• Sights & Sounds | Escape from Akrontraz

    Whew.  Yeesh.  Yikes.  Wha happen’d?    If it feels weird do it: Do you have that in mauve?   Once you’ve calmed down consider these sights and sounds: > Cue ball Corner Pocket > I give the students mucho slack but come on young men and ladies, I think we can do better.  Here’s a look as the team pours out of the tunnel and under the coveted GO BLUE banner, a few minutes before kickoff: First snap (14:55 in first): End of the first quarter FWIW: > Sky W.O.W – or was that a M.O.M. experience?  A few shots of the skywriting above the stadium for the archives: Props to the pilot for completing the ‘905’ just as they flashed the 905 all-time wins graphic on the scoreboard.   And yes, I’m aware this or another guy got loose with a ‘Go Blue’ in East Lansing.   How come the guy in EL was dropping some tight smoke?   Did the wind die down later in the afternoon?  Did that guy fly in Nam? > Does Whatever a maize clad Spider-Man does > He wore this so his moms wouldn’t see him on TV on Yom Kippur: Call him Maestro about town > Coach Beilein directing the Michigan Marching band during the half: Deliver $200M, you get a coin toss and a giant banner.  Deliver…

  • Poll: Resolving the Space Quandary

    Readers of this site know that the Little Brown Jug has but a pair of rows left for scores: After 2012 we’re hosed.  When I first posted a set of potential options to resolve this matter, I was truly surprised by many of the suggestions.  I’ve had a few new comments including this gem from reader bjk: As currently configured, the jug is sort of like the Mayan calendar, built to exhaust itself after a certain point. The options are as follows, (read the full post for more discussion): 1. Stop putting score on the jug 2. Remove some of the old scores 3. Make the jug bigger, aka the Stanley Cup solution 4. Repaint the existing score columns in a smaller font 5. Add new scoring columns in the free space on the jug 6. Retire the existing jug & start a new one I’m firmly on #4.  Make the existing columns tighter, the numerals smaller and buy yourself a lot of time.  The jug has been restyled a few times for this very purpose, so it’s not a break with tradition. What do you think? [poll id=63] Related: Little Brown Jug Lore    Follow MVictors on Twitter