Apologies to Seth and John U Bacon, but MSU being a train wreck never gets old. You will not find me talking like an Ohio State fan in 2018 hoping MSU returns to competitive for the quality of the rivalry. Let them be a train wreck now and forever.
Chief is a French word that just means "boss" more or less. So KC could pull back some of the Native American connections and go along just fine, if they felt like it or were compelled to.
This was a very helpful summary of the NCAA's history, thank you for this.
On the new organization you're proposing, the major impediment to that would most likely be the same one that has historically blocked reform that would directly benefit the athletes: they come and go as a train of youngsters while the professional administrations inside the universities and the NCAA have experienced staff and leaders. How would you set up an organization to really advocate for the student athletes. It sounds even more difficult than getting an auto plant south of the Mason Dixon line to go union.
Warren looks more ready to play QB than anyone else, and he looked good enough to win a lot of games in the spring game, but I don't think Warren was a four star in high school. Here is a quote from a maize n brew article about a week ago :
His senior year of high school was canceled because of COVID. The year before that, he was diagnosed with leukemia. He went from being an up-and-coming high school quarterback in Southern California, garnering interest from Ivy League schools, to being a cancer survivor who never had the opportunity to be a high school starter.
That looks like he was just never rated, because he missed two years. Michigan won the national championship partly by doing their own scouting during covid and developing guys who would contrubute three years later. If Warren pops and becomes an above average big ten QB, his would be the ultimate success story of that approach that allowed Michigan to overcome the recruiting powerhouses and NIL factories.
This is asking a lot from the portal considering there are no more than 20 practices and four months until opening day. This QB room has at least one or two average or better big ten QB's in it. An average big ten QB will get this roster to 9-3, and an above average one will get us to the big ten championship game. By then, this will be a different team and all bets are off for how far they go from there.
After loaded rosters in '22 and '23 and last year's departures, that's a solid outlook. If we wanted to have back to back national chpionships, we should have won it in 2022, which had a team much more well suited to do it.
Both blew it, because that game was such a mismatch in M's favor and yet they lost. But when the defense went away from just holding TCU down and making them drive the field towards the higher risk approach, they got smoked.
Successfully identifying himself as the problem is only a first step. The paper should take him off of this beat and send him to a year of training on how to be a person who does not abuse or harass women at a minimum. Firing someone for one moment of bad judgement seems extreme, but being a girl dad and having watched Moxie, I'm in favor of it. We don't need to look away or minimize this type of behavior, we should try to eliminate it.
There is no reason to get frustrated about NFL QB draft grades, predictions or mocks. No one actually knows which qb's will be good or serviceable NFL QB's. All predictions are BS and it's much more of a crapshoot than anyone will admit, even with the trail of woe at the Top Five QB pick history.
JJ may be a future HOF'er and he may flame out. No one knows and it can't be predicted. For the record, I think he will last in the NFL for quite a while and there is a good chance he is a starter in the top half of the league.
But I'm guessing Doyel has never publicly asked a man to heart emoji him in exchange for positive coverage either. So it's not so much about how you have to treat a woman differently, it's about the general wrongess of sexual harassment.
Yeah, I also don't care about high academic standards for scholarship athletes. It's not like I had to pass any athletic testing to get into the college of engineering. Michigan is special because we have elite people across many, many facets of the human existence, and few if any are elite at more than one thing.
It's level headed reason-talkers like this who can help the otherwise hopeless masses at eleven warriors (RCMB is not salvageable) get past the pointless sign stealing topic, but will they listen? Doubtful.
Ohio States QB's all look awful. Sure it's just spring, but you don't see anyone firing a ball in anywhere. Howard didn't play much, but that appears to still be where all of their eggs reside.
And on defense, it's hard to tell given Ohio State's offense, but it looks like it's built to stop a passing game. Lots of interceptions and not so much of stuffing the run game. I assume they will easily make the playoffs so this doesn't matter much, but I think my fear level has ratcheted down one spot after their two hand touch spring game.
2013 was a legit chance to win it all, but aside from that I don't think the big ten team in the finals has really deserved a win. They just happened to accidentally make the finals. I guess you could say Purdue was fully justified as a top two team this year, but they could not play with UConn.
The NFL's 12 team playoff arrangement was perfect based on the length of it's regular season, and they made a mistake changing from that. The old MLB playoff system, pre-wildcard was good too, since it refelcted the extremely long and statistically meaningful regular season results. MLB wildcards are stupid, since we have 162 games of data already.
