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Deteriorata posted:Well, the basketball intro was short but well done. Ann Arbor Torch & Pitchfork is now out of business. 2007-2014. I will have some cool pictures of things later on though.
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Podcast is posted. Main item of interest is Brian saying he had serious intelligence that Plan B was Mullen. I guess there really was a good reason he hadn't signed that extension yet.
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AsInHowe posted:Ann Arbor Torch & Pitchfork is now out of business. 2007-2014. The Raiders now have a monopoly on  quote:FOX Sports Live Verified account
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pillsburysoldier posted:Garrison Keillor should be the color guy for big 10 football Don't make him the color guy, make him the only announcer. I just want to hear one long stream of consciousness from the opening kick to the final gun. Keillor goes into commercial break rambling about letter jackets, comes back from commercial break rambling about ice fishing. Confused viewers at home having no idea how he got from one to the other, or what any of this has to do with the game on the field. Are any of the big ten schools Lutheran?
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HarlanHell posted:Don't make him the color guy, make him the only announcer. I just want to hear one long stream of consciousness from the opening kick to the final gun. Keillor goes into commercial break rambling about letter jackets, comes back from commercial break rambling about ice fishing. Confused viewers at home having no idea how he got from one to the other, or what any of this has to do with the game on the field. Are any of the big ten schools Lutheran? Minnesota statistically, if not officially.
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For those of you who want to start putting the pieces together on the cloak-and-dagger aspects of all this, here's a good read: A Chat With Jim Harbaugh’s Lawyer: Weil Gotshal’s Jeff Klein A couple highlights: quote:To the matter at hand. How did you land Jim Harbaugh as a client? That cold call almost certainly came from Jack Harbaugh. And it probably came in late September or early October.
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Komet posted:I guess Michigan got their Michigan Man in the end. The difference is that this time we got a great coach who happens to have already an enormous passion for the university. As opposed to hiring a guy with an enormous passion for the university whom we hope will turn out to be a decent coach.
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HarlanHell posted:Don't make him the color guy, make him the only announcer. I just want to hear one long stream of consciousness from the opening kick to the final gun. Keillor goes into commercial break rambling about letter jackets, comes back from commercial break rambling about ice fishing. Confused viewers at home having no idea how he got from one to the other, or what any of this has to do with the game on the field. Are any of the big ten schools Lutheran? I can spend a good like 5000 words ranting about how much I hate A Prarie Home Companion please do not bait me.
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MourningView posted:I can spend a good like 5000 words ranting about how much I hate A Prarie Home Companion please do not bait me. I don't even get what its supposed to be about and I'm literally an Old White Man
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MourningView posted:I can spend a good like 5000 words ranting about how much I hate A Prarie Home Companion please do not bait me. Try giving Spencer Hall and Jon Bois a shot to speak for you: http://www.sbnation.com/2013/10/18/4848470/a-prairie-home-companion-is-wretched-and-unlistenable
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Sash! posted:I don't even get what its supposed to be about and I'm literally an Old White Man *stares blankly at an episode of Saturday Night Live* uh i cant quite figure the plot here
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Frinkahedron posted:Try giving Spencer Hall and Jon Bois a shot to speak for you: http://www.sbnation.com/2013/10/18/4848470/a-prairie-home-companion-is-wretched-and-unlistenable Yeah I've seen that and it helped cement my eternal love for both. "Weaponized ordinary" is the most perfect way to describe that show imaginable, bless you, Jon Bois. It is actually even more annoying if you happen to be from a tiny upper midwest town because THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE THINK IT IS ACTUALLY LIKE. Keilor is a traitor to his people. He has sold them out with his dumb folksy midwest white person mistrel show. He is an Uncle Jurgensen. MourningView fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Jesus gently caress, Spencer's part was boring on purpose and I STILL gave up and skimmed it.
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Super late and jetlagged from traveling for the past 36 hours but this is exciting, though I fear the kind of fuel this will give the Michigan Man fire especially if Jim does everything people want him to do. Deteriorata posted:On his twitter, Ace Anbender said they recorded the podcast yesterday morning, and they did not talk about basketball. It will be posted tomorrow. With any luck, they'll fill us in on the details of how it all went down. Also I went to high school with this guy, I knew he was in sports journalism but it's crazy to see him mentioned here, let alone tied to a big story like this.
