We also find out that Alabama isn't utterly bulletproof year after year. Remember Nebraska of the late 90's? The assumption was that WE DON'T REBUILD, WE RELOAD, forever and ever, amen and that they'd contend for the MNC in perpetuity. But nobody stays gold forever, Pony Boy.
i.e. "for all the points" or "minus all the points", and I have no idea what it means. I searched the site but could not find the answer. Could someone enlighten me (about that?)
Denard Robinson is my hero, all that. But Michigan is not the 9th best team in the country.
I know that's sort of irrelevant, and whatever advantage that this ranking may give them later on, I am glad of. But it sort of just makes me remember why I hate the BCS: there is just no way anyone can conclusively make a decision on who is "better" without common opponents, let alone without having teams play one another.
Who is "better", Wisky or Boise State? Stanford or Arkansas? South Carolina or Michigan? There is no way to know, except that people's votes on this are going to decide the fates of these teams.
I'm most concerned and excited by the one thing Michigan is solely in charge of: winning their division. And then, hopefully, beating Wisky (or whoever) in the Big Ten title game.
I'm with Hoke when he rebuffed the questions about aspirations of a national title: just win the Big Ten and let things shake out from there.
internet examples of Ohio fans being irrational, angry and nigh psychotic, you're going to need to take a sabbatical from whatever it is you do other than that.
when they coach a Big 10 football team in Ohio and to entice an 18 year old kid to play for them, they tell the kid that their school has a certain set of morals and values, but then it turns out that coach has been lying to his superiors, the press and the team and actually there's a whole other set of values and morals going on.
I also think it speaks volumes about an 18 year old kid who wouldn't want to be associated with such a program.
He will win, and win big, at Michigan. The Big House already has been put in order. By his second season, the Wolverines will be back roughly where they were when Lloyd Carr headed for retirement three years ago.
Oh, you mean back to losing to a I-AA team, then getting incinerated by Oregon, to cap off the worst back-to-back home losses in Michigan football history?
..to this is so self-evident that it makes my teeth hurt.
Hoke reads this or finds out about it or whatever, he makes a brief statement that says, "Brock Mealer has full and unlimited access to our facilities and I have instructed our strength and conditioning coaches to devote whatever time Brock needs. I am grateful for Coach Rodriguez's initiative here, it is a sing of a true Michigan Man that he took this step with Brock, who is forever a part of the Michigan family."
Why on earth this won't happen I cannot possibly fathom.
not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean, everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. So if the promise doesn't hold up, don't say he didn't warn you.
is that Michigan is the best university in the country and their colors are the sweetest and also Michigan has the greatest college football team of all-time.
demands that RRod only gives scholarship offers to wideouts for the next three years, and in order to receive a scholarship, at least half of those wideouts must categorically prove that they are either academically ineligible, chronically and pathologically lazy, or are intending to abuse narcotics in the near future, then no, Brandon is not bordering on Millen territory.
It was pretty sweet when he said, "That's six", though.
and at the skill positions, but let's also hope--and I don't think this is unrealistic--that he makes a jump similar to the one he made from 2009 to 2010. Even if it was half as much as that leap, I think we could expect great things.
The change may not have come in the last three weeks, but he can certainly see the fruit of his labors more now than he could in December 2008, and he'd necessarily be reflecting that in how he talks about the team.
that Harbaugh is not coming and doing what would put this all to rest: He could come and stand up and say, "I support Michigan and I support Michigan's coach, Go Blue, etc."
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A 40+ point margin would be nice.
UM: 47,
UM: 30, Air Force: 21
UM: 47, UMass: 20
from the Bible. Okaaaay.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A8&version=KJV
We also find out that Alabama isn't utterly bulletproof year after year. Remember Nebraska of the late 90's? The assumption was that WE DON'T REBUILD, WE RELOAD, forever and ever, amen and that they'd contend for the MNC in perpetuity. But nobody stays gold forever, Pony Boy.
We also get some crazy special teams bounces.
It's our night.
Michigan: 41
Alabama: 27
I have heard in days and it's not even close.
to not watch that each and every time I see it embedded on MGoBlog.
http://www.vadamurray.com/
It's basically cement with a thin sheet of plastic turf over it. I feel bad for those players.
not dilute the unique rivalry we have Ohio State by applying the same rhetorical strategy we have with them with a team we have never played.
for ALL the helpfulness. Thanks.
i.e. "for all the points" or "minus all the points", and I have no idea what it means. I searched the site but could not find the answer. Could someone enlighten me (about that?)
Michigan won.
See you next year.
that is something I am unable to do.
No, No, Never, that's not right, wrong, wrong, no, no, no, sorry, wrong answer. Incorrect. Unsatisfactory response.
