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Three years in a row OSU was…

Three years in a row OSU was running the ball against us, only to abandon it and lose.  Good running teams are stubborn about it.

So the question to me isn't why the RB coach would leave OSU's current staff, it's why would he STAY?

The most logical thing to do…

The most logical thing to do is to officially establish that college revenue-generating sports are the minor leagues to their respective major leagues, and have the college players be taken into the appropriate player's association for collective bargaining.  The major leagues already have their acts together in all aspects of the relationships to the talent, including relative to anti-trust laws.

Also this: college students often get paid internships with prospective eventual employers in all kinds of professions.  I did in engineering.  Nobody cared that I was a professional and a student simultaneously.  I paid dues and became a member of a professional engineering society. The only bargaining power it provided me was an item on my resume that I acted as an officer in my student chapter.  Still, the principal is the same. 

Further, students can be hired directly by universities for jobs, related or unrelated to their line of study. I emptied trash in the dorm one year and graded papers another.  How are athletes any different?

And why do athletes need to major in something other than their sports?  Those sports can be careers.  So why not offer degrees in those sports?  The athlete could be required by the major league to get a degree, and would certainly know as much about their sport as I did about engineering when I graduated.  Example: large companies will not hire an engineer without a degree (interns excepted), in order to avoid product liability lawsuits.

Eh ... food for thought maybe.

Agree 100%!

Agree 100%!

Got a condo made of stone-ah! Got a condo made of stone-ah!
I have these questions:

*…

I have these questions:

* Will Sherrone be lured away to another college in a year or two, say, his alma mater Oklahoma?  We didn't have to worry about that with JH.

* Does he have NFL aspirations?  With the shift to younger coaches in the NFL, we may be in that boat again in a year or two, if he's successful.

* If/when he does leave, what is the succession plan that is being built today?

* Does he support revenue sharing with the athletes?

I took the FB as meaning …

I took the FB as meaning "football", as opposed to, say, "BB" meaning basketball.

Hopefully, Warde knows that…

Hopefully, Warde knows that some modern aspects of football operations, like recruiting and NIL, are not his strong suit, and hired somebody for whom those are strengths, and will support what that person believes they should do.  Hiring a complimentary person and supporting them is part of Good Leadership 101.  Maybe Warde can redeem himself.  Maybe he can grow, like Harbaugh did when he became more approachable, and got more buy-in from the players by listening to them and sharing ownership in the culture, processes, and results.

I'm originally from…

I'm originally from Pittsburgh, so I'm a Steelers fan.  I've lived in Detroit most of my life, so I'm also a Lions fan.  When they meet, I'm very conflicted.  I also root for all ex-Michigan players to do well.  Like WestQuad, I'm bittersweet on the Chargers at this point.

Similar for me in baseball.  I grew up a Pirates fan (Clemente & Stargell era), but always rooted for the Tigers in the AL, even before I moved here, because a lot of Pittsburgh steel went into building Detroit cars, and also Al Kaline.

Hockey is altogether different.  I didn't follow it closely until moving to Detroit.  I instantly became a Redwings fan because Detroit fans are so passionate, despite them (at that time) being the "Deadwings" relative to their results.  I rooted for the Penguins as my second hockey team, until the Crosby era, and I've hated them ever since.

I have no interest in basketball.  I was a wrestler in highschool, so I like Olympic styles of wrestling.  I played football and did shotput & discus in the spring.  I really appreciate, having experienced it personally, how wrestling improves football line play.  So I've always loved Michigan players who are in that mold, like Mason Graham.

Them and the super-fast guys, which I could never be.  My favorite all-time Michigan player is Anthony Carter.  I saw so many of his exploits in person.  It was ultra-rare for any freshman to play for Bo, once that was allowed by the NCAA.  The first time he ever touched a ball in a game, he returned a punt 70-some yards for a TD in the home opener vs Northwestern.  The crowd instantly dubbed him "AC", chanting this monicker, not only for his initials, but because he was electrifying.

