Failure to return shopping carts to the corral and driving in the left lane for no reason are the simplest test for who's a nimrod. If you do EITHER of those things...NIMROD.
If you have small children in the car and the nearest corral is across the lot, the rule still applies. Unless you stole children from the store, you knew you had them when you got there...park accordingly.
Ryan Walters is a disingenuous douche, but I'm not holding that against Painter, and I'm definitely not rolling with the Tide...UConn if it's not the Boilers.
Regardless, May and staff have me looking forward to next year already.
That's right...it would be terrible if she woke up with raging diarrhea tomorrow...all day...just terrible...I wouldn't wish that on almost anybody for even a two hour period of time, like from 4:30 to 6:30 for example..
Based on your self description, I've probably got a body cast at the medical center you can use afterward. You can stop by before your trip to make sure it fits, in case you don't die.
That's why he gave Josh Wallace the firm handshake...Don Brown don't need no other DB's...he's enough. Heard he's scrapping the 3-3-5 and just going full 2022 Knowles with your basic 11-0-0 Zone Blitz (without wasting personnel on the stupid Zone Coverage part.). Don simply doesn't have the roster spots to waste on All-B1G corners. It's basic roster management really.
Don is the one guy who watched UM v OSU 2022 and thought, "I like where this guy's head's at!"
Hot and cold shooting can obviously either cover up other flaws or doom an otherwise great effort, but their biggest challenge still seems to be turnovers--they are not like watching a Beilein team--and 2/3 through the season they lose track of people defensively too much--too many layups coupled with pointless ticky-tack fouls after they've ceded the lane. If you're gonna foul after you've been beaten, you gotta make it count.
Credit to Illinois, many of the 3's seemed rushed due to their closing out, but 20% behind the arc is not gonna get it done.
This team hustles and works hard to draw charges, but the Bowling Green JJ passing (or carelessness with the ball in general at times) and 25 seconds of defense undermined by "I thought you had her" cost them too many possessions or waste good defensive energy.
These are a couple of the things we see them struggle with, but they're a good, hard-working likable team, with a roster fill of kids you're proud to have represent Michigan.
We've had season tickets for years and can't encourage the students and community enough to get to Crisler and make it loud in support of KBA and the team. It's $6 to $8 with free parking and a great way to spend 2 hours.
Man, I hate that song. I love Mikey, but I hate that song. It's nearly unforgivable to put anything Mikey does on the football field with that song.
If that stupid, awful song is playing somewhere within her hearing when Mikey's little baby girl utters her first word(s), it will be, "Nope" or "Dad, WTF?!"
I also thought it must have been an act of shear respect and decency that Mikey didn't smash Penix himself on the return, from which Penix (warrior that he truly is) might not have arisen.
Jack Harbaugh (Div I-AA National Championship at WKU)
Bill McCartney (National Championship at Colorado)
Gary Moeller (B1G Conference Championship)
That's just off the top of my head...none of Jim's guys have yet been able to match or exceed his own accomplishments, but Shaw kept Stanford going for a bit with Jim's foundation.
Reminds me of our Great Books 191 lectures...good stuff.
I recall Washington having had to very tactfully address something very similar to what Semaj said (suggested by Marquis de Lafayette and Comte de Rochambeau) after the Battle of Yorktown to be incorporated into the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
This was of course after Lord Cornwallis accused the Americans and French of intent to deceive and the lesser-known war crimes of the stealing of signs, and the unsportsmanlike conduct of not having the good decency to march in a straight line with red overcoats for ease of targeting (which was not yet a crime.)
After Cornwallis couldn't surrender his (reportedly small) sword personally to Washington because he had a "cold", he returned to England with Benedict Arnold (great grandfather of a lesser known Gregory Mattison), and none too happy Lafayette and Rochambeau reportedly provided a near verbatim "Semaj" interview to the local press covering the war.
