Though TBF Watt was a stud in college too. I remember watching him in 2010 at the big house and dude was scary back then - just on another level once he got to the NFL.
Can't wait to see what Rashan does in the combine!
Bram is a super nice guy - I had him for Aero 225 and he clearly had forgotten how to teach anything at an undergraduate level.
I don't know if I came across anything that held a candle to Aero 525 with Werner Dahm, back before he went to go run the Air Force, or whatever it is he does these days. By the end of the class only Werner Dahm had any idea what was going on.
Even beyond work experience the MBA culture is vastly different than undergraduate culture at Ross (or any MBA program, frankly). You're talking about a group of people mostly between the ages of 26 and 30, many of whom have spouses or kids, and all of whom have very different priorities and life experiences than someone out of undergrad. It's very hard to connect with or relate to your classmates when you just haven't spent any time out of college (almost similar to adults going back to school when they're older, just the reverse situation)
I went to Ross 2 years after graduating, which made me the 2nd or 3rd youngest person in the MBA program and even then it was a bit of an akward cultural fit at times. No matter how smart and accomplished you are, you'll get more out of the expierneice with a few years out in the real world.
I think the other part of the joke here is that Lewis didn't have much NFL-love in the beginning of the season, so we're ironically suggesting that the lack of interest was due to his size, which remains obviously too small for the NFL.
I think it might have been against Penn State - we were up 3 and we ran a play where we snapped the ball to Breaston, and he ran around in the back of the end zone while the whole team held to burn out the clock before running out the back for a safety. Obviously the last part wouldn't work here, but I wonder if you can feasably give the ball to Chesson and have him run around for 10 seconds while the line blatently holds there.
Michigan doctors who treated him after the game? For a fanbase that hates everything remotely related to Michigan it wouldn't suprise me if the answer is "no".
In the book it was pretty clear that Brandon's midnight emails were a point of no return for his tenure as AD, but I was left with the impression that they would have put an end to his career under nearly any circumstance (and for good reason, behaving in such a way is unacceptable for anyone in a major leadership position.)
My question is, given that members of the media had knowledge of these emails long before they were made public, and they had a material impact on his fitness as an AD, why weren't they made public sooner? I understand there were certain verificantion challenges, but I can't think of many circumstances where a journalist would intentionally sit on evedence that would result in the dismissal of an executive.
Sadly, I came away feeling like members of the media had evedence that Brandon was unfit to serve as AD, and failed to report this evedence for years, resulting (perhaps unintentionally) in the perpetuation of an administration that caused significant damage to the Michigan athletic department and the University itself. It would be great if you could go into some more detail around the challenges in making those emails public sooner.
It would be nice if we could get the ORtg for each PG Walton played using only the numbers from when both players were on the floor at the same time. We could then use the time on-court-time-together to weight the averages at the bottom and eliminate some of the Webster induced sample size issues.
...I don't suppose any of you wizards has stats that you can filter based on who was on court
There was a post this summer (by LSAClassOf2000, I think) showing how often O-Linemen become solid starters, based on age, #stars, etc. It essentially showed that highly rated linmen rarely pan out before their 3rd year (~19% become solid starters before that) and less harlded linmen rarely pan out before their 4th year (~14% solid starters before that).
Outside of Lewan and Schofield, the list of scholarship athletes looks like this:
Class of 2009 (5th year): None
Class of 2010 (4th year): None
-------------The Line Below Which O-Linmen Do Not Make Good Starters---------------
Class of 2011 (3rd year): Bryant, Miller - both of these guys had mostly mid-major and lower tier BCS offers (e.g. Indiana and Arizona)
Class of 2012 (2nd year): Kalis, Magnuson, Braden, Bars
Class of 2013 (1st year): Kugler, Bosch, Tuley-Tillman, Samuelson, Dawson, Fox
This frightened me at the time, so I started running Monte-Carlos on the odds of Michigan producing offensive lines without liabilities. The results were... not encouraging.
Odds of producing a line with at least X liabilities:
3: 34%
2: 74%
1: 95%
So just based on how long the current players have been on the team, and how highly regarded they were out of high school, we would expect at least two of our starters up front to be terrible no matter what the coaches do. At this point, I wonder how much of the line issues are coaching vs having no veteran players at a position that takes a long time to learn.
(One encouraging piece of data, I ran the same simulation for the 2015 season and got this result:)
Odds of producing a line with at least X liabilities:
3: 4%
2: 25%
1: 68%
So cheer up, in 2 years we have a 32% chance of grinding opposing D-lines into a fine paste, and only a 4% chance of a dumpster fire.
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I'm told the stadium stopped selling beer from the concessions after half time.
Those were not full of beer in extra time...
Though TBF Watt was a stud in college too. I remember watching him in 2010 at the big house and dude was scary back then - just on another level once he got to the NFL.
