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WolverineHistorian, he brings a dimension to the board that nobody else brings.

indeed

I say we go into Madison and take the recruits we want, then we take their finest coeds and best whiskey and throw them into burlap sacks and take them home.

Sorry, havent slept in days.

Thank you for your service to our community

To honor you, here is a pic of a just married cow.

Dileo! Dill e OOOOOOOOO.

FWIW, I live in Troy and all the buzz is Young has major attitude issues. Sure, you can be a Kentucky and overlook the attitude thing and it probably won't be a chemistry killer there. At a MSU or UofM, I think he would be poison.

Edit: Young played @ Troy High before Roch

Who have we become? Ferns, good choice brother.

someone really likes mups

I guess I am one of those ppl to think that the cover-up extended into the university and coaching staff. I think people will look @ this and say, well, we got the bad guy. I think that will be the PSU response for one. I want to see the PSU ADs (or whomever) on trial, see another jury where 1/2 of them have a connection the university. See how that plays out next. I see a whole coaching staff that perhaps knowingly sat silent along with the ADs. Could some of these kids been spared?

If this ends with Sandusky getting convicted and nothing more. It's not good enough for me.

The real question is whether or not Mr. Kass approves of this thread.

If he doesn't, he will leave. If he leaves, do we get more boobz?

calling for..........

I've been on here a couple years and this is the first post of yours I actually upvoted.

I think pee wee made a jewelry or stone reference and this board debated whether it was Garnett or Diamond.

Who says this everytime we beat MSU: Get the fuck off my court.

Had to say that

Watch a replay of Beamer watching the game winning fg go through. Priceless picture.

MVP

time to start playi calling a little bit more aggressively. How many times are we gonna run against an 8 man front when their safeties are 5 yards off the los. 

Isn't Boren fat and lazy?

I wouldn't be surprised if Nebraska leapfrogs MSU into that Cap 1 game.

Bring on those damn Muppets.

Denard buddy, way to save your best game for the most important game of the year.

I'd rather watch the WNBA, they have some handsome "women" in that league.

The few Husker fans in our row were respectful. They cheered when they ripped off a good play but they acted with class when the game clearly turned toward our side. At first, I was like oh shit, neb. fans in our row, but it was cool. They mocked the halftime show, but the M fans in our row disliked it just as much.

They turned out in decent numbers, as all the other posts above stated.

sections were empty from 6-12 rows from the top, depending on section. Very noticeable. Students=fail. I mean, an 8 win Neb team comes here and thats the best you can do?

Halftime sucked, worst halftime I've seen in 20+ M games.

gotta swallow their whistles. Nothing but bad calls followed up by worse make up calls. We'll never beat a decent team shooting free throws like that. Horrible game Metrics. Wide open 3s were missed often in the 2nd half. This team hasn't played well in any of their first couple game, including the exhibition. I am expecting a slow start to the season and we'll pick it up once big 10 play starts.

just to neg the op. The sparty response link you attached is total garbage. I don't know why I was stupid enough to believe the link was going to be credible or worthwhile in any way. The sparty author refers to 20+ unnamed sources throughtout the text. The sparty author must be the best connected journalist in the country. We are all dumber for clicking this thread and I wish I had 5 minutes back of my life for clicking the link that you've deemed credible.

thread must be what mlive is like...

Look to the Seniors today to leave us to victory. No way MM and crew go out 0-4 against Lil Bro.

Go ahead and delete if u wish

my fave parts of the game:

1. wc smashes frosh qb
2. devin slinging, gunning, & running

This is one of the best weekly diaries, keep up the great job. The pics really illustrate your key points, for those of us that need the visuals to understand the narrative.

Also, fyi, the SDSU "cheerleader" you hint about is discussed under the comments under the defensive UFRs on the main page.

http://mgoblog.com/content/upon-further-review-2011-defense-vs-sdsu#comment-1259727

Hart did his job, not his fault that we fielded MAC level teams for the last 3 years.

I think we stopped ND 3 times on run plays on 3rd and very short. M run defense stepped up as the game went on.

Rob Parker. Its like finding a needle in a stack of needles.

Can anyone listening provide a brief summary of the content so far?

 Dudeness makes me want to push the minimum point total to 12000 to create a thread. Clearly the higher point totals on this blog don't always lend way to higher levels of credibility. Isn't there an I *heart* RR site where people with like mindset could post fading memories of a Big East Championship?

