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2 weeks 2 days ago	I suspect many of us have MGoBackgrounds	My brothers and I grew up in a household with both parents who were Michigan grads. All three of us have Michigan degrees.  My father was a friend of Bump Elliot and had meet and greet parties for him at our home in Lorain,Ohio, I remember going to Michigan football games as a kid.  I know that I saw Bob Timberlake play and win at the Big House though I am not sure who we played that day.  My brother and I still sit in seats that our parents had for years. All three of my children are Michigan grads and my 31 year old son still comes to some games every year although he lives in Chicago.  This blog is a great place to share our legacy and love of the U of M with others.  Thanks to all on this blog who contribute and continue to enrich my own experience by sharing their thoughts and experiences.  Thank to those whose posts educate me about the U of M and the sports I love. I am a better fan and alum because of it.
6 weeks 6 days ago	Thanks for the links. Best trash quote from pre-game= Horford	"Brandon Triche is a nice young man," the forward deadpanned. "Nice young man. And I would love to have tea with him to discuss matchup issues.
7 weeks 5 days ago	The videos are very helpful thanks to those who posted them..	The Syr/Lou game video shows some of what Izzo talks about in his coaching vid. Louisville has a couple of plays where someone sneaks in behind the zone and several drive and kick plays similar to what Izzo is talking about. .What also is apparent from the game video is that the Louisville center has a nice 15 foot shot if the zone backs off him. Also the center makes lots of key passes as the offense seems to run a lot from an entry pass to the center at the high post.  I hope that our bigs will have excellent shooting touch and passing savvy next Saturday.
7 weeks 5 days ago	This post deserves to be in the MGoHallOfFame.	I want to be able to go back and enjoy it and share it forevah!!  Thank you Ace.
7 weeks 5 days ago	Jumping up and down behind the right end of the KU bench ...yup	Schadenfreude!
7 weeks 5 days ago	That smile on Beilein	He is just so proud and happy for the kids.  It is about them not him.  May he coach our team, our team, our team... forever.
10 weeks 5 days ago	Different Flashback comes to mind	We lost twice to an outstanding Illinois team in 1989 before beating them in a thrilling national semifinal in 1989,  We then went on to win the title against Seton Hall with Rumeal Robinson making the key free throws at the end.  This is the flashback that came to my mind. Maybe this is our year to beat Indiana in the semis and beat whoever makes it through in the final game.  Much like this year, we were undefeated in pre conference play with all our losses occurring in conference play. There were multiple Big Ten teams in the tourney in 89 as expected this year.  Indiana won the Big Ten but lost twice to Illinois and recieved a #2 seed with a #1 going to Illinois even though they came in second in the conference.  We were a #3 seed that year.  Iowa and Minnesota also made the tourney that year.  GO BLUE!
10 weeks 5 days ago	Hopefully shades of 1989	I am old enough to remember the 1989 season where we lost twice to an outstanding Illinois team before defeating them in the national semifinal.  Deja vue please!