Can't wait to see what Rashan does in the combine!
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Bram is a super nice guy - I had him for Aero 225 and he clearly had forgotten how to teach anything at an undergraduate level.
I don't know if I came across anything that held a candle to Aero 525 with Werner Dahm, back before he went to go run the Air Force, or whatever it is he does these days. By the end of the class only Werner Dahm had any idea what was going on.
Even beyond work experience the MBA culture is vastly different than undergraduate culture at Ross (or any MBA program, frankly). You're talking about a group of people mostly between the ages of 26 and 30, many of whom have spouses or kids, and all of whom have very different priorities and life experiences than someone out of undergrad. It's very hard to connect with or relate to your classmates when you just haven't spent any time out of college (almost similar to adults going back to school when they're older, just the reverse situation)
I went to Ross 2 years after graduating, which made me the 2nd or 3rd youngest person in the MBA program and even then it was a bit of an akward cultural fit at times. No matter how smart and accomplished you are, you'll get more out of the expierneice with a few years out in the real world.
I hope they can get the D-Line back on track before OSU, because Elliot is going to look awfully similar in a couple of weeks.
Distorter Porter and some homemade Mead if things go sideways
Was it that phone commercial with the composite selfie song? Because that's what I just got, thanks ESPN! It was almost as bad as watching this game.
I think the other part of the joke here is that Lewis didn't have much NFL-love in the beginning of the season, so we're ironically suggesting that the lack of interest was due to his size, which remains obviously too small for the NFL.
I think it might have been against Penn State - we were up 3 and we ran a play where we snapped the ball to Breaston, and he ran around in the back of the end zone while the whole team held to burn out the clock before running out the back for a safety. Obviously the last part wouldn't work here, but I wonder if you can feasably give the ball to Chesson and have him run around for 10 seconds while the line blatently holds there.
Michigan doctors who treated him after the game? For a fanbase that hates everything remotely related to Michigan it wouldn't suprise me if the answer is "no".
This team, like those of the last 10 years, is trash and shouldn't be ranked to begin with
In the book it was pretty clear that Brandon's midnight emails were a point of no return for his tenure as AD, but I was left with the impression that they would have put an end to his career under nearly any circumstance (and for good reason, behaving in such a way is unacceptable for anyone in a major leadership position.)
My question is, given that members of the media had knowledge of these emails long before they were made public, and they had a material impact on his fitness as an AD, why weren't they made public sooner? I understand there were certain verificantion challenges, but I can't think of many circumstances where a journalist would intentionally sit on evedence that would result in the dismissal of an executive.
Sadly, I came away feeling like members of the media had evedence that Brandon was unfit to serve as AD, and failed to report this evedence for years, resulting (perhaps unintentionally) in the perpetuation of an administration that caused significant damage to the Michigan athletic department and the University itself. It would be great if you could go into some more detail around the challenges in making those emails public sooner.
It would be nice if we could get the ORtg for each PG Walton played using only the numbers from when both players were on the floor at the same time. We could then use the time on-court-time-together to weight the averages at the bottom and eliminate some of the Webster induced sample size issues.
...I don't suppose any of you wizards has stats that you can filter based on who was on court
There was a post this summer (by LSAClassOf2000, I think) showing how often O-Linemen become solid starters, based on age, #stars, etc. It essentially showed that highly rated linmen rarely pan out before their 3rd year (~19% become solid starters before that) and less harlded linmen rarely pan out before their 4th year (~14% solid starters before that).
Outside of Lewan and Schofield, the list of scholarship athletes looks like this:
Class of 2009 (5th year): None
Class of 2010 (4th year): None
-------------The Line Below Which O-Linmen Do Not Make Good Starters---------------
Class of 2011 (3rd year): Bryant, Miller - both of these guys had mostly mid-major and lower tier BCS offers (e.g. Indiana and Arizona)
Class of 2012 (2nd year): Kalis, Magnuson, Braden, Bars
Class of 2013 (1st year): Kugler, Bosch, Tuley-Tillman, Samuelson, Dawson, Fox
This frightened me at the time, so I started running Monte-Carlos on the odds of Michigan producing offensive lines without liabilities. The results were... not encouraging.
Odds of producing a line with at least X liabilities:
3: 34%
2: 74%
1: 95%
So just based on how long the current players have been on the team, and how highly regarded they were out of high school, we would expect at least two of our starters up front to be terrible no matter what the coaches do. At this point, I wonder how much of the line issues are coaching vs having no veteran players at a position that takes a long time to learn.
(One encouraging piece of data, I ran the same simulation for the 2015 season and got this result:)
Odds of producing a line with at least X liabilities:
3: 4%
2: 25%
1: 68%
So cheer up, in 2 years we have a 32% chance of grinding opposing D-lines into a fine paste, and only a 4% chance of a dumpster fire.