We Finally Got A Piece of the Pie

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​I didn't want to jump the gun on this, and we have not officially closed on anything, but as most know we've been AAGO parkers for the better part of 15 years.  We've had wide open spaces, a scenic green, and for the most part we've been left alone.  Now it seems if we want to be on the golf course, we're going to have to play location musical chairs from game to game, and butt our tents up against our cars.  From a logistical aspect, getting family and friends to be able to find us would have me fielding phone calls all morning and dropping abstract twitter messages when I should be drinking and making ribs.  It's been great.  It's been comfortable.  And because of this and that, we're gonna have to do this.  Which, for those not so link-inclined, is move.

What does this mean to you?  I don't know.  I have no idea who you are.  But those in the know will know what to do, and it will be similarly as convenient for the casual fan of our tailgate.  If you think you should be in the know...shoot me an email.

No doubt what AAGO has done is a travesty, a sham, and a mockery.  It's a travashamockery.  But whatever.  I'll build it.  You'll come.

32 days.

Ohio State, Penn State.....Michigan State?

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Media picks are out for the 2009 season.

Top three are the Buckeyes, the Nittany Lions, and the Spartans.  Wow.  The lovefest continues for a Spartan team that overachieved last year and is grossly overrated this year.

Preseason offensive player of the year is Terrelle Pryor, preseason defensive player of the year goes to Spartan linebacker Greg Jones.

RichRod will be speaking at 11:45am this morning.  For those at work, BTN has some great coverage.  Also of note, I think Rittenburg likes us.

"We're on the same page," Minor said. "There comes a time you've got to put all that personal pride to the side and decide what we want as a team. At the end of the day, we're a team. When people look back at our team, the team of '09 at Michigan, I want to leave a good legacy behind."

Weekend Roundup, Breakin' Rules Edition: July 27, 2009

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​What you missed this week on the internet while making pork rinds...


  • Rittenburg goes over the home run threats in the Big Ten.  14 players are named, 3 of which come from our fair Wolverines.

  • Deadspin noticed that the Detroit Lions are offering up a chance for you to relive the 2008 season.

  • Michigan announced that fan day will occur on August 23rd.  Because I am a masochist, I will link this information from the Toledo Blade.

  • The 10 worst BCS teams as reported by Maxim magazine... Michigan is #10.  I just canceled my subscription.

  • Notre Dame put together an alumni squad, coached by Lou Holtz, and went to Japan to play the Japanese American Football Team.  They won 19-3.  Yes, a Japanese American Football team exists, not a Japanese-American football team, but an American Football team comprised of Japanese people...in Japan.  Got it?  Me neither.

  • MGoBlue's latest construction photos highlight the impending destruction of the current pressbox, scheduled for November 2009 according to one of the captions.  I think we all get to take a piece with us after we beat Ohio State.

  • In an attempt to consolodate the number of times you hit refresh during a typical workday, Varsity Blue has been absorbed by MGoBlog.  It's a monopoly!

  • Shaun King wants Michigan fans to know that everything is going to be alright.  "You can still win football games running the football, playing great defense. But the thing is, when you get in a bowl game - and I'm talking national championship, Im not taking the fourth-place Big Ten team versus the fourth-place ACC team; Im talking the big games, the Floridas, the Oklahomas, the Southern Cals - you arent used to going against that type of athlete all year. It's culture shock.  Rodriguez is changing that about Michigan."  Sold!

  • Justin Feagin, who I clamored to have become the starter at QB last season, has done something really really really bad.  What it was, we don't know.  What we do know is that he's no longer an option at QB, WR, or DB.

  • Rittenburg has 3 predictions for the Wolverines for 2009.  Prediciton #1 is very bold, and if it happens, #3 is a lock.

Plus One...Minus One

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​Livonia tailback Austin White committed to Michigan today over Michigan State.  Had he committed to Michigan State, there would be 10 articles in various publications telling you about how Michigan State is winning the recruiting war and Dantonio is a living genius.  But since White went Blue, it's just another ho-hum blue chip commit for Rodriguez.  But my friends tell me I should stop worrying about what everybody else thinks...so while I stand by the adage that perception is reality, this is one hell of a pick up for a class that is shaping up to be one of our best ever.

None of this changes the fact that I get a creepy feeling when I follow recruiting.

Meanwhile, lineman Kurt Wermers is leaving the program, citing the obligatory family values and "not getting along with the players being brought in" instead of admitting that practice is too hard and that he's a girl that needs a father figure to coddle him.  And awwww, you're not making any friends.  Is it because they're so much faster than you that you can't catch them to talk to them?

So, he will go to Ball State and try to cling to remnants of the old regime.  No doubt Lloyd steered him there to spoon with Stan Parrish, who according to his bio tutored Tom Brady.  Stan took over for Brady Hoke, and will be a head coach for the first time since being dismissed from K-State after amassing a 2-30-1 record over a period of three years.  But hey, at least you won't have to run to the line of scrimmage, right Kurt?  And you won't have to worry about what round you are going to be drafted in either.