WestQuad: thanks for this posting.  It's simultaneously refreshing and nostalgic! 

Per Bob Ufer:

Rick "The…

Per Bob Ufer:

Rick "The Peach" Leach, "The Guts & Glue of the Maize & Blue"

Harlan "H-bomb" Huckleby

Butch "Don't Call Me Harold" Woolfolk

"Little" Gordy Bell, who could "run around inside a phone booth for 5 minutes without touching the sides"

Per the Michigan Stadium announcer:

Aleeeee Hadjeeeee-SHIEK!

I like your take! Many …

I like your take! Many "highly effective teams" books and training syllabi recommend internal succession planning, since it's better for preserving culture, which is harder to build and maintain. Then you selectively fill gaps from "outside".  In sports teams, this axiom is true for players and coaches, alike. Michigan has done so with highly successful targeted use of the portal for players. You'd expect a similar strategy for coaches.

I am an engineer. We like…

I am an engineer. We like precise words that convey subtile, but important, distinctions. The most successful engineers are very good with words because they are effective leaders who can teach and inspire others both up and down the chain of command. Usually, that effectiveness does use the simplest terms, but sometimes a very specific technical term is needed, at first taught with simple word explanations, until the concepts are inculcated into the culture.

Warde Manuel, the MOCI (mow…

Warde Manuel, the MOCI (mow-see),

Man

Of

Constant

Inaction

The California Soviet…

The California Soviet Socialist Republic

My entry...

My entry...

I've been thinking the same…

I've been thinking the same thing.  The Man of Constant Inaction is likely getting in the way.

The whole momentum of the…

The whole momentum of the game changed when the 49ers stopped the Lions on the 1st if the 4th down attempts.  It have them life.

And Campbell didn't learn from that the 2nd time.

I want someone in the media…

I want someone in the media to ask Sherrone if he agrees athletes should get revenue sharing from the athletic profits (mostly TV money), and hear Sherrone respond by taking up that cause wholeheartedly.

I then want to see how Warde Manuel reacts to it.

Nobody in the NFL wanted JH…

Nobody in the NFL wanted JH until he started winning at M.

Under the new rules, maybe…

Under the new rules, maybe they can.  If the HC is the program, it doesn't matter if he knew about a violation, so why would it matter if he wasn't here?  Some idiot in the NCAA could think that way.  The B1G suspended JH 3 games with similar thinking.  I am at the point that I always expect the dumbest thing possible from the NCAA, and the B1G, too.  They still hate Michigan, even though JH is gone.

The HC at the time, the HC…

The HC at the time, the HC now, or both?

Well it IS stupid, but it's…

Well it IS stupid, but it's the NCAA we're talking about, here.

If it's Moore, he was here…

If it's Moore, he was here during the violations, so maybe even murkier.

"Less than the $18M/year…

"Less than the $18M/year reported elsewhere" did make me wonder how much less.

Sam admits he's not nearly…

Sam admits he's not nearly as well connected to the NFL scene, as compared to college football.

Also, I think Minter stays with JH, whether at M (for another year anyway) or in the NFL.

JH supposedly has 2nd interviews with both Atlanta and the LAC this week.

I'm curious about Washington and why there's been no news of a JH interview there.

There might be as many as…

There might be as many as NINE teams (said like Ed Rooney in Ferris Beuler's Day Off) that are drafting ahead of Seattle that could take a QB:

#1: Chicago

#2: Washington

#3: New England

#8: Atlanta

#9: Chicago again

#10: New York Jets

#11: Minnesota

#12: Denver

#13: Las Vegas

I see JJ McCarthy AT WORST being the fifth QB taken, so I don't think he'll last to Seattle at #16.  I agree with other posters here that his physical, mental, and psychological tests, and his interviews, will move him up in the QB pecking order.  Do you think his hometown team will pass on him twice, in favor of Justin Fields, for example?

