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Moore, graham, grant,…

Moore, graham, grant, Edwards and maybe McBurrows is my guess

Wanted to second Nagasaki!…

Wanted to second Nagasaki! Absolutely wonderful city, felt like the best parts of Kobe and Yokohama together to me. Also there was a neat little active volcano not too far away - Aso-san, and also Kumamoto is just a day trip away, which is where the events that inspired The Last Samurai occurred (but no joke, the samurai were the bad guys)

Love the book and the series…

Love the book and the series. Not a pilot (or English) but I did find myself enjoying natto...eventually.

Tokyo is amazing but I'd…

Tokyo is amazing but I'd agree Kyoto is the better place for sightseeing. Riding the bullet train between the two is worth it just to experience. Tokyo is a GREAT city tho, maybe not just for sightseeing but just lose yourself in a neighborhood for a day or a week.

Daytrips from Tokyo to Kamakura, the Tama area, and Yokohama are all worth it. If you have time go up to Naeba and see the snow monkeys - even if there's no snow. You can also see Matsumoto Castle up that way too, and relax in an onsen (hot spring) at a resort town.

But really you can't go wrong in Japan. Such a wonderful place to experience.

I was stationed there for…

I was stationed there for two years, and honestly just pick a train stop and there will be good food nearby. If you want look for a ramen shop or sushi stop anywhere, or yakiniku or like seriously anything. You can eat well at the conbinis!

Have fun. Ride the bullet train. Use the toilets. And eat anything. You'll be happy and satisfied. Gambate!

Kyle Smith, NY(?), Josh…

Kyle Smith, NY(?), Josh Schertz, Becky Hammon, Jay Wright, and of course...Murderwolf. 

Great to hear! Hope he's…

Great to hear! Hope he's been working on his slides....

His margin for a successful …

His margin for a successful "run" is less if he loses to M. If he manages to win the big ten and get a bye (and I'm not sure that trip to Autzen will end with a Buckeye win) or even if he doesn't win the Big Ten but gets a high non-bye seed, he likely won't play a bonafide top-5 team until the semis. If you beat Oregon twice and win a semi but lose to M, for sure it's crazy to can the coach of the second best team in the nation. But if your "run" is you win 2 games against top 10ish competition, before losing a close SF? I'd say that's not the standard they expect.

Doesn't mean they can him but I doubt they'd be satisfied with that

Ok, somewhat serious vibes…

Ok, somewhat serious vibes-wise - I've ping-ponged this off-season on whether OSU was set for a scary/special season, or whether they've got some deep-rooted problems that exposed themselves at the Cotton Bowl and with McCord leaving. Retaining everyone they did had led me to think they were set to be scary.

But seeing a veteran RBs coach head off - reportedly because OHIO STATE can't match his pay - and not to an NFL team, but to your rival? I mean, there had to have been some sort of personality clashes with Kelly or something there, right? Sky isn't falling in C-bus but any Buckeye trying to say "we didn't want him" is full of cope. Best case - you got out-bought by your rival. Which is not credulous, and not great. Medium-case - he somehow felt the RBs position at Michigan gave him a better opportunity, which on the surface is not great. Worst case - you've got a problem with your team culture and lost a long time position coach because of it. That's probably reductive.

Nevertheless...this is pretty funny. And puts their much celebrated (in Ohio) Off-Season Championship at risk.

I mean, you can't have…

I mean, you can't have coaches going from one program to another in the same league! Oh, I mean Chip Kelly was different - UCLA doesn't count! Oh, right Mattison, but....well it's ok if OSU does it! Didn't you learn that from signsgate? Basically, it's just that MICHIGAN can't do it. 

I am enjoying 11Ws right now…

I am enjoying 11Ws right now. "Why would he leave the best RBs room in America?" to go to...<checks notes> the best running game in America for the past 3 years. With 2 dynamite backs.

My bad. Damn it, it was a…

My bad. Damn it, it was a good stat until it wasn't true. Lies, damn lies, statistics, and statistics based on lies.

this is the first thing that…

this is the first thing that came to mind and...Mattison is 1-3 against Michigan, Zach Harrison went with him and was 1-2. Since 2011, Mattison is a John-Cooper-Like 2-10 in The Game.

haha the superstitious me is nervous for that reason

Ohio is a 4 letter word

Ohio is a 4 letter word

Ohio is not a state. It's a mistake by the lake.

Ohio is not a state, it's an Organization for Hopeless Idiotic Ogres.