Always and everywhere, beat Ohio State above all else.
possibility for this game? I'm not near a TV.
End of story.
have the radio audio.
QB OH NOES. They've nearly gone the way of the bubble screen, and I can't see why.
Denard Robinson is my hero, all that. But Michigan is not the 9th best team in the country.
I know that's sort of irrelevant, and whatever advantage that this ranking may give them later on, I am glad of. But it sort of just makes me remember why I hate the BCS: there is just no way anyone can conclusively make a decision on who is "better" without common opponents, let alone without having teams play one another.
Who is "better", Wisky or Boise State? Stanford or Arkansas? South Carolina or Michigan? There is no way to know, except that people's votes on this are going to decide the fates of these teams.
I'm most concerned and excited by the one thing Michigan is solely in charge of: winning their division. And then, hopefully, beating Wisky (or whoever) in the Big Ten title game.
I'm with Hoke when he rebuffed the questions about aspirations of a national title: just win the Big Ten and let things shake out from there.
internet examples of Ohio fans being irrational, angry and nigh psychotic, you're going to need to take a sabbatical from whatever it is you do other than that.
each and ever game they every play for the rest of creation.
but the 'Freude over at the Eleven Warriors live blog is delicious. Highly recommended.
Think about what we just got from Brian this week. Now, as many of us wait for kick-off, the right thing to do is "donate" to the blog.
"Pay him. Pay that man his money."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaT2pBiS-JI&feature=related
Thanks for the responses, friends.
when they coach a Big 10 football team in Ohio and to entice an 18 year old kid to play for them, they tell the kid that their school has a certain set of morals and values, but then it turns out that coach has been lying to his superiors, the press and the team and actually there's a whole other set of values and morals going on.
I also think it speaks volumes about an 18 year old kid who wouldn't want to be associated with such a program.
Congrats, Brian!!!
Tremendous?
Except for the amount of hype that the cover generates, which is pretty huge
...but this is absurd. Henning wrote:
He will win, and win big, at Michigan. The Big House already has been put in order. By his second season, the Wolverines will be back roughly where they were when Lloyd Carr headed for retirement three years ago.
Oh, you mean back to losing to a I-AA team, then getting incinerated by Oregon, to cap off the worst back-to-back home losses in Michigan football history?
I like Hoke. I don't like Henning.
coheres more than nicely with this post.
..to this is so self-evident that it makes my teeth hurt.
Hoke reads this or finds out about it or whatever, he makes a brief statement that says, "Brock Mealer has full and unlimited access to our facilities and I have instructed our strength and conditioning coaches to devote whatever time Brock needs. I am grateful for Coach Rodriguez's initiative here, it is a sing of a true Michigan Man that he took this step with Brock, who is forever a part of the Michigan family."
Why on earth this won't happen I cannot possibly fathom.
not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean, everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. So if the promise doesn't hold up, don't say he didn't warn you.
in 2006 when Troy Smith was in his, "destroyer of worlds" phase?
any direct contact with Bo, then he's even more powerful than we thought.
of Happy Valley, we can scoop him up.
his preference for Laphroaig.
always sort of depresses me a tiny bit, as he was so horribly under utilized at Michigan.
That '99 team that beat Alabama in the Orange Bowl was a great team.
did not.
is that Michigan is the best university in the country and their colors are the sweetest and also Michigan has the greatest college football team of all-time.
be without a B10 Champ ring.
12 Year Old.
Very good bourbon.
A poor man's Lot B.
is that he feels he has to say he wants to be a Michigan Man, or has some sense in which he's not there or whatever.
He is a Michigan Man. His character is strong. He doesn't have to make a case, because the case is being made by his actions.
demands that RRod only gives scholarship offers to wideouts for the next three years, and in order to receive a scholarship, at least half of those wideouts must categorically prove that they are either academically ineligible, chronically and pathologically lazy, or are intending to abuse narcotics in the near future, then no, Brandon is not bordering on Millen territory.
It was pretty sweet when he said, "That's six", though.
"Anyway, I think that's all I have to say."
how long have you been waiting to try and shoehorn that gif. into a thread?
I think you probably should have kept waiting, but what do I know?
and at the skill positions, but let's also hope--and I don't think this is unrealistic--that he makes a jump similar to the one he made from 2009 to 2010. Even if it was half as much as that leap, I think we could expect great things.
The change may not have come in the last three weeks, but he can certainly see the fruit of his labors more now than he could in December 2008, and he'd necessarily be reflecting that in how he talks about the team.
too.
that Harbaugh is not coming and doing what would put this all to rest: He could come and stand up and say, "I support Michigan and I support Michigan's coach, Go Blue, etc."
But apparently, he's not going to do that.