October 22nd, 2018 at 6:39 PM ^
You're also a scholar and a gentlemen.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:30 PM ^
In that case, there's a "W" missing. It should be TIFWIW.
October 22nd, 2018 at 6:36 PM ^
Welcome back UMBIG11.
take this for what it is worth, many of us on this site look for and value your posts.
nobody is going to hit 100%. Also, based on comments by Harbaugh today, it seems like the staff may have been optimistic about Gary playing until Gary said he could not play.
anyway, I for one am glad to see you have not completely disappeared.
October 22nd, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
Are you back?
Are you back on the Harbaugh train?
Were you fed BS on Gary?
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:01 PM ^
No, I will be sending stuff to Brian and Seth via email. General stuff, fine. There is never and I mean NEVER 100% accuracy second hand.
James Hudson has officially moved on. Wish him well.
EDIT: The Gary stuff was all over the map. The first two had it 100% right and it went south from there. There was a flood of he has practiced and will play after that. Too many to discount. Lots of solid people had sources that differed during the week. Nobody was right, but we shared what we had. As of right now, Gary plays against PSU. Will it change? No idea.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:12 PM ^
Thank you UMBIG11
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:29 PM ^
I think its good the program makes it hard to know what is real and what is not. Its an advantage.
The guys that were bitching about the info were the guys asking to bench Patterson in the 3rd quarter.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
UMbig11
Many of us appreciate your insightful comments. Please don't let a few donkeys stop you.
October 22nd, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^
And by donkeys you mean assholes?
October 23rd, 2018 at 12:13 AM ^
No, the whole ass.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:21 PM ^
Thanks for the info.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^
Just to add, I appreciate the information you've brought to the board. You're the only user I've bookmarked and proactively check to see the things you've posted.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:54 PM ^
Well, I for one appreciate info when you have it, and don’t think it’s a big deal when things go pear-shaped. It’s the nature of the deal.
October 23rd, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
Thank you for your contributions to this site and others umbig11! Love the info that you bring with each post. I'm a realistic fan that knows things are fluid and not always set in stone. I'm going to miss what you used to bring to MGoBlog. Thanks again!
October 22nd, 2018 at 6:47 PM ^
With 23 in 2019 class and perhaps a couple more in wings. This would explain how they can make room.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:14 PM ^
Oh fucking spare me. You've been wrong more often than not in the past 3 months and keep blaming it on the fluidity of the situation. Which is fine, things change, but now that people call you out you're going to act like a giant baby about it?
Things that weren't nearly as fluid:
"Brandon Peters is the #2"
"This team looks a lot more like an 8-4 team than a 10-2 team. They're in trouble"
"Nebraska should be a tossup"
"Another undisciplined Harbaugh Clunker" which I should add came after a 20-17 road victory against the #1 team in the Big Ten West.
"Wisky is a pivotal game. It could prove the difference between 8-4/9-3"
"RG Onwenu is a problem" Big Mike Mauled dudes the last two games.
So yea, thanks for posting stuff that turned out to be true, but don't act like an egotistical manbaby because you couldn't handle negative blowback on things that turned out to be unequivocally wrong.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:26 PM ^
Okay Fatboy. What have you contributed? Crickets? Enjoy the season.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:00 PM ^
You immediately resorts to name calling/personal attack. The guy is right, and you can't take it.
It is clear you are not a real insider. Real insiders knew Brandon Peters' days at Michigan are numbered, and McCaffrey was better than him. They all said McCaffrey played better, and they were excited about the next 2 to 4 years with him being QB after Patterson is gone.
Now that we have seen McCaffrey play we know they were right, and you were wrong. The excuse of 'fluid situation' is just you covering for you lack of ability.
Who are you? Are you from Maize N Brew? Because you are as shallow as those guys there. I got so tired of their poor work I have completely stopped even checking with them.
I'm not an insider. But the insider stuff I have read and posted, what I was able to, was always right. So are you going to start up the name calling and personal attacks with me?
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:03 PM ^
And the village idiot shows up. How is our little troll doing today?
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:06 PM ^
Yep, more personal attacks.
Please point out where the insider information I have provided here was wrong. We all can see where you have been wrong.
And how am I an idiot? Man, you are insecure.
