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Flying to Houston today. Don…

Flying to Houston today. Don't have tickets yet. Looking for two tickets in friendly/neutral territory. Willing to spend up to $2,200 for the pair but don't want to pay fees.

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LSA 2011, Mich Law 2014

Completely agreed. The most…

Completely agreed. The most important thing we can do right now is stand behind him.

It has nothing to do with…

It has nothing to do with the Reynas. Berhalter sucked. Signing up for him again would be signing up for another cycle of mediocrity. Good riddance

Or maybe you're just a tool

Or maybe you're just a tool

I'm not morally outraged by…

I'm not morally outraged by something that isn't even a crime in most states. But yeah, it's really stupid and regrettable.

I wouldn't mind sniffing…

I wouldn't mind sniffing around the portal this year for a running back. I'd take a look at both of the PSU running backs that were highly rated guys: Devyn Ford and Keyvon Lee. Seems like a stretch that CJ Stokes should default into the RB2 role that in the last two years has had highly rated underclassmen in Corum and Edwards in that role.

They were protecting us from…

They were protecting us from ourselves

It seems almost…

It seems almost inconceivable when you're in the middle of the storm, but sunny days are coming.

I gave back my tickets…

I gave back my tickets recently. It wasn't really about the prices or the quality of the product (although lord knows both can improve), but about the fact that the games are just too long now. It became intolerable to just sit there idly during those countless commercial breaks.

This would be reflected in…

This would be reflected in the line if it were true. No way we'd know about it and Vegas wouldn't.

Same room! Lived there in…

Same room! Lived there in 2007-2008.

Harbaugh gives us a ceiling…

Harbaugh gives us a ceiling lower than we’d want it to be? And hire who that gives us a higher ceiling? This guy fires his friends immediately when he realizes the game has passed them by. How many successful people do you know that have that much professional humility? This program was in shambles before he rebuilt it from the ground up.

Brian has lost the thread. He and this middle school website have jumped the shark. For YEARS, this was the best college football site in the business but now we get what you pay for. Credit where it’s due: best content segment of the week is the Roundtable. No Ace and Dave, who I’m sure are nice guys but are atrocious audio. Time for this whole operation to either grow up or be disrupted. Used to tell people how lucky I felt we were as a fanbase to have this site. Now I come here begrudgingly.

This. The site desperately…

This. The site desperately needs an app. Any way we could crowdfund it? I’d throw in for sure.

What is a police officer's…

What is a police officer's responsibility in a situation like this? Would he have been justified in using his weapon?

Coaches probably didn't…

Coaches probably didn't notice his stats

Highly in favor of having…

Highly in favor of having anyone on the team named Scooby

He didn't get mad. He…

He didn't get mad. He pointed out what most of us were thinking. It was tone deaf and your response shows you are as well.

It's like giving kids…

It's like giving kids toothbrushes on Halloween. Politics instead of the football? Blech spare me

It's only immoral if you get…

It's only immoral if you get caught.

Give me a number

Give me a specific amount of monetary support that you give a year. I will happily cover your share in a direct athletic department donation. Whatever that dollar figure is it'll be well worth it. We need to take the opportunity to purge ourselves of the infantile, mentally weak portion of the fan base whenever given the opportunity. Thank you for outing yourself. It's the best thing you've ever done for this program.

The only thing we have to

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Amen brotha

So much transparent hating going on in this thread about the Pens and Hawks it's embarrassing.

Hello darkness my old friend

Hello darkness my old friend

Scheduling

This guy doesn't schedule a night game and now this? He's been an absolute disaster so far. The decrease in quality between Hackett and this guy has been really, really scary. It is not a difficult job and yet we somehow keep finding people who are completely unable to do it well.

Scary and aggravating.

Don't know how many of these

Don't know how many of these micro changes I agree with, but the macro problem that hockey is dumbly random is completely on point.

Love mgoblog

Hate this series so much

I thought you meant John Locke

I thought you meant John Locke




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45-27 M

45-27 M

Agreed on the burritos. Those

Agreed on the burritos. Those shredded chicken quesadillas doe...

Why would they release it to

Why would they release it to Utah and not the general public. The only reason not to release it is to maintain some element of surprise. If Utah has it then there's no reason to keep it secret.

Coaching buddy

I guess Brian didn't value the observations of Tom's 'coaching buddy' who was either a random high school coach in Oregon who had never seen the team play or was the mannequin Tom would talk to after his nightly shot of mescaline. Either way, a real loss.

What did we say about posting

What did we say about posting premium content on this board.

Jugglers

Just what we needed...two more halftimes!

