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This picture evidently has a grip on me. It was the centerpiece of the letter from the editor in Hail To The Victors 2008 and the desperate, searching column following the Post Apocalyptic Oregon Game. And why not? It’s perfect for this place and time. On the right, Bump Elliot, fired/resigned/retired but at the press conference introducing his replacement. He looks like he wants a ...
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Tomorrow the gentlemen of the Wolverine Liberation Army will be guiding the nouveau open thread, which will take the form of a Cover It Live chat/liveblog type thing. The action starts at 3 PM. Please don’t feed the WLA to a woodchipper. A tentative schedule for the season: Monday Game column Monday Recruitin’ Tuesday UFR: Offense On Notice Board (The return!) Wednesday ...
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A few TV items. Three things of note follow. If you have Dish and live outside of the Big Ten footprint, they just yanked your BTN. An emailer, uh, emails: After being all cocky about being the first guy to have BTN in the lineup last year on DISH, I just noticed that DISH has dumped BTN except in Ohio, MIchigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and "sections of Pennsylvania and ...
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Return Game Rating: 3 As soon as Steve Breaston took his talents to the NFL the return game imploded. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. Dammit—I have to raise my hand since I gave this a “3” last year, too. Sure-handed, slow Greg Mathews was the primary punt returner with a little Donovan Warren mixed in; the duo was terrible, ending the year 79th. Mathews has been relieved of ...
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Return Game Rating: 3 As soon as Steve Breaston took his talents to the NFL the return game imploded. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. Dammit—I have to raise my hand since I gave this a “3” last year, too. Sure-handed, slow Greg Mathews was the primary punt returner with a little Donovan Warren mixed in; the duo was terrible, ending the year 79th. Mathews has been relieved of ...
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What does this defense have to do to drive Michigan to wins? The worst thing you can do in a defense that loves quarterback pressure is to allow the sort of consistent gashing up the middle that Michigan did last year. Any time the opponent had a decent interior line and a between-the-tackles runner it got ugly last year. Michigan State, Illinois, Oregon, Ohio State, and Wisconsin pounded ...
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It’s the eve of football season, so what better time for a hockey complaint? The NCAA has announced four more regional sites for 2010 and 2011. They are: 2010 St. Paul Fort Wayne 2011 Green Bay St. Louis There isn’t a D-I program within 500 miles of Saint Louis. As a result, there’s going to be yet another year the CCHA cannot possibly have a home crowd. This year ...
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It’s the eve of football season, so what better time for a hockey complaint? The NCAA has announced four more regional sites for 2010 and 2011. They are: 2010 St. Paul Fort Wayne 2011 Green Bay St. Louis There isn’t a D-I program within 500 miles of Saint Louis. As a result, there’s going to be yet another year the CCHA cannot possibly have a home crowd. This year ...
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A note before we start: this preview relies
heavily on the defensive UFRs of last year, even
more so than the offense did, because 1) there are actual returning players and 2) there’s a convenient numerical system that does a decent job of summing ...
Maybe I missed something in an earlier post, but I'm still a little confused on the TV deal. I live in Florida. My local ABC just announced they are carrying USC/UVA at 3:30pm. Since Big Ten is not on Gameplan anymore, and Big Ten Network has "postgame Saturday" scheduled at 3:30pm... where will I see Utah/UM? Go Blue, Scott
I think I’m going to answer this question every year for the ...
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Who are these guys? No, seriously. What the
hell is going on? Where's Henne? Hart? Long? Is
that a running back taking snaps? Do they know you're allowed to take a snap from under center? Who stole my football team and replaced them with Valdosta ...
The Midwest’s long regional nightmare is over. Time Warner joins up : Time Warner Cable and the Big Ten Network have ended more than a year of contract negotiations just in time for a telecast of Ohio State University’s first football game of the season on Aug. 30. Charter does as well : Charter Communications Inc. and the Big Ten Network say they've reached a distribution ...
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Quarterback Rating: 1. QB Yr. Nick Sheridan So.*
Steven Threet Fr.* Justin Feagin Fr. The last time
Michigan's quarterback situation appeared so dire it was 1995, Lloyd ...
The thing about time machines is this: you show up with a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper, and the day after tomorrow’s. On day one, you loudly proclaim “I AM FROM THE FUTURE” and people laugh at you and you make bold proclamations about newsworthy events, holding up tomorrow’s paper. The next day you’ve gained some credibility but skeptics remain, so this time you show them the day after ...
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Talking. Fifteen minutes of Rodriguez talking to ESPN follows: What does it mean to be a guy who asks only questions that start with “what does it mean to be”? It’s a challenge, I’ll tell you that. Or. Or. Or. The first depth chart loves the word “or” and has some stuff that might be too weird to take seriously, like “McGuffie OR Shaw OR Minor OR Brown” at tailback—all four will play ...
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Update 8/26: Linked to articles on NV DE Keenan Graham , AR CB Darius Winston , IN OL Kyle Koehne , PA WR Todd Thomas ( second ), GA LB Devekeyan Lattimore , IN LB Jordan Barnes ( blurb ), NJ DE Will Hill , NC OL Travis Bond , SC DE Chris Bond . Added OH DE Tank Carradine , NC LB Hawatha Bell , NJ WR Nyshier Oliver. Moved VA QB Kevin Newsome from committed. Roundup article from ESPN ...
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They are coming. If you ordered a Bo shirt and are wondering where the hell it is, 1) sorry about the delay— Rich Robots recently switched print shops—and 2) the shirts should start shipping either today or early next week, so you should have them shortly. Sweet. The new hockey jerseys are pretty cool: The Hoover Street Rag points out that the white home jersey is a virtual replica of ...
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BlogPoll roundtablin’ debuts at Hey Jenny Slater this
year. 1. In his " visiting lecturers " series
posted on Every Day Should Be Saturday over the past few months, Orson Swindle asked each participant to explain which country, ...
Bumped from the diaries; I'm a sucker for footnotes.
In my opinion, from reading the few articles I could find on stadium noise, the lack of noise in Michigan Stadium is because of the fans.
First of all, from scanning the internet, many articles claim noise levels, but do not describe how they were measured. The best I could find on other stadiums was quotes of "the ESPN Crew ...
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