Mgoblog half decade club

I was drawn in by Brian's dismantling of the Freep.

My favorite user is still KoB.

I don't remember the exact date I joined (under another MGoHandle).  I think it was around the [REDACTED], so 2007ish.  Which, like, woah. I've probably already surpassed the 5 year mark.  In fact, I might be approaching the 6-year mark.  Is that even possible?!

Some of us have been here since the Haloscan days, so it's even longer than 5 years.  

Oh well.  I have to waste work time someewhere, it might as well be here.

made me lol

The most salient sort of thing about MGoBlog for me is the football knowledge you pick up around here. For example, it had never occurred to me before reading Brian that there were known pros and cons to cutting on your outside foot versus your inside foot.

(Had to look at my post to find out if I'm in the club or not yet. One more year!)

Cheers!

I think my favorite post is still Quod Erat Demonstrandum. Nothing like basking in the glorious afterflow of the ND media slurp crashing down in emphatic fashion.

My 5 year will be 1/1/14. I really believe that the low point was the Gator Bowl against Miss St. That just crushed all hope. High point is either UTL or The Trey. 

Way to make me feel old, jackass.

I love this blog.

I found out about mgoblog in ME295 I think. Was learning about Catia and saw some other people in front of me on this mgoblog website, so I also elected to stop paying attention and go to that website. My life has never been the same since

And I think my favorite post might be Denard After Dentist. I can't remember many of the older posts, but it was great to soak in that victory of ND

The first three seemed like eternity.

my date is coming soon, I lurked for more than a year before actually signing up (or close to a year). Mostly a very good site on Michigan sports if a tad bit on the obsessive side.

My favorite memory was when the first thing I ever posted got bumped to the front page, the satirical "Open Letter to Coach Rodriguez Regarding Michigan Traditions"

http://mgoblog.com/diaries/open-letter-coach-rodriguez-regarding-michigan-traditions

If I only knew.  It turned out to be not all that satirical.

1. Kittens after The Horror

2. Two kittens tussling and a third walks up and pukes -- after the ND game when both teams were 0-2 going in.

3. Peanut-butter-jelly-on-a-baseball-bat on the news that RR had been hired.

Glove:  Only 1103 posts in 5 years?

Magnus does that by lunch.

The great debate: should there be advertising on the blog? I was resolutely against it. "No ads in the Big House; No ads on MGoBlog!" Don't I feel like an asshole. (Admittedly, Brian hadn't quit his day job yet at that point.)

When Brian labeled 2005 the "Year of Infinite Pain" and at the time, it really did feel that way. Again, doesn't that look foolish in hindsight.

I remember how worried we all were that Ron English might leave after the 2006 season. I remember when you came to MGo for the writing, but if you wanted the really numerical analysis stuff, you went to iBlogForCookies. And if you wanted to get it right in the feels, RBUAS had you covered. I remember how obsessed this board was with Mike Barwis (that one I still think we got right. Nothing against Coach Wellman at all -- but does he raise wolves?). I remember putting up the TomVH batsignal, and the original post by the KNOWLEDGE.

You can tell I've been in grad school for a long time, that I'm STILL wasting this many hours a day on this site, nearly 8 years later. Also, that's a serious testament to Brian, and what he has built.

But my favorite memory of MGoBlog? NAKED GUY!

It's kind of bittersweet now, but the period that sticks out for me is the fever pitch surrounding the RichRod hire: weeks of hopelessness as it became clear that Bill Martin didn't have any plan in place (except offering the job to Greg Schiano twice!), followed by the emergence of an impossibly awesome candidate. Suddently, after experiencing Mike DeBord (run left) and the Horror and all-second-half prevent defense, Michigan was going modern and experimental. We were hip. We were contenders for the top dual-threat quarterback ("everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever"). We were joining the 21st century, and it was exciting. Those days of speculation and flight-trackers and unbridled enthusiasm were a thrilling time for Michigan fans tired of the old guard and envious of fans with wizard coaches. For once, we were getting a new shiny thing.

Ah, Haloscan.  Been a long time since dem days.

I'm pretty sure I signed up the first day on the "new" mgoblog, and I can't seem to find anything before 6/30/08, so that was day 1, right?