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so angry he's squattin [Eric Upchurch]

Sponsor note. Richard Hoeg. A lawyer. A podcaster. An explainer of goings-on. A person you can hire in the event you start a new business, or already have one. Here's his logo.

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Contracts? Incorporation? He's got it covered. The machinations of the video game industry? He's all over it. You can do no better than Richard Hoeg, in these matters.

Should have got this up earlier. Michigan was in a tight battle with Georgia Tech at the top of the EDSBS charity bowl standings for a few days. Now they are… not.

We can claim no credit for this. But we can still push it over the goal line, which is currently about 11k away. This year I've commemorated a very special game, because as a society we are currently Rutgers watching a third string fullback score from 20 yards out.

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Donate. It'll feel vaguely good for a brief time. And you will see the full picture of Spencer in overalls.

[After THE JUMP: nobody knows!]

[Cover art by Seth]

COVERING BEILIEIN

Reminiscing about the unique experience covering John Beilein as a reporter. Joe took the collegiate approach to beat writing and got a typically Beilein response. The Daily piece mentioned can be found here (https://www.michigandaily.com/section/mens-basketball/former-daily-mens-basketball-writers-remember-beilein). We talk about how different watching a Beilein program was for those of us who came up only knowing Ellerbe and Amaker. Stunningly, we found it much more enjoyable.

A relatively quick Juwan Howard and staff discussion follows that wasn’t lengthy enough to make into its own segment. After the moonshots, he was the obvious choice, and Phil Martelli seems like a home run hire in the category of “find a guy who’s done this before.”

FAVORITE PLAYERS TO COVER FROM THE TEAMS WE ACTUALLY COVERED

This was brutally difficult and I’m sure you’ll be shocked by at least one of my omissions. So you’re not shocked by other omissions, I covered the team from 2012-13 through 2017-18, while Joe covered 2010-11 for the Daily and 2012-14 with UMHoops. This isn’t about picking the best players, but the ones who made the greatest impact on us while we covered them for whatever reason, so there’s feelingsball at play here.

FAVORITE BEILEIN-ERA GAMES WE ACTUALLY COVERED

Same deal here: we had to be covering the game in person to include it on our list. As you may expect, we hit some overlap from the 2013 and 2014 seasons, much of which we spent trying not to get kicked off press row for reacting to GRIII lobs.

SONGS
  • They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) — Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
  • Thuggin’ (Instrumental) — Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
  • Yesterday — J Dilla
THE USUAL LINKS

Give me all the Bo Ryan rage so I can drink it in my coffee

[game begins]

Oh man, this is awesome. Like that one half of the UCLA game.

Oh, now I remember the other half of that UCLA game.

Dick Vitale is going to talk about the Fab Five?

[hits mute button]

[awaits final score]

[Hit THE JUMP for actual notes and the box score.]