MGoBlog Call for Papers
Attention. Captain Alvin Mercer leaves for a honeymoon in Tokyo at oh-nine hundred hours. Any nurse wishing to be the bride please contact the captain. No experience necessary
--M.A.S.H. 4077 PA announcer
With Major Cook honeymooning in Seoul, your friendly officers Misopogeye Pierce, RadarVH, and Trapper Tim will be getting a bit more liberal with the Bump buttons.
With that in mind, I'd like your help in generating a list of topics you'd like to see covered over the next few weeks. If you've got an idea you want help developing, we can help with that. Otherwise let us know what you'd love to read...I'll publish what we come up with on the main page and see if we get any takers.
Good and Bad Examples:
- Do early commits work out better than late ones?
- Which recruiting site has been the most accurate with M players over X years?
- What happens in the event that figure 'A' is attracted to figure 'B' and wants to get married, but figure 'A' is already married to figure 'C' and figure 'B' is engaged to figure 'D', but figure 'A' can't keep his hands of figure 'B' because she's got such agreat figure?
Anything that relates to the fan experience, i.e. tailgating, game day experiences, the mascot discussion, scoreboards, road game trips.
I love that stuff and there is usually some humor involved.
I'd like to see a detailed paper on the best tailgaiting at the Golf Course, like time of arrival, best food, best gadgets, best games; but all of those topics sound interesting (except the mascot).
If there is any hockey topics anyone wants covered or written about, I'm sure I could come up with something.
Your favorite non-marquee players and why.
In other words, not Ovechkin or Crosby or some big name, but lesser players who really help their team win.
Thanks. I would love to read to your opinion on this. I am a huge fan of blue collar players. One of my favorite Michigan hockey players was Danny Fardig.
I'd like to read a detailed analysis of what makes Nick Lidstrom so great.
It's not always apparent to me while watching him.
I'm thinking something with photos or footage and analysis of Lidstrom and some average dude in different situations. For example, "in this situation (e.g., opposing forecheck while Lidstrom goes to get puck), Lidstrom has his head up [photo showing Nick with head up looking for teammate] and makes a crisp pass, whereas this other trash defenseman has his head down, passes it to the other team and gets crushed."
Something like that. Never seen it before though I've looked all over.
I would like to see something to show which site most accurately ranks prospects. It's something I've been wanting to get into since Rivals came out with their top ten teams of the last ten years article. I would find that a very interesting piece.
Along the same lines, I'd like to see a meta analysis of MGoBlog's predictions with the benefit of hindsight: Tim's Hello posts, Brian's game previews, etc. I know that the other day I went back and cringingly (I'm good at scrabble) looked at game previews from last season. It'd be cathartic and informative to see where we thought we'd be as compared to where we are and allow our contributors to kind of grade themselves. It's rare for a site to admit mistakes or misjudgments, but hey, MGoBlog is a rare site. Honest self-evaluations would just be another thing to separate this blog from the rest.
<br>To see what I mean, take a look at what Magnus does over at TTB with his roster countdown.
at each jersey number in UM football history, i will start:
1 - anthony carter
2 - charles woodson
3 - obvs
4 - profit
http://mgoblog.com/diaries/best-michigan-player-each-jersey
Though that's one of the ideas we were talking about for these next few weeks. A "Revive This Thread" feature where we revisit some epic Non-OT, non-humor conversations from MGoYore for the benefit of those folks who missed it before.
I also like going back and reading the user curiated hall of fame, but a revived version with new comments would be great.
How's you come up with your username, when did you go to Michigan, high school teams etc that gave people a "face", but had drastically increased with the membership explosion.
a debate about giving away free student tickets to basketball games. I've been wanting to do research into this, but just haven't had the time. However, here's my premise:
student tickets for basketball are already a low price, but we'd get more students, thus a rowdier crowd, if they are free. Having a rowdy student section leads to more exposure and a better atmosphere in the stadium, thus brining in more revenue from TV, people going to games because it's cool, etc.
So what's the argument against?
We might not have to do that if the basketball team stays good...
of the program under Dave Brandon/Brady Hoke. For example, grading the decisions made so far etc...
Here - I'll write the article for you:
A+.
End of paper.
I mean, I like Brady Hoke too, and he's been doing a fantastic job so far, but can you really call Dave Brandon's hire an A+ when Hoke hasn't yet coached a game and has an underwealming record for a place like Michigan? It may very well turn out to be an A+ down the road, but so far we've recruited really really well and done nothing else.
Right. SO, thus far, it's an A+.
there is more to the grade than just saying A+, the end. What about the mascot, the night game, the night game jerseys, the M brand, the game in Dallas, assistant coaches that were hired, targeted recruits etc... Personally I think they have done a great job, but I just think it is a good off season conversation...
I think there's also a lot of speculation that has to go into those grades, maybe too much to do anything. For instance, if DB was in favor of moving OSU and brought it up so that alumni/fans would get used to the idea, automatic F-, even if Hoke goes all Yost for the next four years. If he brought that to public attention in order to kill the idea, he's a lot closer to A+.
