I still remember feeling like it was over when MAAR missed that layup with about 5 ticks left. Wasn't it the same guy from Houston who went 1/4 on FTs in the last :30? Dude probably still has nightmares about that
I think Michigan is a better job than OSU though. Michigan has a lot more success recently and do OSU boosters even care about basketball? Feels like Michigan has a better shot to NIL some things if the admissions department can stop being difficult
Definitely on board with getting a riser from a mid-major. This is a multi-year rebuild and hiring a big name would seem to put unnecessary pressure on everyone for a quick turnaround. I'd love someone like Medved with a clear "this is a 5 year build" expectation up front
The rumors were an Athletic article by Quinn that was going to talk about 'PR / office politics' problems in football and/or hockey. This has to be it - and frankly if the 'bombshell' is that Michigan's basketball culture sucks, well I don't think anyone in the world is going to be surprised by this
Twitter rumors about a Brendan Quinn article coming out on HR or office politics issues in basketball and/or hockey. Could be nothing. But certainly a believable premise based on what we know of Mel, Juwan, and Warde
I saw a little bit of chatter about it on The Edge and people are alluding to Balas saying something (and despite people not liking Balas, he is right sometimes). Still may turn out to be absolutely nothing but the premise of the supposed article is plausible enough
Seems like there enough smoke wafting around that its likely theres an article coming out. Supposedly Quinn and supposedly about hockey and basketball culture.
And would anyone really be surprised to learn that Mel and Juwan are/were running toxic workplaces and Warde did nothing about it? That would be completely in line with my expectations for all 3 of them
Warde Manuel has repaired Michigan’s relationships with the NCAA and Big Ten
I'm afraid to know what "repaired" means. Was that just begging for forgiveness from Tony Pettiti?
And I've seen several Spartys be certain Warde is un-fireable because he successfully saved the university money by burying the Anderson lawsuit or something. Its good to know the great minds of East Lansing are still churning out there
Because the regional format is horrendous for attendance, the committee routinely manipulates matchups for attendance purposes plus the aforementioned intra-conference matchups they avoid. Usually they follow chalk as a starting point and will make a few fairly predictable tweaks after that. Too early to even guess where we might end up
I really think the worst course of action from today is to let this fester another year. Recruits and transfers hardly matter imo - this is the bottom for Michigan basketball and theres no reason to think we turn it around next year. You just need to find a way for Juwan to exit with some pride (accepting an NBA job; “stepping away for health reasons”) and start over
That would be great if true. Quentin probably doesnt have a lot of pro potential and we'd certainly benefit in having another veteran safety with Sabb walking
Really happy for him. The guy was a monster on some bad Michigan defenses. I remember it being a regular occurrence for Graham to be torching people and the rest of the defense would just be completely non-descript. Every 2009 game was like this UFR or this one.
He was basically Hutchinson or Mason Graham but with a quarter of the supporting cast
Remember how OSU stirred up all the Stallions stuff all fall, said it was the whole reason Michigan had been good the last 2 years, and then we beat then again? And even worse we won an undisputed national title in the process? Amazing
I mean, maybe the #1 reason the defense was as good as they were this year was because they rolled like 8-10 guys deep on the DL so guys were fresh all game. I welcome any quality DL transfers
Funniest thing about sign stealing is the joke from 2021 - thru scandal drop was that Michigan 'drowned the ferret' as in they started slow and then just ground people down. Very smart of us to just know every play that's going to be run but slow play it so no one caught on. 7D chess move
rule change to allow helmet comms (~ 44 minute mark): everyone supports it publicly but privately they don't want it because everyone steals signs
I feel like this was always fairly obvious to the fans outside of weeping Big Ten schools. Stallions just went so far out of line that he let OSU make a scene of it and now the fun is ruined for everyone. Absolutely there's a bunch of coaches out there pissed at Stallions and OSU for ruining the fun
The one thing OSU did was hire Chip Kelly as OC. If they can run the ball and run the QB a lot better then that will be a big move. If theyre still just a 7 on 7 drill program then nothing much has changed
None of their personnel moves wow me. Its not clear theyve upgraded at QB and thats the main cog in Days program. OSUs talent level is more or less the same as it was in 21 22 and 23
Ill more be interested to see if Chip Kelly actually shows 3rd Base how to run the ball and run his QB because that would be a dangerous development
I feel like a presser after another whooping when you're last in the league is just a no-win situation. What's he gonna say? "Yeah we suck. I'm gonna get fired. We'll just show up next week and go through the motions till the inevitable happens"
Seems like Sam says Michigan's NIL took care of Michigan's starters to make sure we kept everyone here. Even if you assume we get a bit of a home town discount for the guys, that's quite the payroll if you assume starters are getting 6 & 7 figure offers
Of course this is Sandmans side of the story so Im sure it skews a least a little his way…….but man that story sounds very plausible and Id bet its largely true
2 minute warning aka one more forced commercial break
The morons running this sport are going to cram in commercials until it becomes downright unwatchable. It's already a horrendous broadcast compared to any NFL game