SMH, for sure, at what you just said.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:09 PM ^
Your 'insider' information deserves to be beat on like a piñata. And the real you comes out when the piñata is broken open. What comes out? A petty, name calling man.
It would be bigger of you just to concede how wrong you have been sometimes.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:25 PM ^
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.....you need a snickers bar.
October 22nd, 2018 at 9:39 PM ^
This thread is basic confirmation that Marcia is Maizen, so at least there's some value there.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:07 PM ^
Did you see the guy swear at him first? WTF. You're new here, so I'll tell you something--this guy has delivered at least three pieces of inside info that was right, flat out. One was that Speight beat out JOK, a week before it was announced, and the Board erupted in hate and disbelief. So just calm down, and stop trying to debunk someone that adds value. Why does it make you mad? Let it go
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:34 PM ^
Swear? I don't think you are going back far enough with this. And regardless, it is low to engage in name calling and personal attacks.
Umbig11 has started up with personal attacks on me. I am not going to do it to him, nor will I. Nor will I swear. Personal attacks are always the tool of someone with no option left when they are wrong. There is no way it can be made to look like an ok thing to do. There is no justifying it--even if someone sweared first. These personal attacks are olny showing insecurity on the part of Umbig11.
And it was obvious that Speight was going to start. You didn't have to be an insider. I didn't like it that Speight was going to start. But I knew he was going to. Who didn't? It was only wishful thiniing to want O'Korn to start.
And I am not questioning if he is right, or not, sometimes. It's just he has been so badly wrong many times that it is clear he is not an 'insider', as we all think of them. Real insiders are paid monthly subscriptions. And if they were as wrong as Umbig11 has been they would lose money--as they rightly should.
What about the people on this board that said McCaffrey was going to be 2nd string, and Peters 3rd? They were relentlessly attacked, and treated like trolls, because the resident 'insider' here said the opposite. And as it turns out, the 'insider' was wrong.
Is it any wonder this place is called 'toxic'.
October 22nd, 2018 at 9:16 PM ^
No one is saying he was never an insider. The debate is whether or not he's been cut off.
October 23rd, 2018 at 5:37 AM ^
Lol, if that qualifies as insider information, half the fanbase are insiders. Also, saying things like "could be more" after a kid leaves the program isn't information at all.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:40 PM ^
I'm genuinely curious how you haven't been banned yet.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:45 PM ^
Because i disagree with Umbig11? Because I point out when he has been wrong, which has been fairly often? Note, I didn't say 'always wrong'.
What would have been the reason for banning me, other than a tight circle of people don't like their group think being challenged?
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:54 PM ^
Because of the intolerable attitude, name calling, hypocrisy, and total lack of insight. umbig11 has built up a good reputation over time. You have not.
October 22nd, 2018 at 9:01 PM ^
How are you back already?
Also he's not calling names, he's calling the guy by his screen name.
October 23rd, 2018 at 12:47 AM ^
Anytime anyone says anything it’s fishing, but u are “supposed to be in the know” please dude.... lol
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:29 PM ^
Man who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:30 PM ^
It seems like sometimes facts get mixed with opinions. Looks like most often his facts are correct, but his opinions have been more wrong this season. UMBig11 seems frustrated like we all were right after the first couple of games.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:00 PM ^
This critique is nonsensical dude. Everything you listed is the guy's opinion except the first, which WAS true, before it changed. So you don't like his opinions? Let's check yours. NM, not interested
Do you get that the value people saw in UMBig was the program info, right or wrong, that he delivered? If he delivered 3 things of inside value over a couple years (which he objectively did, as a fact) and got 10 things wrong, that's three contributions to the board of value.
Him 3, you 0.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^
Half the things you mentioned were the man's opinions on things. The other half you claim as "wrong" and definitively not due to fluid situations...well, how do you know? Are you privy to inside information that conflicts with his reports? Do you know who he is? Who he is connected to?
I'm guessing you don't know anything, and are just jealous of umbig's access.
October 22nd, 2018 at 9:17 PM ^
I don't know who he is or who he is connected to, but I am privy to a little bit of inside info at Michigan, and a great deal at some other big time football programs, so no I'm not jealous. I used to enjoy his posts a great deal. I'm just tired of flip flopping and whining and attributing it to a "fluid situation". If you can't handle being called out when you're wrong, don't post. It's that easy. If you're not willing to go into detail about the exact fluidity of a situation, don't post.
