An apolitical response: This is pure douchery. Why not single out a pro team, like the Carolina Panthers, for their ineptness. At least Iowa won the Big Ten West, such as it was in 2023. I know with NIL people will say college teams are really amateurs anymore. There's still a difference, and I doubt most of those pictured were getting much NIL money.
No, I did not want him fired in 2020. That was an anomalous year, which should have been evident at the time. Beyond that, I didn't think Michigan would get anyone better at the time anyway. Turns out, we had the right person.
I'm going to take it on faith that Ono and the athletic department are well advised on the strategic use of whatever information they have on other programs. I don't think they want to blow up the Big Ten and Michigan's relationship with it and its other teams so I'll be surprised if any of this comes out unless it's deemed necessary. The ball is in the Big Ten's and the NCAA's court. They, especially the conference leadership, may be in uncomfortable place due to the pedantic actions of certain coaches - too bad. I assume Ono et al have made that leadership aware that it will, indeed, get ugly if they press their case. The conference's best move, in many respects, is to back off and let the NCAA investigation run its course. That will be another mess but at least the season won't be affected.
I'm reminded of the words of my securities law professor: "the first rule of statutory interpretation is . . . keep reading." That is, reading a rule, provision, etc. in isolation is easy, as most of the media seems to have done, but often misses the context that explains how the rule applies, or at least opens the door to further interpretation.
Post script: The 9 year old in the story is now 20. He was waitlisted at M and is at Wisconsin and loving it. Not sure what happened to the stuffed wolverine, he probably burned it. The indifferent 7 year old is a freshman at Michigan.
As frustrating as this episode is, I'm glad it was publicized now instead of, say, December. As the NCAA itself has acknowledged, sign-stealing affords "minimal competitive advantage." At the same time, college football being the competitive environment that it is, if there's an advantage to be gained, most programs are going to and, in fact, do steal signs, or try to. This coming out now, weeks before the meat of our schedule against OSU and PSU, destroys any excuse those teams have when we beat them. Obviously MSU didn't have time to change their signals, leading to the obliteration that was Saturday night (TIC!), but if PSU and OSU don't change their signals, given the time they have, that's on them.
Hopefully that's what it is, and I'm going to guess that you didn't have the full force of the Michigan training and medical staff to help with your recovery.
Mr. Grapentine, good thing even Ohio State's walls are relatively soft, though not soft enough apparently. Your voice has been part of my life since listening to you on WQRS. Best wishes for a speedy recovery! See you in Indy!
Lolich pitched the first MLB game I ever attended, a 6-0 shutout of the Yankees in 1973. The Tigers used to have autograph days and various players were stationed at tables around the stadium before the start of the game. Of course I wanted Mickey Lolich's autograph. He signed the ball I passed to him and then rolled it back across the table to me. Being a 9-year old kid I was so awestruck that one of my baseball heroes was right in front of me I just left the ball roll off the table and fall to the floor. I can still here his chuckle. Best wishes for a recovery, #29.
Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea features a lot of non-traditional "rock" instruments, e.g., accordian on "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1," horns on "The Fool," etc. along with a number of other experimental instruments, but that was their sound.
Full dixieland band via the Humphrey Lyttelton Band on Radiohead's "Life in a Glasshouse" on Amnesiac.
Which all begs the question, what is a traditional instrument in rock music, besides the obvious?
Speaking of The Who, the jew's harp on "Join Together" deserves a mention too. Reportedly played by Moon and Daltry live but by Townshend on the recording.
For Friday Night Lights fans (I never watched FNL before this summer, when I was couch-bound while recovering from surgery), does anyone else think of Matt Saracen when considering Cade?
Football: All Big10 and ND (three times, still haven't seen M win there) except Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers. Favorites are Kinnick and Happy Valley; honorable mention to the new TCF in Minnesota (Metrodome was horrible). Least favorites: Illinois and Purdue.
Bowls: '86 Fiesta, '87 Rose and '98 Outback
Basketball: only IU, but that's a great place to see a game.