William Wagner is out of…

William Wagner is out of eligibility, and so may Greg Tarr.  Even if GT has another year, we need two LS.  Witness WW getting hurt during 2022 and GT had to fill in.

Michigan appears to be his…

Michigan appears to be his backup plan at this point.

Michigan and Baltimore run…

Michigan and Baltimore run mostly a zone, but switch up to man-to-man at times.  It's tough to categorize the front.  They call it amoeba.  You never know who's rushing or how many.  D-line often drop to coverage and D-backs often rush the passer.  Usually, one of the LBs is replaced by a nickel back - usually someone who can cover like a corner (typically over the slot), or drop to safety, or play the run like an LB.  You should watch all the YouTube videos by The Michigan Insider with Vance Bedford, former Michigan D-backs coach.  You'll learn a LOT!

We live with this every year…

We live with this every year because we have the only college head coach who is a proven winner in the NFL.  Saban couldn't do it.  If Pete Carroll went back to coaching at the college level, that school would have the same problem.

Other schools have to worry about their coaches leaving for other college jobs.  We don't with JH.  We would have that issue with Moore.  What if his alma mater, oil-rich Oklahoma, came calling?  Or any other $EC school backed up their Brinks truck to whatever other coach we had?  Witness Washington.  Remember: Texas A&M came after Bo, and he used it as leverage with UM.  JH is using the only leverage he has: the NFL.

We also live with the B1G & NCAA vendettas against UM, & separately JH.  The former for their historic "holier than thou" attitude, plus throwing their weight around in the Yost era - no kidding, the hate goes back that far.  The latter for his advocacy & innovation in trying to undermine the unfair, rigged establishment (exploiting athletes, false amateurism, regional bias).

Other fanbases have neither of these problems.

Neither JH nor UM want to be over a barrel due to these self-serving institutions that are judge, jury, & executioner, who hate them both, & seem to be able to pass ex-post-facto rules.  No wonder both JH & UM are paranoid.

It will be a shame if the B1G & NCAA have their way and destroy our potential dynasty (which is what we have if there's a 10-year contract signed).  I wish JH & UM would jointly display this attitude: "WE won't let these creeps ruin OUR relationship".  I also wished for a national title this year.

JH likes recruiting.  He…

JH likes recruiting.  He enjoys interacting with the families & players.  He wants to recruit players with values like his, from families with values like his.

It just doesn't matter!

 

It just doesn't matter!

 

https://youtu.be/-TogGxzlfhM?si=c5poe2CxDaKNiCQl

Jim Harbaugh's constant…

Jim Harbaugh's constant innovation and advocacy for change in college football is, within that realm, on par with Martin Luther King's efforts regarding racism.  His advocacy for the players, regarding transfers, sharing in the huge profits, and expanding the playoffs so more could participate, are inspiring; they inspire awe among the players and fans, and inspire hatred from those "haves" who seek to continue their exploitation of the true value-creators, the athletes themselves.

U of M,

PLEASE make Jim's…

U of M,

PLEASE make Jim's contract such that there is no ability to fire him due to NCAA nor Big Ten sanctions, which are oblivious to all logic.  I suggest having language to suspend pay in those cases, but not terminate.  Jim doesn't care about the $, he cares about being able to stay around!

Warde:

"We've been…

Warde:

"We've been evaluating the data and carefully weighing our options.  After evaluating multiple factors, including the changes coming to the Big Ten Conference due to expansion, the quality of our future football schedules, and benchmarking other football programs, we are taking this step to ENSURE THE CONTINUED SUCCESS AND SUSTAINABILITY of our football program and future athletic operations."

My capitals above.  What a crock.  Expansion and the multi-billion $ TV contract already does all that.  We finally have a decent home game schedule and prices go up.  Our season tickets are Maize row 36.  I'm guessing we'll be lower tier, but might be middle.  If lower, our total cost goes up 20%!  Now that includes an extra game vs last year, to be fair, so = 8/7 = 14%.  Doesn't include parking.

