You didn't notice that Michigan was a parody of itself?

The officiating certainly contributed to increased parody at times. 

The parody also seemed to create a temporal vortex in which this podcast was recorded both before and after Kobe Bufkin announced his departure, a sort of laughable wormhole.

I thought it might have been intentional… and if so, brilliant!!

The thing about basketball is that nobody knows how next year is going to look until the season tips off.  All the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the program is cratered, etc etc, half the roster hasn't even been set.  Anyone trying to project next season is flat out guessing -- remember how we were a top 10 team going into this past season, lol?

Juwan has a full plate.  He needs to figure out who is going to be here.  We may not be done with departures yet, need to hear from the NCAA on Baker and Llewellyn, need to bring in some guys via the portal.  Then he needs to figure out how those pieces fit together.  Construct a plan for how he's going to win with what he's got.

It'll definitely be a different team without Dickinson and obvious NBA talent but that doesn't necessarily mean that it will be worse.  Is that possible?  Of course.  They may even be a lot worse.  But they could also be better.  More experience, better fits, different guys, a better coaching job.

Somebody pointed out in the Hunter thread (and sorry I don't recall who) that KSU had a total of 1 player on the roster at one point during the offseason.  You really can just build a team out of nothing but transfers given the mass of activity in the portal.  So all hope is not yet lost, but Juwan is definitely going to have to nail some inbound transfers for next year to be anything but a disaster.

All that said, admissions needs to play ball, literally.  If Michigan admissions is going to keep screwing us out of Terrence Shannons, then there's going to be very little that Juwan (or any coach) can do in our brave new portal-centric world of CBB.

The defense was actually decent in the second half of this season and while that's losing Bufkin and Dickinson there are the bones of a good defense here that could be successful especially in a Big 10 that isn't full of cracking offenses.  

Beilein needed to have a certain level of competency for his teams to really work, and if not they were all gas/no breaks and you had to live or die with how yours shot was that game.  I agree we'll need to see how a Howard team looks without an immediate offensive identity.  

Yea, I think I've accepted we're likely to look like a Rutgers team: good defense, kinda awful offense, win ugly, scrappy. I think the question is, will whatever next year looks like be enough to save Coach Howard and staff's jobs? TBD. 

There was something "off" about the team this year.  They just didn't function well together, and the whole was less than the sum of the parts.  Blowing it up is probably better than doing the same thing over next year hoping for a different result.  Either way, the forecast is "interesting times".

She can shoot the 3 like nobody's business so if she so much as boxes out on a free throw she already makes the men's team better than Jett ever did.  But you know, you gotta ask why a woman who just played in the Finals would down-transfer to Michigan men's basketball.

As long as we're looking for a replacement for Jett, someone send a dump truck full of NIL cash to Keisei Tominaga.  We can at least make Michigan a greener pasture than Nebraska.

Does that mean he can teleport through MORE defenses than just BYU's?

I think the weather conditions affected all the quarterbacks more than reported (wet ball, cold weather, gusty winds). 

With that said, I agree with you on the backups. I actually thought Warren played the best out of any of the backups QBs and his INT was a combination of a great play by Pollard and his receiver (Clemons?) not coming back for the football and helping him out. (EDIT: Just rewatched the play, Clemons actually stops on his route after he clears the first defender and then widens out the route to the sideline... if he keeps running up the field, he's inside of Pollard and catches it in stride)

Tuttle also looked good as a runner and in the short passing game, but I'm worried about his panic gene/decision-making after playing for IU for the past few seasons.

Orji looks like an absolute hoss and had that nice throw down the field, but he looks like he's still a long way off in the short-intermediary passing game (accuracy and making quick decisions).

That was Myles Pollard