Michigan Football on "60 Minutes" this Sunday
They're doing a story on the business of college football.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111612aaa.html
November 16th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
To counter, Coach Mark Dantonio is allowing Entertainment Tonight to follow Gholston around looking for love in Cedarvillage.
November 16th, 2012 at 5:55 PM ^
Sparty on
November 16th, 2012 at 8:52 PM ^
Don't you mean Cops following Chris L Rucker around looking for engineering students?
November 16th, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
Here's an idea: "The Bachelor" style reality show where a bunch of walk-ons compete for one scholly
Now go make millions. I'm talking to you, Mark Hollis.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^
Already been done (sort of). They had a show like this, for basketball, on ESPN. It was when Bob Knight coached Texas Tech. Was actually very interesting to see Knight coach and talk about basketball theory and what he was looking for in a walk on. It differed, though, in that 1.) it was basketball, and 2.) the spot available was a walk-on spot, not a schollie.
November 16th, 2012 at 5:41 PM ^
Business of college football...
Not sure how I feel about this. Anytime the word "business" is thrown in with college football the story is rarely positive.
November 16th, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
A lot of athletic departments (as well as plenty of companies) would kill to be as lucrative of a business as U of M's AD. Plus, having a pure CEO at the helm of the department is a dead give away that we run things like a business.
November 16th, 2012 at 5:49 PM ^
I don't like the idea of 60 Minutes judging Michigan football from its ivory tower. I'm not a fan of the show generally. It should be called What Do Old, Wealthy White People Who Fancy Themselves as Progressive Think About Things? Its reporters can distinguish between real injustice and fairness and fake injustice and fairness about as well as a reasonably intelligent hamster.
November 16th, 2012 at 5:53 PM ^
Way to offend millions of hamsters, jerk.
November 16th, 2012 at 6:03 PM ^
Just wait for the intelligent hamsters to pass this news onto the unintelligent hamsters. This may open up a class war amongst hamsters which could lead to the hamsters realizing it was all started by you. Then you are in for a world of hamster trouble...
November 16th, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
Speaking as an old, wealthy white person who fancies myself as progressive I for one appreciate 60 minutes letting me know each week which causes I need to support and what issues I should be morally outraged by.
November 16th, 2012 at 10:48 PM ^
Love the sarcasm
November 16th, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
U of M fan makes disparaging remark about the "ivory tower" and is not referring to U of M?
Nice.
November 17th, 2012 at 2:20 PM ^
60 Minutes is nothing without Andy Rooney.
November 16th, 2012 at 6:46 PM ^
Hoke and Denard will be interviewed too
Looking forward to what they have to say
November 16th, 2012 at 6:52 PM ^
starting to sound like a POPCORN kind of night. Letsroll guys, go ahead get it all off your chests.(sarc) Nothing like a subtle political arguement to kick off the weekend!!
November 16th, 2012 at 7:11 PM ^
Wait, MSU didn't get interviewed? I thought they were big time college football. It must be hard to get interviewed while you're laying in the weeds.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
they're too busy focusing on their intergalactic recruiting
November 16th, 2012 at 8:22 PM ^
I posted this on my Facebook. Added the hash tag #relevant. I'm sure that should get a response from a couple of my friends who are spartys!
November 17th, 2012 at 3:37 PM ^
People that hash tag things on Facebook are the most annoying kind of people.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:27 PM ^
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50135207n
The preview clip sets this up with the Towson-LSU game actually, but it looks as if the framework will revolve around universities marketing themselves on the national stage through these admittedly lopsided matchups, among other things - basically, selling the program, if I am interpreting this correctly. The clip is interesting and the Towson AD even says essentially that there is no better advertisement for the program.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:29 PM ^
What is the betting line on Hoke using "boo boo" or "geez I don't know" or "Ohio"?
I will double my UM donation if he just points at the reporter to cut off any tricky questions.
Epic potential.
November 17th, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^
I thought Ohio State already had a series on Spike about that. Ink Masters, I think?