So one quick estimate: 110,000 seats X $400 average increase (season ticket holder or not) = $44M extra.  One eighth is the extra game, so that's $38.5M in pure price increase!

And there'll be LESS football and MORE ad time delay each game.  At some point, I'll just stop going and watch the games on delay so I can save the $, skip the ads, and save 5+ hours a weekend in the fall (ads, driving and walking time).

It's truly grating knowing how rich the athletic department is, given the TV contract increases they're getting, yet the fans are paying this extra cost.

Now if the PLAYERS, who are earning this $ with their blood, sweat, and tears, would get every penny of that $38.5M, I'd be QUITE HAPPY to pay it!

My take based on what JUB…

My take based on what JUB said on WTKA is that JH simply doesn't trust Ward to make a decision regarding the applicability of any clause could get him fired, whether it's an NFL-related or NCAA-violation-related eventuality.  So the language either has to be specific enough that JH feels safe in Ward applying, or it must say the university president is the decider.  

He could try to get a UFA…

He could try to get a UFA contract with the Dolphins.

I like Barham at ILB.  I…

I like Barham at ILB.  I think his pass rush on the blitz from there will be a nice addition, seeing as how we'll lose the excellent contribution from Barrett in that regard.

Ted Hammond & Brady…

Ted Hammond & Brady Prieskorn both show as signed on 〽️🏈 official twitter account.

For German "ie" & "ei" words…

For German "ie" & "ei" words, the 2nd letter is typically pronounced, so I think it's said "BUY-gle".

Jacob Oden is now listed at…

Jacob Oden is now listed at above official site.

Manuel Beigel is posted on…

Manuel Beigel is posted on above official 〽️🏈 site.

https://twitter.com…

https://twitter.com/UMichFootball

Wish they'd been married…

Wish they'd been married first.

https://lancasteronline.com…

https://lancasteronline.com/sports/highschool/football/from-anchorage-to-landisville-hempfields-deyvid-palepale-making-a-name-for-himself-in-l-l/article_1a7814a6-375b-11ec-a1df-9f0995f9f3b3.html

 

"Palepale’s backstory is an interesting one. He’s Samoan, and he’s ultra-proud of his heritage; Palepale is already counting down the days until he gets his first traditional Samoan tattoo. His family hails from the islands of Samoa and Tonga with some Hawaiian roots as well, and he was born to parents Tumua Lauano and Sayonara Palepale in Anchorage."

Seth, do you know if he…

Seth, do you know if he might be able to enroll early?

Yesssssss!!!

〽️🏈 is a wise…

Yesssssss!!!

〽️🏈 is a wise choice young man!

Another tough dude in the middle if our D line.

Anyone know if he'll be an early enrollee?

Semaj will work on his speed…

Semaj will work on his speed & endurance with Ben Herbert, as did D J Turner.

There are TRULY 5 "deserving…

There are TRULY 5 "deserving" teams: the Power 5 Champions.  Don't care if they are undefeated or have a loss.  Too bad there are only 4 spots, so somebody "deserving" won't go.  However, one of them already beat the other, so that's the one that shouldn't go:

1. Michigan

2. Washington

3. Florida State

4. Texas

 

What will happen:

1. Washington

(more offensive stats)

2. Michigan

3. Florida State

4. Texas

 

In any case, they'll put Washington in the Rose & Michigan in the Sugar to play what is essentially a road game vs a southern school that is much closer geographically.

Except the Phantom Touchdown…

LOVE is the hallmark of this team.

They'll rank Washington #1…

They'll rank Washington #1 because they put up gawdy offensive numbers, I fear.  Then we'll be stuck at the Sugar Bowl vs a team from the south.  Or is my BPONE talking?