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I understand what you are saying.  I was trying to speak generally because I didn't want to put words in your mouth.

Regarding your question of whether or not I would risk my safety or my life to protect Nassar or someone simliar the answer is almost certainly not. But that's one of the many reasons I would never be a CO.  

I guess my overall point is that I can't judge the desire to see justice meted out but I think a civilized society of laws ought to recognize those baser instincts and move on from them.

What do you mean by handled?

I always wondered why the ratings agencies never had to pay the piper after the financial collapse.  

I was suprised at being so low but I generally don't see the service acadamies ranked with the other public schools.  Makes sense I guess.

"I lean—too hard, it feels—on my housemates and girlfriend and family...The guilt of not doing my share around the house nags at me. My housemates have lives and full-time jobs and problems of their own. ...I also feel guilty that people worry about me, though apparently not quite enough to not write this piece."

I know how this feels Ace.  I was recently diagnosed with a condition that requires my family and friends to bend over backwards to accodmodate me.  They seem happy to do it but I don't like it.  I guess you just have to remember that they are doing it because they love you.

Best wishes!

Is Ty Law at all engaged with the program these days?  I oftentimes forget he is an alum.

It is terrifying to have the two tackles take the last two spots.  If the pass blocking doesn't improve I don't see us improving record wise next year.

Hypothetical hyporcrisy

Are pellet smokers that much easier than the old ones?  I've been thinking about getting into smoking and something just feels less organic about using pellets.  

That may or may not end up being true but I don’t think it’s fair to Bacari to speculate like that

I think Harbaugh has a pretty good idea of whether or not he will be a fit.  I also prefer to avoid calling kids flakes without knowing the whole story.  Not saying that you don't.

How dare they participate in the economy

I've heard nothing but good things about O'Korn.  Isn't he the guy who got Larry Prout Jr. involved with the program?  

Get the misogyny out of your posts

Great analogy!

I agree that this is a dumb take but who ended up in the hospital over the heat?  Or are you talking about Wilton?  Do they not have enough medical equipment there?

SHUN THE HERETIC 

Thank God for the Glaswegians!!

Butch spending a time out at the end of the half that he should have used in offense was hilarious

I'm sure you've checked it out but I'm the off chance that you haven't, subreddits can be good.

Given recent events, a prosecutor might reasonably prefer to lose a case than to drop it or offer a lenient plea deal to a high profile athletle. 

I have never heard anybody call Beilein "difficult to deal with".  He seems rather easy to deal with.  

You are probably right about the magnetism though.

I think this is more or less why the University is doing this, to get more underrepresented groups to enroll.  

Can't do affirmative action any more so they have to get creative.  

You aren't on a high horse.  Using a femine name as a pejorative is sexist, full stop.  

I suppose going for the bigger paycheck is literally selfish but I dn't think Pujols or any athlete deserves to be labeled like that for taking a bigger paycheck.  The leagues and the owners show little loyalty towards the players.  Why should players take a paycut to stay with a team that they oftentimes didn't even choose to be on in the first place?

Whatever floats your boat but I celebrate all our sports.  

Tough news.  He was so fucking gangster as Cy Tolliver in Deadwood.  Appartently he was originally supposed to play Al but was too sick or something, so Milch wroter Cy for him.  

Curious how you pronounce Jeter?  Like Derek or Carmelita?

People talked about it quite a bit.  It's just that Jabrill is a extroverted black man who was hyped a lot.  He also plays for one of the top "love to hate" programs.  It was inevitable.  

Want for the name alone.  Whatever talent is brings is gravy.

Glad someone got it.

I'm not sure why I ventured into the MLive comments.  Good Lord that was rough.

If JD did assult her then the victim's upside is justice, vindication, etc.  

I know we will probably never get any specificss regardling the forklift incident for both legal and privacy reasons, but I really wiss they could tell us exactly what happened.  I've never seen a forklift that someone could walk away from after being run over.

But I thought I heard the sole reason for his hire was to get Rashan Gary.

Has that punk never heard of exchange students?  I guess my high school must have faked the grades for the German and Turkish and Brazilian students we had.  

I love love love Walton but I think there may be some recency bias here.  Burke is probably the best Michigan player since Chris Webber.  

