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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 2 years 1 week ago | posted from iPhone |
A couple years ago, the NHL changed the schedule to include more divisional games to encourage rivalries/ticket sales. The negative in that was, fewer games vs teams from the opposite conference |
| 3 years 3 weeks ago | Hey, any West Coast Red Wings |
Hey, any West Coast Red Wings fans not in California have a solution to watching the game tonight? Versus is showing Pens-Habs, then picking up the end of Game 3 for us after. I have Directv and know it's on Fox Sports Detroit, but obvs it'll be blacked out. Looks like it'll be a night of Ken Kal and Paul Woods! |
| 3 years 35 weeks ago | Brian - I just got around |
Brian - I just got around listening to your appearance on the Mitch Albom show (don't ask), and I couldn't help but want to strangle him after he was making underhanded comments about bloggers and belittling you as a guy who "just uses Google" to throw words up onto the screen. Clearly, things like UFR are what separates you from everyone, ESPECIALLY the mainstream media he was basically deifying. I don't think a week should go by without it being said - thanks. |
| 3 years 36 weeks ago | Sad to hear. Along with his |
Sad to hear. Along with his finest Michigan moment vs U-Dub, I remember the Illinois game that season where I believe he recovered a fumble and ran it inside the Illini 5. My memory is foggy but I seem to remember he made a couple good special teams tackles. He struggled after the first game, which showed just how clutch that kick was even more, but I always was impressed by the way he always gave it his all and I'm sure he's gonna do it all again. |
| 3 years 36 weeks ago | This has taken my joy to an |
This has taken my joy to an even higher level. Kudos, Brian |
| 3 years 40 weeks ago | San Antonio |
Brian - this is the third time recently that you've mocked San Antonio. What gives? I went for a Final Four there and the Riverwalk setting made it as good as any college weekend atmosphere that I've ever experienced. Sure better than Orlando or Tampa or Tempe or...Detroit for bowl games. However, playing in the Big XII's backyard is definitely a disadvantage. |
| 4 years 5 weeks ago | Misopogon - Good, |
Misopogon - Good, well-thought post. I would point out that newspapers could do things like UFR but that was exactly Brian's point - that the journalists don't ask difficult questions or get in-depth answers enough to get something other than "this was how the game went (very generically)." Furthermore, something like UFR wouldn't be possible due to space limitations in the dailies, and seeing that they are suffering from their readership viewing online only and not clicking on ads, therefore not creating much revenue, dailies would be hesitant to do such a thing. Had they done this 10 years ago, start charging the readers just like they do for the printed copy, and using the infinite space of the internet to provide a better service, maybe they wouldn't be in this spot. But you are absolutely correct by wondering aloud if, say, Brian decided one day to up and leave - we'd all be screwed. As far as I can tell, it's a one-man operation and the reason why so many of us come here is because we enjoy reading Brian's work - not Brian's friend or colleagues. The week he was gone, I appreciated the guest content, but it showed me clearly why I only read this blog. |
| 4 years 16 weeks ago | Haha. Seriously..it's |
Haha. Seriously..it's ridiculous how often that's confused. Actually, UA very rarely focuses on Phoenix because it's such Sun Devil territory and Mike Stoops recruits a LOT from Texas. It's never been a historically successful area for UA - Dick Tomey loved Hawaii, go figure. Now that Phoenix is getting bigger and bigger and better at producing players, you'd think that would change. The biggest gaffe for the Lewan and Roh thing has to fall on Dennis Erickson and ASU. Letting those two leave, when you have historically put out good D-lineman, is a MAJOR sign |
| 4 years 16 weeks ago | Jesus Christ |
Hey Fuckfaces...it's UA, not AU. Seriously, what is with Midwesterners and East Coasters with this? That, and The University of Arizona is NOT the Sun Devils. Go Michigan Spartans. Dumbasses. Sorry...resume normal service. This pisses me off. |
| 4 years 20 weeks ago | Mays |
Mays' hit was dangerous, but he's something like 6-4 and Norwood is under 6 feet. It reminiscent of the Crable hit on Troy Smith at OSU 06, where helmet to helmet had more to do with the fact that the defender was just taller |
| 4 years 20 weeks ago | Well, since we're being |
Well, since we're being myopic - Arizona is in the mountain time zone and played in Vegas (Pacific) - so including them and Oregon State, 2/5ths of the Pac-10 teams played in bowl games outside their own time zone. |
| 4 years 26 weeks ago | Dude, the Muppets are FANTASTIC. |
Dude, the Muppets are FANTASTIC. I'm reduced to tears every time I see it, and after a big win (like Sconnie, Minnesota and now UCLA) it makes my day. Continue, Brian. |
| 4 years 33 weeks ago | You know that thing where the |
You know that thing where the cameraman follows someone who ends up not having the ball and freaks out when this becomes clear? I did that on like half of Illinois' runs. Yeah, so did the cameraman. Wait till you see the tape! |
| 4 years 35 weeks ago | I'm not attacking you |
