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When is the last time…

When is the last time Michigan had All-Americans in all three phases of the game?

Does anyone know what’s up…

Does anyone know what’s up with Torvik’s at-large projections? Michigan is at 100% and OSU/ILL/Iowa are at 99.9%. I understand the latter figure may be rounded down from some number very close to 100%, indicating only one or two scenarios out of thousands in which, say, Iowa, misses the field, but how is that possible? Is Torvik accounting for some kind of scandal that prevents a team from playing? Because I don’t see how Iowa would miss the field otherwise. If it’s accounting for some kind of COVID disruption, why is UM at 100% and not 99.99%...?

As far as I could see, in…

As far as I could see, in the Kenpom era (since 2002), three teams have done it

2018 Kansas (final record: 31-8)

2016 Virginia (29-8)

2012 Michigan State (29-8)

 

Nice post. As mentioned in…

Nice post. As mentioned in another thread, this would be an...interesting...way to end the season (and a plausible one): 

  • Illinois goes 4-1, beating UM and losing @OSU
  • UM goes 3-2, beating Iowa, @Indiana, and MSU; losing to Illinois and @MSU

UM 14-3 (.82 winning percentage)

Illinois 16-4 (.80 winning percentage)

UM wins the title based on a slim winning percentage margin while losing at home in the only head-to-head meeting. Now that would be controversial.

Also, in this (again, very plausible) scenario, the Iowa game is massive. UM really needs to win that one.

Man, now I miss the CCRB!…

Man, now I miss the CCRB! Did anyone else play racquetball on the old courts on the first floor?

Good. Hopefully the practice…

Good. Hopefully the practice time the basketball team gets from now until the next game (Wisconsin?) will help them shake off the rust.

Lol. Just graduated from…

Lol. Just graduated from umich in the spring and I have no good memories of the game. Wasn't a football fan in 2011. But I do have vivid memories of 3 blowout losses (2015, 2018, 2019) and 3 gut-punch losses (2013, 2016, 2017).

Michigan is 2 missed field…

Michigan is 2 missed field goals away from losses to Army and Rutgers

Second CB problem? You mean…

Second CB problem? You mean just the CB problem?

5-3, losses to Minnesota,…

5-3, losses to Minnesota, PSU, and OSU. Crossover opponent is Iowa, who we beat. 6-3

I’m a senior at michigan. I…

I’m a senior at michigan. I’ve never missed a game. holy shit, can the band play more than 3 songs? I understand people want more band and less piped-in music, but can we compromise and have the band play something from this century? it seems like it happens once a year where the band plays something from the charts and it sounds amazing every time.

 

and don’t get me started on the media timeouts. 16 media timeouts against iowa, not including injury timeouts and end-of-quarter TOs. I’ll be glad to graduate and just watch the games on TV.

it’s my senior year. I haven…

it’s my senior year. I haven’t missed a single game in three years. I really want this year to be something special. we all do. but this year...this year I’m more emotional about it. for a lot of reasons.

go blue.

I don’t give a fuck. And…

I don’t give a fuck. And neither do the students.

FUCK THAT

FUCK THAT

hey, same. my former high…

hey, same. my former high school is playing in the D7 state final (go hornets!). it's at 10 am so getting out of Ford Field without missing too much of the game will be tough, but it's a good situation to be in

boxer briefs

boxer briefs

are you going to gameday? If…

are you going to gameday? If not, I may have to use this one!

the dorms most certainly do…

the dorms most certainly do not close this weekend

source: am an RA in stockwell

also here

also here

They sure do. I worked at…

They sure do. I worked at Markley for the past two years and chicken broccoli bake goes just about as fast as we can put it out. It’s easy to serve though

Four years ago, I became a…

Four years ago, I became a soccer fan thanks to the World Cup. I used to think that soccer needed more scoring, too. But there’s something magical about scoring in soccer that other sports can’t replicate. There’s something exhilarating about last-ditch defending or a diving save. There’s a sense of anticipation when you watch a team build through the midfield as they search for an equalizer. You can never know when the next goal will come. I agree that some games can be boring, but that can be said about any sport.

I also disagree that soccer plays “sixth fiddle” in the US. Yes, its TV viewership has a ways to go to match football, basketball, etc. but attendance and youth participation are way up. For example, Atlanta United drew 72,000+ to their game yesterday. 

maybe if we wanted to win…

maybe if we wanted to win the ohio state game instead of just play it, we would consider a night game to create a better atmosphere. just a thought.

i agree. it seems like

i agree. it seems like everyone has just accepted flopping ("simulation" as FIFA calls it). as far as I know, players can be fined in the NBA for flopping, and that flop might be worth two points in a game where scores in the triple digits are common. soccer referees are supposed to penalize for diving but rarely do, and that's a sport where the final margin might be decided by a flop in the box.

which brings me to the penalty in soccer. they're too damn easy for professionals to score. the penalty box is huge because in the early days of soccer, the game was more territorial and having possession that deep in the opponent's territory meant you were likely to score. not true anymore.

lastly, and I know this will never happen: get rid of extended baseball playoffs. banish divisions. american league and national league, like it used to be. baseball is a random-ass sport in which luck has a major role, so if you want to find and reward the true champion, you need to limit the number of single-elimination games and short playoff series. have the american league and natl league champs play a best of 15.

I don't know what you're

I don't know what you're smoking, but Ross is not 11th. We are consistently top five for undergrad in the US. usnews dot com has us 3rd for business programs, based on "peer review"—all of the top business schools' deans rank each other.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall

Not trying to say NPF should have come to Michigan, to be clear.

