other wise. Recruits aren't going to come and play for a garbage team that squeaks into double digit wins. Another season like that would solidify Michigan as a bottom tier team.

Yeah..

we can definitely debate on whether or not it's hypocritical to criticize other coaches for ref outbursts while being fans of Harbaugh, but calls are absolutely just as critical in football as in basketball. PI/Holding are almost entirely discretionary, as is the spot of the ball, and those have an enormous impact on the game, as we learned all too well.

Every sports writer has a line at which they will no longer

avoid speaking on politics.

 

To use godwins law, we'd expect/hope for everyone to speak out against Hitler, regardless on whether or not their media profession involves politics (although one of the sad realities of Nazi Germany is that most people didn't speak out precisely because it didn't affect their respective areas/was not their business).

 

Ace has commented sparingly on politics in his twitter account in the past. This is the first I can recall for Brian. Regardless of what you think, understanding why writers like Brian are reacting in such a manner might prove illuminating/constructive for many of us.

.The community seems to say...

Spencer Hall might not post as much at EDSBS, but when he does

boy is it a doozy.

 

Off to donate the moneyz. 

These are bad takes and you

These are bad takes and you should feel bad

Ricks>>>>>>>>>>Skeeps

A much more varied and interesting crowd. Skeeps is almost always at least 75% greek kids with zero self awareness. 

*Brady Hoke nods approvingly*

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This team is so fucking talented and so fucking lazy

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Obviously didn't see our oline in 2013

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In retrospect I wish we had beaten MSU

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This is true

However, because we live in a western country, it is also distracting and unhelpful. It's the symbol of the Nazis and white supremacy in the west, with all apologies to its peaceful origins.

I feel for the kid

I was friends with a lot of people who were close to him, and apparently he was a good guy and a good friend with a lot of self-awareness about how his career was going, but didn't let it get him down.

Minor quibble

The 2012 recruiting class had already been signed the previous january, so Hoke couldn't go back in time and add a QB in response to the Nebraska game.

Doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid decision not to take a QB that year, ater taking a flier the year before. 

I can only speak to Notre Dame Prep

Which I believe is an amazing high school.

However, a lot of the ones you listed are good, and honestly I wouldn't go to any that are more than a 20-30 minute drive away

 

But in all honesty, if you are in a decent school district (Rochester, Ann Arbor, Bloomfield, Troy, etc) just send em to public school and pay for their college tuition down the road.

I mean

"The Wolverines return just 11 starters, including five on an offense that finished eighth or worse in the Big Ten in every major category last fall"

 

We return 8 on offense; the only losses were Gardner, Funchess, and Miller. 

 

and don't we return 7 on defense too? 

Everyone here banging on about how RR's defense was his downfall

remember that when he was hired (and hired his second DC) Michigan was being incredibly stingy on assistant pay.Jeff Casteel would have followed RR except it would have meant taking a big pay cut.

 

RR nonetheless did have a number of missteaps. He actually did have a decent DC (I think) in Schafer, but Schafer was a 4-3 guy and RR had a bizarre insistance on the 3-3-5 despite not knowing anything about coaching defenseive, probably due to his cronies on the defensive coaching staff. He could have also been a bit more tactful about certain aspects of being the coach at Michigan.

 

But dear God please don't pretend that he wasn't undermined as badly as any new HC has ever been at a P5 job. Before he even coached one game he had most of the local media gunning for him due to BS like the WV document scandal and Boren transfering because RR shouted and swore (like 90% of college coaches). Lloyd and the alumni players did at best nothing to help him and at worst did crap like encouraging players to go to Sparty. The Freep created a massive controversy out of nothing with practicegate. Oh, and lets not forget the ossified husk of a roster that he was left by lloyd carr, which had a terrible back 7 on defense and something like 2 remaning starters and 6 olineman on offense.

 

You hire Jeff Casteel at the beginning and RR is probably still coach here. Heck, you hire Jeff Casteel after 2010 and RR is still coach here, at least if you removed all the off the field submarining he took.

