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NCAA wrestling gives…

NCAA wrestling gives multiple automatic bids per weight class to the Big 10, so there is at least one sport.  Also, college football has never been a meritocracy, why start now.

This team looks like…

This team looks like basketball did a year or two ago.  We are great at identifying Willie Coyote years at other schools, but poor at seeing them here.  In one or two years this head coaching hire is going to look really bad much like Howard.

Is there actually an NCAA…

Is there actually an NCAA rule against it?

What do you think happened ?

What do you think happened ?

I disagree.  If they are…

I disagree.  If they are illegal to sell there is no reason to make them and fairly quickly they get taken off the street.  We’ve seen this take place in other countries, seems even more likely to happen here.

Combine invite does not…

Combine invite does not equal drafted.  321 invited, 254 players get drafted.

They haven’t made a roster…

They haven’t made a roster yet.  I would slow down on that.

That is a lot of talent gone…

That is a lot of talent gone from the roster

1.  Let’s hope all the…

1.  Let’s hope all the success at Michigan was because of Moore.

Fair enough.  One could say…

Fair enough.  One could say the same for Gattis, wonder what he is thinking while watching Moore become head coach.

Oof, leaving ND for Bama…

Oof, leaving ND for Bama really backfired for Rees

I was love it when people…

I was love it when people use the word arbitrary to criticize sports.  Literally everything about the game is arbitrary.

Those ticket prices have…

Those ticket prices have been consistent for Iowa all season.  She has been selling out arenas everywhere.  There was a line to get into the game against Maryland 2.5 hours before it started, that was not to get tickets, just to get in.  It was incredible.  

But if you are Michigan and…

But if you are Michigan and you don’t start with those top guys and you can’t bring them in that often (short of a coaching change at Stanford), that does bode well.  I also would say the portal is great for filling a gap or two, but that is about it.  The true top talent is not moving that often, except maybe at QB.

I would not call them lazy. …

I would not call them lazy.  They cut the vast majority of their staffs, so I am sure that those that are left are working quite hard to keep up.  Add to that the transfer portal classes that they also have to track and you have a very overworked group.

I tend to agree, though…

I tend to agree, though given Michigan’s transfer issues one could say it counts a bit more for Michigan.

Yeah, this does not position…

Yeah, this does not position Moore well.  I believe individually stars don’t matter a lot, but team rankings sure do seem to be a strong predictor.

And it usually does.  It is…

And it usually does.  It is why the commanders were waiting for some teams to get eliminated.

It did seem odd that they…

It did seem odd that they would be in talks with someone days away from a Super Bowl.  Usually those talks wait until the game is over.

Reporting from last summer…

Reporting from last summer indicated they got about half of what they were expecting, that is a big let down.  Our NIL does okay, to your point, but in a NIL world okay is not going to make a 12 team playoff.  Like has been said earlier, we need the University athletic department to be able to pay players.

Harbaugh went on a big push…

Harbaugh went on a big push to get money for the collectives last summer and by all accounts was not terribly successful.  I suspect that if Harbaugh could not do it, the money may just not be there.  The Michigan money cannon was an illusion, it only existed for small money donations not the really big ones.

Can we end the narrative…

Can we end the narrative that Harbaugh’s will work to help Michigan now?  It was a terribly naive narrative the whole time.

Well, in fairness, many of…

Well, in fairness, many of them are 17 when making these decions in high school.

Wrong.  The money in the NFL…

Wrong.  The money in the NFL is much bigger and there are fewer teams with half the number of players.  Plus, a lot of starters are still on rookie deals and making less than you think.  The NFL is not a good comparison.

Not really, Michigan is…

Not really, Michigan is still playing with players that came in before this exploded.  Let’s talk in the next year or two and see if they can continue it in the completely NIL era.

I generally agree with what…

I generally agree with what you said, except the term market value.  Given that the money paid has nothing to do with the actual business and this still seems to be a bit hush hush.  Is this really a market?  Maybe it is, but without a tie to revenue at all, it seems like something very different, and different in a way that seems to favor the athlete for once.  Or at least some of the athletes.

That would have transformed…

That would have transformed my college lifestyle 

This fan base and the main…

This fan base and the main bloggers take that somehow the Harbaugh’s are going to continue working to benefit the Michigan coaching staff is absolutely laughable.  Jim is gone and he and John are not going to help Michigan any more by giving us talented coaches.  He already took the best DC Michigan has ever had and the best S&C coach.  Jay Harbaugh is also gone, a move that everyone agrees is not in his best long term interest.  
 

Jim and John, and Mike are now the competition for coaches, make no mistake. Also, we are losing.

