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MSU wore reebok when they won their last championship so they don't qualify for this initial platinum jersey.

2008 Utah & 2010 SDSU had 9-4 seasons with a win over Navy in the Poinsettia. That's as close as could be. Back in '08 the jury was out on Whittingham too.



Utah's undefeated run was not expected they didn't have Boise St. or TCU like hype. Which is why we as a Michigan fanbase came to grips with that particular loss retroactively late in that season.

The bigger issue is that the arena is outdated. Oiler fans still fill the building to capacity every night even when the team is not competitive in an outdated rink.

So are you saying that since Oiler fans have established themselves as a working class and extremely loyal fanbase they should not want a modern arena downtown? 

This narrow view of yours is ridiculous. Edmonton is a city that will sell out a bigger arena when built and it could use a downtown arena district to revitalize a boring unused downtown core.

Especially the one other teams do where the qb lines up as a wr. The defense couldn't afford to ignore Robinson like they do almost every qb that lines up out wide.

I know multiple QBs on the field has been joked about a lot in the last 2 years but in the case of a trick played I'd love to see it.

Denard coming around in motion on a reverse pass would also be fun to watch.

It sounds like the total cost for Michigan Stadium, Crisler and Yost will be $20M, not just the 2 for the stadium.

He was my favorite NFL qb growing up. I lived in Chicago while he was a Bear, I loved watching him as a Colt. I still think the Colts were robbed by that play Kordell Stewart was out of bounce and came back in to catch the AFC championship winning TD.

I wanted Harbaugh back in 07 when he had won a NC with San Diego.

The circus around Harbaugh this month is crazy. I am beginning to think of the other options after Harbaugh. Hoke is someone I think has the potential to overachieve and be a good coach at Michigan. Whoever the next HC is will have to deal with a lot of bs expectations and myths of bs expectations that the local media hold in too lofty idealistic standards.

EDIT: I also think the lambasting of Hoke on this board is terrible and could possibly make the job harder than it needs to be if he happens to be hired. We don't need the next coach having similar challenges that handicapped Rodriguez while he was here. It took the wind out of the sails of a good coach and I don't want to see a portion of the fanbase / media create unnecessary obstacles to overcome within the support system of Michigan football. 

Bo's statement was an indictment on Frieder not an endorsement for Fisher, it's better to have an interim coach them somebody who wants to be somewhere else.



On another note: I think Jim Tressel who was an unpopular choice has been so successful because of his passion for OSU. I know he has the best state for recruiting outside of the south and big budgets and proved himself to be a good coach at other levels, but without his passion he he'd be like John Cooper. Cooper had great talent but lost meaningful games. OSU dominates the bigten because of their coaches passion has been adopted by their players.



I want to see Michigan match that internal passion for the team by the coaches and then the players. That will all depend on how passionate the next HC leads.

Would solve all of this. The divisions would still be even and the rivalries would make more sense.



Then you could very logically do great lakes / plains or north south would work as well.



The B1G decision on Wisconsin is screwing these division lines and consequently names up.

I have played through 1 season and found that the gameplay was really frustrating. It seemed like some of those older games where only some of the plays work and other just don't work regardless of the situation.  Receivers drop passes at a frustrating level. Running the ball with the rb can be pretty easy. I ended up pulling a Wisconsin and abandoned the pass, Mike Shaw had a big season.

I doubt I'll ever play a 2nd season. $5 - its debatably worth it.

I have an iphone. I've watched a couple of M games this fall or part of them from the Justin TV app.  Its a battery and data sucker if you're not on wifi, but well worth it.

I'm a groomsman. Starts a 1/2 hour before game time. Its worth it for a friend this close. But my heart is torn in being away from the tv at gametime, especially considering this years heightened excitement.



I live in Alberta where NCAA football is not a consideration. I hope my justintv app works during pictures.

please have a comment and not just a heading or the mgoblog app for iphone crashes

And Oregon is the most exciting offense so far this season.

