Whether or not the guy deserves to be fired, I would urge people to consider (or learn) about Juwan Howard’s life, his career as a Wolverine, and his reverence for Michigan before calling him a clown and “born on third base”.
If Shelley didn’t tell Urban about those texts, it can only have been to shield Urban from ethical and perhaps legal responsibilities that knowledge would have triggered. There is no other plausible reason. On the other hand, if she did tell him, Urban lied at the presser. Either way, you’re looking at an egregious abdication of responsibility.
For what it's worth, I live about 4 miles from the Cal campus, and the air quality is really bad --bad enough that we drove 3 hours away for the weekend to get away from it. Berkeley's only 30-40 miles away from wine country, and the wind has been carrying the smoke all over the region.
No, the brother is alleging that a guy with a personal connection to Mo gave him benefits hoping that he would be included in Mo's managing circle in the future. I don't see any allegation that the guy
was giving him benefits to influence him to go to a particular school or that the guy is a Michigan booster. Assuming the allegation to be true, I think that if anything, the fact that Mo went elsewhere even though this guy is a Michigan alum indicates how clean Beilein's program is.
Making mistakes against a very good defense, while playing with an injury that limits your ability to make some of the throws you could normally make (and without the benefit of a great running game) is not "choking".
Playing at Columbus with an injured shoulder and converting on 4th and goal from the 5 in OT is the opposite of choking, kind of like throwing around words like "choke" on the internet is the opposite of being cool.
Chris Webber and the rest of the fab five know a lot more about what is to be Michigan Wolverines than anyone posting on this thread. If you think they were only about socks and shorts, you didn't watch them outfight a better Ohio state team in their freshman year to get to the final 4, or outfight a loaded Kentucky team in the final 4 the following year. To say that a team whose starters were entirely freshman and sophomores who reached the national championship game two straight years didn't win anything is embarrassingly reductive. Taking into account their relative youth and the relentless scrutiny (and occasional bigotry) they faced for most of two years, they were as mentally tough as any Michigan football team I can remember. Webber took an amount of money that was dwarfed by the millions he brought to the university. I wish he hadn't, but when I see how self-proclaimed Wolverines vilify him here, I can't blame him. If he had blown out his knee at Michigan and never seen an NBA paycheck, nobody posting here would have given him a nickel for the joy he brought to them.
He hasn't said or done anything publicly before to indicate that he doesn't care about racial injustice or police brutality. If someone were to sit down with him and tease out precisely what he thinks, I'm guessing he thinks that protesting particular issues is a bad reason (motivation, if you will) to sit for the anthem because sitting for the anthem seems (to him) like a rejection of the nation's stated ideals. He wasn't likely to speak in that degree of subtlety in off-the-cuff remarks. But it's possible to have nuanced opinions without being able to articulate them on the fly and without even realizing you have them. I think the protest didn't sit well with him and he expressed his discomfort clumsily. Once he realized how his use of motivation was sounding to people, he said he misspoke -- which is a quicker and more Twitter-friendly way to "clarify" than going into nuance.
I've lived in CA (Davis, San Jose, LA, Oakland, SF, and now Berkeley) for most of the past 20 years. Given its ethnic, political, climatic, and pretty much every other kind of diversity, I would beware generalizing about the state and its 38 million people based on a year in (maybe) one place.
Great call on steely. I think countdown to ecstasy and pretzel logic fell between cant buy a thrill and Katy lied, but any consecutive trio of those records is awesome.
Stones -- let it bleed, sticky fingers, exile on main street.
CCR -- green river, willy and the poor boys, cosmo's factory
The clash --the clash, give 'em enough rope, London calling
Spike was headed to Appalachian State before John Beilein gave him the opportunity of a lifetime. Spike made the most of his chance, to his benefit and the school's. His fifth year of eligibility was an accident, so of course there was no scholarship left for him. To say that Beilein forced Spike out is tantamount to saying that he should have forced out someone who hadn't gotten a bachelor's degree yet so that Spike could get a master's and try his luck on the court for one more year in competition with two other point guards. Nobody -- apparently not even Spike -- expected Beilein to do that. As for the bar on transferring within conference, it's too bad there's no practically enforceable non-disclosure agreement that would prevent Spike from telling, say, Matt Painter everything he knows about Michigan. To dismiss that concern as no big deal, however, seems pretty naive. With all that in mind, a restriction that would still allow Spike to play for like 97% of schools -- none of which offered him a scholarship four years ago, and all of which are aware of him now because Beilein took a chance on him back then -- doesn't seem unreasonable.
Irvin improved significantly from his freshman year to the end of his sophomore year. Right before this year's Big Ten tourney, Beilein disclosed that Irvin was shut down for three months before his back surgery last offseason and was thus unable to work on offseason skill development. I think he said he expects Irvin to be appreciably better next year. Given the trajectory of Irvin's first two years, that seems like a reasonable possibility if his offseason proceeds as planned.
This is incorrect. Brown signed his letter of intent with Cal in early May 2015, and Bielfeldt announced his tranfer in early June 2015. There is another possible reason for the transfer that Bielfeldt's statements don't exclude: given that he only had another year of eligibily, he wanted assurances or strong hints about playing time, and given that Beilein had a relative glut of young bigs to try develop, he wasn't prepared to give those assurances. Pefectly understandable mutual decision.
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Yes, when the dust settles.
Whether or not the guy deserves to be fired, I would urge people to consider (or learn) about Juwan Howard’s life, his career as a Wolverine, and his reverence for Michigan before calling him a clown and “born on third base”.
I live in the Bay Area and saw Detroit’s own Protomartyr at The Chapel in SF on Saturday. Awesome.
If Shelley didn’t tell Urban about those texts, it can only have been to shield Urban from ethical and perhaps legal responsibilities that knowledge would have triggered. There is no other plausible reason. On the other hand, if she did tell him, Urban lied at the presser. Either way, you’re looking at an egregious abdication of responsibility.
This is incorrect. Brown signed his letter of intent with Cal in early May 2015, and Bielfeldt announced his tranfer in early June 2015. There is another possible reason for the transfer that Bielfeldt's statements don't exclude: given that he only had another year of eligibily, he wanted assurances or strong hints about playing time, and given that Beilein had a relative glut of young bigs to try develop, he wasn't prepared to give those assurances. Pefectly understandable mutual decision.