Open thread: M basketball vs. Utah

Yeah, it seems like attendance this year has been especially bad.  I guess fan expectations were really deflated after last season.  We need to fill up Crisler - this year's team is worth watching.

There probably are a lot of alumni in town...but they're probably at the Jug. Or anywhere else. As sad as it is, that's the state of the bball program. This is a fun team to watch but until we're consistently ranked and Crisler is renovated, you're going to have a hard time getting the majority of people excited about going to a game.

Not to be a dick, but, reasons for an empty Crisler:

This is also a world-renowned university, and finals are starting up.  

Not as many students bought BBall tickets this year due to the anticipated mediocrity of our team (which, hey, they're looking good!). 

With the Big Chill tomorrow, we have to get work done at some point.  

So many posters lament a perceived lack of school spirit by the students.  Then, when the students come full of spirit(s), the same people lament how classless and smashed we are.  For all of the grumbling about the "Down In Front-ers" that goes on here...

He's a big boy, he just needs to put on a few LBs

So I guess he isn't redshirting, after all.  I don't love the fact that he, Morgan and McLimans are all the same year of eligibility.  I've got to say, though, that even though he's rail-thin, Horford seems to make a lot of good hustle plays.

Darius Morris has been unconcious so far this season.  He looks so much more confident than last year.  He really is a mini-Denard.

He is starting to remind me of Rondo with his playmaking ability and ability to get to the rim and finish.

I have time Warner and it is on in Ohio.

they have it, if you pay.

5 pts in about 10 secs? 

Note... announcer with the "MARio brothers" quote... he's from the North East.   You midwesterners say "MAR-io" (correct way, but hey, whatever.)

Yea I agree, I feel like there still might be a few question marks regarding the team. I really wish we had beaten Syracuse. That would have been very nice. A lot of bball left, we'll get to see how this team pans out once big ten play starts.

I immediately started singing the music in Mario Bros. when you get the star. Sometimes you gotta love BTN basketball announcers.

I agree 100 percent

And its also why I dont mind burning Horford's redshirt. The team still needs to be able to throw out as many big guys as they can who can make plays, even if its just hustle plays. Morgan would have had had a huge impact on last year's team, for sure. This year's team is better and Horford can add some of the element they missed last year with the Morgan injury. Plus, so many more lineup combos for a guy like JB. I see the value in the redshirt, but I am happier to see some immediate dividends from Horford. The program needs that

I'm almost certain the camera was focused on LB right before half there.  And what do you know, he had a decent looking blonde standing right by him.

More BORK

On an IPhone. Autocorrect makes for great posts.

Settings>general>keyboard>autocorrection off. Autocorrect blows.

The most definitive info I've seen on this was in an annarbor.com article on the renovations from January:

Michigan will replace seats in the lower bowl, align aisles with entrances, along with adding handrails and disability seating to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

...

Re-seating of the lower bowl will not displace the Maize Rage student section. Martin said “we want the students to be behind the bench.” Instead, though, he said architects might look at moving the benches - and the students - to the other side of the court. But nothing was definite with that.

long live LB!