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Really appreciate your…

Really appreciate your humility Seth!

That’s my main concern. 

That’s my main concern. 

They should withdraw. Such a…

They should withdraw. Such a sellout move. Talk about betrayal. 

Dude - as his business…

Talk about being a sell out and providing material aide to the enemy. 
 

Must have been a big enough retainer to offset the boycott. 
 

Totally agree

Totally agree

Right. But what is worth…

Right. But what is worth hacking into if you are a football coach about to play a team that has a super predictable offense. You know their defense because their prior games are televised.
 

And would the police really get involved for trying to hack into TCU’s server (something a football coach would not know how to do)?

I agree he was probably trying to, or did, access something he really wasn’t supposed to. But what?

That someone was probably…

That someone was probably Jim Harbaugh because Ono must have known before yesterday (since the University Police directed a raid on Weiss’ home last week). And unless Harbaugh told on Weiss, Ono would not still be so publicly backing Harbaugh (because he would be under investigation too).

This is Zach Smith level bad…

This is really, really bad.
 

Police do not investigate and raid homes for stuff that a civil lawsuit could solve, like just downloading info and just reselling it. Law enforcement never gets involved in trade secret misappropriation cases.

He must have been engaged in a scheme to defraud people, illegal/influencing gambling, or something much worse. 

Selling 2-5 tickets to Mich…

Selling 2-5 tickets to Mich. v. OSU Hockey game at Yost on Saturday, January 14th.

Seats are in Section 24, Row 4, Seats 7-11.

$85/tic. 

Text me at (614) nine three seven 4662 if interested.

I wouldn't put Minnesota…

I wouldn't put Minnesota that high after loosing to Purdue...seriously though, this ranking is consistent with on-field performance this year. Alabama almost lost to Texas, and Georgia and Clemson almost lost 2 games to crappy teams.

 

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This is the worst ALLEGATION…

This is the worst ALLEGATION, which is not corroborated, against Mel: “belittling her, prohibiting her from entering the hockey locker room, and excluding her from team activities and meals.” The only corroborated account is that Mel yelled when McNeil incorrectly scheduled a meeting. Like I said before, I don’t think being a jerk is a good way to lead, but it’s not crazy or unheard of or discrimination for someone to yell at a subordinate screw something up.

The race to judge others to claim the moral high ground is ridiculous. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason that war didn’t want to fire mental is because the university address this with Mel and Mel responded and got better. But yeah, fire Warde!

 

This is such a mistake. I…

This is such a mistake. I was lucky enough for Steve Shields to coach me when I went to hockey camp at M, am a democrat, and wholeheartedly believe intimidation is not an effective leadership style at all; however, firing someone because they are rude to subordinates is too far. Pearson does not have to be remembered as the tyrant you are trying to paint him as. 

Armchair intolerance is wrong.

 

That's disappointing about…

That's disappointing about the Regents and MSC.

How is this so different than an NCAA failure to monitor and foster a good environment, that we would all dismiss as unfounded?

How is this so different…

How is this so different than an NCAA failure to monitor and foster a good environment, that we would all dismiss as unfounded?

Happy Eid to everyone!

FYI,…

Happy Eid to everyone!

FYI, this Eid honors the willingness of Ibrahim(Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ismail (Ishmael) as an act of obedience to God’s command. Before Ibrahim could sacrifice his son, however, Allah provided him with a lamb which he was supposed to kill in his son's place because of his willingness to sacrifice his own son in the name of God.

I worship Michigan's hockey…

Other than the covid stuff, the allegations are just recitations of the claims.  Contrast that with the Flores lawsuit, which has dates, images, and lots of detail.  If there were any credible evidence that Mel discriminated against anyone, the University would have put him on leave for its own CYA.  For these reasons, I believe Mel that this is just a disgruntled employee.

Got to hand it to his…

Got to hand it to his lawyers, that's one of the best written complaints I've seen.

