MGoPodcast 11.25: On Lockdown
1 hour and 53 minutes
The Sponsors
We can do this because people support us. You should support them! The show is presented by UGP & The Bo Store, and if it wasn’t for Rishi and Ryan we’d be furloughed SBNation writers right now. AND THEY ARE DOING THIS FOR CHARITY: Proceeds from the "Those Who Stay Home" collection are going to support our front line workers at Michigan Medicine. Also by the way UGP was able to get their hands on an incoming shipment of maize and blue washable masks, a difficult item to track down right now. They're two for $15 on our store, and will ship in early May.
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[Hit THE JUMP for the writeup, player, and how you can get Seth to join your D&D group and/or eat a ludicrously spicy thing on the internet]
1. Construction/Deconstruction of Michigan's Basketball Roster
starts at 1:00
Program was blindsided by DDJ and Castleton leaving, Isaiah Todd getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a suddenly cash-throwing G-league, and Josh Christopher going full Dave Brandon. Would we be this disappointed if both five-stars had bailed earlier? Good class for building for the future but it grates that we have the bad luck for the G League to start paying people half a million out of nowhere. It's going to be kind of a NTDP for the NBA: will force Michigan to go more into Top-30 guys instead of Top-10 guys. Talk Mike Smith: what's he good at? Vulnerabilities? Michigan might look for a late-riser recruit or if immediate transfers are allowed that'll be a big market.
[The rest of the writeup and the player after The Jump]
2. Football Massachusetts Recruiting
starts at 25:29
Boston College blogger confused how Michigan expects to win championships with Boston College's guys. Exception: tight end. If you're going to get a 3-star out of Massachusetts it should be a Kwity Paye or Mo Hurst (who was nearly a 4-star and had an Ohio State offer). Can't compete with the big teams unless you get those talented defensive tackles—Michigan used to get them and now they're trying to Moneyball them.
3. Hot Takes and Gimmicky Top Five
starts at 50:19
Hot takes will make you angry but we've forgotten how to do this (also bring up the Fuegobox Choco Challenge: if 25 people play and tag Seth on twitter Seth will eat a death chocolate bar as well. Things go off the rails pretty quickly, and we are HUGE nerds. CFBRisk has two levels: participation and Texas A&M memes. If you invite Seth to your D&D group he will probably accept.
4. Rapid Fire Questions from the Internet
starts at 1:22:21
The A-Team of Michigan. Non-con home-and-home in football & hoops you'd like to see? Best & worst things about quarantine. Most important pantry stable. Favorite "social distancing" play. Strangest draft anomaly? Best way to ensure people stay 6 feet away from you? Favorite board game. Best game to watch during stay-at-home. Can you just make fun of MSU? Favorite Ann Arbor streets? Impact of shortened season? Writers who had the greatest influence on us (I skipped to save you all from 30 minutes of me naming people, and from having to defend Mitch Albom being on the list. Also Chris B. Brown and James Light as X's and O's writers, the guy who used to draw MS Paints on plays in the diaries was the inspiration for Neck Sharpies, Tres Crow, John Kryk and Steve Sap and Greg Dooley for drawing me into Michigan history, all the guys Brian & Ace mentioned especially DFW, Joe Falls, Adam Jacobi, the Banner Society folks, Natalie Wiener…I can't.
MUSIC:
- "Ain't Gonna Give It Up"—Charles Bradley
- "I Dream of Spring"—K.D. Lang
- "Heroin"—The Velvet Underground
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS:
"I'm trying very hard not to impulsively adopt a cat."
April 22nd, 2020 at 12:44 PM ^
Our Dungeons & Dragons group is kind of between campaigns so I'm running a 2nd Edition game (for those who don't know, the most recent edition is 5th) that was really supposed to be a "DM's night off" thing that kind of fell upward to become the main event. But hey, drop me a line if you're not intimidated by THAC0 calculations. (You're an MGoBlog contributor. . . you'd better not be scared of basic arithmetic!)
I have my own system I'm working on, but real life keeps getting in the damn way of that project.
(It's not a pipe dream FWIW. . . I did create a very odd MGoBoard topic some months back where I simulated a scrimmage of Michigan's front 7 with the ruleset, as a sort of stress test. It was kind of amusing to see MGoBloggers try to figure out what it was about, and maybe if I needed professional help.)
P.S. I sold off my M:TG cards. No one around to play with. My bank account was happy for a little while, though.
Huh?
The stupid changes to do away with THAC0 between 2nd and 3rd edition totally soured me.
Oh shit I didn't even think about editions. My friends used to play 2nd ed so I'm familiar with some of that. But the book I picked up is the latest edition.
Our group does both. The last campaign was 5th edition. Again, this 2nd edition thing was supposed to be a sideshow. Noobs welcome because they’re all new to 2nd edition as well.
Were the coaches really surprised by DDJ? From what I've ready from Brenden and Dylan it sounds like DDJ's departure has been brewing for some time. I do think they were surprised by CC leaving when he did.
I also think this aligns with the other roster construction:
- They were playing with Grad Transfers before DDJ/CC announced
- Even if they wouldn't have taken Smith if EVERYONE stayed, they were still one over the limit.
My guess? They were planning for Livers, CC, Todd, and JC to be on the roster but not DDJ. Hence the Akins/Smith pursuit and Howard walk-on.
State St. is in rough shape- full of potholes, etc. Seems some things don’t change
Can we stop the HOT TAKE voices please?
I read this comment in a HOT TAKE voice.
This was my first time doing the hot take voice (after I sold the bit thinking I was going to get to do this weekly) and halfway into it I realized my hot take voice is the same as my Schembechler impression.
I don't see a problem. Schembechler was the living embodiment of a hot take. The guy was a former Ohio State coach FFS.
I enjoy them. Ace's DO YOU WANT TO WIN OR BE COMFORTABLE back when had me reeling back and forth in my chair. They could use more variety, though. Doesn't MGoStaff have more of an impersonation repertoire? It don't need to be good; in fact, a downright terrible impression might improve the comedy. Possibilities include:
- Mustache-twirling villain
- Mr. T
- Inept megalomaniac (complete with maniacal laugh)
- Bill Belichick
- Movie trailer voice (starts every hot take with "in a world")
etc.
What a depressing section of the podcast when discussing Michigan football recruiting. No future championships with this regime. Recruiting has fallen off a cliff.
April 24th, 2020 at 11:41 AM ^
Really enjoyed the human side of Brian talking about why he didn't sell the blog. Hearing his perspective and how much he enjoys what he does gave me a new found appreciation for him and the blog as a whole.
What is the name of the D&D podcast with the dad?
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