the just released schedules were a flat-out statement that the B10 doesn't believe SOS will matter in playoff selection
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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 14 weeks 6 days ago | As long as Vin Scully is |
As long as Vin Scully is still working, Shulman's not the best play-by-play guy in sports, but he may be the best at working together with analysts. I brought up Buck Martinez because he was way better with Shulman than he's ever been working with anyone else. Shulman's probably the best option for working with Vitale, but I think he deserves a new partner so the debate can be "Shulman: best play-by-play guy?" instead of "Vitale: tolerable or insufferable?" |
| 14 weeks 6 days ago | I'm not a fan of Vitale |
I'm not a fan of Vitale because Dan Shulman has been one of the best play-by-play men in the business going back to his time calling Blue Jays games with Buck Martinez. But it's been ages since I've been able to enjoy him do his thing, because he's paired with someone who has absolutely no ability to take it down a notch. |
| 15 weeks 2 days ago | Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius |
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius (Level 10) is at the top of the scale. It's for "otherworldly" awesome moments such as your favorite moment from the fourth quarter of Notre Dame UTL. Gospel According to Mark is at the bottom of the scale for complete and utter disasters. Example: @Nebraska after Denard went down. The order of the stories in the Borges-O-Meter is not correlated with my opinion of their quality as stories, The Library of Babel is much better than Level 3 as a story, but that's where it fits in best on the B-O-M. |
| 21 weeks 4 days ago | I am glad mgoblog is still a |
I am glad mgoblog is still a place where dumbass mistakes are quickly corrected, even if they are my own. (However, I failed in correcting usage, not grammar.) |
| 21 weeks 4 days ago | Damn, I screwed up my idioms. |
Damn, I screwed up my idioms. I am 100% in error. But wasn't calling me stupid more fun than rehashing RR? |
| 21 weeks 4 days ago | You honestly COULD care less. |
Is correcting a stranger's word choice on the Internet a better use of time than arguing over RR again? You make the call! |
| 24 weeks 6 days ago | I suggest the "Mississauga |
I suggest the "Mississauga rattler." |
| 28 weeks 5 hours ago | I'll cut the other guys some |
I'll cut the other guys some slack for blaming the Nebraska loss on the refs in the heat of the moment. Not the best attitude, but understandable. But blaming four losses on the refs? That's worthy of special disdain. |
| 28 weeks 18 hours ago | I had to update it twice |
I had to update it twice today. Once for the game, then again for the postgame tweeting. |
| 29 weeks 4 days ago | Forde puts in no effort |
A column about the "junk wins" from CFB's early days could have been interesting, but Forde was too busy thinking his lame jokes were the wittiest japes of the season. "Something called Physicians & Surgeons of Illinois" is now known as the University of Illinois at Chicago. Case Institute of Technology (now part of Case Western Reserve) was a prestigious school - it was where the Michelson-Morley experiment was performed and, as Yeoman noted, a solid football program. Worst of all to me, Forde abbreviates the California Institute of Technology as "Cal Tech." It is Caltech and always has been. He should get an editor and maybe do some research next time. |
| 1 year 11 weeks ago | I'm planning on doing the |
I'm planning on doing the opposite. I don't plan on cheering for them, but I'm going to call them "Ohio State" until Sunday. |
| 1 year 15 weeks ago | To be fair, isn't part of the |
To be fair, isn't part of the reason he changed from Oklahoma to Indiana because Kevin Wilson went from being Oklahoma's OC to Indiana's HC? Sounds like a reasonable enough reason for that first switch, at least. |
| 1 year 15 weeks ago | George Washington and Eastern |
George Washington and Eastern Illinois. I guess if you really don't like Tony Romo that'll help you get your hate on. Regardless of the opponents, go Connie! http://www.jeopardy.com/minisites/collegechamps-s28/matchups/ |
| 1 year 16 weeks ago | The lesson here is that if |
The lesson here is that if you don't do your stats homework on MGoBlog, five people are going to jump in and do it for you. |
| 1 year 16 weeks ago | You can analyze 8 games |
I did a Wilcoxon signed-rank test on Michigan's 8 Big Ten games to estimate the probability that the Kenpom predictions differ significantly from the final scores of the games. The set of differences between the Kenpom predictions and actual final scores is {-7,-1,-10,-25,+3,+20,-5,-6}. Based on those differences, I get a critical value of S=9, which corresponds to a probability of about 20% that the median score margin predicted by Kenpom is not the same as the actual median score margin. This is not statistically significant, so I won't reject my null hypothesis that Kenpom is doing an OK job. Based on most of the numbers in that set of differences being negative, it wouldn't be unreasonable to wonder if Kenpom is underrating Michigan with respect to the rest of Big Ten, but there's not enough data to prove of disprove it. |
| 1 year 16 weeks ago | The Oklahoma band must not |
The Oklahoma band must not think Boomer Sooner is catchy, seeing as they play it every damn time Oklahoma makes a good play. Do they think we'll forget it if we don't hear it 100 times a game? |
| 1 year 17 weeks ago | If Dantonio didn't want to |
If Dantonio didn't want to listen to what Hecklinski had to say, he could have taken out his phone and played some Angry Birds. If he wanted to be a dick, he could have "forgotten" to turn the sound off before he started playing. If he'd done that, at least he'd have been an amusing dick. |
| 1 year 17 weeks ago | I'm glad this is Justin |
I'm glad this is Justin Taylor's response to the Napkin.
