Jake Butt clearly has a future after football.
John Booty.
You can't shake him.
April 14th, 2016 at 11:15 PM ^
You crack me up when you get cheeky.
April 15th, 2016 at 12:10 PM ^
Butt is a well-developed college player.
Finebum is a skinny middle-aged troll.
2 hit fight. Butt hits Finebum....Finebum hits floor....
April 15th, 2016 at 12:33 AM ^
"I really looked at it as: Who’s really winning in this situation? If the NCAA is so much for the student-athletes, where does the student-athlete win in this? That was my biggest question, and I’m still looking for an answer for that one.”
The terrible thing is that they wil never answer his question, at least not in more than roundabout terms, and then never directly to him....if ever. That the NCAA can look itself in the mirror and even pretend they serve the interests of athletes - at least primarily - is laughable now. These athletes and staffs and even departments deserve so much better in the way of central governance.
Look forward to seeing this year. The hatred for Harbaugh and Michigan from around the country brings this team stronger together. I look forward to this season. Jake is a fine young man and great leader for this team.
It's a good sign to be hated. It means your the competition and not some chump to underestimate.
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There has been this huge subtext for me in that this 'invasion of the South' was JH seeing a problem, to wit: The SEC is running a regional plantation system and for the B1G to level the playing field this had to be challenged. Now, naturally the Ess Eee See very much resented this "Nawthen cahpet baggah" breaking their unwritten rules.
There are many good reasons for these camps that I had not thought of much til lately, but this was the issue that struck me immediately - the SEC is running a plantation system and they don't want it messed with.
Of course JH quickly saw this achilles heel and went after it. He has forced the NCAA to deal with this 500 lb. gorilla and that counts as a win - naked emperors only flourish when the Mike Dantoninis of the world are too timid to challenge their abuse.
Eh, either that or I watched too much of Dr. Harry Edwards on ESPN roundtable shows years ago.
Paying them disqualifies them as plantation owners.
Yeah, good line.
I don't think Curt Flood would agree with the premise tho, nor MLB or modern sports as we know them.
The SEC sees the kids who grew up in their neck of the woods as captives, local natural resources. And I'm quite sure that is the "trade imbalance" that JH was attacking in this scenario.
April 14th, 2016 at 10:40 PM ^
tack onto it. It's plainly clear that there were many High Schools/coaches who weren't happy with the system, either. There seems to be a misconception that UM just decided to act like Sherman and, load up their trucks and invade the south in a wave of maize and blue. In reality, it was a mutual relationship between each of the high schools and UM. In most business that is called networking. And, do you think Prattville could put on the same camp without the help of a major school (even if it's not UM). Essentially, the NCAA is telling these school that they can no longer invite whom they please to help out with their camps. That's why I firmly believe that the backlash at the high school end (coaches/players/parents) will have more of an influence on getting the NCAA to overturn this. They have the power. All it would take would be one boycott of a major camp or all star game, or a boycott of an Alabam camp, and the SEC/NCAA would go ape-shit.
The major irony, it seems to me, is that there should be more than enough high schools around the country, in the south, in the west, wherever, that there should be plenty of opportunites for every D1 team to hold a few camps during the summer. Instead of allowing a great idea to be propogated and flourish, the NCAA takes the whole thing away. They (the generic NCAA) might have been the one to pass the rule, but the coaches and conferences that supported it are so short-sighted. Either that, or they hate Harbaugh even more than I can fathom.
April 14th, 2016 at 10:59 PM ^
April 14th, 2016 at 10:51 PM ^
“I really believe Jim is about as innovative as they come, he always thinks outside the box,” Durkin said. “I was there last year, we did satellite camps, and it was incredibly beneficial to us. I don’t see where it was a bad thing or it was wrong. He got some criticism from some other coaches, and I don’t get it. Jim always pushes the envelope, and I think it’s great for all of us as a sport.”
Nice to have a little warm feeling while reading that, right?
It took a little off the edge of that OSU game plan for me.
The gameplan was rough, but knowing he had crabcakes on the brain all week made it brutal.
I love the way Jake Butt carries himself. No doubt that he'll be one of the captains of this Michigan team. No doubt that he has a bright future ahead of him.
I don't count on it but if somehow they reverse this decision, or back track on it in any way, Jim Harbaugh is going to be bigger than the NCAA to some.
April 15th, 2016 at 12:22 PM ^
It continues to amaze me that grown-ass men act like children, complaining about how damaging these camps can be and how they just want to be home relaxing, and "dumb college kids" are the ones who put forth coherent, thoughtful reasons for why the camps should remain open to coaches and how much it benefits everyone involved.