I'm not attacking you personally kgh, but this type of thinking is ignorant and common on this board and among Michigan and Big Ten fans in general. USC is, hands down, the best program in the country - they have the best, most fun coach; campus is gorgeous and great; they are the only 'pro' team in town, so they are treated like one; players are stars in Hollywood; the song girls...I could go on and on. And, oh yeah, they've won a shit-ton of Rose Bowls. Michigan's sell-out streak is very commendable, but like the 'all time winning percentage' or 'all-time wins' records, they aren't as important as U-M fans make them out to be. Sure, kids are lured by traditions in many cases, but they aren't as important as we fans take them. I was bothered b/c Michigan was losing recruits before - and I'm a huge Lloyd Carr guy - because we were banking too much on the past. Rich Rod and his offense, Barwis, etc etc is FUN. More kids are looking at Michigan than ever before, many the type of player we always saw and said 'why can't we have a guy like that?' The future's bright. |
| 4 years 36 weeks ago | Plus, the fan support in LA |
Plus, the fan support in LA isn't near what it is in the Midwest. USC has been winning BIG for 5 years now and they still don't sell out the Coliseum. This is patently false. They sell out the Coliseum and have a terrific fanbase, not to mention the tradition and all that. USC can, and does, get any kid they want. And besides, what do sell-outs mean to recruits? On the list of wants from a kid, sell-outs might be last. |
| 4 years 36 weeks ago | What's funny is this game has |
What's funny is this game has sent a lot of false confidence Notre Dame's way, which is fine. They are still a team who nearly blew all those gifts and, IMHO, looked like it was going to lose until Threet's fumble scoop and score. I have never felt that way after a Michigan game - I was almost, dare I say, happy that the offense looked competent and I just chalked it up to horrible luck that won't happen every game. Years gone, I'd barely get out of bed after a loss, any loss. I hope other fans to keep their patience, too. |
| 4 years 36 weeks ago | Maluaga |
Maluaga's comments are pretty much dead on and nothing different than what Florida and LSU players said after they smoked tOSU. OSU has dominated the Big Ten the last few years because there have been relatively few good conference teams - PSU 05, U-M 06, Ill 07...so, one difficult game a year, big deal - but as we've already seen these teams haven't had tremendous staying power. OSU is talented and dominating an average conference at the moment, but they have been stagnating the last few years instead of taking it to the next level like USC did. To me, there are three interesting storylines in the Big Ten this year - can Wisconsin or Penn State mount a consistent challenge for the title, can Tressel keep his team together after three devastating, very public routs and can Rich Rod keep his team together through the growing stages. We better hope two, if not all three, of these happen for the conference to regain some legitimacy and take some steps towards everyone being better. I hate the SEC, but the competition that league provides is making everyone there better, while everyone in the Big Ten is getting worse. |
| 4 years 36 weeks ago | </hyperbole> |
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| 4 years 37 weeks ago | Both announcers kept saying |
Both announcers kept saying Threet was "on fire," like, multiple times. So, from then on, I just blocked them out. |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | hahahahah |
giggling...uncontrollably |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | LOL |
If anyone has the Muppets singing Rocky and Bullwinkle and doing the dance, I'll pee myself |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | You, sir, deserve the award |
(the Muppets sing Temptation link) You, sir, deserve the award of the day. I am giggling uncontrollably at my desk |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | Yes, correct |
Yes, correct |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | Ummm... |
get the band to stop playing Temptation??? Um, no. |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | Crazy sh*t happens in South Bend... |
You mean like the Aztecs fumbling on the goalline an inch before he hit the turf? Ugh. |
| 4 years 37 weeks ago | No problem getting thanks from me |
Thanks Karpodiem and ts! As an avid collector of Michigan games I really appreciate the effort you and everybody else makes with these @ MGoVideo! I uploaded those old Fab Five games last month and I really hope more people will start to do the same. There's a lot of great Michigan moments to have and be had. |
| 4 years 38 weeks ago | Thoughts |
Pretty good analysis here that sums up my thoughts. Some more from me: • I still thought we looked kinda slow, esp on D in the first half. And considering I was expecting we were gonna have an act, not react, D, like the one we had in the 2nd half, I thought we were too slow at times, esp in the middle of the field, where we are no doubt softest. |
| 4 years 38 weeks ago | I don't want to seem like I'm jumping the gun, but... |
...we still looked kinda slow |
| 4 years 39 weeks ago | Proving how two people can see very different things.... |
OOOOF! Those whites are dull. Come on, adidas |
| 4 years 41 weeks ago | Right |
The Pac-10 pretty much is across the board better than the Big Ten (and most, if not all) conferences in every sport. Traditionally everyone thinks of the Pac-10 as being weak in football, but since it clearly owns the Big Ten (the Black Shoe Diaries post pretty much puts the exclamation point on that fact), there isn't really an argument. |
