Hokepoints: The Mid-Season Snarkening (Offense)
It's almost mid-season, so it's time to check in on the Draft-o-Snark teams and see how this whole Big Ten(nnnnnnnN!) thing is shaping up so far. Spoiler: euh.Quarterbacks:Who we drafted:The sacks have...
View ArticleHokepoints at the Midpoint: Which Defenders are the Most Big Ten(NNN!)
Michigan's best DL, DB, LB / UpchurchThe point of our "draft-o-snark" this summer was to be cute while previewing the great players in our conference and trying to show where the Michigan Men™ fit...
View ArticleHokepoints: Expansion Universalis, In Rapacitas
Click big-itates. Three! Three references to Europa Universalis in the history of one blog, ah ah ah!Depending on what hour you are reading this, Brian is somewhere on the Kübler-Ross chain between...
View ArticleHokepoints Wants Divisions Consensus
Members of the younger generation find this appealing.Over the weekend BTN released an online survey (still alive) that let the fans opine on the divisions and their stupid names and how they ought to...
View ArticleBig Ten Coaches Ranked By Attractiveness, From The Perspective Of Walruses
[ED: flight limits available time today but this is probably the best thing ever so yeah.]Some time ago, Catlab released… well… this.I have watched it dozens of times, and now I will render judgment on...
View ArticleHow You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm Once They've Seen SEC Hungus?
Big Ten recruiting, 2013.You may be aware that the Big Ten has not been too good at football of late. You are probably also aware that Ohio State and Michigan are locked in a titanic struggle for the...
View ArticleHokepoints: B1G Bowls and the Michigan Difference
The Game 1974 via BentleyWith the new bowl lineup I thought I'd delve into the conference's history with the things this week. Chart of sane bowl names is here.The beginningWe whomped Stanford in 1901...
View ArticleHokepoints: Kicking Charts
Fuller/a chart/247I got into an argument with a Michigan State fan—yes, right there is the problem—about our respective kickers last year. In true Michigan-Michigan State fashion the Spartan was making...
View ArticleHokepoints: The 'How Big Ten Are You?' Test
As we enter the last season of the Big Ten as a natural twelve-team conference (er…) it is only natural that we begin to question exactly who's a "real" Big Ten of the Big Ten, and who ought be "the...
View ArticleMailbag: We Should Have Been Screwed, Funk Position Paper
"I hope we're all up on the latest changes to the NCAA rule book." [Fuller]Wait, substitution. Wait. Wait, what?Yo Brian, So when the bearded lady rushed into the center ring to launch the football out...
View ArticleThis Week's Obsession: B1G X
That episode where Mr. Burns had to go work for Smithers. I'm sure there is one. The Big Ten Championship Game and bowl selection gives us an opportunity to zoom out a little.Who's on the up, how do...
View ArticleHokepoints Doesn't See a Regional Trend
Yesterday Ace posted a link to the full Lemming recruiting rankings from 1990 to 2004. Just perusing the list is pretty interesting, since accessible recruiting data on a national scale otherwise only...
View ArticleThe Grand Opening
Previously on we-ripped-this-off-from-BHGP: ID16, ID16 part II, Urban's meeting.As you may have heard, the Big Ten opened its new office in New York City recently, and the media got its first look on...
View ArticleBreaking B1G
In our continuing pursuit to explain to outsiders "what is Big Ten football," and, more importantly, "why is the Big Ten football," we turn to the world of metaphor. Or simile. I forget.We look now at...
View ArticleYou Shall Not Run
Unrelated but never unrelated (h/t @smartfootball)Ranking things is fun, or at least so BuzzFeed tries to tell me every freaking day of my life. And just like any prediction, rankings that attempt to...
View ArticleOpponent Watch 2014: Week 2
The sun had risen, though it was hard to tell through the lingering haze and dust. It all seemed so surreal; they had so recently stood beaming with pride, assuring the peasantry that the claiming of...
View ArticleOpponent Watch 2014: Week 4
About Last Week:Melanie Maxwell/Ann Arbor News I went back.I don’t know why I went back. The pluie de grâce had so mercifully released us all from any sense of obligation. Despite being the most...
View ArticleBig Ten Announces Plans For New Student-Athlete Benefits
If you're in search of good news, look no further. The Big Ten just announced their intention to, among other protections for student-athletes, ensure that scholarships cover the full cost of attedance...
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