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From a 2009 Columbus…

From a 2009 Columbus Dispatch story before their game against USC:

For those who arrive on campus early, will there be enough toilets?

Ohio State hopes so and says it has learned its lesson from big matchups such as the Texas game in 2005, in which cleanup crews found several soiled shorts and a few coolers filled with poop.

That's true, but there is…

That's true, but there is also a Portal that opens after the spring practices/games.

LINK

The spring transfer portal officially opens on Saturday, April 15, 2024, and closes on Sunday, April 30, 2024, giving just 15 days for players to enter the portal.

With only 15 days to enter the portal, the timeframe is much shorter than the winter period, and it is important to remember that a player only needs to enter the portal during those dates. Once their names are in the portal, they are free to complete their move at any time.

Because it's the NFL, and…

Because it's the NFL, and making things unnecessarily complicated is what they do best.

Correct, only the person who…

Correct, only the person who crosses the goal line (or kicks it through the upright) gets the points.

Tom Brady only has 168 career points for example, thanks to his 28 rushing TDs.

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Made the game-winning strip sack against Brady actually

I would imagine it's your…

I would imagine it's your first scenario, 2 beers per trip, and it will be up to each beer vendor to cut people off.

That's the policy at pretty much every other sporting venue I've been to that sells alcohol (including some College stadiums); I don't see why Michigan would be any different.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-i8IvYIcg

 

Zero percent chance of…

Zero percent chance of happening mostly because there's already a development plan for the Sears location.

The development team plans to tear down the vacant Sears — one of the mall’s four anchor spaces — and replace it with new two-story commercial spaces, including a grocery store and another large retail space officials said is expected to be a sporting goods store, plus 354 apartments in a four-story building covering part of the mall parking lot.

If you don’t understand the…

If you don’t understand the difference between where Beilein started, and where Juwan started, you don’t understand basketball.

Knew I should have hit one…

Knew I should have hit one last refresh before submitting.

Duplicate thread: https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/bacon-tweets-harbaugh-extension-process-stalled-trending-positively

He also excused War Crimes…

He also excused War Crimes in Vietnam:
 

Speaking at a football banquet in 1969, Hayes spoke about the recently revealed My Lai Massacre. He stated that the Vietnamese men in My Lai deserved to die, "and I wouldn't be so sure those women were innocent. The children are obviously innocent – if they are less than five."
 

This square is the Media…

This square is the Media Embed, and it loads the full tweet/youtube video, rather than just the plaintext code.

Then you just tag in the URL

And it will load the fancy embed version:

Yeah, here's some of the …

Yeah, here's some of the "schools" that big time programs played as football was taking shape

Ohio State: 17th Regiment of Ohio, Dayton YMCA, Ohio Medical, Columbus Barracks

Alabama: Haskell Indian Nations, Birmingham HS, 2nd Ambulance Company, Pensacola NAS

Texas: Texas School for the Deaf, Penn Radio School, 26th Infantry, Blackland AFB

Notre Dame: South Bend HS, Northwestern Law School, Illinois Cycling Club, Chicago Dental, Adrian College (yes the one in Michigan), Toledo Athletic Association

Oklahoma: Hawaii All-Stars, Guthrie Town Team, Arkansas City Town Team, Oklahoma City Town Team

This year alone Mountain…

This year alone Mountain West schools have played: Arizona State, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Oregon, Oregon State, Purdue, Stanford, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, UCF (not P5 yet, but they will be next year), UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington, and Washington State.

OSU and WSU should probably finish 1-2 in this scheduling agreement, but this won't be anything new for the league.

I understand where you're…

I understand where you're coming from, but Blake Corum didn't ask to be involved in this either. But because of Stalion's alleged actions, Blake is having to answer questions about the situation, and have his lawyers start investigating to see what this deal is.

https://twitter.com/chengelis/status/1722037619108811054
yes, this is Stalionsno,… https://twitter.com/mgoblog/status/1719207301175705648

 

Eh, last year for the…

Eh, last year for the initial rankings they had Tennessee #1 and Ohio State #2 over Georgia (#3) and Michigan (#5).

I don't think it would be too shocking to see OSU #1 tomorrow night with the argument that their wins over Notre Dame and Penn State bounce them up there.

Very true, and I know it's…

Very true, and I know it's still early in their careers, but I'd say that Sherrone Moore + Jesse Minter > Terry Malone/Mike DeBord + Jim Herrman/Ron English

Yeah, *coaches* get new jobs…

Yeah, *coaches* get new jobs.

