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By Brian — November 2nd, 2012 at 3:50 PM — 10 comments
Filed under:
  • 2012 minnesota
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  • basketball
  • glenn robinson iii
  • hockey
  • jordan kovacs
  • little brown jug
  • mitch mcgary
  • nick stauskas
  • northern michigan
  • spike albrecht
  • unverified voracity
  • zack novak

I've got to get on a plane shortly so shortly the links will go.

OOP.

Brief thoughts on the first exhibition:

  • Albrecht is an extremely wise pickup; if he can hit threes and break the press and get M's offense in motion he'll be at least a solid backup for four years. Michigan needed some stability at that PG spot and he looks like he'll provide it.
  • Stauskas is going to be a lights out three point shooter and he has enough other game to contribute to the rest of the offense; D needs work.
  • McGary's FTs will probably be fine, his stroke looks good. Hopefully that leg injury clears up and he gets that extra 10% athleticism that made him a huge prospect after his AAU season.
  • GRIII is Branden Dawson-ish with more shooting and less rebounding but probably not much less rebounding.
  • Hardaway played a much more complete game than we're used to seeing. Thumbs up.

Predictorama.

  • Know Your Foe from the MZone says "must resist making little Brown Jugs" joke at picture of hot woman in brown bikini, predicts 28-10.
  • Who Are You And Why Do We Care exists, predicts on non-football factors, does so 38-13.
  • Maize and Go Blue goes with 37-10.
  • Maize and Blue Nation says 27-2, which I should have thought of.
  • The Daily Gopher can't even find a jug picture where it's being held by a Minnesota player—RVB is the man—and goes with 31-13.
  • I'm In Love With A Fringe Bowl Team has a mathematical model that says 33-23 and a non-gambler guy who picks Michigan to cover: "I would have loved to start this post recalling the last time the Gophers beat Michigan in Minnesota, but I don't remember it at all. This is mostly because it was five years before my birth."

Kovacs is a truthful dude. Post-Nebraska:

"A lot of it is the games we played," Kovacs said. "Air Force didn't necessarily throw the ball on us a lot, and Alabama didn't have to.

"There's some open receivers last game that (quarterback Taylor) Martinez didn't see. There were a couple blitzes we ran, and we had a guy running down the middle of the field wide open. Can't let that happen. We've been fortunate they haven't hit 'em yet."

So that means the secondary is playing at a high level, but maybe not its highest level?

"I don't know," Kovacs said. "I think we're playing all right. I think last game we didn't play well enough at all, specifically the defensive backs."

    Well, yeah. Gibbons:

"I really don't groom that much," Gibbons said, smiling.

Now he's going to bleed on you, Baumgardner. Or more likely whoever wrote this headline:

Michigan's Nik Stauskas and Matt Vogrich could finally give John Beilein a consistent deep threat in Ann Arbor

Zack Novak shot 41% from three last year, and whenever he gets back from wrecking Belgium he's going to be ANGAR. Elsewhere, Spike Albrecht is called "mini Steve Nash," which is definitely not getting ahead of ourselves and headline guy is definitely going to put a "got" in between the first two words of this one after a loss at some point this year:

Youth served: Michigan's talented freshmen five show ability, poise in college debut

Falk on Jug. Not like that.

Whatever that might mean.

Seriously, they can do this? Whenver M plays at Northern I think the exact same thing Yost Built does:

Unlike SOME SCHOOLS THAT I KNOW OF, Northern offers streaming video of their games for $7. You can also buy a season pass for $75, and if you're reading this blog, don't have season tickets, and claim that you wouldn't fork out that much for a Michigan version of the same thing, I will call you a damn liar. It's 2012 and this is Michigan fergodsakes. We shouldn't have less access to video of games than Northern Michigan fans. Just saying.

I've watched three or four games at NMU the past few years, and M hockey fans outside of the local area can't get one.

Meanwhile, MHN highlights the scheduling thing we'll hear all season:

LAST TRIP TO MARQUETTE?
The Mining Journal’s Matt Wellens talked to NMU coach Walt Kyle about scheduling the Wolverines in the future.  Kyle is open to the idea, however it must be on “fair terms.”  By that he means a basic home-and-home series where the Wolverines would travel to NMU one year and NMU would return the favor the next year.  He is not open to two-for-ones and payout deals.

Honestly, good for NMU.

Etc.: Stuffing the Passer. Michigan expects lack of goalie ejections at Northern Michigan. Yost Built previews NMU. NCAA dooms Midwest regional to 20 people in stands for 13th year of 14 by giving it to Cincinnati, which has one program (Miami) within a four hour drive. Leitch should totally ditch the Knicks. Catching up with Hunwick.

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November 2nd, 2012 at 4:01 PM
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Am I the only one who can't

Am I the only one who can't see shit?

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November 2nd, 2012 at 4:11 PM
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Are you on mobile? Sometimes

Are you on mobile? Sometimes on mobile for me, whether the website or the app, videos cause the screen to go all black and I can't scroll beyond them. Is that what you are experiencing?

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November 2nd, 2012 at 4:35 PM
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Turn

Turn your IPhone sideways

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November 2nd, 2012 at 10:05 PM
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I'm on a macbook, all the

I'm on a macbook, all the videos are just black boxes. Must be something I have to update.

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November 2nd, 2012 at 4:32 PM
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I'm married to a petite

I'm married to a petite Guatemalan woman, so I've used the "Little Brown Jugs" thing before. 

Not that she knew what I was talking about.

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November 2nd, 2012 at 4:39 PM
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I am appropriatly "geeked"

I am appropriatly "geeked" for basketball after watching that game last night.

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November 2nd, 2012 at 5:12 PM
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We can take NMU

As long as we don't lose our heads like last year, we can take the Northerners. They aren't that good.

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November 2nd, 2012 at 6:29 PM
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Some points about NMU

I didn't attend, but i now live a few blocks from campus and the atheletic facilities.

Hockey is all we've got. Aside from the Olympic training center, sports here is weak. I would say that the Marquette HS football games get as much attendance as NMU football. Hockey, however, is almost always sold out. They can even sell "luxury" boxes at the hockey arena. So people care, and then when natives move away, they still care ... partly because they're Yoopers and that's just how they are and partly because HOCKEY.

The other factor in this is that NMU is very heavily invested in tech as a way to set it apart from other, mediocre directional universities. It instituted a mandatory student laptop program like a decade ago and has long been heavily connected. It was one of a handful of test locations for WiMax technology, enough so that the President chose to visit to highlight high tech, rural broadband possibilities.

Not to say that UM shouldn't have such a thing. Seems easy enough in this day and age, especially for a wealthy school. Still, having NMU compared favorably to just about anything is shocking.

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November 2nd, 2012 at 10:08 PM
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Cincinnati

Hey Brian, you might want to ask for an atlas for Christmas. Schools within 4 hours of Cincinnati:



Notre Dame

Bowling Green

Miami

OSU

Michigan

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