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32 weeks 5 days ago	Me opening this thread was	Me opening this thread was crappy click management.
37 weeks 2 days ago	Your posts indicate you don't	Your posts indicate you don't understand how they matter. Many sources, very much including this blog, have demonstrated that recruiting rankings are broadly predictive of player success.  So a higher rated class is generally going to outperform a lower rated class.  That means when Rich Rod was bringing in classes filled primarily with 3* and low 4* players, "trust the coaches" was not a great argument - there was objective reason to believe that Michigan's classes would be worse than higher rated classes overall. But this argument fails when you're recruiting like Harbaugh, with top 10 and (it looks like 3 out of 4 years) top 5 classes.  Across the board, the rankings predict his classes will be as successful as virtually anyone else's.  His evaluation of an individual player that Michigan has certainly scouted repeatedly in person is something that, against his overall success, fans can reasonably feel comfortable relying on.  (Including because he'll almost certainly be replaced by a high 4*). Harbaugh's not perfect - his evaluation was almost certainly wrong on David Reese, for example.  He's also recruited guys like St Juste who blew up afterwards.  But the idea - your idea - that a single player has a 5* ranking and some potentially commitable offers so Michigan must make them a priority is how you end up like Miami.
38 weeks 6 days ago	100%. Bando has been a	100%. Bando has been a constantly negative, one note poster here for years offering the same three takes over and over. Heaven forbid we hear from someone with experience or insight that deviates from Bando's narrative. And as a lawyer, the idea that we should automatically believe accusers, or certain accusers, because of "power dynamics" is absurd. Whether you're a juror or community member, it's always appropriate to consider all of the facts that come out. In the last 24 hours I've had two clients (non criminal) face provably false accusations made by unstable, vindictive people - it's not some rare event.
1 year 1 day ago	As an attorney (and, I guess,	As an attorney (and, I guess, citizen?) this is somehow the craziest post in this thread.  You do not automatically believe accusations, you investigate them, regardless of the crime.  You consider whether the story you're being told is plausible and seek evidence that either supports it or doesn't.  The elevator story is bizarre; it may be entirely true, but it is one reason to legitimately wonder whether this accusation is false. You are taking a real issue - stigmatization of sexual assault victims - and overcorrecting in a ridiculous way.  You mention elsewhere that these are often crimes with the least amount of physical evidence; you must realize that this also makes them among the easiest to lie about.  And despite the claims and "statistics" cited in this thread, people regularly (not constantly) do make false accusations about rape and everything else. The idea that you want to revisit the principle of innocent until proven guilty - that we should presume guilt because someone with little or no evidence makes a claim, without any investigation - it's just so nuts.  You must realize that.  That idea is a foundation of society.  I am legitimately terrified that this comment has two upvotes.  We can take claims of rape seriously, we can investigate them legitimately, we can stop saying things like "she asked for it," but still, you know, not toss people in jail because the founding fathers didn't think about rape or something?
1 year 23 weeks ago	The firm	The firm is demanding punishment without any sort of process.  That argument is asinine even by small plaintiffs' firm standards - don't think I need to hear from the players on that one. The firm can say any dumb thing they want, of course, and zealous advocacy is great, but people are allowed to think statements like those are dumb.
1 year 36 weeks ago	There is only one reason you	There is only one reason you revoke passports for making false police reports - bad publicity. Re-reading your comment, I realize that's probably the point you were trying to make. My fault. Having just finished a brief 15 minutes ago, it's blowing my mind to see some of the "legal analysis" here; I think that colored my reading.
1 year 36 weeks ago	Lol, "if the impression is	Lol, "if the impression is given that these guys are getting extra prosecutorial attention because they got publicity"??? Brazil fails to prosecute the dozens of armed crimes that occur in and around Rio every day. You really think they would be pulling high-profile foreign citizens off flights because of conflicting statements to police under any kind of normal circumstances? Whether or not they lied - and their stories sure seem iffy - this is a massive overreaction by Brazilian authorities because they got their feelings hurt. It's disgusting, and would be equally so if the U.S. did it.
2 years 27 weeks ago	Kobe King (Wisconsin	Kobe King (Wisconsin commit) is actually the son of former Wake Forest player Chris King, who is Jimmy King's cousin.
3 years 11 weeks ago	I agree with your overall	I agree with your overall point, and think the degree of recruiting overreaction has been ridiculous around here. But to answer your question re: why Michigan was caught cheating and not other teams, it happened because Taylor or Traylor (accounts differ) rolled an SUV that (I beleive) belonged to Ed Martin and that definitely contained Mateen Cleaves, then a high school student.  They were on the way back from a party involving alcohol, drugs and strippers.  When it turned out that some part of their trip involved a stop at Ed Martin's house, investigators looked into and eventually uncovered Martin's relationship with the basketball team.  The FBI and DOJ got involved, and things went downhill for Michigan from there. If that SUV doesn't flip, none of this comes out, and Fisher probably coaches here for 20 years.  Total fluke - the combination of a serious crash with significant injuries (Taylor was lost for the year with a broken arm) involving a high profile recruit and a guy running a significant gambling operation doesn't happen every day.  We were caught and stopped cheating, but others certainly did not.
3 years 12 weeks ago	You mean 11-9, 4-3 in the	You mean 11-9, 4-3 in the SEC Florida - a team that took our best big man who was also a fifth-year senior?  I am too lazy to check but am willing to bet that roster is stacked with 4*s.  It's not going so great for them, is it?  And I agree with you that Donovan is a great coach. But we're sitting on maybe the best basketball coach in the country.  I get hoping for top recruits, and I agree it could make a big Final Four-ish difference with a coach like ours.  But after the preceding decade of Michigan basketball - hell, even if you forget the Amaker era entirely - how can you be anything but thrilled with how things are going?