• In 2008 our guys came out in the rain in Adidas gloves having just switched brands in the off season.
• No one on ND had Adidas gloves and they have been with that brand for years.
• They came out with Cutters instead of Adidas.
• They held on to the ball and our guys could not.
• I hope the team chooses gloves wisely after that debacle.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/11789412@N03/2863093702/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Some of Michigan's players might have switched gloves at halftime.

than Forcier and Robinson.

And the non-death option is coming off of ACL surgery.

This is ridiculous. 

I still love it.

Friends that bought pc laptops at the same time are not content with those ones anymore and are wanting to get a new one.

I've had no desires of getting a new one. That's contentment, I always want new electronics.

Mac won me over and continues to. My usage needs sound similar to OP.

there is a lot 1st & 2nd string guys missing from this video 

Fieldturf is supposed to look like real grass (in most cases). If you look at kinnick or Ohio stadium for recent examples of going with fieldturf and filling the endzones with team colors, the fakeness really comes out. With UM's natural background look the grass appearance remains entact.

(Tried to link pictures from phone)
http://flickr.com/photos/dsweeney/4563248770/sizes/m/in/search?q=kinnick...

http://flickr.com/photos/27699644@N02/2887608367/sizes/m/in/search?q=ohi...

I did download the model by MkMrA2 for my google earth and then hid the one that was the default. This is a good job by him, much better than the old one.  The old model always bothered me - but I don't have the skill or the patience to build Michigan stadium myself. This new update is not perfect but a big improvement.

edit: the outside structures' brick and glass are very impressive, virtually perfect. not sure how you would change the glass on the inside to look more realistic.

He's talented. But, he never seemed to possess that leadership quality to demand others around him be better.

One of the best things about Woodson was that he kept everybody accountable around him. So guys like Ray and Hendricks and Weathers were pushed to play better than there talent level.

I don't like that Warren is gone but I'm not really upset either. It seems like T Wolf might possess some of that leadershipto demand of his teammates. And if Warren was being a me first attitude guy (it sometimes seemed that way this year) that his leaving early knowing he doesn't have a chance for 1 st round suggests; the team will be better as a unit who play together. And most importantly as they practice together to make each other better.

I don't think it's too much too ask of Adidas to make uniforms that don't rip so easily, while at the same time don't have bunching numbers or some other major quality control issue. I think that uniforms that tear at the seams or in the climacool fabric look sloppy regardless of straight tackle-twill numbers. It's ridiculously short sighted to think it HAS to be one or the other flaw.

EDIT: I also believe that Reebok uniforms had more of a bunching issue than Nike did.

Looks like old number 41 in the '89 tournament.

1. Michigan Football
2. Michigan Basketball
3. Seattle Seahawks
4. Detroit Lions
5. Edmonton Oilers
6. Seattle Mariners
7. Detroit Tigers
8. Detroit Pistons
9. Seattle Sonics (left)

Last year's Michigan Basketball team the only bright light the last 2 years.
Here's to hoping for a good run for the MNT in the World Cup this summer, although they would probably rather not have me root for the them.

This is great to hear about a good player who is a high character guy. Every news I hear about Craig makes me even more of a fan of his personally.

Although he won't get the same national recognition as Florida QB#15, I think we are feeling a very similar feeling in our fanship of Roh that Florida fans felt after Florida QB#15's first year when people began to hear of his Missions work and his team leadership character.

I hope our excitement for Craig will see similar successes for Michigan football that happened for Florida the last 3 years highly due to their high character, missions minded team leader.

