USA Today Misery Index....Michigan #6
Misery Index Week 13: Lost in Lincoln
http://usat.ly/1zPwZHR
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:13 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 1:15 AM ^
And there's plenty of time for you to take a linguistics course, where you will learn that
1) not all people are native speakers of standard american english
2) some people have dyslexia or other disabilities
3) language development is affected by poverty and other factors
4) the goal of language is to communicate and the OP has done that just fine
5) linguistic prescriptivism is for fucking douchebags
6) all of the above
Hey, I didn't have any trouble understanding the OP. You must be stupid or something if you couldn't figure it out.
P.S. nice dig at UM Dearborn you elitist fucking prick. it's too bad your all-mighty superior education not only failed to teach you basic linguistics but it also failed to teach you to have any fucking appreciation at all of how good you have it
November 24th, 2014 at 9:51 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
How are some people showing up with negs in the 10's of thousands? It seems nearly impossible that someone posts something that bad for that long and not get banned?
November 24th, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^
Mods can impose vote counts. See, for example, Wolverine Devotee's post-emailgate million-point boost. Most likely CarolinaBlue posted something offensive or stupid or offensively stupid and got a nice big 100,000-vote neg.
November 24th, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^
Is there a FAQ guideline? I'd hate to get nuclear negged.
November 26th, 2014 at 5:25 PM ^
Indeed, I posted three threads. CC: Al Borges, CC: Rich Rodriguez, and CC: MGoBlog, which were intended to illustrate that we fans are not as knowledgable as we think we are.
People generally do not like being reminded that they are not experts but passionate laypersons, so massive downvoting ensued. LSAClassof2000 closed the first two threads, took away all my points [oh noes!] and told me to stop being a meanie, which... fine, it's your board I guess.
P.S. there is a thing called the Dunning-Kruger effect [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect ] and the vast majority of posters here suffer from it.
November 24th, 2014 at 10:56 AM ^
Great lunguistics/grammar lecture without using any punctuation.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:13 PM ^
I heard a rumor that Schlissel was hired specifically to reign in Brandon over the summer. Now we're stuck with someone who has no college athletic experience who has no desire to hire an AD in the month timeline that we had. So now we better hope Hackett can get the big boys or we're fucked for 3-4 more years.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:25 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:12 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^
"We"? Who is "we"? Are you really somehow disappointed that the president of the University of Michigan is not working along the preferred AD-hiring timeline of a small group of anonymous and semi-anonymous commenters on a moderately popular internet site?
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
This is the "yan" of my thoughts. This is rock bottom possibility of things.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:28 PM ^
Magma, here we come.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
Some how when I read about teams #1 - #5, I don't understand how we are only #6? From where we stand now, I might rather have their issues.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
Look at the schools perceived to be more miserable than Michigan:
1. Nebraska
2. YTM
3. Southern Cal
4. Va Tech
5. Notre Dame
Those schools are all having better seasons than Michigan. Four of them have multiple National Championships. So, I guess the Maize and Blue are in good company.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:20 PM ^
I have no issue with Hackett handling the evaluation of Hoke and the program at the end of the season. But the thought that a top tier coach may not want to come here with no permanent AD in place and a president that doesn't seem see the importance of the football program to the livelihood of the Athleticv Dept and popularity of the university.
If I thought Schissel was going to be choosing the next head coach I would be very worried. At this point, I am mildly concerned about the next AD. I hope and pray that Hackett sees that the atheltic dept and especially the football program are going "All-in" on this hire of the next football coach.
Get this one right and Michigan can return to it's former and rightful place as one of the top programs in the country. Get it wrong, go for the underachiever again, go for the non-marquee choice and this program could wither away and have to cancel the PSD program because no one will pay $2000-$4000 a season to watch mediocre Purdue-like football in a half empty stadium every week.
Hackett better be playing his cards very close to the vest and have two aces up his sleeve, one is Jim Harbaugh or Les Miles and the other is a Jeff Long or Brad Bates type AD. Someone who has made a creer out of being an AD and understands the athletic side and fan side as much as the money side.
These two hires will define this program for the next decade and beyond.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:40 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 9:22 AM ^
You're always going to be super miserable after losing to Minnesota.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:45 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 12:05 AM ^
Correct. It's going to be a cyborg.
November 24th, 2014 at 5:59 AM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:50 PM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:50 PM ^
It is just this guy's opinion. There are no facts of measure, no objective markers, just one person's subjective opinion. Now, I need to quit drinking and go to bed. out.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:55 PM ^
No need to break OUUT THEE ALLLL CAPPPSSSS just yet.
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:59 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 12:05 AM ^
We need to banish the phrase "dumpster fire." It has become a shit show of a phrase. You know, right?
November 24th, 2014 at 1:03 AM ^
Banishing "dumpster fire" will cause those who favor that term to become "butt hurt".
/s
November 24th, 2014 at 8:22 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 12:05 AM ^
How could someone so smart be so stupid to not come here and start a thread asking MGOBLOGGERS what he should do since so many of us have more experience in handling the complex issues that he is dealing with right now. They really don't make University Presidents like they use to.
November 24th, 2014 at 8:14 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 12:08 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 11:27 AM ^
We're Number One! We're Number One!
Where's that foam finger thing?
November 24th, 2014 at 12:10 AM ^
I feel like the writer probably thought Michigan was the clear #1, then realized he was going to be 973rd writer to pile on in the last 24 hours, and decided he'd go for the "fresh, unexpected" angle and bump them down to #6.
November 24th, 2014 at 12:35 AM ^
Then using it as a false premise for what to do to fix the problem
November 24th, 2014 at 12:56 AM ^
most of those teams head of Michigan had decent starts to the season but have recently tanked (Nebraska, ND, VaTech). Michigan has been a disastor the whole way through.
November 24th, 2014 at 4:45 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 8:56 AM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
Nonsense.
Schlissel and Hackett have both been questioned on this blog without repercussions. Anyone should be able to do that.