Citrus Bowl, a war of attrition. Rivals says a significant Michigan player is hurt.

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Rivals is saying a significant Michigan player is hurt but Harbaugh won't say who. 

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mGrowOld

December 28th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^

And started to post the same response to Thad.  But then I thought about it and realized Rivals is just saying it's somebody big and they want click throughs.  It's the Rivals posters that are speculating that it's a wide out and they're the ones that prolly arent as dialed in as the board generally is.

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Wolverine Devotee

December 28th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^

Doesn't matter as Florida will likely start 3 true freshman OL. Maryland started one against us, and a highly rated one at that. Willie Henry ate their QB in that game.

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Wolvie3758

December 28th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^

these days for all teams..I dont ever remember football having so many injuries..back in the day..70s 80s u had injuries of course but not the volumn the last 20 years...is it just getting so physical?

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MgoBlueprint

December 28th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^

I think there a few factors that were involved. Athletes weren't training year long and putting the same stress on their bodies. I doubt painkillers we as readily available to mask pain only to expose players to greater injuries. The rules allowed for more violent acts then but the game is more violent in nature now because these athletes are incredibly strong a d fast. Back then, a torn acl or broken leg was more likely to be a career ender versus a season ender now.



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BornSinner

December 28th, 2015 at 12:30 PM ^

I'm guessing there's more of a better safe than sorry approach to injuries these days compared to back then. 

Not to mention the amount of concussions being diagnosed properly have sky rocketed the overall amount of injuries I'm sure. 

On top of that, you have better conditioning and preparation pushing the human body to its limits. 

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ak47

December 28th, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^

If you aren't going to name a person why bother posting it?  Somebody on a football team might be injured enough to miss a game?  What an important bit of information to have.  I'm so glad I potentialy know that a potentially important player is potentially injured in a potentially significant way. 

I'm not blaming the OP here, I'm blaming Rivals.

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Maizen

December 28th, 2015 at 12:37 PM ^

Rivals sucks. 

Has Chris Balas issued any more "strong 50-50's" since last week? What the fuck is a strong 50-50? Is that better than a normal 50-50? I must have missed that in statistics class.

Their recruiting coverage has been a disaster since Helmholdt left, their defensive coordinator hotboard was a joke, and their team coverage is spotty at best.

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ken725

December 28th, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^

The only thing they have been correct on was the hiring of Harbaugh because they had Jack Harbaugh or someone close to him as a source.

Their pre-season "insider reports" have been so far off for the past 3 years that you are better off thinking the exact opposite of what they say.

 

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Maizen

December 28th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^

I don't give them any credit for the coaching search.  At one early point during the search they said the chances of Harbaugh coming were around 15-20% when they were clearly much higher in reality. They begrundigly moved that up slowly as other Michigan reporters became more bullish as time went on. They said the Raiders would never be an option for him and it literally came down to Michigan or the Raiders. Spath at one point said the NY Jets and that clearly was false intel. They also believed he could stay with the 49ers despite every NFL insider saying that relationship was up in flames for good.

Chris Balas literally spent two weeks calling it 50-50, or a "strong 50-50" when other Michigan insiders were much more confident. Only in the days prior to the hiring did they raise their percentage. Balas also said at one point that Harbaugh and Brandon's differences could be worked out, which anyone who read John U Bacon's book Endzone knows that is now a balatent lie. 

As an aside, they were literally the last ones off the Dave Brandon train despite Brandon pulling their magazine as a gift to donors. They are a mouthpiece for the athletic department but Balas continually calls himself "an unbiased journalist." Yeah, ok buddy.

That site used to be good but Webb and Lorenz have lapped them regarding inside info. And don't get me started at the fanboys who post on the Fort. Most clueless bunch of idiots on the net in terms of Michigan fans.

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Maizen

December 28th, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^

He does but he has absolutely no sources these days. It still doesn't stop him from playing pretend insider and speaking in completely vague generalities like he knows what he's talking about. I see right through it.

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look up see blue

December 28th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^

As an aside, they were literally the last ones off the Dave Brandon train despite Brandon pulling their magazine as a gift to donors. They are a mouthpiece for the athletic department but Balas continually calls himself "an unbiased journalist." Yeah, ok buddy.

They supported him until the very end (had an exclusive interview with DB in last year's October issue). I still remember posters at the Fort  mocking mgoblog and calling the emails a "witch hunt". After that, I canceled my subscription and never looked back. Spath's hockey coverage is about the only thing I miss.

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Red is Blue

December 29th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^

The arguments regarding the predictive statistics seem unfounded.  "they said the chances of Harbaugh coming were around 15-20% when they were clearly much higher in reality".  How do we know they were much higher in reality?  The fact that it happened doesn't prove the predicitive probabilities wrong.  What we're the odds Michigan stops Minnesota on the last goal line play?  Clearly it wasn't 100%, but yet that happened.  Further, even though their odds were lower than others, how do we know the others weren't overly optimistic?

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