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Thank you for sharing your story. God bless your son, your family and all the wishes for a healthy young Wolverine!!

I will continue to support Michigan football. I will watch every week, cheer enthusiastically, rejoice with wins and feel bummed after a loss. And after the loss, I'll look forward to next week. It's what I am. A Michigan alum, Michigan fan.

Give RR some credit for being classy here. This isn't article about Michigan or his thoughts on the program, but its about his thoughts on a charismatic young man and terrifc athlete we have all had the pleasure watching over the last couple years. There probably is great respect both ways. 

Maryland just lost another QB

After the dramatic win in the Pigskin Classic in '95, the students made attempts to rush the field. If I remember correctly, the police were a little harsh in their tatics to keep them off the field. Some even got arrested....a friend's brother had to go to court for it and pay a fine. They (the police and the Univeristy) received a lot of backlash from the Daily. Call it a PseudoRush.

If Denard were to get injured (fingers crossed) on a typical offense play...... Well, that is football. But on special teams? That's just poor decision making. I remember Tyrone Wheatley being injured on punt return. Hurt his shoulder & wasn't the same the rest of the year.

I respect your right to voice an opinion but it's a deuchy one at best.

It was a loss!! One loss!! Our program isn't going to be removed from the big 10, the stadium isn't being closed and guess what..... The sun still came up today over the Eastern sky.

Negativity of the fan base is mind blowing. Have faith the coaches will coach 'em up this week, they come out prepared and beat Air Force!

Go Blue!!!

Are you calling UM a cupcake?

We called 'em "shitty freebies" but I always grabbed one and went straight to the back to read Punt/CounterPunt! 

BB I think is the 'official' bar of the alumni association. I have been a few times and it's always a good turnout. A few years ago it was the Pour House. You may want to check the alumni association website to be certain. Sorry I don't have a link.

First game freshman year we painted our chests to spell out MICHIGAN.....with zinc oxide. It was 85 and very sunny. I was the G. Tan lines lasted til finals.

That deserves an Oscar. Or an Emmy.

My champion is out before my niece's......and she has Murray St winning it all!

As an undergrad I worked with UM hockey one full year. In one game against MSU Richard Keys ran Marty Turco behind the net. It was a malicious hit and totally uncalled for that nearly put Tuco out. Next game against Sparty in in the locker room pregame Red reminded the team of the hit and called out Keys. He told the guys if they got a chance for a hit, take it and make it count. And didn't mind if they got a penalty. Although he didn't want it dirty, but more in the flow of the game. Couldn't have been more than 5 min in and Jason Botterill went at with Keys and laid his ass out!

So yeah Red will call it out, but only if provoked and not for a cheap shot.

Did you just hear the announcer say that one of the players isn't going to have to worry about cutting his fingernails since his arms will drag on the ground as he walks to class? I know he's talking about wingspan but c'mon. That's cutting it close.

I like it because I like to listen Gus Johnson on back to back nights. 

I am a former grad student/employee of JMU, now living in Fredericksburg. I'll be heading to the game and will begin camping out at Buffalo Wild Wings on Arlington just off of Emmett St at about 3 pm. I'll be there with someone who still works at JMU but roots for UVa. Oh well. Meet up and have a beverage. GO BLUE!!

He's objecitonal with a play on the field for the msot part. However, I found him highly critical of UM players and overly enthusiastic about Ohio people dressed in shoulder pads. 

For example, his comment about how if you think Denard is electric wait until you see Miller in an Urban Meyer spread offense. 

Excellent story. 

When I read "Perkins" and "Hostess" my mind really began to wander and wonder where this was headed, aka Tiger.

I enjoy your witty comment!

My first trip to Columbus as an 18 year old freshman was in April 1993. My friends and I went to a bar. Everyone got a stamp on their hand. Those of us not of drinking age were stamped with "Fuck Michigan". It was then that I deemed Columbus to be the armpit of America.

I think you're spot on. I look forward to the next few years and the rivalry growing.

Now about the success of Dantonio, speak to me when MSU t-shirts start selling in Ann Arbor. Never in a million years do I think MSU jerseys will sell in Ann Arbor.

