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Detroit_Dogg posted:It is funny! Also I don't pretend to like him, Nick Saban rules. Seems like kind of a dick. It's okay, I pretend to like Bret Bielema, I understand.
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MourningView posted:http://deadspin.com/im-a-grown-rear end-man-how-miami-trolled-the-hell-out-o-1723879297 zach thomas owns
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seduction-of-jim-harbaugh-1439481739 It starts with competitive motorboating
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AsInHowe posted:http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seduction-of-jim-harbaugh-1439481739 Interesting that it's written by John U. Bacon, who basically shredded the program and alumni in "Three and Out" for actively sabotaging RichRod.
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DJExile posted:Interesting that it's written by John U. Bacon, who basically shredded the program and alumni in "Three and Out" for actively sabotaging RichRod. Bacon's the most connected guy in Michigan, who calls it like he (and most everyone else) sees it.
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AsInHowe posted:Bacon's the most connected guy in Michigan, who calls it like he (and most everyone else) sees it. Fair point, I thought they basically ran him out on a rail after Three and Out, but maybe not.
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I can't wait for them to go bowl-less this season
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Detroit_Dogg posted:I can't wait for them to go bowl-less this season It's entirely possible they do. They have 4, maybe 5 games they'll be favored in. Sparty and OSU are going to destroy them, Utah gets them out west, and Maryland, Penn State and Minnesota won't be pushovers. Harbaugh's a drat good coach but he doesn't exactly seem to have much in the cupboard left from Hoke.
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How is "John U. Bacon" not 80 years old and bowtie-clad?
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D.N. Nation posted:How is "John U. Bacon" not a false name used by John Candy
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DJExile posted:It's entirely possible they do. They have 4, maybe 5 games they'll be favored in. Sparty and OSU are going to destroy them, Utah gets them out west, and Maryland, Penn State and Minnesota won't be pushovers. If Michigan goes 2-2 into conference play they should count that as a win. Also, BYU's schedule is something else  .
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Also, BYU's schedule is something else Holy poo poo yeah it is 
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DJExile posted:Fair point, I thought they basically ran him out on a rail after Three and Out, but maybe not. Dave Brandon banned him from the press box and petty things like that. That's all.
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Aug 13, 2015 19:07
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Good move by David Brandon not letting the guy who helped run off Rich Rod hang around.
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I hope that Michigan continues to suck. And I hope that the sucky Michigan beats Ohio State just like your 2015 National Champions Virginia Tech
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Spintzel posted:I hope that Michigan continues to suck. And I hope that the sucky Michigan beats Ohio State just like your 2015 National Champions Virginia Tech Someone said this about Urban Meyer but if Harbaugh loses the rest of the season and wins the Michigan-Ohio State game he will have his job in perpetuity.
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Listen here if you aren't placing your bets on the duo of Shane Morris/Jake Ruddock taking the Michigan Wolverines to the playoffs I don't know what to tell you
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Poor Jake needs to legally change his name to Jake Rudock With One D.
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I'm going to watch BYU lose in the best football stadium on my birthday
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Groucho Marxist posted:I'm going to watch BYU lose in the best football stadium on my birthday How did Missouri get away with scheduling a real opponent during SEC late-season cupcake week?
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If Jim Harbaugh leads Michigan to a win over Ohio State it will be the best coaching job in the conference since Ohio State is light years ahead of Michigan at every position.
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Thoguh posted:How did Missouri get away with scheduling a real opponent during SEC late-season cupcake week? they won't be a real opponent once a dirty hit takes out their QB for the game
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Thoguh posted:How did Missouri get away with scheduling a real opponent during SEC late-season cupcake week? Missouri's schedules since joining the SEC have been really weird; I guess it's a hangover from how they did things in their Big 12 days. They tend to play all their cupcakes in a big batch at the beginning of the season. I'm sure they don't mind, as it's awfully convenient to have like a month to warm up before playing any conference opponents.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:
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korrandark posted:Did you see their 2016 schedule so far? holy poo poo It's like they're trying to get at least one game against every conference
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RumbleFish posted:Missouri's schedules since joining the SEC have been really weird; I guess it's a hangover from how they did things in their Big 12 days. They tend to play all their cupcakes in a big batch at the beginning of the season. I'm sure they don't mind, as it's awfully convenient to have like a month to warm up before playing any conference opponents. Mizzou started the super cupcakes early thing when they went to the SEC for whatever reason. They used to play one at least sort of real team in week 2 or so, Arizona State or Illinois or whoever. Also I didn't realize BYU has a 10 year bowl streak, they've made one every year Mendenhall has been there.
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Rad Valtar posted:If Jim Harbaugh leads Michigan to a win over Ohio State it will be the best coaching job in the conference since Ohio State is light years ahead of Michigan at every position. Which isn't likely to happen since Jim Harbaugh's understanding of astrophysics is probably rudimentary at best.
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RumbleFish posted:Missouri's schedules since joining the SEC have been really weird; I guess it's a hangover from how they did things in their Big 12 days. They tend to play all their cupcakes in a big batch at the beginning of the season. I'm sure they don't mind, as it's awfully convenient to have like a month to warm up before playing any conference opponents. That's how a lot of teams do it though because they're busy playing conference games or P5 opponents later in the year. It's mostly just the SEC that gives themselves Bye weeks by scheduling Southwestern Chattanooga St in week 12.
