Update on The Summer of Spike and Dan Dakich on Michigan

Some lighter reading material for your lazy Sunday summer morning:

Spike Albrecht starred at his dad's basketball camp in Crown Point, Indiana, last week.

In a couple of days, it’s back to the grind for Albrecht. He heads to Michigan next week, where he’ll start classes and start to answer the question that everyone’s asking: Can he play like that consistently for the Wolverines?

Michigan has a highly touted point guard, Derrick Walton, who is expected to immediately challenge him for the position.

It’s a wide open competition and Albrecht is looking forward to it. He also doesn’t want to just be remembered for that one half. He didn’t score a point in the second half against Louisville and he admitted that he was a little tired.

“One of my coaches told me, ‘don’t let scoring 17 points in the national championship game be the best thing in my career,’ ” he said.

Spike will just have to prove it again.

(Also interesting that maize-and-blue were the color scheme for the kids' camp, even though his local high school does everything red-and-white.  Michigan über alles Farben.)

Dan Dakich also returned to his alma mater in The Region and talked about his son Andrew choosing Michigan, among other things, delivering a couple tweetable quotes (one of which excerpted below):

Your son, Andrew, is going to play at Michigan as a preferred walk-on. How did that happen?

He always wanted to play in the Big Ten. Michigan always followed us around at AAU. I was talking to (Michigan assistant) Jeff Meyer about him at the Big Ten Tournament and he asked where he was going. I said either Purdue or Butler as a walk-on.

So they invited him to campus and he just fell in love with it. I fell in love with it. I said, “Son, if you don’t commit, I’m going to commit for you.” He said, “It’s a lot of money.” I told him not to worry about that. It’s perfect for him. Spike (Albrecht) and Mitch McGary are there. They’ve got a good point guard coming in. He might never get to play, but it’s still a great opportunity.

Why has Michigan been able to tap into Indiana so much?

Purdue and Indiana made a mistake using up all their scholarships and not taking Glenn Robinson (III). They are always there, recruiting these kids. It’s a comfortable place for them.

And a couple notes on his twitter life (no, he doesn't have Canseco's team writing them for him).