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| 1 day 7 hours ago | Offered before an offer to Jayru Campbell... |
...interesting. Right? Has Michigan offered Jayru? Has Ohio State offered him? btw, in the other news from the state Regional track meet at Grosse Pointe South where Delano Hill blazed to a record 10.81 100 meters, Jayru Campbell was placing well in the 110 hurdles and qualifying for the State Championship in the 300 intermediate hurdles. (You gotta love Cass Tech's 800 meter relay team: Delano Hill, Damon Webb, Antone Price, Daquan Pace. Delano Hill is on his way to Michigan's defensive backfield; Webb will be in Ohio State's defensive backfield, Pace will play for Eastern Michigan.) |
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| 1 day 8 hours ago | Yeah, where does all of this adolescent trashtalk come from? |
I'm afraid I know; adolescent-level posters on MGoBlog. Do any of you care to tell Jake Ryan (Westlake) that his home state is shithole? Frank Clark and Willile Henry (Glenville)? Fitz Toussaint (Youngstown)? Jibreel Black (Cincinnati)? I mean, to their faces. Like, repeating any of the embarassing trashtalk featured in this thread, to a serious person. And a serious person who could kick your ass if he bothered to think anything of it other than a waste of his time. Add to the list of ass-kickers Joe Bolden (Cincinnati), Kyle Kalis (Lakewood) and Dymonte Thomas (Alliance). All from Ohio. Antonio Poole (Winton Woods) probably won't mind you telling him he is from a shithole. Ben Gedeon is from beautiful Hudson, Ohio. So is he from a "shithole"? We've got guys who aren't just from Ohio; we've got guys who are virtually from Columbus, Ohio: Jake Butt and Taco Charlton are from Pickerington, over on the east side of Columbus. Jaron Dukes is from the south side of town. Keith Hetizman is from Hilliard which is, well, sort of the middle of Columbus. You want to spread the Ohio-hate to Courtney Avery (Mansfield), Ross Douglas (Avon), Jarrod Wilson (Akron) and Allen Gant (Sylvania)? Don't forget Jack Miller, from Perrysburg. And as long as you are insulting guys from Ohio, you might as well include Chris Wormley (Toledo). Mike McCray and Reon Dawson (Trotwood) probably can't wait to get here and hear about the shithole they grew up in together. Where McCray's dad went to school and played football. Ditto Deveon Smith, from Warren. I can't even count the number of Michigan football players we've gotten from Warren. We don't even need to dwell on the Ohioans who were instrumental in making Michigan football what it is today -- Bo Schembechler, Gary Moeller, Brady Hoke. Or two of our Heisman winners, Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson. Or the dozens of Ohio-born and bred All-Americans at Michigan. |
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| 1 day 19 hours ago | Bret Bielema on the transfer... |
"This is bullshit," Arkansas Head Coach Bret Bielema said in an exclusive interview. "How can a guy transfer, and be eligible to play the next season? I don't buy this crap about some graduate program that is not offered at the current school. There oughta be a law against this..." |
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| 1 day 19 hours ago | Do NFL teams sponsor anything like this? |
I can't believe that the NFL marketing and branding gurus allow that sort of freelancing. Is this an initiative of the Ford family? As opposed to "The Lions"? Or some separate initiative by all the shareholders of the Detroit Lions Football Club, Inc.? (Who else owns Lions stock, besides the Fords?) |
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| 2 days 9 hours ago | Is that a question? Hockey on NBC or CBC? |
Srsly?
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| 2 days 19 hours ago | Yes. |
Ralph Clayton was sort of the last in that line of early-Schembechler wingbacks. Like Smith, Clayton had size and speed. I think Clayton may have been a state hurdle and/or sprint champ at Detroit Redford. Phenomenal athlete; played for the (then-St. Lous) Cardinals. But by the end of Ralph's time at Michigan, the recieving targets had become WR (the young Anthony Carter) and TE (Senior Doug Marsh). |
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| 3 days 8 hours ago | Great, great player. |
Quite simply, one of the best offensive weapons of the Schembechler era. Among the Big Ten's best pass catchers of his day; an even better runner with the ball and blocked the way that Bo Schembechler demanded. Oh, and this: All-American. |
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| 5 days 10 hours ago | RIP Ken Venturi |
Michigan fans should be aware of the very important link between the University of Michigan Golf Course and the late great Ken Venturi. The first-ever USGA Junior Championship was conducted in 1948 on the UMGC. The final match featured Dean Lind of Rockford, IL and Ken Venturi of San Francisco, CA. It was a good match; they were probably the two best junior golfers in America by a wide margin, and Lind defeated Venturi 4-and-2 in the (then) 18-hole final. It was, I think, the only USGA Championship conducted at UMGC. Venturi impressed everyone, and even though he was the runner up I seem to recall an old yellowed Ann Arbor News article with his picture (not Lind's) after the championship. A story that is less clear to me is that Dean Lind was promptly offered a Michigan golf scholarship on the spot, and he accepted. http://www.usga.org/news/2010/December/First-U-S--Junior-Amateur-Champ-Lind-Dies/
Rest in peace, Ken and Dean.