The difference between Michigan and Ohio is Michiganders know how to read, and Buckeyes are learning - which is why you think they're "cheering" when actually they're just practicing their spelling.

4 Great Lakes touch Michigan. The only one that touches Ohio is the only one that ever caught fire. (Then just grin evilly when a Buckeye says "that wasn't the lake it was the river!" and keep smiling until they realize they didn't make it better)

If you ever come across them saying "TTUN" or nowadays "TCUN", just casually respond "yes title town up north/the champs up north did lose a lot of our offense, but we're ready to SMASH with Sherrone" or whatever it may be

I find myself rooting for…

I find myself rooting for Stroud in the NFL. Yes, because he actually THROWS IT TO NICO, which I was clamoring for Shea to do forever. But also because...he didn't hurt me. And now, he never can. (Unless he returns like a coach or something...oh god i spoke it into existence didnt' i)

Final recap - M went 4-1 in…

Final recap - M went 4-1 in the consolation semis, with Deaugustino being the only one wrestling for 5th instead of 3rd. Unfortunately in the finals, while coming close in a few bouts M was unable to claim a single champion, and in fact lost all their matches in the consolations as well except for Davison at HWT. So 4 finished at 2nd, Davison at 3rd, 3 finished 4th, Deaugustino finished 6th, and those 9 will wrestle in the NCAAs

In the team race, M finished second behind Penn St. Go blue!

Michigan puts 4 in the…

Michigan puts 4 in the finals (Ragysin at 133, Gomez at 149, Lewan at 157 and Griffith at 174) with 5 more in the consolation semis. PSU has 7 in the finals with 2 in the semis (arguably their best wrestler, Starrochi, is the 10th and he forfeited with injury). Team scores will close with PSU up on M by about 30, and NU behind us by 16 or so. Possible but probably unlikely we catch them, still a great showing by the Wolverines so far this weekend, and still 4 with a chance to be champs, and 9 will wrestle at the NCAAs in a couple of weeks

Close bout too, down to that…

Close bout too, down to that escape at the wire

Amine won. Semis underway…

Amine won. Semis underway. Deaugustino in a rideoff

Twitter link for the SFs. I…

Twitter link for the SFs. I'll try to embed a screenshot. Amine won his first wrestlebacks and has his last match of today in a few minutes, for the consolation semis.

In like five years someone…

In like five years someone will misunderstand this joke and use it to defend juwan

Thabks for posting OP. Penn…

Thabks for posting OP. Penn St has a good site keeping track of the tournament. We have 8 in the SF out of 9 in the QF and 10 total, with 1 (Cam Amines, brother of Olympic Silver Medalist Miles) alive in the wrestlebacks

Great job ladies!

I sorta…

Great job ladies!

I sorta wish the wrestling conference 'ships was a different weekend than the women's tourney

It's funny because while he…

It's funny because while he didn't throw a lot in the PSU game...he decidedly did NOT suck. (maryland was a bad game tho, yes. he had 3 bad games in 28 starts)

So I think JJ is great but…

So I think JJ is great but the "he won games" stat, I understand why people aren't convinced by that. More convincing is saying "he made the throws in the key moments to beat Bama and OSU, in Penn St they went to the run game because their right tackle couldn't pass block chop Robinson." Saying "his record as a starter" is something people say about lesser QBs, and is a thing that also sorta ignores FB is more than just the QB

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT TODAY…

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT TODAY'S WWE FANS THINK, JABRONI!

he definitely goes blue…

he definitely goes blue...*ducks*

and even Hoke wouldn't be caught dead wearing red....*taking cover flat to the ground*

you both underrate how much…

you both underrate how much people hate Ohio AND underrate how much people hate Michigan, which makes these percentages properly rated

not jefferson particularly…

not jefferson particularly but i thoroughly enjoy most of the oxford history of the united states series. Their revolutionary and civil war ones are great, but they really shine in those other eras - "the empire of liberty," "what hath god wrought," and "the republic for which it stands" are all excellent narrative overviews of the early constitutional republic, the rapidly industrializing jacksonian era, and the eras of reconstruction and the gilded age. can't recommend them enough.

ok the real solution is - a…

ok the real solution is - a 133 game season (over ten years). We declare a TRUE CHAMPION every ten years.

those all seem really…

those all seem really interesting. I do love city-history books. "Dawn of Detroit" was great, and so was "the island at the center of the world."

I read Dune at Michigan and…

I read Dune at Michigan and immediately became obsessed with it. Re-read it multiple times - not something i usally do - because there are so many levels to it. Also read the next two in the series...but the conclusion of the third one was too weird for me.

