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AT 12:30 AM on December 4th, 2004, MGoBlog was born thusly: Blog.Init()GoBlog(){Hello World}A computer dork from the very first. A few weeks later, Michigan lost the a heartbreaking Rose Bowl, baptizing the blog in disappointment.ÂSo what is this place? It's a somewhat comprehensive Michigan sports blog that promises to cover football, hockey, basketball, baseball, and all other Michigan sports in various levels of detail. These levels are: football: exhaustive, extreme, and debilitating hockey: considerable basketball: considerable baseball: minimal, edging towards moderate when they're good all others: mentions whenever they threaten to win a national titleYour host is a 30-ish Michigan true believer whose grandfather ushered at Ferry Field and bought season tickets in the 1950s, when not even the player's parents bothered to show up except for Ohio State. Those tickets have stayed in the family since and, yes, they are frickin' sweet.When it came time to pick a college, I applied to Michigan and MIT; MIT said no. Six years later, I had two computer engineering degrees from Michigan, one a masters. In between, I played Rumble Racing, lived in a filthy house with six other dudes, and did all the other things that make everyone think their particular college is the best college ever. I also helped found the Every Three Weekly, a Michigan ogue to (read: ripoff of) the Onion, with a few friends, editing the paper my final four years at Michigan.After college I worked a couple of programming jobs until such time as the second company realized I spent most of my time blogging and decided they shouldn't be paying me for that. The rest, as they say, is history.

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I occasionally get an email or a comment wondering how readers can support MGoBlog. As this has turned from a hobby to an obsession to an avocation the idea of making money from the site has gone from laughable to a far-off intriguing thing to kinda necessary if I'm going to ward off all those stupid lol mom's basement remarks from Official Journalists with a chip on their shoulders.So, if you're reading and feeling guilty here are all the ways to uage your guilt:  Donate money directly.There's a on on the left sidebar or a direct link here.PROS: Most efficient way possible to fund the amphetamines that keep me going during the season.CONS: You don't get anything. (Yet, I'm working on it.)  Buy a shirt.MGoStore has a wide selection of totally killer MGoBlog t-shirts for your perusal.PROS: Awesome shirt, relatively efficient way to funnel said amphetamines. Highly likely to get you laid.CONS: Ravenous packs of women (or men, depending on gender/orientation) following you around sounds like a good idea until you're up in a tree, praying they'll lose the scent.  Affiliate.If you're already going to buy stuff from Amazon or Stubhub, you might as well visit via an MGoBlog affiliate link and shove a portion of your purchase blogward.PROS: Functionally free.CONS: Requires you to find a link and click on the link and Jesus sometimes you just want to go to Amazon without feeling heelish.  Purchase ad space.Email Seth and he'll set you up. We mostly work on a cost per mille (per thousand page views) system so we can meet whatever budget.PROS: Get your brand in front of this readership. MGoBlogging time at work can now be justified as researching new markets for increasing brand recognition.CONS: Involves actual researching of new markets for increasing brand recognition.  Barter services.I am not a graphic designer and am a pretty hacky web programmer; any and all offers of technical/graphical istance are welcome.PROS: Killer recommendation letter.CONS: Requires expenditure of effort; takes away from Bear in the Big Blue House time.  Visit.Advertising goes bing whenever you hit the site.PROS: Requires no action on your part aside from slavish devotion.CONS: Can be kind of annoying.  Commit to Michigan.Obvs.PROS: Free winged helmet.CONS: Requires committable offer from the University, which takes a lot of work.