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Ven Venturi (left) and Dean Lind at the University of Michigan Golf Course in 1948. |
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| 5 days 19 hours ago | I understand the sentiment... |
But David Brandon has to replace more than $60 million in revenue. Hard to do that by ignoring your phone messages. |
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| 5 days 19 hours ago | RE: adidas |
Of course we have 3.5 years left on the contract. Because that is what the contract has said all along. (Actually, I understood that we had 3 years left, with some sort of option for another. And, it apparently runs through an academic year so like July '17 following the '16-'17 school year. I think.) Best for us if all of the athletes gripe about it (as we know they are) and if Brandon keeps a determined lid on all of that griping. Puts Brandon in a better negotiating position with adidas. He can say to them, "You guys really don't want us to be the highest-profile adidas defection since... [since when?]... and my kids really want me to make a switch. What will you give us to make it worth our while?" |
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| 6 days 6 hours ago | This really cries out for explanation. |
How is it acceptable, to Michigan or Michigan State, to be saddled with this schedule? We are both apparently stuck with each other and with OSU as away games or home games, depending on the schedule. Why wouldn't it be a no-brainer to switch up with MSU? Do Spartan fans want a home season without UM and OSU? This has something to do with PSU being in the mix, but for the life of me I don't understand it, and I despise it. Let's just go back to a ten-team conference. |
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| 6 days 6 hours ago | Never. |
I can't believe that people say such things. I don't have much to say about which teams are tougher competition; over the course of several decades, it all evens out. But the MSU and OSU home games are the top tickets on any given year's home slate. This is a terrible departure for us and Dave Brandon knows it. Just another way that things get screwed up. This courtesy of the B1G expansion. More games with Rutgers and Maryland. Fewer games with Wisconsin, Iowa, and the other traditional Big Ten schools. MSU and OSU crammed into the same calendar years. Two years traveling to East Lansing. None of this is good. It all sucks. I'd like Brandon to know how much this pisses people off. |
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| 6 days 17 hours ago | Exactly right. |
No one is objecting to serious, thoughtful improvements. We're objecting to ugly and ill-conceived temporary gimmicks. We went to navy blue facemasks when the manufacturers offered something besides gray. That was an improvement. Why incorporate half of "scarlet and gray" into our uniform design? We went, gradually, from a wheat-colored maize, to the current highlighter maize because it photographs better and looks better on video, where colors are often distorted. That was an improvement. The proliferation of patches aren't an improvement, and don't look good. The noxious "alternates" don't look good, and aren't an improvement. No one can seriously say that a never-ending series of tribute uniform gimmicks is needed to attract high school recruits, because two of the most successful recruiting operations in the moderna era of intercollegiate football are USC and Alabama. Who have made a statement out of eschewing such gimmicks. The question I keep coming back to is what is in it for Michigan, to do those alternate unis. What is the bottom line for us? Forget adidas; I am not interested in helping them. What's our share? Because surely there is a cost, in terms of the disruption and dilution of Michigan's on-field visual brand. Brandon could answer that, and if I were attending one of those talks, that is the question I'd put to him. |
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| 1 week 1 day ago | I suppose I should savor Mitch McGary's second... |
...and final season as a Michigan Wolverine. {Sigh.} |
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| 1 week 2 days ago | "Rant Sports? Srsly." |
I'm just guessing, that the point of this thread was to drive traffic and page-hits to Rant Sports. It's too bad, really, that we will be in a football division that includes Penn State, Rutgers and Maryland. I just doesn't feel like the Big Ten. |
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| 1 week 3 days ago | From "Hello: Marvin Robinson" |
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| 1 week 3 days ago | Needs... |
Needs makes a good point. Across the country, university administration has been a huge growth industry. I'd like to agree with you; the fundraising aspect of Michigan's Presidency and its football coach dwarfs the dollar-amount of their respective annual salaries. You got that part right. If we had contracted to give Mary Sue Coleman a million-dollar cash bonus for getting us to the goal of the $3.2 billion Michigan Difference campaign, I'd have said she's being underpaid. |
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| 1 week 3 days ago | I think... |
I think that the old name for "Occupy University" is "tenure." |
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| 1 week 4 days ago | OFFERS |
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| 1 week 4 days ago | Title IX... |
Title IX is the biggest bugaboo driving Athletic Department costs. Football and basketball make tons of money. Then the federal government tells us how much we have to spend on womens sports. And thereby add to the pressure for football and basketball to make more money. If you have a proposal on how to cap coaching salaries, I am ready to listen. Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. We cap the number of coaches. Why not salaries? But generally, the marketplace works better to regulate such things. Are there any salary caps at the Business School?
