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How is that at all political?

minutes last year and Stauskas played 30.5 but you are projecting the minutes leader will only play 30 minutes a game? At least you are the first to point out the we will probably have a two point guard lineup for 5-10 minutes a game assuming Walton establishes himself.

A college video game before? I don't see the difference.

And they were really friendly there then but I wouldn't return the easy things are now.

Nice.

Keep looking for it.

If it was just purely training and let's say training hours were cut 5% or something why couldn't flyovers fit within the training hours if this is just normal training? Am I missing something here or is this just one way to remind people that their budget has been cut?

No school has ever gotten in trouble for fans acting stupid and recruiting on their own and no school ever will. This is completely out of the hands of the university so let's please stop acting like a Michigan fan is ever really going to get us in trouble in any way.

Yes

Seems like it would be closer to once every two years to me or am I missing something?

For no reason.

Between hanging or in the blue lot and telling people where you like to park.

craft brew scene in America. So there's another reason. Also, Tijuana.

even if they are up by 30 this is actually a pretty damn good strategy.

You just had to tell us you had a hotmail account. No need to elaborate.

Already? I don't know about you but I rather Luke living it here. Btw, besides the top for teams nothing else changes in two years. But have fun waiting.

Tebow is too slow to run the spread n shred as a base offense in the NFL. I'm not sure why anyone thinks that's a realistic option.

On Garnett, Kozan, and Diamond. He has done the same this year on LT. Look, as an "insider" it's better for business to keep hope alive unless you are absolutely sure that it isn't going to happen. What I've noticed the last several years is usually when Michgan goes from being in the top of someone's group to no longer being an option the recruit usually stops talking to Tom. Then Tom says something about how he doesn't have any new info but he still feels pretty good about it. Maybe he is just letitng the fans down easy but most likely it's just better for business to have Michigan in it for more players.

He will be active for the first time every this weekend for the Chargers and he might even start. The Chargers got a lot of heat for taking him in the second round so here's hoping he proves the doubters wrong.

That is a reasonable drive for most Californians. I guess we forgot to mention the Insight/BW3 bowl in Tempe which has a B1G tie in.

This isn't the first time he has said that Michigan wasn't the team recruiting him the hardest. About a month ago he mentioned the Oklahoma and OK State were the schools recruiting him the hardest. Nothing that has happened in the last 4-5 months has indicated the Michigan is the leader. It's extremely rare that a recuit uses all five of his officials and then commits to a team he didn't take an official to. We might be better off lowering our expectations for a Treadwell commitment because at this point it seems more like a long shot.

I would say in general when a recruit goes through a 2 year recruiting process and norrows his schools from 10 to 5. to 3 etcetera... and then starts opening up his recruitment again that doesn't bode well for his original finalists. It probably means he is looking for something or a feeling he hasn't found yet in his final schools and therefore opening up his recruitment again. That's why I don't feel great about Green either, although the fact that he came in for an official makes me a bit more optimistic.  

that it's very possible that the coaches had no idea that he was throwing up until after the drive, right?

Taking action yourself instead of telling someone else to do a charitable act. You sir are a Michigan Man.

to a home game. I'm sure they would absolutely love it.

into his mind when he put Ohio up there as a finalist. Seriously?

But I can see why someone would. There’s a couple assertions made in the first few paragraphs and the only evidence is height and weight for incoming recruits.  Because the height and weight charts look pretty it does not mean any real research was done. I have no idea whether or not the OP’s assertions are correct but I can tell you that I gained no new insight from this post. Also, Desmond Morgan committed a month before Hoke was even hired.

And that goes for Blue-Chips and Oorbs too. Last year for the Western game Vegas 20 times the amount of money coming in on Michigan's side then on Western's side. Vegas thought they were going to make a killing on that game and got bailed out because of the thunderstorm prevented anyone from making money. 

On the Behind the Bets podcast every week on ESPN bookmakers constantly debunk the theory that they want even money on each side. If they can beat the public more consistenly then they make the house more money. Also, several bookmakers have brought up the fact that if they priced in which teams were "public teams" to the odds they would get absolutely destroyed by the sharps. The major expception is the Superbowl in which so many millions of dollars are at stake they try to get pretty close to a 50/50. 

So the fact that the line has come down means the sharps are betting heavily on Michigan or the bookmakers have taken another look at Michgan and think it will be a close game.

Anyone any age can play in the NBADL. The NBA relegation thing is another matter separate from the normal rosters.

Players make 20K-50K a year in the D-league so why not go to Ukraine and get (I'm guessing) 100K tax free plus a free car to drive and house to live in? His agent might have advised him to make some cash in Europe for a years and tear it up there and hope an NBA team picks him up.

