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Didn't we just win a…

Didn't we just win a national championship without doing that?

They included the point…

They included the point spread (and home team status) in the regression model. Unsurprisingly, it predicts who will win, but they did not examine or report an interaction between point spread and OT order.

Still, since it was included in the model, we can say that OT order has no effect, while controlling for who was favored to win the game. 

What really matters is the…

What really matters is the data!

Apparently, analysis of overtime games shows there is no advantage to choosing defense first (or to choosing offense first). 51% of teams that choose defense first win, which is not statistically significant: 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00061/full

ThunderCloud is just the… ThunderCloud is just the name of their product.
He might be becoming more…

He might be becoming more wise with age, but I think a lot of the perspective he is expressing is from the experience of watching the games on TV as a spectator, which he normally doesn't do. He got to see all the hype, the manufactured storylines, etc. that is presented to fans. 

This suspension has less…

This suspension has less chance of holding up than I have of allowing “https://mgoblog.com” to use up to 1.6 GB of storage on my Mac.

CRUSH THEM

CRUSH THEM

The sign of a good time is…

The sign of a good team is they play like shit and still blow out the other team. 

I know everyone is itching…

I know everyone is itching to pounce on the NCAA for being petty and obviously to defend Coach Harbaugh, but I know a guy who knows a guy who was there that day and it's much worse than it initially sounded.

Apparently, he bought them fries too. 

Amazing. 

Amazing. 

Mormons consider themselves…

Mormons consider themselves Christian. 

The University of Michigan's…

The University of Michigan's trademarks and logos are not Mike Morris's to sell. Only his own name, image, and likeness are his to capitalize on. 

The reason it doesn't…

The reason it doesn't qualify to me is that they are already involved in an altercation when it is thrown. It's an egregious escalation for sure, but not a sucker punch. 

<blockquote>I've also read…

I've also read many estimates saying they lose about 2.5% of their capacity ANNUALLY, which is much different that 5% over 10 years. 

Drivers have compiled quite a bit of data now that you can find if you frequent EV-related internet forums. If you're really interested I can go back and find some of those, but he is isn't too far off. The key is that capacity loss is not linear. The first year or two you tend to lose the most, and then it levels off. I'd say closer to 10-15% loss is normal over 10 years and that there is very little loss beyond that. Given the range of modern EVs that doesn't actually affect most daily usage very much at all.

I've driven a Bolt for 5 years with no noticeable change in the range after the first year. 

I didn't get the same…

I didn't get the same impression as you from reading the emails. For example he says "What if we got stuck in Paris" and she says "I know a Bistro..." He says "come sit with me... " she says "please..." He consoles her for not responding to her line about her "heart hurting" well enough... 

Given that they are highlighting his emails and not hers, we're definitely sampling his side of the conversation more, even though sometimes there's more of the conversation. So it's really hard to know what's going on here.

I don't think the emails alone are strong evidence of a coercive relationship, and the University policy, while it discourages relationships with subordinates, acknowledges that they do happen, and are not necessarily coercive. But in that case you are supposed to disclose the relationship. 

Obviously as a married man Schlissel was not going to disclose this relationship. So he's in clear violation of the policy, even though the emails are not explicit, or dirty, they are evidence that he was hiding a relationship with someone under his supervision. 

What a jackass. 

Doesn't seem like it was a…

Doesn't seem like it was a college girl. From the emails I gather it was an administrative assistant who worked in his office. 

I agree with you in general,…

I agree with you in general, but the use of "literal" to means its exact opposite is one that I think is worth resisting. It ends up being less effective, because it no longer specifies either literal or figurative language. 

Alabama clearly only the 3rd…

Alabama clearly only the 3rd best team this year. 

I also don't really…

I also don't really understand why it needs to turn around. 

I don't really agree. It's a…

I don't really agree. It's a poll of the press, that doesn't mean it's for the press. Its purpose since the beginning was to determine who the best teams are by polling knowledgable followers of the sport (i.e. sportswriters)...mostly for the public who didn't have any other way of determining it since there was no playoff system. 

Remember when we started the…

Remember when we started the season unranked? 

How about in a discussion…

How about in a discussion thread about the OSU-Purdue game?

