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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 9 hours 40 min ago | So-so |
Will he come though? Just so you know, /Brooke Waggoner |
| 17 hours 31 min ago | Heiko's a very genuine guy |
Heiko's a very genuine guy and not a half-bad writer, and that's what Brian likes about him, and Borges as well. He's not at all a "football junky" or student of the mechanics--not that I was until I immersed myself in it either. He's a very good journalist, and unlike some of the other people in the room Heiko comes off like he's really just trying to get correct answers to his readership, as opposed to framing a story or emphasizing the author's intelligence. That's why Borges likes him. |
| 18 hours 12 min ago | Still working on the bipeds |
But...
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| 18 hours 16 min ago | You win 10 orphans. |
You win 10 orphans.
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| 1 day 13 hours ago | Does Beilein have a |
Does Beilein have a recruiting service? I'd rank that one 1st. |
| 1 day 14 hours ago | I was talking a few months |
I was talking a few months ago to my wife's cousin (from Texas) who said his company was going to be making Michigan's new footballs. I'm trying to find out if this was his doing. I can't think of another Michigan fan there. As always: all meat is good meat. By the way, if it is his company I may be able to swing a few of them. Not promising anything. |
| 1 day 15 hours ago | baby announcements |
I tend to look the other way, unless it gets out of hand. If there's anyone who can be forgiven a moment of insanity (other than sports fans) it's new parents. |
| 1 day 16 hours ago | really Mike, we're gonna |
really Mike, we're gonna freeze our asses off outdoors in December for the MAC champ? |
| 1 day 18 hours ago | You don't remember 2000? As a |
You don't remember 2000? As a refresher, Drew Henson was quarterback and passing to David Terrell and Marquise Walker and Braylon Edwards and Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, who was also the cornerback, punt returner, kick returner, running back (behind Chris Perry and Anthony Thomas and Tom Harmon), and strong safety, free safety, and all three linebackers. The defensive line was the 1987 season of Superfriends. Michigan went 12-0 and won the Rose Bowl over FloridaMiami State or something, and the offensive line of Steve Hutchinson, Jeff Backus, Maurice Williams, Jake Long and David Molk lifted Henson on their shoulders at which point Drew yelled "We're all coming back next year to win again! Fuck the Yankees!" And then the Yankees were fucked and the Tigers won seven World Series in a row. It was kind of a 3-4 defense that year but it's really easiest to make it like a 4-3 under: NT: Eric Wilson and Grant Bowman 3T: Shawn Lazarus 5T: Dan Rumishek WDE: Larry Stevens and Evan Coleman SAM: Victor Hobson MIKE: Eric Brackins and Carl Diggs WILL: Larry Foote FS: DeWayne Patmon and Charles Drake SS: Julius Curry Boundary: James "Future Star of the XFL" Whitley Field: Todd Howard Nickel: Brandon Williams If you don't remember what the XFL was, be thankful you remember 2000 way less than I do. |
| 1 day 20 hours ago | Let's all get football |
Let's all get football coaches to call things things that make sense. |
| 2 days 2 hours ago | Great Stuff! |
Congratulations Heiko on scoring this interview! People should know there's a little bit of backstory. Whhen Heiko was gunning for this interview last November, the guy who decides these things said he was a little worried, because we had a reputation for being kinda hard on coordinators when things go sour. So Ace, Heiko and I are driving back from Columbus after The Game last year, Heiko is driving and I'm reading Ace's postgame column out loud. You know the one. And every damning word Ace is going "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" and I swear you can see Heiko's shoulders drooping a little bit more. How did it happen anyway? Because Borges wanted it to. |
| 2 days 20 hours ago | Ruling is no. People coming |
Ruling is no. People coming here wondering what type of site they're viewing will get the wrong idea if there's breasts staring at them from peoples' avatars. Remember we have female readers too. |
| 2 days 20 hours ago | Way OT: Need help with laptop & printing to work printer |
Not a kiosk. |
| 6 days 21 hours ago | Was this from a previous |
Was this from a previous thread? I want to make this the centerpiece of DD. Also that cropping job of Branch is supurb -- could use the png file if you have it. |
| 6 days 21 hours ago | The Okie Package. Man I love |
