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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 11 weeks 2 days ago | My favorite comment from an MSU thread |
scUMbacking into another label they don’t deserve. That’s what makes it hurt so much worse. by grMatt on Mar 4, 2012 5:24 PM CST http://cdn1.sbnation.com/images/icons/comment-sprite.v3bcdd28.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 102, 51); text-decoration: none; display: inline; font-weight: bold; background-position: 0px -29px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; " title="reply to this comment">reply |
| 21 weeks 5 days ago | Define "lame" |
Yes, that's why they're going to whatever more-respected conference will take them, moving up to MWC first and now to the Big East. Just like they're willing to schedule Oregon, VT, and Georgia, without requiring a return game back in Boise. And generally dominating in those games. It's pretty clear BSU wants nothing other than to claim its conference is the best and then play Div-III schools for its non-conference games, like the AQ schools do. So lame. |
| 41 weeks 5 days ago | Who authorized the walking weasel thing to wear #1? |
And how soon will it divide the Michigan fanbase, if it were an unauthorized wearing? Can Edwards or somebody retroactively authorize it? Will donations go down if he doesn't retroactively authorize it? So many problems caused by a mascot. . . |
| 1 year 4 weeks ago | Responding to #2 |
I guess I'm ambivalent - I'm not worked up if someone wants to say thank you, and I'm not worked up if someone wants to down vote. I was just trying to give an answer to the guy who thought there was no reason to down vote. Seeing it and scrolling on by makes the most sense to me. As for your paragraph #1: you're right, and I didn't account for that in my first post; that's an entirely possible motivation, and, if it's the true one, probably the one least open to a down vote. I certainly don't mean to dismiss the genuineness of anyone who says "thank you for your service" - I can't imagine trying to go to a cruddy place like Vietnam in the rainy season and getting beat down when you get home. My guess is that people who thank others for their service generally mean it. My only point was that - in the context of a sports blog about UM sports - someone could get annoyed that it's out of place. But again, I agree: scrolling on by would have been my choice. And yeah, if he's enlisted in the Army, I'm guessing he'll still have to go to some kind of technical school after basic, but he'll end up doing a lot more in 4 years than I'll do in three times that. So I don't begrudge him anything - he deserves whatever praise people want to give him. Just to repeat myself - if that praise comes on a blog post about UM sports, I can see someone being annoyed. |
| 1 year 4 weeks ago | I don't know who, but I have a guess as to why |
First, it's irrelevant. The guy just wanted to know what's happened in the world of UM sports over a given time. He wasn't fishing for reinforcement for his career choice. Or, second, if he is just proud to have graduated basic and wants everyone to know about it, and also wants people to tell him how great it is, that's nice and all, but maybe someone got annoyed he chose to make his personal announcement on a blog about UM sports. Graduating basic isn't exactly serving one's country, yet. It's a great accomplishment, and - since he's apparently in the Army - he'll eventually endure more discomfort than most of us. But this whole "thank you for your service" seems premature, which maybe drew a vote down. I don't care either way. I think he could have just looked up news from the time period in question, which is what I do. But MGoBoard posts are notorious for being pointless; at least his ostensibly was about UM sports. But I could see someone irked by the whole "I'm in the military!" announcement followed by the almost cliche "Thank you for your service." I'm writing this from my CHU in Iraq, so please take that into account if anyone wishes to use an ad hominem argument in response. Also, you can thank me for my service or not; what I really care about is Congress' balancing the budget so I don't miss a rent payment. |
| 1 year 7 weeks ago | This makes sense to me |
It seems like we're still operating under an athletic system designed for rich white dudes at Yale and Brown who gathered on the pitch to prove that they were well-rounded. Not that future professional athletes don't work hard in school, but for some, it's just an unnecessary distraction. Is the world a better place because Andy Katzenmoyer endured classes long enough to be ready for the NFL? I don't want to say his grades are a sham, but his time probably would have been better spent doing something else. Sports and academics are kind of an odd combination. It would be like saying you couldn't play serious poker or serious Nintendo or serious Dungeons and Dragons unless you were also taking at least 12 credits; why do we require someone who is 19 years old and wants to play football at a serious level to also be enrolled at an appropriate school? |
| 1 year 8 weeks ago | Denard maybe was a little good last year |
I don't know if anyone else had the same thought I did when Mr. Robinson started the season last year: "Mr. Rodriguez: are you an idiot? Did you not see him play the year prior? He was worse than awful. He was a liability." But Mr. Robinson ended up being sort of decent. So, given that they're paid lots of money to make decisions on which their livelihoods depend, I find it hard to believe that any even barely competent coach would ignore reality because he is so determined to play a certain style of football. Mr. Hoke may not have the most impressive resume, but he has shown he is at least barely competent; I don't think we'll see Robinson used so that it wouldn't matter whether the QB was Robinson or Navarre. |
| 1 year 10 weeks ago | Leukophobic |
http://www.lincoln.edu/mhs/owl/paragraph.html Although I can't claim that anything I write would be of sufficient quality or complexity to be considered "academic", I wouldn't expect someone's first reaction to seeing a paragraph of ten sentences to be, "It's overwhelming! Make it stop!" I realize the previous sentence was probably too long for a blog. I apologize. If you don't have a feel for anything but paragraphs in blogs, start with something easy, and then work up to "business" paragraphs. I always thought that a new paragraph was for a new idea, not just because the visible page width is more narrow than a person is used to. Actually, all this white space is making me lose my train of thought. So thanks for the genuinely tactful suggestion. But I don't spend enough time on blogs to make frequent paragraph breaks seem appropriate. Or maybe I've just written too many EPRs. Go Blu e |
| 1 year 10 weeks ago | I am no longer reasonable on this subject |
In the past, I always thought these things were a little stereotypical small-town coppish: the NCAA running around making a big deal about stupid minor things just to show how important and powerful they are. But after the Michigan mess - started by a newspaper, followed-through with by the NCAA, all revealing essentially zero meaningful misconduct, yet months of bad press and relatively serious sanctions - I now want every other school hammered for every little thing. 2 years ago I would have argued that Tressel get a meaningless slap on the wrist - so what if some players sold trinkets and the coach didn't tattle? Now, though, I want games forfeited and people fired. If UM's petty "crimes" were worth what they got stuck with, stuff like this should be a full-blown college football ethics crisis. UM went way out of its way to cooperate and self-report. Yet everyone in the Cam Newton thing and OSU players thing last year just said "we have no idea what's going on" and that somehow relieved them of all responsibility. Now that it looks like it may just have been a cover-up, UM's sanctions had better look like nothing compared to what OSU gets. I don't care that it's OSU; actually, I wish it weren't a Big Ten team. But I'm about as bitter as how the UM "scandal" went down as I was about the stadium halo. |
| 1 year 14 weeks ago | Hate or not |
Are they really so critical that a night or week or month can't be skipped? It's like some kind of pointless "Lost" obsession. So we get a post requesting help to avoid missing a post we don't need. I may not hate them, but they're about as important as the annoying drunk fans who signal every first down along with the refs for the first quarter and a half, but then forget about it again until the fourth quarter. That part in the middle of the game in which they forgot to signal first down - really, I'm ok with that. The game went on just fine without their little tradition. And the quality of this site will be just fine if something that maybe might possibly have been clever at first takes a break every once in a while. |
