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Hate I break it to you but there is a cap on out of state admits that is hit every year. In-state and out-of-state applicants don't really compete against one another and it is far more difficult to earn acceptance from out of state.

Line is back to +6. The movement this week has been interesting to monitor.

Watched this on DVR about 10 times after seeing it live. First words out of my mouth to the buddy I was watching with: "that needs to be gif'd."

Bravo, internet. And Clint Dempsey.

I do have a slight bias towards seeing us get the 1-seed at the XCel Center, but I do hate that it would likely entail a 2nd round matchup with the Gophers.

For those who thought Duluth had a home crowd advantage at last year's final (basis my seats / angle, I'd estimate 85-90% of fans behind them), you'll know that we do not want to face ANY MN team in a one-game playoff in this state.

Lame as it may be, I guess I'd prefer a boring couple of games with no significant home ice advantage in Green Bay followed by a couple more "boring" no-home-ice games in Tampa... and I'd hope to be at all of them, myself.

And the "new" mgoformatting is a real drag on THE_KNOWLEDGE's approach to posting. The default 1.5 spacing after an enter really changes the dynamic that used to be presented by the period-filled spaces.

Anyone else remember when using the spacebar after hitting enter, then hitting enter again was the only way to have a gap between paragraphs?

Undoubtedly the current system is far superior to the older 99.9% of the time, but I believe that THE_KNOWLEDGE should have access to the old formatting system.

I've been enjoying not having it around and was hoping the season wouldn't happen. More college BB coverage as well as other more compelling sports where the athletes actually seem to care about the game at hand. 

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I'll always be hoping he finds success at Arizona. Would have been great if he'd succeeded more quickly here, but best of luck to him at AZ.

Glad it isn't a usual opponent for us, because I know he'll be successful again, though I guess baggage in the Big East and Big 10 country would have probably been too much for a team to gamble on him (and still be worth the career risk to him given program quality) in those parts of the country.

Fall variety pack... getting it done with a few different options at hand.

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Have been trying just about anything to cheer up a bit. This helps.

Bama at a neutral site + ND away (not to mention Nebraska & OSU) = taking a bit of a sleeper on other non-conference games. It is what it is and it hurts for season ticket holders, but if we booked another big-time opponent, we could be staring at an ugly year 2 for Hoke that has more to do with scheduling than the quality of the team we field.

9-game conference schedules can't come quickly enough to readjust this home/away balance situation...

I propose widening the content width (or at least the option to do so for those who choose?). Though I do agree that spillovers are annoying, especially when I want to look at the message board / links sidebar and have to navigate to another page. 

Feel like I have a lot of wasted space outside even the sidebars relative to most sites...

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I was clearly a little mixed up in my analysis there... thanks for adding to the clarification.

New(ish?) rating system seems to favor OTs over OG / C, no? Is there anything that could equilibrate? Or were Western's DTs that much better than DEs/LBs the OTs were dealing with?

Know that Molk has had some more positive days for his reach blocking abilities in the past, but if that isn't a part of the system any longer, it seems like it will be tough for interior O-linemen to grab high scores. They also might be more prone to taking negatives given the nature of their positions & potentially increased complexity of interior DL/LB interaction?

I'm probably reading too much into too little, but maybe we could figure out a way to equilibrate expectations in terms of magnitude of scores for different OL positions like is typically noted between some of the defensive spots. Could it be that a +2 is as good a day for an interior lineman as a +6/7 is for an OT? Just throwing it out there. (Or maybe I missed the explanation, and if so, my apologies.)

DISCLAIMER: I do not mean to imply in any way that I am unimpressed with the awesomeness of Lewan's donkey-stomping abilities, just not sure that Schofield merited that much higher of a score than the interior guys.

You'll certainly be missed.. though we all know you'll still be lurking if not actively present (or at least I'll try to convince myself of that!).

Congrats on the move!

Then we can all get our proper MGoStalk on, which should be perfectly natural for "weird older guy" to deal with - right?

Seriously though, welcome!!

Also, one sentence paragraphs beginning with conjunctions FTW.

Until that last bit.