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I don't think I've seen one thing that's led me to believe that Donnal is ever going to contribute on a good team in a meaningful way.

no other choice

Let's make Rich Rod play Hoke in a game of horse to decide who we go with. Pretty much the only way to solve this riddle.

There is no doubting his NFL

There is no doubting his NFL credentials but he spoke at the Michigan Chicago Club and made it pretty clear that he isn't exactly a rabid fan. When asked how closely he follows the team he said something to the effect of "I watch when I can, but if I can't I'm not that upset about it."

I don't if anyone out there

I don't know if anyone out there ever took a class with Brian MacPherson in the Philosophy department but I have a theory that Tom Beaver is his internet message board alter ego.

Another interesting

Another interesting statistic:

 

100% of State grads claim to be in the 17%

Market forces

This is my seventh year on this campus (UG + Law school). I go to the games and wish other people did too, but I don't fault the people who don't. 

I care deeply about Michigan football, but I care about it increasingly like I care about a pro sports team rather than a team that I personally, viscerally identify with. I attribute this mostly to the athletic department's drive to wring every cent it can out of the football experience. Of course there's the obnoxious ads, but it extends further than that. You can't buy a Michigan sweatshirt on this campus for less than $80. A t-shirt is $30. Constantly being gouged robs you of a feeling that something is "yours." It just makes you feel like a customer. And when a business doesn't respond to the desires of its customers (trifling complaints like cell phone service), its customers leave.

The righteous indignation from on-high comes from the fact that you interact with the team differently than this 'generation' of fan. The team was good and it was yours. As such, you take offense when someone acts disrespectful to it. Sure, you can sell less student tickets so that you feel better when you're at the game, but you're only going to push away the group even further. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I guarantee you it's not coming from Dave Brandon. 

the truly darkest day for

the truly darkest day for everyone other than dave brandon will be when uniforms start to contain company logos. dave's definitely looking forward to it though. he was worried that he'd run out of places to put advertisements. 

 

"$800,000 for a hungry howie logo on the shoulder?? easiest money i ever made"

Dark visors and fog can make

Dark visors and fog can make anything dramatic. Case and point.

gerrit yntema

he doesn't hate brandon "so

he doesn't hate brandon "so much." he thinks it's douchey to sell a home game like a kidney and squeeze every penny out it. it's much more about this being douchey than brandon being douchey.

and also, i'm a big brandon supporter, but come on...he's kinda douchey.

it's kind of cute that they

it's kind of cute that they have their own blog. 

the thing about urban's

the thing about urban's desire to put in a third digit in their scoreboard made me involuntarily squint into the "not sure if serious" look.

this isn't the mountain west and braxton miller isn't tim tebow. the guy has every right to be confident, but geez give yourself a little margain for error. that fanbase already has ludicrously high expectations and you're trying to take them to another level?

i don't know about this particular context, but a massive ego in life in general is rarely a positive trait. my gut feeling is that he'll do very well for himself there but in 20 years they'll be talking about tress and not urb.

it's interesting to me that

it's interesting to me that you can have your best offensive line in 20 years and still worry about our defense. i think with the coaching that they'll get that they'll end up being pretty good, but asking an essentially brand new front four to open up against a proven, experienced alabama offensive line seems like a tall task.

i hope you guys are right though.

Not the same

Telling someone that they don't have an offer and telling someone that they are no longer considered committed are distinctly different situations. Especially in the case with Dunn who was a commit in title only. No one's saying it's a big deal or dirty or anything like that; it just seemed like kind of a drastic step for someone who's a lights-out recruiter to take.

We have positional needs that

We have positional needs that we need to meet in this class. The breakdown leaves a few spots open for players that you like enough to take. It's not a situation of the coaches wanting another TE or RB. It's a situation of them liking a certain player enough to use one of those freebie spots on him. The identities of people the coaches feel that strongly about is becoming clear (Isaac, Orndoff, Green, Levenberry, etc). The fact that the coaches continue recruiting guys at positions that are "full" speaks much more to how much they value the individual player moreso than how much they value a certain number of recruits at a given position. If I'm ever going to trust the coaches it's going to be in regard to who they let snatch up these precious free spots.

When will we get to hear how

When will we get to hear how much weight everyone put on/off in the awesomely short off-season?

I don't know why but that's one of my favorite parts of the off-season since it can only ever be 100% positive news.

4/5 of the teams in college

4/5 of the teams in college football will play tomato cans in the first week of the season. Yet, they will scout these teams. We may be no where near as good as Alabama but we have one of the most dynamic offenses in college football. We're definitely not going to be beneath their notice.