Do I laugh now…or wait until Rich Rod oversigns like hell next year?

Quick question..Do you think the WWL will blast LSU for paying the most for a coach..or is the hatred reserved only for CNS?

Mike Slive is probably too busy hiding from Va. Tech basketball fans to read all of this Michigan brew-ha-ha, but I’m sure he’ll let out a meek chuckle or two once he hears the news.

Is Jim Harbaugh ever wrong?

Hey, isn’t that Barry Bonds’ dog?

That Dog thinks the above animal is so huge because of successful antebellum breeding programs.

Seriously Orson, this is at least the second time you’ve mentioned crying while watching Juno. While I’ll agree that it was an excellent flick, I can’t remember any tear-inducing scenes.

Although There Will Be Blood and Atonement both caused me to cry tears of boredom.

PW—

You have no heart. Therefore, we totally recommend No Country For Old Men, which is badass to the core. Any movie with a chase scene involving a dog that will swim to come and bite out your ass is a movie we endorse.

Also, we cry at particularly moving laxative commercials. (Pun!)

Jim Delany’s the Real Snake Oil Salesman Around These Parts

I am sure you’re bringing it later O but not a single mention of St. Paddy’s Day? I love it. It’s like tailgating, only in March – and you’re usually in a bar and you’re not really tailgating. Anyway, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I went ahead and posted the obligatory Dropkick Murphy youtube at my site.

It’s coming, but if you think we’re posting anything but the Pogues, you’re mad.

Delaney: “Not every athlete fits athletically, academically or socially at every university.”

He’s right. Not every athlete wants to get fucking rolled two years in a row in the MNC game or the Rose Bowl.

Harris @ 5 – first LOL of the work week, sir, nice work.

OOC @ 11 – Based on that stadnard, maybe Oklahoma needs to leave the Big 12 and join the Big 10.

OOC @ 11

 Something your school has never had to worry about.

“this ain’t auburn, its the #1 psychology dept. in the country”.

Big whoop. Auburn puts men on the moon and invents things daily to make practical day to day living better and safer, and UM has the number one psychology department in the country.

What does that do for anyone? Help you figure out who is nuts and who is not?

Southerners figure that out on thier own by the fourth grade.

FC update….lots of assaultin’ going on at CU.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=383976

KT-

Putting men on the moon might not be the best thing to compare to UM. Remember, we created the “Space, bitches” commercial.

Dear Michigan,

  Please take your “Michigan man” crap and your “high academic standards” and shove it up your ass. Preferably sideways. Rot in hell and take Delaney with you.

Fuck off and die,
The Rest of the Big Ten

“Is Jim Harbaugh ever wrong?”

Is Pete Carroll still at USC?

I was a GSI at Umich, and there were plenty of non-athlete UGs that had no clue how to write in the first place, let alone how to answer an essay question. Hell, I had students that were utterly dumbfounded to find out reading (READING!) would be required of them in a mythology course. UMich has stellar grad school programs, but their UG is pretty similar to every other big, decent public university.

btw, this news about Michigan academic standards is nothing new to us Domers, as we’ve been telling our employees from Ann Arbor for years that the only difference between Michigan and Michigan State is a full set of teeth

Most public undergraduate programs at major universities are sub par. This is because these universities need massive amounts of tuition money to fun their massively awesome research and graduate programs, which in turn is what they’re really pimping when they talk about academic standards. If you want to see undergraduate standards in action, go to Stanford, but don’t expect to see good football.

also two previous CU arrests before these latest:

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=88266

Good point, #20.

In my experience as an undergrad and as a Grad Instructor, undergrad classes are all the same. The 3 kids who really care, the 5 who are pissed off their parents are forcing them to be there and the other 22 who are there but totally focused on last night’s/that night’s/tomorrow night’s party or trying to figure out how to score with the hottie 2 seats in front of them. The only thing that changes from university to university is that some of them drive nicer cars.

Does Jay Basten teach in the law school too? It might explain the whole Ann Coulter thing.

Mr. Delany? I have Governor Spitzer on line 1. He’s calling to thank you for making him look like a…well, whatever the opposite of a fucking hypocrite is.

1, the WWL won’t because LSU pulled a tricky maneuver called paying for services rendered. When you pay $4 million for crap, you get called on it. When you pay whatever LSU is going to pay for a coach that just one SEC and MNC titles, it’s called capitalism, the American way, getting what you paid for.

Oh, and I can’t even begin to examine the brainless, idiotic statements of Delaney. Talking with a Bama fan is about as stupid as my mind downshift.

#26: Wouldn’t the opposite of “hypocrite” be “hyper-crite”?

Whatever, Sundiata Gaines gon’ be cuttin’ down the nets in San Antone, bitches.

Well, Michigan refused a home and home with Auburn.

I guess we’ll just have to Chop-Block those MF’ers in swimming.

#27
Joshua
I honestly hope for you and the good people of La. that this move doesn’t turn out to be like Bama awarding Mike Shula a raise and a contract extension after a 10-2 season. I would hate to see the bayou on fire.

Good to hear, Orson. Just finished Hell’s Ditch and If I Should Fall From Grace With God is on deck.

I boo myself for not bringing Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash to work though…

Carlinthemarlin @ 22 – A friend of mine got his phd from Indiana and when he was t.a.-ing freshman classes was stunned to be told that they were expected to fail up to 25% of the class. Apparently anyone can roll in to Bloomington and enroll, so they had to clear house aggressively in all the freshman intro courses.

As for Michigan, who knows? My father in law teaches there and he doesn’t seem unduly distressed by the undergrads, but then he only has to deal with the great unwashed when he takes his turn teaching generalist courses – most of his seminars are ones that you don’t end up in by accident.

Crabapple Buck @ 14 – Touche. I should have covered my flank by adding the Outback Bowl. Nicely played, sir.

Auburn may have put a man on the moon, but also, unlike say most other schools, had players that couldn’t read (see Brooks, James.)

I know it’s twice as long as the Unabomber’s Manifesto but you should read it all…

Yet Basten can’t help but express concern for some of the athletes he teaches in his introductory courses, and worry about how they’ll fare as their academic careers at Michigan continue.

“I actually went to study table a few times because kids asked,” Basten said. "A lot of these kids, their reading levels couldn’t have been higher than sixth grade, seventh grade.

“I had one guy ask me what the word ‘bureaucracy’ meant, and how to sound it out. I was thinking: ‘How do they survive?’ I don’t know.”

“As for Michigan, who knows?”

Michigan has competitive admissions for undergrads. Generally, a 3.5 and 1250 SAT for instate and a little higher for out of state (non-athletes obviously) and you are in the ball park to be admitted.

DC @ 33. As a former TA at tOSU I can laugh at failing 25%. I heard that the attrition rate for freshman when I taught there was over 50%. Trying to run a research university with the admission’s standards of a community college is not a wise way to go about things IMHO.

Avwenger @ 37. Good numbers but not as good as they would have been in the past given horrible grade inflation and the renorming of the SAT.

And admisson standards don’t tell the whole story about students either. Back in my migrant worker days, I found that I could give the exact same exam to a night class at a community college (with open admissions) and a morning class at a State University (with moderate standards) and the CC students would do better than the University students on average.

Looks like Michigan did what the New York Times tried to accuse Auburn of doing.