The chances we win a 1 in 3…

The chances we win a 1 in 3 random draw have to be like .01%. 

I think it's missing an…

I think it's missing an apostrophe?

Well apparently we were…

Well apparently we were paying him per pound, not per win. 

...or 2nd or 3rd down?

...or 2nd or 3rd down?

I absolutely love that the…

I absolutely love that the fans got a moment of hope near the end and then lost anyways. 

I have never been on a…

I have never been on a football blog that was more averse to discussing football than this one. 

 

Granted, I have never been on another football blog. 

There’s no rule specifically…

There’s no rule specifically about Texas or about horns down. They are just saying they are going to make taunting penalties a priority and that they will focus on player-to-player taunting. 
 

There is no new rule. 

The mask is for tonight. 

The mask is for tonight. 

Now do Gonzaga!

Now do Gonzaga!

I don't see what's wrong…

I don't see what's wrong with speculating about the future. This is, after all, a place devoted to the discussion of Michigan football. I'm not really understanding why OP is catching crap, this seems like a reasonable topic for discussion.

 

(  Maybe there was a bad title that was fixed? )

Imagine being able to enjoy…

Imagine being able to enjoy UM and Ann Arbor without the stress of being on the football team... 

4. Have him announce his…

4. Have him announce his retirement this year, to take effect after 2021 and with a successor named (Gattis?). 

I'm not technically a lawyer…

I'm not technically a lawyer, but I consider myself to be one, because I've seen almost every episode of Law & Order. 

My advice is, you can sue anyone for whatever reason you want. That doesn't mean it's worth your time to do so or that you're likely to prevail. 

Apologies but If I say any more I will have to start charging you. 

Good, I never liked that…

Good, I never liked that redis cache anyway. 

I think if he has no contact…

I think if he has no contact with a known COVID patient, hasn't traveled to an area where there are cases, there is no known community transmission in his area, and he tests positive for influenza A, then it seems like a safe conclusion. 

I am faculty at a large…

I am faculty at a large private university (bigger than UM) and tuition is free for my children. It's worth quite a lot given that tuition is over $50K per year. It's just a choice the university has made. My wife works at a different large university (public) and gets no tuition benefit even though tuition at that school is cheaper. 

I don't think we expected…

I don't think we expected Michigan to be his primary rival. 

The value limit is $550 so…

The value limit is $550 so probably the watch is worth $160 to make the gift card $390. 

Here you go. 

 

Here you go. 

 

Half the time I click on…

Half the time I click on something here it redirects me to some phishing scam. In fact it happened when I clicked in this box to write this very post! "Congratulations Spectrum customer" or some shit with 99 redirects. 

I am aggrieved!!

The amount of focus on the…

The amount of focus on the banner is not nearly enough. It's a stain on an otherwise positive website to load. 

  Stop passively…

  Stop passively-aggressively referring to their cheating and have the courage of convictions to officially call for the investigation. 

Ok, I hereby officially call for an investigation.  

He's gonna get it. 

He's gonna get it. 

"Party store"! Man that…

"Party store"! Man that phrase brings back memories. Haven't heard it used that way since I left Ann Arbor 20 years ago. Here a party store is where you buy confetti and mylar balloons. 

No one cares about our win…

No one cares about our win/loss record to Rutgers. They care about being publicly humiliated against top ten teams and our rivals.

We care about both. Losing to Rutgers wasn't so fun. 

Who is obsessed with the ad…

Who is obsessed with the ad revenue? I'm just pointing out that they are running a profitable business, not a charity. The fact that it is "free" does not mean the users can't have expectations about the quality or that the site is underfunded. 

I'm not even complaining about how the site handles traffic. I think it is much better than it used to be. I suspect the challenge for them is the enormous variance in traffic from normal days to days like this where there is a huge game and a loss. If you pay for a setup that handles X users and then you get 5X users on some days, you're going to have an issue. 

We do pay. Mgoblog sells a…

We do pay. Mgoblog sells a portion of our attention to advertisers.

There are plenty of websites on the internet that deal with higher traffic and are also funded through advertising. 

It's not a pit at all. It's…

It's not a pit at all. It's the White Hill of Positive Expectations, the WHOPE.