Sponsor note. Richard Hoeg will business you up. He will file documents and draw up contracts and get you right with the government as you attempt to launch your very good business idea.

He will also not talk about Michigan football or talk about Michigan football, as is your preference. If you'd like a small business lawyer who's in the same boat you are, he's the guy to call.

I now own an ascot? In addition to our weekly discussions about the continuing Robert Anderson fallout on WTKA, I made an appearance on Stateside to talk about how it's impacting various parts of the program from the fanbase to former players and where the focus should be.

For the record. Summarizing some things said on these podcasts:

The release of the Wilmer Hale report seems to have induced these many and various press conferences, which seem designed to increase public pressure instead of saying anything that is not already in a university-commissioned document that may not be literally comprehensive but is comprehensive enough to identify a pattern of behavior and damn the culture in the football program around that time. "How much money should survivors get in compensation?" is an unanswerable question and to me it's not an interesting one. The lawyers will posture and there will be a number.

I'd rather talk about the structures in place then and the ones in place now that have brought some much-delayed comeuppance to four different serial sexual harassers.

[After THE JUMP: Power round two?]

Hello! Mel Pearson's tweet about Owen Power sticking around Ann Arbor for a second year has been confirmed, more or less, by one Owen Power:

"Right now, I'm probably leaning more towards going back to school," Power told "NHL Now." "It's something I'd like to do just trying to get the true experience of playing college hockey. At the end of the day, it obviously depends on what the team wants and what everyone around me thinks is best."

The comments on this post from Buffalo fans are generally supportive of this idea because Buffalo's not doing anything next year with or without Power and not immediately signing him moves his UFA date back a year.

Kirk's mad at LSU. Caring about the rules is no longer cool in college athletics, but Kirk Ferentz found a time machine and skipped from 1960 to the modern day in a flash so he's still cheesed off about certain things. And to be fair:

What Ferentz would like to see is better rules enforcement and maximums established in support staffing.

“I think that’d be really healthy for college athletics,” he said. “It’s probably a pipe dream. But I really think that’s because one thing we don’t have right now is enforcement.”

“I think college basketball is a great example of that. There’s one school in particular, it’s amazing to me. I think the AD ended up getting fired, there’s a lot of collateral damage, and the guy who was on tape is still coaching there. Make that make sense to me. I just don’t understand it. But there’s an easy answer why; they’re winning."

There is some possibility that the hammer falls on LSU for continuing to employ Will Wade, but the comically elongated process here is going to make the results absurd no matter what they are. Either LSU continues to employ a guy for three or four years and then it's a problem, or the guy caught on a wiretap violating the amateurism the NCAA claims is its founding principle has nothing happen to him. Not that anyone will have trouble rationalizing this away.

Y’all got proof Will Wade did anything wrong?? Been almost 3 years and we’re still waiting….

— STTDB-WHO DAT-LETS DANCE (@LSU_allday504) June 16, 2021

America, 2021.

Super senior gaps. IlliniBoard on the radically different numbers of sixth year players on Big Ten rosters:

This was in last week's newsletter as well, but here's what the AP put together on "Super Seniors" returning in the Big Ten:

Illinois - 21
Rutgers - 13
Minnesota - 10
Indiana - 8
Wisconsin - 7
Nebraska - 7
Michigan State - 5
Ohio State - 5
Northwestern - 4
Purdue - 4
Iowa - 3
Penn State - 3
Maryland - 1
Michigan - 1

So, uh, yeah, there are different approaches.

The post theorizes that Michigan didn't get extra years from many players because they've got a solid recruiting pipeline and just want to churn through their talent. This is hard to square with certain roster gaps, like DT, that could have had Carlo Kemp return but does not. Meanwhile Michigan imported a bit player from Oregon State in an effort to get a DT-sized DT on the roster. In Michigan's case it's more that the senior class was already very small and many of the guys in it were drafted by the NFL.

On the other hand, this is an interesting point:

See what Michigan is trying to avoid here? Listing/viewing all of your 2021 seniors as "juniors" does have drawbacks. They're probably acceptable drawbacks for a new coaching staff - they were going to comb through their roster anyway and some players just weren't going to be a fit - but the numbers will create a pinch in 2022.

Now, it's also possible that the NCAA sees this and says "fine, you can have 92 scholarships in 2022 and then it's back down to 85 in 2023." And there will likely be a lot of noise made by some prominent high school coaches about this. If all players get one extra year of eligibility, and if scholarship limits are only extended for one year, then every school is going to be dealing with a few less rides for the 2022 class, be it two or three at some blue blood or more than a dozen at Illinois. Add all of that up and you're going to see something like "2,730 FBS scholarships were given to the 2021 class but only 1,665 were given to the 2022 class".

Everyone got an extra year of eligibility, so next year anyone taking advantage of that is going to be occupying a slot that would otherwise be occupied by a freshman. Depending on how widespread that is you could see a lot more guys drop through the cracks, which could have transfer portal implications down the road when G6 teams are more flush with potential uptransfers  than they usually are. The COVID waiver year is going to have roster repercussions that last for years.

Various receivers. Bill Connelly ranks the top 50 wide receivers of the past 50 years, which naturally turns up a bunch of Michigan players. Included are #26 Braylon Edwards, #11 Anthony Carter, and #5 Desmond Howard. On Howard:

Years: 1989-91
Career Stats: 134 catches, 2,146 yards, 32 TDs (also: 249 rushing yards, 2 rushing TDs, 2 kick return TDs, 1 punt return TD)

When a college football fan hears the words "Heisman moment," his or her imagination likely shoots immediately to one specific image: Howard striking the Heisman pose after returning a punt 93 yards for a touchdown against rival Ohio State. It was the ultimate punctuation mark after two dominant seasons in Ann Arbor. The Cleveland native scored on nearly one-quarter of his career receptions (nearly one-third in 1991), and he was an absolute terror, whether fielding a kick, going deep, or taking a handoff behind the line.

Randy Moss was #1, which is impossible to argue with.

Etc.: Yeah do not click on PFF's 2022 NFL draft WR rankings. Rashan Gary looking to break out in year three. R senators skip NIL hearing. Arizona State just did a bunch of COVID visits as if nothing was wrong.