But NHL hockey looks at the errors of other leagues' playoff structure and says, hold my Canadian lager. The NHL has an extremely long and very informative regular season, and then invites morethan half the league to the playoffs anyway. The ice hockey champion is crowned in freaking June. The NHL would be more sensible if it were just a series of tournaments instead of having a regular season. If you're going to devalue the 80+ regular season games to almost nothing , then just skip to the playoff format right away. And for crying out loud, hockey, finish your season when it's still cold at least in Canada!
No, I don't think that. If JJ had returned, this would be a legit top 4 preseason team again even with the pile of draftable guys leaving. What Harbaugh did was build a powerhouse of football excellence. He just left before we could see the long term recurrence, you can blame him for that. But we still have the best defense in the big ten and possibly the country even though several defenders from last year left for the draft. And no matter what they did, they were not going to have another JJ lying around.
All Harbaugh did was leave, he made no other discernably bad choices since 2021. Michigan's AD and administration as a whole need to open up the NIL floodgates to convert recruiting success.
A total eclipse is a must do at least once in your life. Try to watch it in a dry region, because there you can actually feel the temperature drop while the sun is getting covered up, and long before totality.
And seeing the actual total eclipse is more or less unexplainable. In a way it can be terrifying, like looking directly into the eye of the devil. In another way, its serene and you are surrounded by a 360 degree sunset.
Just do it, words don't do this particular experience justice.
I thought the Baltimore football story was the Colts packing up into trucks and moving from Baltimore to Indiamapolis in the middle of the night. Don't recall that type of hijinks with the browns move to Baltimore.
Lincoln Riley's tenure as a top two Big Ten coach is going to last right up until we play them, at the longest.
And I get that putting a list together is as difficult as it is pointless, but putting Sherrone behind the guy at MSU just seems dumb. Michigan is all but certain to beat them and have a better record in 2024, so their stated logic on sherrone will be erased wrt MSU almost immediately.
MSU fans can look forward to those moments somewhere down the road when Michigan slips up or makes the wrong hire and they get another moment in the light. But not this day.
I don't have this type of skill, but I hope there is someone out there who creates a combo email/ phone/ text/ Twitter/ alert bot that spams every mention of sign stealing in every possible sport to Tony Petitti, for the rest of his entire life.
Outside of employing the Rick Pitino hookers and blow approach to recruiting, this is as good and promising a hire as we could make. Look at how Michigan has succeeded and has failed since Fisher left. There is pretty strong evidence that the program functions best with this type of person as the head coach. It's impossible for anyone to predict, and it will take 3-4 years to really know, but doubting a guy who built a program from scratch that reached and stayed at a very solid peak is a reach.
Penn State, Oregon, and Texas. Why bother playing those games? Just pay the teams and do an untelevised scrimmage so we don't have to watch these soulless bloodbaths.
This sounds like they are trying to solve very specific problems and they have not thought of all the stupidity that this will result in outside of those specific solutions.
Harbaugh would answer real.questions, and he would toy with reporters who brought BS questions that most coaches have canned answers for. I miss him already.
Injuries did play a big role in the awfulness of 2007. Yes, chalk up a loss to Oregon, but App St, Wisconsin, and Ohio State are probably all wins with a healthy Hart, Henne and Long. Particularly Ohio State with Boeckman (I don't remember how to spell it) at QB. They were doomed in that game if Henne was somewhere near his normal self. Alas.
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Apologies to Seth and John U Bacon, but MSU being a train wreck never gets old. You will not find me talking like an Ohio State fan in 2018 hoping MSU returns to competitive for the quality of the rivalry. Let them be a train wreck now and forever.
People have the right to describe themselves however they want. That does not mean you have the right to call people whatever you want.
Chief is a French word that just means "boss" more or less. So KC could pull back some of the Native American connections and go along just fine, if they felt like it or were compelled to.
On the other hand, I can't think of any team called The Horde.
The Lions did grow on me during my time in Ann Arbor, but as a dyed in the wool Vikes fan, this would be pretty exciting for me.
This was a very helpful summary of the NCAA's history, thank you for this.
On the new organization you're proposing, the major impediment to that would most likely be the same one that has historically blocked reform that would directly benefit the athletes: they come and go as a train of youngsters while the professional administrations inside the universities and the NCAA have experienced staff and leaders. How would you set up an organization to really advocate for the student athletes. It sounds even more difficult than getting an auto plant south of the Mason Dixon line to go union.
