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I mean, Lane Kiffin is a…

I mean, Lane Kiffin is a legitimately good coach? Hard to imagine anyone really looking at the scope of his career and concluding anything otherwise, unless you formed this opinion ~10 years ago and haven't re-evaluated (which, no shade, i do the same thing on countless topics)

is this a concern you have…

is this a concern you have for all coaches whose fathers are not on the same staff with them? were you secretly relieved when chris partridge got fired and temporarily replaced by rick minter?

only in the sense that all…

only in the sense that all of OSU's players sat out the bowl game

Pretty sure it's an issue…

Pretty sure it's an issue how Chrome handles multiple YouTube videos on a page. For me, at least, it briefly flickers to the moment Brian picked, then jumps to a point that's closer to where I stopped one of the other videos on the page. Once I was four or five videos in, it was all over the place.

holy shit. i never thought I…

holy shit. i never thought I'd see a dex comment again. you guys and your blog had a huge influence on me as I was starting to read about football online when I was 17 or so (just like this place did). i think about WLA at least weekly, especially your post before the 2008 OSU game, called "get up" (or something like that), and especially the last paragraph from it. something like - "for the rest of us, it's time to spit the blood out of your mouth and get off the mat. It's Ohio State week. Fuck them."

it was very 2008 internet, and I'm sorry for reflecting a 15-year-old version of yourself back to you, but I thought it was great at the time, and I hope you're doing well.

the owner already has that…

the owner already has that much money, and he*

1. is objectively not as good at his job as Shohei Ohtani is, because he's not the single best person in the world at his job

2. won't make nearly as much money for the Dodgers over the course of this deal. you can replace the owner with anyone else and make, approximately, the same amount of money, thanks to revenue sharing in the majors and their anti-trust exemption; there is literally not another person on earth you could put in Shohei's position(s) and expect similar results.

 

*the Dodgers have a consortium of owners, so feel free to apply this to every one of them, because it's true for each of them

Numerous studies, over a…

Numerous studies, over a period of decades, have shown that player salaries have nothing to do with ticket prices. When teams slash payroll, they don't slash ticket prices. If players get paid less, it doesn't mean ticket prices go down, or nurses and teachers get paid more. It means one thing, and one thing only: that owners get to keep more of the money. If you can't afford to go to baseball games anymore (and that's fair; ticket prices have increased!) it's not because players are paid more; blame your local owner who can never have enough money.

Not only has the NL had the…

Not only has the NL had the DH for several years, the league also changed the AL rules to allow him to bat on pitching days without losing their DH after he comes out of the game.

Brandon Graham's final…

Brandon Graham's final Michigan teams being bad didn't mean that Brandon Graham was bad, it meant that they would've been even worse without him

in case anyone else is…

in case anyone else is wondering, it looks like Adrian Arrington now owns a landscaping business back in Cedar Rapids. unfortunately, it looks like he went through a tough time with concussions after his playing career ended.

i forgot you have to assume…

i forgot you have to assume i'm serious about this. comment was in jest. didn't come through over text/without context.

what for?

what for?

this isn't really the place…

this isn't really the place for it, but believe me, i could give an hourlong talk on this exact topic with no preparation and no notes

it also feels like, if OSU…

it also feels like, if OSU discovered literally michigan's offensive coordinator accessing their systems and getting their practice video in december, it would've come out before now? but it sure seems like there's something coming, and a reason for all the smoke around weiss. but maybe it's just a bunch of people reacting to other people's reactions.

it's a hiroshige woodblock…

it's a hiroshige woodblock painting, used as the cover of weezer's highly influential 1996 album pinkerton.

I agree with you about…

I agree with you about Shannon, and I think there are very real issues with admissions to the detriment of our athletics programs (though I think anyone who considers it an issue with one singular "admissions department" vs a number of different departments across the university, each of whom gets to make decisions on which classes count and which ones don't, might not have a perfect understanding of what's going on). I'm just saying admissions is often more complicated for foreign students, even for athletics programs that have well-traveled paths for those foreign students. UCLA, for instance, spent months getting several European kids onto the team this summer, even though everyone knew those kids were going to UCLA for months.