We totally out muscled them…

We totally out muscled them. It was close through 2.5 periods, but we wore them down. 

Is ur buddy’s name Jon?

Is ur buddy’s name Jon?

That’s it. Now, I don’t like…

That’s it. Now, I don’t like Blake. I used to, but now that he’s endorsing a brand and making money just like any other person could do, I am done. This has totally ruined my appreciation for the young man.
 

But I’m still cool with USC buying both of Lincoln Riley’s homes for $500,000 over asking, buying a $6 million home for him in Los Angeles, and allowing unlimited use of the private jet 24/7 for him and his family; on top of paying him $110,000,000. At least that guy is working for his money and not selling his name to make a quick buck. 
 

If only the NCAA weren’t so incompetent, they would have righted this wrong by asserting legitimate arguments against this power grab by unorganized kids to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

You can see the intensity…

You can see the intensity gap between us and them during the warm up pump up speeches.  We are screaming and they are talking.   

He joined one of the premier…

He joined one of the premier country clubs in Columbus on October 8, he has young kids, and Columbus is a great place to raise kids. We should be so lucky!

Joe Tate is one of the…

Joe Tate is one of the sponsoring representatives of the Michigan NIL bill.  He is fantastic.

That's called per employee…

That's called per employee overhead, a cost of doing business.  It's like how an employer pays for employee training, health insurance, support employees, office space, tech licenses, etc.  That's not income to an employee. 

These rinky dink deals are…

These rinky dink deals are nothing. 

Remember 3 years ago when there were banners in the stadium of Jake Butt below a Jersey Mike's advertisement (and many others like it)?  Know who put those there?  IMG.  And that's who is going to do collective deals with players and who knows the specific value of each player's endorsement.  IMG has been lying in wait for this moment and is methodically working to get these deals.  There are lots of other agents out there working on getting their players the best deals possible.

Also, I suspect that Alro Steel is comfortable underwriting football players. 

Just because deals aren't being publicly announced, doesn't mean they're not happening.

And there's no paste to be put back in a tube.  This is not a shitshow.  Declaring something to be a problem - without that thing actually being a problem - doesn't make the thing a problem.  Seriously, who or what has been harmed by college athletes - like their college non-athlete peers - doing endorsement deals?  After all, as much as we all love Michigan, watching people play a contest is a form of entertainment.  To the athletes, it's a way to provide for their families, but to us, it is only entertainment.  

U.S. Supreme Court Rules…

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against NCAA with Kavanaugh Taking it a Step Further

The NCAA lost 9-0 today against college athletes at the U.S. Supreme Court today in a predictable outcome given the one-sided nature of the oral argument.  In short, the High Court held that NCAA could no longer restrict education-related benefits to college athletes.  “Education-related benefits” include scholarships for graduate or vocational school, payments for academic tutoring, or paid post-eligibility internships. 

While the underlying case challenged the NCAA’s total ban on all compensation to college athletes, the college athletes did not raise that issue with the Supreme Court.  Thus, today’s decision did not include a holding on whether college athletes could or should be paid…but Justice Kavanaugh sure had had some strong, though non-binding, thoughts on this topic in his concurring opinion discussed below. 

In other words, college athletes still can NOT be paid by the schools or anyone else.  But, colleges can provide more – perhaps unlimited – education-related benefits.  The best quote of the majority opinion might be:  “the NCAA is free to forbid in-kind benefits unrelated to a student’s actual education; nothing stops it from enforcing a ‘no Lamborghini’ rule.”

The NCAA argued to the Supreme Court a variety of technical and legal challenges which the court dismissed as misinterpretation or misunderstanding of past-precedent.  Further, the High Court noted that the facts underlying many of the NCAA’s argument were not favorable to the NCAA.

Technically, the Supreme Court held that the NCAA’s restrictions on education-related benefits were “stricter than is necessary” under the applicable “rule of reason” analysis which monopolies, like the NCAA, are subject to.