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C-Euro posted:Super late and jetlagged from traveling for the past 36 hours but this is exciting, though I fear the kind of fuel this will give the Michigan Man fire especially if Jim does everything people want him to do. Apparently you don't read MGoBlog. Ace is the #2 guy there behind Brian Cook. Has been for a long time.
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When TFF brings me as much entertainment as this thread, why go anywhere else for ultimately inconsequential sports news?  I'll stop now so you lock this.
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MourningView posted:He is an Uncle Jurgensen. Haha holy poo poo. I like PHC in small doses but this is a fantastic insult. 
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Grew up in ND, so A Prairie Home Companion is shockingly accurate in the tales from Lake Wobegon bits.
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Sash! posted:I don't even get what its supposed to be about and I'm literally an Old White Man It's about finding the most bland way possible to distract yourself from your own mortality. It's comfort food for scared, dumb people.
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Nothing brings people together like hating Prairie Home Companion. A while back, I went to a Tigers game on the same night that that show was across the street at the Fox Theatre. I've never seen so many skittish white people wearing vests and poo poo in my life.
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AsInHowe posted:Nothing brings people together like hating Prairie Home Companion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaB9JxAU_wI
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Look at all these wrong ideas about Prairie Home Companion. Keillor is a genius and really dead on about the Upper Midwest.
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BUG JUG posted:Look at all these wrong ideas about Prairie Home Companion. Keillor is a genius and really dead on about the Upper Midwest. Someone older than Old Man D spotted
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Neodoomium posted:Someone older than Old Man D spotted I Shake My Keys At Michigan Football Games
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BUG JUG posted:I Shake My Keys At Michigan Football Games Get out of my sightline
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Neodoomium posted:Someone older than Old Man D spotted Finally, someone that can tell us what happened between the Big Bang and the first Planck time.
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According to John U Bacon and some other Michigan sources:quote:Harbaugh actually DID have a verbal agreement to coach here back in 2011 but a series of screw-ups and missed opportunities led him to taking the 49ers job and that Hoke was somewhat of a desperation "oh poo poo.....now what do we do" hire. All of the past four years was completely unnecessary. Damnit, Brandon.
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AsInHowe posted:According to John U Bacon and some other Michigan sources: I wonder how much of it was actually Harbaugh coming to loathe Brandon and he ran the 49ers as a result. Getting rid of Brandon was reportedly one of his conditions for taking the job this time around.
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Where did Tom Brady learn the Patriot way? The University of Michigan: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/06/mom-of-stanford-transfer-lands-job-at-michigan/
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Regnevelc posted:I like how they think the hiring of Tyrone Wheatley was the same type of situation. I can't believe Michigan gave Wheatley a scholarship for 4 years, just so 20 years later they could get the inside track on recruiting his son. It's disgusting!
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Eltoasto posted:I can't believe Michigan gave Wheatley a scholarship for 4 years, just so 20 years later they could get the inside track on recruiting his son. It's disgusting! Does Biakabatuka have any kids ready for college yet?
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Regnevelc posted:I like how they think the hiring of Tyrone Wheatley was the same type of situation. Or that Michigan would hire someone in order to encourage a grad transfer (that was already reported to happen) who will probably be the team's #3/#4 CB for one season If they wanted to write this article it should have been about Michigan hiring the #1 recruit for next year's former coach. That seems a lot more like what they're trying to say than anything that is actually in the article
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Brian Cook has mentioned offhandedly to a couple of people that he had a long obituary of Dave Brandon coming. It came out today. http://mgoblog.com/content/failure-0 quote:That is how a guy can be in charge of three different things and still be an idiot: Dave Brandon's skill is for creating personal leverage for Dave Brandon. And there end the skills. There is that sub-genre of successful person that achieves seemingly without any reason to. They are nature's bullshitters. Charlie Weis is their treasurer. Dave Brandon is their king. quote:Dave Brandon's great failure is being a piece of poo poo human being. His overwhelming arrogance is not coupled with any intelligence. His skin is so thin he seemingly responded to every single lovely email he deserved. Despite growing up on and coming through Michigan he managed to escape without the tiniest semblance of why it might be special. He cannot stand dissent. He eviscerated Michigan's athletic department of its institutional memory specifically to engender personal loyalty. He identifies only one talent in the people he hires: his ability to make them heel. Needless to say, I enjoyed it.
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