I don't listen to guys with more than 3 chins. Sorry Stewart.

were we too optimistic about KK? TomVH must have had second thoughts based on our reaction.

Was Mr. Bars the one that TomVH was hinting toward announcing earlier in the weekend? Or was it __________?

Maybe they don't have these for miss usa? Or her and Tate broke up awhile ago?

I check out this site multiple times a day- This was a total shock to me. Damn. Was anybody expecting this or am I the only blind one here?

I misread the main page title as "Birth Control". Then I wondered, where is Brian going with this?

Does anyone think Morris was mocking Izzo in the last couple seconds of yesterdays game? A few seconds to go, five point lead, Morris going in for an uncontested layup. He jumps up the air and fakes either a dunk or the layup. I didn't see this mentioned in previous threads, but thought it was rather funny.

About the 3:20 mark on this clip. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DM3IFyggNo

I wouldn't say he was on the hot seat, his seat was getting a little warm early the year. I remember coming on here early in the year. People were saying 12, 13 wins total. A couple said 15. One guy said 17 and he was mocked by all. I didn't think they were making the NIT. Honestly, beating MSU twice? We were ahead for almost the whole time in those victories. Izzo exposed as a crybaby, whinner? Dream scenarios, that are now reality. It still hasn't sunk in yet.

Bowling Green, I believe a past opponent, is currently down to WMU @ half, 33-26. Don't bet on the comeback.

five min after tip off i realized that my basement was flooding. 3 inches of water over half of it. i missed parts of the game cleaning it up. i am still cleaning and will be for hours. ya know what, try wipeing the f ing smile off my face. its a great f ing day. d mo, mad love.... this is your house baby.

We need a lot more luck with bubble games going our way. Monday night we did horrible, according to what Tim posted during the day Monday. Tuesday night (last nite) we did fair, I think Tim was more optimistic  than I with last nights results. Assuming we don't beat MSU and ILL both, I think we will need plenty of help. Tim mentions 15 games for tonite. I think we need about 8 of them to go our way for it to be a decent night. Granted, some are more important than others. 10 would be great.

Zack's late 3 pointer won this game. Could the announcers have been any more disappointed with the outcome of the game? Jackson looked like he was gonna cry during Coach B's post game interview.

I guess for the first time ever, I am going to have to hope that MSU takes out Purdue. That sucks. Great road win. Can't wait to see Morris as a junior next year. Damn.

Dark Blue's new avatar.

Neg the OP and then post twice (so far)?

Thats like calling out an ugly chick in front of your friends, and then later banging that same chick twice.

Miami Fl will be a good place for Tate to get away from Mary Jane and her evil ways.

I would say that this site has featured many posts leading up to Signing Day that came directly from kids' twitter pages. I will go 1 step further and say that I would say that some of the mods as well as TomVH have posted based on the kids' twitter pages.

Last seen buying visine, tin foil, and/or Doritos?

Too soon? Actually, sounds like my own college expierence. I ran the offense too, for my Super Tecmo Bowl teams during dorm tourneys.

i hate to be that guy, but was the Angel a little hottie when she was in her 20s? My brain says no, but my heart says she was.

Lucy-I am an Armadillo just like the others.

Manu-You're an Armadillo, but not like the others.

Flat-top "If I wanted a bigger brother, I wouldn't have killed mine".

Its an open forum. Everyone, including Brian, has the right to give their opinion. Telling people that they need to agree with Brian or that they can't criticize Brian is a joke. If people didn't offer countering viewpoints, then everyone would just agree with each other all the time. Is that what anyone wants?

To all 3 of you, some of us get it.

Hoping to see Denard stay, I would like him make some gains before his junior year as far as his passing consistency. Lets see cut down on throwing off his back foot. I am not so sure that the read option was his thing. I think he struggled reading when to keep the ball and when to handoff. There didn't look to be much improvement on this as the season went on and the schedule got tougher. Sure he did great against bad defenses. I think he's very capable of growing as a passer and improving like he did before his soph. season.

God, why would the LSU fans complain about going 10-2 every year? Michigan fans would never . . . .Oh wait.

actually.

http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-arringtons-career-day

would draft ezeh, nobody else would.

