Unverified Voracity, Quickly
I'm headed out to Iowa City soon, so somewhat abbreviated today.
Get a bracelet. Phil Brabbs has just started his chemotherapy, which you can read about on his blog, and he's also offering up these stylish "cancer kicker" bracelets for the impossibly low suggested donation of $2:
You can get them by donating the funds (and possibly, you know, another five bucks or so to defray the costs of freakin' cancer) to [email protected], or you can just click the donation button to the right. It should donate to the right place and either ask for or confirm your shipping address with PayPal. Consume! I will repost this Monday!
Elsewhere, MGoTalk has posted an interview with Brabbs.
Hey, wow, this might be a good idea. Jay Bilas says the NCAA basketball committee is thinking of getting rid of limits on phone calls:
The NCAA is on the way to getting something right through a proposal to allow unlimited phone calls to recruits during contact periods. I have long been a vocal opponent of the phone call restrictions on college coaches in recruiting.
While well-intentioned, the rule prohibits coaches from normal contact with recruits while the rest of the free world gets unfettered access to them. The unintended consequences from the rule swamped its good intentions, by making those outside of the NCAA's reach more powerful and criminalizing normal communication.
As per usual when Jay Bilas is not talking about Tommy Amaker, I agree. They'd have to get rid of the limitations for all sports, right? And then texting limitations seem archaic and silly. Ron Zook is walking around looking like that creepy Enzyte guy and has no idea why. On the other hand, Kelvin Sampson knows exactly why he wants to punch a baby seal.
Yuck. This quote from Trevor Anderson is decidedly Carr-esque:
"They did everything that we practiced this week,” Anderson said. “When they decided to put in (Denard Robinson), we knew they were going to run the ball. They couldn’t throw it with him. As far as Forcier, we knew about his little stutter step, he’s going to jab to the outside and come back in. Everything that they practiced, we did."
Evidence for the mania. The point on Robinson is very duh, but the rest of it suggests Michigan did not pull new stuff out against State. Also—and this is a point Tim made on the podcast—with Forcier limited in practice on Monday and Tuesday, Michigan probably couldn't get confident enough in fancy new stuff that might, say, require option pitches and whatnot, to run it. It's probably hard as hell to install a new package when your freshman quarterback has his arm in a sling. That's probably not great for this weekend since Forcier was apparently limited early this week as well.
Next year, I expect Rodriguez will have a bunch of new stuff for MSU; if he doesn't I'll be disappointed.
Hockey weekend. Yost Built has your ten things for Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska Anchorage this weekend. Here's my one thing:
YEAH!!!
White pants? You know, I did ask Bruce Madej if he could confirm or deny that Michigan would wear white pants this weekend. He said he could not confirm or deny, which seemed like sort of a confirmation. Mark Ortmann hopes it isn't:
Against Iowa, the Wolverines may complement their white away jerseys with white pants, but an Athletic Department spokesman told The Michigan Daily last night he had “no definitive answer.” The uniform change would include everyone, even the 300-pound linemen.
“I can’t imagine,” left tackle Mark Ortmann said with a laugh. “We already have some pretty self-conscious offensive linemen. I don’t know if that will help out."
The strangest thing about all this is that no one will say yes or no about it, as if it's a state secret. The pants! They are white! We all must die!
Etc.: Chris Brown describes how the wildcat works. Tate Forcier just MAKES PLAYS—this is literally the headline. Rumeal Robinson… facepalm. Spongebob and Da U.
I'm out. Wish me luck.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:06 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:13 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:19 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:50 PM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 6:43 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:19 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:21 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 7:03 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 8:30 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:21 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:27 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:28 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:41 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:51 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:54 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 10:11 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 5:05 PM ^
And that's all I'm going to say 'bout that.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:32 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 5:43 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:44 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:51 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 6:31 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:53 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 5:09 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 4:58 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 5:36 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 6:01 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 6:26 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 6:26 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 6:54 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 7:52 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 9:00 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 6:49 PM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 11:23 AM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 6:32 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 7:03 PM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 7:40 PM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 9:09 AM ^
October 9th, 2009 at 8:25 PM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 2:41 AM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 7:43 AM ^
October 10th, 2009 at 5:17 PM ^
Comments