Love love love it

Not the best pizza in the world, but it is pretty solid, and that amount for that price is amazing. So sad that there isn't one in Boston

Marital rape probably isn't a "crime" in GOT

but that's kinda irrelavent given that the GOT justice system is six degrees of f'd up by our standards (See eg: trial by combat)

If you agree to have a crime perpetuated against you ONLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN COERCED INTO DOING SO, it is unquestionably 100% rape. And yall are dense as all get out if you think she agreed to either the marriage or the sex of her own accord.

No, its pretty clear she didn't willingly marry Ramsay

Oh wow, she discussed it with Littlefinger. And what do you think would have happened had she said no to Littlefinger? Sansa is smart enough by now to know exactly what happens to people who cross Littlefinger.

 

She was forced into marriage, and the sex was essentially coerced, since refusing to consumate the marriage would likely land her in a session of Ramsay's Super Happy Flaying Fun Time. Even within the context of a coerced sexual encounter, Ramsay violently and aggressively took her and used her in ways she was not prepared for, or okay with, because he knew that she couldn't say no.

 

It was absolutely, 100% rape and the fact that you can't see that is profoundly disturbing.

It isn't the end of the world if you are from CA and want to

live in CA, provided it is a full ride.

 

But the job prospects are still pretty mediocre. Only about 50% of grads get full time, long term jobs that require a JD. Only 13% get the high paying, prestigious gigs popularly associated with lawyering. 20% of the class is straight up unemployed 9 months after graduating. 

I am a young recent grad

I would totally raise my future family in Ann Arbor. Assuming I could get a job there of course (grad school right now)

My only concern is that my love for AA is more tied up in how great my undergrad experiences there were. Would I still love it the same amount living there as a post grad, or is my fondness more due to the friends I made there and the college experiences? I don't THINK so, but who knows...

Double post

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Not to be a jerk, but

provincial is a pejorative term for people outside the city, not those inside the city who look down on provincials, fyi.

Charming ad hominems

I did, in fact, happen to notice that the article portrays sexual assault as a phenomenon that exists independently of greek life. I also noticed this part:  "Studies have shown that fraternity men are three times as likely to commit rape". 



So  while it is obvious that sexual assault happens outside of the greek context (a point neither myself nor anyone else was disputing) , frat bros are far more likely the commit rape, because even ones that don't encourage gang rape as an initiation ritual have plenty of misogyny baked into the system. 

In any case, none of that was present in my comment, which was about how supposed oversight of frats is a joke (see: this article, where the system did nothing or next to nothing to numerous and systemic sexual assaults from the greek system, and in fact did plenty to protect them).

I don't know why it would matter if I knew someone that went to one of those schools or not (although I do) or that you knowing a victim of sexual assault somehow invalidates my opinion if I did not (I know several, victimized in both greek and non-greek situations, and I find it incredibly offensive that you would try to wave their experiences in my face like a badge of authority).

Please try to read this post more carefully than you did my last one.

 



 

Yeah, no.

Did you even read the article? The current oversight provided by universites over greek life is a joke.

Sure, people might form secret organizations, but in order to grow to any degree they'd have to add more members....which would lead to discovery of the groups, and the prompt suspension/expulsion of the members.

At that point, joining a secret male organization would become more trouble than it's worth, and they'd fade away. 

I pry should have phrased it better

I'm including everyone after Henson too. 

Two points

First, no, John Navarre didn't get as much crap as Gardner gets. He definitely got a lot (and it was definitely out of proportion given that he lead the team to back to back 10-3 seasons) but while people grumbled when he struggled it never approached anything serious except when Drew Henson was on the team. 

Second, while everyone loves Denard, many people who love him trip over themselves to qualify that love with "well he may not have been a good passer, but...", questioning his ability to actually be a QB. 

 

Here are Denard's passing stats from 2010, when he had a real QB coach.

YPA: 8.8 

Yards: 2,570

Completion Percentage: 62.5%

TD/INT: 18/11

Also pretty comperable to Henne, except Denard also did this

1702 yards rushing, 6.6 yards per attempt, 14 TDS

 

But Denard was the one who was/is criticized as a terrible passer, not Henne.

 

I think that only helps my point

Gardner puts up equal/slightly better numbers despite the train wreck around him. Yet people wanted to replace him with Morris, despite there being nothing to demonstrate that Morris would be ready. Now why is that?