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Nitpicking: Lloyd did not…

Nitpicking: Lloyd did not replace Bo.  Gary Moeller did.  I loved that guy’s play calling, general approach, and teams.  But the reports of what he did make no doubt he should have been fired, despite what Bo might have done. Sad chapter. Get help with your addictions folks. RIP Gary Moeller.

Denard!   His very first…

Denard!   His very first snap was a fumble which he scooped up and ran into the end zone.  Emblematic of all his strengths, weaknesses and utter charm.

They misunderestimated us.

They misunderestimated us.

It's a feature, not a bug.

It's a feature, not a bug.

Boomer/X cusp here.  Dislike…

Boomer/X cusp here.  Dislike "natty" quite a bit.  Love love love that Michigan just won the national championship!   So happy for Edwards that he finally ripped off those big runs.  Like everyone else I knew Corum would run in that final touchdown. Love all those guys.  They can say natty or whatever they want.  I would feel silly.

Thanks for that!  I feel…

Thanks for that!  I feel smarter for having watched it!  This offense is so fun!  

Exactly this.  IANAL, but it…

Exactly this.  IANAL, but it seems there might be grounds for defamation (or deformation as a previous poster inadvertently coined).

Tour de force.

Tour de force.

Or they didn’t suck quite…

Or they didn’t suck quite enough, and that was the problem.

Agreed, but if it is being…

Agreed, but if it is being done successfully enough, we might not even know it. 

Am I correct that the…

Am I correct that the conventional wisdom is that, all other things being equal, OSU is in if their only loss is to UM, but UM is out if their only loss is to OSU?  Are the tables really that skewed?  Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!

Not only that, but according…

Not only that, but according to one of their savants, everyone murders and steals. 

I did not like the Bulls,…

I did not like the Bulls, but I loathed Pippin.  I recall reading somewhere that he has blown most of his NBA fortune.  Good for him.

This is the year I install…

This is the year I install an antenna on my roof and get my sports the old fashioned way--at least the ones I can. 

You beclown yourself by…

You beclown yourself by defending DeSantis.  He is a bully and a proto-nazi.  He denies science.  He bans books!  He stifles open inquiry on college campuses. If you call that hitting it out of the park, one wonders just what kind of small minded park you live in.  I have to think you have had zero encounters with a university, or at least no lucid encounters.  Yeesh is all I can say.  Yes, stick to football you clown.  I can see by your past posts that you do not do that enough.  You degrade the site with your presence.

 

Our state universities…

 

Our state universities are embedded in the constitution, rather than being legislative creations.  It gives them very wide autonomy, and makes it very hard to just do away with them.  

Are you referring to our…

Are you referring to our Governor Whitmer in Michigan?  Shit for brains for following the best public health advice at the time?   I will gladly take her brains over yours any day of the week (or year or millenium) and thankfully a healthy majority of Michiganders agree with my positive assessment of her performance.   The mods are supposed to keep partisan politics off these pages but asshats like you slip through the cracks.   You do not display much in the way of intelligence or critical thinking, btw, so maybe you should just stfu on things you know nothing about.

Awesome vocalist.  Among his…

Awesome vocalist.  Among his many achievements, he taught the Grateful Dead how to harmonize.

I am going to second that…

I am going to second that one.  We were on about the 20 yard line in that corner and had a great view of that play.  Emblazoned in my memory is my late dad yelling out--"That's an All-American!!!".  Had never before nor since seen him that excited about anything.

 

Doesn’t Woodson have another…

Doesn’t Woodson have another year of eligibility?  

Great win.  Classic second…

Great win.  Classic second half blow out!  Mullings seems to be the the short yardage bulldozer we need in place of Corum (get well Blake!).  And Loveland looks unstoppable.  The future is bright—bring on TCU!

I agree that offense is…

I agree that offense is still on the upswing.   Add in a healthy Corum and this offense looks utterly unstoppable over a full game.  

I think Donovan would get a…

I think Donovan would get a third touchdown run of 95 yards if they played the game again.

Those were perfectly placed…

Those were perfectly placed in his highlights.

Donovan Edwards did not get…

Donovan Edwards did not get that memo.

