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Date	Title	Body
11 hours 12 min ago	Avatars	Thanks, yo.
1 day 1 hour ago	OOC Recruiting	I was originally thinking I could do updates about 1-2 times per month, but will try to do it weekly.  Also, thanks for reminding me about my avatar.  I've been meaning to update it with a Brandon-approved M.
1 day 18 hours ago	Tyrone Noble	I somehow have no memory of Tyrone Noble, even though I was at M when he played.  But the other day I was watching Wolverine Historian's Youtube of the 1994 ND game, and remember seeing Noble a couple times after making tackles.  Thing is, from just seeing him I thought he was a LB!  Different game back then.
1 day 18 hours ago	Recruiting	Is there any real evidence that playing a road game someplace really improves your chances of pulling recruits from there?  I know this is something coaches talk about, but to me it just seems like a relic of the old days when most games were only regionally-televised (if at all) and it was hard to really get exposure to teams outside your area.
1 day 22 hours ago	Urban Meyer	Hey now.  There is nothing wrong with being an ass man.
1 day 23 hours ago	Commodore 64	LOAD "*", 8, 1
2 days 7 min ago	Freshmen corners	Woodson started as a freshman in 1995, even though he played RB in high school and was recruited as a WR.  I don't know specifically who else was on the roster that year for corners, but I'm pretty sure he had to beat out at least one or two decent veterans--though, probably not multi-year starters (as Countess & Taylor will be in 2014).
2 days 1 hour ago	DMs	Oh, that's right.  My bad.  Sorry, Polska.
2 days 1 hour ago	Showboating	I don't have a problem with the "showboating" or whatever you want to call it, but then again, I do come from the "if you don't like it, stop them" camp.
2 days 1 hour ago	Peppers	Well, this may be nit-picking, but Peppers hasn't yet proven that he can shapeshift into a bear, eagle, or other North American fauna.
2 days 1 hour ago	Odd spellings	I don't think he's Canadian.  Look at the way he spelled "pieces."  He's clearly a Namibian spy.
2 days 1 hour ago	Paladins	Wait--aren't you the guy who doesn't know what a dungeonmaster is?  You can't truly appreciate a name like "Paladins" if you don't know what a dungeonmaster is.
2 days 2 hours ago	Reggie Bush	Wow; add me to the "I watched the video and he reminded me of Reggie Bush" contingent. Maybe Peppers actually is Reggie Bush and he's doing a Leon Sandcastle thing?
2 days 18 hours ago	Borges Interview	Part I was awesome.  Part II was awesomer.  So there really does need to be a Part III.
3 days 1 hour ago	Nebraska recruiting	Huh.  From about 18 to about 24 does seem like a pretty significant drop to me, but it might be a lot smaller than I realize.  I imagine the margins between recruiting classes tend to get smaller as you go further down the rankings, so, the difference between the #18 class and the #24 class is probably a lot smaller than, say, the difference between the #3 class and the #9 class.
3 days 1 hour ago	Socks	I fully agree.  I live in Seattle, and can get good wool socks up here.  And you can get decent, not great, dress socks at most department stores.  But I usually have to travel to LA if I want to get a good caual sock for the warm weather months.
3 days 11 hours ago	Lee Bollinger	1997. And it rained.
3 days 12 hours ago	CW	Because he's Charles fucking Woodson, that's why Lions fans want him.
3 days 16 hours ago	Bin Laden	I think he would throw the bomb.
3 days 16 hours ago	Kayfabe	I have to +1 you for enhancing my vocabulary.  I had literally never heard of the term "kayfabe" until your post.  But I looked it up, and it makes perfect sense.
3 days 16 hours ago	Sports	I kind of like all the teams.
4 days 2 hours ago	Nebraska	Did Nebraska recruit more successfully in the pre-Solich-firing era, or did their recruiting linger around the #25 mark even then? I know Nebraska has always been famous for its great walk-ons, but those teams also featured lots of elite talent--especially on defense and in the offensive backfield.
4 days 18 hours ago	Shaw	Well, he did land Josh Garnett, so presumably he would take it in stride.
4 days 19 hours ago	Virginia	This does seem like an exceptional year for talent in Virginia, though.  Hand, Brown, Blanding--plus Green last year, and those are just the guys I know off the top of my head. I know UVA is an up-and-coming program, but I still doubt they would be in on so many guys like this if they were from, say, Kansas.
4 days 21 hours ago	Browns	Just as long as it's not "Doo-Doo Brown."
5 days 19 min ago	Brown	I hear he is now going by Andrew "JuJu" Brown.
5 days 1 hour ago	Great Diary	What stands out to me are how the lines for Ohio St. and Michigan track each other almost perfectly since 2006, with us unfortunately just a step behind.  Stupid fluke personal foul penalty.  EDIT: actually, I looked again and it's 2008 when the M and OSU lines start to track each other, after M's preciptous dip in the 2007 recruiting class.  Stupid late Carr-era recruiting woes.   I also find it noteworthy that Nebraska posted its best recruiting average in 2011--the year they joined the B1G--and have two consecutive declining years with another slow start in 2014.  I wonder if their historical norm will start looking more like Iowa's or Wisconsin's? Holy fluctuation, Penn State.
6 days 11 hours ago	IM Reffing	I also was an IM ref at Michigan in the '90s.  It was interesting, because I had played two or three years of IM sports and constantly complained about the bad officiating--and then I became an IM ref myself and understood it from the other side.  But I was a pretty damn awful referree.  A couple of my favorite memories: In my very first game, the offensive team threw "the bomb" on the first play from scrimmage.  The receiver went up and made a circus catch.  I got caught up in the excitement of the play and raised my arms to signal "touchdown" as soon as I verified that he had possession of the ball and his feet were in-bounds. Only problem?  He landed at about the 5 yard-line.  The defensive team was pissed, but as the guy working the game with me said, "eh, they would have scored anyway." In the first game I officiated solo, it was a shoot-out, with the offenses marching up and down the field.  Each team had scored several touchdowns, and probably the only thing separating them score-wise were the PAT conversions.  So, at halftime, one of the coaches walks up to me and asks, "hey ref, what's the score?"  It was only then that I realized I was responsible for keeping score of the game.  I had no clue what the score really was, so I just made something up.  In the sorority league games, most teams wouldn't have a girl who could throw the ball more than five or ten yards.  Since they couldn't pass, and since there was really no run-blocking, most of the sororities would run these extremely complicated deception plays--multiple reverses, fakes, handoffs, etc.  Usually I was pretty good about keeping track of where the ball was.  But in the one game, which was ties 0-0 late in the second half, with pretty much the entire game having been played within about the same 15-yard stretch of the field, I blew a play dead after the defense pulled the flag of the girl I thought had the ball--only to see the girl who actually had the ball streaking down the opposite sideline with no defenders anywhere in sight.   You know those Southwest "wanna get away?" commercials...
6 days 12 hours ago	Nebraska	Hey, come on now.  Most first graders know that "knowledge" starts with a K.
1 week 14 hours ago	Shallman	In other words, he's Aaron Shea (and could play defense).

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