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msu decided to play this…

msu decided to play this game, so why are they so surprised when they read their own eulogy?

I was in the Navy on my ship…

I was in the Navy on my ship the USS Belleau Wood in Sasebo Japan working nights and tuned on the TV and for some reason they had the game on. As we had no internet at the time had no idea Michigan was even playing that night.

I was the one with the…

I was the one with the cowbell in the second half. We appreciated your help with the rules and strategies. Was a great time even though the weather sucked.

Go Blue!!

1.  5 last 2 years verified…

1.  5 last 2 years verified this for me.

2.  2.5 

3.  4.5

4.  3.5

5. ?

6. 3

7. 3.5

8. 3 - isn't he leaving so doesn't really matter

9. 3.9 Would like to see them settle on 1 play caller only reason not a 4 or above

10. 3 Interested to see if 12 team playoff helps parity at all. I still feel final 4 would be 4 of the top 6 most years so not sure. Would love to see home games for all but championship, and championship true rotation through main geographical areas. Then move Bowl games back to what they were. I just feel this would give a larger advantage to being 1-4 than just a bye game.

I think for me the turning…

I think for me the turning point was at the Michigan bar in Boston when we went up 31-20 and people started the 'It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine' chant which should be saved for once the game is over. I was just about to complain when my buddy said "Doesn't matter ohio is soft, we got this game" Then a very satisfying "Fuck ohio" chant started up.

Just went from hoping we could win to believing we would win.

Don't forget that Clemson…

Don't forget that Clemson jumped us in the polls because they beat Boston College a few weeks ago.

This would make sense for…

This would make sense for Day since so many osu fans wear anal beads around their necks during games. Maybe one lucky fan gets to add Days' 'bead' to their necklace. 

Haskins hurdled that fool in…
  • Haskins hurdled that fool in the OSU game this year
    • MJ O'Conners, Boston, Michigan Alumni bar. Really wore out the cowbell that game.
  • Trey Burke made "The Shot"
    • At my parents house. 
    • Side note my mom has probably watched 3 complete basketball games in her life. 89 Michigan championship, This game and the Syracuse game in the final4.
  • Braylonfest became Braylonfest
    • Our House East, Boston, Michigan Alumni Bar
  • "I can't believe this! Roy Roooundtree!"
    • I believe McGreevy's Boston, Michigan Alumni Bar
  • "TOUCHDOWN, MANNINGHAM! MICHIGAN WINS!"
    • The Place, Boston, Michigan Alumni Bar
  • Jordan Poole ripped Houston's heart out
    • Finn McCools, Boston, Michigan Alumni Bar.
  • Jabrill's Heisman return against Rutgers was called back by a bogus flag
    • A bar??
  • DPJ streaked down the sidelines before hitting the Paul Bunyan pose.
    • Finn McCools
Would be nice if they…

Would be nice if they reached back out to you, but that depends on the company. One thing don't be shy about reaching out to them. The job I have now (almost 3years), when I was interviewing I felt they weren't getting back to me and I called the HR person from the company who was scheduling things with and she realized my follow up email to her questions went to junk email even though previous emails had reached her. I am very glad I decided to call.

 

I believe when review first…

I believe when review first came to the Big Ten it was a booth review and ref was just on a head set.

I completely agree 2 people in a booth with large screen TV's, the ref can have an ear bud to put in during reviews so he doesn't have to run to the side of the field. Most reviews would happen quickly with hardly no delay to the game. I would rather they review every play but do it quickly most times there would be no delay as ref is only involved if the booth needs more time. What I can't stand is the endless time it takes for most reviews even if it is clear. 

I am booked my flight and…

I am booked my flight and hotel. Staying at the Park. This will continue me and my buddies Thanksgiving Michigan Basketball journeys:

2017: Maui Classic

2018: Mohegan Sun

2019: Battle for Atlantis

2020: Damn you covid would have been in London (not thanksgiving, but close enough)

Plus all the times they played in New York/Brooklyn.

As a side note I have only seen them lose twice, LSU in 17, and once in NY against Villanova.

What I'm sure Izzo has a…

What I'm sure Izzo has a room for him.

Yep after that first goal it…

Yep after that first goal it was like watching a 40+ minute penalty kill, seemed like the whole 2nd and 3rd periods were played in Michigans defensive end. 

Both my parents had them my…

Both my parents had them my Mom had it on both shoulders and my Dad on the same shoulder twice. Helped them both. One thing both of them said was make sure you do all your PT that is prescribed. They had so many friends that would tell them they didn't get much better, then when they asked them if they did all their at home PT they said no.  

I have a job where I…

I have a job where I normally worked from home anyways, unless going to a customer meeting, so not a lot of change for me their.