Give him a new contract!  He…

Give him a new contract!  He is improving 

I don’t think it is…

I don’t think it is realistic to expect that type of success again, if for no other reason than they have less picks at lower spots in the draft.  But those younger players are still growing and even adding one decent CB would make a huge difference.

the biggest issue for them will be Goff and managing how big of an impact he has on their cap number.  Along with potentially replacing the OC.

Uh, I didn’t say any of that…

Uh, I didn’t say any of that.  I said he couldn’t stand on stage and say he hated the AD.  I stand by that.

He can’t really get on there…

He can’t really get on there and say he left because the AD at Michigan sucks though.

Not only does he not say…

Not only does he not say that, it seems pretty obvious from this article that they had no relationship.

The difference being that…

The difference being that Crisler did not leave Michigan to go coach elsewhere, he stayed on as Michigan’s AD.  

This is the an…

This is the an extraordinarily whiny comment.  First, read the article.  The player did not go to FSU.  Second, even if he did you could not remove that advantage without removing the player, which you can’t do until you finish the investigation.  So, unlike the with Michigan, it’s just not an option.  I am sorry if this is inconvenient, but it seems the NCAA might have done Michigan a favor, as bad as it seemed at the time.  Ultimately, we have no idea what, if anything, the NCAA will do.  

See the NCAA president’s…

See the NCAA president’s speech yesterday.  It actually makes a ton of sense.  Whether we like it or not, they did us a favor.  If the Stallions stuff broke in 2 months the champion would have been tainted in some people’s minds.  Now, you have to be an idiot to think it is tainted.

That is the rule but we have…

That is the rule but we have not seen it enforced, even in Michigan’s case.  Remember, Michigan does not have a notice of allegations for the Stallions issue yet.

In the cheeseburger case, it…

In the cheeseburger case, it was the head coach doing the buying so we didn’t have to use that clause.  If you read the NCAA president’s comments yesterday, Michigan has very little to complain about from the NCAA.  Sorry if this ruins the NCAA is picking on just us narrative. 
 

The Big Ten is a different issue.

You can’t fix the portal. …

You can’t fix the portal.  Any changes would screw over the athletes for the sake of a meaningless game.  If the portal was later they would not be able to enroll at their new school in time for spring and would thus miss spring practice.  
could you give the players a pay out for playing in the bowl game, similar to the pros in playoffs?  Yes, but I am not sure it would be enough to discourage opt outs.  Probably should still do it, but it won’t fix the problem.

That makes no sense at all. …

That makes no sense at all.  He was investigated and nothing further came up.  What he didn’t want to have happen was lose players in the middle of his season for getting free tatoos.  However, my point is that OSU has been busted and they had one of their best coaches literally get the ban hammer.  So let’s not act like it doesn’t happen to OSU.

if you want to act like the NCAA has it out for Harbaugh and makes anything he does illegal, I am all in on that theory.

Again, the Supreme Court was…

Again, the Supreme Court was very clear that the NCAA cannot regulate NIL.  Any expectations of them to do so are expectations that the NCAA will willfully break the law.

I love Harbaugh, but he will…

I love Harbaugh, but he will also have problems in the years to come.  The seniors and juniors this year were mostly recruited in a non NIL world.  We have not truly seen what results at Michigan with their NIL philosophy.

The IRS is very much…

The IRS is very much involved and we’re a big factor for the collectives, which now have strict rules to follow.  There are certainly some people out there that are not accounting for things, as there is everywhere in society, but it is probably not as bad as you think.  

No, there is really nothing…

No, there is really nothing the NCAA can actually legally regulate here.  Let’s be clear.  The NCAA guidelines state teams should not arrange inducements.  But the NCAA cannot regulate NIL, that was made very clear by the Supreme Court.  So, you can’t rip the NCAA for not stepping in on NIL, they are prohibited from doing so. 

See tatoos 

See tatoos 

Yeah, that’s what DMV stands…

Yeah, that’s what DMV stands for but not what it represents.  It is for the DC metro area that includes parts of Maryland and Virginia.

Except there is now…

Except there is now significantly less money.  In Chip’s model you are also now sharing that revenue among schools, so a school like Michigan is going to get less money in this model.  It is important to note many D1 football programs do not make money.  
This is not a bad idea, but it is WAY more complicated than anyone really understands.  It is not as simple as just do what the pros do.  The finances of the schools and other sports are very intertwined, it is going to be very hard to break them out to understand what revenue should be shared with players.  And if you do it for football, than you have to do basketball.  What about hockey and other sports at other schools that make revenue?  It all gets real complicated really quick.

But this has zero to do with…

But this has zero to do with that.  Sanderson is not diagnosing injuries or reading X-rays.

He is hopefully being…

He is hopefully being sarcastic.  They took him off the field on a cart with his leg in a splint.  They obviously knew it was a leg issue.

It also does not mean the…

It also does not mean the original was wrong.  It is possible to have both issues.