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Seth June 24th, 2021 at 10:54 AM

Things discussed:

  • Dug takes: Michigan wants a long-term guy at point guard—setting up to have a lot of experience.
  • Wish we had some stats on his free throw shooting because a key for him is can he make shots off the dribble. He can definitely get them—quickest guy in his class.
  • Bufkin: could he be the best player in the class? Depends when he blows up and how much we get out of Frankie.
  • Recent football commits: Crowell put his stamp on Aaron Alexander
  • CJ Stokes: Mike Hart has a type—big question is why did South Carolina’s new staff not re-offer? There’s a reason he’s a 3-star and Corum was a top-100 guy but similar games.
  • Seth once “raced” David Underwood—I actually stretched the truth here. I umpired softball in the summers, and David was I think the captain or the organizer of one of the two teams of football guys. When the other team didn’t show vs the football guys once, I gave them the field, and they were screwing around hitting flies to the outfield. I jumped in as well, and got there first to a ball in the alley between us, and they gave Underwood shit for having less range than the ump.
  • Owen Power: the #1 pick in the draft returning? Buffalo can get an extra UFA year and they’re not going to be competitive this year anyway. If he wants to be in the NHL next year he will be. NHL isn’t allowed to put guys in the AHL again so they can use college for that instead now.
  • NIL: Court’s decision is a sign the NCAA doesn’t want to get before them again. We’ve reached the tipping point now where the schools that made it their mission to keep payments in the black market are jumping to make the most friendly NIL bill as soon as possible so they don’t miss out on recruits.
  • We should never forget Gene Smith was the #1 guy trying to stop this from happening. Will there ever be a reckoning for Ohio State being THE school defending the old racket? Will LSU ever get in trouble? Well not if Mark Emmert’s brother in law is in charge there.
  • Bagmen won’t go away but they’re not going to compete with Nike, and where does Nike want a player to go? Michigan (Oregon).
  • Can we get MJ on the line with Walter Nolen?
  • How can they differentiate between commerce and paying players? They can’t; stop trying.
  • $50,000 to wear an MGoBlog hat once for five minutes. MGoBlog will sponsor any fullback at Michigan.

[Hit the JUMP for the player, and video and stuff]

You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream.

Segment two is available here. You can also watch the video here:

THE USUAL LINKS

I could have been the backup lineman on some of these teams.

Comments

MGoStrength

June 24th, 2021 at 11:20 AM ^

$50,000 to wear an MGoBlog hat once for five minutes.

So, MGB will help UM finally have more talent than OSU by sponsoring players? Who will be your first offer??? Hutch, McGregor, Dax, Edwards, McCarthy, Colson? Or can we do it for HS players...Nolan?

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MGoStrength

June 24th, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^

Delayed payments or multiple payments vs large payouts up front. It still probably won't stop some guys from trying to get as much as they can from the process.  Like anything else, there will be a learning curve to both athletic departments and players to this. But, part of that risk may also be the cost of doing business,  which is good for big schools like UM who can take more losses with a larger money cannon.

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mwolverine1

June 24th, 2021 at 11:44 AM ^

The Dior Johnson offer is supposedly for over $1.2 million. I am guessing this is primarily derived from an Opendorse (or similar method) estimate, mainly based on monetizing social media followers. Johnson has 575k Instagram followers so he may be a bit of a special case (Hunter Dickinson only has 37k). Regardless, I am hopeful Michigan endorses the most permissible rule possible. It's time.

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outsidethebox

June 24th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^

I believe Dug sets a nice floor at PG over the next several years. I think he has a ceiling similar to Simpson and Smith. Juwan must believe he holds good value here. Hopefully Juwan can keep him out of the portal.

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AC1997

June 24th, 2021 at 2:21 PM ^

For what it is worth, UMHoops charted 7 full AAU games for Dug and his FT% was 72%.  His 3pt% and more interestingly his 2pt% were also great in those games....which was not the case with his high school games recently.  But I think the shooting component for Dug will be somewhere between average and good....not the big unknown we've seen with Simpson, Frankie, etc.

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Kilgore Trout

June 24th, 2021 at 2:44 PM ^

I might have missed it, but what happened to Craig on these segments? I don't think he's been there since the whole Anderson / Ace / take down the podcast incident.

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