Brady did not and has never

Brady did not and has never had control over how his defense plays. Talking about a player's legacy in terms of how others perform their jobs is one of team sports' most celebrated fallacies. Conversations about rings and titles are meaningless. Who wins is ultimately decided by a dizzying number of variables and a considerable amount of luck. Use individual statistics over team stats like title wins.

Double post

For double the emphasis, amirite?

It seems to me that Harbaugh

It seems to me that Harbaugh would rather win a certain way than just have the best possible chance of winning. As another poster pointed out, you don't win titles with TEs and FBs. Or, at the very least, it's much harder, and it hasn't been done for years. Even Alabama this year relied on some clutch QB runs and big WR catches. Look at the best collegiate offenses year after year. None of them play smash mouth football.

Also, I think the team could be top five by advanced metrics next year and go 9-3 anyway, simply due to the schedule. Putting ND back on the schedule instead of keeping a rebuilding Arkansas looks like a dumber decision every day.

Probably because fighting in

Probably because fighting in other sports will get you ejected instead of put in a box for five minutes

Oops. 2018 class.

Oops. 2018 class.

Tired of the idea that a

Tired of the idea that a poster is automatically a "troll" if they post any discontent about our 2017 class. Maybe stargazers are annoying, but do people realize how many blue chips it takes to win a national title? Oklahoma has probably the lowest number of these players, but they're the exception with a Heisman winner at QB.

Then, when you mention Mayfield, people say "Well he was a walk-on at Texas Tech." Okay then! Instead of trying to bring in high ceiling QB recruits, we should take under-the-radar kids with no offers. When we take a low three star, someone goes and lists all of the recent 3 stars who became great players. What about all the ones who didn't work out?

We can pull hard for every kid who decides to come here while still be disappointed in the class.

I received my acceptance

I received my acceptance emails for general admission into LSA and pre-admittance to Ross at the same time, a few days before Christmas. I didn't really realize how prestigious Ross was at the time so it was sort of anticlimactic, especially when compared to my other acceptance email. This was only two years ago, FWIW. Good luck!

According to Barton Simmons

According to Barton Simmons (from June), he's "freakishly athletic":

https://247sports.com/Article/Barton-Simmons-Cover-3-Germanys-Julius-Welschof-is-one-of-the-st-53255124

Also he can do backflips on skis. And if he commits and it works out, I'll be thrilled. But I can't say I'm excited about yet another project-type. Disclaimer, etc., Harbaugh's still the man for the job, etc.

 

Maybe Beilein just really

Maybe Beilein just really likes playing tomato cans. Good for testing new lineups and building chemistry with very little chance of a loss? Idk, all I got

A lot of people don't like

A lot of people don't like statistics and some say that "statistics lie," but in actuality it's that people just misinterpret them.

Thank you for your words of

Thank you for your words of encouragement. The long term outlook is much better than our current string of...whatever this has been.

That's my thing too. I'm a

That's my thing too. I'm a sophomore here at Michigan so I live our athletics every day. It's hard to escape even if I wanted to. I'm just so fucking tired of losing. I wish I didn't care as much as I do because it's not healthy. The losses suck more than the wins are great. Fucking sick of it. And no, I'm not going to walk away from our teams. I wish I could, though.

Seeing Urban frustrated makes

Seeing Urban frustrated makes my heart happy

Great stuff, LSA. I remember

Great stuff, LSA. I remember a few years ago when the quality of writing tailed off a bit on another Michigan blog (cough, MaizeNBrew, cough) and I just kinda wandered online for a while. Probably read a bunch of MLive or something. Then I found MGoBlog. Even though I don't post much, I'm thankful for all of my MGoBrethren with whom I can be disappointed with after losses and with whom I can be jubilant after wins. What makes me the proudest, though, is when we can all bond after a loss that's bigger than sports. If someone's having trouble in real life, this community will support you. It's a special place.

Oh, and beat Ohio State.

Ball control

I did a little research, and it appears that field hockey sticks are (seemingly) awkwardly short to provide more control over the ball. A shorter stick allows players to perform flicks, drags, and complete quicker passes than a long stick.

Decades ago, sticks were longer; however, they have gotten shorter over the years. The only benefit a long stick has over a short stick is better ball speed on passes/shots, which has gotten less important in top field hockey as players have become more skillful.

Finally, it looks like there's sizing charts and the like to ensure you don't play with a stick that's so short that it forces bad posture.

You think Michigan is going

You think Michigan is going to score 33 points? I think we're more likely to score -33 points

Damn it Toboggan

Trying not to get my hopes up for this Saturday night so that I might be able to study the next day, in the event of a Michigan loss…this combined with your comment in one of the earlier threads on the importance of the run game has me excited. Thanks for digging the numbers up.

What a fantastic, resounding

What a fantastic, resounding win!

Read what I wrote. I was

Read what I wrote. I was talking about Saturday's slate. Washington State played on Friday.

Overall, a pretty terrible

Overall, a pretty terrible day of football. PSU and MSU both shrug off challengers (PSU emphatically) and no top 25 underdogs won that I'm aware of. Rutger doesn't count as a challenger. The only awesome game was Wazzu over USC on Friday night. Watching Clemson's defense shut down VT was disappointing, if unsurprising.

Thanks, although I borrowed

Thanks, although I borrowed it from the shitstorm "Sam Darmold" post. Not original work ;)

Has anyone really been far

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I guess it shouldn't really

I guess it shouldn't really come as a surprise that the four toughest games on Michigan's schedule all have the best (least terrible?) offensive lines. How much those four lines improve this year will be interesting to follow

I know this is a joke thread but I'll play along anyway

I absolutely hate (YTM) and (NTM). We fucking know which Miami you're talking about, every time.

Username checks out

Username checks out

Actually, NBA Twitter is the

Actually, NBA Twitter is the worst, and it's not close. Check it out sometime. Or don't.