What the F@#$ was Tschetter doing on that "play"! Standing out of bounds and bringing your defender over to effectively double Reed in the process??? Honestly...that's not even bad coaching. That's just a very low basketball IQ.
For being a big who is supposed to be all about hustle he gets winded very quickly and has no clue how to box out. That later one still pisses me off the most about him. He is not a fluid athlete, you would think the one thing he would have figured out by now was how to ID someone and put his butt on them when the shot goes up. Instead he goes for the rebound and often times allows more athletic players to elevate over him to get the board. Again, and again, and again....drove me nuts!
I appreciate trying to find the positives, and Dug had many, but the turnovers came from trying to make passes that weren't there and sometimes trying to do the spectacular when doing the fundamental thing would have lead to success.
I know everyone fawns over Beilein because of what he accomplished, but he couldn't fix everything. I doubt he would have even recruited Dug. Had he inherited him, he certainly wouldn't have played him until Dug was willing to change his game and who knows if that would have ever happened which means Dug still would be hitting the portal.
Seems like a very young team. If given time to develop over the rest of this season, add a few more players through recruiting and the portal, next year could start to be interesting again. I hope so, because it was really fun watching Michigan play when Hutch had it really rolling.
I think there are multiple reasons. I'd have to really dig through some data to validate this, but these are my impressions:
- Michigan tends to use weaker opponents as a way to work on a part of their game they want to test or develop without revealing too much playbook. I think other teams will often rep core parts of their playbook against weaker opponents to perfect what they do best. Ryan Day has said this in interviews. I don't mind Michigan's philosophy on this although it can be frustrating watching other teams lighting up the score board while Michigan seems to underwhelm.
- While we may complain about the schedule, Michigan's cupcakes are typically not quite as horrible as other team's cupcakes. OSU typically has at least one team like Youngstown St. on their schedule. The SEC plays schools no one has even heard of. Michigan typically will play a MAC, or Mountain West or some other school like that. It makes a difference. Those types of programs have legit players sprinkled throughout their rosters and have real strength programs. Many of these other schools the SEC plays can barely field a team.
Let's say Juwan was fired mid-season. Who do you elevate to the head coaching role? Martelli? Eisley? Washington? I doubt any of those three are candidates to replace Juwan so why give them an interim role? This is the difference between Michigan and OSU's situation.
Get a head start on a the coaching search? I'm guessing a couple prerequisites for the next head coach is that he is already a head coach in college and he is good enough his team will be playing in March Madness. Who are you going to hire before the season ends or the tournament begins? Would you really want a coach who is willing to leave their current team mid-season or right before the tourney starts? I know it happened to Michigan many years ago with Frieder and Fisher, but come on.
Diebler was already on staff at OSU. That was my point. If you think you have a great candidate on staff, sure, elevate him mid-season to get a test run of what he would do when he runs the show before officially hiring him just to be safe. If that is not the case and you know you are hiring outside the program, let the current coach finish it off unless there is a truly egregious situation which has taken place.
I have supported Juwan through many of the negative comments, but the administration didn't have anything to do with the team's horrible rebounding, turnovers, and defensive mistakes.
Michigan is going to have to win with people who can get into Michigan. In basketball, that should be enough to remain competitive in the top 25. Now NIL, that is a different story, and the transformational story which works in football doesn't translate to basketball. Michigan needs to get that figured out and hopefully the recent changes there are a sign they are.
Firing Juwan mid-season doesn't accelerate anything, especially if you are not planning to elevate someone currently on staff. It could actually be more damaging regarding big donors given Juwan's history with the school.
I don't understand the faction on this board who are so adamant that firing Juwan during the season would somehow have been better for Michigan's basketball program.
Yep. Kind of funny. Overall, he was about on par with Jalen Milroe, who Alabama is happy to have coming back. And he performed better against Michigan than CJ Stroud. Yet, they were fine with Stroud coming back and ran McCord out of town.
One evening I told my wife I wanted to slip between the spreadsheets with her, apparently we had very different expectations for how the evening would end.
The funny thing about this comment is there is a very broad and deep collection of experience, knowledge, and talent on this board. We probably could create a very good cross-industry consulting firm which would be top notch in a lot of fields.
The one potential issue would be every recommendation would start with firing Warde. I could see the leadership teams at Apple, Boeing, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc all asking,
"who is this Warde guy you want us to fire immediately and why is he so harmful to our company?"
