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Hello Kip. Harbaugh Twitter Summer continues unabated.

This fall Gedeon answers press conference questions by saying things are getting pretty serious and stating that he loves technology. Bank on it.

Finally. #M00N makes Erase This Game. The Funchess butt fumble is not even mentioned. That's how #M00N #M00N was.

M00N is a sad game, and some of that tragedy comes from the advantage of hindsight. Winning didn't save Michigan's season or Brady Hoke's job, as they followed this with a home finale loss to Maryland. Losing didn't inspire Northwestern to a turnaround; even though they beat Notre Dame a week later, the Wildcats missed bowl eligibility by losing to a depleted Illinois team in their last game. That's the bad news.

The good news is every astronaut gets astronaut ice cream. Let's check out today's flavors.

I have been eating Cookies 'N Ennui for a long time now.

Okay. Former TE/DE Keith Heitzman is at Ohio for his final year of eligibility. The Dispatch has an article that's trying to rake up some muck on a standard practice in college:

Keith Heitzman understood that big changes were in order after Jim Harbaugh was hired to replace Brady Hoke as Michigan football coach just hours before the New Year.

What staggered Heitzman was that he might have been one of those changes. Every player going into his fifth year of eligibility, he was told, would have to audition for his job during spring practices.

Heitzman, degree in hand, opted out. That's fine for him and fine for Michigan.

The worst thing you can pin on Harbaugh is a lack of tact. We will put this evidence of Harbaugh's lack of tact in the extradimensional bag of holding. There it can mingle with its fellows and not fill the universe stem to stern.

For perspective, over the years I've read plenty of articles that reference Notre Dame's policy in this department. They come at it from the other direction, wondering not who might be departing but who might be coming back:

The future for the remaining 14 seniors on the roster, all of whom are eligible for a fifth year, is less certain. … At the most, half of them will return. Notre Dame’s 2015 recruiting class sits at 21 verbal commitments, which, if all 21 sign letters of intent in February, will give the Irish 78 scholarship players of the 85 the NCAA allows.

All of ND's seniors walk on senior day, even if they have another year of eligibility. That's how much of a non-story this is.

"It happens," said the jaded boat owner. SCUFFLE KERFUFFLE ON THE WATER

The Border Battle played a role in getting two people arrested and locked up at the Ottawa County Jail.

A Michigan-Ohio State football argument on the Jet Express allegedly prompted a fight that resulted in assault charges.

Witnesses say the rivalry argument turned physical between two couples with a woman pulling another woman’s hair and the two men throwing punches at each other.

1. The "Jet Express" is so well known in Ottawa County that there is no explanation of what it is. There is a picture of a boat.

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I assume it's the boat. Ottawa County readers are boggling at my ignorance right now. The Jet Express is Ottawa County.

2. This was undoubtedly issued with a grim sigh.

"It happens,” says Todd Blumensaadt, owner of the Jet Express. “They get very passionate about their teams."

You see a lot of things when you own a boat. Most of them are stupid.

3. This man is either named "Larry Money" or "Larry Mahoney"—the article is uncertain—and has a hot take.

"Sports are good, but when it reaches that point, obviously it's way overboard."

Good point, Larry Money Mahoney. OR SHOULD I CALL YOU ADAM MONEY JACOBI?

4. Ace grabbed a "Money" Mahoney screenshot:

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"sparty fan"

Is he Carl Monday's brother? That's not generally how names work but we've already established that Gary Money Mahoney is not beholden to your "rules" about nomenclature, man.

5. This reporter may have had to scrounge up quotes for this dumb story, wondering the whole time how she was ever going to pay off her Princeton J-school student loans, but at least she's not working for Gawker.

6. I may have spent too much time on this.

1977 pep rally. Featuring Bo! He guarantees a win! They burn an OSU player in effigy! They wear 70s clothes! The reporter's jacket!

Michigan won 14-6. Harbaugh was probably at the pep rally and knew Bo had zero basis for getting mad at him when he issued his guarantee.

Surprise. That CSG survey they did in the middle of the general admission fiasco makes the WSJ because it appears to be the first serious attempt to figure out what the kids actually want at football games. A company has just confirmed that with a much larger survey that somehow surprises the author:

The most recent support for this surprising result comes from a new survey by the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators and Oregon’s sports marketing center. It asked almost 24,000 students across the country to rank the factors that influenced their decision to attend games. By far the most important was a student’s interest in that sport. By far the least important was a stadium’s cellular reception or wireless capability.

The study is so counterintuitive that it seems like it must be an outlier—except that it is supported by similar polls in places where college football is massively popular.

At Michigan, when the student government asked undergraduates why they go to football games, what they found clashed with conventional wisdom: Michigan’s students simply didn’t care that much about mobile connectivity. In-game Wi-Fi wasn’t as essential as lower ticket prices or better seat locations. Among the seven possible improvements to the game-day experience, in fact, students ranked cell reception last.

I'm not sure where that notion came from, other than the sort of gentleman who talks about social engagement and uses hashtags# like coffee dad. And it's not like they even fixed mobile connectivity at Michigan despite thinking that was the most important thing they could do.