Not surprisingly, the London Times covered the events somewhat differently, highlighting the unseemly weather, ghastly tactics of the Americans in wasting tea and not liking taxes, and really hammered their reckless endangerment of English troops by stealing the signs for the tried and true signals for firing the cannons and charging, which were then known as "FIRE!" and "CHARGE!" They learned too late that covering their mouths and issuing those orders quietly to protect their battle cries greatly hampered their battlefield prowess and notoriously couldn't get any push along the lines.
Generally accepted discourse in London became, "We didn't want that sh*thole anyway, and we never got a friendly whistle over there," and they went back to kicking the shit out of myriad island nations, tormenting the actual Indians for quite some time, etc.
Interestingly, if you ever visit Cornwallis's Tomb in Ghazipur, India, if you kneel down to the base of the northernmost column, under just the right light, it's clear someone has carved, with seemingly French panache, "Washington's B*tch."
At least that's how I remember it from Great Books 191.
We're hoping THEIR First Base gets caught stealing BUT that Third Base is called out too (even if he's on base) because he's a thumb sucker hypocrite.
We're pissed off though, because the first base umpire (new guy) knows First Base is trying to steal but keeps ignoring the pickoff attempts AND tossed our manager for asking for a review upstairs, while the home plate ump (Mr Upstairs) won't call a damn strike because his friend's son got tossed for being a pervert bat boy and he's sticking it.
Yet Who's on first still befuddles us after decades of wondering.
If you're coming to The Game, we can give you our super secret "This is the One Guy Who's OK" sign, but you have to promise not to record it for anyone else, let alone give it to Purdue (or Iowa this year if we win.)
Throw Sainristil in with him as well, as two guys who were needed to unselfishly turn their backs on their original roles with the team, didn't sulk, but instead embraced the team's needs, putting others before themselves, excelled and became leaders in their new roles, each turning in iconic moments as leaders and players to live forever in Wolverine lore.
Mike and Mikey: Two Jolly Good Fellows!
Also, there was that time last summer that Mike protected us from the bear that strayed into our campsite in the middle of the night. Terrifying ordeal until Mike showed up out of seemingly nowhere. I almost felt bad for the bear...almost. Thanks, Mike.
Don't overlook the possibility of ND replacing Michigan in the B1G with ND's standing rivalries with USC, MSU and a potentially new Thanksgiving at noon with OSU all built into the newly coast-to-coast B1G conference.
There is a 100% chance the B1G would take ND if Michigan left... whether ND would join I don't pretend to know.
If possible, I'd rather turn the tide of public contempt against the weak-kneed treacherous schools that did this, so that Michigan emerges as the power broker of the conference, leading with integrity, grit and strength of character.
If that's wishful folly (and quite possibly is), then the ACC or a conference that perhaps doesn't yet exist, may certainly be a better option, but I'd enter it with eyes wide open.
Mob Justice is almost always Injustice, and what our "peers" did this past week is a stain that will never be washed from this conference.
"Ya, that looked awesome, Ryan. Let's save it for an actual game, buddy. Now go in the house and get cleaned up. Mom's got your macaroni with hot dogs ready for the Munsters Marathon...and remember to be polite and tell Mr. Meyer how smart he looks when he picks up your sister."
Agreed. It's laughable that the NCAA member schools choose not to implement a mechanism to annihilate programs that:
Get caught on FBI wiretaps coordinating $100K payouts, or
Demonstrate a complete disregard for their student athletes by offering fake classes (with zero regard for those whose athletic dreams may fall short and for whom an actual degree and skill might one day prove beneficial), or
Watch video of a student athlete throw a competitor to the turf, then once in a defenseless position lunge into them leading with their full weight and helmet to the back of the other's head (after and outside of any relevance to the play itself) and determine that's worth about a 45 minute suspension from playing football, or
Let's not forget, one of lovable Kirby's first acts as a Georgia Bulldog: https://deadspin.com/kirbys-law-will-make-it-harder-to-report-on-georgia-a-1770500372 known as "Kirby's Law", designed clearly for one purpose, for Georgia Football to thumb its nose at transparency, the NCAA and effectively all of Georgia's competitors (as they now shoot for their 3-peat), YET...