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ACC teams front-load the cupcakes on their schedules too. Almost everyone has an FCS and a G5 opponent within the first three weeks, with Louisville being the notable exception.
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RumbleFish posted:Missouri's schedules since joining the SEC have been really weird; I guess it's a hangover from how they did things in their Big 12 days. They tend to play all their cupcakes in a big batch at the beginning of the season. I'm sure they don't mind, as it's awfully convenient to have like a month to warm up before playing any conference opponents. Mizzou played UGA the second week in their first SEC season and got their asses kicked. Ever since, their conference openers I swear have been in November.
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Grittybeard posted:Also I didn't realize BYU has a 10 year bowl streak, they've made one every year Mendenhall has been there. Yeah BYU has quietly been a really solid program under Bronco. They usually wind up upsetting (or scaring the hell out of) at least one big opponent per season.
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And they've lately been running the gently caress over Texas, which is awesome.
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Pakled posted:ACC teams front-load the cupcakes on their schedules too. Almost everyone has an FCS and a G5 opponent within the first three weeks, with Louisville being the notable exception. Until they quit with this 8 conference game nonsense that's basically how it'll stay. There's very little incentive still not to get at least one pay day home game in a year, and until they go totally autonomous G5 teams are going to make their way onto P5 team's schedules. Personally (although it would impact the FCS budgets) excluding them from play and requiring P5/G5 opponents I think is the way to go. With 3 OOC games that gives you space to play a bottom feeder, a marquee game, and another whatever you wanted without it being overly embarrassing to watch.
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VDay posted:That's how a lot of teams do it though because they're busy playing conference games or P5 opponents later in the year. It's mostly just the SEC that gives themselves Bye weeks by scheduling Southwestern Chattanooga St in week 12. I know everyone loves to poo poo on that late-season cupcake since it allows SEC teams to interrupt the conference grind. But most SEC teams play at least one conference opponent in the first three weeks of the year, which is pretty hard in its own right. We tend to play Georgia in Week 2 or 3 and have had SEC/Power 5 openers on top of that as well.
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RumbleFish posted:I know everyone loves to poo poo on that late-season cupcake since it allows SEC teams to interrupt the conference grind. But most SEC teams play at least one conference opponent in the first three weeks of the year, which is pretty hard in its own right. We tend to play Georgia in Week 2 or 3 and have had SEC/Power 5 openers on top of that as well. gently caress, this year is the first in a long while where we've started out with a non-power 5 (SEC specifically) opponent. Auburn 3 years in a row, home and home with UGA... Even next year we start a home and home with Auburn again. I think in 2017 we start with Kent St., then have to host Auburn.
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RumbleFish posted:I know everyone loves to poo poo on that late-season cupcake since it allows SEC teams to interrupt the conference grind. But most SEC teams play at least one conference opponent in the first three weeks of the year, which is pretty hard in its own right. We tend to play Georgia in Week 2 or 3 and have had SEC/Power 5 openers on top of that as well. While I'm not going to pretend that those games aren't difficult, the flip side of playing tough games early on is that those losses don't hurt as much as if you had lost in week 12/13. Your guy's 20 point loss to A&M last year, for example, bumped you down from like #9 in the country to #21. A big fall, but still recoverable. It also conveniently boosted A&M's ranking up to the top 10 because hey if they beat a highly ranked SEC team then they must be incredible! To be clear I'm not going to hate on the SEC for taking advantage of the system that rewards them for their scheduling shenanigans, but to pretend that they're not scheduling games the way they are for a very specific purpose is kind of silly. In random UCLA news, Mora made a "major personal financial commitment" to the new football facility, which bodes well for us wrt him leaving any time soon. Sounds a lot like what Graham did at ASU last year. No idea what the amount is but apparently it's the biggest donation ever by a current head coach, and some fuzzy math and guesstimating puts the figure at at least $500k. I'm going to be really bummed when Mora eventually leaves and we go back to being a dumpster team for another decade and a half. Speaking of being bummed out, Adidas unveiled this year's alternate black uniforms for us. Spoiler alert they're black, have a barely-visible barb wire pattern, and have lines through everything because Adidas still thinks that looks awesome.   At least they can't do anything with the helmets to screw them up I guess.
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VDay posted:While I'm not going to pretend that those games aren't difficult, the flip side of playing tough games early on is that those losses don't hurt as much as if you had lost in week 12/13. Your guy's 20 point loss to A&M last year, for example, bumped you down from like #9 in the country to #21. A big fall, but still recoverable. It also conveniently boosted A&M's ranking up to the top 10 because hey if they beat a highly ranked SEC team then they must be incredible! To be clear I'm not going to hate on the SEC for taking advantage of the system that rewards them for their scheduling shenanigans, but to pretend that they're not scheduling games the way they are for a very specific purpose is kind of silly. I understand that argument, but think it held more weight in the BCS era. Given that the playoff polls don't arrive until Week 9 and aren't beholden to what other ranking outfits are doing, this could/should be less of a concern. (In theory, anyway -- I guess we'll see how well that bears out.) I'm also not trying to turn a blind eye to the SEC's machinations. Just pointing out that the conference can and does schedule difficult stretches of games, which for some reason tends to get lost in the outrage over late-season cupcakes.
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korrandark posted:Did you see their 2016 schedule so far? If that's not the toughest schedule in the country in 2016 I'd be seriously surprised.
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