The most newsworthy portion of the opinion was Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion, which passionately implied that the NCAA should not be permitted to prohibit college athletes from being paid. It is basically a standing invitation to college athletes to re-sue the NCAA to get paid for their labor.

Some of Justice Kavanaugh’s best quotes were:

  • “there are serious questions whether the NCAA’s remaining compensation rules can pass muster under ordinary rule of reason scrutiny. Under the rule of reason, the NCAA must supply a legally valid procompetitive justification for its remaining compensation rules. As I see it, however, the NCAA may lack such a justification.”
  • “The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.”
  • “Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a “purer” form of helping the sick.”
  • “price-fixing labor is ordinarily a textbook antitrust problem because it extinguishes the free market in which individuals can otherwise obtain fair compensation for their work.”
  • “Businesses like the NCAA cannot avoid the consequences of price-fixing labor by incorporating price-fixed labor into the definition of the product.”
  • “The bottom line is that the NCAA and its member colleges are suppressing the pay of student athletes who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenues for colleges every year. Those enormous sums of money flow to seemingly everyone except the student athletes. College presidents, athletic directors, coaches, conference commissioners, and NCAA executives take in six- and seven-figure salaries. Colleges build lavish new facilities. But the student athletes who generate the revenues, many of whom are African American and from lower-income backgrounds, end up with little or nothing.”

 

 

Should the perfect be the…

Should the perfect be the enemy of the good?

When it's breast cancer awareness month, do we respond with all cancers matter?

How is this even a debate?…

How is this even a debate? Who roots against their neighbor? Ohio state hates everything about not just the University of Michigan, but our entire beloved home. Fuck osu. 

That was AWESOME!!

 Thank…

That was AWESOME!!

 Thank you. 

Soo good.  Thank you, and Go…

Soo good.  Thank you, and Go Blue!

INDENTURED SERVITUDE

INDENTURED SERVITUDE

“Mars believe the waiver…

“Mars believe the waiver liability bans are well-intentioned but counterproductive. If a college athlete is old enough to enlist in the military, Mars said, he should be old enough to accept the risk of playing sports during the COVID-19 pandemic.”  https://www.buckeyextra.com/sports/20200817/attorney-believes-justin-fieldsrsquo-attempt-to-have-big-ten-play-football-this-fall-could-be-successful

 

If college athletes are old enough to join the military and accept the risk of COVID, then why can they not have control over their own name image and likeness?

You're conflating the…

You're conflating the organization forcing people to come back so the organization can be paid money by those people, with the organization asking people to come back so the organization get money from the free labor those people are providing.  

If the organizations just faced the hard truth that college football and basketball players are minor league players masquerading as students and just paid the players, this would be no problem.  They'd put the players in a bubble and have a season.  

But, to perpetuate the fraud that is college athletes not being paid for their labor, then we have to keep pretending they're not employees, and walk this awkward line of regulating them but not so much that it looks like we'r regulating employees.  

Just let them be employees like other minor leagues.

Q:  What changed between…

Q:  What changed between last Wednesday when they announced a schedule and today (5 days)?  

A: 

  • Not COVID
  • College athletes - WHO ARE EMPLOYEES, but treated like indentured servants - came together in an indisputably reasonable way.

So the NCAA, conference official, and administrators - who's income depend on college sports - decided it was better to have a short term loss (canceling this season), than let the indentured servants we refer to as college athletes take one more step closer to organizing and getting the rights they deserve.  This is why they didn't do bubbles; because that would make college athletes look too much like the employees they are, than the students the administrators pretend they are.

Grown ups go to such amazing lengths to perpetuate lies.

Can you say where you're…

Can you say where you're getting trend data from?

I have been tracking Ohio closely and the 7-day moving average of the rate of change in new cases has been around or above 5% since mid-June.  Sure that rate was 15% on June 22 and yesterday it was 4%, but simply having a positive rate of change is bad.  So not only are the cases not going down, but the number is generally going up by 5% per day.  Case in point, just yesterday, Ohio set a new record for new cases.