...the coach / program in the crosshairs of the NCAA is:
The guy who looks for kids who want to work hard to strive to become the best they can be, 1% better one day at a time,
The guy who embraces satellite camps, affording thousands of young men the opportunity to meet and engage coaches from around the country that they might not ever have the opportunity to engage,
Works with a medical team that is willing to put the health and safety of a player like St. Juste ahead of the team's need for a corner,
Collaborates with UM alumni to create opportunities for student athletes to see, explore and experience parts of the world, its history, in both its beauty and inequity that many of us will never see,
A leader, staff and athletic department who do this all while having one of the highest graduation rates and academic scores for a football team, with a commitment to developing each young man into the best he can be, regardless of what his future holds.
So, ya, let's jump to the place where a real transgression is free cheeseburgers, tips and a potentially over-zealous analyst that may or may not have actually violated the NCAA's policies on in-person scouting, because there's no way Ohio (or anyone else) would have someone buried in 110,000 people on a Saturday to try to understand and document Michigan's play-calling system to its benefit. In-person scouting of the team's your playing is where young men's and women's futures go to perish. Got it.
There you go being reasonable again. I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson around here.
Also, if you're connected, could you ask Franklin's play caller to re-dial up the script he used against OSU...it was awesome, and we're nervous he will unleash it again. It would be very gentlemanly of them to retain their signals from that game as well it it's not any bother.
Thanks in advance!
PS - Isaiah Hole's sources say if you guys want to be ultra cool again (not just old school cool), you need to step up your advance on-site scouting. Everybody's doing it, other than Nebraska, Iowa and MSU apparently...dweebs...they're still inside wondering where everyone went out to play.
By the way, we're switching to Navajo Code Talkers and calling our plays in with megaphones...OSU's toast. Go Blue!
It might be interesting, depending on what seemingly credible data points and/or assertions UM's Athletic Department becomes aware of, to begin launching a few strategic Notice to Preserve letters to any entities / persons who might presently enjoy "leaking" info and/or who were part of any "unauthorized access" scheme (e.g. outside of the UM AD team) if there's merit to such assertions.
If there is merit to these concerns (e.g., leaking and/or especially unauthorized data access), and if it hits the right desk, whether it's a competing school, private investigative organization, the NCAA, members of committees, etc., putting folks on notice of the potential for pending litigation coming from the university and/or its employees may get more attention from many of the folks who might presently be having fun messing with other's careers, reputations, financial livelihood, university equipment / resources, etc.
Freedom of the Press and Whistleblower, while I very much support in concept and philosophy, are certainly not a free pass for employees, third-parties, or others to recklessly breach an entity's security / data / proprietary information, etc., nor to bribe, threaten or coerce an employee or agent of another entity to do the same, simply because they believe that something might be afoot.
There are certainly MGoLegal types that can speak to these concepts much more intelligently if there's any merit to some of the assertions that have been made on the blogosphere. Harbaugh, Manuel and so many others within the Athletic Department have always seemed to carry themselves with integrity, ignoring the outside noise, even if they're not always on the same page.
It's just too bad that there's a bunch of great kids (and coaches) who have worked hard, carried themselves and represented the university community so well, that they even have to listen to questions about this nonsense.
It's 2023 and OSU still passes on 4th and short because they're OLine is soft, and no one needed a sign when we all witnessed Knowles mindlessly, repeatedly going DonBrownOnSteroids with his safeties when he knew full well that Edwards would be handed the ball and where The Don would be tossing it to the ref if/when he hit the hole.
It's kind of amazing to think that someone, likely on the athletic department's payroll, during a brain-storming session thought, "Hey, I've got it! Guys, you know when our cheerleaders stand on each other's shoulders, hold up those big signs that say 'Go' on one and 'Blue' on the other, then the crowd says it? We should have the guy running the Super Mega-Jumbotron Deafenizer put Anthony on the screen and tell the crowd to do that!"
Then, in what should only be seen as an inexplicable turn of events, someone else, rather than back-handing whoever suggested it, instead said, "You know what? That's a good idea."