The reason doesn't matter at this point...as long as Michigan doesn't self report handing out cash in McDonald's bags. A school should never go full Tennessee.
Agreed, scoring is ultimately about the whole team. I think I put that caveat in there somewhere. Even special teams and the defense have an impact on the likelihood of a drive ending in points.
One note I would make, the NFL has a lot of parity. The difference between a poor O-Line and good O-Line in the NFL is not like college where a bad O-Line is visibly worse to the untrained eye. Same with skill positions. The worst receiving core in the NFL is still at a level significantly above any college team. This is where the little percent better comes in. The NFL is a QB driven league. If that one guy can make a 3% difference along with everyone else, it can really show up in the W-L record of an NFL team.
52% of Caleb William's drives ended in a scores (either a TD or FG). Of those 52%, 86% were TD's.
Williams finished a higher percentage of his scoring drives with TD's, but had a lower percentage of drives on which his team scored.
I did not watch a ton of USC games, but what I did see tells me Caleb Williams often relied on broken plays and outstanding skill position players to score TD's. What he was not good at was longer sustained drives which, if stopped, ended with the team in field goal range. This is one of the red flags I would have about him in the NFL. There are far fewer broken plays in which you can find a wide open receiver who can waltz into the end zone after the catch.
Even if Michigan somehow rises to an 8, it will be a difficult path for this team. Sliding down a spot or two may actually be better. At least they wouldn't have to face the #1 seed in the second round if they are able to win the first game.
Wasn't Jordan Marshall a head-2-head win for Hart over Alford?
Regarding OSU recruiting RB's, OSU has never really had any issues bringing in top rated RB's. regardless of who the RB coach is. Somehow, they always seem to have a great RB and this is going back many decades. It may not be the hardest thing to recruit top rated players there. The work still needs to be done, they don't just fall out of the Buckeye trees, but there are many things about OSU which seem to make any RB coach successful in recruiting.
I understand we all have bad days, but come on. This is an awesome post providing a volume of great info about a Michigan team, which typically does not receive a lot of coverage, eligible for post season play.
It’s easier to just say thank you and move on leaving the world a better place instead of choosing to crap on someone because of your own issues.
What JUB’s text is really saying is the big donors are no longer in agreement about Coach Howard’s status and Warde is not going to fight for the consensus to be to keep him. He’ll facilitate a consensus, it could go either way now. Bad spot to be in because this could take a little while and we all know how patient fans on this blog are.
What a joy it has been cheering for him as a Michigan fan. It took everyone on the team to accomplish those goals, but they did it and he was a big part of it. So awesome for him, all of the players, and certainly all of the fans.
Thank you “I bleed”. It is so awesome to scroll through these game threads after I have put the kids to bed. It feels like watching a B1G Hockey in 60 episode.
Have always greatly appreciated you doing this. Best part this season…I can skip through the third period posts and get the final result without all of the frustration of the blown lead part.
What I find humerus about this, is the implied statement of, “ yes, I want to watch college football and I want my team to win, but someone else should be paying for all of it”.
One way or another the fans will pay for all of this. They always have. They just got a case of Dr. Pepper to go with their payment in the past.
Very unfortunate for him and Michigan. Hoping he can arrive in a good place personally and Michigan can find a good replacement. My perception was he brought a lot to the staff.
It’s not that other teams are catching up with NIL. Plenty of other teams had illegal bag in the past. He could live with that because it was a one time conversation with the recruit in the recruits house. You either won that players services for 3-4 years or not and you moved on.
Now, it’s an every year conversation with the same players in the coaches office. That is what he can not handle.
I don’t blame him. I doubt very many of the great coaches from the past would want to work in this current environment except for the ridiculous salaries.
Could you imagine the Lloyd Carr/Woodson story about transferring in today’s environment?
“Yes, hello Mrs Woodson, could you please tell your son he’s not transferring?”
”How much more is he going to get paid this year?”
Harbaugh against OSU in 2021 was pretty close. He did say they would win or die trying, Thankfully they won and it was the Buckeyes who died crying…I mean trying.
Why does Michigan need to counter this story? Honestly, the only people it would be for are the posters on this site and the basketball blog run by Dylan. Most casual fans checked out following this team long ago.
As ardent as we are, we are a very small minority of the fan base. I don’t think the AD should cater their actions for us.
Let this story fade now, let Howard go when the season is over and this is all water under the bridge.