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[Note: Originally posted February 9, 2006, at the ur site.]So, it appears that I'm in this for real. As such I feel compelled to lay down some guidelines for myself. Perhaps this will all look rather quaint years from now when I get bored of my mountain of million dollar bills and scan through my archives in search of a quick confirmation of my naivete, but, hell, this won't compare to Purdue 2005: 10-1, national championship contender.Anyway, the point of this is so y'all can police me if I start slipping. Yes, there are places to slip to.The Tao of Blog[I tell you what, the show is being recorded and televised for... England... and uh...] They said you gotta do this song, you gotta do that song, you gotta stand like this or act like this... I just don't get it, man. I'm here to do what you want me to and what I want to do. So what do you want to hear? -Johnny Cash @ San QuentinJournalism-ish EthicsMinor factual errors and typos will be corrected without announcements. Misspellings or awkward constructions I catch after the fact regularly get revamped. Erroneous names (as long as they don't identify another person easily confused with the person in question) or factual errors best characterized as piddling will be fixed. Anything that doesn't change the meaning of something I said gets this treatment. Statistical or factual errors that could influence the strength of my conclusions will be called out separately.Posts will not be deleted. Even that one. So cut me a little slack if I get a little heated or say something dumb; that's life. I try to retract when I make an of myself. ertions that could be damaging to a person or group's reputation will be made carefully. Ran across this with the Scout/Rivals/Myron Rolle/MSM ing stuff. Allegations were made against both sites in separate articles which I quoted and commented on. Both sites categorically denied the accusations levelled, and I posted those, too, in separate posts that hit the top of the blog. In a separate incident, I misidentified a former recruit who had led Michigan on and then laughed about it in an extremely douche-y fashion. That got a separate update as well.Rumors will be reported as such. When something from the bowels of the internet rises to a level where it seems likely to be true I will post it even without external media vorification (

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Why?I actually do get asked these questions, especially about the obscure terms, frequently.Did you even go to Michigan?Twice, receiving computer engineering degrees in 2001 and 2003. I am approximately 30, depending on how recently this has been updated.Computer engineering? Well... yeah. This might be an odd avocation for a guy who learned all about bits in college, but if it makes you feel better some friends and I founded the Every Three Weekly, a Michigan ripoff of the Onion that was actually fairly good for a few years there. I cannot vouch for their current competence because they stopped updating the website. And, yes, now I'm a sportsblogger, which is a lot like being an engineer when it comes to impressing chicks except without the sizeable paycheck. For my next act, I plan on becoming something even less appealing to the opposite , like... uh... I actually can't think of anything. Dustin Diamond?This is your job?Yes! More precisely, this plus my duties at AOL's Fanhouse The Sporting Blog SBNation, are my jobs. Money comes from the blog in the form of merchandising, donations, and advertising, plus the Hail to the Victors annuals. If you are looking for a freelance writer, I am available. Drop me an email.Why should I donate?The more money that MGoBlog actually generates, the more it becomes a viable long-term option for funding and the more time I can afford to put into it at some point down the road when the need to actually make money becomes important because I have squalling brats adorable children.I have skills that may be of use to you.Email. Much of what we provide is thanks to motivated readers who want to make the internet a better place for Michigan fans. We even pay for services sometimes. Credentialed photographers in cities other than Ann Arbor and environs are often in demand.Who are these other people intruding on your front page?Seth Fisher is the business manager (ie he sells the ads), copy editor, and the guy who makes the Hail to the Victors books happen. Ace Anbender is our full-time recruiting yst, senior basketball correspondent, and staff writer. We sometimes make up other titles as they're needed.Among people who help but have real jobs, Adam Schnepp is our official press correspondent and hockey guy. Eric Upchurch and Bryan Fuller are our photographers (Fuller is freelance). Alex Cook is junior basketball correspondent. David Nasternak is a responsible aduilt. Chris Cook sleeps with the servers.What's the deal with... Unverified Voracity? Voracity is a weird word to come after unverified, especially