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... Help my unbelief!!

... Help my unbelief!!

Michigan acceptance rate is…

Michigan acceptance rate is now 17-18%, steadily declining as the University attracts more and more out-of-state/international applicants.

 

Another NFL talent who heard…

Another NFL talent who heard the incessant drumming that his arms were too short was Brandon Graham - I'll take another one of those in a heartbeat.

Maybe they won't allow…

Maybe they won't allow negative signs; perhaps they'll mute the boos and obscenities; but they can't censor a few thousand middle fingers extended their way.

Show up and overwhelm, just as the team will be subsequently doing ...

I haven't turned on or…

I haven't turned on or consulted ESPN for ages. It seems to me that about 20 years ago they decided to choose the most irritating content and personalities possible just to piss of as many viewers as they could. Even the guy who does their network introductions and transitions has one of the worst, most fake-drama broadcast voices on television.

No use for them - may they rot in the hell of defunct sports organizations ...

Thanks for the post. Just…

Thanks for the post. Just one small request: When posting a link, maybe a quick note that the linked article requires a subscription so that we don't waste time if we don't have said subscription.

 

 

Perhaps already posted, but…

Perhaps already posted, but it never gets old: Two ex-Buckeyes with a scathing review of OSU's deficiencies and how Michigan kicked their asses.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnSmQfgWHA

 

I still don't see the table …

I still don't see the table ...

Joe Milton sighting!!!!

Joe Milton sighting!!!!

Former rival

Former rival

Minor point: A loud…

Minor point: A loud environment that often felt as if we were watching on a neutral field. The fan composition was at least 40% Michigan supporters, who made just as much noise as their Rutgers counterparts.

And, as so often happens in Piscataway, there were pretty much only Michigan fans by the beginning of the fourth quarter.

Where is there? Or is there…

Where is there? Or is there no their, there?

It's up "in" arms ...

It's up "in" arms ...

This may have been noted in…

This may have been noted in other threads about Storako, but the (pretty credible, coming from within the program) rumor is that she was not accepted to her UM graduate program. If that's true, a transfer makes all the obvious sense in the world. If not, then I join the head scratchers.

Let's go bowling and theatre…

Let's go bowling and theatre-ing

Yesterday's newest Governor's order allows opening of bowling venues, theaters, and theatres (and other establishments) according to a capacity formula:

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/09/theaters-bowling-alleys-can-reopen-in-october-as-michigan-raises-indoor-gathering-limits.html

Kirby Puckett. Even though…

Kirby Puckett. Even though he made the HOF, his career might have been even greater had he not retired due to an unusual retinal disease.

All-time Twins leader in numerous hitting categories; highest average (.318) by a right-handed hitter since Joe DiMaggio; 2nd player in modern era with 2,000 hits in his first 10 years.

Then his life fell apart with multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, and he died of a stroke at the age of 45.

Art imitating life.

 

But…

Art imitating life.

 

But we struggle on, nonetheless.

This is discord user pjbeck…

This is discord user pjbeck confirming for vetting

Michigan won their first…

Michigan won their first game, 6-1 vs. Georgia State.

 

Oops, too late.

This is entirely…

This is entirely unreasonable. You must be familiar only with the last decade of UM football. Besides the success of the years under Yost and Crisler (which I'll temporarliy put aside to appease the "that's too long ago" crowd), Bo's record is one of the greatest and most nationally relevant in coaching history.

Bo Schembechler coached for 20 years:

13 Big Ten titles

.802 winning percentage

16 times finished ranked in the top 10 AP and Coaches polls

11 seasons with 10 or more wins, with no losing years

Regularly defeated nationally ranked teams

Etc.

If you're willing, go back and look at Yost's and Crisler's records and see similar results. Add it all up and you have a powerhouse for most of our history.

Sheesh

How can this be? I thought…

How can this be? I thought Buckwheat was dead.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaDToc8CsOE

Not on Xfinity - don't know…

Not on Xfinity - don't know about other providers.

He's not in the running…

He's not in the running because there is no "running." Fake Odds.

UC Boulder, UW Madison, UVA,…

UC Boulder, UW Madison, UVA, North Carolina and Iowa are universities situated in comparable college towns. There are tons of beautiful campuses (e.g. Duke) surrounded by less-desirable environs.

Having said that, Michigan is really among the top five.

Men's swimming and diving,…

Men's swimming and diving, 2013

As already noted, Kahn's,…

As already noted, Kahn's, Boys of Summer - my first serious sports book (high school)

Also Arnold Rampersad's biography of Jackie Robinson. Incredibly well-researched, fluid prose, a beautiful rendering of the man and his engagement with baseball and society.

Some of us just can't help…

Some of us just can't help it. I've been on about 5 1/2 hours of sleep since I was really young, even during my teen years. I got used to being the only person in our family to be up before 6, and am still that way even as a parent. I can't sleep more than 6 hours unless I'm really sick; even then, it's not much more. Bed time is usually midnight or so and rise by 5:20-5:45.

You would think that I would have done something greater for humanity with so much time awake, but there's no Nobel Prize for simply not sleeping.

"Will" look dingy and second…

"Will" look dingy and second rate ... ?

Let's add Bo's first ten…

Let's add Bo's first ten years and see how we look even better:

Terribly frustrating years, no doubt, with the annual stupid loss to someone over whom we were favored (like my one trip to the Rose Bowl - 1978 inexplicable defeat at the hands of Washington).

