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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 2 weeks 13 hours ago | Senior QBs |
Just list the last 50 Big Ten champions and the class of their starting QB. I bet it is dominated by Sr/5th year Sr. |
| 4 weeks 8 hours ago | Ann Arbor can handle it |
The NHL scheduled the 2013 Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium hoping to get the largest hockey crowd in history to attend, with potentially half the attendees being Toronto Maple Leafs fans coming from Ontario and needing hotel rooms and RV parking. |
| 5 weeks 10 hours ago | Doh! |
Doh! |
| 5 weeks 11 hours ago | OL numbers |
OL numbers run 50-79, regardless of position, since they frequently change position through their career. I think 72 would be a great choice for someone who hopes to be ending up at OT, since Dierdorf wore it. Been a while since I've noticed that number on a starting OT. I agree Kalis with 67 and Braden with 51 are mortal locks. |
| 9 weeks 3 days ago | bracket is out |
M plays Cornell in Green Bay. Other half of regional is Ferris vs Denver.
Full bracket at www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/icehockey-men/d1/2011 |
| 10 weeks 6 days ago | number color not = wings color |
I think they want the helmet number color darker than the wings because that's how they looked back in the day. Check out the old photos. The whole idea was throwback as a tribute, even if it meant a non-matching helmet number color. |
| 33 weeks 2 days ago | Origin of helmet/shoulder/sleeve numbers |
With the advent of television coverage, sports uniforms changed. In football and hockey, teams usually wore their "home" jerseys all the time, until black and white TV came along, spreading the use of white "away" jerseys for easier TV recognition. For example, you will never see a photo of Tom Harmon in a white jersey. Look at his final regular season game in Columbus - blue jersey. INSERT 1: Since almost all TV is color today, wouldn't it be cool to have both Michigan and Ohio in home jerseys every year, regardless of where the game was played? I think the color match-up would be striking! Another thing that evolved was adding helmet, shoulder, or sleeve numbers in football. This helps quickly identify a player in the predominant TV view of the day, taken from the side of the formation (way fewer cameras than used today). The use of "side" numbers might have been instituted for this purpose by the NCAA and NFL, but I don't know for sure. Sometimes, old-timers even refer to these as "TV numbers". When Michigan had the helmet numbers in the 1960s, they didn't have them on the sleeves. When Bo arrived, they stopped putting numbers on the helmets, and used sleeve numbers instead. Penn State made the same change at some point, while Alabama has kept the helmet numbers and has never added the sleeve numbers. INSERT 2: For a long time, Michigan has had small helmet numbers in the back, low on the right side, so players can quickly identify their un-donned helmets on the sidelines. (Many teams do similarly. The Steelers have them on the front and back, for example.) For Michigan, the retro side numbers replace those and serve that function. There is a lot of variation in photo evidence that is due to variation in exposure, lighting, and processing. In some photos, the maize shade of the numbers looks to match the wings and stripes. In others, it doesn't. This happens in both color and black and white photos. Live at the stadium, they don't match on today's helmets. In photos from the 1960s, I see some that look like they match and some that don't. This variation is likely because the wings and stripes are painted, and the numbers are stickers, combined with variation in the lighting and how it interacts with the colors and surface finishes of the different materials (paint versus stickers). Auto companies have people with medically certified color vision who color match among the various materials and surface finishes inherent among various components. Imagine trying to match the color of leather seats, with natural grain and reflectivity, to soft plastic arm rests and hard plastic door sills, some molded in color and some painted, and getting them all to match. It's not easy. (I'm an automotive engineer, so I know this is true.) Yeah, way too much info, I know, but hey, I want to contribute where I have some knowledge. My vote: LOVE the helmet numbers! Would like them to ditch the sleeve numbers and go even more retro. |
| 43 weeks 1 day ago | NT |
Bold prediction: Aaron Wellman will bulk Heitzman up into the team's squat king and he will end up being the 6'3" 300lb nose tackle we crave. Keith, start eating burgers...LOTS and LOTS of burgers! |
| 45 weeks 1 day ago | weight |
I enjoyed the statistical analysis. The number of returning defensive starters is a contributor to what one could predict as an overall win/loss record, which is all that matters regarding on-field results. I would like to see a similar statistical analysis, covering only the Big Ten over the last decade, regarding what we should expect as a win/loss record based soley on the average player weight for the whole team, i.e. a single-variable linear regression: %wins = A * average player weight + B. You could call it the beefy Wellman manball effect. For really low-sample fun, though, nothing beats projecting what happens with a 2nd-year-starter dilithium QB, but in a new offensive scheme. Which has been the favorite topic of debate ever since we knew Denard was staying. From my point of view, as long as #16 is our QB and leader, it is going to be fun to watch, easy to root for, and never hopeless. Lord how I will miss him when he's gone. |
| 49 weeks 6 days ago | The case for a patch |
Michigan is supposed to be different, but all too often we are the same. Like we need money to fuel good things, including expanding our number of varsity sports to include lacrosse. New revenue streams, like selling special jerseys, are helpful to that end. That means is not eggregious in and of itself. However, in this particular case, the execution is hideous. We will forever wish to have celebrated this event in our traditional uniforms, with perhaps a tasteful and discrete commemorative patch, a la the 100th game vs tsio. That would have been cool. People would buy those and wear them proudly. If they sold jerseys with 100th game patches now, people would buy them. Why is this not a win-win? Why wouldn't his make the athletic dept., adidas, and the fans all happy? Kids are welcome to run on my lawn, but not to take a dump on it! |
