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Both numbers are bad. If you…

Both numbers are bad. If you want to know which is worse, you need to know the percent of drivers on the road who are drunk. 

As far as stats, google turns up "About 31% of all traffic crash fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers (with BACs of .08 g/dL or higher)."

The first study google turned up estimated 1/120 drivers are drunk overall, 1/7 after 1am on a weekend. So pretty clear that drunk drivers are responsible for far more than their share of traffic deaths, and the focus on drunk driving crashes will be more effective than treating all crashes the same. The study also said the costs to society would be less if it paid for cabs for all drunk drivers than paying for the costs of drunk driving crashes.

Also, just drink less. Use the 7-2-0 rule: no more than 7 drinks a week, no more than 2 drinks per day, at least one alcohol free day per week.
 

Netsch also designed…

Netsch also designed libraries at Northwestern and U Chicago. His most famous building is the chapel at the Air Force Academy.

If we are going to talk architecture here, it would be remiss not to mention Dan Dworsky, who designed Crisler Arena, played for Fritz Crisler, and was an All American on the 47 and 48 national championship teams.

Statistically he is putting…

Statistically he is putting up pretty much the same numbers as he did at Michigan. 

The four players who have left early in the last two years aren't doing much in the pros (aside from putting up big numbers in G league.) I am imagining a coach who says

"Franz Wagner left after two years, you think you're better than Franz Wagner?"

 

The only one I know is "I'll…

The only one I know is "I'll never smoke weed with Willie again".

The NCAA does not make any…

The NCAA does not make any money from or have any stake in the CFP, and that contributes to its weakness as an organization

At a winter graduation at…

At a winter graduation at Crisler, a friend and I snuck in two bottles of cheap sparkling wine, so not the first time booze has been in Crisler.

(My friend and I each got one swig from the first bottle before security confiscated it. They set up shop at the end of our row, watched us walk by to amble across the stage, and walk back to our seats. We waited until everyone was done walking before we popped the second bottle. No, they did not boot us from the remainder of the ceremony when they confiscated the second bottle.)

For honorable mention at…

For honorable mention at least, 1976 Ohio State,  22-0 in the horseshoe.

I remember when the Michigan…

I remember when the Michigan AD fired Steve Fisher over Ed Martin payola, and the payola DID NOT STOP!!!

The NCAA runs a championship…

The NCAA runs a championship for every sport except FBS. The stupidity, absurdity, and potential for corruption of this situation are bonkers. I am sure Santa Ono will fix it.

The first three games, four…

The first three games, four coaches got tryouts as interim. The last three games, Sherrone was interim. I think that reveals something about the opinion of one possibly influential person.

Sorry, I am not skilled in…

Sorry, I am not skilled in the intricacies of posting on this board. I guess the pasted image did not appear above?


Is this line better than…

Is this line better than 2021? I haven't been paying attention

Another voice of agreement

Another voice of agreement

Klatt:

“Coach, you guys…

Klatt:

“Coach, you guys have now won three straight Big Ten championships. How does it feel?”

 

Harbaugh:

”BET!!”

 

 

It's possible that the four…

It's possible that the four teams most likely to be the best overall team are not the four teams most likely to be one of the four best teams.

If I read this right, if…

If I read this right, if Bama beats Georgia, Texas is in.

Northwestern has lost to…

Northwestern has lost to Miami six times. Indiana lost to Ball State three times between 2008 and 2012.

I transferred to LSA from…

I transferred to LSA from another UM-AA college when Jim Harbaugh was playing QB, and I had to take an extra semester and a half of classes NOT to meet any specific graduation requirements for my major, just to get numbers of credits. Because classes in other UM colleges weren't and apparently still aren't good enough for the fine folks at LSA.

I remember when bringing…

I remember when bringing alcohol into the stadium was Sgt Schulz rules. Hide the bota bag under your shirt, mix liquor into your jug of cider, etc. In my old age though I am “do as I say not as I did”. Alcohol results in too many problems, and real Leaders will make policy with that in mind.

Insert Jerry Falwell Jr pool…

Insert Jerry Falwell Jr pool boy joke

Miami was 40th in Ken Pom…

Miami was 40th in Ken Pom before the tournament. The final four were all in the top 25: 10 (UConn) 16 (Miami) 18 (SDSU) 25 (FAU).

Really not clear to me if something is messed up or if it's just high variance game to game for teenagers playing for a national audience.

pre-NBA year for Franz &…

pre-NBA year for Franz & Livers, plus Hunter, Mike Smith, Eli, Chaudree; suspect that was more of a factor than 20-21 issues. Anyway, all teams were in the same boat.

