Mblue96

History

Member for

2 years 30 weeks

Karma

Current value

1

Recent Comments

Date	Title	Body
14 weeks 1 day ago	Dude, what are you talking	Dude, what are you talking about "move back to a V8 turbo"?  I would think a proper car enthusiast would know that  ///M cars have always been normally aspirated high compression high revving engines until just very recently with the M versions of the X5 and X6 and now the F10 M5!  Maybe you're thinking of the move to a V10 in the E60 as opposed to a V8, but even then only the E39 had previously had a V8...the first two generation M5's (E28 and E34) both had inline six's......also, for the record, the E60 M5 was a great commercial success, enjoying the highest sales numbers of any generation M5 ever, so again, I'm not tracking this comparison at all!   oh, one more thing...the picture you have is of the E60 and not of the F10....
14 weeks 1 day ago	Uh..,. Actually it's the F10	Uh..,. Actually it's the F10 that breaks tradition by using turbocharging. M cars have traditionally been normally aspirated engines that were high revving. Where the E60 broke with tradition was its use of a clutch less transmission which was rather clunky for day to day driving. The F10 still uses a clutchless transmission FWIW. A better talking point would have been the avant garde design of the E60 versus the reversion to the more traditional BMW look of the F10. So as a M alum and a BMW owner/enthusiast I am seeing some major flaws w/ your comparison. Nice try though :)
16 weeks 6 days ago	You have to look at it from a West Coast perspective	I'm from Oregon and went to Michigan for undergrad.  When you think elite academics on the West Coast, it's pretty much Stanford and UC-Berkeley.  Michigan is a great school, a Public Ivy, but still a state school.  An M degree plays very well in New York or Chicago, but out West, a Stanford degree is just as impressive as one from Harvard.
32 weeks 1 day ago	Agreed	Moeller was HC when I was a student here...and his teams were quite sophisticated offensively.  I believe he was his own offensive coordinator at the time.  His offensive philosophy was pretty aggressive.  They had power running but also a great passing game, and frequently threw on first down.  I remember whenever M got a turnover, a favorite tactic of Moeller's was to take a shot at the endzone right away.  I actually think that M under Hoke and Borges are headed back to that kind of an offense.  Unfortunately he had a few 4 loss seasons (I remember LC getting quite a bit of heat as the DC during those years) and that night in Southfield(?) which ultimately led to his dismissal...or he could have been HC well into the 2000s and maybe avoided the ill-fated RR experiment to begin with.
33 weeks 1 day ago	maybe so, but	his HS coach is the brother of the Oregon State baseball team's head coach, so the Beavers might be a contender too....Michigan is quite far away from Oregon and it does not sound like he wants to go too far away....although I'd love to see him go blue...but I can't see him leaving the state.
33 weeks 1 day ago	He will be difficult to pry	He will be difficult to pry away from Oregon...WOTS here in Oregon is that Oregon is the heavy favorite...although he'd be a great back for M...reminds me a lot of Tyrone Wheatley in that he has good size and incredible speed for that size
34 weeks 2 days ago	He was a finalist for a job	less than 2 years ago and appears to have wanted that job but someone else was selected. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2009/12/post_1.html   http://www.oregonlive.com/vikings/index.ssf/2009/12/portland_state_hires_nigel_bur.html
36 weeks 4 days ago	Braylonfest	vs. MSU was in 2004
2 years 30 weeks ago	I'll be laid up on Saturday,	I'll be laid up on Saturday, having some minor surgery. But will be watching the game from home - Go Blue!
2 years 30 weeks ago	DeCarolis	would be an excellent choice. Following him here in PDX, he has elevated the AD at OSU to a level that is historically unprecedented. He's recently expressed some frustration with the lack of fan support for OSU (namely football) among its fan base in Oregon, so I think if he's M's choice he will absolutely take it....