2019 notre dame

wsg Richard Hoeg, small business attorney, who's going to walk us through the NCAA's response to NIL rights

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FORMATION NOTES: Michigan played a plurality of its snaps in a 3-3-5. This was sometimes a stack…

…and sometimes a regular nickel or dime front with an even line that put Hutchinson at three-tech. The latter was almost always a passing down D.

This held up to ND's run game way better than you'd expect. It was 60-40 3-3-5 with a pretty even split between stack (or close enough) on standard downs and pass rush stuff ranging from standard even fronts to okie stuff.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Hutchinson, Kemp, and Paye all got 70-80% of the snaps, with Mike Danna spotting the DEs frequently and Kemp getting pulled off the field for Jetpack snaps. Dwumfour was absent much of the day since there were a lot of passing downs and Michigan's 3-3-5 was effective; he got about 20 snaps. Uche was out there about two-thirds of the time.

Vilain, Speight, Upshaw, Hinton, and Jeter got in late.

At LB, omnipresent McGrone/Glasgow/Hudson save for some extreme passing downs where one of them would head to the sideline. Barrett/Anthony/Gil was your garbage time crew (for three snaps). Notable that Josh Ross dressed but did not play. He's only gotten in three games, so the possibility of a redshirt is there.

DBs the usual. Dax Hill got about a third of the snaps. Gemon Green and Sammy Faustin got in for the final drive.

[After THE JUMP: rain demolishes QB before Michigan can even get there]

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Before getting to your mailbag questions, I screw up which episode of the podcast this is, then have an extremely important discussion about the Stadium article in which every FBS coach and athletic director named their favorite musical artists.

The mailbag covers:

• Did the team just hit its stride or was that a one-off?
• Is the old Harbaugh back?
• Which of the WRs return next year?
• Potential emerging freshmen.
• Dream home-and-home matchup.
• Whether Michigan will benefit from player getting paid above board.
• BioDome™ settings for particular circumstances.
• What to do when you can’t watch live.
• The ceiling for the basketball team.
• We end with your top five rain game lifehacks, which may be a week late for some (and their phones) but hopefully will help many of you in the future.

MUSIC:

• “400 Years (Jamaican version)” — Bob Marley
• “My Favorite Memory” — Merle Haggard

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It didn't come close to past blowups when I used to be able to populate entire gif posts with him getting angry