Unverified Voracity Is Faalele 2.0
Sponsor note. You are probably aware that marijuana is legal in Michigan now, but did you know that you can now buy it from some sort of spaceship church? No, I have not partaken. Look at this thing:
This is the cleanest building I have ever seen or contemplated. Naturally it is named INFORMATION ENTROPY. Sometimes I put little jokes in these. This is not one of them. This spaceship church where you can get recreational marijuana is literally named "Information Entropy." I feel the previous item pretty much covers it, but: they grow and process their own product locally.
They're at 1115 Broadway in Ann Arbor, open from 10 AM to 7 PM daily. Parking is ample. 21+, please.
Cam McGrone's personal experience. Scary:
Michigan LB Cam McGrone’s mom said he called her as they were stopped by the police in case he didn’t survive the encounter. Teammate German Green said they were kept out there for 2-3 hours. McGrone filmed it https://t.co/hJOlLUIU96
— Aria Gerson (@aria_gerson) June 6, 2020
I thought Jordan Kovacs's statement on the general situation was a good one:
Standing in solidarity with the black community. We all must do our part to dismantle systemic racism in America #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/SEQhXJG3j8
— Jordan Kovacs (@JKovacs32) June 9, 2020
[After THE JUMP: large person amongst small persons]
Let us enjoy this large person. Bruce Feldman has a story on Harlan Obioha, who is seven feet tall and playing eight-man football in Kansas:
Tabetha Gillespie remembers from the time her son was in second grade him wanting to stay out until midnight playing basketball. Truth be told, her son Harlan only decided to come out for the Hoxie (Kansas) High School football team two years ago to get in better shape for basketball season.
“His love is truly for basketball,” she says, “so for him to start getting all of these football scholarships, we’re like, ‘Whaaat?’ ”
Obioha's HUDL film is more like a nature doucmentary than a highlight reel.
He has some passing acumen as a big man:
Nebraska. Do it. Dual sport legend. Do it.
BONUS: tangential to Large Man In Small Town, but this is an interesting take on OL recruiting:
“The game film is the least effective way to evaluate those guys,” said a college offensive line coach whose program has recruited several players from high school teams that didn’t play 11-man football. “One-on-one drills at camp against big-school kids we are recruiting, testing data and watching him move are the three best ways to evaluate guys.”
To some extent that extends to guys that Michigan is recruiting out of Connecticut and similar environs. Andrew Stueber was 95% a camp offer and appears to be a hit.
Karl Kaufmann MST3Ks himself. Let's Remember Some Baseball:
"EB shakin' in his boots before the game..."
— Michigan Baseball (@umichbaseball) June 10, 2020
"I bet that one still haunts Tommy."
@KaptinKauf17 #GoBlue #Team153 #BlueCrew pic.twitter.com/Ym6Dr17rR1
Frost exodus is mostly overblown. I do not follow Nebraska closely enough to know this was apparently expected:
In 3 seasons at Nebraska, JD Spielman produced 2,546 receiving yards (3rd in school history) plus 1,051 return yards and 18 total TDs. Not an unexpected loss, but still significant.
— Max Olson (@max_olson) June 8, 2020
That's going to hurt. Nebraska now has Wandale Robinson and… uh… at receiver. Lot of exits in Lincoln this offseason:
Does Nebraska have an attrition problem?
Since the 2019 season ended, 14 Nebraska scholarship players have transferred. That seems like a lot — it is a big number — but in reality there have only been a few surprises.
That number is a little inflated since three guys got kicked off the team, another is a kicker, and a fifth is a QB who grad-transferred to Rutgers. Spielman is the only one that hurts. But that one hurts.
?!?!?!??!! This was everyone's reaction when Spike Albrecht got hired as a grad assistant by Louisville, of all places. Brendan Quinn then picked up the phone to find out that Albrecht has absolutely no connection with UL coach Chris Mack, and then got the most Spike Albrecht quote of all:
“I didn’t know him, at all,” Albrecht said of Mack by phone Monday morning. “I guess I shot my shot, you could say.”
