alumni association

1 hour and 36 minutes

This episode was recorded before a live Zoom audience from the UM Alumni Club of D.C. A portion of what the people who came paid will go to the scholarship fund.

We are, as always, presented by UGP & The Bo Store, and if it wasn’t for Rishi and Ryan I might have a very popular podcast on environmental engineering. Our associate sponsors are also key to all of this: HomeSure Lending, Ann Arbor Elder Law, the Residence Inn Ann Arbor Downtown, Michigan Law Grad, Human Element, The Phil Klein Insurance Group, FuegoBox, and Information Entropy.

Also my audio turned off in the middle of it, which got screwy.

1. Football Bits

starts at 1:00

Vastardis: "Very smart, loves meat, likes football – a lot!" –Jim Harbaugh. Nico Collins is not on the roster. Charles Thomas transfers, again with nowhere to go. How much of Minnesota has COVID? Michigan's been lucky/good to only have two contained outbreaks over the summer. Filiaga wins the guard job.

[The rest of the writeup and the player after The Jump]

Typically in August we get Brian or me or both out to the bigger alumni clubs. Since that ain't happening this year, the Chicago and DC clubs took theirs virtual and opened them up to the general Michigan fan.

Chicago this Wednesday

What: Michigan Football Preview Party and Sigler Awards, presented by the University of Michigan Club of Greater Chicago

When: October 14, 6pm CT (7pm ET)

What again: It's myself and John U. Bacon, on a Zoom call. I have a presentation prepared exclusively for this event on why Michigan joined, left, and rejoined the Big Ten.

Bacon will do as Bacon does, which often includes a sick Bo impression. We'll also be presenting the 2020 Ernest T. Sigler awards to the top Chicago student athletes, Lexi Funk (gymnastics) and Jordan Glasgow (linebacking). Proceeds go to the UMCGC's scholarship fund. Also everyone who comes can get a discount code to buy HTTV from our store, since usually you guys pick up your copies there minus the shipping.

How: Take the link, give the donation, and they'll send you a link when it's time to go.

DC Next Monday

Who: The UMDC club will be infiltrating our MGoPodcast recording this…

When: Monday evening, October 19 at 7pm.

Whence: Brian, Ace, myself and the Washington DC alumni club will be on a Zoom call to record the last MGoPodcast before the 2020 season. We'll finish up the preview, this time very visually, invite a member of the club to join us for the Gimmicky Top Five, and then all the participants will get to be part of an interactive Q&A session. Get your voice on the podcast, and your questions about the season answered as best we can.

Wither: Take the link, give the donation, and they'll send you a link when it's time to go.

Advanced box score. Bill Connelly has heard the college football internet's cries for box scores where sacks are counted against passing yardage and has posted various games from last week on twitter. Michigan-Army is one. The link has the big version. The bits that stood out other than three targets for Nico Collins are here:

That success rate is a full-on Lloydball turtle, and the explosiveness of Michigan's rushing game is horrendous, because Michigan spent the whole game playing 10 v 11. Michigan's rushing game was less explosive than a team that ran 29 fullback dives.

Also in this. PFF's weekly All Big Ten team has Mike Onwenu on the first team and Jalen Mayfield and Zach Charbonnet on the second team. So Michigan was less explosive on the ground than a team that ran 29 dives and half of their most important players on the ground (OL+RB) graded out at an All Big Ten level.

FWIW, Metellus, Hutchinson, and Kemp (second-team) made their defensive team.

[After THE JUMP: Don Brown things will make you feel better.]