No ads in the Big House - excellent.

Fix mgoblue.com - yes please.

Make in-game experiences more like semi-pro hockey games - huh??? How about the games speak for themselves as entertainment? Thats why I buy my tickets amirite???

Bourbon (Beam) + Iced Tea.

Good stuff.

Strongly agreed.

I forwarded yesterday's EDSBS article to the gf to help her understand why that option is 100% off the table, not just for me, but on behalf of my friends!

God love this blog for drawing a guy like Lahey out of the woodwork to help us all understand these things 1000x better than any of us (okay maybe most) would have ever otherwise done.

All hail mgoblog.

UUUUUUU.

Wonder if there is any sort of backup plan?

Same issue. Don't know WTF us up but thought it might be my system.

Maybe something that will be updated / fixed? As of right now it borderline ruins the game.

Beam & Water after dark.

... and anything else that'll help keep cool.

but it sure is pretty darn similar to what rivals is reporting...

I'm much more excited for practice to start this year than in just about any I can remember. Seems like a lot of guys have a great opportunity to prove themselves (more than in a normal year), and the staff can also continue to show how it is adapting to close the gap between scheme & talent available.

One thing is for sure... it will be interesting to watch it all unfold!

Every time The Knowledge posts, it makes my day better.

Thank you.

Getting it done the easy way tonight.

then you're just a guy on the internet making predictions, like the rest of us.

Grew up nowhere near hockey country before heading to Michigan, and have lived in Minnesota for a while now, but have no idea what these kids go through. Looking forward to more!

Watched him play for the Wild during his time in Minnesota. 

The fans loved him, and he was a really good guy in the community.

RIP Boogeyman.

Derpity fuuuuuuuuuuu.

Terrible night.

expect all local media to pick up the story.

... about the next few incoming classes. I really feel like some guys will step it up and we'll figure out a way to get it done. Red somehow always gets them to play. Adding a true star to the mix would obviously be a plus, though, of course.

The only reason I'd be worried about the tournament streak coming to an end in the somewhat near future would be if MN and WI (and MSU, though less likely at this point) come back to dominance while we schedule tough OOC games and don't perform well in that part of the schedule.

My main question is whether Pearson is the unofficial "coach in waiting" or if his (fully warranted) dabbling with Tech signals that there might be something else in the cards for when Red steps down. Will be interesting to see...

What. A. Picture.

you missed my edit before replying.

Check above, along with XCel seating chart link.

I'd imagine that demand will be substantially higher for seats near there such that prices will be a lot higher, but who knows.

Did happen at one point early in the game.

Drew some of the few smirks from the NoDak fans sitting near me for the game (I wasn't with the students) - aside from a couple of guys who got unnecessarily defensive.

[One of those guys also delivered a death threat to me for cheering for Michigan and openly questioned early in the game whether Michigan knew how to play hockey - to me, though, this was the exception for their fans, since most seemed pretty reasonable.]

Should be submitted to MichiganZone or WLA for expansion into a full-on post.

This team outperformed expectations (albeit in a different way than was expected), and it is too bad to only win the awards that are essentially undeniable.

Also wish these guys would get a little more respect from our Michigan fan base!

This has been a strangely really good season, and I hope these guys can piece together a nice tourney run (not least of which because I'm in Minneapolis and would love to see them in the F4!).

Should mean that he can't recruit or spend any time with the team or anyone associated with the team until he returns...

Until that's the case, the fact that he's not on the field with them for 3 hours of the week (and who knows, maybe he'll be calling in to talk to the coordinators) means that a suspension is MEANINGLESS.

Less leverage with cable operators to secure a high price / maximal distribution.

The economics are pretty complex in terms of how different types of audiences are valued & what a station is bringing to the table - and cable operators are powerful. If it were a regional-only access issue, they'd have to have a complex Zip Code / IP identification system like the MLB does for its mlb.tv subscriptions (a great service by the way for out of market MLB fans) - but man, does that suck when you're actually IN the home market and don't have the channel playing your games on cable.

