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Honestly.....when you look…

Honestly.....when you look at the stupid $$ being thrown around for coaches and assistants these days, is $12.5M for Lamont Paris really prohibitive? I mean...probably the best option to bag a long term success story and Michigan is anything but cash strapped. 

Warde shouldn't even flinch at that if he can get a discussion going that looks like it could be fruitful.

Go blue!

Go blue!

Good day for M LAX!!

Good day for M LAX!!

White ball.....bad.

White ball.....bad. Orange ball okay...

Snow on the ground is one thing, but heavy snow in the air would make the game really challenging and I would think a bit dangerous for goalies not being able to see incoming shots.

Trouble enough growing the…

Trouble enough growing the sport when it doesn't clash directly with football for athletes, dates, facilities, coverage and attendance. 

Move it to fall and it would sewing as quickly, possibly not at all. 

Here's the thing, unless you…

Here's the thing, unless you have reason you need to watch ALL the games a home, sign up for the services that get you the bulk of the games, if you want to go as far as only signing up for a service in the month (or few months) they actually carry a game, you can go that far. When you are left with a tolerable amount of games (2? 3? 4?) that you don't want to bend over backwards to stream at home.......take a small portion of the $$ you are saving not paying cable and avoiding the exorbitant season long blooding from YTTV, get a few friends and go watch those at a fun/dive bar. I did that with some friends here in SF a few times this season and forgot what an absolutely spectacular time it can be (thanks Kezar Pub, RIP Bridgett **UM Alum, Wolverine bartender extraodinaire and slinger of the occasional free shot).  Met more than a few stellar M fans that way, had some good natured rivalry banter.

Cut the cord, connect with people ;)

I'm not a lawyer, have dealt…

I'm not a lawyer, have dealt with a lot of them though, sometimes fantastic, but a few bad ones.

Part of me wants to tell you to just pay for the hour and be done with it, but another part of me wants to suggest another option as it galls me to pay people when they make a mess of things. Specifically, I would contact the fired attorney and do following:

1. Make them explain to you very specifically why you were charged for work at all given that you had informed them to stop working on date x. If you can, get this in writing....and make it clear you're not paying for this. It isn't unreasonable to expect an invoice with the date, time and descriptions of the work being charged. If you filed the substitution order and they really did no work to transfer the case......I doubt they will come after you.

2. Also, let the fired attorney know you were extremely dissatisfied with the quality of their work and cite several specific examples, i.e. where you were charged for their mistakes, the documents that needed to be revised, etc. Let them know that if they insist on billing you for extra work that you will have no choice but to post a negative review of their work online anywhere you can find a place to do so, including the BBB. Then indicate that their work, along with the overcharges after they were removed, were so egregiously bad that you are considering contacting the Bar Association to determine whether you should make a complaint and send them examples of the work. If this is consistently the level of work they produce, this won't likely be the first time this has occurred and they won't want another one filed.

Sure it is only an hour's worth of $$, but the attorney is going to look at it the same way and may figure that these (illegitimate) charges aren't worth the trouble you could cause them. You have a wealth of evidence of below adequate lawyering, use it.

Looks like it is going to be…

Looks like it is going to be broadcast on the ACCN if you have access. 

Definitely looking forward to seeing whether the team can keep the momentum going this season. Last season was fun. 

Didn't realize Zawada transferred....that sucks. I mean, I know it is Duke (vomit), but I wonder what the thought process was about in dumping a team you sort of helped build? 

Why do people continually…

Why do people continually act as if someone with zero coaching experience can just step in and be successful in a role that almost invariably requires a LOT of experience? 

Ties to Michigan do not magically imbue someone with all the complex set of skills, experience, knowledge, connections and attitude to be a head coach....or a coach at any level for that matter. To say nothing of all the "off the field" admin and PR and personnel, logistics, etc. etc.

Duuude, Sherrone you were a…

Duuude, Sherrone you were a Michigan man years ago. Go crush it.

