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51 weeks 3 days ago	With greatest respect, I am not a SEC fan.	I was attempting internet-irony, which is only a slightly higher degree of difficulty than the underwater flame-ring triple axel.   Back in my day, every student saw every other Pac-10 team twice in their four years and that was how we liked it.
1 year 29 weeks ago	At no time was the score	At no time was the score 21-7; when your 'oops I did something bad' is three types of errors on four drives, it's possible that you just aren't a very good team.
1 year 48 weeks ago	Not sure if that's universally true	Certainly as late as the mid-1990s Minnesota felt otherwise.
1 year 48 weeks ago	Counter-argument: $25k is a lot to you or I	Not so much to the Phil Knight Death Star. Might be one of those things where nobody feels like dealing with the legal foolishness and writes off the cost. Fishy, but not obvious-to-the-point-of-major-violations-fishy IMHO.   The real question is: did Oregon ever deal with this huckster before, and/or did they continue to do so afterwards?
1 year 49 weeks ago	I've enjoyed watching this progress both here and at 11W	I think some of the arguments put forth there are well reasoned and honest, but naturally I fall on this side of the line when all is said and done. I cannot see a rational NCAA* levying punishments weaker than USC.   *oblig. disclaimer goes here
1 year 51 weeks ago	--deleted	broken link is broken.
1 year 51 weeks ago	The spikes on #3 are the best part.	It's a nice nod to the old logo. Tying into history is important.
2 years 2 weeks ago	For whatever it's worth	D1 athletics is the only reason I know of the existence of EMU.   Not to say that that's enough to make the expendature worth it...
2 years 3 weeks ago	Clemson? Badly coached?	F*** Clemson.
2 years 3 weeks ago	well...	My Minnesota classmates had four years of WIN FIGHT TRY Timmy B.   Your move, Michigan.
2 years 3 weeks ago	Zounds, this is very fancy indeed.	I was generally sans internet for a number of days - any sort of previous post regarding feature set etc? Other than a general /. feel I don't know what is going on.
2 years 4 weeks ago	I agree	However I would hope that every man to ever play college football feels the same way about his alma mater. It just can't drive every decision made about the program.
2 years 4 weeks ago	Alternate title	"Mailbag: Brian gets told of a different opinion"
2 years 4 weeks ago	Holy god, no kidding.	There's some reasonable distribution of labor in terms of bringing in outside blood and attempting to instill traditions. I won't claim I know what that distribution is - the new guy shouldn't be 100% responsible for digging up all these random Holy of Holies in the tradition-pile, but neither should they forego any sort of proactive research and expect to be handed a sheet of everything as soon as they walk in the door.   I wonder what that ideal distribution is, compared to what RRod experienced. I know that when I first attended either of my alma maters, older students made every effort to pass on to us what we should know, what we should do, who we should be. Given the WR#1 fiasco/nonsense, what was the situation here?
2 years 4 weeks ago	Ask a Minnesota fan	/vomits
2 years 6 weeks ago	Thank you for this	Some of the comments here had me wondering if I was watching the same game. Michigan played well, UMD played better. Them's the breaks.
2 years 6 weeks ago	cosigned	This Minnesotan was pulling for UMD, but there's no shame in the result tonight. One team would win, which meant one had to lose. Michigan played a fine game of hockey; it ended up not being quite enough. That's how life goes sometimes.   Congratulations to both sides for getting so far in such a crazy system as the NCAA hockey tournament, and additional congratulations to UMD for being that little bit better.
2 years 6 weeks ago	This makes me wish it was October...	...and that M (the other M) hockey was just around the corner. Do you realize how hard it is to make a Minnesotan wish for late fall right now?   It's pretty hard.
2 years 6 weeks ago	I'm commenting on a sizable majority of their fanbase	They're all like that.   That gif literally made my week.
2 years 6 weeks ago	FUCKING FUCKING MUPPETS	FUCK YOU NORTH FUCKING DAKOTA I HATE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS SO FUCKING MUCH AND I AM SUPER SUPER EXICTED THAT THE RED RIVER IS ABOUT TO FLOOD MORE THAN USUAL AND, GOD WILLING, IT WILL WIPE THE RALPH OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.   MUPPETS MUPPETS MUPPETS
2 years 7 weeks ago	We have one giant board	And one baby one serving the very few people in the stadium who can't see the big board easily. It's nearly an open horseshoe, with the big board in the end of it.   Can't fathom the loons upthread who think that it's less than a beautiful stadium on the outside...
2 years 7 weeks ago	Minnesota is quite similar to (spit) Texas	Ringed with score, stats, and ads. It's still charmingly huge from anywhere in the stadium, but it's not THAT huge in practice.   http://blogs.twincities.com/gophersshack/assets_c/2009/08/Picture%20003-...   That's how it looks in real-life use.
2 years 7 weeks ago	deleted because duhrrrrrr
2 years 8 weeks ago	Any idiots who go to Rice	Any idiots who go to Rice Park for that (WTF!?) deserve what they get.
2 years 8 weeks ago	re: St. Paul bars	Stuff on Grand or Selby: fun Stuff downtown: in my experience, not particularly fun Stuff in mpls: well, we all know that that's the better city anyway. But don't go downtown, because downtown is dumb
2 years 8 weeks ago	ooh ooh me me me!	The WCHA logo thing has been there a while. 1) I go there a lot and it looks familiar. 2) Inspection of the website code suggests:     onload="MM_preloadImages('../images/2010design/nav/homenav/teams2.jpg','. ./images/2010design/nav/homenav/stand2.jpg','. ./images/2010design/nav/homenav/sched2.jpg','. ./images/2010design/nav/homenav/stats2.jpg',' ../images/2010design/nav/homenav/wcha2.jpg','. ./images/2010design/nav/homenav/tourney2.jpg','.. /images/2010design/nav/homenav/media2.jpg',' ../images/2010design/nav/homenav/tickets2.jpg',' ../images/2010design/nav/homenav/mobile2.jpg',' ../images/2010design/nav/homenav/shop2.jpg')"   Note constant repetition of '2010'. It's a BSU/UNO-addition legacy.
2 years 9 weeks ago	/posbang'd for truthiness	/posbang'd for truthiness
2 years 9 weeks ago	/looks away from heresy for a	/looks away from heresy for a moment   I certainly care a great deal about beating North ****ing Dakota more than just every time we play them. People who root for Iowa and Wisconsin merely make bad life choices. People who root for UNfD are actually bad people. Were their program to sink into the doldrums or, god willing, fold due to lack of UMN/Wiscy money, I would dance around the grave. Because Ralph was a Nazi, etc.   I cannot overstate my hatred for North ****ing Dakota.
2 years 9 weeks ago	I was starting to wonder if	I was starting to wonder if your type still frequented these fair pages. The curtailing of direct service to Bolivia has not helped the world. But thank you.
2 years 9 weeks ago	Fair enough. Well then, you	Fair enough. Well then, you should revise your sig, or maybe move about four hours SE. It'd suit you there.

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