Hamburg Haven in Grand Rapids, MI. Ir was a one-man show, wrap-around counter setup for hamburgers, french fries, breakfast, etc.
The owner enjoyed talking to the largely college crowd that came there to hang out.
Many wouldn't have known he served in the Navy as a codebreaker for the Midway team, went to Harvard, was a top salesman for Heinz, but was at his core a devout family man who worked tirelessly, enjoyed engaging kids who were trying to figure things out, whether intellectually, philosophically, or for life, etc.
You never know what the person sitting next to you, or flipping hamburgers, might do or might have done to make your life better, whether big or small.
Whether he lowered the boom on a linebacker before roaring past the secondary or throwing some poor runner out from the wall who dared tempt him, his highlights are absurd. He was the best athlete in two professional sports...the hip injury might have kept him out of two Hall of Fames... unlikely, but not impossible.
Rumor has it he's nearly got the Spartan nut shot down...a little time with Green this off season, and he'll be sucker punchin' teammates and kickin' balls with the best of 'em...he too then can be "the glue" for his team.
Our zero (John Deere Z950R Gas 72" Mulching Deck with Oregon Gator Blades) has parked three tractors (62" diesel, 60" & 54" gas) as unneeded. Use agricultural fuel...the power boost is ridiculous...no longer have to use the diesel tractor for thick grass. Good blades don't need to be sharpened monthly (as long as you're not mowing rocks or dirt), and we mow +-14 acres & 2.5 miles of trails every one to two weeks depending on rainfall.
Possums are your anti-tick friend. Kill rate of 98% to 99% on ticks according to some data, which can be 900 ticks per week.
With a smaller yard, you can clearly downsize mightily, and ground contour matters obviously, but zeros (in our experience) are night and day better than a tractor if you're not trying to multitask and have enough yard to care about time savings. I waited way too long to get one.
I don't have stock in Deere, and I have nothing negative to day about any other brands, but Deere are easy to maintain, built like rocks, hold their value, parts are easy to come by, and my 25-year old GT235 regularly sells for 100% to 150% of what I paid, because they're easy to maintain even for non-techs. An air impact wrench ($99 for a 1/2" drive multi-tool kit) also makes changing the blades an 8 to 10 minute task, tops.
Whatever you decide is best for your needs, happy therapeutic mowing!
If the athletic department could take a page from the UM FOIA Office and perhaps not write the opponent on a freaking football and stick it in a glass case at Schembechler Hall for all to see perhaps these trivial details would pass more quickly into the ether.
Mods, please delete Qmatic's needlessly truthful post, have someone at Bentley change the opponent to Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, Standord, or some other school we're better than at everything, and we can all forget this unfortunate oversight.
The advent of game cams has changed (most) everything, except the acceptance that what we thought we knew about wildlife was misplaced.
In Central Southern Michigan, there ARE mountain lions (pumas / panthers), bears, bobcats, wolverines, etc. If you argue this, you are flatly wrong, because we have seen them on our (or our neighbor's) cams within a mile of our home.
I know it's brutal for myriad academics to accept their convictions may have been wrong, but sadly, sometimes reality conflicts with what we thought was true.
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Failure to return shopping carts to the corral and driving in the left lane for no reason are the simplest test for who's a nimrod. If you do EITHER of those things...NIMROD.
If you have small children in the car and the nearest corral is across the lot, the rule still applies. Unless you stole children from the store, you knew you had them when you got there...park accordingly.
We can do this people!
Ryan Walters is a disingenuous douche, but I'm not holding that against Painter, and I'm definitely not rolling with the Tide...UConn if it's not the Boilers.
Regardless, May and staff have me looking forward to next year already.
Go Blue, My Friends!!
That's right...it would be terrible if she woke up with raging diarrhea tomorrow...all day...just terrible...I wouldn't wish that on almost anybody for even a two hour period of time, like from 4:30 to 6:30 for example..
Based on your self description, I've probably got a body cast at the medical center you can use afterward. You can stop by before your trip to make sure it fits, in case you don't die.