The Okie Package. Man I love the Okie Pacakage one!!! |
| 1 week 1 day ago | No matter how low your |
No matter how low your opinion of a free degree from Michigan State, it has to be higher than the potential for this guy to make it as a rapper: |
| 1 week 1 day ago | Not Bentley's stats -- the |
Not Bentley's stats -- the targeting stats. |
| 1 week 1 day ago | I pulled mine from the |
I pulled mine from the SBNation site, which was last updated a month ago. The other--somewhere I made a copy error and just repeated it a lot it seems. |
| 1 week 1 day ago | No, just a guy I watch Red |
No, just a guy I watch Red Wings games with who asked not to be named in person. |
| 1 week 2 days ago | People are far more alike |
People are far more alike that you're crediting them for, and FAR more genetically mixed than most people realize. Scientifically speaking, the gene pool is far too mixed up for there to be any plausible relationship between race and certain abilities, especially in African Americans, of whom nearly all have European ancestry in multiple spots on the tree (having lived in this country for quite some time). Furthermore, African population groups are more genetically distinct than any other continental sample (e.g. N. Africans share ancenstry with Greeks more than they do people from Kenya), so what you're calling "black" is actually humanity's most melted pot (another being European Americans, Mr. Kettle). Other than skin pigmentation there aren't any shared traits in that population. And skin pigmentation doesn't make you jump higher, run faster, or catch better. Meanwhile sociologists have shown fairly demonstratably that circumstance, not genetics, is the largest contributing factor to demographic differences in athleticism. A century ago people were talking about the Catholics the same way, believing that something about being Irish made you tough enough to be a football player that you didn't see very often in "white" people. Turns out it's just that Irish were poor with few opportunities available to them, and that meant a few more were very motivated to take advantage of one that provided a free college degree. Sound familiar? Athleticism isn't just born--it's a honed skill that requires a massive level of dedication from an early age to utilize. All those fast and agile kids from Pahokee didn't get that way because they're part of a predisposed athletic genetic group; they got that way by chasing rabbits while most of the kids their age were playing video games, and of the rabbit chasers the few with athletic talent honed commitment to the sport and agility to a level that made them very useful to college teams. It's mostly bullshit--not entirely bullshit because there's certain adaptive traits that remain--but bullshit enough that race as a determining factor in a person's athletic ability is more damaging as a stereotype than useful as a predictor. Comedians who play on stereotypes have been around as long as stereotypes have been taboo--Chapelle does nothing Richard Pryor didn't come up with. But then there's a very good reason that stereotypes are taboo: they're damaging, while also being not correct. |
| 1 week 3 days ago | BO'B seems to know what he's |
BO'B seems to know what he's doing. That said the last recruit before this was Wangler's other kid, a 2-star linebacker who had interest from MSU and would flip to Michigan if he manages to play his way into an offer his sr year. Recruiting like Sparty at their peak when they have such a small class is not going to make them a threat without finding a LOT of diamonds. |
| 1 week 4 days ago | oh man. I didn't want to give |
oh man. I didn't want to give it out to something O.T. |
| 1 week 4 days ago | I think it depends what |
I think it depends what you're saying. Was J.T. Floyd a great cornerback on par with the chain of next-Woodsons? No. Was he better than Morgan Trent? No. Better than Troy Woolfolk? No. Better than James Rogers? Yes. For my part I was very happy with Floyd because he played his ass off, and because he did a great job covering the man beast receivers we faced, and most of all because most of Floyd's cornerback contemporaries I wouldn't put in Buffalo's backfield.. Floyd had a bit more athleticism than Rogers, but he played smarter i thought. Rogers was, to me, a "oh thank god he's not a steaming pile" starter, but he had to be covered for because his skills were so limited, and that opened up all the freshman corners to getting picked on. I see Floyd as the kind of corner Michigan State or Iowa typically plays with: a guy who's alright and can actually do a great job against a certain type of player, but has holes in his game and won't be an NFL guy. Rogers is more like that occasionally decent senior cornerback on Indiana who can do one thing well and some things not well at all, but looks better because of the tire fire around him. Rogers did all he was asked to do and I don't think you'll find a single Michigan fan who'd ever be upset he earned that camp offer, since the option after him was basically Cullen Christian. I also don't think it's a personal knock on him to say he didn't have nearly kind of ability that Michigan wants out of its starters. |