To simplify, here is a chart of new cases in Ohio since June 6.  I don't see a plateau.

Same to you, my brother from…

Same to you, my brother from another mother! 

It's supposed to be…

It's supposed to be effective on July 1, 2020, which would make Michigan the first state to have its NIL rights law become effective.  

Ditto


 

Ever heard of the…

Ever heard of the Kardashians?

when I was in school Drew Henson got millions from the Yankees. He had an Escalade. 

Too bad Learfield and IMG…

Too bad Learfield and IMG just merged and now 54 of top 64 teams are controlled by a single, horizontal monopolistic marketing company named Learfield/IMG. 

They want to create a vertical monopoly now also. 

He settled with OSU and…

He settled with OSU and donated the money; however, he is still aggressively pursuing class action against IMG. 

What do you think IMG is…

IMG is already doing this.

IMG put up the player banners with HONDA ads - without player consent - at Ohio Stadium that Spielman is suing over. 

IMG did the same thing at Michigan Stadium with Nissan, StubHub, Jersey Mikes, Dodge, and more, again, without player consent.

IMG is just going to coordinate the same types of deals, only in January 2021 they’ll have to pay the players instead of steal from them. 

The guy at IMG who is behind it all actually lives in Columbus, name’s Ray DeWeese. 

These questions are pathetic…

These questions are pathetic, to say the least. Tons of athletes and young people do endorsement deals every day and they are somehow able to navigate these basic hurdles. There is a market, so the best advisors will flock to it. I think all agents should be NFL certified, but beyond that this is just boogeymen fearmongering. 

The only reason college athletes don’t have the same rights as every other 18-22 year old is because of the NCAA monopoly, and the administrators profiting off them. What benefit is there from this monopoly? Our entertainment. 

This is a joke, plain and simple.

What has changed since last…

What has changed since last season, when Patterson was good?

Last year, through 5 games the team averaged 37.4 points per game; this year its 28.

Unfortunately, Gattison was a bad hire. 

What about Spielman suing…

What about Spielman suing OSU for stealing former-player NIL right on banners at Ohio Stadium with Honda ads? 

Not surprising, I guess. 

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20170714/chris-spielman-sues-ohio-state-university-over-use-of-athletes-images

That's ridiculous.  You…

That's ridiculous.  You should see the stuff they do on the Ohio Stadium video boards about Michigan fans. 

Frustrating fact, when the Michigan Alumni buys a big block of tickets for UM v. OSU hockey games, which entitles us to a zamboni ride for a kid, they will not let our kids wear UM gear or force them to wear a coat over it.

No.  The NCAA is a non…

No.  The NCAA is a non-profit organization.  Just like the Salvation Army can't tell the State of Michigan what to do, neither can the NCAA.  But unlike the Salvation Army, the NCAA is a monopoly and cannot unreasonably manipulate the market.

So what will happen is that California would file an anti-trust case against the NCAA for excluding California schools from the market (college athletics) - which the U.S. Supreme Court has already held is a monopoly - and California would win.  See NCAA v. University of Oklahoma.

1. The NCAA will still need…

1. The NCAA will still need to regulate and organize, and may be able to get a piece of the student NIL pie, so can someone thoughtfully explain why they're opposed to this?

2. Hopefully, if players are considering leaving for the pros because they may get injured and want to get paid, they'll reconsider because they can get some NIL money in college.

3. If you are under 18, you can void a contract that you enter into, so perhaps the boogie man scenario of the car dealer paying $1M to the 5 start quarterback position won't come to fruition because that player could leave before they come to campus and the car dealer wouldn't want to take that risk.  (i.e., that they pay $1M for a 5 star to do endorsements, then that 5 star goes to another school and the car dealer still has to pay the $1M endorsement).

Dude did just get out of…

Dude did just get out of surgery. Cut the anesthesiologists a little slack.