This is a great piece of…

This is a great piece of trivia!  Let's add a Big12 team and an SEC team to the total this year!

Wrong announcer…still a…

Wrong announcer…still a hilarious and apt description.

I looked specifically for it…

I looked specifically for it and could not find it.  Simply not shown.

Upon rewatch, I am struck by…

Upon rewatch, I am struck by how tight the game was until Edwards broke it open.  His 2 touchdowns really padded what was a close fought game until just under 8 minutes left.  As others have noted, Sainristil's 4 point play was HUGE, but it was still just a one score game after that.  If you just look at the final score and the highlight reel of Michigan players running wild, the game seems much more lopsided that it actually was for 3.5 quarters.  I know I did not really breath easy until the second Edwards run.    I just love how the momentum started out all OSU and then sloooowly swung our way and then BOOM!   I also just love Herbstreit's 4th quarter comment about a fear factor "arominating" from the crowd.  Great new word for what happened to that crowd.

The game was tighter, later…

The game was tighter, later than the final score would indicate for sure.  The Sainristil pbu was a huge momentum shift, but even so, OSU was only down one score with under 8 minutes to go.  Tight game that only got busted open with Edwards' first long TD run.

Herbstreit called it "a fear…

Herbstreit called it "a fear factor 'arominating' from these fans right now".  I laughed out loud at his coinage.

I will take either of these…

I will take either of these predicted outcomes!  Go Blue!

There is still pending civil…

There is still pending civil action, no?  That could turn out to be more consequential for the perps and MSU.

 

As a faculty member of an…

As a faculty member of an institution of higher learning in the state, I concur--especially on the bloated administrative costs.  

Come on man--he needs that…

Come on man--he needs that extra $100k. Much more so than his staff.

Charles Woodson.

Playing…

Charles Woodson.

Playing both ways.

An overall sense of karma. …

An overall sense of karma.  To return balance in the universe.  

This made me go read his…

This made me go read his counterpunt.  Good lord.

Jake Moody!!!

Jake Moody!!!

Part of a general coarsening…

Part of a general coarsening of public discourse and interactions. I see it everywhere.  I am trying to think of the public figure who normalized and even encouraged this type of behavior.  It has definitely gotten worse.  Their name escapes me.  

Still trying to figure out…

Still trying to figure out if this is before or after the video showing the group kicking and throwing a player through the door.  It looks like this is the beginning of it all.  Maybe later even in this video, but offscreen is where the kicking and throwing down happen.  What absolute goons.

Help me out with the…

Help me out with the relative order of the two videos--which is first?

The kicking and throwing through the doorway?

Or the bashing with the helmet?

Maybe it is clear to others but not to me.  Either way, talk about running the gauntlet!

Both videos seem to show enough eyewitnesses for the authorities to get the story straight.   Criminal charges seem likely.   

Great recap of a great year…

Great recap of a great year.  Let's not forget Charles' spectacular, one-handed, leaping out-of-bounds interception against MSU!

No.

First, I follow mostly…

No.

First, I follow mostly college sports (football and hoops) rather than pros, and the thought of putting money on the performance of college kids seems nuts.  

Second, as many have pointed out, the betting game is absolutely rigged against the bettor.  Either transparently in the betting lines, or more rarely but certainly not never, by fixing the actual games.

Probabilities dictate that enough people will get consistently get lucky so that think they are smart.  They talk a lot and are the apostles for the bookies.

I sometimes do mind bets (sort of like declassifying documents by thinking about them) to see what if.  Last one of those was UM-MSU 2021.  

I am glad I never got started chasing that dragon.

 

Fire on the Mountain!

Fire on the Mountain!

Dude looks like a bruiser! …

Dude looks like a bruiser!  Go Blue!

Ah, the old front butt. …

Ah, the old front butt.  Whatever happened to him and why would anyone play football for such a  slob of a human being?

I would say these are…

I would say these are plausible as additional considerations to his thinking, but not the primary motivation.  As you say, we will never really know unless that tell all book comes out.

Wasn't Gee the fricking…

Wasn't Gee the fricking University President at the time he said that about Tressel?

Larry Bell dropped out to…

Larry Bell dropped out to start brewing, but we're still very happy to claim him as an alum!