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1 day 18 hours ago Awesome job

Seth, this was fantastic, well done, and just the kind of thing to make May feel not so very far away from College Football.  Kudos to you sir.  Kudos.
3 days 17 hours ago Hmmm...

I like the idea of opening the B1G slate against Michigan State, a good regular spot in the schedule would be a neat bookend.  Whether I will like it in practice.

Also, why couldn't the B1G just say "Hey, everybody gets one September conference game".  Or is this an institutional notion within the conference to allow for regularity in non-conference scheduling?
6 days 14 hours ago Huge fan of Spencer but

His complete inability to pronounce Yost rivals Stewie's inability to properly say Wheat Thins.

1 week 21 hours ago In 13 games last year,

In 13 games last year, Michigan used 7 different uniform looks

  • Western Michigan: Standard home uniform, standard helmets. (1)
  • Notre Dame: UTL "Heritage" jersey, numbers on helmets. (2)
  • Eastern Michigan: Standard home uniform, standard helmets. (1)
  • San Diego State: Standard home uniform, standard helmets. (1)
  • Minnesota: Standard home uniform, mismatched colored numbers on helmets (3)
  • @Northwestern: "Standard" road uniform, numbers on helmets (4)*
  • @Michigan State: "Bumblebees of Doom of which shall never be spoken again"**
  • Purdue: Standard home uniform, mismatched colored numbers on helmets, pink accessories (5)***
  • @Iowa: "Standard" road uniform, numbers on helmets (4)
  • @Illinois: "Standard" road uniform, numbers on helmets (4)
  • Nebraska: Standard home uniform, numbers on helmets, American flag patch (6)
  • Ohio State: Standard home uniform, numbers on helmets, American flag patch (6)
  • Virginia Tech: Sugar Bowl Specials (7)

Ignore the patches and helmet numbers for a moment: Ultimately, there were five jerseys last season.  That is more jerseys in one season than Michigan used in the previous 35 years (standard home, Schembechler stripes road, 1997 road, Henne/Hart road, Adidas horns road).

I realize it's a money maker and the only way that this doesn't happen in the future is for people not to buy them, but I said it yesterday and I hold to this: If you need an event and  schedule to "roll out" your jerseys for the 2012 football season, you have too many jerseys.

Also, in all of this, and including the fact that they have done pretty well with mulitiple "heritage" looks for hockey, they keep ignoring the Schembechler stripes road.  I know part of this is a concern that football jerseys really don't have sleeves anymore, but come on..

That's just a good looking jersey right there.  What would be wrong with a Michigan team taking the field in that look?

*-There is an irony in saying "standard road uniform" since half of the team were wearing the new TechFits and half of the team wearing the road uniform from 2010.
**--I have a thesis that while passing in the Trash Tornado wasn't helping matters, wearing one jersey for warmups and then going in to the locker room and CHANGING YOUR ENTIRE JERSEY, including pads, was not exactly helping the team focus before the game.  Not saying it's the reason Michigan lost.  I am saying I can't think it helped.
***---Yes, I'm counting it.
1 week 1 day ago I do realize we're all annoyed by this, but...

That isn't even the most horrifying thing DB said today:

According to Mark Snyder:

Dave Brandon at Big Ten AD meetings on many topics: FB jerseys will have single rollout explaining what will happen game by game for 2012

So, to be clear, we need an actual rollout to know which jersey goes with which game, which means there are at least, at minimum, three jerseys and potentially more.  Ye gods man.

The Brand.  The Brand.  The Brand.
1 week 1 day ago My ballot...

1). Mike Hart.
 

2). Jake Long

3). Mike Martin.  (Anyone who causes me to yell "[EXPLETIVE DELETED}, get the car, it's Mike Martin!" anytime he did something is worthy of this honor.)

I do concur that Henne needed a mention, and I do agree with the idea that if this is the MGoHall is about the Blog, then Zoltan has to be in.
1 week 6 days ago Always leave two spaces.

I don't care what anyone says...
2 weeks 10 hours ago Wait a second...

I respect the differences of opinion among the faithful here, and certainly all five are worthy candidates.  But after the auto pick of Tiny Jesus, I think I have to go with Carl.  There was just something to the way that he played that I loved.  He could shoot, he could pass, he did the little things.

To me, the MGoHall is not just about the excellence of the player, but the emphemeral "spirit of Michigan" and by extension, the "Spirit of MGoBlog".  Do I associate, in my mind, that player with MGoBlog.  If I had to rank these six by that criteria, it would be Hunwick, Johnson, Hagelin, Porter, Hensick, and give me another day and that order may change.

I guess this is about gut feeling for the first ballot.  If any of these five gentlemen get the call from the Hall, I'm going to be very happy for them.  But my vote, if I get one, is Hunwick.  If I get two, it's Hunwick and Carl.
2 weeks 10 hours ago Not sure

But pretty sure that Brian's clear love of Tiny Jesus meant he had very little in the way of cons for him, thus he had to invent slights.
2 weeks 17 hours ago I <3 Hart

The original Tiny Jesus, Mike Hart, demands your votes.

Mike Hart

I seriously cannot think of the essence of MGoBlog without thinking of Mike Hart.  Well, Mike Hart and Henri, the Otter of Ennui.
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