WTKA MGoBlog Roundtable
Does anyone know where I can find segments 2 and 3 of today's roundtable? Seems like they only uploaded segment 1 to the podcast app and on their website: http://www.wtka.com/2018/03/28/wtka-podcasts/
September 26th, 2019 at 6:23 PM ^
This is the insightful commentary I come here for!
September 26th, 2019 at 6:32 PM ^
Thanks!
September 26th, 2019 at 7:59 PM ^
Thanks Skeptical!
One of the best Podcasts too.
September 26th, 2019 at 6:15 PM ^
My guess is it will be up by tomorrow. Usually when they miss segments they have them up by the time the next day's podcasts start in the morning.
September 26th, 2019 at 6:44 PM ^
Sunshine Sam was in full effect.
September 26th, 2019 at 7:55 PM ^
What about DC Supreme and his man Steve Bonen (spelling)
September 26th, 2019 at 6:51 PM ^
Segments 2 and 3 can be had with purchase of two tickets to Saturday's game vs. Rutger.
September 26th, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^
Wait...
i thought if you LISTENED to segments 2 & 3 you were provided with 2 tickets and a hotdog voucher vs Rutger.
Which is it?
September 27th, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
I got my tickets with the purchase of 2 20 oz diet cokes.
September 26th, 2019 at 6:58 PM ^
I was just guessing Sam decided not to post or canceled the last two segments because he was in full on company man mode again. Brian and Craig weren't going along with the narrative.
September 26th, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
Craig kinda sorta had hope.
It could just be that Sam really feels like a lot of guys on the board feel. Positive about the future. Others agree with Brian.
I'm just wanting to see something from this coaching staff to give me hope first. It's going to take more than a win vs Buttgers to get me thinking that they fixed things on offense.
Love the team, but need to see some results before I feel like this team is a B10 Champ type team.
Go Blue!
September 27th, 2019 at 12:15 AM ^
"Buttgers" - so original and clever!
September 27th, 2019 at 8:56 AM ^
I'm just wanting to see something from this coaching staff to give me hope first.
I get it. The funny thing is I actually felt I saw resilience last year that gave me hope When they came back against Northwestern and played some disciplined football that took care of the football. I really felt like we were on the right track. When they threw in some QB runs I felt even better, though tweaks like that happened rarely.
Where I get frustrated with the spread zealots, particularly the MgoBlog staff, is that last year we had lots of comments about “non modern” offenses; and how the pep offense wasn’t utilizing our talent etc.
now, the coach hands over the keys to a “fully modern” offense guy and I hear that “we adopted it too late defenses have downloaded the scheme”.
so... where is the win point for a staff? Implement/create a new scheme no one has thought Of to catch the rest if college football off guard? If you go spread it’s modern but downloaded. If you go pro style your archaic and out of step with college football. So... what??
i wish we had never changed. I’m a bit hypocritical because I was hoping for so much for this offense. But frankly last years with another year of seasoning sounds like it would have been so much better than the hot mess we have now.
I appreciate this blog and everything everyone does on it. So this is a minor nit in the giant scheme of things. But goodness it would be nice if we recognized the nice things we had, even if they weren’t perfect, when we had them rather than looking at the world through spread colored glasses. The more I look at UM over the past 20 years the more I’m convinced scheme < execution. A scheme can paper over some gaps in talent... but it can’t fix bad execution. Bad execution will destroy any scheme. And one of the ways to fix bad execution is to concentrate on your players strengths, simplify, and rep rep rep.
Its not always exciting. It may not be explosive. But I feel it more often than not is more reliable than trying to find schematic lightning in a bottle.
Sorry, just complaining.
September 27th, 2019 at 4:10 PM ^
Anyone who said we've adopted the spread too late is deeply confused. I've not heard anyone on the MGoBlog staff say that, though I definitely could be wrong.
September 27th, 2019 at 4:27 PM ^
It was in one of the podcasts where Brian stated that Michigan tends to get offenses after defenses have figured them out. He used as another example Carr getting the Zone Stretch after defenses had figured it out.
September 26th, 2019 at 8:09 PM ^
Not saying you are, but if anyone ever expects Sam to be truly critical and honest on the situation they’ll be waiting a long time. Access to Harbaugh is his bread and butter, he cannot tick off his meal ticket.
I enjoy Sam but when it comes to honesty when things aren’t going well, he’s not the guy to listen to if you want truth.
September 26th, 2019 at 9:38 PM ^
The notion that Sam is just a cheerleader slappy who never has a negative word is nonsensical bullshit pushed by people who either don’t actually listen to his fucking show every day or simply don’t like him.
“Getting dominated like this makes it gut check time for this team ALREADY, just three games into the season... and the schedule just gets tougher from here. To play this poorly coming off a bye is beyond concerning. They’re in trouble and don’t have a lot of time get on track.”
That was him on Saturday. He’s had a steady stream of on-air guests all week—including former UM players—who’ve been forthright and direct in their criticism of the program, the players, and of Harbaugh. At no point has he been trying to paper over or cover up the team’s issues.
What people like you apparently can’t deal with is that he’s an optimistic, glass-is-half-full person by nature—he’s never going to wallow in BPONE.
