Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

I make occaisional drive bys. I'm not here very often, but like to drop in to see what y'all are up to.

You should come by more often. Great cooking content on this board. 

And ever since we all started discussing Michigan's blatant cheating scandal, it really crowded out the politics crap 

Reasons you see less of me:

• "new" site took a toll on the population.
• my kids were in their golden, then teen years 2010 to now (one in college now, one a junior in high school), and they play(ed) soccer on Saturdays during the fall--with me coaching since then, and refereeing starting in '14--so I spend a lot less time watching college football than I used to. And the teen years required a lot of very specific attention.
• took a new job in 2017 that I focused more of my energy on (and continue to).
• during COVID, I think, I felt like things started getting a little more overtly political around here, which turned me off. I used to love politics (hell, my wife is literally a politician), but it's become so tribal of late, and seeing it here wasn't working for me.

But bottom line, since 2019, things have been on a freight train in the SF-house. Signs that it may slow down a bit with one, and soon (hopefully) two kids off at college, but we're not there yet.

Still enjoy coming around, though. This place is alright.

Come for the Michigan cheating, stay for the delightful etouffee

that was hilarious....for real 

Reasons you see less of me:

• "new" site took a toll on the population.
• my kids were in their golden, then teen years 2010 to now (one in college now, one a junior in high school), and they play(ed) soccer on Saturdays during the fall--with me coaching since then, and refereeing starting in '14--so I spend a lot less time watching college football than I used to. And the teen years required a lot of very specific attention.
• took a new job in 2017 that I focused more of my energy on (and continue to).
• during COVID, I think, I felt like things started getting a little more overtly political around here, which turned me off. I used to love politics (hell, my wife is literally a politician), but it's become so tribal of late, and seeing it here wasn't working for me.

But bottom line, since 2019, things have been on a freight train in the SF-house. Signs that it may slow down a bit with one, and soon (hopefully) two kids off at college, but we're not there yet.

Still enjoy coming around, though. This place is alright.

Sounds like you and the family are doing well and that's the most important part. Definitely understand seasons of life can take us away, but good to see it still brings a lot of us back over and over. I definitely had a few years I wasn't on here much at all. Babies at home, starting a business, while trying to juggle that and building a house. There's just seasons in life where it feels like we can't even find the time to have moments for ourselves, but for good reason.

When life slows down a bit, just don't forget to keep filling this place with good insight and feedback on life, even if college football turns into a mess, which it looks like it is. To this day, one of my favorite restaurant experiences was at your recommendation of Fog City Diner. I think that was probably 14-15 years ago. It's what makes this group special in my opinion. It's more than just football sometimes. For me, it's what the draw was way back in the day with Gator and his travel stories and the insight from so many people from so many parts of the country. 

And PS.. our history we always banned politics here.. We should always stick with the ban

We haven't always banned politics.  It was open back in the day, and resulted in some, well, unpleasantness.  I think CWSooner was one of the culprits.  Finally "we" decided enough was enough.

Then I broke the tradition with the "In Other News" thread which was allowed to wonder hither and yon, usually being "OK", sometimes not so much.

I have realized my "conservative friends" think I'm a liberal, if not a communist (mostly on FB) while my "liberal friends" think I'm a "Trumpista fascist radical conservative far right wing zealot Christian wannabe member of some militia who owns 15 AR15s if not more".

I have realized my "conservative friends" think I'm a liberal, if not a communist (mostly on FB) while my "liberal friends" think I'm a "Trumpista fascist radical conservative far right wing zealot Christian wannabe member of some militia who owns 15 AR15s if not more".

How many do you own? 

I have a .22, which as far as I know, is only good for hunting wascally wabbits, or something like that.  I'm still in city limits and I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to use it here.  Although there are some armadillos digging up my back yard of late that are testing my devotion to the law.