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The new PR intern has…

The new PR intern has apparently entered the chat.

Demonstrating that RR and BH were just as bad as Harbaugh has been isn't the compelling argument that you think it is. Even showing Carr's shortcomings isn't, either. Harbaugh was hired to surpass them, to deliver Big Ten titles, to get Michigan into the playoffs. You've proven that he hasn't done the first objective, and we all know that we're lightyears from the second and third.

If you're content with the big money hire whose mission was to exceed the accomplishments of his immediate predecessors but just replicates what they have done, then fine. It's not a good way to run a business, or really anything.

For the record, though, I don't see a way that the university can move on from him this year and justify it financially--everybody across the university has taken pay cuts, most programs are restricted from spending, and the athletic department is projected to run at like a 20-30 million deficit (maybe this will change depending on rollout of the vaccine(s)), so just buying him out and splashing another huge contract on a coach at this point would just be vulgar.

The phrase is "intents and

The phrase is "intents and purposes" unless you're making some joke that I'm unaware of.

At least you're acknowledging

At least you're acknowledging the casual sexism, even if you're attempting to dismiss it. Looks like the "feminists" are slowly winning you over.

Well, it's on Good Morning America

Well, it's on Good Morning America, so hopefully this is going to move the needle a bit, at least to clarify what the sideline staff actually did and did not do.

Brandon's Corporate Culture

I'll say it again--Michigan was proud to get the former CEO of a pizza company whose immediate ad campaign under new leadership was 'Our product is the worst in the country, but we're working on it.."

Gravity's Rainbow

Honestly, GR is the paradigmatic Pynchon novel, plus the banana breakfast scene is one of the greatest in 20th century lit, let alone his own oeuvre.

Criteria for this list...

Seems like most of the texts on the list are there for their style, and I'm not sure the pure aesthetic style of the Bible speaks even to many of the people who read it regularly.

No offense, but...

I've never read a single article on this blog and thought "wow, that reminds me of DFW," even though I really enjoy the writing. More like Vonnegut, honestly, with the insight, playfulness, sharp changes in subject.

No one will ever sound like DFW again, and 1) that's good and 2) I really wish he were still alive and writing. Or just alive, not to be selfish.

World Football Leagues

The point made about (non-American) football leagues is true only to a certain point. For example, the Premiere League does not have a playoff, yet clubs work hard to finish in the top four so they qualify for the European Champions League, which is a tournament. Most (all?) football clubs compete in many tournaments in addition to the competing in the league in which they are based--ask Wayne Rooney if he'd rather win another Premiere League title with Man U or win the World Cup (or ask any footballer a similar question), and he'll say World Cup, a tournament.

This has me thinking, why not have the teams who finish the regular season at #1 & #2 play in a bowl for the NCAA title right after the regular season, and THEN start a BCS championship tournament? Best of both worlds--clear regular season champion, then a tournament, plus the possibility (likelihood?) that different teams will win each, thus allowing the arguments about what team is actually *best* to continue forever?

Agreed, but,,,

why re-post her picture here?

Just wanted to applaud the

Just wanted to applaud the David Foster Wallace reference in the title...new to the site, absolutely love it.