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This should also be the end…

This should also be the end of John Adams and the incessant banging of his bass drum in the stands. A wonderful side benefit!! 

Western is playing Akron too…

Western is playing Akron too but I can’t find it on tv. 

ESPN3

 

Is acid rain still a thing…

Is acid rain still a thing or did we cancel that since COVID? Or maybe it was 9/11?

None of above.

 

Hold the…

None of above.

 

Hold the Line is their best song by far. 

Those are the CST times. 
 

Those are the CST times. 
 

3:05 and 6:40 are EST kicks

https://www.espn.com/nfl/schedule/_/week/3

Dantonio collects his $4.3…

Dantonio collects his $4.3 million retention bonus on Wednesday, then apologizes and retires on Thursday. Perfectly setup by MSU grad Tony Paul. 

Macomb/Oakland/Lapeer Counties

Chippewa Valley beat Dakota 28-27 - first time in 17 games that CV beat Dakota

Chippewa Valley plays Cass Tech next, they beat Fordson

Clarkston beat Lapeer

WL Central beat W Bloomfield

FH Harrison beat WL Western

Now we know why DB never hired JH

Jim Harbaugh's wife spills secret: He wears $8 khaki pants from Walmart:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24410342/jim-harbaughs-wife-spills-secret-he-wears-8-khaki-pants-from-walmart

The problem for Sarah seems to be that as soon as she throws them out, Jim goes out and buys more and apparently, he'll only buy them at one place, "It's not just any store, you have to find them at a Walmart," Sarah Harbaugh said. "I threw them out and when he went to the combine, he found a Walmart. [The Pants] were $8. Eight dollars!" The fact that Harbaugh wears $8 pants raises a lot of questions...

 

I can dig it

Edward Snowden has nothing on WD

Glad you didn't have to go hide in Russia WD. Good to see you with your chin up, as it should be.

He is who we thought he was

Dave is doing a great job of letting us all get to know him better.

 

Thanks to Brian et al for revealing who the real Dave Brandon. is

The halo was 100% Lee Bollinger

http://ur.umich.edu/9900/Sep13_99/2.htm

“When I invited Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates to assist us in the expansion and redesign of the stadium, I clearly did not provide sufficient public engagement in the process,” Bollinger said in the statement. “Time was thought to be of the essence, and the process accordingly fell short.”

“Over the summer I came to the conclusion that the depth of the criticism and concern seemed to be genuine and coming from reasonable people,” Bollinger told the Record. “I then had to face the fact that I had pushed this through too quickly and had not really allowed appropriate time for public comment.”

Fun to read about what made people upset just 14 years ago ... like Goss trying to raise ticket prices by $8 but the regents forcing the increase down to $4.  My, my, my.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-ad-goss-resigns/

 

Brandon in a landslide decision.

Not since 2013

when they changed the rule above to be like the NFL's.

Yes, refs do mess up, but not in this case. The process isn't complete until he is down with control of the ball, or makes a football move.

The refs did get this one right. The ball came out when he landed out of bounds = incomplete pass.

Not that I agree with the rule mind you ... but it IS the rule now.

Sadly, this is correct

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1317370.html

Rule 2, Section 4, Article 3, paragraph b: If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent) he must maintain complete and continuous control of the ball throughout the process of contacting the ground, whether in the field of play or in the end zone. This is also required for a player attempting to make a catch at the sideline and going to the ground out of bounds. If he loses control of the ball which then touches the ground before he regains control, it is not a catch. If he regains control inbounds prior to the ball touching the ground it is a catch.

The stadium really needs

LED ribbon boards on the faces of the east and west structures to provide all the info that was on the old scoreboards on a full-time basis during game play. They could use them to flash a 'Go Blue' or 'Touchdown' message when appropriate. During halftime, the score could remain up on them so they can use the video boards like they did today for the band show.

Hopefullly it'll be better next Saturday, but the stats and ball on were sorely missed today.

2010 ND Game

Wow, even a 4 x 3 feed via a webcam looks awesome. Chills.

Correct

Brandon spoke about his home in Scottsdale here:

http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/66538

 

And Miles is one of the keynote speakers in Dallas on Tuesday:



http://www.afca.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&SPID=6694&SPSID=61516

Monday's BCS championship

Put the new coach in the crowd with a Block M hat and let ESPN go nuts.

