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6 days 59 min ago You nailed it.

Reminds me of the "Leftorium" episode of the Simpsons where Homer is calling everyone to ask them to help out Flanders.
"Hey, remember when I paid you back the money I owed you?  Yeah, well I now I need you to do a favor for me."

1 week 1 day ago Couldn’t agree more.

I’m a Michigan grad, wife is an MSU grad (legacy family). We’ve always joked about the unseen “Cold War” for our 9 year old daughter’s interest. As far as I’m concerned, MSU is now, literally, the last major university I would want her to attend. This is no longer a rivalry “look who’s better” sort of thing.
I’m so fucking sick of the “yeah, but doesn’t this sort of stuff happen everywhere” garbage that friends and family spout. No. No, the largest serial sexual assault case in American history, followed by extensive institutional coverup and pervasive sexual assault culture doesn’t happen everywhere.

1 week 6 days ago Like many bad things,

I still feel that story deserves more scrutiny.
Especially when you add that in to his “boys will be boys” rape defense. I used quotes because that’s almost verbatim what his actual statement was when coaching at CMU.

2 weeks 4 days ago Unfortunately,

the way he talks, I’m quite certain it always has been the least of his problems.

2 weeks 4 days ago Michigan beating Villanova

77-71 was my official bracket tiebreaker score. No need to change it now.

2 weeks 6 days ago Hugging everyone I see!

What a comeback!!!!!

3 weeks 5 days ago As the OP said,

advantageous to have the early slot if you win.  That's fantastic. 

3 weeks 5 days ago Frozen Four in his first year

back on campus.  Great to have Mel back!  Great to be a Michigan Wolverine!

3 weeks 5 days ago Last time this happened to a school,

(MSU), they set their campus on fire.  So, since we won't do that, we already have fared better without even playing the games.  

3 weeks 5 days ago I love how definitive he is in his praise.

Sometimes you get the feeling that coaches in that situation are just giving lip service. “Expertly” and “familiar territory” are statements made by someone who is not insecure about his fan base favoring another coach/sport.

3 weeks 6 days ago 228968

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4 weeks 1 day ago This is probably Beilein's best

team and they're playing like it in March.  

4 weeks 6 days ago I find this outcome

rather pleasing.

 

/OMG!!!!!!

6 weeks 5 days ago And again,

We know this banner is never coming down.

7 weeks 2 days ago Does anybody know what website I would

be able to buy them on?  I'm 39 and realize I will look dumb AF wearing them in public, but I think they're sweet.

7 weeks 2 days ago 837461

confirmation code for Pixelcrusher 720

7 weeks 2 days ago Help, I’m old and bad with technology.

My Discord username is Pixelcrusher720 (set up by a friend because, again, I’m dumb with tech that isn’t a video game). I sent a message on the Discord app and received a reply, but not sure if you meant to respond on this thread or not. Also, thanks a ton for doing this!

7 weeks 6 days ago My opinion of MSU can't get any lower

than it currently is.  That place is trash.

OT: Yesterday I took the family to Ann Arbor for the whole day.  Hands-on Museum, walk around campus, dinner, then the hockey game.  On the way back, my kid was effusive in her thanks for the day and praise for how awesome U of M is.  She's 9, but she's already decided it's her top school.  Today my wife (MSU grad) is taking her to MSU for what sounds like an awesome engineering/mathy type event for kids.  On the way home, while my daughter was buzzing with excitement, my wife was discussing how MSU is a cool place too.  
As much as I have tried in the past to be neutral in discussions that involve the two schools in front of my kid, I simply couldn't do it last night.  The best I could muster was saying how all college campuses have something unique and cool about them.  In my head, I was just thinking "It'll be your choice, kiddo, but there is no fucking way I let you go there without a fight."

TL;DR I will happily pay for my kid to go out of state before I send her to MSU.

8 weeks 19 hours ago I think there is a subtle but important

distinction between loyalty and cronyism.  This makes me think that, although loyal, Harbaugh won't settle for anything less than what he thinks is best for the program.  Gotta separate business and friends sometime.  Glad it happened and hope everyone benefits from it moving forward. 

8 weeks 19 hours ago I still remember the tagline:

"Leave your inhibitions at the door, the show is about to begin."

