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Campanile retained. Rutgers settled for this guy:

This is seemingly good news for #Michigan, as Wolverines linebackers coach Anthony Campanile had been a target for the Rutgers DC job. Campanile is expected to stay with the Wolverines. Rutgers retained his brother Nunzio, who served as interim head coach for much of 2019 season.

— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) January 14, 2020

That's good news. Turnover's going to happen; losing the guys generally thought of as your top two recruiters at the same time would have been bad. Unfortunately it seems like retaining Campanile means the guy replacing Partridge isn't going to be Kentucky DB coach Steve Clinkscale but rather an assistant from the S&C staff named Tank Wright, per Webb.

Imagine Ohio State passing up an excellent position coach who is also a proven top notch recruiter so they can hire someone with zero track record because they can't find 100k. Would never happen. OSU might hire an incompetent because of nepotism, but they would never say they lack resources.

On the other hand. Tank Wright got married in the weight room.

What Strength & Conditioning Coach you know got married in a Weightroom? #BoutDatAction. Happy Anniversary Mrs Wright. 12/13/2018! pic.twitter.com/18horzAVKg

— TENARIUS TANK WRIGHT (@TankWright) December 14, 2019

If you can recruit a woman to get married in a damn weight room how hard can flagging down high school kids be?

[After THE JUMP: Dantonio deposed]

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I thought "Dogg" stood for Decorous Owl Gazing Group. I cannot recommend this recent segment from The Michigan Insider on the topic of Isaiah Todd's recent visit to Kansas—which featured a Snoop Dogg performance that seemed like a middle finger to the NCAA—enough:

Kansas won some internet acclaim by leaning into the heel turn, but hurriedly backtracked once it became clear that the Kansas donor class was more of a Steely Dan crowd. AD Jeff Long:

“We apologize to anyone who was offended by the Snoop Dogg performance at Late Night. We made it clear to the entertainers’ managers that we expected a clean version of the show and took additional steps to communicate to our fans, including moving the artist to the final act of the evening, to ensure that no basketball activities would be missed if anyone did not want to stay for his show.

“I take full responsibility for not thoroughly vetting all the details of the performance and offer my personal apology to those who were offended. We strive to create a family atmosphere at Kansas and fell short of that this evening.”

I'm not sure what Kansas expected when several stripper poles were wheeled onto the court, but they are the national leader in not seeing things in front of their own eyes. Bifocals and a history of 90s rap for the entire athletic department.

As Matt wrote earlier in the day, Michigan is trending heavily for Todd. With visits over and a decision set there's not much ammo or time left for Kansas to flip Todd back, and it sounds like the Snoop show backfired with mom. A national Rivals analyst predicting Kansas and then flipping to Michigan seems pretty good.

Michigan's main competition may now be a year overseas; hopefully the lure of playing for a guy who knows the NBA inside and out will overcome the lure of immediate dollars. This is just another reason to hope NIL rights get restored to players, by the way—much easier to convince Todd to stay stateside if he can leverage his name and image with the Michigan fanbase.

[After THE JUMP: NIL bill rolls off the toungue]

Injury status. You've probably heard about Charbonnet Panic 2019 by now, which had its origins in a Facebook post by a family member of a player, got Yodered by an OSU guy, and then ran around the world several times before meeting some pushback. Let's address that and Michigan's other walking wounded:

• QB Shea Patterson: says he's 100%: "I did get banged up in the first game, and it did kind of wear on me a little bit, but I’m ready to go. … I think it affected all aspects of (my play). An oblique is no fun, but I’m ready to go." Patterson said he was 100% after the Army game, when he was apparently not 100%, so… yeah.
• RB Zach Charbonnet: zillions of conflicting reports, some of which don't even make sense internally. Jon Jansen was pretty strident about the fact that Charbonnet has not had surgery and was walking around normally; Jansen said "fully expect[s]" Charbonnet to start Saturday. Other reports have been more circumspect. It seems certain that Charbonnet did miss practice earlier this week. That probably started up the rumor mill and now we're in the eight iteration of telephone.
• RB Tru Wilson: "We'll see if he's back this week, or soon," per Harbaugh on his radio show three days ago. Did not practice the previous week, paving the way for Christian Turner to solidify the #2 job. Turner seems fine after taking a hard hit late in the Army game.
• WR Donovan Peoples-Jones: ominous radio silence aside from a "not sure" from Harbaugh. His injury was reported very, very late in fall camp as a high ankle sprain, which is the kind of thing that can linger forever. No insider rumblings, which is in contrast to a lot of the other guys on this list. Signs point towards no.
• LT Jon Runyan Jr.: "Ready to go" per Warinner.
• DT Donovan Jeter: Played a few snaps against Army and was put in front of the media this week so should be full go.
• DT Mike Dwumfour: Was reputed to be ready to go two weeks ago against Army; did not play. Apparently the only issue remaining is with his arm(?) and could have been left out of the Army gameplan for tactical reasons. Like DPJ, no encouraging insider noises may mean he's still out.
• S Quinten Johnson. Johnson posted a picture in which he was about to undergo surgery. A redshirt, already likely, is now assured.

If Dwumfour is out I don't see how Michigan doesn't spend a significant chunk of the game in a 3-3-5. Michigan doesn't trust their freshmen, I can't imagine Ben Mason is going to be able to cope against the Badgers, and Kemp/Jeter are unlikely to play every snap.

[After THE JUMP: Spartan Stadium's beleaguered grass.]