| 1 week 5 days ago | There's actually quite a few |
There's actually quite a few former players, more lurkers than contributors. Team 123 is particularly well-represented here. |
| 1 week 5 days ago | It's him. |
It's him. |
| 1 week 6 days ago | The other day Ace was |
The other day Ace was interviewing a former recruit and he said "Well I was going to pick Michigan but then I saw some internet obsessed fan walking around with a t-shirt that calls my home state the "worst state ever" and I thought to myself "that is so inaccurate: by every available metric Alabama is clearly the worst state ever" and let me tell you it really made an impression on me because I care so much about academics, so I'm gonna go to Ohio State instead. Wait, they call it THE Ohio State University? ARRGGH SUPERFLUOUS ARTICLES! Where's that Northwestern hat?" -Ifeadi Odenigbo |
| 1 week 6 days ago | Sharing mine. |
They had a phone number you could call and find out, and every day after school I'd come home and call (on a house phone--remember those things?) the admissions office and it would say in the CRISP lady's voice "You have applied for ... L-S-A. Your application is being reviewed." After several weeks of that I rushed home from school on a Friday because I was going up to East Lansing for the weekend. I used to hit up extracurricular journalism programs the way recruits hit the camp circuit, and MSU's journalism school had a (very easy on the eyes) mentor girl recruiting me, and she invited me to the Michigan-Michigan State game, so the plan was to drive up to East Lansing immediately after school, stay at a friend's house, go to the football game, then I was gonna get a tour of the campus and stuff. I was already packed, but I got home and my parents were both home in their bedroom so I went in to say goodbye and while up there I figured what the hell and did a quick call to the CRISP lady. We put it on speaker, entered all the stuff, and got.. "You have applied for ... L-S-A. You have been accepted to ... L-S-A." Whoopin. Jumpin on the bed. More whoopin. We sang "The Victors" -- doing the Champions of the West verse a second time because CHAMPIONS!!! Then I drove up to East Lansing (with five friends piled in the Honda because in high school that's how we do) and sat in the student section and tried to act like a good Sparty recruit until Woodson leapt what had to be 35 feet in the air and one-hand-intercepted a ball Sparty was trying to throw away, and that gave me away. I ended up trying pot for the first time at my friend's house instead of taking the tour afterwards. Go Blue! The letter itself finally came the week before the Penn State game. I was on campus visiting Ann Arbor that Saturday, and watched the game in basement of the Union--in that big room I can never remember the name of--and I had my acceptance letter in the pocket of my varsity jacket. |
| 1 week 6 days ago | Um...should be free shipping |
Um...should be free shipping with an order that large. I'm asking the store. |
| 2 weeks 1 day ago | I tried crossing the blocking |
I tried crossing the blocking power of Jake Long with the nasty hitting of Daydrion Taylor, and the looniness of Les Miles just to see what would happen. We were gonna call it a Taylor LesLong. Then the thing escaped my top secret lab in the Arizona desert, and was last seen riding a twosie bicycle in the direction of Ann Arbor. |
| 2 weeks 1 day ago | Yeah technically Welborne was |
Yeah technically Welborne was the strong safety. But he was a fantastic cover guy (and built like one), and Michigan used him kinda like how modern quarters defenses use their Ed Reeds (and the Colts deployed Marlin as a nickel), bringing him down to the box, threatening blitzes sometimes, and having play robber zones, hence all the interceptions. If you ask me the 1989 defense was perhaps Lloyd Carr's best coaching job. We talk about these great defenses that people run nowadays and the things they do with safeties, and forget we had a pretty high-tech thing running around these parts. |
