More Injuries in Bball To be Announced Tomm
Cant remember a worse 3 week stretch in my life for UM sports
Beilein: There were more injuries in practice yesterday. "You'll find out tomorrow."
— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) December 11, 2015
- OSU you had 1 job to do. You didn't do it.
- OSU then slaps us silly
- Durkin interviews week of THE GAME...then leaves
- Iowa you had 1 job to do. You didn't do it.
- We lose Viramontes
- Pruitt's agent has fun with us
- We look like a D2 team v SMU
- We lose Spike
- Peppers reportedly acts like a complete fool
- Now moar injuries
What did we do so wrong to you cruel world?
December 11th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
of catharsis.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:02 PM ^
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December 11th, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^
Yeah thats football specific - this is more encompassing both of the 2 major sports. Cant remember both programs taking body shots like this consecutively in a short time frame.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
Well thank God you're here to perform the public service of constantly bringing down the collective mood of the blog. What would we do without you?
December 11th, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
December 11th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
Hey my parents died when I was ten, would you like to talk about that?
December 12th, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
Seriously? Alum96 is probably the most informative poster on this board. Also, from what I can recall you seem much more negative than him most of the time.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
December 11th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
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December 11th, 2015 at 5:27 PM ^
I'll side with Ivan on this one. The Ed Martin fallout cast a smothering funk over our hoops program for years. It was a death sentence, but with continual stays of execution that extended our hopeless future and programmatic malaise. And it allowed Brian Ellerbe to coach more than one year. That's worse than any recent 3 week stretch of seemingly bad hoops news.
December 11th, 2015 at 6:15 PM ^
That funk is still there. When I was a kid it seemed like we played Duke and UNC every year and held our own as a only slightly worse program, now we're miles apart.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
Not doing well, that's for damn sure, I hope it's not one of the better players, we ain't got many of them.
But whomever it is, I hope it's not a serious injury.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
Is anyone else starting to think that this is on Sanderson. He's obviously great at making players explosive, but at the same time it seems to make them extremely fragile.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^
can make you more fragile, I doubt your hypothesis.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
The amount of injuries our players have had over the past 3+ years has been ridiculous. I have a hard time believing there is not something to be said about what Sanderson is doing. I'm no medical/physical training expert so Ill have to defer to others on the topic. It kind of feels like the same thing with the new football S/C coach coming in this year, there were not nearly as many injuries as there has been in the past few years
December 11th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
It could be related, but not of his doing. My guess is you just have rail thin kids performing tasks that their bodies aren't really made for... Adding muscle to a fragile base only makes the potential for injury greater due to the ability to do more to that fragile base.
Grasping at straws here. But the same was happening to the football team a few years ago. Maybe all these high tech facilites aren't a good thing?
December 11th, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^
December 11th, 2015 at 3:42 PM ^
True, but thats not what theyre doing. Coach Tolbert of the football staff even said the less physically developed players should start without heavy lifting, but instead having them do excercises with their own body weight.
December 11th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
And Tolbert's been there how long? This WAS a problem a few years ago with the FB team. Wasn't really an issue this year. Yeah, we had injuries, but they, for the most part, were game injuries.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^
GOD DAMN IT WHY DOES SOMEONE ALWAYS HAVE TO ASSIGN BLAME FOR EVERY BAD THING THAT HAPPENS TO MICHIGAN
Sorry. Didn't mean to take it out on you. Just the last straw in what seems like a billion posts like this lately.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:33 PM ^
If this was just an occurence that happened this year I wouldn't be saying anything, but after three years in a row it seems more like a pattern than a fluke.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^
Injuries happen, man. People always blame S&C or praise S&C during stretches without injuries, but I've yet to ever see anyone provide a shred of statistical evidence that any S&C coordinator or method has an effect on injuries. And I've challeneged a number of posters on here to offer some evidence. If there's really any effect, it should be easy, since S&C coordinators tend to stay for very long stretches with one program, and there's a huge sample of players and injuries to select from.
Was Sanderson the reason why we were basically injury free from 2009-2013?
December 11th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^
December 11th, 2015 at 4:32 PM ^
must be assigned somewhere. Who better than the person who makes all these players stronger?