You're being generous.
Finkel is Einhorn.
No…
Hey...let's play nice.
No friendly fire.
You can root for Purdue.
That's why he gave Josh Wallace the firm handshake...Don Brown don't need no other DB's...he's enough. Heard he's scrapping the 3-3-5 and just going full 2022 Knowles with your basic 11-0-0 Zone Blitz (without wasting personnel on the stupid Zone Coverage part.). Don simply doesn't have the roster spots to waste on All-B1G corners. It's basic roster management really.
Don is the one guy who watched UM v OSU 2022 and thought, "I like where this guy's head's at!"
So this is the list of things we're NOT supposed to be doing?
We took care of the "kid" part (finally...kind of), so we got that going for us.
I thought that was so we'd have so much time for the other stuff.
Great job with the write-ups!! Look forward to them settling the score with Nebraska this week.
Thank you and Go Blue!
Hot and cold shooting can obviously either cover up other flaws or doom an otherwise great effort, but their biggest challenge still seems to be turnovers--they are not like watching a Beilein team--and 2/3 through the season they lose track of people defensively too much--too many layups coupled with pointless ticky-tack fouls after they've ceded the lane. If you're gonna foul after you've been beaten, you gotta make it count.
Credit to Illinois, many of the 3's seemed rushed due to their closing out, but 20% behind the arc is not gonna get it done.
This team hustles and works hard to draw charges, but the Bowling Green JJ passing (or carelessness with the ball in general at times) and 25 seconds of defense undermined by "I thought you had her" cost them too many possessions or waste good defensive energy.
These are a couple of the things we see them struggle with, but they're a good, hard-working likable team, with a roster fill of kids you're proud to have represent Michigan.
We've had season tickets for years and can't encourage the students and community enough to get to Crisler and make it loud in support of KBA and the team. It's $6 to $8 with free parking and a great way to spend 2 hours.
They'll get the bugs worked out.
Go Blue!!!
Man, I hate that song. I love Mikey, but I hate that song. It's nearly unforgivable to put anything Mikey does on the football field with that song.
If that stupid, awful song is playing somewhere within her hearing when Mikey's little baby girl utters her first word(s), it will be, "Nope" or "Dad, WTF?!"
I also thought it must have been an act of shear respect and decency that Mikey didn't smash Penix himself on the return, from which Penix (warrior that he truly is) might not have arisen.
Carry on and Go Blue!!! 〽️
It is. We've all been talking about it. You're awesome! Put your head on that pillow tonight and know that about yourself.
Of course, you're not Jim Harbaugh...but still...totally awesome thing you did to win that award!
You're probably going to hear your name read by James Earl Jones in the near future.
The…
I can't pull that off.
The guy at the Rose Bowl with the bitchin' maize suit...HE can pull it off.
Dick Butkus
…
Fred Dryer
Dick Butkus
Howie Long (kind of)
Terry Crews
Terry Bradshaw (miscellaneous)
Brian Bosworth (kind of)
Meet the Sackers
Go Blue!!!
This is solid.
Go Blue!!!
Why are we bringing yipping small dogs and rabbit-humping GIFs to the Who's Got it Better CFB Playoff Championship thread?
This is wolverine mauling a bear or wolf video thread...I understand mauling a Husky would probably get people all riled up.
This man speaks the Truth.
I think you mean, Правда.
Harbaugh's doing well, but Bo cranked out:
That's just off the top of my head...none of Jim's guys have yet been able to match or exceed his own accomplishments, but Shaw kept Stanford going for a bit with Jim's foundation.
Reminds me of our Great Books 191 lectures...good stuff.
I recall Washington having had to very tactfully address something very similar to what Semaj said (suggested by Marquis de Lafayette and Comte de Rochambeau) after the Battle of Yorktown to be incorporated into the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
This was of course after Lord Cornwallis accused the Americans and French of intent to deceive and the lesser-known war crimes of the stealing of signs, and the unsportsmanlike conduct of not having the good decency to march in a straight line with red overcoats for ease of targeting (which was not yet a crime.)
