They Lied: A Retrospective

Posted by cfaller96 On February - 23 - 2010

It’s a cliche to say “everything on the internet is forever,” but only because it’s true. There is no marginal cost to permanently preserving the words uttered and written yesterday, and so it is done.

Most people would think this is a good thing. For certain groups, however- politicians and newspaper columnists come to mind- the ability to instantly reproduce what someone said yesterday is a form of unwanted accountability. If you uttered a statement yesterday that we find out was false today, then you might be asked lots of questions along the lines of “were you stupid or were you lying?” And if your career relies almost exclusively on your personal credibility, neither stupid nor lying is good for you. The internet can be very dangerous to you.

Almost six months after the Free Press broke the “OMG Michigan Committed Major Violations” story, we now have some more definitive information on exactly what went on with M’s practices. And because everything on the internet is forever, we can retrospectively judge the work of Rosenberg and Snyder.

It is my contention that authors Michael Rosenberg and Mark Snyder lied to readers about the Michigan football practice regime. Lying is different than just being wrong. A lie requires the person to state a falsehood, and know that it is false at the time. So I must show that A) their article was significantly wrong or false, and B) they knew it was wrong.

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M: A Tale of Football, Chapter 1 (Sunday morning)*

Posted by cfaller96 On November - 4 - 2009

From: Rich Rodriguez (hotrod@michiganfootball.com) – 11/1/09, 6:59 AM
To: Greg Frey (freydaddy@michiganfootball.com)
Cc:
Subject: Your fat ass

Put that fucking donut down, get your ass in here and show me how this email works again. Every time I hit “send” it copies in some kid in Arkansas.

Rich

From: Rich Rodriguez (hotrod@michiganfootball.com) – 11/1/09, 7:14 AM
To: Michigan Football Staff
Cc: Mike Barwis (wolverinepiss@michiganfootball.com)
Subject: NEW GAME – NEW GOALS

First, a happy Sunday to everyone. Thank you also for sacrificing your day off to come in and begin preparation for the Purdue game. As you know, in six days we play for bowl eligibility. Again. To win we must have tremendous execution in every phase of the game.

Scary as Purdue is, I know we can win this game. Those in doubt should take a look at what we have achieved in the last 12 months. When we came here at the beginning of 2008 this team had gone soft and stale, and Bill Martin gave me a monumental task.

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The Blooding of St. Forcier

Posted by admin On September - 17 - 2009

[Ed. Another post written by the excellent imafreak.]

Is he Adam or Jesus? Please pick one.

Is he Adam or Jesus? Please pick one.

 (Via. mgoblog.com)

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