Seems reasonable.

lack of irony but now I am just confused.

and i'm on my second stone pale ale. got to get up in seven hours and do it again. tomorrow I'll up my game.

essentially free agents, not players that transfer after one year. But hey, I guess it's always trendy to pile on Duke any chance you can get.

make six figures in Europe for the next twelve plus years. how many of us wouldn't have taken that gig straight it of college?

vanilla bean

would be a great time to write about what it's like to camp there and what the other campers are going through. It would make for a great diary.

A law was just passed in Canada to give providences the authority allow single game betting. Windor's sport book at Caesar's should have single game betting by the fall currently you have to do two team parlays. http://www.caesarswindsor.com/casinos/casino-windsor/casino-gambling/race-and-sports-book-detail.html

Also, if you live near the Mexican border Caliente Casino has a sports book in pretty much every single Mexican border town.

no one pays attention to it. Plus it's for salaried employees.

What do we have right now, 81 scholarship players?

asks for your MGOBLOG password and screen name? How do you answer the inevitable interview questions, "so how many work hours a day do you spend on the blog?"

There's very little room for negotiation with the new CBA.

Classic. I like mixing in these multi-strip plots. Fun to see a story play out. Also, it's possible profitgoblue is running out of things to complain about. Constructive criticism is great but some people need to realize how cool it is to have our own artist doing a Michigan strip and featuring it on this site. Keep them coming.

Love about everything from them although I tried the palette wrecker a few Weeks ago and it was a bit intense. In stuck in Mexicali drinking cucupa chipacabras. One of the few Mexican micro brews.

If schools were held responsible for what their crazy fans say on twitter they all would be on probation. 

Your direct family providing you financial support is not breaking any rules, period.

We have extra scholarships and lack tight end depth.

unless they classify him as a RB.

Came back for his sophomore year and magically got drafted fourth even though he didn't grow. Tj Ford and Felton came back and ended up lottery picks as well. No reason Burke can't improve in other areas besides his height.

After training camp there's about ten practices during the year. That's it. You have to be very self motivated to learn during an NBA season and the kind of skills you need as a point guard can't really be learned without structured practice or playing time. Point guard is the one position that without a doubt it helps to develop more in college unless you are a super star.

thank God. He was very talented but he was just bad for chemistry, was a ball hog, and rarely got the ball to the bigs in good positions. He also has absolutely no idea how to run a pick-and-roll correctly. He'll probably go 15-25. I think it's a smart move on his part because I think if he had stayed another year scouts would start to pick him apart. He's being drafted more on potential than production.

you should most likely stay. 2nd round is a non-guaranteed contract and you can be cut before you ever play a game. Also being picked by good teams late in the second round means you may not get the time to develop or you may be stuck behind a star.

requires you to declare by April 10th every year. Before you could work out with teams for a few months and see if you get a first round promise or what kind of feedback you get from coaches and GM's. You would be making a relatively informed decision as the consensus to who is in the top 20-25 picks are pretty settled about the last week before the draft. Now you have time for one workout at best and you are making an almost completely uninformed decision. Morris had a couple agents/scouts tell him before the workout in Jersey (he pulled out) that he was a first round lock and he declared.

Who knows who is in Burke's ear. If he declares there is almost no way he goes in the first round this year. We will see.

but as prices go up and rabid fans are priced out and even students begin to get priced out you become more and more like a pro team. Fans can become less engaged, playing at home is less of an advantage, and recruits are less likely to want to play for a corporate dead stadium.

Long term there can be so many drawbacks to the "if people keep buying tickets we'll keep raising prices" strategy. I hope DB realizes this. 

you sound like a large handed man

when a the 3rd seeded Detroit Pistons had two incredible series with the Nets the Pacers where they were down 2-1, pulled both of them out, and then faced the Lakers with 4:1 odds against them and completely annihilated them in the finals. But I guess since the Pistons didn't have one of the four best records that year or have a superstar on their team none of that really happened.

at amway increases the value of the company by 10-20% just by showing up to work every day? Awful analogy.

If I was worth that much to my company I'm pretty sure the board of directors would let me do pretty much whatever I damn well pleased. 

I might have to give you a one way ticket to Bolivia for breaking the no politics rule.

/ProfitGoBlue

It has that grating copper finish to that just seems cheap and leaves a bad after taste.  I love the beers from SD and I would put Stone/Alesmith/Green Flash/Port up against about any microbreweries I've tried around the country. Fat Tire is available at just about every bar around here.  Their other major beers they produce I would say are mediocre at best and I just don't get the popularity.

I have to say, my neighbor out here is a part owner of Beer Baron in Livonia and he gets a lot Michigan beers and lets me try them. Some of the best stouts I've tried are from Michigan.

