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You may notice something distinctly different about the two people you cited and Gottlieb...

Everything about this game is confusing and infuriating.

In principle, yes, but that's got to be the worst damage control ever.

And this was football at all levels - including youth, college and pro players.

Escorting is not legal anywhere. Prostitution is legal in Nevada only in brothels and is tightly regulated. I say this having never been to the state of Nevada.

Don't even bother to hide the MBA-speak.

Northwestern and....Rutgers, I guess. The "Underdog" column is based on Yahoo's classifcation, not Sagarin's.

Thats how I know it - from the other side. Professors hate gunners as much as everyone else.

Probably won't see this since its several days later, but I ran a query that should be pretty much what you're looking for. Here you go. Let me know if you need something different.

Spencer Hall is amazing.

I am still in favor of the ND win, if only to watch them get pantsed by Alabama (and win my bet with a ND-loving friend).

well at least we may finally be rid of "leaders" and "legends"

Yes, this is what I'd expect as well. Unfortunately, the CFBstats data doesn't include any rankings in it, and from other experiences, incorporating rankings from external sources is quite difficult unless there is some sort of lookup table between the existing CFBstats data and the rankings. However, it would probably be a good thing to control for in other analysis, so I'll see what I can do.

as far as the other game goes, this is clearly not the same Alabama defense we played against.

First thing I thought too - a Weibull or generalized Beta would be much better.

Ha - thanks for looking into this Brett. Its consistent with my thought that the "this is what happens when your team relies on one player" complaint is not a Michigan issue, but one faced by a number of teams, including some really succesful ones.

Its also interesting to see Mettenberger at the bottom given that the lay theory on LSU is that its a team designed to succeed in spite of its offense. I wonder where McCarron stands.

I never did get to go to PT while my wife was living in the city. She was up in Morningside Heights so we went to Blondie's, which was pretty good but relatively quiet. Sorry I missed it now.

For the ND game two years ago, I was in DC and we went to Buffalo Billiards. There must have been 500 people there. It was standing room only, deafeningly loud, cowbells, cheers, you name it. That was out of control. I don't remember any other time there being quite so intense, but also highly recommended.

Something like this?

clearly, the definitive commitment thread.

besides my degree, one of these jackets:

That's the problem. They're not a private school, they're a charter school, so they're being funded at least in part with public money.

While I understand that "trends" are hard to identify in CFB because we always tend to have very small samples at high levels of analysis like year-by-year recruiting by a single program, but I don't know if I would feel very comfortable saying that two years could be representative of long term trends, either.

Maybe I didn't understand correctly, but from the methodology discussion, I understood that if a guy ends up being a two-time All-American/Conference, that gets counted twice, right? Presumably, the likelihood of becoming a two-time award winner increases after you get your first award, so I wouldn't think it would be fair to treat winning an award as additive in terms of a dependent measure. Would your results change substantially if you only looked at whether or not they won an award at all?

By the same token, the analysis might be improved by using an ordered logit model for this data, because the the distance between the value of a second-team All-Conference and first team All-Conference is not the same as that between first team All-Conference and All-American.

Lake Wobegon is the Ann Arbor of Minnesota.

Thrilled to see joke_explainer here on mgoblog.

one might go so far as to compare it to...the app state game.

/ducks

The western hemisphere.

oh please please please let there be a mirror

also, thank you Ok State for the job interview and likely job offer on Monday.  DRINKS ALL AROUND.

WHO CARES

go blue.

I laid in bed awake for 2 hours last night thinking about the game. This is too much.

well, at least now I have an incentive to take UMD up on the free student tickets. It'll be like going to the circus.

I like incentives like increasing graduation rates, increasing team GPA, and decreasing off-the-field incidents.

Much as I kinda like Welcome Home, after they poached Chris Pennie from DEP, I just can't stand listening to them.

For some reason, I tend to enjoy the seasons that seem bittersweet in retrospect. My best memories are forged in those seasons. 

I'm gonna throw it out there. 2010. In spite of everything this season, all of the crushing disappointments and assorted bullshit, I felt like the team this year was truly something special in its own way. The emergence of Denard Robinson. The final drive against Notre Dame. Fighting til the end against Iowa. Being on the edge until the last play of the Illinois game. For whatever reason, I felt so attached to the team this year, not only because it was Michigan, but because the team had earned it, and deserved it.

A close second would be 2007, after the Horror, et al - depantsing ND, Manningham's catch against MSU, and Lloyd Carr's swan song. That's what makes those seasons special.

My dad made leveled this same criticism at RR as well, and I never understood it either. I always assumed it was a way of masking some other underlying issue.

totally.

I don't think Harbaugh will ever come to Michigan now, and even if he wanted to, I hope that we wouldn't hire him, since he spurned us so badly at the time when we need him the most.

Your argument has the same fallacy, and assumes that people only like RR because they root for Michigan. I generally pro-RR but not necessarily because he's the Michigan head coach. I'm pro-RR because I think he's a good coach who has had a positive impact on the team and the players he has had the opportunity to work with. And I don't seem to be unique in that regard. But that doesn't mean I won't be pro-JH if a coaching change happens, and my opinion of him isn't strictly based on homer-ism. 

Gregg made you all run the stairs?

I have a hard time understanding how anyone could fault Tressel for dismissing Clarett.

does Pete Carroll still count?

I always thought he was emblematic of everything that was wrong with USC athletics (of which there are many things going beyond football), and Kiffin just gets to pick up where Carroll left off.

if only our coaching staff had better connections to the state of florida...

Its not your fault, Walt. You just can't win.

Absolutely. They have a lot at stake in every game, too, and they don't like losing either. Coaching transitions tend to exacerbate that in the time frame that is relevant to a undergraduate. Further, they ostensibly don't just come here to play football, they're here to get an education, and having to make the choice of transferring or dealing with the added stress of regime change is certainly not going to help that.

As a larger point, I think that looking at the team itself: to me, they seem to be  group of hard-working, upstanding young men who are as worthy of the title of "Michigan men" as any other group, who have put in the time for RRod and for their school. I don't think its right for one to talk about switching coaches without spending a lot of time talking to the athletes, because when it comes down to it, Rodriguez's first duty is to them, and if they still believe in him, why should we be so quick to disrupt things?

he could at least get himself a collar stay. jeez.

seven six two millimeter, full metal jacket.

that any person with any background in statistics uses. I wonder if he is everyone I've ever talked to about statistics.

2004 was the season not spoken of in michigan crew. there was no Michigan 1V at IRA that year.

This doesn't surprise me at all. In fact, I don't understand why a coach would do anything other than be as vague as possible with publicly issued injury reports. Any information advantage you can get over your opponents is only going to benefit you.

Not to mention the training and physical development the athletes get that prepares them for competition at the NFL level, again, for free.

The talents-vanish-in-an-instant argument I don't like either. At some level this is an information asymmetry problem - players whose value to a franchise is highly dependent on them being healthy and who are likely to get injured have an incentive to get out of college ball as early as possible and sign contracts. Their own, presumably better, knowledge of their health gives them an advantage over the teams they are negotiating with. Requiring people to play college ball before going on the payroll gives the teams a much bigger data pool to consider, and improves the efficiency of the market by helping to keep out people who are prone to injury.

"Now I'm not saying Glenn Beck murdered a girl in 1990, but I don't hear him denying it."

sports are a business like any other, and a big one at that. The government does have an interest in intervening and regulating them, same as they do in regulating banking or the automotive industry.

you all/who all is definitely a Southern thing. Growing up in Michigan but having two parents from Kentucky, I say it all the time and have always gotten weird looks for it.