 

Year         Coach                  Overall     League     League place         Bowl Result         Poll

1969    Bo Schembechler    8–3              6–1            T-1st                    L Rose               8/9

1970    Bo Schembechler    9–1              6–1            T-2nd                                              7/9

1971    Bo Schembechler   11–1             8–0             1st                      L Rose                4/6

1972    Bo Schembechler   10–1             7–1             T-1st                                              6/6

1973    Bo Schembechler   10–0–1         7–0–1         T-1st                                              6/6

1974    Bo Schembechler   10–1             7–1             T-1st                                              5/3

1975    Bo Schembechler   8–2–2           7–1             2nd                    L Orange            8/8

1976    Bo Schembechler  10–2              7–1             T-1st                  L Rose                3/3

1977    Bo Schembechler  10–2              7–1             T-1st                  L Rose                8/9

1978    Bo Schembechler  10–2              7–1             T-1st                  L Rose                5/5

 

 

Complete panic job. He…

Complete panic job. He looked flustered and rattled on those last two drives - passes all over the place except in the receivers' hands and deer in the headlights look every time the rush came at him.

Kind of reminded me of Russell Bellomy vs. Nebraska in 2012. Painful

Adjust for quad 1 teams and

Adjust for quad 1 teams and it looks better - Duke falls to 5th or something like that.

kwashiorkor, ricketts, and

kwashiorkor, ricketts, and scurvy

kwashiorkor, ricketts, and

kwashiorkor, ricketts, and scurvy

kwashiorkor, ricketts, and

kwashiorkor, ricketts, and scurvy

Take a minute

and a deep breath. Yesterday was 2018 signing day, which leaves almost one entire year before the 2019 class is in - OK, a few months less for the early period. That's a recruiting eternity.

Also read, FWIW, Sam Webb's article on Belleville from yesterday:

https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Article/Michigan-is-putting-a-fu…

Yuck the Fankees

eom

Bert Hornback

Taught English lit. courses on Yeats, Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, etc. He was a big Dickens freak, and had what was pretty literally a Dickens shrine in his home. He always invited his class to dinner once a semester, and held most of his upper level classes there. Wrote plays, gave hundreds of public readings, brought all kinds of poets to speak or teach at UM, and was quite entertaining as a lecturer. I even enjoyed most of the written corrections that decorated my papers - one time I found that he had jotted a grocery list on the back of one page.

Had his undergrad, Masters, and Ph.D all from Notre Dame, but I'm not sure he even knew what football was. Retired in '92.

Southern school

with a southern fan base.

I would add

cyclists. Watching one day of mountain climbing on the Tour de France is looking at sheer physical insanity - and they do it for a month.

So, just some ciphers:

Around 25, 000 listed accounts, about 1,200 with negative points, and countless pages of 0-1 point names.

Suprising numbers all around

Equally important

is the question of comparative ballz:

 

Like the man from Assizez

Whose balls were of two different sizes

The one was so small

It was no ball at all

But the other won several prizes

Corrected

Najee-Harris

Among all the bounty

My favorite is Most overrated five star recruit in history besides Peppers.

Yes, the overrated consensus All-American, winner of more awards than any current player from any of these second-rate (or lower) institutions. I expect DPJ to be equally overrated.

Almost as hilarious were the regular mentions by Sparties of Michigan being "that shitty school," or the "shittiest school."

.22 BAC

No further message.

Oy, vey.

(in response to Fieldy's Nuts)

 

I have a hard time taking your post seriously. To exonerate Paterno because he "would have been happy if his assistant coach hadn't turned out to be a pedo" is to create a land of denial and fantasy that is beyond even that of a Penn State apologist. Paterno's legacy is supposedly as a man who influenced characteer, not merely as a winner of football games (as much as that drives some of the respect that his minions show him). Thus, to not hold him accountable simply because "all he wanted to do is coach football" entirely misses the mark of why his malfeasance is so heinous.

As to why the NCAA should punish the entire program, and harshly, at that, it is well-known that Paterno established a self-policing culture of hero worship - a closed system where the Head Coach wielded total power in every respect.

In the end, almost everything that Paterno supposedly stood for is exposed as a lie; even his supposed modesty is belied by his ownership of  a multi-million dollar home and his narcissistic self aggrandizement.

Sandusky deserves what he receives, and more; Paterno, who could have intervened to severely limit the damage, deserves still worse, which he may yet experience.

When the best you can say is

When the best you can say is that his acting "was not the worst," you've pretty much said it all.

Unproven?

Among the many problematic issues that I can find in your posts, the simplest one is your contention that Paterno was the victim of an "unproven allegation that he might have heard an accusation about somebody many years ago and didn't rush to file a police report." 

In fact, it is proven beyond a doubt that Paterno knew about Sandusky's behavior, that he talked his supervisors out of reporting it to chld welfare authorities; and that he did report one incident to his superiors, but failed to take it to the police and to follow up at a later date to make certain that the situation would be dealt with. Even Penn State Paterno idol worshippers agree with the last statement, but claim that he had no legal obligation to do anything more than he did.

So, even if no other allegation is proved true - and I bet my bottom dollar that they will be - it is, at the very least, the case that Paterno engaged in one coverup and one unsufficient response to known sexual predation by one of his closest assistants. In addition, it is a fact that Paterno and the AD allowed Sandusky unfettered access to campus facilities long after it was clear that he had engaged in child molestation.

So can the moral outrage at our moral outrage.

Beatles

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, after my parents bought me Rubber Soul and Revolver.

It's worth noting,

although perhaps generally known that the Flo stream is not free: $12.50/month if you do an entire year; otherwise $20 per individual month.

I was pretty disappointed to see that kind of charge. I love watching the softballers, but not at that price.

Good advice

But hard to follow. Our daughter received her acceptance e-mail (how different from the days of the 80s when we attended), but seems set on going out-of-state. Difficult to keep my mouth shut about the $40k per year that I will save, but we've made it pretty clear that it's her choice.

And to lose those season tickets? Painful.