Job posting

Are there regulations about how long a job has to be posted at a public institution like Michigan before someone can be hired?

Threads about nothing

hello Newman

Jerry Seinfeld likes threads about nothing.

Biggest win of the day for the 'D',

other than the conversion stop in 3OT of course, was that Zook punted late in the 4th quarter on the 4th and 1 from their own 42. Obviously he had just enough respect for them that it wasn't an automatic go for it call. He goes there and gets it, it's either at least 2 more minutes off the clock or burned Michigan TOs.

Well said

Other thing I liked today was the return of the Big 10 flagpoles. There are now 6 on each side of the stadium; right now 10 of them represent the other schools in the conference with 2 flying Michigan banners. Obviously one of the Michigan flags will give way to one from Nebraska next season.

I'm pretty sure this is the first time that all the Big 10 banners have been up at Michigan Stadium since they were first replaced by American flags on September 22, 2001 and then displaced by stadium expansion.

Kudos to whoever made the call to restore that bit of Michigan Stadium tradition.

Read all 29 pages

The section in question starts on page 8, as the 4th main heading.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mich/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/ncaa-report-110410.pdf

That's where the failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance has become failure to monitor.

Thanks for the correction

You are 100% correct

Sharp is just scary dumb

Even though it's been explained over and over in the last 24 hours that the allegation against Rich was dropped, based on his first question to DB Sharp math is still that 5-1 = 5.

Wojo

That was Bob Wojnowski of the News at the end following up on the W/L questions.

Thank heavens

Gotta give mad props to everyone in the AD that obviously did a thorough job at getting the facts and presenting them so any potential damage to the school would be minimized. You know that everyone has learned from this and that it won't be repeated.

The total focus can now return to the field and figuring out ways to beat Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin, and most importantly Ohio State.

This news feels like it does on a cold, cloudy day at Michigan Stadium when the sun suddenly pops out and warms us all up 20 degerees!

Time to look forward - all the negatives about this story need to be buried at 615 West Lafayette Blvd and left there. Acknowledge that it happened, admit it wasn't a proud moment, and move on.

Weekly budget question

is that a weekly budget for everything or just discretionary spending?

Not to mention

that most of the 'future is bright' folks appear to conviently forget that there are teams on the other side of the ball that have kids that improve too. And coaches that study tape and adjust.

In order for the future to truly be bright, eventually there is going to have to be some tangible evidence that shows up in the win column. It's not unfair to expect to see that at some point during a 3 year tenure.

I was right with ya

up to the defense is worse but the offense is 100x better  for overall net progress.

Overall net progress would be winning at least one game and preferrably two that we lost last year, not what the stat sheet looks like for Denard.

There's still 4 more chances for that to happen, and if it does I'm right on board with increased expectations for next year. If it doesn't, I have a hard time seeing how the win total goes from 5 or 6 to 9.

It was the Penn St. writer

that predicted a 52-24 Michigan win. Along with a lot of the local MSM that picked Michigan to win on Saturday. It raised everyone's hopes to what turned out to be unrealistic levels and when the first half crushed any and all hope for the defense this year, well ...

Love the optimism

and wish I could share it.

The facts are is that Michigan is 4-16 in Big 10 play under Rich in 2 1/2 years. Even under the most ideal of situations it'd be incredible to nearly double his win total over the next 4 games against an improving Illinois team and two top-notch teams in Wiscy and OSU. Unfortunately, there is ample evidence help is not coming on defense this season. He has one win against a quality Big 10 team, that being his first game in September 2008.

Winning two of the next four is going to be an incredibly tough task and if he gets that done, it should seriously be considered progress. It'd be a LOT more than what we've seen so far under Rich.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

The Iraqi Information Minister FTW

The emotion is warranted

I imagine that for most Michigan fans, whether you're behind the coaches at the moment or not,  it's really hard to be level headed right now. The last time Michigan won a Big 10 game against a team not named Indiana was November 8, 2008! Two years is a long time for any fan base to just suck it up and not vent some frustrations.

Thankfully, David Brandon is a level headed leader that will be able to evaluate the program and its future potential at the end of the year and make the right decision.