There were a few good songs on pretty much every Stones album, though I can't really speak to 1985 and after. Tattoo You definitely has some good songs, but was largely a rework of songs they'd had in the bin, some for over a decade. There are great songs on Black and Blue, Goat's Head Soup, It's Only Rock and Roll, even Emotional Rescue. The difference between those and BB-LIB-SF and Exile is that those four albums are top-to-bottom great.
Obviously this is all subjective, so none of these opinions are provable, but a fun OT topic.
The Stones started as a blues band and then chased the Beatles through much of the mid 60s. The produced some great songs during that time but no great albums. The Beatles were ahead of the curve with their initial combination of rock and pop but evolved and created from there. When the Stones turned back to their folk/rock/blues roots in '68 they found themselves again. From 1968 to 1972, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile in Main Street is the most impressive four-album run in rock history, which also cemented their reputation as a great rock band. Those four albums were an impossible bar to maintain, however, and they didn't achieve it again (while releasing some great songs in between) until '78 with Some Girls, which is the last great album they did.
I was on the field after that game too. Somehow I got to within three feet of Bo when someone grabbed his block M hat off his head and took off running. Wasn't me, but he looked . . . displeased.
This was my answer too, and it was pure domination from Penn State's first possession, when Michigan's D line showed the Nits it was going to be a long night for them. That was my first trip to Happy Valley. At the Rathskeller the night before, PSU fans were cordial and respectful, likely because they had beaten Michigan, sometimes badly, in the three previous contests. I went back for every M game there through 2006 and every year the reception was noticeably more icy. Maybe they didn't like the cheer: We Own . . . Penn State.
Speaking of nannies . . . I and two friends had just finished the Huntington Ravine trail on Mt. Washington (NH), taking a break before continuing to the summit when a young woman, the nanny, and the three kids she was in charge of came streaming past us, heading down the route we had just come up. Huntington Ravine trail is by far the most difficult non-technical trail I've ever hiked, with a few places where you're clinging to a steep rock wall, searching for hand and foot holds. It's generally regarded as the most difficult trail in the White Mountains, if not New England. In short, it's not a trail for a descent, and especially not for 8 - 10 year old kids who looked to be inexperienced hikers. On a map, however, it looks like the fastest way down off the mountain and that's apparently what they were trying to do. I asked her where she was going as the kids sped past us and found out they were all Quebecois and spoke no English at all. I mustered my best high school French and told her "Il y a beaucoup de gens qui ont tombe a mort sur ce route; c'est trop dangereux pour descendre." She called the kids back and we pointed them to the much safer, but longer, Tuckerman Ravine trail. A great accomplishment? Meh, but I'm glad I was there at that time.
I missed my graduation to attend NELP, it was well worth it. I sympathize but graduations are like weddings in reverse. The day itself is not so important, it's everything that preceded it that matters most.
Solid player and career; I'd love to see him in the booth somewhere, but especially in Detroit. I thought he always offered more than the usual player insight into a game, his play, etc. during interviews.
Smiths . . . Housemartins . . . Joy Division . . . throw in The Pogues, The The and Easterhouse's first album and it sounds like my senior year soundtrack.
JH and I graduated the same year. I ran into him in a bar in Iowa City in '96 or '97 when I was in law school. Since he was a classmate, I had to say hello. Small talk mostly, but I asked him if he still talked to Bo, and he said just about every week, so the connection was still strong roughly ten years after he left school.
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An apolitical response: This is pure douchery. Why not single out a pro team, like the Carolina Panthers, for their ineptness. At least Iowa won the Big Ten West, such as it was in 2023. I know with NIL people will say college teams are really amateurs anymore. There's still a difference, and I doubt most of those pictured were getting much NIL money.
No, I did not want him fired in 2020. That was an anomalous year, which should have been evident at the time. Beyond that, I didn't think Michigan would get anyone better at the time anyway. Turns out, we had the right person.
Enough of this waffling. I'm willing to state, right now, that this makes Underwood a lock for Michigan.
FWIW.
Softy McSoft.
That is…
Charles . . .
That is all.
Senator, you can have my answer now if you like. My offer is this: Nothing.