October 22nd, 2018 at 9:32 PM ^
Get off it man. Situations changes. It's not like things progress in a perfectly linear manner. Umbig has proven the validity of his information multiple times. He has nothing to gain by feeding us false information.
He has proven himself trustworthy, so unless you have clear information to prove he has been lying or making things up, you should just stop.
October 23rd, 2018 at 1:50 AM ^
He hasn't proven the validity of anything recently. And I never said he was lying or making things up, I just think it's ridiculous not to be accountable for being wrong and instead blaming it on the fluidity of the situation. I don't believe UmBig11 is a liar. I don't believe he's fabricating his posts. I believe he is too quick to believe second hand info and gets way too worked up when anyone questions his info. I also think he harbors a grudge against the current staff because his current level of access has either been cut off or reduced. So everyone can downvote me or call me a dickhead or whatever I don't care. I just think it's a ridiculous point of view that no one should call him out for being wrong.
October 22nd, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
Fat guy I think everyone thought all those exact same things u just mentioned st beginning of season because after notre dame this team looked just like last year and well things have gotten a lot better and I for one am happy, been more good saturdays than bad
October 22nd, 2018 at 10:23 PM ^
Disagree. What incentive does UMBig11 have to post things on here that he knows to be false or made up? He is anonymous on a blog. It isn't like he's getting personal credit and everyone goes up to him and shakes his hand. If anything, you have found him credible enough that you actively pay attention to his posts. The ridicule of somebody posting tidbits that I have every reason to believe he believes/is given is absurd. He's doing us all a favor. And further, what gain does anybody here get from actually criticizing? Does it make you feel macho to say "I told you so" on a blog? I don't get it.
Even if you don't want to believe it or want to ridicule it, what does anybody here gain from calling somebody out for trying to help, assuming you all believe (like I do), that the intent is absolutely trying to help and that he is clearly connected in some way. If you don't believe it, just stop reading and go about your day. It is a lot easier to criticize than it is to add value...
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:15 PM ^
Oh fucking spare me. You've been wrong more often than not in the past 3 months and keep blaming it on the fluidity of the situation. Which is fine, things change, but now that people call you out you're going to act like a giant baby about it?
Things that weren't nearly as fluid:
"Brandon Peters is the #2"
"This team looks a lot more like an 8-4 team than a 10-2 team. They're in trouble"
"Nebraska should be a tossup"
"Another undisciplined Harbaugh Clunker" which I should add came after a 20-17 road victory against the #1 team in the Big Ten West.
"Wisky is a pivotal game. It could prove the difference between 8-4/9-3"
"RG Onwenu is a problem" Big Mike Mauled dudes the last two games.
So yea, thanks for posting stuff that turned out to be true, but don't act like an egotistical manbaby because you couldn't handle negative blowback on things that turned out to be unequivocally wrong.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:47 PM ^
Some of us really appreciate the input Umbig11 brings to this blog. God knows I've spent to many times clicking refresh on this site hoping for an update from him. You can choose to give his contributions credence or blow them off, I really don't care. But I hope you (and some others) haven't ruined it for those of us that do by being, for lack of a better term, a dick.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:17 PM ^
Thank you UMbig11. Please ignore the keyboard cowboys and their criticisms of your updates.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:28 PM ^
Dickheads like Fatboy, which is probably very accurate, ruin it for all of us.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:40 PM ^
I enjoy your insight. Can you give any more info about the attrition that occurring at this point in the season? Why would Singleton and Hudson leave now and not after the season?
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
Exactly UMBIG11.
This board can be very snarky at times. I don't know why people ask for 'inside information' and then scream when someone is incorrect?
My dad used to always tell me "don't bite the hand that feeds ya".
anyway, thank you for you contributions.
October 22nd, 2018 at 7:58 PM ^
FatBoyTD is a perfect example of an asshole that cannot read or interpret change. I love his Peters comment that he made because he is so clueless. There are so many reasons why a depth chart changes.
October 22nd, 2018 at 8:16 PM ^
You are attacking him personally. Personal attacks on the internet are always the tool of someone with no options left/nothing they can do to defend themselves. He is pointing where you've been wrong. That's all he's doing. He isn't attacking you. But you are attacking him personally.
Respect for you is nose diving.