8 weeks 1 day ago I’ve never met Enos either,

but I’m pretty sure he’s a prick.

8 weeks 2 days ago I think non-constructive criticism

of the football program is toxic and potentially deleterious.  I would imagine that almost every one of us that posts on here is considered the most invested Michigan fan in their group of friends, give or take.  Most of our professional contacts likely associate us with Michigan as well given conversations from work parties, break time, whatever.

When one of us begins to say things like "Harbaugh is on the hot seat," it probably makes ideas like that seem more plausible to the casual fan.  I'm not saying people can't voice frustration or discontent, but I would recommend using the model of a married couple having a disagreement in front of their children or in-laws. Choose your words carefully.  Make sure you bring up the positive and offer an even-handed way on how you would change things.  

I get that the things I say in my back yard to my neighbor have essentially a zero percent chance on creating a negative narrative for the collective.  But mulitply that by 10,000 (est # of posters), repeat many times at work/in public and now we've possibly helped create part of a negative buzz around our program.  

TL;DR - constructive criticism > unfiltered catharsis

8 weeks 3 days ago "Last Team Standing"

is absolutely perfect, IMO.  Hang that banner, and then make it our t-shirt phrase that the guys wear during warmups.  Like everyone, our goal is to be the last team standing.

You get to kinda claim the title without officially doing it.  Nike makes a ton of money off people buying "Be the Last Team Standing" t-shirts.  Seriously, TM that.

Also, it's great that Nike would have about 3.5 weeks to make that shirt between the Big Ten Tournament and the Big Dance.
/Thanks Delaney

8 weeks 4 days ago Totally understand if you can't comment, or don't

feel comfortable commenting.  But on a scale of 1-10 (1 being uniformz and 10 being J.T. was short), how much is that one going to sting?

9 weeks 4 days ago Also, I really don’t think ESPN

is truly “done” with it yet. They put a ton of effort into finding the mine, and now they’ve proven there is something valuable (more clicks in this case) that they can very easily extract with a follow up story. We still haven’t heard from the other employees who quit because the standard of care wasn’t being followed.
I certainly won’t be surprised if Izzo and Dantonio keep their jobs, but I do think they each have a few more storms to survive if they do.

10 weeks 5 days ago Brandon Graham is one my favorite

Michigan football players of all time.  I'm all about Tom Brady providing more ammo for "the best ever" debate, but I gotta say my heart will be pulling for BG.  Even more so that he's a local kid.  I'll be happy either way.  Go Blue.

11 weeks 4 days ago Reading the article,

I couldn’t help but think of the scene from Shawshank Redemption where Andy Dufresne is talking to the judge about the particulars of the crime. The judge says “don’t you find this convenient?” and Andy says how since he was in court for it, it was decidedly inconvenient.
Lumping this in with Nassar is trying to specifically highlight the horrid culture in EL right now. That same culture allowed Nassar to be a predator for decades while enabling revenue sports to protect criminals from receiving justice. Yes, Mike, I find it decidedly inconvenient.

11 weeks 5 days ago I tried reading Allswede’s comments

to my wife earlier today, but got too choked up to finish speaking aloud. Totally not having any fun with this.

11 weeks 6 days ago In gaming culture,

like super nerdy stuff that I'm into (Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, board games), there is a term "opportunity cheats."  So, you've got the cheater who will deliberately attempt to gain competitive advantage by hiding cards up their sleeve or game pieces under their leg.  Obviously, everyone recognizes that person as a cheater.

Opportunity cheats are when you maybe didn't plan on something outside the rules going your way, but you still let it happen.  In a card game, that's like accidentally drawing 2 cards instead of one, but my opponent didn't notice, so I'll just keep the second card.  

For these nerd games at professional levels (yep, there is aspirational play here too), opportunity cheaters are dealt with the same as the premeditated ones.  Bans, suspensions, etc.  At the very best, Izzo and Dantanio are opportunity cheaters.  They obviously knew the system they were directly involved with was faulty, but they didn't do a damn thing to change it. 

12 weeks 16 hours ago What are you talking about?

Everyone I know who graduated from MSU also got accepted to Michigan.

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