Beilein dressing two practice players
Two new faces will be on the Michigan bench for Senior Night.
#13 Jon Rubenstein and #15 Ryan Kupustka
Props @JohnBeilein, dressing 2 practice players for finale - Ryan Kapustka and Jon Rubenstein. #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/3Wqe3u13Yj
— Michigan Basketball (@umichbball) March 7, 2015so these weird guys can get some PT!
it wasn't close.
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I played against these kids in IM. I could be dressing for Michigan tonight.
You havent spent 4 years working countless UNPAID hours with the basketball team though
I'm 75% sure they're freshman. And I didn't say that to cheapen their accomplishment I just think it's funny to see IM foes dress in B1G games. Just a weird situation.
I cant edit my post but youre right. I thought they were senior managers, not freshman practice players. That is strange
Well that Ryan kid can ball which I'm sure is part of it. And I assume it's just because they have roster spots open with Caris not dressing. And it could mean Ricky isn't dressing as well. John mentioned he has been sick all week.
This happened during the Amaker era, too, when there were some huge injuries, IIRC. Maybe 2005 or 6? They dressed two guys from the practice squad, both of which ended up getting a minute or two. They didn't even bother putting their names on the backs of the jerseys.
They dressed a student manager in 2007-08 in Beilein's first year.
Cool.
Part of me wants to say that it was during the 2004-05, perhaps sometime in early 2005 on the backend of the season. I know Abram was out much of that year and Horton was out for a protracted stretch as well, I believe. I just can't remember which game specifically, but I remember it happening at some point.
That has to be it. Also the period when the women's team was poaching volleyball players to fill seats on the bench.
Nope, not Dani Wohl. These were guys who only dressed for a couple games at the end of the season.
Fun fact re: Wohl. I was playing in a men's rec bball league that didn't allow former DI college players and Wohl suited up for the team we played in the championship. He got to the rim at will and tore us up (still couldn't shoot though). We didn't rat him out when we lost in a close one, but I said something to him afterwards and he was shocked I knew who he was. Was a cool guy. Cool story over.
LOL... Started from the CCRB now we here.
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They aren't even on the roster so I listed their positions as 6 on my starting lineup tracker and jersey numbers database.
6 = The 6th Man.
along the lines of "so it's come to this." But for some reason, Google found this instead, and I realized "Oh crap, I've been doing this wrong."
He turnned down UCLA and UCLA is a much better job than Indiana. Also he is basically in a power conference now.
Good for them.
1. This is very cool, and a characteristically classy move by Coach B.
2. Is it possible that the kids could get to keep the jerseys? I have no idea how uniforms are doled out at the college level (only in H.S.) So maybe it's common for a player to keep his jersey at the end of the season - I don't know.
But if I were a freshman manager who had his name on the jersey he wore when he suited up for UM on Senior Day 2015 ... yeah, I'd do pretty much anything to keep it.
those guys must be stoked. hopefully, they get a minute or two of PT.
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So that they could sub into the game, very cool moment.