Trick plays when you have to switch QBs

are tough to pull off unless you plan on running the set with both QBs in for more than just a few plays. I prefer to see one solid starter at QB running regular offense. If you're gonna run tricks, use they guys you regularly have on the field to have a better chance of catching the D off-guard.

What I saw against Iowa was a Michigan offense that was wearing out the Iowa defense. To me, Iowa's D started looking gassed about midway through the 3rd quarter. Trick plays weren't necessary, just a 5th quarter.

clubs and suites?

Anyone know if they sold  the club seats and suites for it?

Unreal - I sure can't tell if

Unreal - I sure can't tell if that was a lateral or not. If LSU pulls this one out... wow, just wow.

Agreed

if there's no contact, it shouldn't be a dead ball. Only exception would be for an illegal snap. What really has me frustrated about that play is that we (the fans) were doing our jobs at that point and got what we desired - a mistake by the other team. Absolutely hate that it backfired.

Shouldn't be that way.

for safety

It's a dead ball since a false start is a trigger for the defense to hit what could be an "unprepared" offensive player that is still waiting for the snap. They blow them all dead for consistancy. If it's the defense and the offending player isn't gonna get the QB, they don't blow it dead since defensive movement isn't a trigger for the offense.

 

Agree with your take above on that play being a huge play in the game. At the time it was 10-7 Michigan and MSU went on to make it 14-10 on that drive after converting the 3rd and 15.

Learning here too

Very cool to have when they go to video replay. You can hit the "Ok" button to start and stop the video to help see if/when the ball hit the ground, etc.

how about this instead

Everyone could just shout: "Telling. Very Telling"

At that donation rate

you could get a pair of club seats right now for 2011, which is something I'd strongly consider if that's where you ultimately want to be. They are likely going to be a scarce resource soon and getting them in future years will probably entail waiting until the current holders keel over. If you did buy club level now, they'd probably be pretty open to working with you should you decide you'd rather be in the bowl. My guess is that your $5k would jump you into the Blue tier at a miminum.

The process

For seats in the bowl, securing  full season tickets is all about accumulating points. For each dollar you contribute every year, you'll accumulate Victors Club priority points and move higher up on the list. Once you have your tickets, you need only meet the required donation level for the location of your seat assignment (unless you intend to move into a more expensive tier).

See this for a better explanation: http://www.mgoblue.com/victorsclub/priority-points.html

For the club seats and suites: they are being sold on a first-come, first-served basis. So if you have enough dough-re-me right now, you can secure club seats for the 2011 season. (They sold all of the available club seats without required donations for the remainder of the 2010 season to those that already bought club seats and suites to make sure there were fannies in those seats). Once the club seats (and suites) sell out, they'll revert to the priority point system and you'll have to wait in line again.

See this for more info on the club seats and suites: http://www.michiganstadiumproject.com/. You can see what club seats are still available for purchase with the required donation level on that page.

In short, the best way is to get seats quickly is to spend more money than others on the waiting list are doing (but they don't release that info) if you want bowl seats, or spend a bunch to secure club seats right now so you'd have them for 2011.

Forde Yard Dash

has always been an entertainment piece disguised as a sports column. It's never been about X's and O's, just light reading with a reasonable enough amount of sports knowledge baked in to make it seem legit.

Broadcast booths

The photo deck is on the top level in the middle, the broadcast booths are right underneath. TV has the 50 yard line booth.

Especially

when you consider how quickly / easily they named a concourse for Bill Martin. Bless him for the work he did, but I doubt his staying power will be anywhere close to Ufer's.

Totally

Guess you had to be here from the start of this thread. The OP was obviously watching Channel 4 and saw the report. He then posted  here (without any video) and was called out on it. My semi-educated guess is that he then rewound his DVR and captured the video on his iPhone so we could all see for ourselves. My apologies for trying to defend the OP a bit.

And?

1. Pick up iPhone and get ready to record; 2: Rewind DVR; 3: Push play on DVR; 4: Push record on iPhone; 5: Upload to Youtube from iPhone; 6: Publish link

Welcome to 2010!

It's called a DVR

They auto-record the channel you're watching. Hit rewind and presto. No advance planning required. It's 2010, not 1988.

SFE is on Channel 4 in Detroit

And please tell me the source is Rob Parker who is wrong much more often than he is correct. I'd much rather see Tate hang in there and get through this as a Wolverine.