Stalions has just been an off field analyst, who greatest skill set is rendered useless by wristbands or soon-to-come helmet headsets.

<blockquote class="twitter… https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1268022577542332417

 

AVPBCI is getting political…

AVPBCI is getting political in the thread about the Women's World Cup thread

LINK

and quote:

Still happy Rapinoe choked though !  Couldn't of happened to a better player on the US Team if one was to choke which she did. Good Riddance. She made the US team and this world cup unwatchable. keep the Negs coming snowflakes. WGAF about the points. Your liberal tears are the same ones that like Men playing in womens sports and changing in the same locker room.

Here's a LINK to the goal.

Here's a LINK to the goal.

And sheesh, what a rocket of a shot

 
Yeah, the real story is that…

Yeah, the real story is that he got into the private school as an incoming sophomore, and was then coached for 3 years by Tim Long, an NFL vet, and Hugh Freeze, who despite his personal failings, is a pretty decent football coach.

Yeaup, SalvatoreQuattro…

Yeaup, SalvatoreQuattro starting pointless political fights, and some borderline illiterate political ranting from AVPBCI

 
This is just a law allowing…

This is just a law allowing UM to sell alcohol if they wanted, but as far as I know the University itself is still prohibiting it.

It'll probably happen in the future, but right now there's no booze being sold in the Big House

Winston and Strawn, the firm…

LINK

Take a look at mgrowold's…

Take a look at mgrowold's join date

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Calm down my guy, there are way more pure assholery things in sports than poking fun at sad sports fans

 I've enjoyed the heck out…

 I've enjoyed the heck out of the NBA and hope they beat Boston and have watched all of Miami's games of late.

Shouldn't that be Denver? Unless you're on a week long spoilers delay, in which case sorry I just spoiled Game 7 of the Eastern Finals

I do truly encourage…

I do truly encourage everybody to go look at his Twitter likes: https://twitter.com/ShemyScout/likes

For every random #GoBlue tweet, there's about a dozen just absolutely unhinged, hateful, divisive tweets that he's seeing and interacting with.

Including stuff from Steve Deace, the white supremacist whose work got banned here at mgoblog.

Such a great culture hire!

Jayson Tatum was in the the…

Jayson Tatum was in the the same recruiting class, and has played in more NBA playoff games (87), than Seth has played college games (83).

They gave us fits in 2012…

They gave us fits in 2012 too. Needed 400 yards from Denard to win 31-25

Fun little detail about…

Fun little detail about Bernhard Raimann, check out his primary recruiter for Central Michigan...

However if the player gets…

However if the player gets all the way through his senior year in college, the team that drafted him actually loses his rights

This is a little nitpicky, but NHL teams actually hold their draft rights until until August 15th of a players graduation year, or 30 days after a players college career is finished.

So it's fairly easy for a college player to become a UFA, but it's not an automatic process, nor is it a guarantee that Clubs will be appreciative of you messing with the system in place.

(edited to correct some mistaken info I had)

And there absolutely is an…

And there absolutely is an element of "let's make life worse for drivers" from some people contributing to the planning and development of transportation, and I know it is a real factor from some elements in Ann Arbor because I'm familiar with people involved. 

I'm very curious, what roads and planning are you talking about?

Because I'm on the West Side of Ann Arbor, and drive to work everyday, and I really don't see any of these "make life worse for drivers" measures that you (and some other) out-of-towners are talking about.

While I don't mean that as a huge gatekeeping measure, I will admit, I am gatekeeping a little bit. You live in Duluth, how do you feel qualified at all to talk about day-to-day traffic in Ann Arbor?

If he's so annoying on…

If he's so annoying on Twitter why don't you just....unfollow him? Or mute/block him? That's one of the few good things about Twitter, you don't have to see anybodies tweets that you don't want to see.

Y'all are just fucking weirdos

This is Rick Barnes' 35th…

This is Rick Barnes' 35th season as a Head Coach, and it's only his 8th time making it to the Sweet Sixteen.

Regular Season Rick is an incredibly apt nickname for him.

Well, first of all, you…

Well, first of all, you probably shouldn't be bringing up usernames as a mark against someone.

Second, I'm no Warde apologist. I think there's definitely things he's screwed up, and things he can improve on. But I'm also a realist, and half of the complaints people have here are fantasy complaints, that ignore the realities of college athletics.