I'm not saying Juwan Howard is (or isn't) the next Matt Painter. I just think that he is a better than average coach. If you want to move on from a guy who is both a good coach and "is a Michigan Man" through and through, you need somebody for whom there is no question they are better. 

Big Ten conference winning…

Big Ten conference winning percentages the last four seasons:

  1. Illinois               0.688
  2. Purdue              0.646
  3. Wisconsin         0.600
  4. Iowa                  0.600
  5. Michigan           0.597
  6. Michigan State  0.570

This is not the situation where you say "46-31 isn't good enough" and move on, if you don't have a clue as to who you might hire who would be a better coach.

At least with tigers on the…

At least with tigers on the radio, you get to count the number of "buggy whip" and "late movement" comments.

There are a lot of sports…

There are a lot of sports that you can participate in lifelong, running, tennis, swimming, volleyball, basketball, even hockey with modified rules. Does anyone play recreational football as an adult, even in your thirties?

There may be a way to make football safe, short of 7 on 7 rules, but I am not optimistic.

 

Tell us you support…

Tell us you support attacking the Capitol when your candidate loses without saying you support attacking the Capitol when your candidate loses.

The patella is a bone. Does…

The patella is a bone. Does he mean patellar tendon or patellar cartilage?

As a grad student and recreational runner in the 80s, I didn't run my first year in grad school due to misguided excess dedication to my studies. The excellent staff at Medsport diagnosed damage to the cartilage on my patella, helped me rehab it, and gave me the excellent lifelong advice to keep running to maintain strength in the knee to prevent a recurrence. 

I find sour grapes over losing playing time to be a far more plausible possibility than that the medical staff does not know what they are doing .

In Fall of 2019, my 20…

In Fall of 2019, my 20 something DD went on a solo vacation to Japan and brought me back a 180ml bottle of Suntory Kakubin. Really good, especially for what is a mainstream whisky in Japan. Obviously not superintense, but very well balanced and smooth.

Then I stopped drinking during COVID.

At least K-State got votes

At least K-State got votes

MAC coaching jobs tend to be…

MAC coaching jobs tend to be stepping stones. It’s very hard to recruit for the MAC so that you can win without a few down years, which are enough to get you fired. I am sure that WMU is trying to repeat the PJ Fleck magic, give a young highly regarded assistant their first HC job, and at a D1 school. Does the AD have the competence to evaluate well enough? When you are hiring someone without HC experience some luck is needed. 
 

I am sure Jay would do fine, but Moore has more experience, and look at Michigan’s OL the last two years. In my non-expert view, he would be my first pick. He may get better offers.

Let's not forget that in the…

Let's not forget that in the summer of 2018, a state representative with five young children tried to carry a loaded, unregistered handgun onto an commercial airplane. He paid a TSA fine but was not charged by the county prosecutor.

Despite this lapse in judgement, his party made him Speaker of the Michigan House for 2019-2020.

Since he left office, additional lapses of judgement and potentially criminal behavior have been disclosed.

 

LSU-Bama is a game that you…

LSU-Bama is a game that you hope is a 0-0 tie then postponed due to lighting during overtime

I am tempted to say out of…

I am tempted to say out of the conference, but that is unfair to the athletes that are not in one of the criminal programs. Wonder if the SEC would take them.

His younger brother is the…

His younger brother is the prominent mathematician Ken Ono. 

"Since 2016, [Ken] Ono has been using mathematical analysis and modeling to advise elite competitive swimmers including 2020 Tokyo Olympic medalists Kate Douglass, Cate DeLoof, Paige Madden, Alex Walsh, Emma Weyant and Andrew Wilson."

So I am sure he has more appreciation for athletics than some of his predecessors. 

Got to throw in Jamal…

Got to throw in Jamal Crawford vs LaVell Blanchard.

It's just not obvious how well most college players will do as a pro, when they are ready, or when is the best time to go. Just look at, say, the 2017 draft, how many all stars and how many busts in the top 10.

dui. https://digital.bentley…

dui. https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754928/693

Michigan coaches have gotten…

Michigan coaches have gotten less punishment than Howard will likely get, and continued to coach for years, after doing things worse than what Howard did. 

If you want to make an example of Howard, have at it. But be sure it's really an example, and not just a one-off, to be forgotten the next time a different coach with more friends in high places makes a mistake.

Joe Schmidt was a good coach…

Joe Schmidt was a good coach. Caldwell was the best coach since Schmidt, and they fired him. Not good karma.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/13/archives/schmidt-resigns-as-lions-coach-after-6-years-he-says-its-no-longer.html

At the Saturday morning run…

At the Saturday morning run we discussed the game. As we ran through flurries, I said I thought that the snow would help Michigan by advantaging the run game, especially Haskins. Another guy said he thought Donovan Edwards looked really talented, and while he had only 20 total yards, what the heck was that one handed catch where he never got two hands on the ball?