December 11th, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^
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December 11th, 2015 at 3:09 PM ^
The last three weeks have been putrid, and you didn't even mention the Lions' loss to the Packers.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
Likely because there are probably some Packer fans on here, plus that's just what the Lions do.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
This team isn't really a tournament team anyway. The silver lining is that these injuries can be used as an excuse (assuming the injuries are significant and to role players).
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December 11th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^
Neither was 2010-11 Michigan, which was 11-9 (1-6 in conference) on January 22
Nor was 2013-2014 Michigan, which was 6-4 on December 14.
Oooops wait they both were.
December 11th, 2015 at 4:22 PM ^
Those two teams you mentioned were better than the team this year. Looking solely at records to compare the teams is almost meaningless.
For instance. The 2010-2011 team, had no real bad loses (except for maybe Purdue). They hung tough with #1 Ohio State and #3 Kansas (overtime loss) and 2 wins against MSU. While the record didn't necessarily reflect it, that team had cohesion and leadership (Darius Morris).
December 11th, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
By the dates I gave in my post, 2010-11 M had lost to unranked UTEP in a tourney, as well as unranked Wisconin, Indiana, and Northwestern on the road. And they got steamrolled by a good Purdue team, at home, by more than 20
2013-14 M had lost to unranked Iowa State on the road and unranked Charlotte in a tourney.
Look, I'm not saying this is a good team. I'm just saying you've written them off too fast. Every single guy who gets minutes has shown promise as a pretty darn good player, and it appears many have regressed. Maybe, just maybe, they actually haven't regressed, and instead they've played a few bad games that aren't indicative of longterm progress, considering almost all Beilein players improve rapidly (almost too rapidly, since the really good ones are NBA first-rounders in two years).
December 11th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
I thought they made the tourney that year. So yea, not a great lose.
However, road games in the big ten are tough to win. I don't think they really tell a lot. And Wisconsin was a top 10 team by the end of the season and we played them tough (death to backboards!).
Perhaps you are right. I might be writing them off too soon (maybe not). But having watched almost every game in JB's tenure, I think this year's team is the worst he's had. Often times the record doesn't really reflect how good or bad a team is.
December 11th, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^
Fair. I agree they've looked downright bad at times. But I've seen Beilein work enough magic (and seen enough potential in all of these guys late last year) that I'm a believer.
December 11th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
to this one.
December 11th, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^
By the end of the season, yeah. At this time in those seasons, they were about the same. We'll see if this team gets better.
December 11th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^
some toughness. This team still a ways to go. Go Blue!
December 11th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
December 11th, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^
This post is the equivalent of a reminder of what it's like to be kicked in the balls. Most of us remember and those who are "special" enough to forget or not know don't need a reminder. When we beat our rivals next year we can enjoy redundancy.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
How are you a '96 alum?
December 11th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^
at least we can count on Denard Robinson's sm____.... oh... uh... yeah this is getting serious.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^
YOU BASTARDS! YOU TOOK DENARDS SMILE. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! WHO ARE YOU!
December 11th, 2015 at 3:32 PM ^
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December 11th, 2015 at 3:42 PM ^
Look, I'm not saying definitively that our strength and conditioning program is the reason to blame for the crazy number of injuries recently, but does this not seem strange to anyone else?
Thus far, they mostly seem to be lower-body injuries as well. I've never really heard of much hip injuries in basketball, but then Bielfeldt and Spike get the same odd injury within a year of each other? Levert and Walton with their foot issues. Irvin with his back. All but Walton required surgery.
And haven't Bielfeldt, Spike, and Irvin's injuries all occurred during the offseason?
I'm probably over-analyzing, but the whole thing just seems odd to me. I've never seen such a rash of serious injuries to a basketball program in such a short amount of time.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:47 PM ^
Sometimes they clump together.
December 11th, 2015 at 6:17 PM ^
Unsafe lifting can certainly cause injuries, however Walton had turf toe last year, I can think of no way in which poor technique can cause turf toe.
December 11th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
Injuries???? As in plural? And this is beyond the Spike not playing?
Ugh! Uggh! Ugh! Probably they'll announce that Walton's injury is long term and someone else is banged up.
What the hell? This basketball team is floundering already!
December 11th, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^
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