Where change has happened is I am eating much better and working out. When this started I could barely do 11 minutes on my elliptical about 1.25 miles at resistance 1, now I'm doing 45 minutes and around 5.6 miles at resistance 1-8. I've lost around 63 pounds so far, still have a way to go, but very happy about the progress. Simple things like when I do need to put socks on I no longer need to contort my body to put them on :-). I don't know if I would have been able to motivate myself to workout and eat better before, it was a constant start/stop thing, that grubhub just made ordering a roast beef sandwich and fries or pizza was just easier.

Things that suck I haven't seen my parents since Xmas 2019. Or my friends, I've drank 2 beers with others. So I can't wait to get out and about and travel, but will keep working out and eating good.

I do like others have mentioned consider myself lucky that I have a good job. 

Go Blue!!

Virtual Extreme Beer Fest!

Virtual Extreme Beer Fest!

Beers Night One:

Dogfish Head Hazy-O

Other Half Small lACEd in Space IPA

Short's Super Delicious Stout: Extreme Beer Fest Edition

Carton The World's Turned Upside Down

Great Notion Double Maple Pusher

Go Blue!!!

December 12th is going to be…

December 12th is going to be quite the day for College football. 

They may have to go with the High School Football O'ramas(sp?) This was basically the pre-season for HS football. Where you have 4 teams 2 on each side that play 1 quarter against the other 2.

So on one side you have Florida/Georgia and on the other LSU/Alabama. 1st Quarter: Florida vs LSU, 2nd Q: Georgia vs Alabama, 3rd Q: Florida vs Alabama, and 4rth Q: Georgia vs LSU.

Or I guess everyone can just play double headers and such?

I don't understand why they…

I don't understand why they just postpone when 1 team can't field a team? How is that fair to the other team? If teamA can't field a team it should be up to teamB to make the decision if the game is postponed or teamA just has to forfeit?

So now teamB can't afford to have another game postponed. Basically you are punishing teamB for no reason.

And if ND played a game with COVID+ players something needs to be done.

What would stop say Clemson if say Trevor Lawrence and a couple of their other stars being out say the week of the Miami game, and Clemson just saying hey we have too many players out so the game needs to be rescheduled? Since the sec and acc are not exactly what one would call "transparent" about their testing.

Shouldn't the time a player…

Shouldn't the time a player needs to be out be decided when he tests negative say 2 days in a row? I understand setting minimum amount of days for contact tracing but someone who is positive? 

The fact the NCAA just said 'aw just do whatever you want' is just crazy, they only had what 6 months to plan for this and put standards for all, but they just decided to run and hide in the corner and hope everything just works out ok.

The Mathew Corbett series by…

The Mathew Corbett series by Robert McCammon First book was originally 2 parts but I believe just 1 now called Speaks the Nightbird.

Just great books. Robert McCammon is right up there with Stephen King for me. His book Swan Song is similar to The Stand, and I think is a little better.

After about a 1 year hiatus…

After about a 1 year hiatus from brewing I plan on brewing 2 beers over the next week.

1. A milk chocolate stout that I'm going to add count chocula cereal to the mash, then when I rack to secondary I'm going to add raspberries. This is a third in a series I have done first was just a chocolate stout, second was chocolate stout with orange.

2. A red wheat ale with cranberries.

Both of these are for the 23rd Homebrew Jamboree in Tamworth NH.

As a side I just purchased my second conical fermentor, I have a SS Brewing one and just got the spike brewing one. I use a glycol chiller to keep temps.

Well

Well come on Syracuse beat MSU by 1 point I mean that has to be more impressive than any of Michigan's victories.

Yep before the tournement ESPN: "we need to take in account all the games all season" 

ESPN after first 2 games: "we need completly ignore the first 35 or so games and base these seedings off of the last 2 games"

This

Sure Houston looked good but they only scored 6 more points then we did and we did not look so good. 

I trust Belien will have them ready and we will see a much better game than last night, kind of like the difference from Iowa to Nebraska in the Big10 tourney.

This has to be

one of the best / most informative double posts that I have seen on here in a while..........seriously. Kudos! and Thanks ;-)

Stephen King

Stephen King called her the greatest make believe villain since Hannibel Lecter.

Low 4*

I'm a low 4* at brewing beer with a ton of upside. 

5* at stock pilling beer to age

5* at falling asleep at Mr Dooleys after 10 or so Murphy's

Maybe

Maybe people ask because they would like to watch with other Michigan fans not on thier tablet or TV in a hotel room?

So...

I am going to Maui for the Maui Classic and will be theire for both Wisconsin and OSU, I found a couple bars that open at 7am, but wondering if anyone else is going and if there would be any kind of meet up somewhere?