I'm hyped Tuttle is back again. As noted, it sets a pretty solid floor for the QB room. Can Tuttle be as good as 2021 Cade? I really don't see why not other than that Cade did throw a pretty nice deep ball at times so maybe Tuttle can be almost as good as 2021 Cade. That's plenty enough for this to be a 9+ win team imo
Seems like it would be an upset for Tuttle to not be the starter in the fall. Orji has barely thrown the ball which should tell us something about something when the other back ups do throw it in their garbage time. I guess Sam is hearing otherwise, so maybe Orji's got a better arm than we've seen them use to this point
People are being naive if they think the Big Ten / SEC are gonna spin off and do anything other than accelerate the NFL lite stupidity going on currently. It's gonna be NCAA2 but this time wholly devoted to TV money
If we learned anything from Pettiti's handling of signgate, he'll be Sankey's pushover and will agree to whatever as long as the Big Ten keeps making big TV money
I feel fairly confident in saying we will hate NCAA2 as much or more than NCAA1. It's all the same empty suits running these things, except now they can just chase TV money till they really run the sport into the ground
The short sightedness of the suits running this is just stunning to watch YOY. They're just torching everything that made CFB great because they can make more money now. When everything sucks in 20 or 30 years they'll say "oh yeah someone should've preserved CFB. it's sad" like they don't have any responsibility for it
It's going to be extremely frustrating to all CFB fans when a deserving 11-1 G5 team gets left out so we can have a 9-3 Wisconsin or something. Demanding multiple auto bids is another instance of the people running college football doing something stupid that doesn't happen in any other sport because it will make someone more money. It sucks
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If it makes you feel any better, that class was probably going to be wasted here
I still remember feeling like it was over when MAAR missed that layup with about 5 ticks left. Wasn't it the same guy from Houston who went 1/4 on FTs in the last :30? Dude probably still has nightmares about that
I think Michigan is a better job than OSU though. Michigan has a lot more success recently and do OSU boosters even care about basketball? Feels like Michigan has a better shot to NIL some things if the admissions department can stop being difficult
Definitely on board with getting a riser from a mid-major. This is a multi-year rebuild and hiring a big name would seem to put unnecessary pressure on everyone for a quick turnaround. I'd love someone like Medved with a clear "this is a 5 year build" expectation up front
Remember when we won the national title?
Buckeye twitter is also going to be coping today
The rumors were an Athletic article by Quinn that was going to talk about 'PR / office politics' problems in football and/or hockey. This has to be it - and frankly if the 'bombshell' is that Michigan's basketball culture sucks, well I don't think anyone in the world is going to be surprised by this
Warde's response is whatever. That's what you say publicly as a leader. 'The players played hard and I'm proud of them' etc etc.
I hope he is preparing to dismiss Juwan tomorrow. I don't know why he didn't do it today or yesterday
If Warde cant figure out he needs to fire Juwan, then Ono needs to fire them both
I mean, I very much doubt that's the case. Jim wanted to go back to the NFL and I don't think anyone was stopping him.
Twitter rumors about a Brendan Quinn article coming out on HR or office politics issues in basketball and/or hockey. Could be nothing. But certainly a believable premise based on what we know of Mel, Juwan, and Warde
Someones gonna have to tell me if this guys any good at his job
Naturally Pete would have the scoop on this one given his extensive sources in Columbus
Sam's the only guy who seems legitimately plugged in
If true, it would be mindblowing for Warde to think that. The bottom has dropped out ever since the last of the Beilein guys left.
If the rumors of an athletic article are true, it'll force Warde's hand and it might force out Warde too
I saw a little bit of chatter about it on The Edge and people are alluding to Balas saying something (and despite people not liking Balas, he is right sometimes). Still may turn out to be absolutely nothing but the premise of the supposed article is plausible enough
Seems like there enough smoke wafting around that its likely theres an article coming out. Supposedly Quinn and supposedly about hockey and basketball culture.
And would anyone really be surprised to learn that Mel and Juwan are/were running toxic workplaces and Warde did nothing about it? That would be completely in line with my expectations for all 3 of them
I'm afraid to know what "repaired" means. Was that just begging for forgiveness from Tony Pettiti?
And I've seen several Spartys be certain Warde is un-fireable because he successfully saved the university money by burying the Anderson lawsuit or something. Its good to know the great minds of East Lansing are still churning out there
Because the regional format is horrendous for attendance, the committee routinely manipulates matchups for attendance purposes plus the aforementioned intra-conference matchups they avoid. Usually they follow chalk as a starting point and will make a few fairly predictable tweaks after that. Too early to even guess where we might end up
I really think the worst course of action from today is to let this fester another year. Recruits and transfers hardly matter imo - this is the bottom for Michigan basketball and theres no reason to think we turn it around next year. You just need to find a way for Juwan to exit with some pride (accepting an NBA job; “stepping away for health reasons”) and start over
That would be great if true. Quentin probably doesnt have a lot of pro potential and we'd certainly benefit in having another veteran safety with Sabb walking
Really happy for him. The guy was a monster on some bad Michigan defenses. I remember it being a regular occurrence for Graham to be torching people and the rest of the defense would just be completely non-descript. Every 2009 game was like this UFR or this one.