After Cornwallis couldn't surrender his (reportedly small) sword personally to Washington because he had a "cold", he returned to England with Benedict Arnold (great grandfather of a lesser known Gregory Mattison), and none too happy Lafayette and Rochambeau reportedly provided a near verbatim "Semaj" interview to the local press covering the war.
Not surprisingly, the London Times covered the events somewhat differently, highlighting the unseemly weather, ghastly tactics of the Americans in wasting tea and not liking taxes, and really hammered their reckless endangerment of English troops by stealing the signs for the tried and true signals for firing the cannons and charging, which were then known as "FIRE!" and "CHARGE!" They learned too late that covering their mouths and issuing those orders quietly to protect their battle cries greatly hampered their battlefield prowess and notoriously couldn't get any push along the lines.
Generally accepted discourse in London became, "We didn't want that sh*thole anyway, and we never got a friendly whistle over there," and they went back to kicking the shit out of myriad island nations, tormenting the actual Indians for quite some time, etc.
Interestingly, if you ever visit Cornwallis's Tomb in Ghazipur, India, if you kneel down to the base of the northernmost column, under just the right light, it's clear someone has carved, with seemingly French panache, "Washington's B*tch."
At least that's how I remember it from Great Books 191.
Strike him down, and he will only become stronger.
Not my thing either, but I would hope if we're at the HE HATE ME stage now that others under consideration were:
MICHIGAN MAN
THE TEAM
THESE F-IN GUYS
or just
HARBAUGH
on all of them.
We know who…
First Base.
We know who Third Base is.
We're hoping THEIR First Base gets caught stealing BUT that Third Base is called out too (even if he's on base) because he's a thumb sucker hypocrite.
We're pissed off though, because the first base umpire (new guy) knows First Base is trying to steal but keeps ignoring the pickoff attempts AND tossed our manager for asking for a review upstairs, while the home plate ump (Mr Upstairs) won't call a damn strike because his friend's son got tossed for being a pervert bat boy and he's sticking it.
Yet Who's on first still befuddles us after decades of wondering.
Time to weaponize…
PLAN A
Time to weaponize the Burton Tower. Harbaugh + Bell Hammer:
1 = Run
2 = Run
3 = Fake the Pass and Run Again
4 = Decapitate the Secondary
It is Day For Whom the Bell Tolls.
PLAN B
Grapentine just calls it over the PA:
"Michigan is going to run the ball... probably."
If you're coming to The Game, we can give you our super secret "This is the One Guy Who's OK" sign, but you have to promise not to record it for anyone else, let alone give it to Purdue (or Iowa this year if we win.)
Throw Sainristil in with him as well, as two guys who were needed to unselfishly turn their backs on their original roles with the team, didn't sulk, but instead embraced the team's needs, putting others before themselves, excelled and became leaders in their new roles, each turning in iconic moments as leaders and players to live forever in Wolverine lore.
Mike and Mikey: Two Jolly Good Fellows!
Also, there was that time last summer that Mike protected us from the bear that strayed into our campsite in the middle of the night. Terrifying ordeal until Mike showed up out of seemingly nowhere. I almost felt bad for the bear...almost. Thanks, Mike.
Don't overlook the possibility of ND replacing Michigan in the B1G with ND's standing rivalries with USC, MSU and a potentially new Thanksgiving at noon with OSU all built into the newly coast-to-coast B1G conference.
There is a 100% chance the B1G would take ND if Michigan left... whether ND would join I don't pretend to know.
If possible, I'd rather turn the tide of public contempt against the weak-kneed treacherous schools that did this, so that Michigan emerges as the power broker of the conference, leading with integrity, grit and strength of character.
If that's wishful folly (and quite possibly is), then the ACC or a conference that perhaps doesn't yet exist, may certainly be a better option, but I'd enter it with eyes wide open.
Mob Justice is almost always Injustice, and what our "peers" did this past week is a stain that will never be washed from this conference.
Salt the Earth...after the mane course.
