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Date	Title	Body
45 weeks 3 days ago	Wish I hadn't seen it	I was there. It sucked.
1 year 13 weeks ago	I discovered mgoblog before there were computers	Wow, that was so long ago I don't even begin to remember. I know it was before Brian "left" his CS job...when he announced he was doing MGoBlog full time I sent him $500. Best investment ever. It's been a daily hit ever since.
2 years 1 week ago	Good times, good times	'87-'01 There was some overlap of mallow and TP...one game I left at halftime and returned with a grocery bag full of marshmallows and TP. The guys at the gate just laughed and waved me in.   I'll second the comment about throwing TP being an art. A dozen arcing rolls of TP/30-ft streamers were glorious. I understand why we had to quit and regret it at the same time.   Occasionally we'd create TP balls and toss them around like the blow-up beachballs. The big dorm TP rolls were ideal for that.
4 years 7 weeks ago	+1 for the ref	I love the ref in the Woodson interception. He totally looks like he's thinking OH MY GOD THAT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING I'VE EVER SEEN!
5 years 32 weeks ago	Not sure	I'm extrapolating from a couple comments where he's talked about damaging the long-term brand. Very possible I'm over-extrapolating.
5 years 32 weeks ago	Actually I think you can	I'd square the circle by arguing that the "legacy" uniforms and traditions arguments are a question of long-term vs. short-term thinking. If they differentiate college football from other sports consumption opportunities then jettisoning them damages the long-term value of the Michigan 'brand' for short term jersey sales. So there is a perfectly rational free-market argument for actions that cost money in the short term (even if only by way of opportunity cost). That's my read on Brian's argument. To the extent that Michigan gains differential brand equity by a greater attention to tradition in all its forms, it could make sense to do so even when other rivals are exercising those opportunities. So long as there is a way for Michigan to extract value from that tradition (e.g., higher-value TV rights, broader fan base, 110k attendance in down years).
6 years 18 weeks ago	Dong forest >> dong punch	If instituting a dong forest means we have to do less auto-dong-punching then I'm in favor.
6 years 40 weeks ago	Truly epic	This almost makes up for it being a bye week. 10,000 mgopoints to you, sir!
6 years 41 weeks ago	Was THE KNOWLEDGE pre or post	Was THE KNOWLEDGE pre or post haloscan?
6 years 43 weeks ago	An exercise by the reader	Very interesting... So with the addition of the 2009 data, I wondered if there was a way to refine the games-won estimate. My read is that mistersuits subtracted Michigan's N-PPG of 36.3 from opponent's N-PPG (or 125% of N-PPG). Just for fun, I wondered what including some randomness might yield... Some notes and assumptions: Opponent output vs Michigan in 2009 averaged 124% of the rest of their schedule with a standard deviation of 0.3. I used that as the baseline for 2010. I assumed opponent points scored is normally distributed with a mean of 1.24 * N-PPG and stdev of 0.3 * N-PPG I assumed Michigan's scoring is also normally distributed with a mean of 36.3 and stdev of 0.3 * 36.3 = 10.8 (just used the 2009 opponent data for simplicity) The difference between Michigan and opponent's score is normal with mean 36.3 - 1.24*N-PPG and stdev of sqrt(10.8^2 + 0.3*1.24*N-PPG^2) This yields probabilities of Michigan victory of: Team p(Muppets) Expected wins Connecticut 54%   Notre Dame 72%   UMass 71%   BGSU 59%       2.6 Indiana 62%   MSU 57%   Iowa 52%   Penn St 79%   Illinois 79%   Purdue 88%   Wisconsin 44%   tOSU 24%       4.9     7.4 For the 4 games in the bag, this seems pessimistic (based on this, there's only a 16% chance of willing all four games). What happens if we dial all of our opponents back to 100% of expected PPG output? Team p(Muppets) Expected wins Connecticut 72%   Notre Dame 85%   UMass 85%   BGSU 77%       3.2 Indiana 79%   MSU 75%   Iowa 71%   Penn St 89%   Illinois 90%   Purdue 94%   Wisconsin 64%   tOSU 42%       6.0     9.2 9.2 expected wins on the season, 6 in conference play. The probability of winning the first four games is now up to 40%. An attack of the Angry-BLANK-Hating-God on the offense (or just tougher Big Ten defenses) that cuts Michigan PPG production by 25% would yield 3.1-4.4 conference wins. The first couple Big Ten games will obviously tell us a lot, but this year has been a lot more fun than the last three...
6 years 46 weeks ago	Agree to disagree	I felt no emptiness watching the offense that game, just the sort of glee that makes your head explode. That was a game where the defense was giving us 8 yards a play (at least through the better part of the first half). I have no doubt that there are variants on many of the plays we saw Saturday that end in a ball flying downfield. Let's keep some tools in the bag for the rest of the season.
6 years 46 weeks ago	Well.....	....that was....new
7 years 1 week ago	How about "The Real Dileo"?	How about "The Real Dileo"?
7 years 6 weeks ago	Hawking!	Alas, it's the downside to having a reader base smarter than that of Steven Hawking's