OT: Urban Meyer to ESPN
Urban Meyer has been hired as a college football analyst for ESPN.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:52 AM ^
Not the stress of Florida plus continued national recognition. Not surprised, RR should do the same thing next year.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:01 AM ^
I don't have anything personal against RR, but the way that he is perceived nationally probably makes him a very unlikely hire. Compare Urban's resume to RR:
Meyer: 2 MNC, coached media darling Tim Tebow.
RR: Run out of town with torches + pitchforks, name dragged through the mud by the Freep.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:05 AM ^
Won't disagree on the perception, but a name is a name. When it comes to celebrity, it doesn't matter so much what you were talked about, as long as you were talked about.
RR is still a big name and will get hired by someone this season because of his ties here and because of suspicion about where he will go next. It's a good story all around for them.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:07 AM ^
Why Matt Millen is on every network. Television wants to stir your emotions and discuss on sports radio, blogs etc. RR fits this description.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:06 AM ^
He was signed with CBS for national signing day coverage. They're #1 in big three broadcasting right now. I wouldn't be surprised if he leverages that gig to get other, related jobs.
February 1st, 2011 at 4:00 AM ^
I honestly wouldn't be all that surprised if RR is hired by some media outlet. I believe he is doing something for CBS' signing day special. I mean why not?
Edit: Should have scrolled down.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:59 AM ^
And people say that theres an ESS EEE SEE bias at ESPN... psssh.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:59 AM ^
This news is so old it owes Jesus a nickel.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:00 AM ^
There were no nickels back then!!!
February 1st, 2011 at 1:02 AM ^
There is no way you can know that for sure.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:07 AM ^
Psht, but you know Jesus was owed them? This makes a bunch of sense.
Wait, if you're Jesus then it does. Oh wait again, that's another MGoBlog user...
February 1st, 2011 at 1:10 AM ^
All I'm saying is that if you're really really old you probably owe Jesus a nickel. He ran shit.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:39 AM ^
It's quite possible that we could come to an agreeable outcome by using the theory of superposition. Replacing Schroeder's cat with Jesus and a radioactive nickel. Um, scratch that! I don't want to risk killing Jesus - again! Nevermind.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:10 AM ^
It is impossible to prove something does not exist or that it never existed at one point in the past. However, we can look at all the available data (the U.S. was founded in 1776 and didn't start minting nickels until the 19th Century) and conclude that while it is not impossible that there were nickels in Jesus's day, it is very very improbable that even ONE nickel graced the Holy Land during his lifetime.
/scientist rant
February 1st, 2011 at 1:15 AM ^
There was science there? Wow I always thought looking in the past and finding out what happened there was history?
/mind blown
(Sarcasm if anyone has a meter down)
PS- BlueDragon you're one of my favorite posters and have been for a while, this is the beer talking.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:21 AM ^
Most recorded history has an agenda. Perhaps the nickel was in reality invented in a vastly different circumstance than has been readily recorded, possibly Prague 100 BC. You have to deconstruct personal histories of that time and place and look for simulacra.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:36 AM ^
I'd be interested to see how the citizens of Prague would create the metal alloys used by the U.S. Mint of the purity and composition 2,000 years before the fact. Not to mention Monticello and Thomas Jefferson would not be born/built for another 1,800 years. Perhaps a holy vision of some sort, or ancient astronauts?
February 1st, 2011 at 1:39 AM ^
Yea, wait a sec...Jefferson wasn't born before Jesus.
This guys a phony!
February 1st, 2011 at 1:41 AM ^
Now just whip out Ockham's Razor, and the wheels fall off jbe's argument. Game, set, match.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:46 AM ^
If you're referring to the other night where I said "Occam's Razor" then I retire from this. Wow that was dumb.
Edit- I don't want to retire from this conversation because it's fun, but I do want to retire that thread from my memory.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:49 AM ^
I think "Occam" is also an acceptable spelling of the word. I use "Ockham" because that's how they spelled it in Medieval: Total War. They also spelled William Wallace William Walayce, which I thought was pretty baller too.
