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“Most searched” =/= most…

“Most searched” =/= most popular. It means most searched.

Illinois knows damn well M…

Illinois knows damn well M got rid of the wrong coach.

Fuck treading lightly.  Not…

Fuck treading lightly.  Fuck glass houses.  Not talking about issues is what leads to bad shit getting worse.  I don't care if it's Michigan or OSU when it comes to glass houses; if I see one I'm bringing a fucking onager.

Why do so many people want to protect "glass houses"?  This feels one step removed from enabling scandal.

P.S. TBH I was going for…

P.S. TBH I was going for some variation of a puppet master or weird inversion of "dancing in the palm of a hand", but I feel this turned out looking like a very happy kaiju is about to devour Ryan Day and am quite pleased with that.

A sense of accountability…

A sense of accountability would've been nice.

This one just worked out.  I…

This one just worked out.  I've spent far longer on edits that wound up looking nowhere near as inspired.

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Now that everyone's done…

Now that everyone's done wasting their time, the women's team is expecting an invite to the Dance after a thrilling upset of Indiana in the conference tourney.  They could use all the support they can get.

jplwhite has been providing regular, detailed updates in the MGoBoard.

Can we expect an upcoming…

Can we expect an upcoming McPhee Phi Pho Philm?

Admissions said his credits…

Admissions said his credits didn’t transfer. He’ll have to re-take his undergrad courses.

Why?

Why?

Had all season to shitpost…

Had all season to shitpost the thousands of FP-ed words written about the impotent, going-nowhere men's program but decided to blow his apathy load on coverage of the basketball team that IS going dancing this month.

Not saying picking on Alex would've been right either, but. . . if this ain't sexism, it sure rhymes with it.

Man, MGoCommunity has a…

Man, MGoCommunity has a seriously insatiable hard-on for this old guy.

He's not a coach anymore, yet I've heard more about this guy as a non-coach than any other time before Michigan ended his career.

How many times do we have to hear this delusional revisionist wail about the state of affairs he helped create?  Even if he's right, there are unretired people saying the same things who aren't hypocrites.

I don't think even Georgia…

I don't think even Georgia OSU (wherever that is) and Bama ever had 2023 years of eliteness, the entire history of football being well less than a tenth of that and all.

We'd better rename him…

We'd better rename him Sexten Johnson, then.

At the same time,…

At the same time, universities have become much more expensive to go to and to run over time.  Public funding has been drying up and competition between the schools for the best students has ramped up.  I wish college football wasn't tearing itself apart as well, but expecting universities to not maximize revenue is probably not realistic.

I hear your point but I'll stop short of being sympathetic.

Like, I want to be; it's true that state governments have pulled the plug on higher education.  But Michigan is also petty & greedy.  If you handed Michigan $100 billion with no strings attached, they wouldn't lower tuition by a single penny.

Warde strikes me as the sort…

Warde strikes me as the sort that is immensely better at getting & holding jobs than doing them.

He's not going anywhere.

This is nothing on Alex but…

This is nothing on Alex but this is basically the sort of article that is both A) now necessary and B) triggers my disgust with the state of the sport.

He doesn't look a day over…

He doesn't look a day over 3001.

I'm not quite as hyperbolic…

I'm not quite as hyperbolic as to portray the NCAA as "oppressors" but I agree that there are no "relations" to "repair.

The B1G and NCAA are bullies and business partners.  You don't "repair relations" with them; when you're Michigan fergadsakes you throw your fucking weight around.  History of the handshake and all that.

To be fair it’s kind of hard…

To be fair it’s kind of hard to contest his shots. He’s damn good at wriggling through traffic like Reggie Miller of olde.

I’m mildly interested in…

Late to the party but to answer OP, I’m mildly interested in just how badly Tominaga is going to abuse this defense. He’s been in a mini-slump but playing Michigan could be a nice salve.

Edit: yup

It's easier if you make her…

It's easier if you make her push it out.

Well, easier for the dude, anyway.

Welp.

It ain't over, most…

Welp.

It ain't over, most likely.  Beating Indiana should get the ladies an invite to the Dance.

You need a pretty pricey 3D…

You need a pretty pricey 3D printer to make kids anyway. From what I hear.

You don’t want the “zeebs”…

You don’t want the “zeebs” making calls when Clark is on the court.

That’s what shitty officiating does to teams. You’re hesitant because you know how the game’s being called.

This was huge. Well done,…

This was huge. Well done, ladies.

I think we’re headed for a …

I think we’re headed for a “what happened?” season because the next team has plenty of talent but we lost some serious brainpower (McCarthy, Sainristil, Corum, Minter) that just doesn’t get replaced.

In a technical sense but …

In a technical sense yes but “both sides” is always an attempt to distort perspective, not find a middle.

In this case, no entitled teenager going “where’s muh muney” ever had the agency to disintegrate a century-old conference.

First time exposed to satire…

First time exposed to satire, eh?

The Big SEC wasn't satisfied…

The Big SEC wasn't satisfied with ripping apart a 100-year-old conference; the strip-mining must continue until there's nothing left.

Just remember, it’s players wanting to get paid that ruined football for the likes of Nick Saban. And many here agree with him.

Player greed is killing interest in the sport. Not this shit apparently.

Tominaga probably should’ve…

Tominaga probably should’ve gone to Purdue.