Is there a good reason not to try burn the clock to make sure we had the last shot?  I'm not being a dick, I'm really curious and basketball game theory isn't my strong suit.  

Thanks for sharing this!  I did not know Kahn designed it.  That man was prolific.  

Agreed.  So many fond memories of those teams.  DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!!

Was that the one where Spike had a crazy bounce pass between two defenders?

I'll be that guy and say I'd rather live in Buffalo than Jacksonville.  Some folks enjoy the snow and cold!

I'd like the option.  I don't particularlly like driving at night so it would be awesome to let the car handle that.  But I spend a lot of time up north in the middle of nowhere on dirt roads and two tracks.  I'm not sure how well a fully autonomous car would handle that.  How would you tell it to pull off the two track and park in space between the trees? 

I'm also curious how they will handle routes where you don't know exactly where you are going.  A lot of this stuff presupposes that all our driving is from Point A to a well defined point B.  Anyone who has dealt with Google Maps more than a few times knows that is always the case.  And there are time when you just don't know exactly where you want to go until something catches your eye, whether its a restaraunt or the aformentioned gap in the trees where you want to park so you can go fishing.

That crossed my mind as well, but if having two highly rated recruit ahead of him doesn't scare him off then I imagine he isn't going to stress about who they recruit in the class after him. 

I agree with you but I have a hard time telling football players not to do it when it's encouraged in hockey. 

Can someone get me up to speed on this doctor that people keep mentioning?

Far too early to make that comparison unless you know details that aren't in OP's link (not saying you don't).  What made Baylor especially awful was the coverups and "anything goes" culture Briles and McCaw promoted.  For all we know MSU may be playing this by the book.  I'll grant that having a suspended staff memeber doesn't look good but it's too early to make such a huge judgement. 

Counter to your counter: Some of us really get into the "feeling and mystique of the Olympics" and appreciate a broadcast that captures it. 

Jerry Fallwell Jr, Ladies and Gentlemen!!!

Do we know what exactly happened?  They may be leaving for legitimate reasons.  I know I wouldn't want to be on that team right now given the racist, hormonal melodrama that just went down. 

If memory serves the Utah game was on Perry, not Rudock.

EDIT-made a remark that could be construed as political, thought better of it.

Liberty hired his boss. 

Hey I'm with you OP.  Reasonable question given that there weren't any other PWOs shown.

I forgot the one hosted last year.  I'd urge people who are upset to give them a chance.  The one guy certainly didn't leave me in stiches but he was an effective emcee.  Kept things moving, avoided awkward pauses (exepct when Shanahan spoke but that wasn't his fault), injected some personality into the proceedings without taking over. 

That DIB story was really nice.  I know it didn't work out the way Dantonio wanted but I'm sure it made him feel great to validate a young man's dreams and hard work like that.  That's what working with young people is all about. 

Sorry I can't get too giddy about a kid making a silly, yet harmless mistake that may serious consequences. 

You said your name was Jerry?

We're starting to look like the nerdy goody two shoes in highschool who all the mothers wanted their daugthers to date. 

Yeah it's tough.  Hopefully they can regather themselves in the offseason. 

I think Lewerke can be a good player for them, and we were all excited for deWeaver at one point. 

I want to see how hype that guy gets after an huge comeback. 

I know that he flamed out hardcore at Ole Miss, but by all accounts he is a completely different coach and person now.  No more drinking and challenging players to fights. 

It's certainly possible that he will go the way of Hoke but I'm rooting for him.

Yeah, OP is an idiot for not knowing that "HIlarious Super Bowl Stat" meant Rutgers had the most Big 10 players in the super bowl.

I am under the impression Drevno is leaving within the next couple of years.  Somebody is going to give him a shot.

Tall, fast and atheltic, but ranked low?  I'm guessing he doesn't have much technique yet.  Seems like the type who could blow up if he can develop.  You never know.

I mean the Fab Five, by their own admission, didn't give a shit about their Europe trip. 

If we are to believe umbig11 and others there was nothing Wheatley could have done about Wilson. 

This sounds pretty good.  I wouldn't be surrprised if it you have hit the nail on the head.

That was brilliant...for a koala. 

I mean it was brilliant for a person too but even more so for a koala.

I'm not making a judgement either way but that's probably because a lot of people are googling that phrase to see if it is a scam.  FWIW I signed up a month ago and when I googled it then I didn't see anything that convinced me it was a scam.

