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Are we really posting Davis…

Are we really posting Davis Moseley tweets as if he's an insider now lol. 

He’s also pushing very hard…

He’s also pushing very hard to defend it in a way that makes me think it’s going to happen. I love Sam, but he posted a massive Interview with one of his “most respected coaching minds” about how great Hurtt is and the whole time I’m thinking to myself “but wait, isn’t Al Borges one of your other most respected football minds?” 

Or he's resurrecting classic…

Or maybe he's resurrecting the classic Northwestern 'golden era of sports blogs' website Lake the Posts. It is Lake Michigan that the name is referring to!

The general post…

The general post-championship discourse across all sites has finally made me accept that this is a fundamental aspect of the Michigan fan base regardless of on-field success. We are a unique bunch, love it or hate it. Even if it’s annoying at times, I wouldn’t trade this community for any other. That might be the Friday night alcohol speaking though :)

That was such an obvious…

That was such an obvious throwaway it kiiiinda made me a bit concerned about his general quarterbacking instincts. That said, if the staff views him as a trustworthy option going into next year then I am not one to question them.

SNIP-SNAP SNIP-SNAP SNIP-SNAP

SNIP-SNAP SNIP-SNAP SNIP-SNAP

I will be continuing to vote…

I will be continuing to vote every day, but NGL I’d be cool with Norvell winning too as it’s in the same spirit of “fuck you, NCAA and ESPN.” Let’s get him and Harbaugh 1 and 2. 

The sideline reporter…

The sideline reporter getting smashed with this and still asking a reasonable question is impressive, not gonna lie.

Email Seth or something and…

Email Seth or something and he might be able to help.

I'm still interested in the…

I'm still interested in the whole Jim Stapleton thing. Bacon states it outright, Stapleton issues an absolutely bizarre response not denying anything, but being very mad, and then it completely disappears off the face of the earth. Even from the shady ass 'insider' accounts. 

If there were ever a game…

If there were ever a game for our CB1 to miss it would be Iowa. They should play it as safe as possible.

It’s an almost entirely…

It’s an almost entirely different team this year with tons of transfers. But those transfers were also generally starting/rotation quality players on similar quality teams. So it'll be very interesting to see how they trend for the rest of the season.

Very funny you mention the…

Very funny you mention the scorer with the assists. My brother pointed this out to me against Asheville when Dug was on double double watch and had a… We’ll say favorable 7th or 8th assist. He said he noticed it had been like that the whole game. 
 

Also this team is super fun and deserves our support. Tickets are cheap as hell right now secondhand and you will 100% be able to find a lower bowl empty seat for the second half. Buy buy buy. There are multiple on sale for $1 and $2 right now for Long Beach state.

https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard…

https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/dennis-dodd-big-ten-threatens-tv-ban-and-withholding-revenue

OP might not have realized it, but other commenters in the thread pointed it out. This tweet is wildly irresponsible. It’s presenting the *possible* range of punishments under the rules as some kind of new, active Big Ten threat. Pure clickbait. Maybe you should leave it up with a clarification edit in the title so that it doesn’t just get reposted?

I agree with a lot of this,…

I agree with a lot of this, but I think in terms of treating Michigan well or M being behind Alabama in preference that SEC culture is inherently different enough such that it doesn’t really matter. The culture of cheating there is so engrained I’d be stunned if the other big dogs did pulled a stunt like this. 

It also seems dumb that the…

It also seems dumb that the complaint is about his salary with the obscene amount of money the success Clemson has had with him as head coach must have produced for the school.

Yeah I'm baffled every time…

Yeah I'm baffled every time I see stuff like this. It seems like a total lose-lose for the coach. As others have said, he's pretty much on point with 95% of what he said and yet it comes across poorly because "Head college football coach ranting at some random phone troll on an afternoon radio talk show" is a bizarre thing to occur.

Regarding footage of him…

Regarding footage of him filming… He’s been on-field at games since he was hired as a staffer, right? That was the absurdly funny red circle image thing. So presumably, the allegation would be that he got the tickets for other 3rd parties to do the filming. 

Which begs the question… In that case, would non-university affiliated people be bound to the in-person scouting rules? Do they become “university-affiliated” when they take the tickets, or does it only prohibit actual, employed staff members?Maybe if they were paid for the filming they would count? Or if there was concrete proof that these 3rd parties directly gave information acquired through these tickets to the athletic department? 

We're also at a point where…

We're also at a point where half of most P5 teams' schedules are still cupcake games. We can gather almost nothing useful by these numbers at this point in the season. 

I've been boycotting…

I've been boycotting Macaroni since 2014 for this reason.

I've honestly felt this…

I've honestly felt this about attending games this year in general... It's a chore instead of an opportunity. Very sad as longtime ticket holders. 

This is just so obnoxiously…

This is just so obnoxiously edgy for the sake of being edgy that it flat out makes me laugh. 

I can't really place why,…

I can't really place why, but I struggle to even watch the videos knowing how absurdly lucky it is that people on the ground weren't killed. I cannot believe a thing that big, going that fast, into that populated of an area missed everything besides a few cars. 

We're renewing. The program…

Double post, sorry. Go blue!

We're renewing. The program…

We're renewing. The program badly needs support. I'm not saying it's owed or even necessarily deserved. The last two years have been painful. But even before that, I felt like the Crisler crowds lost their steam after 2014. 2012 through 2014 presented some magical moments while the football team was ass, so it makes sense that alongside a terrible 2015 basketball season we would see a decline in support afterwards. But when the hoops program rebounded in late '17 through, well Covid I guess since that nuked all crowds, I felt like we rarely got those 100% packed houses with constant energy that we would occasionally see in the Burke/Stauskas era. "Sellouts" to this day have 1/3 of the lower deck littered with empty seats throughout and often close to half of the student section's upper deck.

So... Given my general complaints, it feels like it would be more than a bit hypocritical to jump ship. And I am genuinely passionate about Crisler's atmosphere improving and want to be a part of that. I've also learned to enjoy the event more than caring about the result. Even if we lose a heartbreaker, I got to watch a ball game with family and I'm blessed to be able to do that.

Some of you guys are the…

Rant:

Some of you guys are seriously the worst. Seemingly incapable of empathizing with these players on any level. I implore you to take a step back and listen to yourself. You can’t conceive of a reason beyond pure draft stock that he would want to be done? He graduated. Maybe he’s just done with school. You realize how intensive graduate degrees can be, right? Maybe he wants to know sooner rather than later whether football is a viable career path or whether he’ll need to get a start on something outside. He’ll be 25 years old next season. Maybe he’s tired of hanging around a bunch of 18-20 year olds. I went back and to school at 24 after switching to a lower cost community college the first go around. The disconnect between that age and traditional college students can be shockingly big. I had little interest in that lifestyle at that point. Obviously we have no idea if any of this applies to him, but for you and the people above to be so certain that he made an incorrect decision while knowing absolutely nothing about his life is so mind boggling to me. You refuse to allow room for, well, any and every basic human emotion and blindly rip on players because their draft stock wasn’t great so “they totally fucked up.” And it happens every. Single. Draft. 

The notion that something…

The notion that something cannot be a step up because you personally have not heard of it is borderline narcissistic. 

Y’all are negging a guy for…

Y’all are negging a guy for respectfully sharing their opinion on an NFL award? Yeesh. 

Didn't see your comment…

Didn't see your comment before posting, but you mirror my thoughts exactly. These are NBA guys he's blasting past off the dribble!

That's actually insane how…

That's actually insane how athletic he's gotten. He was always quick as hell for a center, but his verticality has improved dramatically and his first step is crazy impressive even at the NBA level. Box score watching implies his defense is still problematic given the foul rate, but he's definitely put some good work in at the next level.

Some of you people's…

Some of you people's obsession with WD is honestly mind boggling.

But, on the forum thing, I am not trapped in front of those forum posters for 2 hours. 

I was fully on board with a…

I was fully on board with a Purdue natty until I was forced to sit in front of the 4 Purdue fans behind us at the game last week. Single worst collection of fans I've ever been by in person, legitimately bad enough for me to want them to exit early again solely for their suffering. I am aware of how petty this is.

DJ Skee is absolute dog shit…

DJ Skee is absolute dog shit. DJ Truth was great at the MSU game. But even Skee is nothing compared to how awful the MC they had this past season was. I'll take thirty DJ Skees over another year with that minor league baseball MC shit. 

This program is awesome lmao.

This program is awesome lmao.

I remember the vast majority…

I remember the vast majority of this board being very not cool with Juwan Howard's slap against Wisconsin despite that coach shoving one of our players down. A vocal number felt and probably still feel like he should've been fired. I personally felt like the Big Ten penalty was kinda weak and he should've been suspended for the postseason too. If you're going to make sweeping comments about a hypothetical board attitude, at least don't contradict events that literally happened on the board less than a year ago.

That’s my point? I think it…

That’s my point? I think the current staff has been doing well and I hope it continues that way. I think deleting the above thread would have been intrusive. But you didn’t, so it wasn’t. 

I mean if they’re not…

I mean if they’re not directly breaking any rules, I don’t think we should keep the board artificially supportive of them through intrusive modding. Both had… Things to say on their way out *regardless of insane family members responding to insane internet people* and it is blindingly obvious how a chunk of people would react to those things. In terms of “letting them be,” well they’re in the Big Ten. They’re going to be in the sphere of discussion quite often. I don’t disagree that they left a great legacy. Without Cade existing or All’s play at Penn State last year doesn’t happen. I also don’t think this board functions very well with moderators doing stuff like deleting board sentiments in general like “sour taste towards Cade and All.” I feel reasonably unbiased on this as someone who has never felt compelled to comment either way on the two of them beyond this comment focusing on the moderating of it.

I mean it's not concern…

It's not concern trolling given that it's, well, anti Illinois-player, but the OP of the weird "glad we dodged the Terrance Shannon bullet!" thread is having a grand time playing the intentionally dense troll for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, but have seen this user do on other sites too. The entire thread is full of the schtick where they blatantly misconstrue the above person's comment to get a reaction and I can't see it being unintentional: 

And it gets more and more off the rails as the thread goes on. User profile shows this as a pattern.

I had to stop listening with…

I had to stop listening to the podcast with how much Ace would straight up shit on Seth for no reason. Utterly unbearable and it would happen nearly every time he spoke. The people complaining in this thread about Brian being dismissive towards Seth have no clue how bad it got a couple years ago lmao.

I'm torn on this dynamic…

I'm torn on this dynamic. Brian Kelly is the worst, but seeing how incensed Notre Dame fans get when LSU has success is also top notch content.

FWIW, this is definitely…

FWIW, this is definitely during a pom pom moment as the student section was very blue this game. I'd be interested in the same shot at a time where the poms were down.

RIP. Altercation over dice…

RIP. Altercation over dice. Insane. Sounds similar to what happened to Eminem's friend Proof over a game of billiards. 

I can't fathom the level of inhuman psychopathy required to end a life over anything that could've gone down there.

The fact that we…

The fact that we legitimately can’t seem to confirm if this was just randomly started by one person and spread every message board as fact or if it actually happened is… Probably a good thing? Goes to show very few here actually listen to that disaster of a radio station. 

Definitely not standing on…

Definitely not standing on the benches. Just… standing. Both usher situations were last season. This year I’ve had three times where someone has been complaining in my near vicinity. I’ve said something twice, specifically when one guy in front of me started trying to literally hit a man three rows in front of him with a cane for standing during the first drive of the game.  “We’re at a football game, if you want a church service St Mary’s is five blocks northeast.” Now that I think about it, you stand for like half of a Catholic mass too though.

Michigan stadium has a crap ton of handicap seating that they installed to be compliant with recent (last decade or so) law changes. If you truly cannot stand, you have options. 

I mentioned it in my below…

I mentioned it in my below comment, but DJ's are not created equally. If you weren't at the PSU game, you might not realize how terrible Skee was. And if you're a boomer whose only DJ experience is Skee, I see why you'd be vehemently against them. He had several 'skits' during the game that were among the most awkward, cringeworthy attempts at getting a crowd pumped up that I've ever seen. He was also a 35 year old white guy trying hard to talk like he's from the hood, which bordered very uncomfortably into the area of problematic.

DJ Truth was the dude for MSU and he was so, so so, SO much better. Unlike Skee, he didn't play the exact same Michigan Stadium music we've been hearing since 2010. There were some interesting choices I hadn't heard before during the 4th quarter and I'd say he actually played a pretty big role in keeping the stadium rocking during timeouts in that part of the game. He didn't inexplicably interject himself over a microphone 10 times like Skee and let the music speak for itself. 

Positives: Grapentine is A+,…

Positives: Grapentine is A+, no ads is great, the intangible Michigan Stadium experience still exists. You still have 110,000 people in an awe inspiring sight upon entering the stadium.

My issues: The sound system sucks. The scoreboards do too, which they're hardly even updating in size. The MMB halftime shows have been super hit and miss from my POV during the Harbaugh years (Late 2000's and early 2010's I thought they were often quite creative and attention drawing). I hate that OSU feels way ahead of Michigan in creative halftime shows. The MC is a complete and total disaster. They must have signed him to a Mel Tucker contract given the universally negative response. The DJ, an idea I like in theory, was brutally cringey against PSU with some terrible skits and most of them have played the exact same type of music that Michigan Stadium has played since 2010 so we weren't even getting the alleged benefits. DJ Truth against MSU fixed this with a top notch 4th quarter that clearly kept the crowd and players fully energized. Keep Truth and for God's sake lose DJ Skee for good. The iconic pre-game entrance has been awkward for several years as they can't seem to get the music and James Earl Jones intro to flow into it in a pleasing way. I still have assholes in my section screaming "down in front" every other game. I have actually seen them go to ushers who proceed to take their side and make people sit on two occasions in the last two years, which I wish I was joking about. It's section 23 which is a boomer section, but still. We actually got through both PSU and MSU without incident despite our section standing for the whole game. I'll take the progress. Timeout 'entertainment' like the 100 yard run or punt catching challenge technically gets students' attention, but doesn't actually help atmosphere/home field advantage in any way and feels like it belongs at a minor league baseball game. After not showing a single out of town score on the board for all of last year and three games this year, they finally heard the complaints and put them up during Maryland, PSU, and MSU. Once. They scrolled through each game one time at halftime. Hopefully you weren't in the bathroom. They refuse to add WiFi despite cell service being a black hole on gameday and the only possible explanation I can come up as to why is some sort of weird stubbornness because Dave Brandon wanted it.

We're close to giving up our season tickets. Not there yet, but the gameday experience has been on a sharp decline for years now. Basketball is so much cheaper and gets so much less support than it deserves, if we had to choose one it would absolutely be that. 

I'm sorry, but this is such…

I'm sorry, but this is such a garbage argument regardless of what side you're on. Nothing says "I'm ready to play football" more than a guy singing a song lamenting that everything will be downhill from here and you know what? I might as well commit suicide while it's good. Right? Except oh, Power by Kanye West is on every flipping sports pump up playlist that has ever been conceived of.

You can dislike Mr. Brightside, that's perfectly fine. but stop fucking pretending like the lyrics have or have ever had any relevance on the formidability of a song to be played at sporting events. 

I was completely indifferent…

I was completely indifferent until he went full Qanon on the 2020 game. 

It is "could have" or "could…

It is "could have" or "could've." 

Pet peeve, sorry. 

I've seen loads of comments…

I've seen loads of comments like this regarding the video, which I find funny given that we have absolutely zero clue what was said there. It seems far more likely to have been a "come see me in my office after you get postgame stuff taken care of" than a literal firing. But the amount of people automatically jumping to the conclusion that they actually fired him on the sideline because the tweet implies it with no evidence is kinda absurd.