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3 weeks 1 day ago	Defense: Back 7	Jake Ryan, Desmond Morgan, Tom Gordon, Courtney Avery, (and Jordan Kovacs), all ranked 600+ in their classes.  5 of of 8 starters in the back 7 (nickel). Major overachievers as a group.
4 weeks 1 day ago	Samir: Hmm... well, why don't	Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael? Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
4 weeks 1 day ago	Reference: http://mgoblog.com	Reference: http://mgoblog.com/content/michigan-museday-matches-nickels-and-dimes   UFR Michigan Defensive Formation # of Plays Charted - 2011 Season   Receivers in Formation Def. Form 4 3 2 1 0 Total Nickel 121 155 14 1 x 291 4-3 22 34 195 29 x 280 Okie 20 32 2 x x 54 4-4 1 x 6 11 1 19 4-6 x x 10 5 x 15 3-3-5 5 7 1 x x 13 5-3 x x 1 2 1 4 Goal line x 1 x 2 1 4 3-4 1 1 x 1 x 3 6-2 x x 1 1 x 2 Dime-30 1 x x x x 1 Dime-40 x 1 x x x 1 Total 171 231 230 52 3 687
6 weeks 5 days ago	N	Name Season Started City Most Recent Payout High °F Low °F BCS National Championship Game   Rotates^                     18,000,000     Orange Bowl 1934 Miami Gardens, Florida                     18,000,000 76 60 Capital One Bowl 1946 Orlando, Florida                       4,250,000 71 49 Russell Athletic Bowl 1990 Orlando, Florida                       2,125,000 71 49 Outback Bowl 1986 Tampa, Florida                       3,400,000 70 52 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl 2008 St. Petersburg, Florida                       1,000,000 70 52 Fiesta Bowl 1971 Glendale, Arizona                     18,000,000 69 46 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl 1989 Tempe, Arizona                       3,300,000 69 46 Rose Bowl 1901 Pasadena, California                     18,000,000 68 48 Gator Bowl 1945 Jacksonville, Florida                       7,000,000 65 41 Holiday Bowl 1978 San Diego, California                       2,350,000 65 49 Poinsettia Bowl 2005 San Diego, California                           750,000 65 49 Alamo Bowl 1993 San Antonio, Texas                       3,175,000 63 41 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas 2006 Houston, Texas                       1,700,000 63 43 Sugar Bowl 1934 New Orleans, Louisiana                     18,000,000 62 45 New Orleans Bowl 2001 New Orleans, Louisiana                           500,000 62 45 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas 1992 Las Vegas, Nevada                       1,000,000 58 39 Cotton Bowl Classic 1936 Arlington, Texas                       7,250,000 57 37 Heart of Dallas Bowl 2010 Dallas, Texas                       1,200,000 57 37 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl 2002 San Francisco, California                           825,000 57 46 Armed Forces Bowl 2003 Fort Worth, Texas                           750,000 57 37 BBVA Compass Bowl 2006 Birmingham, Alabama                       1,000,000 54 34 Chick-fil-A Bowl 1968 Atlanta, Georgia                       3,350,000 52 34 Belk Bowl 2002 Charlotte, North Carolina                       1,000,000 51 30 Liberty Bowl 1959 Memphis, Tennessee                       1,350,000 50 33 Music City Bowl 1998 Nashville, Tennessee                       1,700,000 47 28 Pinstripe Bowl[6] 2010 Bronx, New York                       2,000,000 38 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl 1997 Detroit, Michigan                           750,000 32 19 Sun Bowl 1934 El Paso, Texas                       4,100,000 #N/A #N/A AdvoCare V100 Bowl 1976 Shreveport, Louisiana                       1,100,000 #N/A #N/A Military Bowl 2008 Washington, D.C.                       1,000,000 #N/A #N/A New Mexico Bowl 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico                           750,000 #N/A #N/A Hawaii Bowl 2002 Honolulu, Hawaii                           750,000 #N/A #N/A Famous Idaho Potato Bowl 1997 Boise, Idaho                           750,000 #N/A #N/A GoDaddy.com Bowl 1999 Mobile, Alabama                           750,000 #N/A #N/A     City January High °F January Low °F # OF BOWLS Miami, Florida 76 60 1 Orlando, Florida 71 49 2 Tampa, Florida 70 52 2 Phoenix, Arizona 69 46 2 Riverside, California 69 43 0 Los Angeles, California 68 48 1 Jacksonville, Florida 65 41 1 San Diego, California 65 49 2 Houston, Texas 63 43 1 San Antonio, Texas 63 41 1 Austin, Texas 62 42 0 New Orleans, Louisiana 62 45 2 Las Vegas, Nevada 58 39 1 San Jose, California 58 42 0 Dallas, Texas 57 37 3 San Francisco, California 57 46 1 Birmingham, Alabama 54 34 1 Sacramento, California 54 39 0 Atlanta, Georgia 52 34 1 Charlotte, North Carolina 51 30 1 