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7 weeks 4 days ago	Not an item I'd highlight in my portfolio	Although I'm sure even with those black-and-blue lookalike courts the craftsmanship of the wood is excellent and it's just the stupid Indianapolis bureaucrats or college administrators to blame for those monstrosities.
7 weeks 4 days ago	With the joyless	With the joyless standard-issue black-and-blue NCAA courts throughout the rest of the tournament, the FF is the only time the court doesn't disgust me now. Seriously, why does every site need to look exactly the same?
7 weeks 4 days ago	Wichita State	Beat the team that beat OSU, among other reasons to pull for them up to the final.
7 weeks 4 days ago	But not these championship muppets
7 weeks 4 days ago	Best part of winning by 20	Bringing in the subs. It was crazy.
7 weeks 4 days ago	Conversely, I felt very much	Conversely, I felt very much part of the community when pursuing a master's at U-M. Something about autumn Saturdays in Ann Arbor does that. (I'll still pull hard for Vanderbilt the next time the two schools play, though. That really should have been the Gator Bowl matchup this past season.) Now I'm in a doctoral program at another school that's been to a fair number of Rose Bowls, and I go to some of the games, but it's just not the same. No one in my cohort, even those who care about sports, goes to games.
7 weeks 4 days ago	I dunno, that sounds pretty crazy	On the Dial Global national radio postgame, they asked Beilein something about what he'd to do celebrate or have fun in Atlanta. He responded something totally generic, like, "I don't really know what to do to celebrate," but his tone expressed so much bafflement about cutting loose and having a good time that it conjured up images of the Beilein house with the grandkids when someone brings over subs.
8 weeks 5 days ago	Elite 8, I suppose	Closer to the same number of contestants  -- although it's really not comparable, because   Basketball tournament seeding is (at least putatively) based on merit, not tourism or TV draw. Coversely, making the Elite 8 depends heavily on a 3-game sample of performance, not a season. All eight Elite 8 teams are eligble to win the championship, but only two BCS teams are.
8 weeks 5 days ago	Havoc has indeed been wreaked	Nice win.
22 weeks 1 day ago	Which game did Alabama do this?	I don't recall them, as the home team in a bowl, electing to wear white shirts with crimson sleeves and crimson-outlined white (or silver, or black, or anything but crimson) numerals.  I assume you're talking about the Pro Combat uniforms worn in a 2010 game against Mississippi State (and maybe sometime after that):    But Nick Saban has nixed the idea of anything more radical [1], proving that he doesn't like to land recruits and secretly hopes for his athletic department to wither away from lack of funds. ===== [1]Kausler, D., Jr. (2011, September 14). Uniform changes at Alabama? Nick Saban makes his feelings perfectly clear. AL.com. I'd share the link but the spam filter said no.
22 weeks 1 day ago	What game was that worn in?	I'm actually from the state of Alabama and I don't recall ever hearing about Bama wearing that in a game. I could easily have been unaware though.
22 weeks 1 day ago	See above -- these sort of ARE the home jerseys	I'm unclear on whether U-M technically declined to be the home team or just elected to wear white as the home team, but either way, when you decline to wear the best uniforms in the sport to wear this, it effectively IS your choice of home uniform.
22 weeks 1 day ago	But won't this be the home uniform for this game?	As I understand from this thread, Michigan is the designated home team and elected to wear white, much like LSU, Georgia Tech, or the Dallas Cowboys. So for a game, at least, this is Michigan's choice for a home uniform.
1 year 25 weeks ago	Yeah, i wasn't trying to be	Yeah, i wasn't trying to be opaque, it's Vanderbilt. Good grief, man, Tennessee? Couldn't you just guess Arkansas or Miss State? Saturday was a sweet sweet day.
1 year 25 weeks ago	Exactly. The plausibility of	Exactly. The plausibility of it really is funny. (Especially to me as an SEC fan at a B1G institution... i shall now run for cover from the flying MGoBrickbats....)
1 year 25 weeks ago	The line that sort of gives it away....	You could be right, but my intiution is pretty strong that it's a hoax for a couple of reasons:  1. Giving away tickets to something people paid money for is terrible business, because next year in a vacuum no one will buy tickets.  (Next year Michigan will be a favorite to win the West so CG tickets will be in higher demand, but never mind that detail. In general it's bad to make people think tickets will be available for free.) For $75 pp a better strategy is to find local charities that would like something for kids to do, give them tickets, and buy them popcorn and a piece of Spartan or Badger gear. Or just give them to corporate donors. To be fair, they probably already give them to corporate donors, which doesn't create the most engaged fans. And a CL ad isn't exactly secret. What gives it away is....   2. The line, "Must have red or dark green casual clothing to wear," just sounds like a subtle dig at the participating teams. Of course you'd want to dress your extras as fans and of course it could just be an early holiday party with a huge crowd, but.... it's pretty obvious what event they're referring to, and it's only supposed to be obvious if it's satire. I'd like it better (and be surer of myself) if they'd said, "Must tolerate moderate ambient noise and relatively small crowds."
1 year 25 weeks ago	It says that virtually no one cares about conf chamipionships	...any more. I thought the same thing about the argument that Alabama's in a better position than LSU because they don't have to endure the risk of competing for a conference championship, losing, and dropping in the polls. Apparently the SEC championship itself doesn't mean much to anyone. Since that's the case, let's blow up the whole system and go to a playoff. If only college presidents were rational people....