In one of the threads yesterday I posted this exact same thought.....somehow they will delay the suspension until after the Wisconsin game. This is right out of the Jim Tressel playbook with Tat Gate and the Sugar Bowl. Jim Delaney could have stepped in then and he didn't do it. He's not going to do it now. He cares more about possibly having a 'good game' than what is doing the right thing. 

The B1G should have a standard rule: you throw a punch, landed or not landed, you're ejected from that game and suspended the next. No appeals. If Mike Martin or Denard Robinson did it the week before playing Ohio, I would feel the same way. Sorry....you screwed up now. Face the consequences. 

I wouldn't be surprised if he were suspended for their game following Wisconsin, ala a page out of tOSU and Tressel's book with his guys, Tat Gate and the Sugar Bowl. 

I didn't like them. I'm not an old man (at least I don't think 37 is old) but I am a fan of keeping it simple. Keep the uniforms the same year in and year out, like Penn St and Alabama. 

I want the young men playing the game to concentrate on blocking, tackling, and running the football not looking in the mirror admiring what their throwbacks look like. I used to work in college athletics and I remember a game were the guys were arguing about high socks vs short socks before a game we should have won by a mile. Instead we lost 9-7. I can still hear coach yelling "Socks! Gosh darned socks!".

JT Floyd makes that tackle on 3rd down when Sparty scores their 2nd TD (I believe) and the D forces MSU to kick a FG the whole 2nd half changes. 

UM played poorly, didn't execute and, IMO, was poorly coached. That being said, they had chances to win. Hopefully, look at the film, educate, coach, learn and DON'T overreact, they'll come out ready for the 2nd half of the season.

Watch the video closely. Matthews kicks his leg out and hits the Oregon player in the inner right thigh. The Orgeon player then pulls his left leg up and grabs his left knee. 

Compraing this to what Gholston did is not even close. Both are acts that do not belong in the game of football but the difference is that Gholston did it with the INTENT on injuring Robinson. Gholston should be suspended at least 1 one game, similar to what the Illionois player got a couple of weeks ago when they played Northwestern. 

Bo gave a speech to all the high school campers during the middle of football Michigan's football camp. It was hot, humid and miserable with all of the kids gathered in the Track and Field Building. Bo got up to the podium and spoke about sports in America. He went on and on about football and what a great sport and how other sports couldn't compare. He ended with the phrase I have below. You would have thought the roof was going to come off that place! I was working as support staff for that camp in sports medicine and I was ready to go suit up! 

After fumbling today, I think Hopkins is done. For him to see the field on offense its going to have to be as a blocking fullback. Any carries will come in garbage time if the game is out of hand.

The missed field goal...AARRRRGGHHH!!!!

I'm erasing the 2nd half from memory and only remembering the 1st half. A win is a win and so its a great weekend to be a Wolverine.

I'm in agreement. Great honor, nice job and a good win. However....I'll be curious to see what the game film shows. Herron was in the right place at the right time on 2 HUGE plays but he also seemed to be out of postion and had his back to the ball on several pass plays. During the game, I actually made the comment to my brother that Herron was going to be named Big 10 Defensive Player of the Week (guessed wrong there) but really wasn't playing too well overall.

Its not as simple as it sounds to pay players. With Title IX it makes it virtually impossible. If you pay the football player, you have to pay the field hockey player, the member of the crew team, etc. You have to pay them equal as well or the university could lose risk losing federal funding. And how do you decide who gets what? Does the 5 star recruit get more than the 2 star? And what if the 5 star is a bust? Do you decrease his pay? Does the recruit get paid more for going to UM over WMU or CMU? As someone who had to work to pay for school and borrow I feel a scholarship is more than worth it.

Drink the Kool-aid. Its tasty. 

I agree with the above post re: Title IX. You would have to pay all student athletes, male and female, or risk losing federal funding. The complications with paying players are enormous. Could you imagine the recruiting the process? Do schools like UM or OSU pay their players more than say WMU or EMU? Does a five star recruit get paid more than a four star? What if that 5 star kid is a bust? Do you take money away? Its too early in the am for this......