I think that, due to very real concerns about how university politics have impacted our basketball team (they undoubtedly did!), people are thinking this is indicative of the same larger problem even though it's a totally normal occasion. I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist; I'm saying this is not the best example of it.

An international student…

An international student committing in the last few days of August taking time to get admitted is one million percent different than not getting transfers in from other major American schools. I know it fits into the same narrative, but the situations are very different. There's no cost to taking his commitment - Howard didn't need to know if he'd get in or not at the time, since there's no one else available on August 26. You just take him and see if you can figure it out.

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AJJ fan confirmed lmao

AJJ fan confirmed lmao

you're thinking of max…

you're thinking of max martin.

there is not a sliver of…

there is not a sliver of truth to this, you maniacs. jace is not upset at jett for leaving on the day he was announced as academic all-american. he's likely known jett was leaving for months! he is joking!

Penn St can have all the…

Penn St can have all the money in the world, but without institutional will to spend that money on basketball, they'll never have the facilities to compete with even ND.

"damn, it's hot"

-bobby…

"damn, it's hot"

-bobby hull, right now

it's not a problem for how…

it's not a problem for how we're treating Davis, it's a problem for what we imagine it means about the likelihood of Davis coming, which seemed like a near-sure thing

1. this was in spring 2008,…

1. this was in spring 2008, which as far as QB recruiting goes is essentially the year 1746

2. pryor absolutely did not commit to michigan ???? he considered michigan, suddenly, after RR came but that's it; he'd been leaning towards OSU forever and michigan managed to make some quick progress in the couple of months between the hire and signing day (plus some, since he waited a little later to sign)

3. maybe you're thinking about the next year, when he had 4-stars kevin newsome and shavodrick beaver committed at QB and both decommitted; newsome went to PSU and never did much, and beaver went to tulsa. michigan got forcier and denard instead.

i really don't understand what possible argument you could be making here. yes, QBs do sometimes decommit, but elite QBs tend to commit early and stay committed. maybe it changes with NIL - Moore, Raiola, and the kid from Florida are all possible examples, although the first two seemingly have different reasons - but it historically hasn't been the case, and made-up examples from 2008 doesn't show us anything either way.

current QBs or QB recruits?…

current QBs or QB recruits? makes a big difference which one!

I think this is Bama…

I think this is Bama trolling Georgia, but, yeah

I think that's fair -…

I think that's fair - Michigan didn't drag their feet to protect Schlissel like MSU did with Simon, and in fact pretty clearly submarined him to get him tf outta there. I *do* think there's evidence that Michigan had a serious problem covering up sexual harassment or assault throughout the university under Schlissel, and I think it's probably something that was there before Schlissel.

first percentile is…

first percentile is infinitely better than zeroth percentile; i still don't think "how this school handled sexual assault" is really a place to emphasize how much better Michigan is, as an institution. Michigan also didn't protect people it had promised to protect. if how MSU handled sexual assault is evidence of how much the institution is rotting from the inside-out, then the exact same can be said about Michigan.

In addition to everything else, it comes off as trying to score rivalry points (which I know is not Brian's intention - this site has been very critical of the university for these exact issues), which is a bad look.

you're right about the statue and building, though, definitely.

I appreciate a lot of this,…

I appreciate a lot of this, but I don't think it's fair to say that no one at Michigan circled the wagons over Robert Anderson. A lot of people are still dragging their feet over Robert Anderson and the blast radius. Michigan, same as Michigan State and same as many (most?) other powerful institutions, can and does have problems with covering up sexual assault. I guess you could argue that once it reached a certain point, Michigan handled it marginally better than MSU (as in, they didn't hire John Engler), but the only way you can say Michigan did anything good is by making the standard an incredibly low bar.

hahaha, this was the exact…

hahaha, this was the exact same point in the podcast i realized it was the wrong one, both last time they accidentally uploaded this episode and this time.

