B1G media day #1 Open Thread
The article I read gave me the wrong order. I guess one of the coaches missed their flight
Real order per BTN
Frost
Smith
Dantonio
Allen
Fleck
Locksley
Day
Mods feel free to edit my OP and place a gif of penguins falling on ice here.
Looks like our boys took in Wrigley field today. Glasgow is bigger than Hudson.
I would get an Ubuntu Blue T-shirt or hoodie in a heartbeat.
The Russians are going to abuse the FaceApp picture of that sausage and hack into the sausage's computer and drain it's bank account.
Harbaugh is tomorrow at 10:30 for those who want to know. I personally don’t care about any of the others.
Does anyone? I have never paid attention to anything non-Michigan when it comes to media days. I just don't care. I want to watch or hear the coach press conference, the segment he is on set with the BTN guys, and the same thing with the players. That's all I need.
What others?
As a Michigan Wolverines fan, but also as a college sports fan, if I had the time to spare, I’d watch all of the Big Ten Media Days coverage.
As much as I want to hear from Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan players, in past years, I’ve also found it interesting to (a) see how coaches and players from other Big Ten teams present themselves at these events, and (b) listen to the questions from the Big Ten media members to learn whether any of them might be worth following online for their observations as the season progresses.
Among the many things that I've missed since the great glitch switch from MGoBlog 2.0 to version 3.0 is the extensive list of links to websites and blogs for Michigan AND other Big Ten schools and college sports in general. For example, The Blog That Yost Built has a list of those types of links (including one for MGoBlog) on the left side of its home page
While I easily can search Google for information about Johns Hopkins Lacrosse or Notre Dame Hockey, or information about any other Big Ten team's sports, if there were a list of links on MGoBlog for just the athletic department websites for the other schools that compete in Big Ten sports, then that one-click connection would save whatever time it takes for the Google search.
The obvious workaround is to simply compile bookmarks on my web browser like I've done for Michigan -- about 30 pages bookmarked, including things like the Dak and Dunc Show and the Not the Mainstream with Stuart Douglass podcast (guess that we can't refer to him as "Stu").
While I don't care personally about the other coaches in attendance, we can usually count on 1 or 2 coaches making pretty stupid or inflammatory statements. That can be entertaining.
That video is amazing.
Mork expecting great things from the deck chairs he shuffled during the off-season
PJ entering the room
Nice gif
Dantonio says their motto for the year is "Chase the Moment". No doubt in reference to Chase Winovich.
Mork is such a douche.
It's true. Defensively shutting them down is fun, but nobody remembers "that time Michigan kept State to 100 yards of total offense" 10 years after it happens. If we put up 70 on them, the offensive equivalent of that defensive performance, MSU would never escape it.
I gave you an up-vote because I like it, but nobody (with the possible exception of Saban) is going to put up 70 on that defense. Their D Line will be the toughest that we face. We win, but probably something like 24-10.
Is this the event that creates the anonymous quotes from B1G coaches and players about other B1G coaches and players? That bit has been a favorite of mine. Like when someone said something to the effect of "Yeah, Jourdan Lewis had a bunch of PBU's, but nobody fears him." Good times.
Seems like Harbaugh has dressed down just a little bit further each year he's been at the conference. I think the first year he showed up in a jacket and tie, the next two years he did that with a Michigan hat on, and then last year he just showed up in a polo.
Wonder if he shows up this year in one of those M-Den sweat resistant shirts and a speedo.
If you forget how you feel about Scott Frost, just listen to the first 18 seconds of this video in which he says that the Nebraska plane got diverted (twice due to bad weather, first landing in Peoria, Illinois and then in Gary, Indiana, forcing them to take a car from Gary in order to get to Chicago for the Big Ten Media Days) and then that they wound up in a hotel “selling shower curtain rings”. Kudos to him for the Del Griffith reference!
But where was his mom?
There was some announcement that, starting next month, access to the Big Ten Network would change to the Fox Sports App, which is used to access Fox Sports content when you subscribe to cable.
Does this mean that the Big Ten Network will be available on streaming sources outside of Playstation Vue and a couple of others - all the ones like Spectrum Streaming that currently only offer ESPN, FS1 and the other national networks?