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1 day 8 hours ago	recruiting a PG for 2019	That seems a little odd given that Z, Brooks, and DeJulius are all slated to be on the team that year.  I have to assume one of those guys has privately revealed to Coach Beilein that he is a replicant and that Coach fears he'll be "retired" before 2019.
4 days 9 hours ago	Fun facts about Manute Bol	He had more career blocked shots than points, but he also once hit six three-pointers in a half.  He supposedly killed a lion. He spent much of his retirement trying to raise money to help his native Sudan.  This included becoming licensed as a jockey for publicity purposes.
6 days 10 hours ago	This is hard	It’s not a surprise. It makes sense. We can’t ask anything more of him. But I’ll miss him just the same. I’m three short years he went from being an unknown quantity who struggled at times with English to being the heart of the team. He’ll leave with two Big Ten Tournament titles, a Sweet Sixteen, and a trip to the final. And he helped give Michigan a winning attitude that had been missing for a couple of years. Not bad, big fella! I’ll happily root for Mo for the rest of his career. I hope it’s a great one.
1 week 1 day ago	Well, I hope he finds a good place to land	He never quite looked comfortable on the court in his time in AA, but he’s a talented guy. He had an Indiana offer IIRC.
1 week 1 day ago	Re: Kelly’s offense	He’s said that he doesn’t value running from a QB as much as accuracy. As for Speight, he leaves with a pretty good record as a starter (14-3 if you count the Purdue game). I wish his career at Michigan hadn’t ended on a dirty hit. Hopefully he’ll do well in LA.
1 week 4 days ago	Re: Poole on defense	I'm optimistic too, FWIW.  His mistakes seemed to be your typical freshman miscues.
1 week 4 days ago	You take that back!	Chester A. Arthur was a prince!  A prince!
2 weeks 14 hours ago	Another way to look at it:	McElwain and his wife gave up $400k (or something like that) to make two disabled people's lives better.
2 weeks 1 day ago	Burke's breakout has been fun to watch	LeVert is having a pretty good year too.
2 weeks 2 days ago	We may know what happened with Patterson	Ole Miss hired his brother.  That flirts with being an NCAA violation but isn't inherently one.  He also partly grew up in Louisiana, so this wasn't a guy from Chicago somehow landing in Mississippi.
2 weeks 3 days ago	oh shit	Thank goodness they're okay.  This is a good reminder that last night was just a game.
2 weeks 3 days ago	This team was somewhat deceptive when it came to...	...shooting.  They were capable of games like the A&M game, but the starting five of Z, Rahk, Matthews, Livers, and Mo was not a great shooting bunch overall.  This was not the 2013 team or last year's team in that respect.  And this makes it all the more remarkable that they did what they did.  If you thought a Beilein team would ever make the final while generally shooting poorly in the tournament, you're a much better prognosticator than I am.  Shooting finally helped cost them a game, but it took great effort by the players and great coaching by the staff to get them to that game in the first place.
2 weeks 4 days ago	To add to that	I’ll admit now that I wished at one point that DJ Wilson would transfer. He looked like he simply didn’t know how to play basketball. But then he went from clueless to a first round pick over the course of just twelve months. So yes indeed, let’s have some patience.
2 weeks 4 days ago	I might be getting old too, but...	...I’m not overwhelmingly disappointed right now. Watching this bunch accomplish what they did while being led by a man with the integrity, work ethic, and ability of John Beilein is a pretty great reward for being a Michigan fan. Life is too short to sit around feeling sick about this (though I do to some extent) when there’s so much to appreciate.
2 weeks 4 days ago	Michigan has won a basketball title and a football title in...	...the last thirty years. How many other schools can say that? Florida and...?
2 weeks 4 days ago	I wasn’t convinced...	...this team would make the tournament at the start of the year. I’ll take a Big Ten tournament title and a trip to the NCAA final in a season that starts that way any time. This was a blast, much more than I dared hope for. Michigan appeared to have a hole at PG and a hole at the four at one point and then later had a SF whose game seemed broken. And even Mo and Rahk had their bad games. Somehow turning all that into a team that will hang two banners this November was pretty damn great.
2 weeks 4 days ago	Yes, or close the wall up with our Wolverine dead*	*Well, maybe not literally.
2 weeks 4 days ago	This great	Thanks for this, Seth.
2 weeks 4 days ago	Nice work	I'm not making any predictions, but this is not the mismatch people are making it out to be.  I think a lot of the misperception of this game is based on overrating KU, which was not a particularly good team by Kansas standards and which overacheived to win the Big 12 and make the Final Four.  Michigan will play much better defense than the Jayhawks.  The Wolverines are going to have to shoot well to win, no doubt, but you're always going to have to do that to win a national championship game.
2 weeks 5 days ago	My favorite members of the Fab Five...	...were BB King and Ray Charles. Those cats could really play.
2 weeks 6 days ago	I know Michigan had a talent and size advantage, but...	...man did it not feel like our night for most of the game. I’m still not used to having a defense that can pull the team through a shooting slump like that. It wasn’t good for my heart, but in some ways winning a game in that way was particularly satisfying. I give credit to Loyola for being such a cohesive group. As for Mo, that was one of Michigan’s all-time great tournament efforts. Thanks for carrying us, big fella.
2 weeks 6 days ago	He played some good minutes	His three felt like a huge play.
2 weeks 6 days ago	Yes!	Thank you to everyone who’s been at these tournament games. You guys have been absolutely great.
2 weeks 6 days ago	To quote Coach Beilein, holy moly!	I thought this was just not going to be our night. But the seal finally came off the basket. And now a team that at first didn’t look like a sure thing to make the tournament is going to play for a championship! Go Blue!
3 weeks 11 hours ago	The Title IX article	The article is a little loose in its reasoning when it suggests that you wouldn't have to pay a women's volleyball player the same amount that you pay Denard Robinson.  It's true that many schools are not in compliance with Title IX, but not spending what you should be on women's sports generally does not invite a lawsuit in the way that paying a female athlete less than a male athlete would.  You have much more of an apples-to-apples comparison in the latter instance, and it will feel much more personal to the female athlete.  I don't meant to say that we know a female athlete suing to make what a Denard-type makes would be successful, but it doesn't seem like we can assume she wouldn't be either.  Letting players profit from their likenesses is the easiest route to compensating the players more.
3 weeks 3 days ago	That's correct	UNC has 16 tournament wins since 2013.  Michigan has 15.
3 weeks 4 days ago	That’s great!	He’s generally been putting up good numbers over the last couple of months.
3 weeks 4 days ago	Interestingly, I thought...	...RR's "Hideaway Book" included instructions not to swear at players and not to make your (a coach's) criticisms of them personal.  Maybe he learned from his time in AA.
3 weeks 5 days ago	Looking back to the start of the season...	...it wasn’t at all clear what this team would be. DJ Wilson left what could have been a hole at the four. And losing Walton and Irvin meant a lot of scoring and leadership would have to be replaced. Could Z become an on court leader after a disappointing freshman year? Was the Matthews hype real? Could Mo learn to rebound? Could Teske provide anything at all? All of those questions could have been answered in a bad way for Michigan, but none of them were. Watching this team grow has already been among my favorite experiences as a Michigan fan. The coaching staff has done a truly remarkable job helping every single one of the players who see major minutes improve over the course of their careers and - in many cases - over the course of just the last few months. It’s been inspiring to watch.
3 weeks 6 days ago	Final Four!!!!!!!!!!!!	Woohoooooooooo!!!!!!!

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