Also, I'm posting links to copyrighted material. Take that SOPA! |
| 1 year 17 weeks ago | No, kind sir, I am not a |
No, kind sir, I am not a woman not was I outside the Sheraton in New Orleans. I do however appreciate you making mgoblog a community where we do not reflexively assume everyone is male. If you look at our blog, you can also find designs for Martin, Van Bergen, and Heininger. |
| 1 year 17 weeks ago | While it is a random toss, I |
While it is a random toss, I would hope that 'Tree would be especially skilled in catching the T-shirts. |
| 1 year 18 weeks ago | I don't think you can have a |
I don't think you can have a completely "fair" system when 120+ teams play 12-14 games each, but I feel a necessary requirement for whatever system is used is that it not have obviously unfair elements. A necessary requirement for the system not being "unfair" is that it not depend on what half-informed coaches or Harris poll voters had for breakfast the morning they sent their votes in. I know it's gauche to link to your own blog post, so I apologize for doing so, but I did write something last month about what I think would be a fairer way to rank teams that would be too long to repost here: http://hooverstreetrag.blogspot.com/2011/12/everyone-else-has-solution-f... Once we rank teams fairly, we can then argue over whether it's least unfair to have 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 teams in the "playoffs." |
| 1 year 18 weeks ago | I'd rather the system be fair |
I'd rather the system be fair than that it be stacked in our favor. It's unsportsmanlike otherwise. On a cruder note, I want a system where there's never even the tiniest sliver of truth when Sparty complains the system shafted them because they're Sparty. A fair system forces them to own their failures and stop making excuses. |
| 1 year 18 weeks ago | None of them actually matter |
None of them actually matter now that the season's over. |
| 1 year 19 weeks ago | Go find the stuff he wrote |
Go find the stuff he wrote for the Boston Phoenix before ESPN hired him. He was pretty good! He's more or less a hipster sportswriter. He stopped being cool when he got big. |
| 1 year 21 weeks ago | Weasels and wolverines are |
Weasels and wolverines are both members of the family Mustilidae. That's as close as Brady Hoke gets to being a weasel. As for GGERG Easterbrook, his ability to pass judgment on situations where he has no understanding is unsurpassed. In academia, it's perfectly acceptable for a professor to move from one school to another if the new school offers them better facitilies, resources, or reputation. If we're going to claim that football players are "student-athletes," then football coaches are "professor-athletes," and the ethics of them changing jobs should be the same as those for the professors. Moving on up in the academic world is a normal and completely ethical thing to do - the same should be true in the college football world. The difference between professors and coaches is that students can follow a professor to a new school and players can't follow a coach, but I think the issue there is the NCAA's lack of ethics, not the coach's. Even someone like Todd Graham isn't a weasel for changing jobs frequently. His inappropriate conduct was not addressing his team face-to-face like an adult. The only coaches I can think of who may have acted unethically in taking college coaching jobs are Saban and Petrino, because they left NFL jobs, where the collegiate standards of behavior may not apply. |
| 1 year 22 weeks ago | If you'd gotten your $75 to |
If you'd gotten your $75 to go the Big Ten Championship game, you'd have more than half the money you need to not attend the Sugar Bowl! |
| 1 year 23 weeks ago | stiffarmtrophy.com |
stiffarmtrophy.com is the go-to place for Heisman predictions, and they say RG3 with 70% of the max points. Luck #2, Richardson #3. |
| 1 year 23 weeks ago | Beat Tech won't work. |
It's actually a compliment to VT to call them Tech as if no explanation was needed. The school that's earned the right to be called just Tech is Georgia Tech (more tradition, better research and academics - not that VT is terrible in any of these things.) I've been told that they hate to be referred to as "VaTech" though. |
| 1 year 23 weeks ago | I was going to put "only on a |
I was going to put "only on a Michigan blog" as a tag on the post, but I decided to put in a Jonathan Lethem reference instead. Now that is something that would only happen on a Michigan blog. |
| 1 year 23 weeks ago | Correcting an error: I wrote |
Correcting an error: I wrote before the 2010 game, not the 2009 one. Still, we had only lost to them twice in a row, and I thought had a good chance of winning that one. :( |