11 weeks 5 days ago	The officiating was awful. (TL;DR warning)	It was totally inconsistent and at times just plain bad. We got a lot of calls early in the second half but then it was as if they were trying to not see the MSU mayhem.  This type of inconsistency is the hardest to deal with as a player. With about 11 minutes left in the game Michigan gets into the bonus.  There would be only one additional foul called on MSU over the next eleven minutes while there were six called on us until McGary was fouled intentionally with 8 seconds left.  After the game I spent ½ an hour and reviewed the period right after the 11 minute mark going in slow motion at times and trying to be as fair as possible.  The refs were just awful to us.  10:46 Hardaway drives to the hoop between two defenders both of them grab him and rip the ball away.  No foul. We get the ball out of bounds 9:15 Burke drives the lane and is grabbed and pushed and has to dish the ball to Albrecht who misses an open three. 8:44 Both teams scramble for a missed shot rebound. An MSU player grabs Hardaway by the shoulder and pulls him backward as he positions for the rebound.  The ball hits both of them and goes out. MSU gets the ball. 8:08  Burke drives and is fouled once before he get to a massive pick set by GRIII. He gets pushed in the back as he makes the layup.  No call. 8:02  GRIII is backing up as Appling jumps into him and attempts a shot which McGary cleanly blocks.  I think this is a fair call until during the time out they show highlights from a first half play where MSU did the exact same thing to us and did not get called for a foul (i.e. first defender on the ball bodies up on the drive and the second defender cleanly blocks the shot as it goes up.) 7:08  Burke get fouled on the drive with no call and dishes to Lavert who lays it in awkwardly as Nix throws him to the floor.  No call. 6:45  Morgan pulls in a rebound with two player on his back. The as he turn to throw an outlet pass he is fouled again a couple of times by an MSU player trying to steal the ball.  No call on either. 6:39  Burke drives and is grabbed and pushed and has to dish the ball. No call. 5:35  Burke is fouled at least three times on a drive to the hoop and makes the bucket anyway.  He shouts something at the refs in displeasure which is something I do not remember him doing very often if ever.  I guess he was fed up also. 4:36  Burke is fouled at least three times as he tries to bring the ball up the court.  Only on the third shove that sends him to the floor does the whistle come.  He makes both ends of the one and one.  This is the first foul called on MSU in over 6 minutes and the last foul shot we get until McGary is fouled intentionally with only 8 seconds left.  I could go on with a description of additional missed calls but we won so now I will just have some cheese with this whine. 3:53  Payne gets a rebound and then walks at least 4 steps after getting a rebound off a missed FT. No call.  This was the worst miss of the entire game and almost unbelievable that it did not get called. Enough already! TL;DR summary- The lack of consistency of calls in this game was shameful.  However, this is not happening just in our games but across the board in B1G games this season. (I have watched quite a few non-Michigan games on BTN this year).  I have been playing the game myself and watching B1G b-ball since Cazzie and I have never felt the refs were this piss poor.  I have also ref’ed b-ball myself so I know how hard it is to be fair and balanced but SHEEESH it’s bad this year.
12 weeks 23 hours ago	Their joy = our misery	Yes it seems that in sports the joy is distributed as a zero sum game.  Their joy equals our misery.  Yet, joy leans to the positive overall due to our appreciation of the beauty of the game.  Mgoblog adds to my joy by helping me to have a deeper understanding and appreciation of the sports that I follow here with my fellow M fans.   PS  I still would rather win.
14 weeks 1 day ago	It would be interesting to	It would be interesting to see if the Rivals rankings regression model matters more for offensive or defensive players or linemen vs skilled players.
16 weeks 7 min ago	Get ready to be (re)f'd	Per the B1G statistics web site, Indiana averages 27.4 foul shots per game in the B1G so far this year.  The entire of the league averages 18.4 per game across all league games.  The standard deviation of the league is 3.8 foul shots per game around that mean.   This means that Indiana is shooting foul shots at a rate greater than two standard deviations above the mean.  This would happen randomly about one in a hundred times by chance (2.37 sd above the mean).   The next highest teams Iowa and the Gophers and they are about 1 sd above the mean.  Even Wisconsin at the low end is still well under 2 sd from the mean.  Here is the.... chart   tot ft av ft/gm Indiana 219 27.35 Illinois 132 16.2 Iowa 184 23 Michigan 145 18.125 Michigan State 177 19.67 Minnesota 171 21.375 Nebraska 124 13.777 Northwestern 179 19.888 Ohio State 119 14.875 P enn State 149 16.555 Purdue 136 17 Wisconsin 104 13 B1G av/g   18.4                                             sd=3.8 free throws/game Get ready to be (re)f'd at Indiana tonight.
16 weeks 4 days ago	Thanks for the Bacari video	Man I would love to play for this guy.  I have a new appreciation for the assistant coach(es) contributions to this team.