About to…
Ryan Walters is
About to learn a lesson;
Poor Boilermakers.
Stay in the huddle
It will hurt less than fumbles
When Blue de-cleats you.
When asked about signs
Always remember one thing
Saturday's coming.
"Ya, that looked…
"Ya, that looked awesome, Ryan. Let's save it for an actual game, buddy. Now go in the house and get cleaned up. Mom's got your macaroni with hot dogs ready for the Munsters Marathon...and remember to be polite and tell Mr. Meyer how smart he looks when he picks up your sister."
Is it Wednesday?
Just For TOUGH Men
Agreed. It's laughable that the NCAA member schools choose not to implement a mechanism to annihilate programs that:
...the coach / program in the crosshairs of the NCAA is:
So, ya, let's jump to the place where a real transgression is free cheeseburgers, tips and a potentially over-zealous analyst that may or may not have actually violated the NCAA's policies on in-person scouting, because there's no way Ohio (or anyone else) would have someone buried in 110,000 people on a Saturday to try to understand and document Michigan's play-calling system to its benefit. In-person scouting of the team's your playing is where young men's and women's futures go to perish. Got it.
There you go being reasonable again. I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson around here.
Also, if you're connected, could you ask Franklin's play caller to re-dial up the script he used against OSU...it was awesome, and we're nervous he will unleash it again. It would be very gentlemanly of them to retain their signals from that game as well it it's not any bother.
Thanks in advance!
PS - Isaiah Hole's sources say if you guys want to be ultra cool again (not just old school cool), you need to step up your advance on-site scouting. Everybody's doing it, other than Nebraska, Iowa and MSU apparently...dweebs...they're still inside wondering where everyone went out to play.
By the way, we're switching to Navajo Code Talkers and calling our plays in with megaphones...OSU's toast. Go Blue!
It might be interesting, depending on what seemingly credible data points and/or assertions UM's Athletic Department becomes aware of, to begin launching a few strategic Notice to Preserve letters to any entities / persons who might presently enjoy "leaking" info and/or who were part of any "unauthorized access" scheme (e.g. outside of the UM AD team) if there's merit to such assertions.
If there is merit to these concerns (e.g., leaking and/or especially unauthorized data access), and if it hits the right desk, whether it's a competing school, private investigative organization, the NCAA, members of committees, etc., putting folks on notice of the potential for pending litigation coming from the university and/or its employees may get more attention from many of the folks who might presently be having fun messing with other's careers, reputations, financial livelihood, university equipment / resources, etc.
Freedom of the Press and Whistleblower, while I very much support in concept and philosophy, are certainly not a free pass for employees, third-parties, or others to recklessly breach an entity's security / data / proprietary information, etc., nor to bribe, threaten or coerce an employee or agent of another entity to do the same, simply because they believe that something might be afoot.
There are certainly MGoLegal types that can speak to these concepts much more intelligently if there's any merit to some of the assertions that have been made on the blogosphere. Harbaugh, Manuel and so many others within the Athletic Department have always seemed to carry themselves with integrity, ignoring the outside noise, even if they're not always on the same page.
It's just too bad that there's a bunch of great kids (and coaches) who have worked hard, carried themselves and represented the university community so well, that they even have to listen to questions about this nonsense.
It's 2023 and OSU still passes on 4th and short because they're OLine is soft, and no one needed a sign when we all witnessed Knowles mindlessly, repeatedly going DonBrownOnSteroids with his safeties when he knew full well that Edwards would be handed the ball and where The Don would be tossing it to the ref if/when he hit the hole.
Go Blue!
If anyone's in your way, make sure you ask them to move over and hold your phone really obtrusively.
Is MGoBlog…
We'll be there.
Is MGoBlog going to have the VAST NETWORK t-shirts ready to pick up on the way to East Lansing?
That'll be 1 Men's XXLT (with XLT tag please) and 1 Women's M (no tag adjustment.)
Isn't this the kind of logic that got you into a little trouble in Ukraine?
