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I wish I had anything other than grimace emojis to show you. Michigan announces limited seating at Michigan Stadium this fall "if U-M is able to have a 2020 football season":

• There will be no football season tickets. Status as a season ticket holder remains unchanged, and season ticket locations will be retained for the 2021 season.
• If U-M is able to have fans at Michigan Stadium, all home games will be sold on an individual game basis, with sales limited to current season ticket holders and students. There will be no ticket sales to the general public.
• For season ticket holders who elected to adjust their season ticket location/quantity during the June upgrade period, that new location/quantity will be retained for the 2021 season.
• Details regarding a potential individual game sale will be communicated once a decision on playing with or without fans is finalized.
• In the event that Michigan is able to have fans at any sporting event this season, all forms of ticketing will move to a mobile platform.

We've heard on background that we're looking at maybe 20k people, most of them students. Obviously this is a developing situation, as they say. If I was a betting man I'd guess the number of fans would be zero.

[After the JUMP: sucking yet more air through teeth]

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Please do not mention the Star Wars. Results will be unpredictable and depressing. If Star Wars comes up try to change the subject to something like Michigan… uh… baseball? Hockey and basketball recruiting?

Bleargh. Michigan canceled a home and home with UCLA for this:

The University of Michigan Athletic Department announced Thursday (Jan. 30) the addition of the University of Connecticut to the non-conference football schedule in 2022. The Wolverines and Huskies will meet on the gridiron during the third week of the season, Sept. 17, 2022, at Michigan Stadium.

That completes a nonconference schedule of Colorado State, Hawaii, and UConn. The home schedule adds Maryland, PSU, Nebraska, Illinois, and Indiana. I really don't understand why Michigan had to cancel UCLA when they already had 7 home games. Not a great look for Warde Manuel.

Welcome to the revolution. John Gasaway on timeouts:

We already have media timeouts and multiple reviews in crunch time. That’s enough. There should be zero timeouts.

Prepare your team. Let’s see who wins.

— John Gasaway (@JohnGasaway) January 29, 2020

That's even more draconian than my proposal, which would allow timeouts if a coach shears off one of his digits and hands it to a ref. (Or, in more extreme cases, delegates an assistant to do so.) Hopefully he moderates his views slightly going forward.

[After THE JUMP: Kobe King takes are bad]

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Yikes. Jordan Poole's defensive game against MSU left a lot to be desired:

Despite limited involvement, Jordan Poole left a *lot* to be desired on defense against Michigan State: pic.twitter.com/WQxjxN438T

— Eric Shapiro (@eric_shap) February 26, 2019

That reel doesn't include a one-and-one Poole gave up to Henry by playing him too tight, as well.

While that's extremely disappointing Poole shut off Gabe Kalscheur, who was just 1/3 from deep in the prior game. It's not that he can't do it, it's that he's really inconsistent at both ends right now.

Iowa-Northwestern is the Having A Normal One Championship Of The World. Irate man yells thing!

Uh, wow. Iowa coach Fran McCaffrey was just screaming at an official walking down a hallway of Value City Arena. "You cheating motherfucker! You're a fucking disgrace!"

— Kyle Rowland (@KyleRowland) February 27, 2019

Irate man has been suspended for two games. Both McCaffrey and his son were called for technicals in a short span of time, thus setting the above off. Chris Holtmann got one for OSU as well. Nobody has seen fit to put video of the techs on the internet, which… why are we even here? If we're not going to get Zapruder takes on McCaffrey ejections?

Kind of a big transfer. Alex Hornibrook is gone from Wisconsin.

Wisconsin just announced Alex Hornibrook has departed the football program pic.twitter.com/QUoHRNCNtS

— Jake Kocorowski (@JakeKocoB5Q) February 27, 2019

He entered the transfer portal so this isn't a retirement, but maybe Wisconsin wouldn't clear him after concussion issues? I don't think there's any way they would have processed the guy. Jack Coan averaged 5.5 YPC in about 100 attempts replacing him, and it felt worse than that to watch the guy. Wisconsin is bringing in Graham Mertz, who's about the top QB prospect they've ever recruited, but nobody's chasing off a senior returning starter for a true freshman who's just a real good prospect and not Trevor Lawrence.

[After THE JUMP: the internet is nice to a wide receiver]