Next on my list is the Analects of Confucius. I heard in a podcast that it's very accessible, so as soon as I find the time to finish killers of the flower moon i'm shifting to that. Then maybe re-read dune again.

I do regularly create…

I do regularly create ridiculous plans that would make college football "better" in my mind and I've thought about throwing them out ot the board but instead I just message TimTeBro with them because he knows me and can't neg me outside of this site

Step 1: put all the best…

Step 1: put all the best teams together to play one another, and cutting off the smaller schools that give the game its color

step 2: make a tournament where the best teams play each other AGAIN, and AGAIN cut off the smaller schools that give another popular college tournament all its color

step 3: profit

oh damn that's what they did

I don't feel like googling…

I don't feel like googling the articles, but the who was the AP, SI and Yahoo Sports. I believe their source was a former Purdue staffer. Illinois confirmed they stole signs prior ti gameday but insisted they did it "the right way,." So that one the source is literally the culprit themselves

Sorry, this isn't a Michigan source. I'll Google at least Wetzel's opinion piece to jog your memory, but this wasn't something made up by Michigan... This was something confirmed. I like you bud, but you got the facts wrong here

I think you're being a bit…

I think you're being a bit of a nit...picker ;)

"Everyone" may not steal signs, but the practice does seem quite widespread. At least 4 Big 10 teams are confirmed to have stolen signs before the games they played in, 5 including Michigan with Stalions.

Also, I think the people complaining about helmet comms probably haven't thought it thru that much. Like much of the scandal - Stalions doing it, people whining about it, Pettiti changing rules to enforce it, Pettiti ignoring that some of his loudest complainers were outed as doing it and charging ahead with his enforcement, people still talking about it after Michigan won, "fair and square," - nobody is really thinking thru quite a lot of available evidence that this won't affect the game very much, except for a few staffers at every....er, excuse me, at a widespread number of programs

Sign stealing broke everyone's brains, including ours. Me and you and everyone on this site and in CFB. A guy broke rules, he paid a penalty, the people in charge of him paid a penalty, and there was lots of shouting. Oh and now it's not going to be a thing at all going forward.

Sure. But when your AD and…

Sure. But when your AD and Coaches are convincing the league commissioner to make it harder for your opponents, less than 3 years removed from convincing everyone to make it EASIER for yourself (and honestly they weren't wrong on the latter) - yea I feel comfortable saying that's whining. And when you still lose, it does make us look tougher. And since they already are sensitive to being called soft after Gattis said it in '21, that's the word choice I'm using for them.

Gloating over your defeated rivals whom you beat the heck out of twice and then have one close competition with is also, it turns out, the American way. And probably more universal than that too.

I just don't want "December…

I just don't want "December/January Madness" to be the dominant portion of the CFB season. Champs are going to play min 16 games, 4 at a neutral site. That's 1/4 of the season in a made-for-TV event, instead of a made-for-campus event. If the 3rd place team in the league gets an autobid - how important is it to win the league? It matters to us today - but is UGA crying that they lost the SEC in '21? No, they hoot about how they "won when it mattered."  it ALWAYS matters. But now...it just means less.

I kinda want the super league era to end up with 6-9 schools who play a small league schedule and lots of OOC rivalries and the rest of the power 4 or whatever breaks into smaller regional leagues who play full round robins. There's 70 P5 schools including the Pac2? +ND? That's like 8 x9 team leagues or less, or 9x8 team leagues or less. 3 at larges and a PERFECT playoff system. Winning your league matters. Winning OOC games matters for seeding, byes, rivalry and at-larges. Rematches will be rare. Let's go!

I saw that line but don't…

I saw that line but don't know what it means - they're getting rid of TD-commercial-KO-commercial? I doubt it, right?

It ended up making the…

It ended up making the season more epic to me. JJ threw a dime to Wilson against OSU because of film study - but still they whine. Every time I see those whines I think of how soft and entitled their fanbase, program and AD has become. Their last trip to Indy this league changed its rules to prop them up. Then it changed its rules again to prop them up for their last CFP win. Meanwhile, the league changed its rules to hold us back and we had the best Big Ten season in 55 years at least.

It would be epic either way, but the way it went down made it even more.

So instead of stopping the…

So instead of stopping the clock for the chains we're getting a 2 min warning? The 2 min warning is fine but it has always felt so arbitrary. Stopping the clock for chains made sense to me, even if its effect in the first 2/3 of each half are minimal. It still remains for late in each half, right? Why the 2 min warning then? I don't really care so I'll stop whining and not be such an old man about this.