17 weeks 3 days ago	Magnus should double post more often	imho
18 weeks 2 days ago	Is it passing or rushing that matters.	Thanks for these posts.  They always get me thinking.  If you break out the offense and defense into rushing and passing categories does that matter?  There are some who believe that the key stat in the NFL is yards per pass attempt. (see Craig Ross "The Obscene Diaries of a Michigan Fan")  The team that gives up fewer and gains more per passing play seem to win a lot more in the NFL.  How does the college data stack up?
19 weeks 1 day ago	my probably bogus strategy	Pick moderately high value players from teams expected to win by a blowout.
19 weeks 2 days ago	Oh my god!  A Helen Keller	Oh my god!  A Helen Keller joke.  How politically incorrect (and dated).  I am going to be brutally honest and admit that I laughed...a lot and repeated it to others. There goes my karma.
19 weeks 6 days ago	It was in spring practice.	Two springs ago, my brother and I were at the annual spring coaches clinic.  Coaches were allowed to be on the sidelines to watch the first team offense in a live scrimmage against the first team defense.  I was standing at about the 10 yard line.  The ball was at the 15 yard line of the defense.   Denard rolled out toward us on a pass play with several defenders in hot pursuit both in front of him and behind him.  As he approched the LOS holding the ball with both hands, he quickly put it up and faked a pass thus freezing the defensive backs and the linebacker who was almost right in front of him.   Just as quickly, he pulled it down and blew by the linebacker as his ankles broke and slipped btween two other defenders into the end zone a second later.  I was not more than 15 feet from him when he did this.  It happened so quick it was astounding.  I turned to my brother and said "Holy Shit!."  It was not something that I could imagine a human being doing. But, Denard sure is a wonderful human being as many of the above comments and clips prove.  It's just that he has Dilithium inplants.
20 weeks 4 days ago	That was 1887	The article notes that a couple of Michigan football player taught the game to ND in 1887.  ND had been playing for 10 years when this game happened.
21 weeks 2 days ago	I agree with ST3 that Grant	I agree with ST3 that Grant deserves the closest look.  He also raises the issue of All American and All Big status.  This would get me to think more about Rumeal, Juwan, Jalen, and Rickey Green (the fastest guard I have ever seen I think).  It seems like the Fab FIve guys will never make the grade though.   We do have a couple of interesting Academic All Americans in Zach (the first in a long time).  One other name that deserves a look already has the Hustle Award named after him, Steve Grote.  Here is some added info on him for the youngsters on the blog.   Steve Grote: A four year starter, Grote was the epitome of a hustle player. He is one of 5 Michigan players to earn All-Conference honors in each of his four seasons. He is also the first player in NCAA history to play in 4 NCAA Tournaments. Grote ranks 10th on Michigan’s all-time list with 358 career assists. Grote averaged 11.5 ppg in his career and averaged double digits in scoring all 4 years of his Michigan career (1973-77). A 1976 Sports Illustrated article said, “Grote has started 78 of 86 games since his freshman year and is frequently called the most punishing runner at Michigan, which makes Bo Schembechler wonder why he is wearing short pants and sneakers.” Grote holds the school record for most career fouls with 407 and for most career disqualifications with 25. In 1977 Michigan established the Steve Grote Hustle Award, given each year to the player who displays the greatest effort on the court, in both practice and games. Grote was a first-team Academic All-American 3 straight years.
45 weeks 4 days ago	AIRBHG	When I first looked at this acronym I thought it said AIRBAG.  Maybe that is what the Iowa coaches should put isnide the running backs uniforms so that they will deploy on conatct to protect the few backs that they have left or maybe they should make them practice in bubble wrap.
1 year 5 weeks ago	Gardner is	a terrific all aroung athlete.  We need him at QB but he clearly would make a great receiver too.  Any way to put him on the field is good but we need someone with his talent to back up Denard.  There is no way I would let him play receiver and get hurt with only Bellomy as backup to Denard. He is just too valuable as a QB to this team both now and in the future.  That said, I would cackle with glee if he come on the field as a wide out once in a while but would be anxious as hell also about his getting hurt going up for a high pass or over the middle.
1 year 6 weeks ago	I was at Cornell when he was the goalie..	There were bumpersickers around town that said Jesus redeems, Dryden saves!