One out of two ain't bad.
College hockey overtimes: now less goofy. The hockey rules committee has recommended 3-on-3 overtime, to be followed by a shootout if the conference in question wants one. This is an improvement on the previous situation. It's difficult to imagine a more confusing setup:
- Five minutes of 5-on-5. If you win in this period it counts as a win for Pairwise purposes, and you get the full three points.
- Five minutes of 3-on-3. If you win it's still a tie in Pairwise and you get one bonus point, with the losing team getting one.
- A shootout.
Overtime games were almost a full extra period of time in which not a whole lot of hockey happened and most of the results were useless for making the tournament. Michigan even had the full OT suite for nonconference games, which was ludicrous since the 3-on-3/shootout sections were exhibitions that counted for absolutely nothing.
So thumbs up. I'd prefer ten minutes of 4-on-4. 4-on-4 is still recognizably hockey; 3-on-3 is weird as hell.
The committee also made some incredibly minor faceoff changes.
Departure date set. Looks like Cam York has a plan:
.@Flyers prospect Cam York, the Southern California Dman who had a very good freshman season, will return to the Univ. of Michigan June 15 to be back on the ice for small-group workouts. He is expected to turn pro after his sophomore season. York was the Flyers’ top pick last yr.
— Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) June 7, 2020
Michigan will not have any senior defensemen next year and currently has at least two D scheduled to come in so they've got his spot covered and then some.
Etc.: All you needed to know about Bunky.
Checks Michigan football schedule to see if we play Nebraska...
Of course not.
Michigan always gets the "lucky" privilege of playing the current best teams in the B10 West and avoiding the ones that are currently struggling yet would provide a good historical/name-recognition win.
And of course when Wisconsin gets swapped out for Nebraska as Michigan's constant in the West, Nebraska will have probably figured their ish out.
It'll be fun to play both Wisconsin and Minnesota this year, especially since Minnesota's other home games are against (checks schedule) FAU, Tenn Tech, Iowa, BYU, Purdue, and NW. Look forward to a very special gameplan they spent months preparing for featuring, I don't know, 10 flea flickers and the return of Mitch Leidner showing Tanner Morgan how to throw inside shoulder fades.
It's been a minute since I played OL in high school, but from what I remember, leverage and low pad level were the keys. I can't imagine a 7-foot offensive lineman would succeed against top competition when the DL across from him can easily get underneath him on almost every play. I can't remember ever seeing an NFL player taller than 6'9" at any position.
I am guessing he would move to Tight End or Tackle? If he has athletic enough to play basketball, he probably can move to stay in front of guys, so seems like it would be good to take on a lighter rush end. At Tight end, he could be big enough to help with double teams before heading out to be a receiving threat (Tacopants?) or a blocking threat at the second level.
But yea, I don't see how he can be anywhere in the middle with his build. I also don't think he could dual sport if he plays on the line. It takes years and all season to build that chemistry to work as a unit. I can't imagine anyone working the line not being 100% committed to being on that line and being successful.
Which one is Obioha?
I watched the highlights and couldn't find him.
He was not any of the guys who were a whole foot shorter than the one guy. So an easy way to find him is to look at all of the guys who are relatively short and then don't look at them. By process of elimination you should find Obioha.
+1 informative
Ha! Yeah, I was thinking that this is the only time I've not needed the highlight film "arrows" to identify the highlighted player.
Information Entropy is an especially fitting name for a spaceship church in Ann Arbor -- alum Claude Shannon put in work.
Hmm...Michigan grown weed? Okay............
Most commercial marijuana (in my state at least) is grown in indoor facilities where things like temperature, light, humidity, and pest control can be more rigorously managed. Outdoor or "sun-grown" weed is less common and can be super hit-or-miss. Michigan grown weed can be as good as anywhere else if it's done right.
This is absolutely correct. Indoor is the way to go, even in Cali, Oregon, etc if you’re looking for quality.