It seems to me that in part Rosenberg and Snyder had the courage to do this because they know that Michigan fans will do nothing about this. Imagine a dishonest story breaking out in Columbus about OSU, Dallas/Houston about Texas , Jacksonville about UF, Tuscaloosa about Bama. Freep thinks thinks they can write anything even if the aren't truthful. There has to be a repercussion for this from the fans. But because we are Michigan fans and hopefully civilized we need to Ban the Freep as a protest. The other markets would probably resort to violence or nasty threats. We need to hit them in the pocketbook. Take their advertising dollars away. This is how they should pay. Hopefully their first cutbacks on staff would be the notorious writers of fabricated details on a program that has done things the right way, and still does. Its just that other programs are not being witch hunted like UM has just had done to them.

Tate was phenomenal when his shoulder was healthy. WMU game, his first game ever he was great. ND game, Tate's performance was Heroic. EMU game was good in limited time, the team struggled when DR was in. Indiana game he was clutch but got hurt. MSU was the game following his labrum injury. He still willed his team to OT.
Starting in that game and for the rest of the season he could not throw the long ball. Defences figured that out and knew they didn't have to cover deep. Our offence was severely limited.

Tate is going to be our QB and the guy to lead this amazing offence to immense success. We've seen him do it already. He didn't regress as much as just couldn't play how he should because of a hurt throwing shoulder. Healthy Tate is my #1 choice for any QB in the nation.

Coach Jackson was over the moon about McGuffie, Shaw & Cox. Especially McGuffie. Similar sort of praise to FItz. He said Sam would be one of the best ever.

Fitz being faster than Chris Perry would be awesome. Perry's Sr season was a dream. He deserved every bit of that Doak Walker and was great against OSU in the 100th anniversary of The Game.

Hopefully he will avoid the immaturity that Perry had in his bouts with Coach Carr. It was painful to watch him as an underclassmen have so much potential wasted sitting on the bench.
If Fitz has the well-roundness of Perry, the next 4 years will be exciting. Can't wait for another RB to display stength, speed and agilty all at the same time again.

But no Chicago. That is a lame plan. Baltimore and DC are way to close to be considered different areas for a World Cup hosting in America. No Chicago, the 3rd largest metro area in the country is ridiculous. Especially considering their history with soccer and the caliber of their stadium. I'm disappointed by the plan.

Got shocked by -51 temperatures last week after snow the week before. Now around 20 degrees with another inch of snow. No doubt of a white Christmas this year. We've had a couple years in the past 5 where we had no snow. I'm not sure which is more hard to believe. Last week we were the coldest place on earth with the exception of Siberia.

It was fun watching him play. But at the same time completely frustrating. Not once in 4 years was he a dependable back for more than one game at a time.

I have nothing against his effort / attitude. I simply hope that Michigan will have a consistently productive rb again. Which we haven't seen in the last 2 seasons, regardless of "Minor's Rage" which came out in a few games.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/4167535921_433528d1b7.jpg

Well done. Tate shall use the Forcier to take down the Empire!
Love R2 Odoms

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Walker wore #4 Terrell was # 1 his whole time at M.
I think the 4 for stokes seems odd. I didn't think he was a RS candidate with how high coach Rod was of him in the signing day presser.
Side note: Denard got his HS #
nice of Cone to switch for him

Even though OSU has their streak of wins against the good guys, other than last year when Sweater Vest got embarrassed that last year's game was close at half and then ran up the score in the 4th quarter, the games have been competitive. The bad guys just have just had the ability to close out games. This has not taken away from the fierce competitiveness of football's greatest rivalry. To put this rivalry below UF-UT which has been very lopsided in wins and scores or TA&M-TT which has been totally irrelevant (who remembers even one of those games) is ridiculous.

In watching the video of Hopkins run I thought of two players in recent Michigan history. The first was BJ Askew circa 2002 when he played at HB because Chris Perry was in Lloyd's doghouse. He had a great game against MSU running for 150 in the 49-3 win. The other player I thought of was Anthony Thomas in his style of bull you over but also takes great angles to negate some lack of speed. I know Thomas was a lot higher ranked coming out of HS and came in to contribute as a freshman on the NC team - but Hopkins has a similar style.
I think Askew and Thomas are better comparisons than Minor.