Brandon hasn't decided against the mascot idea yet. Until then, I'd give him an incomplete.
I would like an paper written in thesis form describing the positive and negative effects of pos bangs happening on this board and any correlations said effects may have on the football team.
I would also like an investigative piece done on how Lloyd Brady has been spending his summer vacation. I want it done as in depth as the news that was coming out on Pryor. Therefore I want to know what he was eating for lunch everyday and his shitting schedule. How many times did he brush his molars before moving to the bicuspids, you know, that time of thing.
Restroom utlization schedule? Anybody play Words With Friends with him?
Hahahahahaha, that's hilarious. I just lost it while working the phones in my office after reading that.
Nevermind papers, how about a banner contest?
Also, an in-depth statistical analysis of how points scored and points allowed remain the only direct, always 100% accurate correlations to wins and losses would be a fun little piece to read.
I have no clue why your post was considered Trolling...
The proper objections would be "argumentative" or "Rule 403; probative value significantly outweighed by cumulative nature and probability of jury confusion."
My brain hurts after reading that. The best part though, is when you use all of those big words and then your signature is "...then again, I don't know shit." It makes it sound like you are either the biggest sarcastic asshole on the planet or the most arrogant person on this board.
In either case it's fucking hilarious because I picture you holding a beer and a cigar and saying you post, then waiting for the perfect timing and following it with "But then again, I don't know shit." Hahahaha
It makes it sound like you are either the biggest sarcastic asshole on the planet or the most arrogant person on this board
You say that like it can't be BOTH.
(Nah, I'm taking the bar in a week, so my brain is not working properly. My English has been replaced by Legalese)
Good luck man. I have a bunch of friends taking it soon and they are not the same people while studying for the Bar...it's like knowledge of all things useless is forgotten. Useless things like the names of Len's only hit from 1999 or what Samuel L. Jackson's wallet said in "Pulp Fiction." This type of knowledge eludes them until the day after the Bar, when there is again room for it.
This is pretty much me right now...
T-8 days until the bar. Right there with you. I mean empathetically, not in a "joining together in co-ownership of a business for profit thereby resulting in a general partnership" kind of way or a "statement of admission by a party of being amenable to the actions at issue" way or an "agreeing to good faith modification of a UCC Article II contract for the sale of goods" kind of way.
Hopefully the power won't go to their heads in the absence of fearless leader. I would hate for there to have to be an MGoCoup.
/ worstpunever'd
"How good was the offense under RR, and should Brandon have fired him?"
(Too soon?)
/ducks
JESUS, IT WAS A JOKE PEOPLE.
/fends off body blows
PLEASE STOP THAT. IT HURTS A LOT. I WAS KIDDING
/bleeds
I'd be interested in reading about the highlights of Hoke's 2010 season at SDSU. Subtopics could include:
Breakdown of performance in "red letter" games - How did they win/lose, and what does this tell us about our new coach and his OC?
Comparison between players on the former and current roster - How were former players used, and what does this tell us about how our guys will be used this year?
This same idea could also be flipped around to focus specifically on Mattison's defense last year in Baltimore.
I'd also be interested in a comparison of average recruiting ranking of players at SDSU and BSU and see what Hoke did there as well (looking for a Ranking Above Normal metric to go along with Denard's PAN). Obviously this doesn't work as well for Mattison, you'd be better off comparing him to Michigan since he was here, ND and Florida instead of the MAC and MWC. Borges as well, but he'd fall somewhere in between I think.
Either way, it's an interesting idea, but I have no idea what metric could be used to compare all three in the same way.
I'd love to see something descriptive/non-quantitative about the performance of guys who earned U-M offers because they did well at camp. My memory is crappy, so I don't know who that includes.
I am a grad student at UM looking to publish my first paper. It would be an honor to have a first author publication in MGoBlog.
What is the impact factor of mgoblog?
Bolivian!
A lot of people trust a recruit's offer list more than the star ranking. I'd like to see if you could come up with a recruit ranking system that outperforms rivals and is based purely upon the quality of the offer list. Each recruit would have a star ranking based upon rankings of the programs on the list. For example, some programs would be 5* schools (USC, Florida, Florida State, Texas, OSU, Bama, etc), some would be 4* schools (UM, ND, Penn State, Oregon, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska). Based upon this system, a guy like Omameh would get upgraded, and a guy like Kevin Grady would get downgraded. You'd have to figure out how to weigh the volume of offers vs the quality. Guys who get offered early and have a small list would probably show a lot of variability. It would be an interesting study, I think.
Carvin doesn't like this idea.
I always value the offer list more than the star rankings. However there are some variables that affect the offer list, including whether the recruit committed early, available scholarships from top schools, and conditional offers (school only gives official offer if the student commits).
can we have an in-depth post exploring whether or not our offense actually performed well against wisconsin last year???
/s
of that sordid love rectangle he alluded to. Just how great is B's figure? Does she have the face to match? Is D a giant douche or is he best buds with A? Is a little swinging a possibility? Maybe B and C could mess around a little in front of A and D. See what happens, ya know?