First, we take your souls
Next, we take your coaches (except you Ryan, you stay there)
Then we take your players
Wait, how can you have something called the rock and roll hall of Fame and not have Soundgarden in it? This does not compute.
Warren looks more ready to play QB than anyone else, and he looked good enough to win a lot of games in the spring game, but I don't think Warren was a four star in high school. Here is a quote from a maize n brew article about a week ago :
That looks like he was just never rated, because he missed two years. Michigan won the national championship partly by doing their own scouting during covid and developing guys who would contrubute three years later. If Warren pops and becomes an above average big ten QB, his would be the ultimate success story of that approach that allowed Michigan to overcome the recruiting powerhouses and NIL factories.
This is asking a lot from the portal considering there are no more than 20 practices and four months until opening day. This QB room has at least one or two average or better big ten QB's in it. An average big ten QB will get this roster to 9-3, and an above average one will get us to the big ten championship game. By then, this will be a different team and all bets are off for how far they go from there.
After loaded rosters in '22 and '23 and last year's departures, that's a solid outlook. If we wanted to have back to back national chpionships, we should have won it in 2022, which had a team much more well suited to do it.
Both blew it, because that game was such a mismatch in M's favor and yet they lost. But when the defense went away from just holding TCU down and making them drive the field towards the higher risk approach, they got smoked.
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To the NCAA, it's not worth changing a moronic rule unless Michigans gets dragged through hell because of it first.
Successfully identifying himself as the problem is only a first step. The paper should take him off of this beat and send him to a year of training on how to be a person who does not abuse or harass women at a minimum. Firing someone for one moment of bad judgement seems extreme, but being a girl dad and having watched Moxie, I'm in favor of it. We don't need to look away or minimize this type of behavior, we should try to eliminate it.
There is no reason to get frustrated about NFL QB draft grades, predictions or mocks. No one actually knows which qb's will be good or serviceable NFL QB's. All predictions are BS and it's much more of a crapshoot than anyone will admit, even with the trail of woe at the Top Five QB pick history.
JJ may be a future HOF'er and he may flame out. No one knows and it can't be predicted. For the record, I think he will last in the NFL for quite a while and there is a good chance he is a starter in the top half of the league.
But I'm guessing Doyel has never publicly asked a man to heart emoji him in exchange for positive coverage either. So it's not so much about how you have to treat a woman differently, it's about the general wrongess of sexual harassment.
I'm not here to defend Jay Z, but bro...
Yeah, I also don't care about high academic standards for scholarship athletes. It's not like I had to pass any athletic testing to get into the college of engineering. Michigan is special because we have elite people across many, many facets of the human existence, and few if any are elite at more than one thing.
I'm about to open another account just so I can upvote you twice
It's level headed reason-talkers like this who can help the otherwise hopeless masses at eleven warriors (RCMB is not salvageable) get past the pointless sign stealing topic, but will they listen? Doubtful.
What are the wings' chances in seven games against the Rangers, any optimism there?
But on the bright side, buckeye fans are so stone-headed that Brindley having a good career may actually make them unhappy.
Uh, Pedro has no father in the "who's your daddy" game.
Ohio States QB's all look awful. Sure it's just spring, but you don't see anyone firing a ball in anywhere. Howard didn't play much, but that appears to still be where all of their eggs reside.
And on defense, it's hard to tell given Ohio State's offense, but it looks like it's built to stop a passing game. Lots of interceptions and not so much of stuffing the run game. I assume they will easily make the playoffs so this doesn't matter much, but I think my fear level has ratcheted down one spot after their two hand touch spring game.
Great achievement getting to this point in this particular season.
That was somehow reminiscent of losing a game to the '94 Penguins.
2013 was a legit chance to win it all, but aside from that I don't think the big ten team in the finals has really deserved a win. They just happened to accidentally make the finals. I guess you could say Purdue was fully justified as a top two team this year, but they could not play with UConn.
Sooooooooo, UConn to the Big Ten?
The NFL's 12 team playoff arrangement was perfect based on the length of it's regular season, and they made a mistake changing from that. The old MLB playoff system, pre-wildcard was good too, since it refelcted the extremely long and statistically meaningful regular season results. MLB wildcards are stupid, since we have 162 games of data already.