1 year 6 weeks ago	Help	I     have              fallen                        down                                   the                                        rabbit                                                   hole                                                             of                                                                  M                                                                     Go                                                                           blo                                                                                  g                                                                                     g                                                                                         g g g g g g g g g g g                    .
1 year 6 weeks ago	He is going to	walk while dead.
1 year 17 weeks ago	I have ref'd YMCA leagues and I agree with the high school ref.	Officiating is really hard and I agree that I did not care who won and it was so tough to listen to the players whine about my calls that I decided not to do it any more.  I still play in YMCA leagues at age 62 with kids who are younger than the tshirts I wear.  I still whine at the refs now. What can I say other than I am a deeply flawed and hopeless whiner at the refs as are a significant number of the players and coaches as mentioned above.  Still thought the stats were worth sharing.  Again make of them what you may.
1 year 17 weeks ago	Not sure	Hey I just was trying to get objective.  I had no idea that there would be these differentials which I admit may be multicausal but cleaarly staistically significant.  There is not easily accessible data about home v. away.  Please notice that Iowa Minnesota which have similar W/L records to Uof M had 550 and 200 more foul shot attempts than Michigan.  The data does show that foul shots attempts are significantly associated with wins. (No surprise there.) Here is the data table for all the teams and seasons team free throws and free throws for opponents.     team opponents team opponents Illinois 291 326 Indiana 300 473   296 342   375 396   201 259   323 370   344 391   376 307   285 253   288 387   261 295   282 306   273 221   326 310   248 307   257 276   299 348   349 314   335 365   292 257   372 372   356 331   3205 3479   3524 3727     -274     -203 Iowa 307 293 Michigan 257 299   287 299   263 246   263 274   278 289   289 259   288 291   343 279   326 289   347 262   299 261   326 345   243 326   394 274   312 289   377 288   320 298   362 365   252 264   431 406   336 403   3726 3344   3174 3255     382     -81 MichState 332 354 Minn 365 289   332 275   314 296   390 312   300 320   293 322   353 374   278 325   224 300   278 285   281 288   288 332   332 279   283 351   285 396   325 360   310 396   286 267   313 378   352 286   303 395   3437 3469   3380 3711     -32     331 NW 283 358 Ohio 392 219   322 399   340 260   260 316   282 227   197 369   260 248   137 278   324 177   209 291   270 215   238 268   241 261   248 243   343 360   282 359   381 315   283 237   382 327   309 296   347 327   2768 3414   3562 2936     -646     624 Penn St 285 265 Purdue 366 286   282 306   381 307   285 240   336 292   332 272   363 391   265 281   285 312   256 221   232 330   297 201   254 339   257 196   280 266   264 381   442 349   277 411   299 277   378 349   392 422   3178 3123   3630 3571     55     59 Wisc 276 292         252 318         288 307         362 233         339 213         328 289         328 264         308 257         273 214         323 256         301 290         3378 2933           445
1 year 18 weeks ago	The espn list	leaves off Brayon Edwards, Ryan Mundy, Donovan Warren, Martell Webb, Perry Dorrestein.  The Wikipedia seems the most complete as far as including all active players.  They even include Ryan Mallet and Justin Boren as Michigan players.
1 year 18 weeks ago	Depth on D line is a huge concern.	Hopefully some of the other D lineman like Ash, Wahington or Brink will surprise us like Heininger did this year and give us better depth than one might otherwise think we have.  I also believe that with another spring and summer set of practices, growth and conditioning and the outstanding coaching that seems to be going on with the defense that this is more likely than not going to be the case.  Also with the depth and competition at linbacker, even competent D lin play will be enough for us to be one bitch to run against next year.
1 year 18 weeks ago	1/2 billion $ (Dr. Evil laughs...)	If you do the math $516 million less Nebraska=$512 million divided by 85 scholarships times 13 seasons x11 teams = is only about $42,000 per player per year.  Northwestern tuition, room and board is now over $54,000 per year so I guess ticket prices will go up there.  (Dr. Evil laughs....)

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