"wow, hunter johnson is starting for northwestern again?"

"wow, graham mertz is supposed to be good again?"

"we don't have any info on cade? wait just a dang minute"

Wrong podcast episode…

Wrong podcast episode uploaded (at least to Pocket Casts) - it's an episode from summer 2020.

Fabulous post. If I had…

Fabulous post. If I had known it was coming I might not have read the first two!

plus, Jack Campbell, former…

plus, Jack Campbell, former Michigan commit, was the Maple Leafs goalie!

It's just "Daniels" -…

It's just "Daniels" - despite our recent experience, not every quarterback has to have a last name starting with "Mc"

I logged in just to ask what…

I logged in just to ask what the hell you're talking about

DJ Durkin deserves no …

DJ Durkin deserves no "appreciation." Being a fucking co-defensive coordinator for a team that looks mildly good absolutely pales in comparison to the human cost of his tenure at Maryland. The word "leadership" should not appear in the same paragraph as his name.

Also, RichRod wasn't run off from Arizona for "dubious reasons." 

I think he's referring to…

I think they're referring to everyone misspelling the coach's name (just like they did with the former QB).

I do find it interesting that his name is spelled with a lowercase d - "Macdonald" rather than "MacDonald." 

okay, but those of us who…

okay, but those of us who watched on TV know haskins was definitely in, right? he had linemen underneath him and clearly made it over the line. they just couldn't see the ball on the replay so they couldn't overturn the call, which was probably made too early.

There's ways to make money…

There's ways to make money playing basketball outside the NBA, and it's not like staying in college one additional year means he'll definitely make *more* money down the line. I guess it's possible this changes with NIL, but every year you spend in college is a year you're not making even what you could in Europe. An extra year in college doesn't mean your career will end at 35 instead of 34 (or 28 instead of 27); it just means you spent an extra year of that playing career playing for nothing or NIL money.

I agree with you–I don't think Hunter's likely to be a longtime NBA player, and I wish he'd play for Michigan for four years. But especially given how old he is for his year, it's hard for me to come up with any way to justify him staying beyond "it'd make being a Michigan basketball fan more fun."

that's not gattis's picture…

that's not gattis's picture at the top–looks like sherrone moore.

for whatever reason, one of…

for whatever reason, one of my favorites is this random column after a rutgers game in a season whose ending we had no way of anticipating at the time.

I think it's just the peak of what I come to this site for–the great writing that's put out quickly after events that seem very important to us at the time, even though they become obsolete within days.

It's really hard to get everyone pulling in one direction. Everyone reading this knows that in their bones. In Juwan Howard it seems like Michigan's found a guy who can pull up the guys who need it, leave the guys who don't alone, and gather everyone to him, past, present, and future.

it made me feel even more lucky that we'd hired Juwan, and it's the final word on how perfect he is for michigan at exactly this point in time, with 30+ years of context coming together.

Ace, how excited are you for…

Ace, how excited are you for Zeljcko Rebraca's son to drive us to Remember Some Guys at a rate not seen since mid-2010s Michigan basketball? Thanks, I'll hang up and listen.

damn, i should've known to…

damn, i should've known to trust you over google!

can't believe i had this…

can't believe i had this stored in my memory: the skeeps thing was csonte york, not damario jones.

maryland fans are definitely…

maryland fans are definitely taking this hard, but the thing about drug addiction/ukrainian mob is just a joke about hunter biden, right? poster only identifies him as "hunter." not the perfect joke out of context, but there's no way anyone thinks that's the actual reason, right?

 

...right?

before, it was just linking

before, it was just linking to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQCPo1UL63c

for anyone looking for the

for anyone looking for the correct link (not sure if it's updated yet), here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmzEhDWkhRg

I'm assuming you guys know

I'm assuming you guys know it's just playing the pre-roll, but if you don't...

could i get an explanation

could i get an explanation for why this would happen? is it some sketchy aau situation, or do players just like nike better? genuinely interested.