when dealing with a sports blog and not, say, a blog about rumored hunger. The deal: back when the sporadic link-filled posts were untitled, some Iowa sportswriter penned what was to the the first in a long line of intemperate columns ragging on blogs for having the audacity to not be written by sportswriters. Unfortunately for that sportswriter, she inserted the following sentence: In the new journalism of ertion, as the report calls it, information is offered with little time and little attempt to independently verify its voracity. [sic] Sarcasm being what it is, UV was born shortly after. Muppets!? The MGoBlog version of the You can't have one without the other pair that MMB plays after victories.A full glossary of MGoBlog jargon and common abbreviations is coming soon.Will you write a ripjob about X?Maybe? I feel after each one (why can't I be more like John Hollinger? Why can't I be more like John Hollinger! Stupid, stupid, stupid!) and silently resolve never to write one again until the next time. What can I say? It's rageohol. Rageohol is gooooood. One general principle is that once I have eviscerated someone for excessive stupidity I institute a ban on further ripping unless something really egregious comes up. A partial list of these people: Tom Dienhart Matt Hayes Dennis Dodd Anyone ociated with College Football News Drew Sharp Terry Foster Rob Parker HeismanpunditUnless you've got something that cries out to be slaughtered I'll probably bite my and p .How can I start up a blog and have it be successful?Create something that does not exist elsewhere. As a nobody, you have to go above and beyond the normal stuff people can read every day in the newspaper or on other blogs. A picks column is a waste of time. You can do this any number of ways. Johnny posts erratically and infrequently but since there's no one who writes quite like him he has a following. Vijay posts equally erratically and infrequently but drops a lot of original research and has a following. This blog's calling card, IMO, is UFR.What's inescapable is that unless you have some wild talent like Johnny, you will have to put in a lot of work. You will probably get discouraged or bored and quit, but if you don't you too can have a hitcount in the triple or even quadruple digits and forget what the sun looks like. Current suggestions for Michigan fans: someone with an extensive video library of old Michigan games who splices together highlight reels and ysis on a regular basis. A blog that really focuses on basketball (hey, buy low, sell high) [UPDATE: complete.] A truly obsessive recruiting blog.Just make sure that whatever you're doing can reasonably be called the best whatever it is, and people who are interested in whatever will read you.How can I express my and abiding fondness for MGoBlog?There are not one but two Facebook groups you can join.Certainly incomplete. Any suggestions for additions can be left in the comments.

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If you're new to this site or the boards use this page to familiarize yourself with some of the site-specific terms thrown around here (we'll try to limit these on front page content). I broke these off from the FAQ because the list had grown too long to be valuable there.27 for 27 When Fitzgerald Toussaint ran for 27 yards on 27 carries against Penn State in the dumbest football game ever played.3-9 Mark Dantonio's birthday. Also corresponds to the wins (3) and losses (9) Michigan State had last year4-8 Notre Dame went this.AIRBHG Angry Iowa Running Back Hating God. The most wrathful position-hating god in the pantheon, inspired by Angry Michigan Safety Hating God.Big Daddy They're not little brother anymore.Bolivia Board jargon for banned poster, from negged to bolivian, meaning oblivion.Brady Hoke's Pet Viking Former All American center Steve Everitt, who stands behind Brady Hoke and looks like a viking. Also wears MGoShirts.BRI Bo Ryan Index: the percentage of photos in the first three rows of that person's Google image search in which they look enraged, incredulous, furious, or are expressing something otherwise unpleasant.Bo Ryan's BRI is 94%Buckle Up A commitment is impending.CC Coaching change. Message board header prefix during coaching searches.Cooler Poopers If you don't get it, take the literal meaning and add Ohio State tailgaters. Origin.Crimes Against Manpanda Running MANBALL ISOs from the I-formation to no or negative effect when you have the world's greatest running QB on your roster. Origin: 2011 disaster vs. Iowa. ong. Come on! with gusto.