I actually heard multiple people say Leach on a thread this week. This should end that:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/14521694/texas-tech-accused-of-recruiting-violations-in-football-other-sports

Was the situation impossible here? I would say Difficult. Did RR make some bad decisions with his staff and strategy? yes. Did he not understand Michigan tradition when he came aboard? likely. Offensively there seems to be improvement in the last three years, but defense and special teams seem to have regressed. Splitting hairs, but I disagree that the situation was impossible when he hired in.

RR has handled his departure with class, for sure, and I respect that. I won't miss his coaching @ UofM though. Two plays of the Gator Bowl comes to mind: First, Denard throws a WR screen to one side of the field. Goes for nothing. Next play, WR screen to other side. Goes for nothing. I won't miss that.

Loose Morals, which he's been called on here many times.

I am trying to be optimistic about everything but I feel our next coach could be anyone of a dozen guys. Is Vegas setting up betting lines?

he logically thinks that he will due to the heat and humidity. I think he will eat twice as much to reward himself for thinking that he's losing weight.

I get it now. Disturbing. To each his own, I guess as long as he is happy with her.

I stand corrected, thank you.

hello??

Worst thing about Sharp is that he brings nothing to the table on any of the sports he covers.

Especially 4 & 5. I guess I hadn't considered all the viewpoints, despite thinking that I had done so. As Michigan fans we should know that the media is not always unbiased and is likely be motivated by their own bottom line.

I had no idea wtf Rotel was before BTN showered us with those commercials over and over again. 

I also agree with giving the BTN time to get their shit together. The announcers are average @ best but at least we don't have to hear a bunch of crap about the SEC. 

Good to see that they gave us a little eye candy. My guess is one day soon she will be too good for the BTN. *Tear*

http://www.charissa-thompson.com/

I think Tom VH gave us subtle hints the month leading up to Dee Hart that led most of the community to believe he was coming. I haven't seen anything from VH (about Arnett) that sounds hopefull. It seems like we weren't even on Arnett's radar 4 weeks ago. Conventional wisdom says we can't steal him in the last week or 2 prior to his announcement.

I gotta believe that with this offense, we should have no problem attracting 4+ star WRs. If Arnett goes elsewhere, hopefully not to MSU, then we move on. Is it just me, I thought I've heard more more buzz about Arnett as Junior than as a Senior?

Zook making his trademark bad decision and punting 4th and very short. He potentially lost the game on that call.

I was screaming like ya'll about too many 3 man rushes. A few times it worked out alright. Thinking about it rationally, is dropping 7 guys so much worse than dropping 8 guys in coverage?  Would that really cause that coverage to be much more poorer? I guess I wait like everyone else for more analysis based on defensive coverage vs. outcome of the play. I worry that MSU TEs will kill us if we rush 3 guys as much as we did against IU. Cousins will throw at least one horrible INT based on his first five games. My biggest issue was that when we rushed 3 guys, we showed it with little movement pre-snap. When we blitzed from the corner, My grandma could have read it as the QB. We flat out need to show something else, something better, and more variety on defense to beat MSU. Or Denard will need to totally win the game himself on offense. I am hoping he gets a little help this week.

Here's another link and video from an osu site. It seemed to upset the buckeye faithful, the posted comments from the hillbillies are pretty funny. Sorry If this is the exact same video from YouTube, I can't open that one @ work to see.

http://bucknuts.com/index.php/Football-Article/what-is-rufus-bobcat-thinking/menu-id-1346.html

We won this game by more than I could have imagined in the week leading up. I can't count all the 3rd and 1s that Denard would sneak up the middle for 2 or 3. Also, he converted a couple of 3rd and longs on improvised QB draw type plays. I think Denard will show off his arm next week. We will kill ND if they give use single coverage on our WRs. The wind was clearly affecting UConn's passing game but both teams had to fight that. Their WRs  dropped 3 or 4 (as noted in the threads). I thought their QB played poorly, he threw well off target probably 4 or 5 times. He should have been picked off @ the end, i think his throw hit Talbott right in the face mask. I would give the coaches high marks for play calling with 2 small exceptions. I didn't like the field goal call when we were 4th and medium, into the wind, from +40 yards. The guys in my section were screaming for them to go for it, and I agreed. IMO, I also thought we rushed 3 guys too many times. Most of their bigger pass plays seemed to happen under this scenario. Small potatoes though.

What do any of these three guys know about having good vision? In a dream of mine, these three clowns would go kick Inge's ass. Then Inge would return all of that money we are paying him to hit .230 every season.