Ha ha, but I dispute that…

Ha ha, but I dispute that much cosmetic surgery would make anyone look fantastic.

The 1997 season was awfully…

The 1997 season was awfully similar.  They always scored at least 20 and held offenses* to under 20.

*Iowa scored 24 but half of that was their special teams. . . Iowa is forever gonna Iowa.

To Notre Dame with hell!

To Notre Dame with hell!

The most recent official FBS…

The most recent official FBS football game played anywhere is still Michigan winning the National Championship.

Sabb didn't leave Michigan…

Sabb didn't leave Michigan for money; he woulda had a Benz here too.

False. He left because instead of getting a Benz he got a Saab.

Habitat fragmentation is a…

Habitat fragmentation is a thing.

Habitat fragmentation is a HUGE thing.

In fact it's one of the biggest factors to the mass extinction we're 100% responsible for.

. . . what?

. . . what?

"Our program here was always…

"Our program here was always built on how much value can we create for your future and your personal development, academic success in graduating and developing an NFL career on the field.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Entitled old man whines about young people and (mis)remembers his generation never being like that, more at 11.

To make a good run we would…

To make a good run we would need M to get hot and it just doesn't feel like they've been heating up.

They are what they are.  Which is a decent-to-good team, no shame in that, but it's all contenders from here.

C’mon, get real. It’s not…

C’mon, get real. It’s not like the portal is a friggin’ Paez dispenser.

I can't stand her antics but…

I can't stand her antics but honestly, I feel like she would start for this team.  She's slow by men's standards and would be a defensive liability. . . but the team is already a collective defensive liability and as-is she'd be the best pure shooter on the team.

A starting lineup?

A starting lineup?

Well the thing about reality…

Well the thing about reality is that it doesn't care what you or I think.  0.5 x 2 = 0.333(etc) x 3.  Factor in free throws and the "=" becomes a ">".

Also, please don't shove words in my mouth with stuff like "what you think is required".  Like I said, 35% is "good enough".  (I said it twice.)  You can do things with it.  There isn't a hard threshold because again, outside the oversimplification bubble things get fuzzy.  It could well be that defenses in WBB are overplaying the perimeter, but to know for sure, someone would have to break down the 2P/3P PPA splits (including FTA results) to find the break-even point.  I don't have that data, so I used back-of-a-napkin numbers.

Anyway I don't think it's a hot take to say that you want your outside shooters to be as good as possible.  Yeah, if you've got 40% shooters you're in a very nice place.  Water is wet.

35% is "good enough".  I don…

35% is "good enough".  I don't mean that as an insult or a backhanded compliment, just cold-blooded math.

It's an oversimplification that ignores rebounds, turnovers, etc., but consider a decently efficient inside presence shoots about 50% from 2.  That's 1.0 PPA, to keep the math simple.

To get to 1.0 PPA from 3, you need to shoot 33-34%.  So, 35% is fine, right?  Not quite.  Drives are far more likely to get you FTs, so 50% from 2 is actually higher than 1.0.  Meaning, at 35% the perimeter is still less dangerous than getting in the paint, albeit not by much.  Break out of the oversimplification bubble and things get fuzzy.

(Case in point:  the book on Naz was you could collapse on her because 30-33% wasn't good enough to dissuade defenses from taking their chances outside.)

Long story short, 35% is barely good enough to put defenses in conflict between paint and perimeter. So, you can do things with 35%.  But the closer you can get your 3-shooters to 40%, the more they go from "being there" to creating matchup problems.

I disagree.  He's probably…

I disagree.  He's probably the most modern AD out there.  He embodies everything about today's American executive:  zero regard for duty, narcissistic opportunism, style over substance.

I'm baffled that people like this keep getting put in leadership roles, but I have an old-fashioned view of these things.  The notion that someone should actually serve the job they were hired for is quaint.  These days it's all about taking a gig to set up the next one.

More like he doesn't care.

More like he doesn't care.

He doesn't act in the interests of the University; Manuel is all about Manuel.  Losing Harbaugh, for example, was terrible for UofM but it was great for Manuel getting all buddy-buddy with Pettiti and the CFP.

What's a crisis to him and a crisis to us are two different things.  Like most "leaders" in this country, he'd happily burn the entire Athletic Department to the ground if it got him to greener pastures.  And considering how much the B1G and NCAA loathe Michigan, there's opportunity in being a saboteur, so that's precisely what he's doing.

Now, the Regents should be all over him for that, but he's apparently good at slobbering their knobs.

Organizations change through…

Absent a leader, organizations change through crisis.

Twits like Warde Manuel don't act until they literally have no choice.

They're not mutually exclusive.  It's possible to sit through a crisis like the "this is fine" dog if circumstances make that an option (albeit a horrible one).

Basically Manuel won't do anything unless his career is threatened.  And his career is not threatened.

Because it's Harbaugh.

I'll…

Because it's Harbaugh.

I'll say it again, because for various obvious reasons Brian can't:  Harbaugh is neurodiverse, almost certainly autistic.

Warde's smooth-talking schtick is apparently very effective on inflated egos like the Regents, Tony Pettiti, and CFP Committee, but it has the exact opposite effect on autistics.  We're practically allergic to bullshitters.  Harbaugh wants to see mettle, not honey on a forked tongue.

That's not to say it's impossible to get along with Harbaugh.  Lots of people love him.  But you have to drop the bullshit, which is impossible for someone who is entirely made of bullshit.