You thought my 10 second google image was cringe? Champ, I thought your entire post was cringe. Perfect 20/20 hindsight judgement of a situation, ignoring facts, and just flat out making up stuff to fit your shitty narrative.

it's the AD's job to identify a diamond in the rough when there aren't obvious choices

Again, all of those coaches were hired by the time Beilein left (May 13th)

  • Eric Musselman - Hired April 9th 
  • Buzz Williams - Hired April 3rd
  • Mick Cronin - Hired April 9th

Not to mention, Warde should have been in good enough contact with Beilein to not let that situation happen in the first place

From the Athletic, May 19th 2019 - "Neither the coaching staff nor the support staff nor the players had a forewarning of the bombshell.....Two sources noted that Beilein was still going full-tilt on the recruiting trail....."

Every report, every story out there, is that Beilein made this jump very suddenly, and gave no warnings whatever, but sure, let's blame Warde for something you invented.

We could have had Nate Oats if Warde hadn't been asleep at the wheel.

  • Nate Oats was hired by Alabama on March 27th, UM was literally getting ready to play Texas Tech the next day
  • When Beilein did leave, Nate Oats came out and specifically said he wanted nothing to do with us

Any Joe Shmoe could do that for a whole lot less than Michigan is paying Warde

Wanna bet on it? You list out 3-4 Coaches in basketball, who will either be rookie coaches, or in their first few years, and 4 years from now, we'll come back and see if they have a better record and perfomance than Juwan does currently.

There are going to be a lot…

There are going to be a lot of stupid comments thrown around on this blog about the basketball team, but congratulations for locking in the stupidest comment of the day.

Here's a trophy for you:

 

Did you forget when Beilein left? He left in the 2nd week of May, a a solid month and a half after the Basketball coaching carousel happened.

There were no obviously good/available candidates when Beilein left.

And when you look at the other coaches hired that year (but not on the list of good candidates), it's a whole lot of meh.

Steve Alford who was meh at Iowa/NewMexico and fired from UCLA. Mike Anderson who was fired at Missouri and Arkansas. Kyle Smith has been meh for Washington State, and TJ Otzelberger could be a good coach, but he was 29-30 before Iowa State grabbed him (his whole body of work is still to be determined).

Hiring Juwan in May of 2019 was not the problem

100 mile skyview, grand…

100 mile skyview, grand scheme of things? Sure. On the ground level? Not even close.

The 2 airports are essentially the same distance as Ann Arbor and DTW (~25 miles)

If you landed in Detroit, and was told that your rental car was actually in Ann Arbor, there's no way in hell you'd be saying "it's basically the same place"

I believe the NYT anger is…

I believe the NYT anger is because during their coverage of the shooting, the Times referenced the Nassar scandal. Screenshot below:

IMO, definitely seems out of place and unwarranted when you're reporting on the murdering of students

We've also had our fair…

We've also had our fair share of UM players who've made deals under Holmes, so we can't say it's not unusual for a football player to be put into this program

Mazi Smith

Grant Perry

Frank Clark

Logan Tuley-Tillman

Bobby "Hitler had good ideas…

Bobby "Hitler had good ideas" Hull?

Bobby "I beat my wives" Hull?

Bobby "My Daughter became an attorney for Women victims of abuse because she grew up watching me beat her Mother" Hull?

Switched in 1999, archived…

Switched in 1999, archived press release - LINK

Random wikipedia links say they switched because they thought the nickname was dated, and that people didn't understand what a Tartar was

1 - Elon Musk doesn’t give a…

1 - Elon Musk doesn’t give a rats ass about “free speech”, he bought Twitter because he’s a narcissistic moron

2 - The 1st Amendment does not apply to Twitter (or Facebook, or Reddit, or MGoBlog) or any other private company.

Next time please take a basic Civics class before commenting, it’ll save the rest of us having to read stupid comments

Leonard is most likely off…

Leonard is most likely off to the NFL, so I don't think we have to worry about OSU getting him

As far as I remember: hurt…

As far as I remember: hurt against Notre Dame, then had little luck with "pitch count" games against Toledo and Iowa.

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All part of the long game...

Also worth noting -…

Also worth noting - Cincinnati and Louisville play each other in the Fenway Bowl in 2 weeks. Wonder if Satterfield will show up to the game for Cincinnati, or just stay away.

Especially because Emoni…

Especially because Emoni Bates was also arrested for what looks to be the same offense, and was charged within a day or so.

Really interested to hear the Washtenaw DA talk about this month long delay