They aren't far off in Japan…

They aren't far off in Japan where the HS baseball tourney is the biggest deal.

I don't think it's a terrible system either - the development path for sports being tied to education means the vast majority of athletes who can play at a high level but cannot make a career of it have opportunities in the workforce afterwards. Kids who spend their money at European soccer academies are sacrificing their childhood for soccer, and the essentially starting over when they give up the dream. This seems better. Unique maybe. Worse in a lot of ways. But not universally worse.

I think wrestling is the…

I think wrestling is the toughest sport and honestly very entertaining to watch. I am hooked on Michigan in the Big Ten and NCAA tourneys. And the Big Ten is absolutely THE premier wrestling conference. So they care...but really, they don't care that much. Can you remember ever seeing NCAA wrestling on FS1, let alone Fox Broadcast?

Baseball and hockey are more popular for sure. But still pale in comparison. I'm a huge fan of the CWS and the WCWS, and the future SEC is dominant in both and Big Ten softball > Big Ten baseball, but in both sports the ACC (past and future) is no slouch. But again - most of the regular season is on ESPN+ or BTN+, with a smattering of baseball and fewer softball breaking thru to ESPN and BTN. Yes the tourneys and CWS are bigger draws - but the ability to squeeze football fans and then trust that most of the followers of those other sports will still come around to their favorite schools is probably juicy enough for ESPN and Fox.

I don't think it's a shock to say football rules all. The economics of the rest of the athletic departments is football. They are along for the ride. There's clearly a market for other sports that's untapped and growing - but the only non-football tourney that ESPN and Fox are afraid of killing is March Madness, both men's and women's. I don't like it, but the only thing that could stop this is Kentucky and Big Ten basketball.

I think the D1+ model is a…

I think the D1+ model is a good one. I'm ok with breaking away from the NCAA if what follows is something open to at least 70ish FBS programs. I think the NCAA is just not able to effectively legislate in the interest of ALL FBS schools. And so they're seeing the most valuable schools float this. And what we'd end up with may be worse.

I'm not sure I fully understand the history, but before the NCAA the IFA ran football and was basically Harvard, Yale and Princeton setting the rules. They went sporadic for 15 years before deaths on the field spurred everyone else to form the NCAA at President Teddy Roosevelt's behest. I think a Big Ten-SEC Model can be, essentially, a modern form of the IFA where they set rules and anyone else can follow them or stay in the NCAA. That is probably the best case scenario.

THe thing is...nobody cares…

THe thing is...nobody cares about anything but football. And mens and women's basketball but...even then, not as much as football.

Let me be clear - I am not a fan of this idea. But while I love the WCWS and Frozen Four - Fox and ESPN care much less than they do about CFB. And any other school who got invited to a Big Ten-SEC tourney would jump at the chance. Big Ten Hockey is the highest rated hockey games, right?

March Madness (men's and women's) is the only place where this would hurt the Big Ten and SEC. It's not nothing. But the NCAA losing OU Softball hurts NCAA softball more than OU losing the WCWS access.

yea - if we break off from…

yea - if we break off from the NCAA and then have to deal with OSU running enforcement thru the empty suit that is Pettiti?

A lesser concern, while the Big Ten and SEC do have a lot of power and the NCAA isn't really set up to govern major college football - any breakaway that doesn't include ND, Clemson and FSU still lacks legitimacy. It's a lesser concern because I'm sure it can be accommodated. But if we wanted to make a stink about how enforcement works, we absolutely should say this would be a breach of our agreement with the Big Ten and very loudly flirt with ND and the ACC to set up a similar deal with them. Immediately conveys legitimacy on their league and sets up the M-ND rivalry in September and basically kiboshes the Big Ten and SEC plan unless some rings are kissed.

I mostly didn't feel too bad…

I mostly didn't feel too bad about it because like 5 of the original Big East FB schools are now ACC (and LVille), Temple got kicked out beforehand(ish) and Rutgers somehow got into the big ten. So only WVU got screwed by it.

That and, you know, all the fans. But temple didn't care and that's why they were getting relegated so that one was fine by me.

Yea wait for the ACC to…

Yea wait for the ACC to become the old Big East schools sans Miami and then dang we are back where we started

Wolverine running wild on…

Wolverine running wild on Oregon's green grass is a good omen for the don

It's been a while since I…

It's been a while since I lived that way, so I'm surprised (and heartened) to see Trenton on this list