I'm not trying to pick on you specifically, but this is the type of post which shows how many people on this site have no idea what the life and responsibilities of an AD really are.
The functional interviewing and developing contracts is nothing to the AD. This is all about the largest donors to the AD and the basketball program.
An AD first has to make sure the top donors are all in alignment on getting rid of a coach. Then comes the really fun part, they need to get all of the top donors aligned around who the next coach should be. Good luck getting all those ego's to agree. The reality is, all these people with their money which really makes the thing we all love run, they get pretty fickle with how their money is spent. If it doesn't align with what they want, that money suddenly doesn't flow anymore.
Much of the NIL money is tied to these big donors. Do you want NIL for the basketball program to get worse at Michigan? The fastest route to that is a divisive coaching search where the AD can't get the donors aligned on a candidate.
This is why you wait to the end of the season. You have the full body of work for all of the donors to evaluate. Not just Juwan's performance, but all of the candidates you may be evaluating. It's easier (and by easier, I mean getting your wisdom teeth extracted vs. a full root canal) to get donor alignment this way.
The team is 3-16 in conference and 8-22 overall. They are not even going to be invited to the NIT. What would have been gained for the team had Juan been fired at 3-12, 3-13, 3-14? I'm guessing it would make a difference to some of those top donors who loved the Fab Five and wouldn't want Juwan embarrassed that way.
I was recently listening to a news piece about narcissism and why many people who advance to leadership roles in politics and the business world have some aspects of narcissistic traits.
If more people understood the psychological and emotional divergencies which cause people to exhibit narcissistic traits, our society would be better equipped to address the internal deficiencies which often drive the behaviors.
I would think someone who has been publicly open about being nerudivergent would make less caustic comments about a segment of people.
Sanderson’s own account says he yelled at Jace from over 30 feet away multiple times. Sanderson also stated he had to stand up to Juwan and could not back down.
As a professional adult in a position of leadership, I agree, Sanderson should have handled this very differently.
Sanderson’s own account doesn’t make Sanderson look very good. I’d be interested to hear all of the witnesses interpretations of the situation. I’m guessing Sanderson comes off even worse than his own story which isn’t very flattering.
It looks like Will Johnson is starting to peel off pursuit. That’s pretty funny. He be like “I got you Kaytron, oh wait, hello Kenneth, I’ll get out of the way now.”
The B1G has had a huge financial advantage over other conferences (other than SEC) for decades. How has that played out in on-field/court success for most teams in the conference? Northwestern & Wisconsin may be the only examples you could point to where the money advantage has made a difference in the sustained quality of on field/court performance vs their historical results.
For everyone else:
Indiana: horrible football, basketball used to be dominant and is now mediocre
Purdue: football is mediocre, basketball has remained dominant (until March, at least)
Minnesota: football is mediocre, basketball used to be good and is now mediocre
Illinois: football program used to have moments, now it's just bad, basketball was great and is now good
MSU: football had a run and now sucks, basketball has remained a strong program
Nebraska: football is mediocre, basketball sucks
Maryland: football is mediocre, basketball was good and is now mediocre
Rutgers: football sucks, basketball is mediocre
Iowa: football & basketball are the same as they have always been, surprisingly competitive but never elite
PSU: Football has remained the same strong program, basketball still sucks
You would think all the money the B1G has brought in would have helped elevate these programs, instead, many seem to have declined.
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Won't anyone think of the coaches???
What the F@#$ was Tschetter doing on that "play"! Standing out of bounds and bringing your defender over to effectively double Reed in the process??? Honestly...that's not even bad coaching. That's just a very low basketball IQ.
I don't disagree, but it is for all the kids who's season is already over. They can get started on finding their new team.
Unlike football where there are 120+ teams, there are 300+ D1 college teams. The large majority of basketball players are not playing at this point.
For being a big…
Into what?
For being a big who is supposed to be all about hustle he gets winded very quickly and has no clue how to box out. That later one still pisses me off the most about him. He is not a fluid athlete, you would think the one thing he would have figured out by now was how to ID someone and put his butt on them when the shot goes up. Instead he goes for the rebound and often times allows more athletic players to elevate over him to get the board. Again, and again, and again....drove me nuts!
Sorry, you hit a nerve on that one.
I appreciate trying to find the positives, and Dug had many, but the turnovers came from trying to make passes that weren't there and sometimes trying to do the spectacular when doing the fundamental thing would have lead to success.