I'm going to take it on faith that Ono and the athletic department are well advised on the strategic use of whatever information they have on other programs. I don't think they want to blow up the Big Ten and Michigan's relationship with it and its other teams so I'll be surprised if any of this comes out unless it's deemed necessary. The ball is in the Big Ten's and the NCAA's court. They, especially the conference leadership, may be in uncomfortable place due to the pedantic actions of certain coaches - too bad. I assume Ono et al have made that leadership aware that it will, indeed, get ugly if they press their case. The conference's best move, in many respects, is to back off and let the NCAA investigation run its course. That will be another mess but at least the season won't be affected.
Well done, and great use of IRAC.
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Dear Rest of the Big Ten:
GFY, right now.
I'm reminded of the words of my securities law professor: "the first rule of statutory interpretation is . . . keep reading." That is, reading a rule, provision, etc. in isolation is easy, as most of the media seems to have done, but often misses the context that explains how the rule applies, or at least opens the door to further interpretation.
Post script: The 9 year old in the story is now 20. He was waitlisted at M and is at Wisconsin and loving it. Not sure what happened to the stuffed wolverine, he probably burned it. The indifferent 7 year old is a freshman at Michigan.
As frustrating as this episode is, I'm glad it was publicized now instead of, say, December. As the NCAA itself has acknowledged, sign-stealing affords "minimal competitive advantage." At the same time, college football being the competitive environment that it is, if there's an advantage to be gained, most programs are going to and, in fact, do steal signs, or try to. This coming out now, weeks before the meat of our schedule against OSU and PSU, destroys any excuse those teams have when we beat them. Obviously MSU didn't have time to change their signals, leading to the obliteration that was Saturday night (TIC!), but if PSU and OSU don't change their signals, given the time they have, that's on them.
I recall the play but not the immediate aftermath - was targeting called? It should have been if it wasn't. Too late to call for a review?
Hopefully that's what it is, and I'm going to guess that you didn't have the full force of the Michigan training and medical staff to help with your recovery.
Mr. Grapentine, good thing even Ohio State's walls are relatively soft, though not soft enough apparently. Your voice has been part of my life since listening to you on WQRS. Best wishes for a speedy recovery! See you in Indy!
Lolich pitched the first MLB game I ever attended, a 6-0 shutout of the Yankees in 1973. The Tigers used to have autograph days and various players were stationed at tables around the stadium before the start of the game. Of course I wanted Mickey Lolich's autograph. He signed the ball I passed to him and then rolled it back across the table to me. Being a 9-year old kid I was so awestruck that one of my baseball heroes was right in front of me I just left the ball roll off the table and fall to the floor. I can still here his chuckle. Best wishes for a recovery, #29.
Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea features a lot of non-traditional "rock" instruments, e.g., accordian on "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1," horns on "The Fool," etc. along with a number of other experimental instruments, but that was their sound.
Full dixieland band via the Humphrey Lyttelton Band on Radiohead's "Life in a Glasshouse" on Amnesiac.
Which all begs the question, what is a traditional instrument in rock music, besides the obvious?
Speaking of The Who, the jew's harp on "Join Together" deserves a mention too. Reportedly played by Moon and Daltry live but by Townshend on the recording.
I didn't read through the whole list but I'll add At Close Range and Witness, in case no one's listed them yet.
For Friday Night Lights fans (I never watched FNL before this summer, when I was couch-bound while recovering from surgery), does anyone else think of Matt Saracen when considering Cade?
I’m looking for one ticket for myself, a Michigan grad
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I love the Freakbass video, but only because I get to send it to my Domer friend every time we play them.
That's a caveat that should be appended to most posts.
Humbly…
Shitsville.
Humbly submitted.
Football: All Big10 and ND (three times, still haven't seen M win there) except Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers. Favorites are Kinnick and Happy Valley; honorable mention to the new TCF in Minnesota (Metrodome was horrible). Least favorites: Illinois and Purdue.
Bowls: '86 Fiesta, '87 Rose and '98 Outback
Basketball: only IU, but that's a great place to see a game.
There were a few good songs on pretty much every Stones album, though I can't really speak to 1985 and after. Tattoo You definitely has some good songs, but was largely a rework of songs they'd had in the bin, some for over a decade. There are great songs on Black and Blue, Goat's Head Soup, It's Only Rock and Roll, even Emotional Rescue. The difference between those and BB-LIB-SF and Exile is that those four albums are top-to-bottom great.
