basketball

Didn't see this posted.

Second year in a row.  Now, I have no clue what honors come with being on an All-Glue Team, but congrats to ZN nonetheless.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/seth_davis/03/05/glue.guys/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a2

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/compare?add=lester-abram&bernard-robinson-jr=career&i=1&lester-abram=career&p1=bernard-robinson-jr

 

Here is a cool tool you can compare every stat of every player in Michigan Basketball history.  Should make short work of deciding arguments over who deserves to be in the MGoHOF.

 

I have it set to compare Lester Abram with Bernard Robinson Jr... As I believe firmly that BRJ (can I do that? screw it. I already typed it, it's staying) deserves to be in the MGoHOF.

 

The chart at the bottom could be a cool feature but I cant figure out how to change 1 of the 2 player's colors to something other than blue.

 

From theonlycolors:

ALL-BIG TEN FIRST TEAM

Draymond Green, MSU
John Shurna, Northwestern
Jared Sullinger, OSU
Robbie Hummel, Purdue
Jordan Taylor, Wisconsin (coaches only)
Tim Frazier, Penn State (media only)

ALL-BIG TEN SECOND TEAM

Cody Zeller, Indiana
Trey Burke, Michigan
William Buford, OSU
DeShaun Thomas, OSU (coaches) Matt Gatens, Iowa (media)
Tim Frazier (coaches), Jordan Taylor (media)

ALL-BIG TEN THIRD TEAM

Keith Appling, MSU
Tim Hardaway Jr., Michigan
Drew Crawford, Northwestern
Matt Gatens (coaches), DeShaun Thomas (media)
Brandon Paul, Illinois (coaches), Aaron Craft, OSU (media)

CO-FRESHMEN OF THE YEAR: Trey Burke (media), Cody Zeller (coaches)

ALL-BIG TEN FRESHMAN TEAM

Trey Burke
Cody Zeller
Branden Dawson, MSU
Aaron White, Iowa
Dave Sobolewski, Northwestern

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Aaron Craft

ALL DEFENSIVE TEAM

Aaron Craft
Draymond Green
Tim Frazier
Victor Oladipo, Indiana
Josh Gasser, Wisconsin

SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR: D.J. Byrd, Purdue

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Draymond Green, MSU

COACH OF THE YEAR: Tom Izzo, MSU

 

 

B10 Freshman of the Year? Coach of the Year? At least some All-Conerence team players. The conference reveals it all on BTN now.

I thought of putting this in one of the main page threads, but it didn't really fit anywhere.

There is something I read somewhere in the basketball coverage yesterday that bugged me a bit. Apparently, Beilein will get no bonus for winning a Big 10 Championship. There are apparently compensation bumps for thresholds met in the NCAA tournament, but not the Big 10. While I don't think the word "outrage," is correct, this doesn't seem right. It seems to me that Beilein should be rewarded, apart from how far the team goes in the post season.

I'd love for someone more knowledgable about salary compensation and contracts, especially in the coaching world, to comment.  Is there any financial way that Michigan can do something? How can Beilein be rewarded for this achievement? Who makes this decision? What role does Brandon play? The Board of Regents? Do they tear up the current contract? Do the regents or the Athletic Administration award a bonus for the championship anyway, even though it isn't written in?

There are so many who should receive credit for this season:  Novak. Douglass. Burke. THJ. Morgan. Smotrycz. Bill Martin for the facilities. Dave Brandon for follow through. The assistant coaches. But the key player is Beilein. With patience, calmness, and competence, he recruited, coached, encouraged, schemed, planned, and led, to get Michigan basketball to this point. I think it only fair for Beilein to receive financial recognition from the University of Michigan for what he has done.

With Michigan just winning the B1G Championship, it brought to my mind of a project I was working on earlier in the year. I emailed Dave Brandon my new banner designs with me making points of why the banners at Crisler should be updated to fit in and have a fresh look with the new arena.

First off, with the University showing a commitment to Basketball with the beautiful new Crisler Center, the banners commemorating Michigan's championship teams should be freshened up. Dave Brandon is putting much emphasis on the Block M, so the current Block M should replace the current older-looking one that is on each banner at Crisler.

B1G Championship Banners:  The new banners I have made include the current B1G logo replacing the banners with the previous logo that had the hidden 11 in it. It would make more sense for Michigan to raise a conference championship banner with the actual logo of the conference on it. The year on the banners feature the the full season instead of just the end year. For example: 1986 Big Ten Champions is replaced with 1985-86 Big Ten Champions. It gives more clarity and gives it a more complete look.

NCAA National Championship Banner: The banner I designed features the current NCAA logo in Maize and Blue, replacing the former NCAA logo.

NCAA Final Four Banners: Like the NCAA Championship banner, the banners feature the current logo of the NCAA replacing the old one.

NIT Champions Banners: I took the actual NIT lettering from the NIT logo and put it in Maize and Blue replacing the NIT lettering in generic font.

Elite Eight Banners: Michigan does not display any Elite Eight banners up in Crisler, therefore this is just to see how people feel about it. An Elite Eight appearance is nothing to look down upon since you are one of the Top-8 teams that season. I know what you're thinking but only the 1992 Final Four was vacated from the 1991-92 season, so the 1992 Elite Eight did still happened according to the NCAA.

Sweet Sixteen Banner: This may be a little too far, even I am not too crazy about this one but I am just putting this up to get some feedback. Instead of having multiple banners for the Sweet Sixteen appearances, I took a page out of the large banners at Yost with the Frozen Four years on them. The 1992 Sweet Sixteen appearance still exists officially.

Vacated Banners: This is a longshot but if Jalen Rose's wishes are fulfilled in restoring the banners taken down in 2002, here is what they would look like. I'm not going to comment on these.

Honored 5: People don't realize that not all of the banners honoring players at Crisler are retired. In fact, #33 is the only one that is retired. Colton currently wears #45 and McClimans wears #22. Modeled the number banners to resemble the current jerseys the team wears with the block M at the top just like the jerseys. Cazzie's banner is white to signify that his number is the only one retired of the Honored 5. I would have put his number on a Maize banner, but the Maize uniforms weren't around when he played.

Feedback appreciated!