I know everyone fawns over Beilein because of what he accomplished, but he couldn't fix everything. I doubt he would have even recruited Dug. Had he inherited him, he certainly wouldn't have played him until Dug was willing to change his game and who knows if that would have ever happened which means Dug still would be hitting the portal.
Dug never would have been on a good Michigan team. Guys who turn the ball over that much and don't play defense don't play on good teams.
Seems like a very young team. If given time to develop over the rest of this season, add a few more players through recruiting and the portal, next year could start to be interesting again. I hope so, because it was really fun watching Michigan play when Hutch had it really rolling.
And so was the team.
I think there are multiple reasons. I'd have to really dig through some data to validate this, but these are my impressions:
- Michigan tends to use weaker opponents as a way to work on a part of their game they want to test or develop without revealing too much playbook. I think other teams will often rep core parts of their playbook against weaker opponents to perfect what they do best. Ryan Day has said this in interviews. I don't mind Michigan's philosophy on this although it can be frustrating watching other teams lighting up the score board while Michigan seems to underwhelm.
- While we may complain about the schedule, Michigan's cupcakes are typically not quite as horrible as other team's cupcakes. OSU typically has at least one team like Youngstown St. on their schedule. The SEC plays schools no one has even heard of. Michigan typically will play a MAC, or Mountain West or some other school like that. It makes a difference. Those types of programs have legit players sprinkled throughout their rosters and have real strength programs. Many of these other schools the SEC plays can barely field a team.
I hear he's a little rough on his players sometimes.
Leave that to NY.
I think your list is a Shart.
Let's say Juwan was fired mid-season. Who do you elevate to the head coaching role? Martelli? Eisley? Washington? I doubt any of those three are candidates to replace Juwan so why give them an interim role? This is the difference between Michigan and OSU's situation.
Get a head start on a the coaching search? I'm guessing a couple prerequisites for the next head coach is that he is already a head coach in college and he is good enough his team will be playing in March Madness. Who are you going to hire before the season ends or the tournament begins? Would you really want a coach who is willing to leave their current team mid-season or right before the tourney starts? I know it happened to Michigan many years ago with Frieder and Fisher, but come on.
How do you know his top three list isn't in there somewhere???
I'm assuming most basketball fans would like to hire a head coach from the college ranks who's team will be playing in the tournament.
I don't think we have to worry about the cupboard being bare by the time Michigan finds their next coach.
Diebler was already on staff at OSU. That was my point. If you think you have a great candidate on staff, sure, elevate him mid-season to get a test run of what he would do when he runs the show before officially hiring him just to be safe. If that is not the case and you know you are hiring outside the program, let the current coach finish it off unless there is a truly egregious situation which has taken place.
I have supported Juwan through many of the negative comments, but the administration didn't have anything to do with the team's horrible rebounding, turnovers, and defensive mistakes.
Michigan is going to have to win with people who can get into Michigan. In basketball, that should be enough to remain competitive in the top 25. Now NIL, that is a different story, and the transformational story which works in football doesn't translate to basketball. Michigan needs to get that figured out and hopefully the recent changes there are a sign they are.
Thank you for posting.
Firing Juwan…
48 hours???
Firing Juwan mid-season doesn't accelerate anything, especially if you are not planning to elevate someone currently on staff. It could actually be more damaging regarding big donors given Juwan's history with the school.
I don't understand the faction on this board who are so adamant that firing Juwan during the season would somehow have been better for Michigan's basketball program.
Yep. Kind of funny. Overall, he was about on par with Jalen Milroe, who Alabama is happy to have coming back. And he performed better against Michigan than CJ Stroud. Yet, they were fine with Stroud coming back and ran McCord out of town.
That is one crazy program they run down there.
One evening I told my wife I wanted to slip between the spreadsheets with her, apparently we had very different expectations for how the evening would end.
OSU hires firm to investigate OSU.
Firms response: "I just hope they don't ask us to investigate us!"
The funny thing about this comment is there is a very broad and deep collection of experience, knowledge, and talent on this board. We probably could create a very good cross-industry consulting firm which would be top notch in a lot of fields.
The one potential issue would be every recommendation would start with firing Warde. I could see the leadership teams at Apple, Boeing, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc all asking,
"who is this Warde guy you want us to fire immediately and why is he so harmful to our company?"
Michigan is so good at this basketball thing they do it 8 days a week, 24 hours a day.
