Rawls if he can hang onto it, I'd guesss
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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 1 day 14 hours ago | Wasn't the "Living Years" ridiculed... |
... in that "Portlandia" sketch about music snobs having a meeting with their preschool teacher? Good stuff. Personally, I would recommned GTR's "The Hunter" -- awful late 80's "supergroup" composed of members of Yes, Asia, Genesis, etc. ("GTR" = "Gunning to Rock" in a totally non-ironic sense) -- playing a terrible, terrible rock balad. Everyone in the stadium will try to slit their wrists with a dull butter knife rather than listen to it again. Also: anything by Glass Tiger. |
| 43 weeks 1 day ago | Well said. |
From my years in school in the early 90's, the rap often heard against Mo was he recruited too many top recruits from outside of the Midwest who weren't "excited to play for Michigan." So when these blue-chip recruits couldn't crack the starting lineup, they became cancerous and the team chemistry went to hell in '93 and '94. No idea if this was really true, and as noted above, Mo's sample size is too small based on rosters. I'd be interested in seeing his recruiting classes again though. When Lloyd came in, he said he was going to focus on guys who "wanted to play for Michigan." Obviously, every kid wants to start, but there certainly seemed to be great team chemistry in the mid-to-late 90's under Lloyd. Whether that had anything to do with recruiting these "Michigan fans" (as opposed to recruiting really talented kids who lived up to their potential), I (again) have no idea. |
| 1 year 39 weeks ago | I remember a comical Mayo column back in the... |
.... Anthony Thomas or Chris Perry era. One of them, I forgot which, was injured (broken finger?) in the first half and didn't return in the second half. Mayo blasted Carr in his post-game column for not playing the running back in the second half. He obviously didn't feel like inquiring into (or listening to) the reasons (it was disclosed in the post-game presser), he just fired off a column to bash Carr. This Forcier gaffe is an even more comical and egregious example of Mayo's laziness, but he's been mailing it in for a long time (like most sports print columnists). |
| 1 year 44 weeks ago | I concur |
Someone could probably put together a Venn diagram to show that the Michigan fans who are still convinced that Navarre was the anti-Christ are substantially co-extensive with the Michigan fans who are still convinced Lloyd Carr was the anti-Christ. It's just a waste of time and energy to engage these people -- kind of like trying to have a rational conversation with Mel Gibson. Also, I'm not sure if I'm using a Venn diagram correctly in the above hypothetical, since I haven't used my engineering degree since I graduated 16 years ago. Anti-Christ! |
| 1 year 45 weeks ago | God Bless His Cotton-Pickin' Maize-and-Blue Heart |
Thanks Coach. |
| 1 year 52 weeks ago | Draper and Labadie |
From Brian's digging, it does look like things were starting to go off the rails before Rodriguez was hired. When was Labadie hired, and was he always in the same role? And didn't Draper take on a new role when Rodriguez came in? I seem to recall he transitioned from Director of Football Operations to an Associate Athletic Director for football, or something like that. Anybody know this stuff? |
| 2 years 2 weeks ago | Brian mentions Rorshach test.... |
.... and then proves it's a Rorshach test by reading an obvious game of telephone (seriously, the only thing missing is "PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER") as proof that Carr has an agenda. Full disclosure: I am a Carr fan, so further proof of the Rorshach test. I can't believe it's still early May. This is going to be the longest off-season EVER. |
| 2 years 5 weeks ago | Justin Siller = 18 wheeler |
Let's hope this season of using Fuzzy Dunlop turns out better than the "test drive" did for Herc and Carver (or for Michigan in the 2008 Purdue game). |
| 2 years 5 weeks ago | Fuzzy Dunlop.... |
.... should be the new name for the 3-3-5 given Brian's description ("One of the best things about having a hybrid-laden defense is it minimizes situational substitutions in today's fast-paced modern football environment."). |
| 2 years 6 weeks ago | I'm obviously not advocating |
I'm obviously not advocating for wasting a year of eligibility for Gardner, but I think he will be needed to win some games this year -- whether it's because of an injury or because of (hopefully temporary) ineffectiveness of Tate/Denard. I doubt that he'll be behind Denard re: the playbook by fall (he's here in the spring, and he has much more QB experience than Denard did in H.S.). If Tate won games last year as a true frosh, why can't Gardner? By all spring practice accounts, he is the only one of the 3 QBs who doesn't "panic" and take off out of the pocket unnecessarily. I think he'll be in the mix. |