Go Blue!!!

Done

Bad thing is I normally like SVP

I've used Uber

Once we just got our tailgate all setup and ready to go on the golf course and I crack open my first beer and am like FUCK I left the tickets at the hotel. Installed Uber set it up they picked me up outside the golf course took me to the Red Roof and then back probably only took around 30 minutes. This was around 8:30ish am for a 3:30 game.

Enjoy the game Go Blue!!!

probably at a bar

I will probably go to the bar down the block. 

I'm a pretty big boxing fan so I watch most fights. I don't see anyway McGreggor can win I figure he will come out swinging for the fences Mayweather will be defense and just jab for 1-3 rounds then I figure Floyd will start to do damage and fight will end around 5th round. Floyd may not have great power, but it is there he just never really needs it, I just figure the constant pounding will take its toll. Everybody who fights Floyd always talks about how they are going to bring the fight to him and be aggressive and they always end up throwing half as many punchess as normal. I think Coto was one of the few who actually was aggressive and he got his ass kicked by trying. 

One thing I think would be funny would be if the Mayweather camp makes McGreggor shave before the fight which is within their rights if they think it can give him some padding. Doesn't happen often but I have seen it happen, and the last thing you want before a fight is to irritate your skin. I could see Floyd do this just to annoy Connor.

My take

Where did Eoron get all the wood and such for 1000's of ships? He lived on islands called the Iron Islands not on the forrest moon of endor? Also where did he get the 10-15 thousand people to man those ships?  Going into this season I figured he would somehow get these ships/people since they had to give Cersi some kind of chance but still....

Everytime Bran is on the show I wish that Jamie could throw him from another window. "I'm the three eyed ravon now" oh so that means ;you are an un-emotional asshole that drags each scene down and can't show any kind of emotion??

I still like the show for the most parts but certian things have been a little anoying and confusing.

They should just have a spinoff with Arya going around killing people, maybe have Lady Mormont as her side kick?

Simple

Marty McFly

Thursday or Friday

I think Thursday and Friday night games are fine for lower tier teams since it gets them a chance to have a national audience. Though it should be up to the school the conference should not force teams to play on Friday nights.

Not realizing their would be complaints is like George Lucas killing off Darth Maul, yet keeping Jar Jar in a prominant role. Really people didn't love Jar Jar Binks?????

Kind of related

Have been thinking of this recently when watching or reading about our LAX team.

Started thinking about Penn State and how they seem to be able to take teams that had little to no success or new programs and in seemingly no time at all have them competing at national championship levals.

PSU wrestling has won 6 of the last 7 national championships, before that they had a total of 2 top 2 finishes.

LAX PSU was ok but now they are a top 10 team.

Hockey in 5 years got ranked #1 and made the tourney and won a game, Also watching them since they entered hockey they improved each year.

Hopefully whoever takes over for both LAX teams can take them to national relevance.

Go Blue!

What?

No one has suggested to take the 6 year old to skeeps on Friday night for their weekly "shots for tots"???

 

Not bad

Though it doesn't stop the fouls completely. Say the Clippers are leading 100-98, so the winning score would be 107, the team trailing could very easily foul DeAndre Jordan on the first 2-3 trips for the clips odds are he only makes 1 or 2 of the free throws, if the team trailing gets 2 baskets it is a tied game, if they get a three or make 3 baskets they have the lead.

 

Injuries

Well Izzo would win every year if he wasn't the only coach to have to deal with injuries. He always manages to slide the fact he has some injuries into his comments whenever they lose or underperform.

Weather is warming up??????

We are supposed to get up to 12" of snow today through tomorrow, just where the hell is this warmer weather you speak of?

Smith

I think Smith was a very good RB. Problem was he is a very straight ahead runner and if he could have played behind a better OL that could have gotten him to the second level consistently I think he could have put up 1000+ yards. 

Problem was everytime we faced a team with a solid front 7 (Iowa, OSU, FSU) our OL couldn't open holes so he was consistently getting hit at or behind the OL. In these games Evans out performed him since he has more agility and can make something out of nothing. Look at Delvin Cook, FSU's OL is not good yet his style of play can overcome an average OL.

I do agree that in our 3 losses we should have used Evans more, though Smith did have some very good games. I just think it is more situational with RB's unless you truely have an elite RB.

refs

They should never let refs from either home state ref a game, even if they are completely un-biased and fair if there are some bad/iffy calls everyone will point and complain about about a ref being from that teams home state.

This is a sparten bob situation all over again. I doubt sparten bob went into that game saying man I am going to screw over Michigan, yet when he had a chance to give msu a couple extra seconds he took it.