I danced a little Irish jig when TP announced. Its the only jig I know, I don't care what my coworkers say.

I read the first 10 posts and stopped here. This still hurts. I was too young for Desmond being tripped in the endzone....Not sure how any M-fan can stand even a couple minutes of this game.

I see the comparisons to Graham for this kid.....Brian noted that he thought Graham was the best DL guy he's seen @ UM. What about Woodley? I don't think Graham is a bad comparison here. I thought Woodley was better than Graham, unless you consider Woodley a OLB/Hybrid, in which case I would agree with Brian. Food for thought. Woodley chasing down JRinger was one of the best plays I've seen a Michigan player make in 20 years. Not saying Woodley was better just cause of that play, I am just noting his awesomeness.

Our backline was not good and prone to many lapses. For 2014, if we put out a below average backline, we will once again get no farther than group of 16. I think 2010 would/could/should have been a dream scenario for the US. England was the toughest group play opponent. We played Ghana in the round of 16, I can think of only a small handful of teams that I would rather have played here. Pretty sure Ghana's only goals had been on penalty kicks @ this point. I thought both of their goals were on defensive lapses. Had we beaten Ghana we would have gotten Uruguay. Again, almost ideal, not stronger powerhouses like Argentina/Portugal/Brazil/Netherlands/Germany. The USA team has to be kicking themselves. I agree with the other poster here who said that the US would be better off switching coaches for the next time around. I think Bradley did some good things but we might need another coach to take us to the next round. If we consider that the US finished 9th-16th, I would say this is probably close to what we were ranked in the world heading into World Cup play. So, I think we justified our ranking or thereabouts.

Nobody bowed to USC more in the last five or so years than Kirk. Bowed is a nice way of putting it.

Carrot Top should be working retail/fast food, maybe somewhere in the White Castle arena.

Some sort of a sex act.

a thicker Steve Young. Is there such thing as too long of a happy hour?

I was originally trying (poorly it seems) to note the correlation between his attitude on the field and his criminal behavior off the field. My guess is that he was disciplined a few times by the coaching staff that didn't get leaked to the media. I didn't intend to say that well, he got burnt by ND WR's, so I am happy he is going to jail. I meant that the ND game was a game that I remembered where he displayed very questionable character on the field. Frankly If I didn't want to get negged a bunch of times, I would just post all the time about how great Bo was....So neg on.

the one dude gets extra points for MASH Tshirt, Striped socks, and short shorts

Judging by my all my neg's, u folks here are upset by my accidental use of the bold button & sounds like most of you wanted to give Boo a third or a fourth or a fifth chance. Pathetic is the right word. This guy had every opportunity to make it and now you idiots feel sorry for him?

Go light your freakin' candles for Feagin and BC

Boo Boo got torched in the ND game over and over again. Once or twice he would knock the ball away and then he would pose and talk sh*t. It was like Roy Williams celebrating a first down when the Lions were down 28.

Hope Kwam's has a Shawshank moment or 12 @ Manistee where he meets the local Bogs or any of the other "Sisters". If Kwame walks with a limp for the rest of his days, well, I am good with that.

I thought we thoroughly got outplayed by England. As much as we got screwed by the soccer zebras vs. Slovenia, we should have gotten no points vs. the Brits. If we can't beat Algeria, we don't deserve to advance. First 1.5 games, we showed no offense and had multiple defensive lapses. I think the USA as a whole is becoming more competitive in men's soccer, but we might not be a top 16 team for 4 more years.

Kobe didn't commit a crime the same way OJ didn't.

our 2nd best player isn't our Punter. *lights candle*.

I like the diary's optimism. Vincent Smith promises to be good? I would say he showed promise last season @ most. I wouldn't agree that UConn is an automatic W. I am thinking they will win 7-9 games this year. You tried and that's good, but you didn't try to prove your points with any sustainment.

Gotta get to good bowl games to get 4 Star guys to come our way. Its even more cliche to say that we gotta get more of the top players in the state as well. Makes me nervous when guys we ink have MAC offers.

Big 12 has dropped to the strength level of the ACC for football. You can't lose a solid to good program like Nebraska and claim there was no dropoff. Colorado has been a nonfactor since Kordell. True point about the quality of basketball improving across Big 12. Anyone have the year of the last time either Col or Neb made the field of 64?

Maybe we can get some of the song girls to transfer to AA? Might not help our football team, but would do much for the fan base.