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6 days 19 hours ago Recruiting Philosophy

His response to the question about his recruiting philosophy -- that he treats each recruit as he would his younger brother; that he builds and maintains relationships with them regardless of whether they commit -- is heartwarming.  I love to read stuff like that.

2 weeks 1 day ago Payday

Payday bars are my "emergency travel food."  I carry a few in my backback when I'm flying places on business.  More than once I've lived off my Payday bars as I sat on tarmacs waiting for hours (and hours!) to take off.

2 weeks 1 day ago Dark Chocolate

Dark chocolate Krackel.  I see those in a candy jar and I'm on it.

Worst candy experience -- a stale Bit-O-Honey candy.  Damn thing was so brittle it broke into razor-sharp pieces in my mouth.  I didn't realize that at first.  Then I tasted blood.  I had shredded the insides of my cheek with that thing.  Never again.  Off my list.

3 weeks 5 days ago Other QBs?

All the buzz is about Patterson, but what's the word on Peters and McCaffrey?

Is Peters showing signs of his time last year sinking in and him growing from it?

Is McCaffrey still on a good improvement line?

4 weeks 1 day ago Oliver Martin

I'm looking forward to seeing him on the field.  

8 weeks 4 days ago Reporting from Tucson

The talk around town this weekend is going to be gloomy ...

The departure of Rodriguez was met with a shrug.  But basketball is a whole different thing here in Tucson.

11 weeks 5 days ago Deer Hunter, Cal

Left the longest-lasting impression: Deer Hunter.

I saw that once shortly after release (1978), and vowed never to see it again.  To this day I have images from that film invade my thoughts.

Left me the most depressed: Cal.

The plot is depressing, and he whole movie was filmed so it was either dark or dreary rain for every scene.  It was a well done movie, but profoundly sad. 

12 weeks 2 days ago 1968 Tigers

I just turned 9 years old in October of 1968.

I remember the night they clinched the series.  Cars driving up and down 7 mile road near where I lived, honking their horns.  It was a terrific thing.

14 weeks 3 days ago Oh my ... that video brought

Oh my ... that video brought back a flood of memories.  Keith Jackson was the best.

14 weeks 4 days ago I was on a tuna trip off the

I was on a tuna trip off the coast of New Jersey some 20+ years ago, and I'd caught a 85 pound yellowfin (tuna put up a hell of a fight ... it took me 45 minutes to get him in).  After the deckhands had quartered out my fish, the carcass had several pounds of perfectly good meat left on it.  Someone broke out some wasabi.  We feasted.  It was fantastic.

14 weeks 4 days ago I did that as a kid in

I did that as a kid in Howell.  But in my case it was a dirt road covered in ice.  My skate blade caught a stone sticking up through the ice.  Epic face plant followed. :-)

15 weeks 5 days ago I don't take any enjoyment

I don't take any enjoyment out of the situation.  It's tragic on many levels.

I get your point about this blog being beyond Michigan exclusively.  

We've seen -- what? -- a half dozen posts so far about this situation?  The OP here is just to point out that the story was picked up beyond the U.S.

I'm just saying that more posts about this situation do not serve any good purpose. 

15 weeks 5 days ago Meaning: two dozen separate

Meaning: two dozen separate posts here for every article that appears somewhere doesn't change anything.  It's a shitstorm for RR, but (thankfully) it's nowhere near Michigan football.

15 weeks 5 days ago Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. :-)

#impliedmeaning

15 weeks 5 days ago We should probably lay off

We should probably lay off the RR posts.  What is, is.  It's not a Michigan thing.

15 weeks 5 days ago I'd love anything that

I'd love anything that resulted in fewer 2nd and 8 ...

15 weeks 5 days ago Martin

I wonder why Oliver Martin red-shirted?  Was it for development purposes, or because they had enough WRs that it didn't make sense to burn the RS needlessly?

The impression I got from the recruiting posts on him was that Martin was one of those squirrely receiver dudes that just gets open.  I like squirrely receiver dudes that get open. We could have used that this year.

15 weeks 6 days ago Simple Game

Nuke LaLoosh: "A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while."

I love that movie.  I saw a game in the original Durham Bulls park. It was awesome.

15 weeks 6 days ago 6:13

My best time ever was 6:13.  That was 40 years ago.  I'm not sniffing that pace any more.

16 weeks 10 hours ago Hope springs eternal ... when

Hope springs eternal ... when spring practice rolls around we'll all be back, throwing our two cents into the conversation, and this blog will lead the way with reports and content.  

One never truly gives up on Michigan football.  I've got 44 years of it under my belt.  I'm coming back, despite swearing up a blue storm I was done with it after yesterday's game. :-)

16 weeks 19 hours ago Go and eat at Arby's ...

Go and eat at Arby's ... their turkey reuben is pretty darn good!

16 weeks 1 day ago The thought of an all-SEC

The thought of an all-SEC championship discourages me.  Go Clemson!

16 weeks 1 day ago What coach pays attention to

What coach pays attention to the WRs?

Is that coach competent?

16 weeks 1 day ago Away Uniforms

Does Michigan ever wear the home blues for a bowl game?  I'm trying to recall when I last saw that.  It seems they always wear the away whites.  Is that Michigan's choice to do so?

16 weeks 1 day ago I don't like the way this

I don't like the way this Smoothitron fellow thinks ... :-)

16 weeks 3 days ago Gimmicky.  Firm handshake

Gimmicky. 

Firm handshake from Brown is better.

16 weeks 4 days ago I remember watching that

I remember watching that game.

In a lot of ways it was fairly sad to see.  I think Hayes knew his days were over.  If memory serves, Clemson that day was beating OSU with speed at the edge, and OSU had no answer.  The "three yards and a cloud of dust" thing just didn't work when the other team wouldn't play the same game.

The early days of the "10 Year War" really were special.  TV broadcasts of college football games were rare -- one per Saturday -- and the Michigan-OSU game was always the featured game of the week.  The whole country tuned in.  The 71, 72, 73, 74 games were epic battles.

17 weeks 3 days ago Booker's

On my 40th birthday -- 18 years ago now -- me and two friends emptied a bottle of Booker's.  

Yow.  Powerful stuff.

17 weeks 3 days ago Knob Creek

Knob Creek

Booker's -- if they like strong bourbon (128 proof unfiltered ... but really good)

Blanton's

Woodfood Reserve

17 weeks 5 days ago NFL and non-hyped HS players

Harbaugh: "NFL’s full of ‘em."

I found this article (link) that provides a breakdown of colleges represented on the 2017 opening day active rosters.  LSU led with 51; Michigan was 10th with 35.  

There's 284 colleges represented, and 2,237 players.  Once you get past the top 100 schools you're deep into smaller, lesser-known places.  Presumably these would have been players not highly recruited in high school.  From position #101 - #284 there are 377 players, or 17% of the total NFL active roster at that time.

So yeah, the NFL has a good representation of players not hyped in HS.

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