The Buckeyes played will, no turnovers, close in total yards, longer time of possession, and some extremely athletic catches. It feels strange to call the win dominant when the opponent plays that well. It feels a lot less strange calling Michigan's performance dominant, especially averaging over 7 yards per carry.

 

Bollinger went to Columbia,…

Bollinger went to Columbia, his alma mater.

Shapiro was a good president, but he was not universally popular. He also left to be president at his ivy league alma mater. He and Bollinger were both successful in their subsequent positions.

As a public university trying to be elite in both academics and athletics, it might be the hardest university presidency in the US. But the difficulty means it isn't necessarily the most desirable job.

Current Ivy league…

Current Ivy league presidents include two former UM provosts and one former UM president. The pipeline is suppose to run the other way.

The UM job is a meat grinder. At an Ivy, your have to keep the alumni happy, oh and the alumni generally have a lot more affection and loyalty to the school. At Michigan you have to please athletic boosters, right wing know nothing legislators, left wing activists on campus, alumni, parents, and students who are as divided as the general population, and elected regents who generally are party insiders who were lucky enough to get nominated in a good year for their party. (and if you think UM's Board is a difficult bunch to work with look at MSU's.)

Schlissel should have wacked Brandon and Hoke no later than when the 1am press release went out after the Morris injury situation. I think that symbolized his indecisiveness towards dealing with difficult situations.

With COVID, last fall was supposed to be a 'public health informed' semester. It was not. It was trying to split the difference between open-up crowd and the anti-covid crowd, but you can't split the difference between fantasy and reality. The vaccine requirement for 2021 was a good call. 

Ron Weiser still on the Regents is a travesty.

FCS has only a couple fewer…

FCS has only a couple fewer teams than FBS and has a 16 team playoff. My plan is 16 teams, every conference champ, and fill out the field with worthy teams.

Megaconference


West: Old…

Megaconference


West: Old Pac 10 schools

Mountain: UT, Colo, Neb, Iowa & Kansas schools, BYU, Boise, San Diego/Jose State?

Corn: Old Big 10 schools

Money: ND, Pitt, Syracuse, Louisville, PSU, Rutgers, Maryland, BC; Cincinatti? Va schools?

A 20 team conference, where…

A 20 team conference, where you can barely play half the teams each year, isn't about the sports. It's about the money, building a mini-NCAA. Essentially it is a revenue sharing agreement between two sub-conferences. "Classic" and "Mo Money" are accurate names for the sub conferences. But being money driven, there will be a conference champ game.

If the SEC is going to keep getting bigger, it is self-defense for the B1G to do the same. The logical conclusion to this is that the NCAA will wither away. Most likely mega-alignment IMO is Big 10/Pac 12 combine and ACC and Big 12 break up and split between SEC and BigPac. 

The mere presence of the…

The mere presence of the last two teams to join the Big Ten reminds of of a line from Elwood Reid's book "If I Don't Six", a fictionalized version of the author's experience as a U-M football player.

When the protagonist is getting recruited by Boston College and they are telling him how great they are, he thinks, "I start to wonder how come they manage to lose a handful of games each year to shitbird teams like Rutgers and Maryland."

MSU paid over 100K for…

MSU paid over 100K for Strampel's lawyers; he was Nassar's boss. They didn't pay for his CSC defense though.

C'mon, it's retaliation. 

C'mon, it's retaliation. 

The case was embarrassing to the University, but it's good police work. There is no cause for this, that is why the "just a normal rotation" cover story. 

It is shocking to me that a prestigious well run University would make such a bad move. Next thing you know you will tell me that a university leader talks about burning state elected officials as witches. And that the university does nothing about it because he gave them a whole bunch of money. (Money he made by renting overpriced housing to students while the university houses freshmen in decrepit, obsolete buildings.)

Michigan changed the law in…

Michigan changed the law in 2011 to allow almost everything. You still can't set them off in the road, however, only on your own property.

I did not hang around at the neighbors boom fest up the street. My wife asked if I was being anti social. I later got a report that one of the rockets or shells ended up going horizontal and skittering through the yard next to the detonator's house. No one injured, fortunately.

You mean like the people…

You mean like the people willing to take a giant risk with COVID but not a miniscule risk with the vaccine?

Pro tip: if your rationalization of a risky behavior requires comparison to skydiving, it belongs in the garbage.

Would a legal sports betting…

Would a legal sports betting operation stiff their customers? Or is that a strong sign that illegal bets were involved? 

It might be an old event, but according to the News story it's not old news; we don't know when the bets were made, but DeSerrano testified about it in 2007 at the trial of Jack Giacalone, but the testimony only showed up in the transcripts a few years ago.