That means Bradford probably didn't work out and they'll be looking for a quarterback

I imagine earlier in the game or earlier in the season Smotrycz's pick would have allowed Novack to pop immediately out for a shot or Smotrycz on a smaller man on the post miss match. If that had been scouted out then Penn State wouldn't be expecting this variation. If this was football I'd call it an inverted pin down screen. Very cool. This isn't a pick and pop by the way gordie, that involves the pick man popping instead of rolling on a high or side screen.

Newsflash, this isn't breaking news. Not even for whomever 'broke' it. You're not breaking anything if you publish information that will become public knowledge within minutes or hours anyways. If you discover something that no one would know about without your help that is actually breaking news or breaking a story.

anyone think Leonard looks like a lottery pick? If he can't get 10 rebounds in this game how is he going to do in the NBA?

Our LB recruting has been a bit light the last 4-5 years and we'll only have 9 scholarship players (at best) and possibly less when the 2012 class arrives. Generally you want to be 4 deep or close to it at every position. If we can get 3 linebackers that are top notch I don't see why the coaches wouldn't take them. 

If we are winning big and everyone is happy it doesn't matter what the fans think of the AD.  However, if things start to go south or Brandon goes over the top with comercialization our trust in his word and that he is doing the right thing means something. His lack of honesty about the coaching search (and feigning interest in Les Miles), not taking meetings or phone calls from players in RR's last month and saying his office was always open, and claiming that he never said he was considering moving The Game may lead some of us to question him personally. In the end he may end up being a great AD for Michigan but personally having a much lower approval rating from the fans. As I said, as long as we keep winning this won't matter.

which is typically as the player starts to bring the ball up before he jumps. This is rarely called correctly and often the player arrives late and gets the charge anyways.

be averaging 6 free throws a game no problem.

Ace, do you keep in touch with these recruits after your intial interview to gain further insight on their recruitment? Will you be pretty hooked in with the 2013 recruits when it comes time to make decisions?

NBA contract is 450K (obviously prorated for call-ups). NBA players also get 200 a day per diem and a host of other benifits. 

He is starting at Cinci right?

There was a time last summer where it seems like he was on the verge of commiting. Then something happened and made him start looking a lot more at other schools and there was at least one unofficial visit that was canceled. It also appeared the coaching staff backed off him for several months and really went after some West Coast linemen. Whatever seed of doubt he had last summer made me skeptical that he would ever commit to us.

I thought I remember from Three and Out that it was over 500. Not sure though. It's great he's at a PR but hopefully he can continue to make substantial improvement.

I can't even imagine how I would feel if my father was struggling to stay alive and someone made that kind of judgement about me. Do you seriously think he is worried about a lost coach at a time like this?

I can't wait for the next one and too see how they evolve. As far as the bigs getting too many pluses I think if you study pick-and-roll offense enough you can find place where the big screws up and sets a bad pick, or doesn't slip the pick when he should, or pops when he should roll, etc. . . I would also think that whether or not a big is fighting for position or settling on catching the ball too far from the basket could also play into things.

He says in the book when talking about Carr that he could never quite square Carr making first contact with RR to Carr's lack of support and possible undermining of RR once RR got the job. But he also says Carr was upset that RR didn't hire more of his coaches. I would like to know why Bacon thinks Carr's lack of support was so misterious when it's very likely he was upset that he wasn't involved in in more of the decision making once RR got to town? 

Chitown already asked my other big question which was why wasn't Shafer's firing talked about more? That seems like a major decision and I would like to know if it was RR's alone or if the AD's office pressured him to have a fall guy.

and not receiving an all star or top 3 pick in return is in no way a great trade. They were going to get an above average PF, and above average SG who plays horrible defense, and a below average PG. Then a couple worthless late draft picks. Not a good trade for the Hornets.

There's been two games this year that have been on Mexican sports channels, Northwestern and Michigan State. Since ESPN 3 doesn't work outside the US I usually look for a live feed.

Also check Caliente Casino, they have several casinos in each city in Mexico and they have Satellite TV and most games there at their sports book, just called "book" in Spanish. But call the casino before you go. Fox Sports is showing Iowa State - OK this weekend instead of the Michigan game so you might be stuck with a shaky internet feed.

Kidding. . . but I'm a bit of a basketball nerd and first you'd have to think of all the thing you want to quantify. I'll just throw somethings out there on offense and defense.

Offense:

Shot making. Probably difficulty of shot and how appropriate the shot was. two different metrics. sometimes because of the shot clock or situaion a difficult shot is needed although usually it's not called for. Shot creation might also be a third metric here to see which players are able to iso their defender.

Moving without the ball. Setting picks, and getting open (whether or not they get you the ball) would be easily quantifiable

Creation. A great pass that leads to a bucket should count the same as one that leads to a missed bunny or a foul shots. A bad pass, or missed open player could potentially count against the passer.

Hustle/Derp metric. Here we have level of offensive rebounding, saving or diving for a ball, and offensive fouls or turnovers. Turnovers could also go under Creation.