I have a feeling that in a few years, there will be a pretty massive shakeup to the model and we'll look back and wonder what we were thinking, but for today, there are economic reasons for not streaming every game.

5-1 final.

Do it again tomorrow, boys!

derp.

"once you get in this building, you just don't want to leave"

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GREAT start to the 3rd period!!

Winning over here, over there... now what?

(On Comcast, I'd assume)

Think it must be channel 900 because its sometimes referred to as Comcast 900, but can't confirm.

Back in undergrad it used to sometimes be on one of the really low channels handled almost like a local access channel around the local news channels.

I was a bit confused too - thought I must have zoned out or something.

They called it that Wohlberg could be the guy that steps up big in Louie's absence this weekend. Have to give them credit for nailing that one - at least that's the way it looks right now!

Sounds like the team is playing well, controlling the puck, etc., but hasn't capitalized...

FUUUUUU.

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Then, i was like YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Hope he's well.

Love seeing UM players succeed in the NHL, even if their careers were more brief than would have been ideal.

I need anything but a FUUUUU right now.

Continued hockey posts despite their relative lack of popularity / demand make Brian my idol (even more than he otherwise would be).

Think this team is at an inflection point - they seem like they have what it takes to make a run (esp when Hogan returns), but it could go either way. Let's hope we stay aggressive early in games, because getting down is what really drains the energy from the team (though the comebacks recently have made me more hopeful.. if a little too much so).

TGI Friday's, Chili's and The Olive Garden are more our speed.

A MICHIGAN MAN would know better. 

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Time for ground operatives to spring into action.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusGIl3v044

on www.michiganzone.net

Is Brandon allowed to talk to recruits that have not yet committed, but have offers?

Does anyone have any insight on what will happen with the process?

For REAL??

Anyone else notice the following?

DL: Junior, Senior, Senior
LB: Junior, Junior, Sophomore, Senior
DB: Senior, Junior, Junior, Junior

Doesn't sound too bad to me.

is scout using what is basically confirmed news to gin up subscriptions. Guess that's what it takes, but come on... there has got to be another way.

Probably would have been exceptionally entertaining.

Can't believe they've been denied what would have been their biggest stage... maybe ever.

Wish there could be an archive of totally random, but funny OT's.

YouTubes, GIFs, crazy exchanges, etc... would be great to have a go-to spot.

like bull.

Think this isn't a great thing for the Big 10.

While all of the New Years day exposure is great, having all games at once means that fans who would normally just check in to see what was going on in another game if it were another day / time (I know I would for those other games) will no longer do so.

Probably not a problem for teams with large, dedicated fanbases - but the teams with smaller bases probably generally benefit more from a "halo effect" of other Big 10 fans that they'll no longer get.

I'd vote for trying to stagger the games somehow if possible in the future.

But we need to start hogan every game.

Seriously.

If Harbaugh is already a "done deal," I don't think DB would be sticking to his guns so hard about waiting until after the entire season is complete to make his performance evaluation.

I work at a big company, and if the CEO said something like that, but then after the fact it came to light / became clear that his mind had already been made up but he deceived folks about it, there would be a shit storm.

As a former corporate executive, I don't think DB would put his credibility on the line by insisting that he hasn't made a final decision when he has.

Personally, I want to believe that Harbaugh is indeed a done deal, and I don't think that Brandon will fire RR unless he has that side of things locked up, but publicly insisting that it is not done isn't a tenable position if it really is done...

Without this class's crown jewel, it becomes a little easier decision for DB. Maybe not a lot, but the scale leans a tiny bit more in that direction...

Sucks for RR that this has all been breaking during the Bust so he couldn't really take any action.

End 1st Period.

It is up, though the quality seems markedly worse than usual (breaking up rather than just sounding like a radio feed - sounds like they've got some kind of a filter on so that you can't easily hear the crowd noise, etc. Lame.).

Anyone having trouble accessing? I keep getting an error and have tried in multiple browsers.

Know it hasn't started just yet, but you used to be able to tune in and hear a little bit of the pregame discussion.

"Come on... everybody gets paid..."

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are you referring to JimBob or Justin Bieber? Or both?