Wasn't the TRO pulled by…

Wasn't the TRO pulled by Michigan because the judge indicated they would not make a summary/immediate judgment without hearing arguments from both sides?

That essentially meant it would take at least two weeks to get through the process at which point it is moot.

If the judge isn't going to decide before the Penn State or OSU game there's no point in going through all the motions to get a temporary restraining order for something that will have ended by the time the tro process concludes. 

Nobody threw in the towel FFS, though I know how much a group of people on here want to think that Ward himself went down and pulled the application at the courthouse personally.

Let's not all forget that…

Let's not all forget that Harbaugh has been an irascible, difficult, confrontational, son of a bitch everywhere he's ever worked. It's part of what we love about him.

Bowlsby the AD at Stanford said, "Jim would annoy you all week, but then you like him on Saturdays."

He famously generated a ton of friction with his bosses, the owner and general manager, at the 49ers, enough to get him fired.

Not to mention all manner of conflicts, tension, investigations, or whatever that seem to follow Harbaugh wherever he goes.

If anyone has a track record of creating bad relationships, it isn't Warde. I can tell you I sure as shit would not want to have to manage Jim Harbaugh as an employee, especially if during that tenure I had to: 

  • Publicly reduce his compensation
  • Inform him multiple times that someone he wanted to hire he could not, or would have to summarily unhire because they weren't acceptable.
  • Deal with probably all manner of policy and HR-type conflicts

Please do not try to tell me that Jim didn't work every last nerve and pull every last tooth he could. That's who he is, like it or not.

Honestly, I'm fine with it. …

Honestly, I'm fine with it. 

Thanks Jim for getting us back to the top and the NC, will always be grateful to you for that and wish you the best in your future endeavors.

I'm also fine to lose all the drama, annual looky-loo at the NFL where everyone has to focus on Jim and what he is going to do, the continual spectrum-ey behaviors and the 

FWIW...I don't hold Warde accountable for any of this.....the President, Regents, et al, went to the mat to give him everything he wanted and he wants to win a Super Bowl more. Unless you have verifiable info that Warde was resistant or in any way obstructive, keep you "Fire Warde!" clamoring to yourself because it is based on pure speculation and only shows how little you know about being in a manager/leadership position. 

I live here and have been to…

I live here and have been to a few games, some answers as far as I know:

-If we go in early and want to catch some of the AFC Championship game, where are some good places to watch, grab food/drink, chill pregame?

Answer: nowhere close to the stadium, you'll need to do that 30-40 mins away in some place like mountain view, which is okay. The owners of the niners moved away from San Francisco to pretty much an hour and change away in the middle of a giant parking lot next to Great America. There's nothing close to to the stadium (by design, you basically park, enter through large escalators), zero neighborhood, 0 character song, zero, soul. It is an erector set of a building/stadium that has zero architectural style or panache, it almost looks temporary. Yes, I'm bummed they left when both the Chase center for basketball and the baseball stadium have been such resounding successes with awesome environments for attending games, neighbrohoods with tons of bars and places to eat and hang both before and after the hane. Niners games, not so much.

-If the low-cost far-out options are unappealing or non-existent, what would you recommend in terms of parking nearer the stadium? Do people tailgate at 49ers games?

You'll have to decide if you want to drive or take the VTA from mountain view to the stadium, someone talked about a parking ramp that was empty and that would probably be a good option, but go as late as possible and eat and drink as much as you can before you get in the stadium. People definitely tailgate, but if you are used to Michigan game tailgates it's not going to be quite on the same level.

No matter what, have a great time and Go Lions!!

EDIT: as someone else posted, Palo Alto is a much better option than Mt. View, even though it's a little farther (40-50 mins all told on the train) away, especially if you get on VTA there and ride in, you'll just have to leave earlier.

Welcome back Ace!!! Great to…

Welcome back Ace!!! Great to hear from you :)

BEaT

BEaT

Likewise, lived right down…

Likewise, lived right down the street on Church for the basketball win and totally remember seeing people start to gather on TV and heading out the door to join them, it was unreal.

