zack novak

1 hour and 51 minutes

The Guest

Zack Novak joined us for a segment, which is reason enough to put his Chicks Dig Scars shirt back up, now on the fancy nice shirts, with the proceeds going to Chad Tough.

Worth noting that Spike Albrecht does not have a shirt in the MGoStore.

The Sponsors

Thank you to Underground Printing for making this all possible. Rishi and Ryan have been our biggest supporters from the beginning. They're also behind our Ann Arbor Institutions t-shirt program. They have awesome custom tees and hoodies and low, affordable prices. They also have tons of great Michigan apparel that you can wear proudly to support the maize and blue! Check out UGP’s holiday gift guide at ugp.io/holidaygiftguide and use the promo code NEWYEAR for 25% off your next purchase!

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, and Information Entropy.

1. Football Recruiting Doesn’t Suck Again

starts at 1:00

Mo Linguist has been loosed in the Volunteer state and is making it into the new Massachusetts. Also three DTs, one or two or all three perhaps ticketed for nose, when it looked like none.

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

About last niiiiiiiight. Lights out for MSU:

Thanks to Michigan State for this fantastic content pic.twitter.com/56R2yAQqfX

— Alejandro Zúñiga (@ByAZuniga) January 29, 2021

The Spartans lost 67-37 to Rutgers last night, putting up their worst points per possession in the Kenpom era. Notable statistics:

• With more TOs than buckets, Michigan State suffered a basketball rutger against Rutgers!
• MSU turned the ball over on 32% of their possessions!
• Rutgers rebounded 43% of their misses!
• Rocket Watts is shooting 29/24 in Big Ten play!
• Rutgers had more blocked shots than FTAs allowed!
• It was Rutgers's best defensive performance in a conference game since 1982! Their opponent in that game was St Bonaventure!
• MSU is dead last in conference play in: 2P%, steals allowed, TO%, and offensive efficiency!
• There are 12 Big Ten teams in the top 100 of the NET rankings. MSU is not one!
• MSU has lost games in which their opponents shot 26%, 24%, and 13% from 3!

2021 bringing heat.

[After THE JUMP: Jeb! the AD]

We know you're starving for live sports. While we cannot provide that, we can do the next-best thing: watch some old games while providing inane commentary.

Join me at 8:00 pm ET as we travel back to January 27th, 2011, when John Beilein's Wolverines went in search of their first win at the Breslin Center since 1997. Bob Wischusen and (gulp) Stephen Bardo are on the call. I'll be talking over them for much of it. Trust me, this is for the best.

If you'd like to take part in the live chat, you can get the full experience on my Twitch page.

Consider this a test run. If all goes well, plan on seeing a lot more of this while we're all waiting for something approaching normalcy to return.