(The) Daves The 2002 offensive line (Pearson, Baas & Petruziello), or any nondescript group of maulers from the '90s and aughts.Dennis Bergkamp! Once upon a time in 2010 this one quarterback busted out for 78 yards for a touchdown. Because American Football Commentators are Boring, the preferred method for reliving this moment is set to a Dutch guy calling a Bergkamp goal.Disrespekt Refusing to acknowledge an enemy that's very good and worked hard to earn a stellar recent run among the elite programs in the nation, it's called disrespect. When your toddler calls her green play-doh Blue!, that is Disrespekt. (Not all rivals can tell the difference).Dog Groomers The nine-to-five occupation of the people who wrote In the Big House despite the presence of a perfectly good band.Donkeys / Hating donkeys. Donkeys are defensive ends/linebackers/etc. Donkey hate is a kind of burro abuse practiced by excellent offensive linemen.Dr. Vorax. Greg Robinson's stuffed beaver and spirit . The hardest working creature in the kingdom. Sometimes makes draft decisions for Heiko.Facepalm Guy. When the camera panned the student section in UTL1 for an instant react, this fan gave the camera man a no-no-no.FAKE! All 40 times are fake.Football Armageddon The 2006 Michigan-Ohio State game.Fusion Cuisine Originally Al Borges-Denard Fusion Cuisine, but since expanded to refer to any mismatches between coordinator style/player archetypes.Game...blouses Remember that Chappelle Show skit where Charlie Murphy recalls a pickup basketball game versus Prince and the Revolution, and Prince hangs on the rim and says... It reminds us of Stauskas. GERG Term for incompetent person named Greg. Usually Greg Robinson, Michigan's defensive coordinator in 2009-'10, or his Iowa offensive coordinating alterego Greg Davis.Get Off My Lawn I have been cultivating every blade since 1969 and I'll be hognozzled if some young whippersnappers show the unmitigated gall to trample it like a Buckeye on a banner. What you don't remember that either? /throws up hands.(The) Happening Nickname for the coaching search of 2014 that netted Harbaugh, from the constant It's Happening! memes throughout that process (see The Process)Hennechart P ing chart in Upon Further Review. MGoBlog's system for charting quarterback play, named for the first man to be charted. Abbreviation explanations can be found here.Henri the Otter of Ennui An otter with a French name that rhymes with the proper pronunciation of ennui. Henri appears when the numbness sets in. Origin. Henri has since ac ulated a gallery of otter friends and family, including Aurelian the Otter of Win, brother Hank the Otter of Swank, and several unofficial, unauthorized and unnecessary  spin-offs. (The) Horror Think of something so horrifying that could happen to Michigan football that it would thereafter only be referred to as The Horror. Think of the first thing that an enemy fan will use when they want to give a Michigan fan a taste of what hell must be like. That's The Horror. Now stop thinking about that and think about how adorable kittens can be. Soooo adorable!HOWEVA Stephen A. Smith reference; if you don't know, be thankful.IANAJTTP I am not a journalist, that's the point.IIRC If I remember correctlyJMFJ Jack Mother-[Nice thinging] Johnson. Variants: JMFR for Jake Ryan, JMFH.Lloyd Brady A fan with a distinctive bowl cut who always seems to be captured by the TV cameras in the front row, and is usually pretty happy looking.Manbearfreak Carson Butler. A commenter or two still refers to Butler as manbearfreak or MBF, which was confusing even to me until I looked it up. A conflation of Manbearpig from South Park and freak, generally used to describe any unusually athletic specimen who plays football. Appears exactly once in the vast and multifarious MGoBlog archives:Carson Butler. Manbearfreak.Manball Manblocking and power running offense concepts predicated on pushing the defense out of the way to create lanes.MANBALL (see Crimes Against Manpanda)Miami (Yes That Miami) or Miami (YTM) the University of Miami in Florida is That Miami.Miami (NTM) (Not That Miami), Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.MIKE (verb) Cardinal rule of p blocking ignments. Always MIKE before you hike.M00N How the scoreboard read for most of the 2014 Michigan-Northwestern game:Monkey Rodeo An animated gif of monkey cowboys riding dogs, favored by livebloggers.Mr. Plow Justin Boren, who was incensed that Rich Rodriguez wouldn't let him go back home on the weekends to help out with his dad's snowplow business. His whereabouts are currently unknown.Muppets After important victories MGoBlog posts the Muppet Glee Club versions of and Hawaiian War Chant, the two songs the band plays after wins.Nachoshorts See TacopantsNeg  Board jargon for excessive downvoting (antonym: Pos ). A person who posts an unpopular comment on the board and receives 50 negative votes or more can be said to be Neg ed.Never Forget … the erstwhile defensive backs of 2009-2010. Usually posted with the official banner:(The) New Math Nickname for Mario Manningham. Comes from post conveniently titled The New Math after the 2005 Penn State game. General implication is that 86 == 1 and Manningham is unpossible.NSFMF Not so fast, my friend.(NTM) or (YTM) or (NT[any letter/s]): See Miami (Yes That Miami)NTTAWWT Not that there's anything wrong with that.