2017 rutgers
No news yet on the Jalen Wilson front. Other than the fact that he received his offer:
Blessed to Receive an Offer from Michigan University〽️ #Wolverines pic.twitter.com/g1Hu40iPqQ
— Jalen D. Wilson (@thejalenwilson) May 13, 2018
Standard "everything went great" takes from Josh Henschke at 24/7, but Henschke does mention he has an interview scheduled with Wilson. That in and of itself is a fairly good sign.
All-22 aggression. Via Cody Alexander:
I'm obviously a Phil Bennett "homer" & respect the hell out of Saban, but the more Michigan film I watch I just love how a Don Brown defense plays.
— Cody Alexander (@The_Coach_A) May 13, 2018
"Solve your problems with aggression."
I mean, watch that MOF safety fill. It's an attitude & it comes from the top.
| #ArtofX | pic.twitter.com/XXmeRSZo2k
This is the kind of stuff I can't see from the broadcast angle. One caveat: pretty sure that's Rutgers providing the opposition. Michigan had almost as many sacks (5) as Rutgers had completions (8) in that game, thus allowing things like "deep centerfield safety gets his nose on a ballcarrier at the line of scrimmage."
Alexander's Don Brown clinic notes are fascinating and available at the link.
*swoon.* Brad Stevens on a sticky wicket he found himself in:
Brad Stevens on keeping Marcus Morris in the game with two fouls in the first three minutes of the first quarter in Game 1:
— Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) May 14, 2018
"If he fouls out in the first quarter, then somebody else has to play. That's the way it goes.”
I would not trade John Beilein for anyone. Brad Stevens makes you think, though.
WELCOME YOUR NEW GOD GAMBLOR. The Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on sports gambling, thus paving the way for every state hard up for a little cash to legalize and regulate the wildly popular activity. (Probably: Richard Hoeg has more law-talking details.) And if college athletic departments have their hand out…
Source: Tentative agreement in West Virginia would give WVU and Marshall a cut of sports betting. Would be first two NCAA programs with such an arrangement.
— David Payne Purdum (@DavidPurdum) May 10, 2018
…wait, what? Here is your justification:
"If this is legalized, what the ADs said is that we'll have to spend more money on compliance and we're going to have increased risk," McMillen told ESPN in a Thursday phone interview. "What was shown, at schools with regulated [sports betting] markets -- Nevada, UNLV -- they spend considerably more on compliance, because it's more open, more transparent, more in your face than the other schools where it's illegal. The fact of the matter is that the onus is going to fall on Marshall and West Virginia."
Those compliance departments have to send out way more than one tweet in March about not joining an NCAA pool? They have to have a workshop about how gambling on sports is bad if you play sports? I'm not sure what the big expense is.
Brian Windhorst has an interesting article about the push from pro sports leagues to legalize sports betting in the US; the NCAA is likely to get caught up in this whether they want to or not.
BAH GOD SHE KILT EM. A post-committee Condoleeza Rice is more explicit that the NCAA should restore name and likeness rights to athletes:
"We believe that students ought to be able to benefit from name, image and likeness but you can’t decide a program until you know the legal parameters,” Rice told USA TODAY Sports. “That was the point. I think some of the commentary suggested that we didn’t really speak on this issue. I think we did speak on this issue, it’s just that we understand there’s a legal framework that has to be developed first.”
Rice said she thought the commission’s report was “pretty clear” in its support of athletes being able to cash in once the various legal issues are resolved. But she maintains that the NCAA cannot do this while a pair of ongoing cases are pending.
"I think people may have looked at the fact that we said there's a legal framework to be developed and said, 'Oh, well, maybe they're punting on this.' Nobody was intending to punt on it."
As something that costs the NCAA nothing, has broad public support, cuts down on a bunch of self-contradictory rulings, and would pave the way for the return of NCAA Football, restoring NIL rights to college athletes is an obvious slam dunk. It thus has a 37% chance of actually happening.
One and done doesn't even accomplish much. John Gasaway has created a history of one and done that convincingly asserts that it accomplishes little:
We don’t yet know the order in which the freshmen of 2017-18 will be selected, of course, but, by Jonathan Givony’s lights, we may be due for a similar evaluative echo next month on draft night.