Wish I could have been there this time too!!!

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Yah, fuuuuuuuck all of them…

Yah, fuuuuuuuck all of them.

To them as well as MacAfee and all the others, I'll refuse to click on any of their shit for as long as I do the Free Press, which is pretty much until the day I die.

You come for it you pay for it.

All of those people saying "forget it, it's the past" or whatever, I never ever ever ever forget.

Never.

Yaaaaaaaaas!!!!! 

All that!

Yaaaaaaaaas!!!!! 

All that!

First of all..... I never…

First of all..... I never used the word "program" and wouldn't expect any sweeping giant changes...... I'm talking specifically turnovers.

So focusing on turnovers, you can't tell me that a coach that consistently had the lowest turnover rates talking with a coach that has one of the highest rates doesn't have anything valuable to offer. Especially when it was a strategy that he came to over time and didn't start out with day one. He changed something to become good at not giving away the ball. What was that?

What drills or things did you do in practice that helped cut down on turnovers? The answer to that question is valuable.

How did you adjust your offensive sets to make them less vulnerable to turnovers? The answer to that question is valuable.

How did you work with players to foster a mentality that helped them to focus on not doing things that turn over the ball? The answer to that question is valuable.

Are there any other things that you and your team did to help produce the actual turnover results that you had? The answer to that question is valuable.

These are things the current team has no clue about. These are things that Belien clearly did have a clue about.

A one to two hour conversation about these things, perhaps a few hours at a practice demonstrating or working through a few drills or adjustments has a s*** ton of value, sorry to say.

I mean, there's really nothing to lose, and everything to gain here as even a minor uptick in the turnover rate would actually benefit this team in a big way. 

What's the downside?

Seems like a dumb approach…

Seems like a dumb approach to me, go ahead and neg all you want I couldn't give a shit.

I run startups for a living and if I had a team that was completely unable to effectively develop code that was bug free because they sucked at QA and I had a friendly ex colleague in the same building who was a master at QA, I would have that person on the phone and or in the building within a week. This goes triple if my job and career basically depended on it, which it probably would. 

I'm not trying to say Beilein would be a great coach right now I don't think he would. The game has changed and he was already fading when he left, so in no way am I going to purport that he would come back and save the program as a full-time head coach. But a conversation about good ways to make a team better at not turning over the ball seems like a pretty fucking good idea to me. I mean, I'm watching the game......the season. There is a resource there why not use it?

I'm not asking for him to…

I'm not asking for him to come back, but FFS it couldn't hurt to get a few hours of consulting from someone that consistently put teams on the floor that had the lowest turnover rates in the league.

This team is so hard to…

This team is so hard to watch sometimes, because they fall prey to such solvable problems. 

Honest question, Belein is still around and even if you don't want to consult him directly, his team for a decade before was the poster child of no turnovers and decent/great defense (yes, Yaklich....I know), is there no way to tap into that? I mean.... Ask somebody how they accomplished that? Watch the film? Anything?

Even in the first part of the first half when Michigan was up by 13, I'm watching it and thinking this has nothing to do with how Michigan is playing, it's just Penn State missing shots they should make and not sustainable. Here we are down 6 against Michigan and looking completely terrible.

Yeah, every last big…

Yeah, every last big steaming pile of this you should consume.

Never forget.

Have always thought of…

Have always thought of Alabama program as a class act, have had great interactions with their fans and their players don't ever seem douchebaggy, on the whole.

Saban is Saban, but core Alabama fans and the program get pretty high marks from me.

Are there douchebags? Of course any program with their recent history of dominance will have them, but I view them as sort of that obnoxious part of the OSU fan base that just exists, though a good portion of their fan base are actually also somewhat reasonable. 

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Lol

Lol

Fuck yeah!!!!!

Fuck yeah!!!!!

Seriously here for this,…

Seriously here for this, genius game and adjustments. 

3 weeks ago

3 weeks ago

Though does make a good cult…

Though does make a good cult, most especially this year with the M vs. Everybody dynamic.

