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Date	Title	Body
11 weeks 5 days ago	great line	"Burke is both awesome at basketball and extremely protective of my emotions."  One of the best sentences yet written on this blog.
12 weeks 4 days ago	reorganize based on the importance of the position per Walsh	First, really good post and I enjoyed reading it.  When I got to the guard position though, I thought that the post could have been improved significantly by going through the positions based on the order of importance from Walsh's perspective.  He talks about guards, not quarterbacks or others, as the ones you style your offense around.  Starting this with guards, instead of our usual progression through the offensive positions based on skill first, blockers last, would have challenged me to think more flexibly (clearly?) on how a Walsh offense should be constructed and the priorities for doing so.
15 weeks 6 days ago	VLC	Any VLC high quality streams available?
32 weeks 3 days ago	Score	Michigan 47 Illinois 9
34 weeks 3 days ago	ND-Stanford	As an ND Law alum I can tell you that the reason I have always heard for Stanford being important is that ND wants to have a game in California every year.  The USC/Stanford games are set up to alternate years (crazy idea, amirite?) so the Irish play in California every year.  This is important both for the big local alumni base out there, and for CA/west coast recruiting.  There could certainly be other reasons, but that's the one I hear most frequently.
37 weeks 1 day ago	correct prediction	UM 41 - Air Force 17 UM 41 - UMass 10 Affirmative.
1 year 5 weeks ago	"typo" typo	Ironic that in the course of your discussion on typos, "typo" was the only word misspelled. It's nice to get a glimpse of the editing process at MgoBlog.
1 year 18 weeks ago	Ex post facto	I can't imagine them applying any rules like this retroactively. A punishment needs to be set before the crime is committed, that's just basic fairness. The first program to get hit with these is going to have quite a shock though. We'll probably see a lot more of the Ohio defense of blaming a rogue coach and players to save the university as a whole.
1 year 21 weeks ago	posted from iPhone	That's still better than virginia tech's schedule.
1 year 38 weeks ago	Competitors want a rematch	I usually agree with Brian (why else would I read the site so often?), but here he has missed the boat.  When I saw we had rescheduled them I was pumped, excited.  It was time to start erasing that defeat, time for a rematch.  If you're a competitor and someone beats you, you want a rematch to crush them, then you want another one to crush them again, and ten more to prove that it was a fluke that first time.  It never truely erases the first defeat, but it sure feels good.  I hope we schedule them every year for the next 50 and make them regret that they even won that first one.  If you're a program with pride, that's what you want to do, wipe out everyone who's ever beaten you, especially when they had no business doing so.
1 year 50 weeks ago	kickoffs	Minor correction Brian, that Schiano proposal was to eliminate kickoffs because of how dangerous they are, not punts.  I think it's pretty interesting in good matchups, but just think of the carnage that would ensue with a buzzsaw like Oregon against the tasty 1-AA cupcakes on the schedule.  Though, that was already pretty bad anyway...
2 years 14 weeks ago	APR	Have these schools taken an APR hit from kids leaving?  Anybody know where that kind of info is?
2 years 26 weeks ago	Undefeated dream season of 1992 FTW!	"Cannibalism may be fun for the short term, but in isolation it’s not a viable long-term survival strategy. "     My favorite line form Mgoblog in some time...well done.
2 years 27 weeks ago	awesome as usual	Great work man, keep it up!
2 years 36 weeks ago	gotcha	I gotcha, thanks for the clarification.  I hope your series continues.
2 years 36 weeks ago	nice detail points, but	nice points here, I learned a lot from your expertise, keep it coming.  That said, you could learn from one of your own lessons and stay focused on your point, which was teaching film editing basics, not bashing catholics.  Cheap shots aren't appreciated on the field, and they're not appreciated here.  Stay classy MGauxBleu.
2 years 37 weeks ago	be patient	The UFRs will come, all in due time.  The people need hope and laughs these days, and this was awesome....poor mike williams...
2 years 37 weeks ago	yes	Please, for the love of God, stop speculating on this subject.  We need all the wings we can get.
2 years 38 weeks ago	super stuff	I don't put too much stock in these numbers, but I'll take all the reassurance I can get at this point!  I did think the number of factors in Michigan's favor was interesting, but none of those factors will be playing DB for us on Saturday.  Still, reasons to hope!  Go Blue!
2 years 38 weeks ago	Ha	Nice.  I am definitely going to say "Z you" to someone today...
2 years 39 weeks ago	good thoughts	A lot of reasonable thoughts here, although I thought it was strange that you discounted the "weakest link" argument so strongly.  I remember a couple front-page articles and diaries from last year about the importance of the defense's weakest-link and how it seriously dragged down the rest of the defense.  Just from a common-sense look at it this makes sense, because the offense can hide its weaknesses through play-calling while the defense can't hide its weaknesses to the same extent and must react to the offense.   I had had some hope for this defense that every position group would be competent/average, but the attrition at CB has made me doubt that hope.
2 years 39 weeks ago	general agreement, but	I generally agree with your thoughts, but I disagree that it's going to be time to do anything about it after this season either way.  I am of the "old," perhaps never-existing, school that says that coaches should get five years unless they murder someone.  This is not reality, but only my view of how it should be.  If they were good enough to hire them, I think it is a disservice to your school, the coach, and the long-term health of the program to get a nervous trigger-finger.  If coaches know they will have 5 years they will build for the long-term, and short-term hiccups--like injuries, weird transfers, bad luck--will probably wash out.  I think five years gives you a reasonable amount of data to make a decision on a coach, and less than that is selling everyone short.   So, yes, I think this season is mostly on RR, although the defensive depth situation is still in recovery mode from Carr's classes, as we saw from those exhaustive diaries. But even if it's all on RR, I'm not calling for his head even with a bad season, e.g. 3-9.  I don't expect most will agree with me, but there it is.
2 years 40 weeks ago	Well done sir	Very well done.
2 years 40 weeks ago	Oh man, that part was so	Oh man, that part was so good, holy cow I was laughing so hard.
2 years 40 weeks ago	dominos	I thought I was going to be tired of the dominos lines by the second one, but they were killer.  GERG and the hair, oh, so good.   Oh, I needed this today....
2 years 40 weeks ago	DAMN IT	Again, Damn it.  Sigh. That said, only silver linings I see in this are Woolfolk maybe coming back, as mentioned above, and all this bad news just before the season lowering everyone outside the program's expectations for the season.  I am one of those people who think that a coach deserves 5 years unless he kills someone, so I will be glad if the lowered exterior expectations will make it more likely that RR is retained after a middling year.  Given the absurd and obvious attrition at this position group, most of which he had no control over, any rational observer is going to expect a poor season, and will therefore not be as angry if that's what happens.  For an extreme example, look at Oklahoma last year. Obviously the most important thing is for Woolfolk to get healthy for the long-term, as in the rest of his life.  I hope the reports are exaggerated and we find out he'll be fine in a month or two.  17 days would be even better, but I'd take a month at this point, for sure.
2 years 40 weeks ago	awesome	That Coner finish was classic.
2 years 41 weeks ago	here's one	Yep, bring on the ulcers.
2 years 41 weeks ago	The last line...	My thoughts exactly. I guess I need to stop reading this blog at work so I don't swear out loud in the office anymore...
2 years 41 weeks ago	Agreed	Agreed, although I will be rooting more for Black.  I'm not sure why, I think it's because it's hard to emotionally connect with a robot.

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