RSCI 2017 Projection 2018 Marvin Bagley III 1 3 Michael Porter, Jr. 2 8 Deandre Ayton 3 1 Mohamed Bamba 4 5 Trevon Duval 5 45 Collin Sexton 6 9 Wendell Carter, Jr. 7 7 Mitchell Robinson 8 22 Jaren Jackson, Jr. 9 4 Kevin Knox 10 15Yes, Duval stands out, and, sure, projected No. 6 pick Trae Young made very good use of the one additional year of evaluation afforded to NBA teams. The question then becomes whether one-and-done earns its evaluative keep simply by having flagged the fact that Duval “should” drop 40 spots and Young “should” jump 20.
That’s pretty much all the current eligibility requirement is accomplishing in terms of player evaluations. Otherwise, we could have held this draft a year ago, and it would have looked highly similar to what will (we think) transpire next month.
Actually, even that gives one-and-done too much evaluative credit. In an alternate reality where players could be drafted straight out of high school, it’s possible Duval would have been a 2017 pick — but Young, surely, would have gone undrafted. Then, after the amazing freshman season that we now know happened, Young would have been a 2018 lottery pick. In this scenario, then, the lone evaluative function of one-and-done with regard to the top of the board is to prevent Duval from having been a high draft pick a year ago, period.
And Duval had to enter the draft anyway because Duke recruited over him with authority. There are probably some extraordinary busts the NBA has avoided, but the one-and-done rationale about preventing Kwame Browns is extremely flimsy.
No seed for softball. Michigan gets shipped to Lexington for the opening round of the tourney:
Lexington RegionalNo. 16 Kentucky vs. UIC | 2:30 p.m. ET Friday on WatchESPN
Michigan vs. Notre Dame | 12 p.m. Friday on ESPN2
Softball regionals are, well, regional, so that's not a definite statement that Michigan was #17, but if they weren't they were fairly close. Unfortunately, Michigan is entering the tournament on a skid after getting blown out twice at the Big Ten tourney.
Iggy can dunk. But he has still not set a video of himself to Lust for Life.
Summer work ‼️‼️
— Ignas Brazdeikis (@_iggy_braz) May 10, 2018
@jarghesevon pic.twitter.com/ouzGb4LIFG
Etc.: Remembering the 2004 Clemson-South Carolina brawl. Excellent set-piece goal in stoppage time gives AFC Ann Arbor a 1-0 win over Detroit Suburb Residents FC. More All or Nothing potentially on the way? Who the F is Tom Brady? Transferring is not really an epidemic. Adam Silver is not just in charge of things.
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1. Jug Tales, with Greg Dooley of MVictors
starts at 1:00
The origins of the oldest and greatest rivalry trophy were way more normal than the legends, but there are some really good legends, like the time the Jug was stolen by some frat guys and they pretended to have found one.
2. Rutgers After UFR
starts at 21:45
Let’s talk about Peters: not just an O’Korn versus Purdue game. We nitpick because that’s what we do. The power running game and the tweaks to it were really encouraging.
3. Gimmicky Top Five: Other Things That Would Lose to Rutgers
starts at 39:10
We welcome MGoBlog sponsor/business attorney Richard Hoeg of Hoeg Law to try to help out Mr. Emmert in his goal of giving the NCAA some credibility again.
4. Minnesota Preview with Disinterested Ben
starts at 1:06:14
Ben Mathis-Lilly of Slate is here so we stuck a mic on him while we preview Minnesota and not the things that BML talks about because who wants to talk about that? Brian and Ben apparently, because I have great takes from watching Iowa-Minnesota that I want to share and they’re all “Hey, 15-month-year-olds, what’s up with that?”
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MUSIC:
If you or a friend made some good tunes and don't have a label out scrubbing for them we'd be happy to feature you. “Little Brown Jug”, some stupid songs Seth downloaded, and “Across 110th Street”.
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Substitution/formation notes: Nothing at all different from the last couple of weeks, which brings us right to our normally-I’d-link-this-in-the-chart-but-let’s-put-it-above-the-jump of the week, which features Khaleke Hudson blowing up two Rutgers players and creating an opportunity for Michigan to down a punt at the two-yard line. Pretty convenient for a “khaleke hudson shatter machine” tag to already exist.
[After THE JUMP: punt clear-outs, Thomas’ continued success, and a saved touchdown]
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