letsgoblue04

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1 year 7 weeks ago	Your analogy is faulty...	Chances are that if you work for a company, the company was not allowed to make an agreement with its competitors to limit your pay drastically below where it would be without that agreement.  That's an agreement in restraint of trade, and unless you're covered by a CBA, your employer can't do that.   As for Title IX, it doesn't require equal funding for men's and womens sports (think about the differences in salary between mens and womens CBB coaches).  It requires equal opportunity, which is measured in a lot of different ways.  However, I'd suggest that it would be better to allow the revenue athletes to gain the value from their labor and re-tool Title IX so it only applies to the subsidy-receiving sports, than it is to continually steal from the revenue athletes.
1 year 39 weeks ago	He said he wants it.	Now, maybe he's just being a good soldier and trying to sell this to his constituency; a pawn in a complicated scheme.  Or, maybe he just means what he said.  Which is more likely?
1 year 39 weeks ago	This is just another in a long line of decisions	that crap on the hardcore fan.   I am now 100% off the Brandon bandwagon (this plus "our coach this fall").  Seems like a business-centric dweeb.
1 year 40 weeks ago	Tolzein to Toon, Crist to Floyd, Cousins to Martin,	Marve to Smith (if Marve is any good).  All of those are scary now.   Toon is a stud.
1 year 42 weeks ago	This is absurd	Nobody seems willing to ask (or explain)  what event prompted the school to change its security policy, or what the target of the policy change is (alcohol? terrorists with water bottles of doom? irate Cleveland Browns fans?). Dollars to doughnuts this was prompted by something hypothetical and extremely unlikely to happen (though I'd love to know whether Michigan's vendor contracts have variable prices based on policies like this).
1 year 49 weeks ago	I disagree with the "risk" of Derrick Rose...	How has Memphis' program been hurt?  They're going to be a top-15, top-10 team this year: Pastner's class of 2010 is one of the top-5 in the country, and he has another top-100 kid coming in 2011.  Memphis' basketball program post-Rose is stronger than Michigan's program has been since the Fab-5.  If Dorsey ends up starring at another BCS conference school, Michigan is imposing a competitive disadvantage on itself for little (if any) benefit.     More importantly, I bet that RR is  gone by February if he wins 9 or 10 games this season.
1 year 49 weeks ago	Nebraska is a incredibly good addition. Two years ago,	I don't think anybody expected or predicted that the 12th program would be a major power like Nebraska.   The games between the Big Four (Michigan, OSU, PSU, and Nebraska) will be mf *events.*
1 year 49 weeks ago	That sounds great. Agree about ND:	Adding ND only to the conference would probably lead to an overall reduction in the quality of Michigan's schedules.  I suspect that more often than not, Michigan would replace ND with a pansy subsidy-game.  That would be my least favorite expansion: ND only.
1 year 50 weeks ago	No, that really isn't good enough. That's their ceiling (note	the fact that they've literally never been to the NCAA tournament, too), and that ceiling is pretty low.  They barely scraped by EMU, they lost to the worst team in the Big East, and they looked good in a bowl only because they played a 7-5 Auburn team and got really lucky at the end.
1 year 50 weeks ago	This is how you start the long, boring road to becoming Virginia	or Northwestern.  If Rodriguez has any real success in 2010 or 2011, he's got to think about going to a school that's interested in winning a national championship (e.g. Tennessee, Texas A&M), not a school that's content with 9 win seasons every now and then with warrior-poets.   Heck, a major reason RR faced difficulty here was the lack of jucos.  This is obscene.

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