Raleigh, North Carolina 51 30 0 Memphis, Tennessee 50 33 1 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 50 29 0 Seattle, Washington 49 37 0 Virginia Beach, Virginia 48 33 0 Nashville, Tennessee 47 28 1 Portland, Oregon 47 36 0 Richmond, Virginia 47 28 0 Denver, Colorado 45 17 0 Louisville, Kentucky 43 27 0 Washington, DC 43 29 1 Baltimore, Maryland 41 24 0 Cincinnati, Ohio 40 22 0 Kansas City, Missouri 40 22 0 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 40 26 0 St. Louis, Missouri 40 24 0 New York, New York 38 27 1 Columbus, Ohio 37 23 0 Providence, Rhode Island 37 21 0 Salt Lake City, Utah 37 22 0 Boston, Massachusetts 36 22 0 Indianapolis, Indiana 36 21 0 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 36 21 0 Hartford, Connecticut 35 18 0 Cleveland, Ohio 34 22 0 Detroit, Michigan 32 19 1 Rochester, New York 32 18 0 Buffalo, New York 31 19 0 Chicago, Illinois 31 17 0 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 29 16 0 Minneapolis, Minnesota 24 8 0   http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-city-temperatures-in-january.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_bowl_games
7 weeks 5 days ago	Best data set on NFL Draftees:	http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/draft-history-graphic.htm
8 weeks 11 hours ago	Strategic? Implications...	Mathlete argues the opposite of this logic that either he or Brian has put forth in the past: "even though the expected return is higher, the (kick) receiving team should not take touchbacks because the variance of the return is lower (zero)". The offense should be interested in high variance, big play opportunities.  The defense should be interested in limiting those opportunities, even if that means sacrificing a modest amount of field position on average. Also, we don't have data for hang time.  I'll bet if you did and you could eliminate shorter punts that did not have superior hang time, the results would look different. Also to assume a "law of large numbers" approach when you only punt ~40-60 times per season and not account for who you're kicking to seems foolish.  Look at the separation in Punt Return Yards (Average): http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/1022
13 weeks 1 day ago	A major college football	A major college football rivalry in the other division of its conference commanding all of the attention?  Nebraska has never heard of such a thing.
14 weeks 11 hours ago	They should've signed Quin	They should've signed Quin Blanding.
14 weeks 15 hours ago	Well those are the only	Well those are the only scholarship & non-true freshmen WRs this season.
14 weeks 16 hours ago	Chris Bryant	No mention of Chris Bryant, he's about 6.5 months off his broken leg.  Anyone know if he's participating in spring practice?
14 weeks 17 hours ago	EDIT Request: "Tigers Release	EDIT Request: "Tigers Release B. Boesch" Before this turns into a OMG-what-happened-to-Kyle-Bosch-and-why-did-the-OP-spell-his-name-wrong?-thread
14 weeks 1 day ago	Fail	And another EA Fail: "With the victory, Robinson becomes the third Michigan Wolverine to appear on the cover of an NCAA Football title after former Heisman Trophy Winners Desmond Howard (NCAA Football 99) and Charles Woodson (NCAA Football 2006)."
14 weeks 6 days ago	Wheat Thins > Lil' Wheat	Wheat Thins > Lil' Wheat
15 weeks 14 hours ago	Spring Game?	With Fitz injured and Derrick Green/Deveon Smith both not yet on campus, the RB position for the Spring Game is kind of a punt, no? More Rawls/Hayes (Johnson/Norfleet?)
15 weeks 2 days ago	Trolling argument: "If the	Trolling argument: "If the WDE is an "OLB" coached by the OLB coach Roy Manning, then we have 4 LBs on the field, which is a 3-4 defense." Explanation: http://mgoblog.com/content/mailbag-3-4-switch-again-kenpom-basketball-le... Questions about switching to a 3-4 defense kept coming up last year (because of DL depth issue), and Brian and Co. explained at length over and over again how a 4-3 under is basically the same thing.  So no we're not "switching" to a different defensive scheme.
15 weeks 2 days ago	"I presume this means Hoke	"I presume this means Hoke will continue with the nose tackles, Mattison will take the SDEs and 3techs, and Manning will be in charge of both the SAMs and WDEs." So basically you're saying we're switching to a 3-4 defense then? /trolling
17 weeks 1 day ago	Aren't the Canadiens kind of	Aren't the Canadiens kind of the Notre Dame of the NHL?  (Except for the part where Notre Dame was in the Championship game this year)
18 weeks 1 day ago	Thx DB	Obviously the 2015 home opener @ Utah deserves the credit for this.