Coach Harbaugh gloriously…

Coach Harbaugh gloriously has resting wolverine face.

Nice. That should be on a t-shirt.

My parents met as students at Michigan, so I was a fan the moment I was born. I'll never forget my first time at Michigan Stadium. I grew up in Okemos and had gone to a few Spartan games with friends the year before we started getting season tickets (I was already firmly into the M/MSU rivalry, back when it was more fun) and I remember seeing Michigan Stadium as we approached and thinking it was so much smaller than Spartan stadium with its big upper decks, and for a few minutes feeling kind of disappointed. Not for long though. My Dad had timed it so that we hung out right outside our section for a few minutes until the players took the field and we entered just as the crowd roared as the players touched the banner. What a sight it was! As I stepped in and saw the entire bowl and the crowd going crazy, I was awestruck and will never forget that moment. The whole experience really, it was an all day thing, every trip to Ann Arbor involved Blimpy Burgers, pre-game tailgating or a stop at my Dad's and his friend's fraternities, often a post game stop as well where I would play football on the lawn with other boys. Everything about Ann Arbor, the game, the environment, the stadium, was just a paradise to me growing up.

Fast forward a few years and I got to start going to some games with my older sister who was a student. Being 16 in the student section offered an entirely new facet to the whole experience that I took full advantage of, so now game day was also a party that went late into the night and ended with me crashing on someone's couch in South Quad. Sublime.

A few years later I got to go to my first game as a freshman at M and that was possibly the best one of all. I lived in Alice Lloyd and had tons of friends from out of state that had never been to a Michigan game before and I got to be a little bit of a guide (convinced a few that might not have gotten season tickets to do so) and watch them all go through a process similar to the one the writer describes in the article. Most of them were hooked after the first game. Now, something like ~37 years later, meeting a bunch of them in Pasadena to see the Rose Bowl. I also had the good fortune to have my younger brother visit me and to provide him and a few of his friends the student section treatment and late night party experience before he became an M student a few years later. 

There really is nothing like it anywhere. There is a Difference. 

Soooooo......I guess in this…

Soooooo......I guess in this case the NCAA wants to keep the name of the school being investigated under wraps, because........?

WTF? 

Last time they blasted it out to the whole world to maximum negative impact.

Not trying to harsh Seth,…

Not trying to harsh Seth, but the Omaha steaks we got were awful. Someone gifted them to us and we had them cancel after the first shipment, meat was terrible....most cuts/pieces were too small to even grill well....anything more than 2 minutes per side would be overdone. We typically buy top notch stuff from an independent butcher here in SF and in terms of quality there was simply no comparison, not even close. Omaha stuff tasted as bad as meat from a chain grocery store that has been frozen a long time.

The person that gifted them to us tried to cancel the other remaining months and despite talking to cs reps and getting email confirmations it was canceled, they continued to charge them for three more months, though didn't ship anything.

If you google "Omaha steaks reviews" you'll see they get consistently poor ratings everywhere.

Looking for 3 Rose Bowl tix…

Looking for 3 Rose Bowl tix.

Reach me at: mtzlblk  AT gmail DOT com

 

 

The point is to not act all…

The point is to not act all pious and condescending like Michigan has never done anything wrong. 

Quinn Tierney Moffett,…

Quinn Tierney Moffett, Google it before you condemn MSU.

Same here, but I have a son…

Same here, but I have a son whom is 18 now and you need to have regular talks with him as well as just instilling respect.

It starts simply with just being sure he sees women as equal growing up and can be as easy as getting into following USWNT soccer and watching some games, anything, multiple things. Help him understand from an early age what women deal with in terms of wage gaps, discrimination, etc.

