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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 11 hours 24 min ago | Michigan fans assume Sparty will be going back to being Sparty |
I agree completely with your assessment of the Spartoons. Dantonio takes the national award for sanctimonious hypocrisy with ease, but I think way too many UM fans are writing him off simply because he's a gigantic whining douchebag. The guy is a solid football coach who has done pretty well lately with recruiting classes that are ranked nowhere near ours. |
| 11 hours 37 min ago | I don't see myself ever buying it in the future |
I've bought Steele's magazine the last 10 years, so I'm pretty familiar with what he publishes. There are two main aspects to the magazine. One is comprised of his various predictions for the end-of season bowl matches, including the national championship, the best players at each position, who's going to finish in what order in each conference, what teams are dark horses, what teams will benefit from fewer turnovers, and so on. He makes a big deal of trumpeting how he's been the most accurate college football analyst since the Late Cretaceous, and frankly many of his assertions about his own accuracy seem a bit suspect to me. His predictions can be either surprisingly accurate, or completely off, which is basically little different from most other predictions. I agree with the others here who have surmised that he simply repeats names that he's familiar with from the previous seasons, which probably explains why he ignored Jake Ryan. The other part of the magazine, and the part that is far, far more valuable than the predictions hoo-ha, is the straight statistical data and roster information going back several years that he compiles for each team in D1. I haven't found any other publication with anything remotely close to the sheer mass of data and statistical information that he compiles, and that's why I've bought the magazine. I'd buy it for that alone, even if he stopped making predictions. If you can find the mag in your area, give it a look before you dismiss it. If you're a college football trivia junkie like me, it will be worth it on that basis alone. |
| 17 hours 38 min ago | Steele's missing the boat completely on Ryan |
and I don't think I've ever encountered a text-only web page that takes as long to fully load. Phil needs to invest in bigger, stronger hamsters. |
| 1 day 18 hours ago | So Tori Amos is singing songs about |
spreading for Mr. Ed? I thought that kind of activity is mostly illegal everywhere, Wilbur. |
| 1 day 18 hours ago | you are hilariously out of touch. |
You're being sarcastic, right? |
| 2 days 14 hours ago | I don't understand the kvetching about conf. home skeds |
It's not like the Michigan teams of yesteryear played a compelling conference home slate every season. Just as a fer instance, here are the entire home skeds for three seasons during Bo's first decade, including non-conf. games: '76 '78 '80 The only teams among these that were ranked were the 78/80 Purdue teams, at #15 and #16 respectively. Oddly enough, there were capacity crowds at Michigan Stadium anyhow, and that's what will happen in 2016 too. |
| 2 days 14 hours ago | I thought we accepted this? |
One constant in the life of UM fandom is having to listen to the constant breast-beating about "leaders and best" and "little brother LOL" and the simultaneous whining about a schedule that reflects that relationship. |
| 5 days 17 hours ago | Why shouldn't Big 10 bigwigs enjoy the same level of |
teethchattering stupidity that the numbskulls running the college hockey playoffs enjoy? Being really stupid is fun. |
| 5 days 18 hours ago | "Professional journalists" are just like cops and the military |
Whenever one of their own is guilty of malfeasance, incompetence, or corruption, they all close ranks. You'll never see a print or broadcast "journalist" criticize another "journalist" by name, regardless of the level of hackery, mendaciousness, or lazy incompetence. Their ire is strictly reserved for those dirty bloggers. |
| 6 days 12 hours ago | I don't think the players are the key constituency |
when Brandon is talking about them liking a warm destination for post-season. It's the moneyed suite people who are aghast at the idea of spending the holiday season stuck in Ann Arbor rather than some swanky hotel down south, or out west that Brandon is truly responding to. |
