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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.
PUNT
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 