Oh, and don't worry about accidentally negging me that one time. We're still all shooting BB's with the up- and down-votes so it doesn't matter one way or the other.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:53 AM ^
If we weren't shooting BB's I'd be posting this as a travel guide. I'd be a full fledged Bolivian nationalist by now (f MGoBlog and their politics rule!)
But yea, apparently Ockham is the Michigan way to spell it, so Ockham it will be!!!
As to accidently negging you, I honestly thought points were back in full at that time and I would be in big trouble. Though I still stand by my promise of posbanging you with or without your consent.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:05 AM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 2:09 AM ^
My proof?
Munn Ice Arena.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:28 AM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 4:03 AM ^
History is written by the winners.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:33 AM ^
Just introduce me to your avatar sometime over cocktails.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:34 AM ^
But...but...I was going to go after her, I promise...
February 1st, 2011 at 1:38 AM ^
Can't sleep at the switch too long son. She looks like a jersey-chaser if I ever saw one. You best dial those digits before it's too late!
February 1st, 2011 at 1:40 AM ^
I thought I could change her...
February 1st, 2011 at 1:47 AM ^
I will NOT help an Ohio State football player's girlfriend cheat on him.
That's just wrong.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:17 AM ^
I am a postmodernist, and despite your fancy probabilities and pragmatism, I will not definitely say that a nickel did or didn't grace the Holy Land because there is no way I can experience that particular time and place, and therefore have no frame of reference and can make no truth claim. It is very probable you're correct, but remember Bell curves have outliers, and one of those outliers could maybe possibly have been a nickel that predates historical record.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:19 AM ^
Not trying to offend you here, but your posts always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason (maybe because your avitar did the same thing back in the day) but this post won me over.
Imaginary +1 to you sir, and a new fan (until next time...do do do do do de do do...).
February 1st, 2011 at 1:24 AM ^
I have wandering fingers, but I thank you for your kind words. Until we meet again in the closet with the sweaters and dispose of our pants.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:24 AM ^
As long as I can keep my sweater on, I'm cool with it.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:31 AM ^
It was worth it "both ways", trust me...
February 1st, 2011 at 1:31 AM ^
Holy shit that's freaky. That's worse then that time you asked me to picture a lathered and oily Mr. Rogers in the sack.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:32 AM ^
But agnosticism is agnosticism, and you are welcome to doubt the power of probability. That's what Christopher Columbus did 500 years ago, and now he has his reward: being named after the worst city in America. As for needing to personally experience ancient Judea in order to make a truth claim as to whether there were nickels there or not, that argument is, to put it mildly, vacuous. One could doubt the existence of Washington, D.C. simply by never having been there, or doubting the fact of Jimmy Carter's presidency by being born after 1980.
In summation, your argument would never pass muster in a scientific, cultural, or historical journal of any reputation, but you sir are welcome to your God-given personal opinion on the matter. And yes, there just might have been a nickel that underwent quantum translocation and traveled backwards in time (but not location) to ancient Judea, making your argument valid. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and I await the day when an American nickel is radioactive-decay dated to ~2,000 years ago. Until then, you and I must part ways on this matter.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:56 AM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 2:00 AM ^
You're going to get me banned, even though this is an economic concept and not a political one:
Praxeology. Just saying....
February 1st, 2011 at 2:21 AM ^
February 1st, 2011 at 2:47 AM ^
My economic answer would be that I do not know without a price mechanism. However, I believe human behavior is generally the same; with the caveat that some people are genius and some people are absolute idiots: you can decide which is which, I've made my decision.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:04 AM ^
im confused why it owes the dude who painted my house a nickel and helped me out with some dry wall.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:21 AM ^
+1 for being #16.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:41 AM ^
The news is like 6 hours old. They had him on as a guest analyst during the NC and was just hired permanently today
February 1st, 2011 at 1:47 AM ^
6 hours old!? Why the heck am I paying for premium board membership if this is the best we can do!?
Oh, right.
February 1st, 2011 at 11:31 AM ^
I heard this a while back as well.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:14 AM ^
He is now the Jon Gruden of college football. Anytime a job opens..... "I hear Urban is up for the job".... "Naw he loves his gig at ESPN."