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| 9 hours 14 min ago | My first M-OSU game. |
Very possibly the best one I could ever hope to see, at age 15. Darden's purported interference was a very close call. I remember thinking at the time, real-time, that Thom got away with interference, and that Woody had a pretty good reason to be angry. On the replay later, I recall it looking better, not such a terrible call. Particularly since Darden came away with the ball! One of those weird plays that might have been decided by the fact that the defender has a right to try to catch a thrown ball and because he did make the catch, the kind of contact that might be called interference on a reach-in to break up a play was overlooked. Woody Hayes had a different opinion. It is a hard play to review now; for some reason only a poor-exposure copy of the game film exists. The play is at about the 8:30 mark on YouTube: |
| 13 hours 2 min ago | "...Eleven warriors..." |
...is drawn from the lyrics to The Buckeye Battle Cry: Buckeye Battle CryIn Old Ohio there's a team, The song has given rise to the titles of several blogs; BBC, 11W, Our Honor Defend, etc. |
| 14 hours 40 min ago | Enough goddamn patches and logos. |
A picture is worth
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| 14 hours 53 min ago | I like to think of MGoBlog as one of the best, |
and the MGoBoard as also one of the best. The main page content here is wonderful, of course. Brian & Co. do a great job. The MGoBoard is highly useful, for fast-breaking events, serving as a gigantic aggregator of Twitter news and other social media breaks, particuarly for people like me who have neither the time nor the inclination to follow that stuff personally. But I also like to think of the Board as a place for some above-average intelligent fan commentary; and comments like this one; "it's still pretty awful writing" just leave me feeling a little embarassed as to how outsiders might view the quality of this Board. When in fact Eleven Warriors posts some really excellent writing and content, day after day. |
| 15 hours 3 min ago | In 2010... |
Rich was coaching Michigan, and Brady was coaching San Diego State. But that wasn't "all that mattered" to some at that time. |
| 19 hours 17 min ago | Find a good quote. |
Find a quote. Show the Board where I was trying to "pretend [that] Rich Rod was beloved by everyone but the Freep." Get to work, asshole. Because I'll be waiting for the proof. If you want a great big over-generalization of what I've written on this Board, it was mostly the same things that were later shown to have been true in Three and Out. And it still isn't even all that clear; but there were many people who seemed to be less than supportive of Rodriguez. The funny and really stupid thing about what you wrote is that far from being in any "fantasy world," I have done a lot less guessing about "factions" than some others, because the facts and the records haven't been so clear. But because the Free Press put its story into print, and then the NCAA and Michigan put their findings on the record, the story of the Free Press' wrongdoing has been really clear. Isn't it just hilarious? The original Freep publisher's response dismissed all criticism of the Rosenberg-Snyder reporting as having come essentially from Michigan fanboys. So who are the fanboys now? |
| 1 day 5 hours ago | "Denard was unhurt" |
A couple of things about L'Affaire Ghoslton. One is let's not forget that Gholston really tried to get away with the helmet-twist. I really believe that he thought that he was sort of at the bottom of a pile, and that as his body skidded over the pinned Denard, nobody would see what he did, but of course there was (fortunately) a low-level camera (endzone, it seemed) that caught it perfectly. Gholston wanted to hurt Denard, and he wanted to do it without getting caught. Second, this business about how "Denard was unhurt..." I'm no so sure. He wasn't taken out of the game. He popped back up onto his feet then as well as after a few more hits. But on the replay, Denard can be seen rolling and rubbing his neck after the Gholston attack. He had been hurt; just not enough to leave the game. Later, of course, the vicious personal foul by Marcus Rush, one of the numerous 15-yarders on MSU, did take Denard out of the game. And I simply cannot understand how that hit did not result in a suspension for Marcus Rush. Again, I think it is perfectly silly for Gholston to have gotten a suspension for a wild swing at Taylor Lewan, but the really serious fouls with intent to injure (Rush, and Gholston earlier) did not draw suspensions. Both Gholston and Rush should have gotten two games each. |
| 1 day 7 hours ago | It would be nice to see them. |
Because, (as Jim Brandstatter might be the first to say) Larry Adderly was really good, a much more polished professional than Jim was when he started out. There's another, even older, college football highlight show (extremely well done for its time, and widely admired) that was the national college football highlight show on ABC, hosted by Michigan grad ('49) Bill Flemming:
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| 1 day 8 hours ago | Well I loved Ernie Harwell... |
... and I think I'd have to agree that Bruce Martyn was the best. In third place, leaving everyone behind, was Michigan's own Tom Hemmingway, when WUOM did football and basketball. A total dream, to listen to the game without commercials. |
| 1 day 8 hours ago | Wonderful job, Seth. |
As usual, Bando makes a good point. I don't know how old Bando is, but I was on all of the incarnations; the pre-'69 grass (by far the best field we ever had; it was PERFECT in any weather), the '69 Astroturf (which was like carpet, and gave you tremendous carpet burns on your elbows; one reason that those guys wore elbow pads) and the subsequent stuff that I think was called Monsanto Tartan Turf, which had little mini-blades of plastic grass embedded in it. That is what my set of coasters is made out of. The special prescription grass that came later when we returned to grass was probably the worst surface we ever had. A complete embarassment, to have people come out during breaks in the game to pull sheets of sad back inot place like they were replacing divots. |