The reason doesn't matter at this point...as long as Michigan doesn't self report handing out cash in McDonald's bags. A school should never go full Tennessee.
The hockey post season is so messed up there will seldom ever be a good place for Michigan to play...so why not support Bray's personal interests!
Agreed, scoring is ultimately about the whole team. I think I put that caveat in there somewhere. Even special teams and the defense have an impact on the likelihood of a drive ending in points.
One note I would make, the NFL has a lot of parity. The difference between a poor O-Line and good O-Line in the NFL is not like college where a bad O-Line is visibly worse to the untrained eye. Same with skill positions. The worst receiving core in the NFL is still at a level significantly above any college team. This is where the little percent better comes in. The NFL is a QB driven league. If that one guy can make a 3% difference along with everyone else, it can really show up in the W-L record of an NFL team.
52% of Caleb William's drives ended in a scores (either a TD or FG). Of those 52%, 86% were TD's.
Williams finished a higher percentage of his scoring drives with TD's, but had a lower percentage of drives on which his team scored.
I did not watch a ton of USC games, but what I did see tells me Caleb Williams often relied on broken plays and outstanding skill position players to score TD's. What he was not good at was longer sustained drives which, if stopped, ended with the team in field goal range. This is one of the red flags I would have about him in the NFL. There are far fewer broken plays in which you can find a wide open receiver who can waltz into the end zone after the catch.
Thank you. Very much appreciated!!!
Even if Michigan somehow rises to an 8, it will be a difficult path for this team. Sliding down a spot or two may actually be better. At least they wouldn't have to face the #1 seed in the second round if they are able to win the first game.
Fortunately, while I still have many issues (I'm sure my wife, kids and dog would be happy to elaborate), living in Texas is no longer one of them.
The most egregious form of unsportsmanlike conduct blatantly disregarding the safety of others since...whatever the last thing Michigan did today.
Wasn't Jordan Marshall a head-2-head win for Hart over Alford?
Regarding OSU recruiting RB's, OSU has never really had any issues bringing in top rated RB's. regardless of who the RB coach is. Somehow, they always seem to have a great RB and this is going back many decades. It may not be the hardest thing to recruit top rated players there. The work still needs to be done, they don't just fall out of the Buckeye trees, but there are many things about OSU which seem to make any RB coach successful in recruiting.
Thanks OP. Great post. Could you do a similar synopsis for Michigan so we can compare to potential opponents?
I understand we all have bad days, but come on. This is an awesome post providing a volume of great info about a Michigan team, which typically does not receive a lot of coverage, eligible for post season play.
It’s easier to just say thank you and move on leaving the world a better place instead of choosing to crap on someone because of your own issues.
This is not a multi-layered University organisational structure issue.
I recently wrote a post about the job an AD has to do with regards to coaching changes and big donors. https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/john-u-bacon-juwan-howard-return-more-likely-not#comment-245273526
What JUB’s text is really saying is the big donors are no longer in agreement about Coach Howard’s status and Warde is not going to fight for the consensus to be to keep him. He’ll facilitate a consensus, it could go either way now. Bad spot to be in because this could take a little while and we all know how patient fans on this blog are.
What a joy it has been cheering for him as a Michigan fan. It took everyone on the team to accomplish those goals, but they did it and he was a big part of it. So awesome for him, all of the players, and certainly all of the fans.
Thank you “I bleed”. It is so awesome to scroll through these game threads after I have put the kids to bed. It feels like watching a B1G Hockey in 60 episode.
Have always greatly appreciated you doing this. Best part this season…I can skip through the third period posts and get the final result without all of the frustration of the blown lead part.
What I find humerus about this, is the implied statement of, “ yes, I want to watch college football and I want my team to win, but someone else should be paying for all of it”.
One way or another the fans will pay for all of this. They always have. They just got a case of Dr. Pepper to go with their payment in the past.
Very unfortunate for him and Michigan. Hoping he can arrive in a good place personally and Michigan can find a good replacement. My perception was he brought a lot to the staff.
It’s not that other teams are catching up with NIL. Plenty of other teams had illegal bag in the past. He could live with that because it was a one time conversation with the recruit in the recruits house. You either won that players services for 3-4 years or not and you moved on.
Now, it’s an every year conversation with the same players in the coaches office. That is what he can not handle.
I don’t blame him. I doubt very many of the great coaches from the past would want to work in this current environment except for the ridiculous salaries.