I see the same things as these ohio refs when presented with a crucial call that would favor Michigan they let it go. The fact that the obvious 3 non PI calls and the 2 PI calls against Michigan were all on 3rd down, majorly effected the outcome of the game, not to mention all the holding penalties they "missed", the two guys behind me kept yelling for a holding penalty to be called, early in the 2nd quarter I turned to them and said they are just not going to call holding against osu, it pretty much wasn't called all year why would they start now. 

It is hard to picture Glassgow without an arm reaching accross his chest holding him.

People may say that refs are proffessional and such, but it is impossible to be un-biased if you grew up a fan of one of the teams playing. The more I think about this the more I get sick about this whole thing. The fact a ref actually explained a call by saying it is a tech in bball, then shouldn't osu been given a free throw and the ball? What about all the times the Michigan running backs traveled? Don't even get me started on the fact that it clearly took Michigan more than 10 seconds to get the ball over half court......

Slim chance

I really think we have a slim chance at getting into the playoff. I figure if Clemson and Washington both win they will be in with Alabama, then it comes down to winner of Big Ten championship game and osu, if it is Penn State would be very interesting to see how they could put osu in over psu since psu would have 2 check boxes for what the committee seems to value, in head to head and conference championship.

I do think we are 1 of the best 4 teams in the nation but that probably won't matter unless someone on the committee really pushes for us by fighting for the 4 best teams overall durring the season.

We do need either Clemson or Washington to lose best case would be for Clemson to be upset since that would remove ACC champ from playoff consederation. Then would need psu to win and hope the committee would put us and osu in over psu.

What happens if both Clemson and Washington lose? Could the Big Ten get 3 teams into the playoff? Or would they put Colorado/Oklahoma in to keep 3 teams from 1 conference getting in? I could see Oklahoma get in, in that case since the love affair with Oklahoma via espn already started last week.

Question

Not to hyjack the thread, but a couple of us from Boston will be in NYC to watch the Michigan Basketball team Thuraday/Friday before the IN game and will be staying the weekend.

Anyone in NYC what time should we plan on arriving at Professor Thoms? Only 2 of us.

Thanks and Go Blue!!!

Friday nights

I always saw Thursday/Friday night games for teams looking for a national audience, something Michigan does not need to seek out.

If Big Ten teams want to play on Friday nights that should be up to the team for non-conference and be agreed on by both teams for conference games. The Big Ten should not dictate who plays on Friday nights.

Rankings??

So what is better:

1. Play say pre-season #12 beat them 49-10, then said team falls apart and finishes 6-6 and out of the rankings.

or

2. Play unranked team beat them 49-10, then said team finishes 10-2 and ranked in the top 10?

Doesn't make any sense you have to look at who they played this year and how said teams are this year.

I'm not overly upset at us at #3 there is an arguement for Clemson, but atm really?

Indiana State Championship

My dad and I went to watch the Indiana state championship between Warren Central and Hobart his senior year. Hobart were constant runner-ups, they won something like 80+ straight regular season games and 50+ overall not counting the state championship game that they lost 3 or 4 straight years in a row.

Well all we heard about was this great QB at Warren Central, well Hobart beat the piss out of Jeff George that day, he had only been sacked like 10 times in 4 years, Hobart sacked him 5 or 6 times in this game and hit him pretty much everytime he dropped back. He had a horrible game and you could see once he got hit he wanted nothing to do with throwing the ball anymore. Of course the Hobart offense coudn't do anything and the Warren Central RB went off and WC won something like 28-6.

No escape from reality

No escape from reality

Worth it

Oktoberfest is worth it, been 3 times and just a great time nothing else like it. If you have the money I recomend buying lederhosen so very comfortable plus you will fit in with everyone.

Prost!

Website/store

My friends brother opened a store in South Lyon MI, if anybody lives near there.

http://www.scroogeandbarley.com/

 

Anytime

If you live near Boston anytime my friend.

Setup

I just moved to an electic all grain setup from extract brewing. I live in a condo so I need to brew inside.

HLT: 8 gallon Mega-pot 1.2

Mash Kettle: 11 gallon Bayou Classic with 240V heating element and recirculation for mash with a Blichmann auto-sparge.

Boil Kettle: 10 gallon Blichmann Boilmaker with 240V boil coil.

Tower of Power electic power controller. 2 Chugger pumps for transfer between kettles. 

Carboys: 6.5 Big mouth bubller for primary and 5 gallon big mouth bubbler for secondary.

I have a 2 keg kegarator. 

Setup:

 

Primary/Secondary/1 gallon:

Kegarator:

Zombie Dust clone fermentation and finished product: