LLG

July 8th, 2017 at 9:17 AM ^

"Fudge is kind of a soft food so it would certainly be easy to put something in it if you wanted to," she said.

coldnjl

July 8th, 2017 at 10:34 AM ^

 I heard that if we burn you at the stake and you don't come back to life, it PROVES you aren't him...alternatively, we can submerge you underwater for a long time, and IF you don't come back up, your cool! Just providing options

Mr. Elbel

July 8th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^

You're getting auto-downvoted by people who don't like that you post 12 threads a day. It makes it seem like you're full of yourself or craving points, which based on this comment I'd think the latter. Neither of those things are going to get you many upvotes though. My suggestion is that you cut down on the updates that few people care about and post only really important stuff as it comes out. Fudge story is weird and doesn't fit. Stop it.

LLG

July 8th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^

Look, the fudge story was just to be funny.  And it worked.  I mean, people thought it was to be funny.

And if I craved points, so what?  What if that what I was seeking?  People game-ify things all the time.  

Anyway, good-bye cruel world.  I read this stuff about Michigan on my own.  It takes time to sit there and post.  This isn't worth my time.  You guys jump all over people who are posting things about Michigan.  You guys really stressed out Wolverine Devottee -- and from what I can tell for no real reason.  It's not just weird, it's mean at some level. 

I"m sure the repressed sports memory is the best we could post today on a Michigan blog or say how about if you had a few months to live?  

All far more worthy of a Michigan Board than say: here are articles on Michigan.

LINK 

 

LLG

July 8th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^

ska4punkkid: Do you want to express with reasons why you are so upset at me?  In the past, you have posted things such as "What is your favorite Dew" referring to the drink?  My posts have all been related to Michigan or college sports and, by and large, received a lot of comments as I assume people are interested.  The lamest was that one of the Michigan professor going off the grid, but surely on a slow night that is better than "I'm drunk thread" or "POSbang."

So this morning all I did was put all the links in one place.  Can you articulate with words and reason why you are acting like this?

Blue Baughs

July 8th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^

How do you have such a vast knowledge, and understanding of Ska posting history? I mean you freaking nailed it.

Also the worst way to convince everyone you arent WD is to constantly defend WD in your posts. 

That being said. WD, when will you preview the fall lineup of MDen Nike Products?

 

ska4punkkid

July 8th, 2017 at 7:16 PM ^

I just don't like the board being taken over by 1 guy. I haven't counted but it seems like for a bit there you had 6-7 threads created all in like a 12 hour span. And a lot of the info contained in your threads seemed lame and/or useless. Some threads you start were just linking 2-3 diff topics that you found interesting, with a sentence long offering on what they are about - see "morning round up". The worst offense was the "hype video" that was one of the worst produced hype videos I have ever seen. It was a disgrace

A2toGVSU

July 8th, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^

The board is far more fulfilling with WD as a part of it. I like WD's contributions a lot. And the link dump of mildly interesting Michigan related news before your last one has even cycled off the front page has me thinking you're WD.

Blue Baughs

July 8th, 2017 at 10:34 AM ^

through different devices? Or do you log in and out to upvote yourself and comment?

Also, when can we expect your Arbys Michigan collectors cup preview post? Mid August?

Bocheezu

July 8th, 2017 at 9:43 AM ^

When you lose that much from the previous season, it's clearly going to be replaced by something, but how good that something is going to be is anyone's guess.  They don't have advanced metrics for guys that haven't played yet.

Bodogblog

July 8th, 2017 at 12:18 PM ^

I will never stop downvoting this sentiment. They did not fall apart. They played a playoff team on the road, lost in ot, and an excellent FSU team on the road without their best offensive and defensive players and lost by one. Yes, they played awful against Iowa - most teams have at least one bad game a year - and the Hawkeyes played out of their mind and won on the last second. This all with an injured QB. Look no further than the national champion: should have lost against NC State (at home!), benefited greatly when a Louisville player inexplicably stepped out of bounds. Great team, great champion, and had some breaks. "But they won maed the playz that's all that counts!!!" Did they make the NC State kicker miss a gimme? No. They got lucky. If that kick goes through, you're probably yelling "Clemsoning!" Instead you're joining he Michigan finished 3rd in its own division crowd. Yes results are all that matter. Go be a coach and you can say that. Otherwise you're a fan, and recognize that Michigan played two outstanding opponents on the road to end the season, had some very key injuries at very important positions, and had some bad luck. They did not fall apart in any way.

AA Forever

July 8th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^

and then lost 3 out of their last 4, and had to struggle at home against a weak team to win the one that we did.  We got worse at the end of the season, not better.  Injuries are not an excuse.  Everyone has injuries at that point of the season, everyone has a lot of players who are banged up.  The best teams win in spite of that, and the teams a notch down fold.  "Bad luck" is not an excuse either.  You said it yourself...we did not make the plays we needed to.  Nothing was preventing us from tackling Samuel for a 5 yard loss or holding Florida State to a normal kickoff return, other than the fact that we didn't have the athletes to make those plays.  

We either fell apart, or we were never that good to begin with.  Take your pick.  The final games of the season are always going to be the toughest ones for us.  What about it?  Pretty soon, Harbaugh is going to have to start winning them, regardless of home/road, injuries, bad luck, bad calls or coulda-shoulda-woulda.  That's what an elite coach does.

Blue Baughs

July 8th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^

It will look like a well disciplined, well conditioned, well coached team that has been led by Harbaugh and staff for their third straight year. 

Sure they lost a ton of talent, but most of these guys have had the advantage of a third straight year of development under one of the best, as opposed to the guys who graduated who had half of their developmental years somewhat wasted.
 

RoseInBlue

July 8th, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^

The problem is that everything you said is speculation.  There is little actual data on the players involved to know any of this for sure.  That's the point.  So data-based metrics such as this can't really do anything with a lot of our guys.  Especially since for a number of the positions, the starters aren't even known yet.

Mr Miggle

July 8th, 2017 at 2:17 PM ^

not unless you consider discussion of every future event speculative. What's more likely, Urban Meyer quits before the season ends or Harbaugh puts out a team that's not disciplined and well coached? Speculative is projecting the things he talked about into individual development and win-loss records. That's still true with a data driven model.

What's more speculative, basing projections on the stats of returnng players or on the track record of the coaches? They're both important, as are the projections for players who haven't contributed yet. The last part is more speculative than the first two, but there is a good correlation between recruiting profiles and production.

If your data model only considers one of those factors, it's value is very limited.