19 weeks 1 day ago	On that note	Points Rank Avg Rank School # Commits Avg Avg^ POINTS* 2 1 Notre Dame 23 3.87 89 3 2 Ohio State 23 3.77 86.75 1 3 Michigan 27 3.67 99 4 4 Nebraska 25 3.27 81.75 8 5 Michigan State 18 3.13 56.25 12 6 Penn State 17 3.12 53 14 7 Wisconsin 16 3.00 48 9 8 Northwestern 19 2.93 55.75 6 9 Rutgers 22 2.92 64.25 7 10 Maryland 20 2.90 58 11 11 Iowa 19 2.83 53.75 5 12 Illinois 26 2.80 72.75 10 13 Purdue 20 2.73 54.5 13 14 Indiana 19 2.72 51.75 15 15 Minnesota 16 2.72 43.5 Michigan Top 22 "Avg-Avg" = 3.86 OSU Top 22 "Avg-Avg" = 3.83
20 weeks 5 days ago	Chris Spielman	Always seemed like a decent guy.  Awesome career.  Wound up with the Lions.  In one of the Michigan v OSU documentaries he says he told his Dad he wanted to go to Michigan (grew up in Ohio) and his Dad said something like "if you go there, don't come back" so he went to OSU.
20 weeks 5 days ago	Second That	http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/denard-nfl-prospect#comment-1864895 But it is the offseason, so what else should we talk about? Hockey's Back? Derrick Green again? Harbowl?
20 weeks 6 days ago	Location	I don't know if this is possible, but I recommend putting a hyperlink to the Sticky thread on these pages at the top and/or next to the submit button/text box: http://mgoblog.com/node/add/forum http://mgoblog.com/node/add/blog And perhaps what pops up when you go to compose a comment in a thread. I've found this via "Useful Stuff" but I think its a bit confusing and needs to be dumbed down/put in a better context: http://mgoblog.com/content/how-post-mgoblog
21 weeks 6 days ago	Can I Get A Source For That?	http://xkcd.com/978/
22 weeks 5 hours ago	The Junior in High School is	The Junior in High School is always more exciting than the Freshman on our roster that just spent the season redshirting (no matter how highly they were rated).
22 weeks 1 day ago	Request	Awesome work Seth.  One request: Could you take a look at the number of Solid Starters you would project based on the roster for 2011 & 2012 (fill in these blanks):   Year Total Solid Starters 2011   2012   2013 2.87 2014 2.34 2015 3.72 2016 4.24 2017 3.15 I'd really like to know (1) what the expected change was from 2011 to 2012 (since everyone says it was so terrible), and (2) what the expected change is from 2012 to 2013. Also one comment: Our 2013 projection if Lewan doesn't come back is 1.87.  /shudder. Wooo!
22 weeks 2 days ago	Early Signing Period	Best argument for an early signing period is this situation, and kids enrolling early more and more.  A school should be committed to a kid at least some period before he enrolls.  This doesn't work if signing day isn't until February.
22 weeks 5 days ago	I think he was starting to do	I think he was starting to do some interviews & then Tremendous popped up.  Brian & Ace (IMO wisely) probably figured the same set of kids didn't need ANOTHER guy harassing them about their recruitment (esp. when all the Tremendous info was freely available).
23 weeks 16 hours ago	On top of the 2012 & 13 DL	On top of the 2012 & 13 DL classes, landing Hand, McDowell, and Mone would pretty much be the most awesome thing ever.  I can only think about our opponents thinking, "uh, not fair".
23 weeks 1 day ago	Kovacs	Please stay healthy Tom Gordon.  I don't want two new safeties on the field at once.
23 weeks 5 days ago	Speed RBs:	Name, Height, Weight Denard Robinson, 6'0", 197 Jahvid Best, 5'10", 199 Reggie Bush, 6'0", 203 CJ Spiller, 5'11", 200 Chris Johnson, 5'11", 191 Lesean McCoy, 5'11", 208  Jamaal Charles, 5'11, 199 Everybody else listed seems to be in the 215-230 range, and consistently under 6'0", with a few monsterback exceptions: http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?tabSeq=0&statisticCategory=RUSHIN... I did read that one scout's opinion, but think a defensive position is silly.  Depends on what you think is easier to learn/fits his skill set better: route running & catching, or pass blocking.  I think he'll find success as "the Vincent Smith of the NFL".

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