He was basically Hutchinson or Mason Graham but with a quarter of the supporting cast
Man. 4 straight vs the Irish. Many a great Michigan team have struggled with that program - especially at Yost.
I don't know all the pairwise math but we're probably inching toward being solidly in right?
Man if Michigan had just blown 3 or 4 fewer games this team would be in the hunt for a 1 seed right now
Remember how OSU stirred up all the Stallions stuff all fall, said it was the whole reason Michigan had been good the last 2 years, and then we beat then again? And even worse we won an undisputed national title in the process? Amazing
I mean, maybe the #1 reason the defense was as good as they were this year was because they rolled like 8-10 guys deep on the DL so guys were fresh all game. I welcome any quality DL transfers
Funniest thing about sign stealing is the joke from 2021 - thru scandal drop was that Michigan 'drowned the ferret' as in they started slow and then just ground people down. Very smart of us to just know every play that's going to be run but slow play it so no one caught on. 7D chess move
Joe Milton will be this 2024 NFL Draft Memorial 'Okay okay...but maybe he'll be Josh Allen' draft pick
I feel like this was always fairly obvious to the fans outside of weeping Big Ten schools. Stallions just went so far out of line that he let OSU make a scene of it and now the fun is ruined for everyone. Absolutely there's a bunch of coaches out there pissed at Stallions and OSU for ruining the fun
I still havent accepted that this league has more than 11 teams
The one thing OSU did was hire Chip Kelly as OC. If they can run the ball and run the QB a lot better then that will be a big move. If theyre still just a 7 on 7 drill program then nothing much has changed
None of their personnel moves wow me. Its not clear theyve upgraded at QB and thats the main cog in Days program. OSUs talent level is more or less the same as it was in 21 22 and 23
Ill more be interested to see if Chip Kelly actually shows 3rd Base how to run the ball and run his QB because that would be a dangerous development
Best RB duo in the nation? Brother you wont have the best RB duo in the division
John Beilein ideally
To me he seems like a good guy who clearly has some anger management issues and being totally in over his head is exacerbating that problem
I feel like a presser after another whooping when you're last in the league is just a no-win situation. What's he gonna say? "Yeah we suck. I'm gonna get fired. We'll just show up next week and go through the motions till the inevitable happens"
Seems like Sam says Michigan's NIL took care of Michigan's starters to make sure we kept everyone here. Even if you assume we get a bit of a home town discount for the guys, that's quite the payroll if you assume starters are getting 6 & 7 figure offers
Of course this is Sandmans side of the story so Im sure it skews a least a little his way…….but man that story sounds very plausible and Id bet its largely true
Why? Because unfortunately hes a famous alum. A non-alum / non-Fab Fiver wouldve been gone a long time ago
Maybe also because Warde seems to never done anything productive
2 minute warning aka one more forced commercial break
The morons running this sport are going to cram in commercials until it becomes downright unwatchable. It's already a horrendous broadcast compared to any NFL game
I'm hyped Tuttle is back again. As noted, it sets a pretty solid floor for the QB room. Can Tuttle be as good as 2021 Cade? I really don't see why not other than that Cade did throw a pretty nice deep ball at times so maybe Tuttle can be almost as good as 2021 Cade. That's plenty enough for this to be a 9+ win team imo
Seems like it would be an upset for Tuttle to not be the starter in the fall. Orji has barely thrown the ball which should tell us something about something when the other back ups do throw it in their garbage time. I guess Sam is hearing otherwise, so maybe Orji's got a better arm than we've seen them use to this point
Lol. Jim's up there with his stop watch. Probably questioning the laser timer
"I dunno. I got Kris at 4.85 on that one"
People are being naive if they think the Big Ten / SEC are gonna spin off and do anything other than accelerate the NFL lite stupidity going on currently. It's gonna be NCAA2 but this time wholly devoted to TV money
If we learned anything from Pettiti's handling of signgate, he'll be Sankey's pushover and will agree to whatever as long as the Big Ten keeps making big TV money
I feel fairly confident in saying we will hate NCAA2 as much or more than NCAA1. It's all the same empty suits running these things, except now they can just chase TV money till they really run the sport into the ground
Man I hate Tony Pettiti. What an idiot
The short sightedness of the suits running this is just stunning to watch YOY. They're just torching everything that made CFB great because they can make more money now. When everything sucks in 20 or 30 years they'll say "oh yeah someone should've preserved CFB. it's sad" like they don't have any responsibility for it
It's going to be extremely frustrating to all CFB fans when a deserving 11-1 G5 team gets left out so we can have a 9-3 Wisconsin or something. Demanding multiple auto bids is another instance of the people running college football doing something stupid that doesn't happen in any other sport because it will make someone more money. It sucks
Lower bowl tickets: $100
I think no. The majority of new teams you're going to get in will be 17-15 power conference teams. We don't need that
Wow. I had no idea. I had found him on twitter somewhat recently for his DL commentary stuff. Man…he was so young