Obviously this is all subjective, so none of these opinions are provable, but a fun OT topic.
The Stones started as a blues band and then chased the Beatles through much of the mid 60s. The produced some great songs during that time but no great albums. The Beatles were ahead of the curve with their initial combination of rock and pop but evolved and created from there. When the Stones turned back to their folk/rock/blues roots in '68 they found themselves again. From 1968 to 1972, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile in Main Street is the most impressive four-album run in rock history, which also cemented their reputation as a great rock band. Those four albums were an impossible bar to maintain, however, and they didn't achieve it again (while releasing some great songs in between) until '78 with Some Girls, which is the last great album they did.
I was on the field after that game too. Somehow I got to within three feet of Bo when someone grabbed his block M hat off his head and took off running. Wasn't me, but he looked . . . displeased.
October 9, 1982, Michigan beats MSU 31-17, got to see AC score a touchdown.
This was my answer too, and it was pure domination from Penn State's first possession, when Michigan's D line showed the Nits it was going to be a long night for them. That was my first trip to Happy Valley. At the Rathskeller the night before, PSU fans were cordial and respectful, likely because they had beaten Michigan, sometimes badly, in the three previous contests. I went back for every M game there through 2006 and every year the reception was noticeably more icy. Maybe they didn't like the cheer: We Own . . . Penn State.
Speaking of nannies . . . I and two friends had just finished the Huntington Ravine trail on Mt. Washington (NH), taking a break before continuing to the summit when a young woman, the nanny, and the three kids she was in charge of came streaming past us, heading down the route we had just come up. Huntington Ravine trail is by far the most difficult non-technical trail I've ever hiked, with a few places where you're clinging to a steep rock wall, searching for hand and foot holds. It's generally regarded as the most difficult trail in the White Mountains, if not New England. In short, it's not a trail for a descent, and especially not for 8 - 10 year old kids who looked to be inexperienced hikers. On a map, however, it looks like the fastest way down off the mountain and that's apparently what they were trying to do. I asked her where she was going as the kids sped past us and found out they were all Quebecois and spoke no English at all. I mustered my best high school French and told her "Il y a beaucoup de gens qui ont tombe a mort sur ce route; c'est trop dangereux pour descendre." She called the kids back and we pointed them to the much safer, but longer, Tuckerman Ravine trail. A great accomplishment? Meh, but I'm glad I was there at that time.
I missed my graduation to attend NELP, it was well worth it. I sympathize but graduations are like weddings in reverse. The day itself is not so important, it's everything that preceded it that matters most.
Solid player and career; I'd love to see him in the booth somewhere, but especially in Detroit. I thought he always offered more than the usual player insight into a game, his play, etc. during interviews.
Re Sparty, you spelled udder wrong.
"Hello I watched you sleep last night" was good for a chuckle.
Which of those majors do you find less impressive? As discussed below, LSA General Studies still has requirements, just not a language requirement.
Great job posting this.
NFL = Meh, with somewhat increasing interest into the playoffs, peaking at the conference championships, and falling precipitously thereafter.
Why the Alabama players are such complete pussys about getting hit in the face.
Again . . . Manhattens.
Go Blue!
Smiths . . . Housemartins . . . Joy Division . . . throw in The Pogues, The The and Easterhouse's first album and it sounds like my senior year soundtrack.
In a morose sense, yes.
Q. What difference does it make?
A. It makes none.
but now you have gone, and you must be looking very old tonight.
Mope Rock rocks.
It's not Hoke's office, it's Harbaugh's.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh. All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh. All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh. All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh. All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh. All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh. All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
All work and no play makes Jack a Harbaugh.
I also remember telling him that his pass to Kolesar in the '85 OSU game was one of the greatest moments I ever saw at Michigan Stadium.
Cool Story, Bro Warning
JH and I graduated the same year. I ran into him in a bar in Iowa City in '96 or '97 when I was in law school. Since he was a classmate, I had to say hello. Small talk mostly, but I asked him if he still talked to Bo, and he said just about every week, so the connection was still strong roughly ten years after he left school.