As he gets to middle school, you will talk about "bird and bees" stuff and any conversation around that should include some discussion of what consent means. Then, you should have some discussions around just consent itself, and don't limit it to "no means no," be sure to also talk about nuanced situations where even just "unsure" means stop...."uncomfortable" means stop, drunk/high/tipsy means stop. Basically, if she isn't completely there, completely and positively into it, slow your roll way down. I taught my son to always pull back a bit at certain junctures and let her take the lead to either stay where they were or progress and if she doesn't, you stay right where your at and go no further. Never pressure, never urge, never act frustrated. 

Once you have him responsible for himself (hopefully...teenage boys), you start in telling him to also be aware and step in if he sees something wrong or even close to wrong. Never stand by if you think something wrong is happening, always say something, always get in between, always get her somewhere safe. 

Because the whole school is…

Because the whole school is a big real estate empire run by Fall Well Jr. until he was exposed as a hypocrite, a fraud and a swinger. He walked around campus with a plastic bottle of vodka and was drunk most of the time, and yet still disciplined students by fining them for possessing alcohol or having sex.

Also, hardly a bastion of intellectulism or deep thought, we knock our conference rivals all the time for academics, but they are Stanford compared to Liberty which is ranked deservedly somewhere between #395 and 435. I certainly don't think ratings are everything, but when you've been around for 50 years and still hover away at the bottom of the rankings, it certainly tells you something.

They aspire to be Florida. 

They aspire to be Florida. 

If you read the whole article, they based his punishment on a the case of Steve Linnen the "The Naked Photographer" − an Ohio House GOP caucus attorney who photographed more than 30 women as he flashed them. lol......oHIo!

Cuz I sawz it onna the…

Cuz I sawz it onna the teevee 

Lol....I live in SF and go to L.A. often for work and was there quite recently with my son to tour UCLA. Westwood is far from a shithole full of homeless people...a laughable assertion at best. Tell me you've never been to Westwood without TMYNBTW. 😂

Same bs peddled about SF where someone drives by the worst 6 blocks in the city at the worst hour and tries to purport that somehow the entire city is huddling amidst the wreckage of burned out buildings, trying to avoid avalanches of human feces and everyone shoplifting to get by. 🙄

 

More recently, Thamel also…

More recently, Thamel also reported Harbaugh's 3 game suspension from the B1G a full 30 minutes prior to the conference even notifying Michigan or Harbaugh. That says all I need to know about who is being fed information and why. That's an unnatural connection and clear orchestration behind the scenes to a mouthpiece that had already been heavily biased in the situation.

Also, the B1G staffer that provided the information on sign stealing/sharing among coaches of Michigan's signals that also then went to Purdue prior to the BTC game, apparently sent that evidence to Thamel first....who of course intentionally buried it because it went against the narrative he was participating in pushing. Even after it broke on the AP site, he and ESPN barely covered it and only posted a tiny article on it like full day after everyone picked it up.

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Was messing around in Photoshop. Corum Bleeds Blue :)

Snow and refs and signals
5…
  1. Snow and refs and signals
  2. 5 big plays and signals
  3. The refs and......
Fuck yeah.

Smart football…

Fuck yeah.

Smart football all the way to the end. 

Fantastic 😍.

Like a Ryan…

Fantastic 😍.

Like a Ryan Day fuck doll.

 

BET!!!!!!!!!!

BET!!!!!!!!!!

I think you can clear the…

I think you can clear the cache for just MGOBlog by following these instructions. At least for Android, there are slightly different instructions for Windows, other browsers and Apple devices.

Feel free to delete this if this method won't achieve the desired results.

Is there a way to verify it updated?

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/How-to-Clear-All-Browser-Cache-or-for-specific-site/ta-p/1710298

Agree. I watched the video…

Agree. I watched the video and wish I hadn't and now feel like I have to shower. Everyone involved in those little escapades comes off as sub-human. 

I don't have any sympathy for him trying to meet a 13 year old, though after arguing for due process, he received none there. He basically cops to doing it in the end, sooooo dunno. Yay, that's totally smarmy all round!?

I really hope there is some evidence that he is the leak and is at least somewhat deserving of what lies in store for him. If he really retaliated against M for firing him...did he really expect any employer to keep him around after that?