(nv) Nisi Vanderbiltum, a Latin shorthand for excluding Vanderbilt from blanket statements made about the SEC. Coined by Seth.Oakland is Still in Play for Jim Harbaugh because no amount of evidence will convince NFL beat writers a marketable pro head coach would take a college job.OHIO! Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. In caps and punctuated to differentiate from how Brady Hoke referred to Ohio State.OMG Shirtless Sometime during the 2005 recruiting year I received a number of hits for Tim Tebow shirtless. At that point Tebow was a heavily pursued quarterback recruit and not Chris Leak's china-destroying sidekick. I endeavored to help this lonely, lonely person but could only find a picture of Tebow in a basketball jersey. Thus was born the Shirt Scale of recruiting rankings; these days it's about 50-50 as to whether or not a panting reference to a five-star stud gets tagged as shirtless, depending on whim.OT Off topic. Used in message board headers to denote something not related to Michigan sports, Big Ten, relevant college athletics, or University of Michigan/Ann Arbor things.Poor Toussaint or Poor [name] because we couldn't tell how good he is from the pile of nobody blocking around him. See 27 for 27.Pos see Neg (The) Process Dave Brandon's buzzword for why we needed seven weeks (OSU game to mid-January) of reveling in the Glory of Dave Brandon before firing the obviously fired Rodriguez and hiring the only guy Brandon ever considered whom he could have hired any time.Rapture Guy Basketball fan who reached pinnacle of human capacity for happiness. Interviewed.Rock. See RPSRPS Rock, Paper, Scissors. UFR phrasing for what coordinators do against each other with play calling. Mike DeBord believed anything could be defeated by proper execution of rock. Good ol' rock. Selling Jerseys in Ohio According to one blogger's eleventy-five posts and a thread's worth of copycats, there is no greater metric for gauging a coach's effectiveness than the Ohio clothing market.SIAP Sorry if already posted. Message board header that shouldn't exist because if you posted something you have already diligently checked to see if someone else did so already.Snowflakes Board header prefix for hot takes. We are all unique and special, like snowflakes, thus all of our special snowflake thoughts are unique and special and belong in Snowflakes threads.Special K Kenny Fisher from Can't Hardly Wait, who graduated with a degree in having from UCLA and now makes music selections to pump out at Michigan home games, with consultation from Pepsi.StAEE Their football team may be Big Daddy (see Big Daddy) but if there's one fanbase you would guess could misspell their own name when vandalizing a car...Swampball A swampy game played by an angry, legalistic species of sentient bug people on a planet near Rigel. Virtually indistinguishable from Wisconsin basketball under Bo Ryan (origin).Tacopants is Jason Avant's eleven-foot tall imaginary friend. Chad Henne spent much of 2005 hitting him between the numbers, which are unfortunately eight feet off the ground and made of dreams. Blessed with infinite eligibility and the ability to sneak on and off the field without alerting the referees -- made of dreams, remember -- Tacopants has taken a lesser role in the offense as Henne s but still pops up at inopportune times. The term has its genesis in this post. Cousin Nachoshorts is three apples high and yet still too tall to grab turfed Steven Threet screen p es. UFR or Upon Further Review The painstaking play-by-play ysis of offensive and defensive performance after football games. A database of past UFRs is available in the User HoF.Uniformz Alternate uniforms, not good ones.Unverified Voracity Voracity is a weird word to come after unverified, especially when dealing with a sports blog and not, say, a blog about rumored hunger. The deal: back when the sporadic link-filled posts were untitled, some Iowa sportswriter penned what was to the the first in a long line of intemperate columns ragging on blogs for having the audacity to not be written by sportswriters. Unfortunately for that sportswriter, she inserted the following sentence:In the new journalism of ertion, as the report calls it, information is offered with little time and little attempt to independently verify its voracity. [sic]Sarcasm being what it is, UV was born shortly after.VIPER(!): Viper is the hybrid safety/strongside linebackr position that Peppers played in 2016. We thought it needed to stand out more.We Had Subs, It Was Crazy. Beilein endearingly describing the chaos of two grandkids' birthdays in two days between the Elite 8 and Final 4 weekends in 2013. Became a handy bit of nonsense to yell when this occurred:Win the Game! Mitch McGary's sage advice for beating MSU.(The) Year of Infinite Pain is 2005, a time before we knew what pain was.YMRMFSPA You may remember me from such players as. Used in recruiting profiles to say what kind of player a recruit may turn out to be if he works out.(YTM) or (NTM) or (NT[any letter/s]): See Miami (YTM)

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