Is that like that 16 lb baby recently born in Texas? I hear Saban made an in-nursery visit.

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I remember that game so well. It was so crappy out none of the guys I lived with wanted to go. Early in the morning I went to Ulrich's to buy the book/video (yes, that's VHS) combo titled "Hail to the Victors: Greatest Moments in Michigan Football History". By the time we finished watching the video, we were so fired up, we couldn't wait to get to the stadium. A couple of weeks later Bo was doing a book signing at Briarwood, so he and Brandstatter signed it for me. Still one of my most prized belongings.

  I posted earlier in the Jordan Diamond post about my concerns re: contacting recruits via twitter. I used to work in college athletics and thought this smelled fishy. I had a friend who used to be the complaince director where I worked give me his interpretation. He felt it was impermissable and would could get the potential student athlete and the university in trouble. STAY AWAY FROM CONTACTING RECRUITS BY TWITTER OR ANY OTHER MEANS!!!! If you care about UM, you will leave those kids alone and let coaches do the selling on traditions, success, etc.

NCAA BYLAW 13.4.1.2 -- Electronic Transmissions

Effective Date: Aug 01, 2007

"communication with or about a prospective student-athlete in the

public's view (e.g., Twitter "@replies" or "mentions") is contrary to the publicity legislation and also

constitutes an impermissible form of electronic communication with a prospective student-athlete."

I believe contacting a recruit to encourage him to attend a school is or could be a violation of NCAA rules. I'd be careful about this one.

First, I got the morning going by adding some leftover pulled pork to my scrambled eggs. Next up will smoking some ribs. Low and slow my friends. For the best advice and information on grilling, checkout www.amazingribs.com. Fabulous. 

And will be finishing it off with some Oberon. Even in Virginia, we can get it! God Bless America!

When I was in school, '92-'96, the entire quote, forgive my memory but includes something like this: the wolf that shall keep it may prosper but the wolf that shall break will die.... was painted on the team defensive meeting room in Schembechler Hall. I worked in athletics for a couple of years and was in that room often. I always thought that was a great quote and well placed for the defense. 

Thinking back when I was a young lad, I could have cared less about a mascot. I wanted to see Bo yell, Jamie Morris run, Greg Skrepenak dominate, and Mark Messner destroy people. If I had seen Sparty back then, I would have kicked him in the shin.

I thought Ralphie was the kid who was warned about shooting his eye out with a BB gun?

Its still a little too early define the Dave Brandon era. Overall, I'd say so far its going well. Think about what he has had to do:1) guide us (at least partly) through the Jihad and the NCAA mess and 2) hire a new football coach. I think UM came out OK with the NCAA and we'll see about the Hoke hire which at least so far has everyone thinking positively. 

Don Canham was a little out there back in the 70s with his ideas about marketing and promotion. By the end, he was considered one of the most successful and even powerful people in college athletics.

Going back to my era, as long DB doesn't hang K-mart lettering around the Stadium, I'll be happy.

this is true as this would be the final nail. HOWEVA.... 'former friend who witnessed it'?? Only thing worse would be jilted ex-baby mama.

As in perhaps the OSU Rapture? 

What I like about Beilein's recruiting is he can find top talent before its top talent. Morris, Hardaway were not big time talent out of high school. They were good players but not Duke or Kansas recruits. He can catch them early, coach 'em up and look how we did against Duke and KU.....not wins but we're getting there. Basketball is a team sport and he's building a good team.

My best friend used to be AD for compliance at at Div I school (IAA football) and I posed this question to him re: OSU sanctions. His thoughts were the looming car scandal could be huge.  If proven true, could lead to the dreaded 'lack of institutional control'. Again, his opinion, would  mean loss of scholarships and bowl ban. Hopefully sanctions are in place prior to Commitment Day.

with what happened to AJ Green, I can't believe the NCAA would not come down hard on these guys and the OSU athletic dept. in general. I worked in college athletics for nearly 10 years and one of my best friends used to be the compliance director. In his words.....'they're screwed'.

he turned down a tattoo. I thought the 'rule' was you're supposed to get one.

if you're wrong you must change your name to Michael Wilbon for eternity.