Could be the best solution for both sides. Not like we wouldn't be able to field a defense next week without him.

Random. But I'll take it at this point.

Think there may be a few PS3 or Xbox offers out there though... 

Any semi-concrete way to verify that? Call me skeptical.

I, too, saw the bye week over the summer and pounced on it for a weekend with the girlfriend. Great minds think alike... though she did ask earlier this week if we had to watch any games.

I was tempted since she gave me an opening, but I think I'll just let her have this one given what OSU weekend is now going to do to "The Weekend Formerly Known as Thanksgiving Weekend."

That is indeed quite the analysis.

Wonder what that means they think they'll "hold" Denard to?

I believe it is the graduate business school students.

Great tradition. As a BBA, we wished we had something like that, but then realized that having the option of infinity pre-game house parties did the trick.

Watched the replay over and over, and I concur that it is on both Cam and Rogers.

As pointed out, Rogers bites up immediately, and could have been more useful had he maintained some amount of deep leverage.

However, it seems to me that Cam didn't even see the outside receiver releasing deep and read only off of the 2. He assumed that it was an overthrown ball to the 2, leading him to believe that he would either pick it off or it would fall meaninglessly deep / towards the sideline. Had he played the deeper of the two vertical routes, neither likely results in the TD (though they definitely pick up the first on the throw to the 2 and who knows what happens on the 1 depending on how the coverage plays out).

Nicely drawn up by BK, but my take is that if both stay deeper, the result is better for UM. That said, those guys needed to be aware in run support and you can't just drop the whole secondary deep on every play. Given the rollout, though, I'd prefer that they cover deep and rely on the LBs to get wide to prevent the underneath stuff.

Annndddd looking at it ONE MORE TIME, I'm thinking that Thomas Gordon could have done a better job getting over to cover the 2 (looks like it could have been a 3-level zone, if it was an obvious roll-out, which is why Rogers might not be wrong biting up) - which would have allowed Cam to stay deep.

At the end of the day... just tough to tell, but I'd say we had a bit of a breakdown on that entire side of the defense, leading me to believe that we just need to spend some more time preparing for combo routes on rollouts designed to beat 2-deep zones. If this went to Kovacs' side, I'm not sure that there is anything more positive that would have happened for us either.

that the band sections have some pretty interesting newsletters that are put together for away game trips...

just sayin'....

"I guess the MSU-Indiana game is slanted towards MSU but is that ever going to be relevant?"

Sparty no'd.

Or could this just still be speculation?

Bueller?

Glad you're back from the hiatus to bring us in before the start of the season.

Learning more and more of the nuance, having not been a football player in my illustrious athletic career, I feel like a better fan every time I read one of these, even if I am familiar with a good portion of the basics. Thanks for the continued efforts to educate our fan base!

Thanks much for the info! If all goes as planned, I'll be there!

looking for the spot to watch the game there.

Alumni site says South has been a spot in the past, but I can't find any confirmation that folks will be there this week - ring a bell for anyone?

This has probably been covered, but on the BTN Michigan coverage, he was the only other guy that I spotted at that practice (aside from Tate) who was de-winged. (Didn't look bad in the clips they showed, either, IMO.)

If the de-winging is going to be used to single out just a couple of guys (assuming Turner would have been the 3rd...), I am resolutely opposed. I get the need for motivational tactics, and I think it could be a good one - but don't use it to put guys down.

Maybe do it to all incoming freshmen and a handful of other guys (at least 5 or so) such that those that have it aren't getting singled out. When motivational tactics turn into demotivation and transfers, something is wrong. Nice idea, but let's try another iteration...

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and all who read it will look back upon the day of its publication with admiration

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yes.

tremendously excited?

Not sure I remember it, but I do remember being a part of a group of students trying to make the gesture into more of a fist during that timeframe.

We called it "the hammer" - as in our Defense bringing down the hammer.

Then the Daily stepped in and started promoting the claw and it was over. And hammer supporters were sad.

I, too, am anti "you-suck" - but would support something a little more creative in there.

More pub for MGoStore items!

MGoPoster.

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