This is on top of his role as a de facto liaison between Michigan sports and the broader fan base through his role on WTKA. Every fucking week he’s hosting and interviewing UM athletes, coaches, administrators as well as media people—football, men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, softball, lacrosse, gymnastics, wrestling, swimming, track, CC are all regular guests and subjects on his show. It’s goddamn moronic that people think that he needs to rip on UM athletic programs like he’s some idiot on Detroit radio in order to prove his sports coverage bona fides.
September 26th, 2019 at 10:47 PM ^
His Saturday tweets were telling. He was shocked like most of the fan base. Now he's hoping, based on things he said today, that UM will turn it around.
I said it earlier but this was one of the best roundtables(Brian, Craig, Sam), imo. They all had great input.
September 26th, 2019 at 11:35 PM ^
I am shocked that a WTKA junkie who has been their most loyal caller for years is defensive of their flagship show host.
September 27th, 2019 at 5:49 AM ^
You are both right. Sam is not going to react like us typical fans. He will say things a little more eloquently. That said, Sam does have to keep in good steed with the coaches and does have a bias towards being positive which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
This program is at a crossroads again. Not one of us on this forum thought year 5 of a Harbaugh team would look like this. The team is loaded with talent everywhere but the Dline. If they beat Rutgers 55-0 it will tell us nothing. Rutgers is a bad football team. Beating them 31-14 will tell you this team is in the bottom third of the B1G and we fans are in for a long and painful season.
September 27th, 2019 at 9:17 AM ^
You can very much tell who actually played football and who didn’t based on attitudes during that round table. I’m embarrassed for them.
September 27th, 2019 at 4:02 PM ^
Next time you call in Don feel free to bring in some of that fire. Since I work a full time job teaching I cannot listen to WTKA all morning. Sam is on the side of glass half full guy and he's going to always be that way. He cannot truly rip into a program because he wants to keep access.
I feel you get a more honest opinion from Nick Baumgardner, where if you just listen to Sam you're going to get pumped up 99% of the time and then scratching your head when the football team poops the bed like they have the past 15 years.
September 26th, 2019 at 9:08 PM ^
You are not understanding the role/value Sam brings. There’s a reason Brian isn’t in the press box. Sam’s role is to get access and use it to share interesting info in covering the program. He’s useful for recruiting news and scuttlebutt amongst the program. That what he does. If you are mad he’s not ripping the program and “keeping it real” that’s on you for having expectations out of line for what Sam is and the role he plays. You offer up some credibility on tough times in exchange for access. Just as Brian has a different role in covering Michigan, and so do other members of the media. These guys find their niche and service it. Sam is the local guy with relationships across the athletic department and the recruiting-verse and he’s very good at that. Don’t go to him for hard hitting take-Harbaugh-to-task hot takes.
September 26th, 2019 at 9:32 PM ^
I don't get mad at Sam for toeing the line. I like him and listen to the podcasts nearly everyday. It's just fun to take a light jab at him from time to time when it's obvious he's deflecting.
September 26th, 2019 at 9:37 PM ^
Fair enough. Seems like a lot of crapping on Sam from others when it’s like asking Yoder to state something factual. Everyone has a different role to play and asking them all to play the same role equally is just naive
September 26th, 2019 at 10:10 PM ^
Yoder is such a damn train wreck. I try not to click on the link. I really do. But sometimes when I’m starved for content....I can’t help it.
he’s resorted to name calling. Acts like an expert regarding coaching staff type information. He sort of reminds me of a “Saved by the Bell” episode but it’s about Michigan football. He’s obviously Screech.
September 26th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
A grown man who can't resist clicking Yoder links. Saddest admission on this site all day, easily.
September 26th, 2019 at 9:52 PM ^
Sam does his job well.
What you should say after segment 2 is how does brian handle the burden of ALWAYS being he smartest guy in the room. No Matter who is in the room.
He is obviously much smarter than ALL our coaches. Must be a difficult burden to live with.
September 26th, 2019 at 10:49 PM ^
LOL!
Seriously made me laugh out loud. Not saying I agree witcha, but funny nonetheless.
I like all those guys.
+1
September 27th, 2019 at 2:48 AM ^
If Brian were half as smart as he thinks he is, his comments would have more meaning.
September 26th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
Doesn't Mgoblog post it here on Fridays ?
I'll take a stab: Sam probably trying to spin this as less than disaster while Brian is full on BPONE.
Looking at the UFR though, the offense sucked hard. Gattis is early candidate for the Borges award.
Still let's give this dude his time, but not running the ball is terrible and as I've been trumpeting, if your QB can't run this offense is toast. I don't understand why the QBs aren't running (DMcaff did and offense hummed fine). She's can't run ? She's can't play then.
Confusing and just weird.
September 26th, 2019 at 8:47 PM ^
September 26th, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
Wow, we actually had two days go by without hearing the asinine word "BPONE" ! Who was the genius that started that shit ?
September 26th, 2019 at 11:40 PM ^
Brian Cook.
September 26th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
Sam is a die hard. Optimist with a dash of blindness. I wish I carried that with me. I’m Brian when Brian’s having a dark moment.
September 26th, 2019 at 8:42 PM ^
With apologies to Rob Zombie....
I'm more Brian than Brian.....
September 26th, 2019 at 8:45 PM ^
September 26th, 2019 at 10:03 PM ^
Burned. Brian was so negative that Sam shit-canned the tape ...
Edit - all this at the request of Jon Jansen who is like Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm.
September 27th, 2019 at 9:03 AM ^
The pity party is lasting a bit long Brian.