But NHL hockey looks at the errors of other leagues' playoff structure and says, hold my Canadian lager. The NHL has an extremely long and very informative regular season, and then invites more than half the league to the playoffs anyway. The ice hockey champion is crowned in freaking June. The NHL would be more sensible if it were just a series of tournaments instead of having a regular season. If you're going to devalue the 80+ regular season games to almost nothing , then just skip to the playoff format right away. And for crying out loud, hockey, finish your season when it's still cold at least in Canada!
No, I don't think that. If JJ had returned, this would be a legit top 4 preseason team again even with the pile of draftable guys leaving. What Harbaugh did was build a powerhouse of football excellence. He just left before we could see the long term recurrence, you can blame him for that. But we still have the best defense in the big ten and possibly the country even though several defenders from last year left for the draft. And no matter what they did, they were not going to have another JJ lying around.
All Harbaugh did was leave, he made no other discernably bad choices since 2021. Michigan's AD and administration as a whole need to open up the NIL floodgates to convert recruiting success.
A total eclipse is a must do at least once in your life. Try to watch it in a dry region, because there you can actually feel the temperature drop while the sun is getting covered up, and long before totality.
And seeing the actual total eclipse is more or less unexplainable. In a way it can be terrifying, like looking directly into the eye of the devil. In another way, its serene and you are surrounded by a 360 degree sunset.
Just do it, words don't do this particular experience justice.
Offer it to…
Seven Figures
Offer it to Keon Sabb as NIL to come back
Drevno probably needed Harbaugh more than the other way around.
I thought the Baltimore football story was the Colts packing up into trucks and moving from Baltimore to Indiamapolis in the middle of the night. Don't recall that type of hijinks with the browns move to Baltimore.
Lincoln Riley's tenure as a top two Big Ten coach is going to last right up until we play them, at the longest.
And I get that putting a list together is as difficult as it is pointless, but putting Sherrone behind the guy at MSU just seems dumb. Michigan is all but certain to beat them and have a better record in 2024, so their stated logic on sherrone will be erased wrt MSU almost immediately.
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IN.
I particularly appreciate the confetti screen, and I hope you guys pull a reasonable profit from this.
MSU fans can look forward to those moments somewhere down the road when Michigan slips up or makes the wrong hire and they get another moment in the light. But not this day.
Sparty caught so many breaks, and we still sent them down in flames. Glorious.
Go Blue. Fuck You State. Frozen Four
Steve Fisher with those rosy cheeks has to be on the likable list. I think Lute Olson was pretty likable. Jerry Tarkanian. John Chaney. John Thompson.
Did Rick Adelman ever coach in college? If so, him too.
I don't have this type of skill, but I hope there is someone out there who creates a combo email/ phone/ text/ Twitter/ alert bot that spams every mention of sign stealing in every possible sport to Tony Petitti, for the rest of his entire life.
This type of thing is so easy to fake, I don't know why anyone would pay for it.
Outside of employing the Rick Pitino hookers and blow approach to recruiting, this is as good and promising a hire as we could make. Look at how Michigan has succeeded and has failed since Fisher left. There is pretty strong evidence that the program functions best with this type of person as the head coach. It's impossible for anyone to predict, and it will take 3-4 years to really know, but doubting a guy who built a program from scratch that reached and stayed at a very solid peak is a reach.
Penn State, Oregon, and Texas. Why bother playing those games? Just pay the teams and do an untelevised scrimmage so we don't have to watch these soulless bloodbaths.
This sounds like they are trying to solve very specific problems and they have not thought of all the stupidity that this will result in outside of those specific solutions.
I think Warde did a great job in landing May. He deserved his criticism before that, but this looks like a great move in itself.
Harbaugh would answer real.questions, and he would toy with reporters who brought BS questions that most coaches have canned answers for. I miss him already.
Injuries did play a big role in the awfulness of 2007. Yes, chalk up a loss to Oregon, but App St, Wisconsin, and Ohio State are probably all wins with a healthy Hart, Henne and Long. Particularly Ohio State with Boeckman (I don't remember how to spell it) at QB. They were doomed in that game if Henne was somewhere near his normal self. Alas.
Nice work, Warde. This is a good pickup and a good restart for the origram.l
I would guess Sharpsburg, Maryland would be worth a stop, where the battle of Antietam took place.
If you make it to Chattanooga, TN, there is civil war memorabilia everywhere, hotels feel haunted with it.
Good offense beats good defense... unless it's 2023 Michigan
Paradoxically, if he were only hanging out the passenger side of his best friend’s ride, we would still want that Scruggs
What happens if you type in "45-23"?