Good. I'm not either. We agree. |
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| 1 week 4 days ago | Don't call him... |
... Harold. |
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| 1 week 4 days ago | So, to summarize... |
...the silly, day-dreamy issue is "What oddball sport would you like to see the University of Michigan indulge in?" Meanwhile, the serious ongoing issue in Michigan athletics is rapidly rising costs and expenses for the University's athletic patrons. You're welcome. |
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| 1 week 5 days ago | For all of the people who supplied serious responses: |
Who is going to pay for additional sports within Michigan's self-supporting athletic department? Do you think that we can, uh, raise the prices and PSD levels for football and basketball? For everybody who supplied non-serious answers: Nice job. |
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| 1 week 6 days ago | It's a funny thing... |
Before I even wandered into this Woodson debate, as I was watching that film, I thought, "Is this what Charles Woodson's high school film looked like? Did he play against that kind of opposition down in Fremont?" I know that Charles was a pretty gaudy RB in Ohio. Has anybody ever seen a high school mixtape of Woodson? |
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| 2 weeks 7 hours ago | I always wondered where guys like you get off... |
...calling Vijay "an all around dick." Vijay Singh is one of the best-liked of all the players on Tour, by younger players, by the caddies, by lots of (but not all) officials and administrators, etc. Vijay is by all accounts one of the hardest-working players in the game. So who besides you really thinks of Singh as "an all around dick"? Does it spring from that 30 year old story from the scoring tent at the '85 Indonesian Open? Really? Was it his comments about Annika Sorenstam's stunt appearance at the Colonial where she missed the cut? (About which Singh was right, and curiously singled out since a lot of other players agreed with him.) What particular, personal, peculiar story do you have, that gives you license to call the guy "an all around dick"? And "washed up"? Name me a better 50 year-old player. (Vijay turned 50 last February.) He'll be a force on the Champions Tour as soon as he is a regular player there; but he's too good to leave the regular tour right now. As for the lawsuit; I'm a lawyer, and I have followed the story pretty closely, and yet I don't understand the claim. I'd have to see a .pdf of the complaint, which I have not been able to find online. It's a very confusing story. Edit 1: Here is a link to the .pdf of the Complaint http://images.thegolfchannel.com/downloads/SinghvPGATourSummonsandComplaint5813.pdf Edit 2: I am a friend and follower of Geoff Shackelford, golf's leading blogger. Geoff (not surprising) is very tough on Vijay. Tougher than I would be. The PGA Tour is staffed with a lot of overpaid fools (Geoff would agree with me on that much). I know Geoff does not care for Vijay; for my part I stand by what I wrote above, and I would challenge Geoff or anyone to dispute it. The sportswriters might not like Vijay, and consequently their readers might not like Vijay. I know for a fact that younger tour players and caddies have a lot of respect for Vijay. |
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| 2 weeks 15 hours ago | I'd much rather see the Big Ten turn into the Ivy League... |
...than see it turn into a minor league pro sports operation. |
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| 2 weeks 17 hours ago | It would be a mistake to continue any debate with you... |
...if you have any doubt about whether Chris Webber did anything wrong. And if you don't think he personally did great harm to the university. And if you have any doubt about what a crook Ed Martin was. And if you think that "the NCAA" is in any way, shape or form responsible for the depths of the Martin/Webber wrongdoing. You're right. If those are the terms, there is no point in any debate. Michigan, alone in the mess, took full responsibility and aceepted full punishment in the matter. If I never hear about Chris Webber again it will be too soon. Buhbye. |
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| 2 weeks 17 hours ago | 1. and 2. |
1. I was responding very specifically to the absurd claim that Webber lied "to protect the university." He did no such thing. 2. These threads routinely get started by people wanting to celebrate Webber. Michigan and its fans would do well to ignore Webber. I promise not to complain about Webber, or even mention him, if people will just STFU about Webber. |
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| 2 weeks 18 hours ago | Damn Chris Webber. And DAMN Ed Martin. |
The recurrence of their story gives the media one more opportunity to recite that Webber got an unconscionable amount of money under the table from a "Michigan booster." That "Michigan booster" was not a Michigan alumnus, he wasn't a donor (at least not to my knowledge; certainly nothing significant); he wasn't a former letterwinner, wasn't a coach, wasn't a faculty member or staff member; he wasn't a parent of a Michigan student. He wasn't shit. He was a factory worker, a sometime-numbers game operator, a union operative, a gambler, and a self-proclaimed procurer of young black athletes in Detroit. Today would be a good day to piss on his grave. |
