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Winning the Big Ten…

Winning the Big Ten tournament counts as winning the Big Ten. He never won the Big Ten regular season title.

Bakich won the Big Ten twice…

Bakich won the Big Ten twice. Does it really matter if you devote some more money to baseball to keep it competitive like when Hutch had Michigan softball rolling? It is more infuriating when they have a huge budget surplus every year and they nickel and dime everything that they don't need to.

Since then, Tracy Smith was…

Since then, Tracy Smith was fired by Arizona State and the team is awful this year. I know it's early in his tenure.

Supposedly Bakich wanted…

Supposedly Bakich wanted improved facilities like batting cages and assistant pay and Warde said no. Erik may have left regardless, but when all of your coaches leave in multiple sports it becomes harder to say that it's a coincidence.

He seems pretty unlikable…

He seems pretty unlikable. Brian and Sam are more plugged in than the average mgoblogger so they probably know more than us when they say that coaches and others don't like him.

He left so no?

He left so no?

September is a long time…

September is a long time from now. Hopefully, he can come back during the season. I think Jake Ryan tore his acl in late March one year and came back in October.

People are so desperate to…

People are so desperate to praise Warde that he gets praise for things that he didn't have much of a part in. In the past month, he has gotten more praise for the women's gymnastics team winning the national championship than the head coach that has been there for like 30 years. He has gotten praise for the CWS appearance but when the coach leaves it totally isn't his fault. He gets praise for NIL for keeping the team around but when Michigan still doesn't have a top 10 recruiting class next winter it won't be his fault. He gets praise for deciding to keep Harbaugh and cutting his salary but when Harbaugh leaves it isn't his fault.

Reducing Harbaughs salary…

Reducing Harbaughs salary was a good thing? 

I mean he didn't hire the…

I mean he didn't hire the coach that won the national championship. That's like giving Warde credit for UConn women's basketball titles. 

Also losing Sanderson was…

Also losing Sanderson was another own goal. We have to see how May actually does here. Rich Rod was a hot name too. I'm a little bit cautious about May given that FAU wasn't as good this year with largely the same players as last year. It's easy to pump up the guy until you actually see what happens on the court. 

I wish we would stop saying…

I wish we would stop saying transformational not transactional. This isn't 1975. It's transformational and transcational.

I don't know how MSU's third…

I don't know how MSU's third goal was a goal. Worst call of the season.

I think it's the fact that…

I think it's the fact that he has been there for six years and last year was his only real good year. This year he had a great team and was ranked preseason and lost to Northwestern so not really exceeding expectations. Porter Moser went to the final four with Loyola and hasn't translated at Oklahoma. May seems like a flash in the pan type of guy like Moser or Enfield.

That can't go in

That can't go in

Very close to ending it

Very close to ending it

It's amazing we are tied…

It's amazing we are tied with all of the refereeing bullshit.

He's a guy with one good…

He's a guy with one good year. I will get behind him but it's basically like Andy enfield.

Msu has gotten like 4 gift…

Msu has gotten like 4 gift goals through the tournament so far.

Seems like we are…

Seems like we are controlling play. Barzo and defense are not coming through.

Barron having an awful game

Barzo having an awful game

Dzto

Dzto

Win the game! He the real…

Win the game! Be the real Big Ten champs!

The team has been doing…

The team has been doing great since the Nebraska debacle. No way they catch Penn State but there's no shame in being second. PSU is like the 1992 US Olympic Men's Basketball Team.

Somewhere Rick Pitino is…

Somewhere Rick Pitino is smiling with that block called foul.

Dug and Twill were…

Dug and Twill were definitely not notably better this year.

Out of baseball, hockey,…

Out of baseball, hockey, football, and basketball, Warde hired only one of those coaches that reached the semis. I believe you should be judged on what you have actually done and not what you inherit. By that metric, Warde gets praise for the Naurato hire and what he has done with the hockey program outside of the Pearson fiasco. Baseball, football, and Beilein all existed before he was there and what happened was going to happen regardless of who was athletic director. As for Juwan, he fired a 8-24 coach. That was something he should have done all along. It is clear from everyone that he didn't really want to do it until the end. Whether he finally saw the light or was pressured into firing him is irrelevant. Warde will be judged on who he hires and not the fact that Juwan was fired. 

Why am I or anyone supposed…

Why am I or anyone supposed to give him credit for firing Juwan? That is an obvious career decision if he doesn't want to get run out of Ann Arbor. If you are going to insinuate that the Warde-Harbaugh relationship was all Harbaugh then why do Beilein and Warde also not get along? I'm still waiting for somebody to say something absolutely great that Warde Mnauel does at Michigan. 

He definitely presided over…

He definitely presided over the university response to it and hired Shemy Schembechler.

"There are no reports of…

"There are no reports of sexual harassment or dysfunction in the athletic department." 

Mel Pearson and Robert Anderson?

So what has he done behind…

So what has he done behind the scenes? For the record, I was in favor of Juwan getting hired. He was forced into getting rid of Juwan because it was politically impossible to keep him. Brian and Seth have stated that their sources have told them that numerous coaches in different sports don't want to come to Michigan solely because of him. It seems kind of bad if an athletic director can't perform his number one job duty which is hiring and retaining coaches. 

Going to have 10-11…

Going to have 10-11 transfers on the team next year. 

Bill Martin hired John…

Bill Martin hired John Beilein.

Brian Cook can't be worse…

Brian Cook can't be worse than the actual AD in charge of things. The fact that Brian and Seth said that they've heard from multiple sources that coaches would have come here but don't want to work for Warde is not great. Hiring and retaining coaches is the number one AD responsibility. It seems that Santa and the regents don't want to get rid of him. All parties would be better off if he took some NFL/NCAA job as some type of mutual decision.

MSU will get blown out by…

MSU will get blown out by the other MSU.

Mick Cronin? Bleh. Sounds…

Mick Cronin? Bleh. Sounds like a Warde hire.

Idk. Seems similar to Chris…

Idk. Seems similar to Chris Holtmann. Good record but never great at Butler. Same thing with Medved at CSU. We'd definitely be a lot better than Juwan but he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would get us a Big Ten championship. 

As long as we get the right…

As long as we get the right coach. I'm not really as big on Medved as Brian. He seems to have a similar resume to Holtmann when he was at Butler. Pretty good but never great and never bad. If he comes here, I don't think we'd win the Big Ten but I also don't think we'd be terrible.

I am not feeling it with…

I am not feeling it with Tholl. Hutch gets to pick her successor but it doesn't appear to be working out.

The Mens Tennis team has…

The Mens Tennis team has really fallen off since Warde let Steinberg walk.

Huge save!

Huge save!

I want to win in Munn next…

I want to win in Munn next weekend so we can say that we say that we are the real Big Ten champions.

Best defensive/goaltending…

Best defensive/goaltending game we have played in a while.

We are dominating play in…

We are dominating play in this game thus far.

Can they review that for a…

Can they review that for a major?

How did that not call that…

How did that not call that tripping?

I get if an offsides…

I get if an offsides directly leads to a goal but how can you take something off after they've been in the zone for a minute?

How can you reverse…

How can you reverse something that happened two minutes ago?

Last time we're going to…

Last time we're going to hire Ed Cooley so I am not holding my breath.

I am very confused but I…

I am very confused but I would take Hoiberg. Very good at Iowa State and has turned Nebraska from a doormat into a respectable program.