Gonna get paid. I don't think Jim Delany has much to do with it, but Lost Letterman points out that the Big Ten is likely to get paid when their contract—the last to get renegotiated for a long time—comes up:

Since launching FOX Sports 1 two summers ago, FOX has been waiting for its chance to put a huge monkey wrench in ESPN’s world dominance of sports. This is that chance.

The Big 10’s 10-year, $1 billion contract with ESPN and six-year, $72 million deal with CBS for select basketball games and six-year, $145 million pact for the Big 10 Championship Game all expire after the 2016-17 season and a new, gargantuan deal will be struck within the next 12 months.

The only two legitimate TV players for the conference’s Tier 1 football rights (best games) are Disney (ABC/ESPN) and FOX, as CBS already has the Tier 1 rights to the SEC and NBC is content airing Notre Dame home games.

The only thing we know for certain is that the Big 10 is about to get paid.

Delany will get the credit for being the camel herder who sat down on this particular patch of oil again, when literally anyone could sit in a room and watch FOX and ESPN go blow for blow. The Big Ten will use this money to hire more MAC coaches.

Best make your money now, though: ESPN is 20th(!) on the list of a la carte channels people would pay for. Barking Carnival has an excellent article on the coming cord cutting that touches on points I've made and continues with them.

Etc.: Michigan's schmancy new dorm. When I was in college the dorms were made out of mildew and we liked it. Predicting Michigan's win total with SCIENCE. Extremely early Utah preview from SBN's Ian Boyd. Someone has to make the tough decisions like "let's play a game in Dubai." Harbaugh antics.

Comments

WolverineHistorian

July 22nd, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^

That video from 77 is amazing. I envy anyone who got to experience THE GAME during the Ten Year War. So many times where both teams were ranked in the top 5 and battling for that Rose Bowl or no bowl.

OSU marveled in dickish behavior like they do now (trying to rip down the banner, Woody taunting the crowd, Woody punching TV cameras, throwing sideline markers.)

Give me a time machine and I'm going to that 77 game. I'd love to see what the campus was like before and after.



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Glennsta

July 22nd, 2015 at 7:21 PM ^

Last game I saw as a student.  Absolutely incredible game. I will never forget Anderson forcing the Gerald fumble on the 8 yard line as long as I live; I was in Section 24 and it was right in front of me. 

And, why oh why, could there not have been a Jumbotron in the stadium to show the the crowd a replay of Woody slugging the ABC camera guy.

snarling wolverine

July 22nd, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^

For some reason the Jet Express part of this UV has me cracking up.

I think there are actually four possible names for the man quoted: Larry Money, Larry Mahoney, Gary Money, or Gary Mahoney.  (Even more if we throw in Garry, Gerry and others.)  

 

 

 

Its me Dave

July 22nd, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^

"I wear this yellow watch -- it's yellow, not maize; they didn't have maize..."

-Hackett

Huh. His Adidas watch wasn't available in maize.  I'd guess our oft-discussed true maize hue is on his radar.

echoWhiskey

July 22nd, 2015 at 3:37 PM ^

So many things are gold in this post:

1)      Pep rally and clothing attire choices are awesome.

2)      Boat fight reporter actually went to BU – and in continuing the tradition, her last name is wrong (or right?) in the page title: http://www.13abc.com/station/bios/news/289043661.html

3)      Holy cow, I want to meet the ~5% who said they would pay for QVC standalone. 

4)      It’s bullshit that they tore down Blimpy Burger to build a dorm with a freaking 3D printer.

cutter

July 22nd, 2015 at 6:43 PM ^

Brian's comments about Delany are pretty dumb.  He wants to give the impression that any nit wit could negotiate the deal with the television networks and that Delany had nothing to do with how the conference is positioned IRT its attractivesness to ESPN and Fox Sports.

Delany has been the Big Ten Commissioner since 1989.  He's been responsible in great degree in expanding the B1G with two brand names (Penn State, Nebraska) plus two others for distribution/population reasons (Maryland, Rutgers).    Delany was also the person who got the first conference network off the ground, and now the money that the Big Ten Network is paying make up a part of the conference's annual distributions (if setting up conference networks were easy, then ask the ACC and Big XII about why they don't have them).  That number used to be in the $10.5M range (FY 2006).   Ten years later we're looking at $44.5M as the projected number when the negotiations are finished.

Delany has been one of the most powerful and influential individuals in collegiate sports.  Anyone who remembers what college athletics looked like when he took over 26 years ago and compared it to what we see today can't but help notice the huge transformations that have taken place and will take place in the near future.  

He's also helped make the Big Ten one of the most stable, most congenial conferences in terms of working relationships between the members.  Delany helped set that corporate culture and it's one of the reasons why Nebraska, Rutgers and Maryland were happy to join the conference (the money helped too--see above).  If there is more conference realignment in the future, the B1G is well placed to end up as one of the winners when all is said and done.

 

 

 

BlueInWisconsin

July 23rd, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^

I think I was at that pep rally. I would have been 6 the time, but I remember the fire for sure. We also had a roll of "wipe on Woody" toilet paper with Woody Hayes face in every square.



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July 23rd, 2015 at 9:30 AM ^

Ben Gedeon is slaying it right now. My favorite is his tweet of him and Condoleeza Rice in which he posts a picture of him and her together and just tweets "hey" at her. The guy is Kip



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