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1 year 18 hours ago	How about this for a retort?	We actually teach our players to play well- which is why we have kicked your tail the last three years.  Crow about recruiting all you want- those 4- and 5-star recruits got posterized by walk-on Blair White for three years running.  Want to trade QBs?  I love Denard Robinson, don't get me wrong, but pretty much nobody recruited Kirk Cousins, and I wouldn't swap them in a heartbeat.  You guys keep harping on the 'Sparty Noooo' theme in recruiting, and we'll keep actually teaching our guys how to play.  By the way, I'm still laughing at 5-star Will Campbell- how's that working out for you, LOL.
1 year 11 weeks ago	NOW it gets interesting	Okay, so the Vest is suspended for two games and fined $250,000. Why is this a problem? Because it's tantamount to admitting he committed a whole host of NCAA major violations, including unethical conduct, failure to monitor, failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance, of a level and gravity much more severe than anything Coach Rodriguez or the UM football program is accused of. If the NCAA has any fortitude at all, they will start digging, and keep doing it. They could well end up crucifying Tressel, if not Ohio State. Worst-case, if they dig up everything (including Pryor's magical car deal), penalties could and should be worse than USC. Yeah, it's that bad. The only good news- NCAA is slow enough that UM will probably get a chance to exact some revenge on the Vest before he leaves/is pushed out. Ball's in your court, Infractions Committee.
1 year 11 weeks ago	Duly posted	http://mgoblog.com/content/m-u-p-p-e-t-s-0#comment-995974 I'll quote to save you the trouble: "I heart A +1 to anyone referencing 'The Shining' in any way, shape, form, or fashion. On to accountability:  congrats to UM, they played well and beat my Spartans, much to my chagrin.  I talked some smack pre-game about how MSU would beat UM handily; it's only fair that I post to eat my crow.  Tastes like chicken... UM came out and made the first run- all this time, I thought MSU would understand the importance of that and try to go up early.  That's what I get for thinking, and I'll take my medicine like a man."   I recommend crow, especially as part of a Pancheros burrito.
1 year 11 weeks ago	Here we go again, Brian whinging about a minor skirmish.	(don't even start. I put 'whinging' in there instead of 'whining' because the British do it, and that's good enough for me.) I love that Brian links to message boards to prove his point about class. Thing is, I read the first page of each of them and was surprised by the number of 'so what- it's a rivalry, no big deal' responses there. A theme if not a majority. I don't find anything bad in what Morris did- it's a rivalry game, or did someone forget the definition of that? If we were up by a similar score, I'd expect a layup. Every chance to kick a rival while they're down is an opportunity not to be missed. As for the 'get the f off my court' quote, good on him- they swept MSU, they have a right to feel good about it- and to talk some all-important smack. I also don't have a problem with Lucas firing the ball at him- I remember the Bad Boys Piston era. They could have taken a lot lower route than throwing a ball.  I mean, can't we all just get along? 'Class' has no consideration in a rivalry game- trash talk and hard feelings do. Let's stop whinging about this non-story and enjoy that this game matters again. I'm happy about it, and wouldn't have it any other way. Now, on to football!
1 year 11 weeks ago	I heart	A +1 to anyone referencing 'The Shining' in any way, shape, form, or fashion. On to accountability:  congrats to UM, they played well and beat my Spartans, much to my chagrin.  I talked some smack pre-game about how MSU would beat UM handily; it's only fair that I post to eat my crow.  Tastes like chicken... UM came out and made the first run- all this time, I thought MSU would understand the importance of that and try to go up early.  That's what I get for thinking, and I'll take my medicine like a man.
1 year 11 weeks ago	Sorry	You can check one of the other game recaps then.
1 year 11 weeks ago	The only thing that worries me about this game...	... is Draymond Green's ankle.  He'll play, but who knows for how long?  By the way, I'll still predict an MSU win, but not as much as if Dancing Bear were 100%.  69-60.  Could be a 20-point blowout if Green can play most of the game. I will be back here to eat my crow if MSU loses, but I'm highly amused by some of the, er, enthusiasm you Wolverine-lets show.  It's so cute!
1 year 15 weeks ago	Early entrant	LEVITICUS PAYNE is my early entrant for the 2016 Name of the Year competition. Even better than the football player from Louisiana (I think) named Barkavious Mingo who won it a couple of years ago. I'd vote for him too, even if he went to UM.  But naturally, I'd prefer he went to MSU, lol. Apropos of nothing, the line about Tom's all-seeing eye reminded me of:  I would suggest he use that wherever possible, copyright law be damned.  Twitter icon? TOC's analysis of Lucious and his impact on the team was great on the offensive end, but MSU is also doing a TURRIBLE job of defending the perimeter, to the great joy of Wolverine fans everywhere (actually, might be more accurate to say 'any team in the Big Ten').  During their game at Breslin, UM fired off a lot of uncontested threes.  OSU was also giving up threes in the first half, but locked the perimeter down in the second- I think that's why UM lost the game.  But MSU isn't doing that.  It looks like a lack of effort to me on defense.
1 year 15 weeks ago	Well, alrighty then.	You must have missed the point where the Detroit News asks the top 15 Michigan recruits the same question every year.  As in, this isn't new.  And of those 15, 4 committed to MSU, 3 of those also took visits to UM, and 2 of them had something negative to say about Michigan- one, that he wasn't seriously recruited (if I'm a star recruit, I'd probably take exception to being recruited by an assistant too), and the other, that he visited but didn't like the way they talked to him (ok, whatevs).  Wow, 50%, that's a lot!  Let me make a chart out of that and hope no one notices the 'n=4' at the bottom!    If the MGoCommunity wants to make hay out of this sample size, who am I to stop them?  I would say the story is the 8 of 15 SOM recruits who are leaving the state and why they are leaving, but what do I know, I went to State, LOL.  Surely my grasp of statistics is much weaker than your own.
1 year 15 weeks ago	Brian, you're developing a rep as a whiner with a MSU complex.	[QUOTE] This continues the theme from these Blue Chip articles in the News since the beginning of time: Michigan commits asked about State say something short, polite and vague, State commits asked about Michigan rant about a lack of respect, and the guys towards the bottom of the list submit a tear-stained questionnaire because neither school thought they were good enough. This will happen next year, and the year after, and so on and so forth.[/QUOTE] Awesome. MGoPosters, click through and read the whole article.  I doubt you'll come up with the same characterization that Brian did.  For me, it was fascinating to read all the recruits' reasons for picking or not picking certain schools, especially those who went outside the state.  I wouldn't read that as anything more than 'It's hard to know the minds of 17-year-olds', but several of the players did mention that Michigan didn't recruit them very hard, or came late (that latter charge also came MSU's way a couple of times, in all fairness).   After all, how dare anyone not love UM in all its respects?  Oh, the horror.

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