Seems like a decent candidate.  We all know how good Barkley is.  I wonder if he was the primary recruiter.

As far as twitter follows go I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of coaches follow other coaches.  And twitter does a good job of suggesting follows so if he followed one Michigan coach I'm sure the others popped right up.

I'm curious what you mean by consequences.  Not much Michigan can do right?  I suppose if they suspect Georgia offered impermissiable benefits they could tattle to the NCAA but as we all know that's a long shot. 

There has got to be a happy medium between Harbaugh throwing stuff and Jim Caldwell just standing stoically.  I love Harbaugh but I'm worried that he is starting to get the Rasheed Wallace treatment where if someone else did what he gets penalized for it wouldn't be a big deal.  I mean he's already getting techincals. 

Well they would have to deny it wouldn't they?  If Jabrill has signed with an agent I believe that is a point of no return. 

I'm sure Urban will just get another 5 star to replace him.  

Also fuck Counterstrike.  

Man I completely forgot about that.  For those who don't remember David's dad was an MDOT worker who was struck and killed on the highway during or right after his recruitment.  I can't imagine what that would be like.

Judging from his very gracious post above he seems to be doing his father proud. 

PUT YOUR HAND DOWN.  YOU SMILING.  WHY ARE YOU SMILING?

Larry is a tough son of a gun.  Making his Wolveine family proud.

You need to provide some evidence that GS and Kines are easy.  They may be easier than some degrees but as far as I know they take work just like any other degree at Michigan.  

Also there are 4 different undergraduate programs at Kines so I'm not sure if you are talking more about Sport Management than Movement Sciences or what.  

That's not the guy who said he had a big annoucement last year only for it to turn out to be a website redesign is it?

I think OP raises an interesting question.

I don't mind Jim jawing at the refs now and then.  My favorite Bo photo is that one of him and Lloyd screaming at a ref.  I do think it can help sometimes and I have often wished Jim Caldwell would get into with the refs now and then.  

That being said, I'm worried that he is starting to get the Rasheed Wallace treatment, where behavior that wouldn't be a problem for someone else is treated different simply because he is who he is.  Most coaches lay into refs, but for whatever reason Harbaugh has developed a reputation for it and I wonder if that is doing more harm than good at this point.  

What did that come from?

I wouldn't be shocked to see him do well again.  I know he's not going back to the old Tiger Slam days, but someone that competetive and talented could very well be able to make some noise.  Hopefully his body doesn't betray him.

I'm thrilled for EMU for sure but I wish it wasn't such an expensive bowl to go to.  People were fed up with how much the football program cost before.  It's going to be a lot more this year.

 it is really hard to compete at ND with their academic standards

Stanford is somehow able to make it work.  

I remember it well and I stand by it.  Making jokes about football games while people are being shot is absurd.  

Well he did grab and twist that State player's facemask.

I'd rather be consistantly good than have one championship and a bunch of shitty years.  

I'm glad we aren't doing the Friday night thing but we weren't too upset with the Thursday night game against Utah were we?  Or am I not remembering correctly?  I didn't particularlly like that time slot but I don't recall a lot of complaints.  

I had no idea.  I'd be down.  I've never heard him call a game before.  Does he bring much humor with him?

I'm from N-E-W Jers

where plenty 5 stars occurs

no points to come

we bring drama to all you herbs

Did they really have kegs in the stands back then?  I've always heard that, crazy to think about.

Not a whole lot to add but wanted to join the "great article, great player" chorus.

Couldn't have said it better myself.  It's asounding to hear them trash people who went to smaller colleges for being "Walmart Wolverines" and then accuse us of being the arrogant ones.  

I don't give a shit if a MSU fan went to MSU, Harvard, or dropped out of high school.  Their fandom is their decision.  But apparently I need to tote my diploma around if I want to earn the right to root for Michigan.  

I actually got a kick out of the ref's pants in the wind.  Looked like he was a killer dancer.

Another reminder of how different life is for some people.  Can't imagine what that was like for his family.  Who's got it better than us?

Like the Navy offer too!  

Good thing they didn't stretch too long or use a taped up towel to practice with.  

Wasn't there an unidentified qb in Bo's Lasting Lessons that everyone assumes is Jeff George?