Defense:

Rebounding: Who contributed to the rebound whether it was boxing out or out jumping someone.

Shot making of oppent: Who's responsible for high quality shots or someone breaking down the defense?

Assist defense. Who's responsible for easy shots that were created by the other team or potential assits that were defended?

Pick n Roll defense: The hardest play to defend so maybe it needs its own metric.

Fouls: There are good fouls and bad fouls and bad calls either way. A metric can be created to quantify this.

Overall an offensive rating and a defensive rating can be calculated for each player and if you want to parse out hustle/rebounding then you would have potentially a third rating.

Martinez. That was the question. It's a lot better playing against a hybrid quarterback than a drop back quarterback when preparing for Nebraska. 

People are saying terrible things about writers of positive stories about Sandusky when most of these writers were probably around campus for a week or two at best before they wrote their stories. But somehow Paterno who probably knew him better than almost anyone else was "fooled".

There was also 3 batted balls and that PI on the last play of the game. So you could say that 8 of his 20 incompletions weren't as bad as they sound.

You realize you are talking about the same thing, right? Maybe you meant a FB.

Sounds like we are slow playing him to find out what happens with Yuri Wright and other guys. If we still have a spot left in December and he still wants to visit hopefully things still have a chance of working out.

I haven't seen anyone mention that that throw seemed to be dead on, only that Roundtree slowed down to catch a second too early and thus ended up not being in position. I don't think the db bumps into him if he just keeps running and makes the catch attempt.

Denard's long throws are far from good but when he does make a pass that is spot on it seems our receivers aren't in position or are step too slow to make a play on the ball. Our receivers seem to be better at catching long jump balls than catching the long ball in stride. I think this would be maddingly frustrating at times even if Andrew Luck was our QB.

but actually play during winter term. i've never seen that before so I'm guessing you can't do that. Anyone seen that before?

At least they'll be close enough to make a surprise appearance for The Game.

at the beginning of the year. From far away place + lack of redshirt + coaching change + lack of playing time = high likelyhood of transfer. I really hope we hold onto Marvin as I think he will be a stud at Strong Safety his senior year and we'll need someone to step in for Kovacs.

I still don't understand why an athlete would leave in the middle of the season though. You never know what will happen and at the end of the semester once you've passed your classes you can make an informed decision about whether or not to transfer.

Bummer.

without a retroactive Sunday diary?

DraftExpress thinks under the current NBA CBA he would be eligible for the 2012 draft. I don't think he will skip college but crazier things have happened.

If you live in the state of Michigan and your son did very well in school he will most likely get in. They're not going to throw out 4 years of work because the essay wasn't more compelling.

Here's a link to the old (prior to 2004) admissions process with the points for each one. An outstanding essay was worth 1 out of a total of 150 points. 1 point! So that tells you how much they care about your essay. Getting straight A's was worth 80 points. And 100 points guaranteed you admission. So even if they don't use that system anymore that should still give you and idea of how much they value your achievements and other factors. so probably not worth worrying about the essay unless you think you are really borderline or have a small shot at getting in.

as a sophomore at least. If you take spring and summer classes for two or three summer you can easily graduate in four years. Seeing as some football players graduate after FIVE years I don't see this as a problem. Also depending on the classes you took at JUCO and what your major is at Michigan you may be able to transfer the majority of your credits. 

Also, you can't just take anything you want and get in. Here's what UM says about tranferring.

But something about Vinopal makes you think he would be Strong Safety?

If you're going to hammer other teams about their schedule so far then you got to hammer Standford. Also, is their schedule thus far really better than Kansas St?

until I realized they were talking about basketball not football.

DSR. But if you wanted to make the case that the throw should be marginal I can see your point.

Blogs really need to start getting there videos hosted by other sites besides youtube. If you through Brian's old UV's from the last 3-4 years I'm willing to be 30-40 percent of the embedded videos now say unavailable. 

Don't forget SpaceCowboy (formerly Larsonlo)

Anyone predicting less than a 20 point win will be labeled Trolling at the behest of THE_KNOWLEDGE.

45-6 For The Win!

You got a lot of players in the NFL from Moss, to Calvin Johnson, to Owens, or Ocho Cinco that are 6'3" or taller and have killed it. I would love to have a tall WR with so pretty serious speed on the team.

During the one week evaluation period where college players could go to NBA workouts many front offices types were saying that there would be no lookout and that it was a scare tactic by college coaches. At least 50% of agents were saying the same thing in attempt to sign clients.

Darius likely got some bad advice along the way. Whether that influenced him I have no idea.

I do know there are very few point guards projected to declare for the 2012 draft ihad Darius continued to improve he would have been well positioned for next year's draft. That being said I think he will be given plenty of opportunity (especially if he D's up) to be successful in LA.

Clearly you haven't watched game film of Ezeh