Way lower yields per plant but the humidity, temp, lumens, nutrient, pest controls make for an exceptionally clean and pure product with maximized cannabinoid and terpene levels. Outdoor, even in optimal climates, can be hit or miss
But can Obioha play DT?
Pad level could be an issue.
I mean, this scout lists in his top three things that matter: "watching him move."
When that's in addition to his camp one-on-ones and his stats/metrics, where else do you watch him move if not game film? Like walking down the street? Eating a hamburger?
While I agree it doesn't mean much that a guy dominates HS competition but watching him move when he isn't acutely aware that you're watching him move (as he is in a camp setting) and making sure he's moving on every play seems like the best measure of motor even if it's hard to determine talent.
Agree with this take. I get wanting to see a larger guy handle someone of similar size, pads or not, in a camp type setting--any 300 pounder should destroy some 210 lb freshman still learning to get in a stance. But to blow off the one time a kid is, you know, actually playing football seems like the exact sort of thing that leads to having a team/OL of great combine numbers that play like shit.
When that's in addition to his camp one-on-ones and his stats/metrics, where else do you watch him move if not game film? Like walking down the street? Eating a hamburger?
He's clearly referring to non-contact drills and workouts (agility, strength, speed, etc.). Those don't always come with stats.
Maybe, if he's like Harbaugh, that includes other sports, but more likely drills and workouts.
obioha already hit his ceiling.
with his head.
I along with a few other Michigan alum friends went to all 3 baseball games vs UCLA last year. I’ve been lucky enough to go to multiple Rose Bowls, basketball finals appearances, 1991 ND football win, two dozen football road games, etc. But that weekend series baseball win is right up there with my favorite Michigan fandom memories.
Double trouble.
- Jalen to Dook clown
Good for Kovacs. If I'm being honest as another white male who grew up in a rural/suburban white area I've also been mostly unaffected by racism. About the closest thing I've felt is not getting jobs that are offered to other people with less professional accolades that were either female or non-white. For example I am a HS PE teacher. I graduated #1 in my cohort, was the President of both the PE Club and Exercise Physiology Club, was the state chairperson for undergraduate students in the national PE organization, graduated summa cum laude, won numerous awards, and had a 4.0 in my master's program. There were only 3 girls and 2 non-white males in our program. None of them had my resume. All of them got jobs before I did. Being a white male PE teacher is the vast majority and if you're anything different you have much better odds at getting jobs. Many smaller middle and high schools only have two PE teachers and often one of them is female. That would mean women make up 50% of the PE teachers in schools with two or more teachers in the department, but females do not make up anywhere near 50% of the certified PE teachers in this country. So, males, and white males specifically (in this part of the country), are at a significant disadvantage in that regard. But, that's about it. It's easy to sit back and be sympathetic of racism to others while not actually speaking up because it doesn't really impact you much, which is probably where I apply. It's a lot harder to stand up and do something when you don't "have to", so kuddos to Jordan.
That was pretty scary. I would love to see the university or athletic department step up and do more to protect their athletes. I don't know what this would entail but I would like to see them offer some additional legal help and advice to players involved in situations like this. Maybe they could even sue the police dept on the players' behalf if the situation calls for it. McGrone shouldn't have to deal with shit like that and as he said - if he didn't play for Michigan who knows what would've happened. It was like he was protected by the prestigious educational institution behind him and the cop decided that maybe he should be careful. Xavier may have lucked out this year as well - those cops seemed to do a good job and didn't lose their heads when he lied to them. But again, when they figured out that he played for Michigan, they seemed to treat him differently after that.
That was the most psychedelic Sponsor Note in the history of the blog. Well done. What's next? Plugs for reruns of H R Puff-n-Stuff?
Someone edited all of Obioha's dunks out of his basketball highlight video.
Russian hackers, probably. Like we're supposed to believe that a seven footer can't dunk...right.
I've been in that building. It used to be a daycare. We looked at it as an option for my oldest. It's a beautiful space. The idea of a daycare turned marijuana dispensary is kind of awesome.
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