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Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt.
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By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac
Hoooooooooly crap that was fun. Not even the most optimistic among us saw THAT coming. We hoped for and maybe even believed in an improbable Michigan win. But in our mind’s eye, that win looked much different. Maybe it was a scrappy Michigan team hanging around and making just enough plays to win. Maybe it was Michigan jumping out to an early lead and holding on against a furious late Ohio State rush. Maybe it would be a game of pure chaos in which Michigan was somehow the last team standing.
I can only speak for myself, but I didn’t envision a complete, opening-kick-t
Wildcat Links: The Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart)
Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt.
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By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac
There is a storytelling principle known as “Chekhov’s Gun.” It is named after Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, who believed that an author should “remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.” The idea is that only necessary story elements should be included, and that extraneous items should be removed.
The problem, though, is that �