3 years 12 weeks ago	I don't think so, I keep	I don't think so, I keep hearing no good players will come here.
3 years 13 weeks ago	With the background that I	[Edit: it seems like evenyoubrutus has more info about this below than I did.  I do think he knows someone - but if it's just someone tight with Harbaugh's old agent then I agree he probably knows nothing about Weber.]
3 years 25 weeks ago	And keep in mind - under this	And keep in mind - under this theory, you hacked the account and spent YEARS sending dickish messages to people to some unknown end.  But you were careful never to send anything containing curses or slurs or that was too outrageous, because [reason]. You can see why this makes much more sense than a thin-skinned doofus sending snarky e-mails to people complaining about him, his performance, and his friends.
4 years 6 weeks ago	Don't worry - I've been a	Don't worry - I've been a Knicks fan for 27 (mostly miserable) years.  Hardaway is a good young player, so he'll be long gone soon.  We'll probably trade Hardaway and our 2020 and 2022 first round picks this offseason for Steve Nash.
4 years 7 weeks ago	Wasn't perfect, but got the	Wasn't perfect, but got the win, Morgan played great in his last home game, and we pissed off NITom Crean. That's a good night.
4 years 8 weeks ago	This is right (as is the top	This is right (as is the top post), and a lot of the "legal" commentary (including by the goofball who works at Michigan's Student Press Law Center) has been entirely incorrect about FERPA and its requirements.  No sane general counsel's office is going to suggest that you comment much more about this kind of stuff than Michigan has - the final results of the investigation have been literally disclosed, as Michigan acknowledged that Gibbons was expelled for violating the sexual conduct policy. Thank you for saving me the trouble of doing this, my billable hours appreciate it.
4 years 9 weeks ago	Racer 5 IPA	Officially my favorite regular IPA, dropping the delicious Dogfish 60 down a spot.
4 years 15 weeks ago	I want to reiterate what a	I want to reiterate what a couple of posters above said - I was not a huge fan of some of your work early, but it's been very solid lately. Good stuff man.
4 years 38 weeks ago	Proudest papa...
4 years 40 weeks ago	My guess is this involves fly	My guess is this involves fly fishing, as Thompson indicated in a tweet a half hour ago.
4 years 40 weeks ago	They're also ignoring that we	They're also ignoring that we are a matchup nightmare for VCU as a team that doesn't turn it over and responds well to pressure.  Even if Walton and Spike struggle more than Burke, which is plausible, that game was a beatdown last year - and we're not relying on either of them to ALSO carry the scoring load like we were with Trey.  I can't see VCU within 10 points of us on their best day.
4 years 41 weeks ago	"We can't really show you,	"We can't really show you, but that's Mike Cooper pleasuring himself while watching porn at the Berea library, just across the room from the children's section.  Take our word for it - and his." "And you just reached down and grabbed yourself and started having sex?" [Pause] "I, I did what I, I wasn't thinking, I made a mistake."
4 years 41 weeks ago	Later in the interview,	Later in the interview, Dantonio noted that while he is wary of star rankings, he is even more wary of lawnmowers.
5 years 7 weeks ago	I think based on impact, this	I think based on impact, this is Muppets worthy.  WOOOO!!!
5 years 8 weeks ago	Not quite =.  Neither play a	Not quite =.  Neither play a lick of D, but Stauskas actually makes 3s.  I like Vogrich, he seems like a nice kid, but he is not a good shooter.
5 years 8 weeks ago	Not that my opinion means	Not that my opinion means anything, but I think you and BiSB are both good mods.  It's a big forum and I'm sure it's a (typically) thankless and (occasionally) stressful job.  Don't leave, maybe take a step back.  IMO Bolivia is for McFarlin and his ilk and PEOPLE WHO JOKE ABOUT KOZAN AND DIGGS IT WAS NEVER FUNNY, not benevolent goofballs like Herm and His Dudeness.
5 years 8 weeks ago	I REALLY don't have a dog in	I REALLY don't have a dog in this fight.  But your judgment lately (this obvious overreaction, the two-hour NO TE'O nonsense) has been sort of iffy. On the other hand, you prefer BF3 to CoD, which is good judgment.  Lot of ins and outs here.
5 years 12 weeks ago	You're 100% right, he's such	You're 100% right, Denard is such a terrible representative of the school and program we should probably cut ties with him altogether.  He always has been a black eye on the program.  And what a mediocre, boring career he had here. They should go with Kovacs, or Brady, or Harmon, maybe Baas.  I certainly wouldn't want Woodson, or Desmond, or Braylon, or Manningham, or Hart for sure.  And I think Dileo or Jake Ryan could be great representatives in the future.
5 years 12 weeks ago	Eight-year-olds, Dude.	Eight-year-olds, Dude.
5 years 12 weeks ago	And the best part is that	And the best part is that when you ask people who actually have some idea of who can really coach - fellow NCAA coaches - they consistently say Beilein is among the best in the profession.  That's what counts, and now that he has real talent, our success isn't a surprise to anyone who was informed in the first place. I can't say I miss the days when people with no idea about basketball were ripping Beilein on this board a couple of years ago because MOAR REBOUNDZ.  Now someone just convince GRIII to stick for another year and we'll be all set.

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