It's kind of amazing to think that someone, likely on the athletic department's payroll, during a brain-storming session thought, "Hey, I've got it! Guys, you know when our cheerleaders stand on each other's shoulders, hold up those big signs that say 'Go' on one and 'Blue' on the other, then the crowd says it? We should have the guy running the Super Mega-Jumbotron Deafenizer put Anthony on the screen and tell the crowd to do that!"
Then, in what should only be seen as an inexplicable turn of events, someone else, rather than back-handing whoever suggested it, instead said, "You know what? That's a good idea."
When he performed at a Christmas concert at WMU's Miller auditorium years back he didn't use a mike...at all. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Hamburg Haven in Grand Rapids, MI. Ir was a one-man show, wrap-around counter setup for hamburgers, french fries, breakfast, etc.
The owner enjoyed talking to the largely college crowd that came there to hang out.
Many wouldn't have known he served in the Navy as a codebreaker for the Midway team, went to Harvard, was a top salesman for Heinz, but was at his core a devout family man who worked tirelessly, enjoyed engaging kids who were trying to figure things out, whether intellectually, philosophically, or for life, etc.
You never know what the person sitting next to you, or flipping hamburgers, might do or might have done to make your life better, whether big or small.
https://youtu.be/bd1RWzZUI64
Whether he lowered the boom on a linebacker before roaring past the secondary or throwing some poor runner out from the wall who dared tempt him, his highlights are absurd. He was the best athlete in two professional sports...the hip injury might have kept him out of two Hall of Fames... unlikely, but not impossible.
Rumor has it he's nearly got the Spartan nut shot down...a little time with Green this off season, and he'll be sucker punchin' teammates and kickin' balls with the best of 'em...he too then can be "the glue" for his team.
Better throw Troy in that mix too:
Intent to Deceive. Major Level I.
Our zero (John Deere Z950R Gas 72" Mulching Deck with Oregon Gator Blades) has parked three tractors (62" diesel, 60" & 54" gas) as unneeded. Use agricultural fuel...the power boost is ridiculous...no longer have to use the diesel tractor for thick grass. Good blades don't need to be sharpened monthly (as long as you're not mowing rocks or dirt), and we mow +-14 acres & 2.5 miles of trails every one to two weeks depending on rainfall.
Possums are your anti-tick friend. Kill rate of 98% to 99% on ticks according to some data, which can be 900 ticks per week.
With a smaller yard, you can clearly downsize mightily, and ground contour matters obviously, but zeros (in our experience) are night and day better than a tractor if you're not trying to multitask and have enough yard to care about time savings. I waited way too long to get one.
I don't have stock in Deere, and I have nothing negative to day about any other brands, but Deere are easy to maintain, built like rocks, hold their value, parts are easy to come by, and my 25-year old GT235 regularly sells for 100% to 150% of what I paid, because they're easy to maintain even for non-techs. An air impact wrench ($99 for a 1/2" drive multi-tool kit) also makes changing the blades an 8 to 10 minute task, tops.
Whatever you decide is best for your needs, happy therapeutic mowing!
Go Blue! 〽️
I don't know, man, it seems like letting the vandals from East Lansing visit every other year is more than enough.
That's totally different... totally.
If the athletic department could take a page from the UM FOIA Office and perhaps not write the opponent on a freaking football and stick it in a glass case at Schembechler Hall for all to see perhaps these trivial details would pass more quickly into the ether.
Mods, please delete Qmatic's needlessly truthful post, have someone at Bentley change the opponent to Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, Standord, or some other school we're better than at everything, and we can all forget this unfortunate oversight.
- Blue Brother
The advent of game cams has changed (most) everything, except the acceptance that what we thought we knew about wildlife was misplaced.
In Central Southern Michigan, there ARE mountain lions (pumas / panthers), bears, bobcats, wolverines, etc. If you argue this, you are flatly wrong, because we have seen them on our (or our neighbor's) cams within a mile of our home.
I know it's brutal for myriad academics to accept their convictions may have been wrong, but sadly, sometimes reality conflicts with what we thought was true.