1 year 25 weeks ago	Only one way to know for sure....	Send 'em an email. I'm curious what'll happen. (But i don't expect you to really get offered $75 to go to a game.)
1 year 25 weeks ago	Paging PT Barnum?	I find it amusing that some people seem disposed to belive the Craig's List posting is an advertisement for extras rather than a witty commentary on the lack of demand for the B1G CG. (No, i'm not including Brian in this. I presume he knows better.) Then again, maybe i'm the sucker and people pretending to believe the B1G would pay $75 for fake fans managed to fool me.
1 year 25 weeks ago	Blessed to be part of this 2-year slice of Michigan football	I came here 3 semesters ago to start a master's program. My first game ever here was the opener vs. Connecticut with all the renovation fanfare. I'll graduate in a month, so this will be my last game here as a student.  Aside from just being fortunate to attend the University of Michigan, i feel oddly blessed to have been here at such a tumultuous yet exciting time in Michigan (and Big Ten!) football history. It feels like these 2 years have seen a decade or more worth of change: the excitement of the renovation; the first night game; U-M, OSU, and PSU all change coaches; NU joins the league and the B1G CG is born (and that weird tempest in a teapot about moving the OSU game to earlier in the season); on and on it goes. I'll always cherish the memory of that on-field party today. It took a good half hour to get down there, but i got to walk across the Block M on the 50 yard line and the best-looking end zones in all of college football. Thanks for letting me be a part of this. Go 'Dores! Go Blue!
2 years 32 weeks ago	Miles? Seriously?	I know there was a lot of animosity back when he turned Michigan down, but I truly can't tell if your irony is just beyond my understanding as a U-M n00b or if someone you came into contact with really has a screw loose.  Les Miles?  The guy LSU fans want to run off even though every week he pulls some ridiculously improbable win out of his posterior?
2 years 35 weeks ago	Glad it's not just my SEC	Glad it's not just my SEC homerism.  SC-Bama looks like a great choice, especially if Lattimore continues to play like that.
2 years 35 weeks ago	How to contact?	Good advice. Is there a way to send direct messages on here that I'm just overlooking?  Or is it considered polite to just go stalk someone's blog and post a moderately-OT comment?
2 years 35 weeks ago	Ha	Ha, well, the hammer/nail quote is a good snapshot of where my knowledge is.  At least I hope I'm open-minded about learning better ways to do things. IIRC Steele's methodology is something like: Count up all the teams with positive net turnovers and see how many got worse the following year Count up all the teams with negative net turnovers and see how many got better Take the teams with the lowest ypp and see how many got worse Take the teams with the highest ypp and see how many got better The results he comes up with are pretty convincing, IMHO.  (I also tend to take his opinions pretty seriously because does so well in the Stassen predictions tracking.) But I know that eyeballing it to call it convincing can be deceiving, whereas conventional statistical methods are a little more objective.   I just don't know enough about those methods.
2 years 36 weeks ago	Injuries and scholarships	I'm under the impression that injured players who won't play in a season can easily be moved onto a non-athletic scholarship, and that schools usually do this as a courtesy for their injured players.  Is that not the case?  Or does it have something to do with his injury being non-football-related?
2 years 36 weeks ago	Too few Southern schools.	Like, six too few. :) Seriously, Harvard, Yale, and RISD seem really out of place, but apparently they wanted to meet some quota for the Northeast.  Harvard's in a really cool city but the campus is uninteresting.  (The Statue of the Three Lies or whatever it's called is about all I remember, and I lived there several years.)   Harvard Square is great, though, although I've heard it's been "cleaned up" so it's probably ruined now. RISD's a neat school, not an interesting campus.  Yale?  I like the buildings, but I like the same buildings more at Duke. But yeah, I've liked Ann Arbor the 3.5 weeks I've been here.  Seems to have a nice town/gown situation with the location of Central Campus.  The buildings are kind of a weird pastiche; why is everything from the Law School south gothic?
2 years 37 weeks ago	First game	First time I've ever been to a game here.  I feel the same way.  OK not exactly the same way, because I haven't been part of this all my life.  But absolutely infatuated with your program right now, and laying the groundwork for true love.
2 years 37 weeks ago	Amazing experience	Just... wow.  Hopefully I'll write a very-low-content diary about it. :)
2 years 37 weeks ago	But how much market is there for televised *real* analysis?	Versus human interest stories and all that.   It's gotten to be like the Olympics.   I would assume that consumers of deep football analysis would seek it in niche media, i.e. on sites like this, more than on a mass-market TV show.
2 years 37 weeks ago	Come to think of it, the	Come to think of it, the reason I called the brass one a block "M" was because that was the way it was described to me on an informal campus tour last spring.  So perhaps I'm inferring a correspondence where none was originally intended. I've always loved Michigan's "M" (the ubiquitous, non-split one), and especially how it naturally anchors such elegantly classic field markings -- neither pretentiously plain like ND's nor gaudy like Tennessee's.   Maybe I should have applied to the School of Art and Design instead given the amount of time I spend thinking about this stuff. Can't wait to experience my first game later today.

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