Could you imagine the Lloyd Carr/Woodson story about transferring in today’s environment?
“Yes, hello Mrs Woodson, could you please tell your son he’s not transferring?”
”How much more is he going to get paid this year?”
“Uhhhhhhhh….let me get back to you.”
Harbaugh against OSU in 2021 was pretty close. He did say they would win or die trying, Thankfully they won and it was the Buckeyes who died crying…I mean trying.
Why does Michigan need to counter this story? Honestly, the only people it would be for are the posters on this site and the basketball blog run by Dylan. Most casual fans checked out following this team long ago.
As ardent as we are, we are a very small minority of the fan base. I don’t think the AD should cater their actions for us.
Let this story fade now, let Howard go when the season is over and this is all water under the bridge.
I'm not trying to pick on you specifically, but this is the type of post which shows how many people on this site have no idea what the life and responsibilities of an AD really are.
The functional interviewing and developing contracts is nothing to the AD. This is all about the largest donors to the AD and the basketball program.
An AD first has to make sure the top donors are all in alignment on getting rid of a coach. Then comes the really fun part, they need to get all of the top donors aligned around who the next coach should be. Good luck getting all those ego's to agree. The reality is, all these people with their money which really makes the thing we all love run, they get pretty fickle with how their money is spent. If it doesn't align with what they want, that money suddenly doesn't flow anymore.
Much of the NIL money is tied to these big donors. Do you want NIL for the basketball program to get worse at Michigan? The fastest route to that is a divisive coaching search where the AD can't get the donors aligned on a candidate.
This is why you wait to the end of the season. You have the full body of work for all of the donors to evaluate. Not just Juwan's performance, but all of the candidates you may be evaluating. It's easier (and by easier, I mean getting your wisdom teeth extracted vs. a full root canal) to get donor alignment this way.
The team is 3-16 in conference and 8-22 overall. They are not even going to be invited to the NIT. What would have been gained for the team had Juan been fired at 3-12, 3-13, 3-14? I'm guessing it would make a difference to some of those top donors who loved the Fab Five and wouldn't want Juwan embarrassed that way.
I was recently listening to a news piece about narcissism and why many people who advance to leadership roles in politics and the business world have some aspects of narcissistic traits.
If more people understood the psychological and emotional divergencies which cause people to exhibit narcissistic traits, our society would be better equipped to address the internal deficiencies which often drive the behaviors.
I would think someone who has been publicly open about being nerudivergent would make less caustic comments about a segment of people.
Yes, but it was also unfortunately reported that Hardaway Sr. and son did not have a great relationship growing up.
Sanderson’s own account says he yelled at Jace from over 30 feet away multiple times. Sanderson also stated he had to stand up to Juwan and could not back down.
As a professional adult in a position of leadership, I agree, Sanderson should have handled this very differently.
Sanderson’s own account doesn’t make Sanderson look very good. I’d be interested to hear all of the witnesses interpretations of the situation. I’m guessing Sanderson comes off even worse than his own story which isn’t very flattering.
This team is not good. What else is there to say at this point.
That is not a question.
It looks like Will Johnson is starting to peel off pursuit. That’s pretty funny. He be like “I got you Kaytron, oh wait, hello Kenneth, I’ll get out of the way now.”
The B1G has had a huge financial advantage over other conferences (other than SEC) for decades. How has that played out in on-field/court success for most teams in the conference? Northwestern & Wisconsin may be the only examples you could point to where the money advantage has made a difference in the sustained quality of on field/court performance vs their historical results.
For everyone else:
Indiana: horrible football, basketball used to be dominant and is now mediocre
Purdue: football is mediocre, basketball has remained dominant (until March, at least)
Minnesota: football is mediocre, basketball used to be good and is now mediocre
Illinois: football program used to have moments, now it's just bad, basketball was great and is now good
MSU: football had a run and now sucks, basketball has remained a strong program
Nebraska: football is mediocre, basketball sucks
Maryland: football is mediocre, basketball was good and is now mediocre
Rutgers: football sucks, basketball is mediocre
Iowa: football & basketball are the same as they have always been, surprisingly competitive but never elite
PSU: Football has remained the same strong program, basketball still sucks
You would think all the money the B1G has brought in would have helped elevate these programs, instead, many seem to have declined.
If you need “protection” to play for the Championship, maybe you don’t deserve it.