But I've spoken to a few co-workers and clients (I work in athlete marketing) who are former Michigan basketball/football players and they told me that as of yesterday he still isn't playing 5-on-5s or doing contact drills. I'll prepare for the onslaught of "cool story bro" negbangs, but for the few non-cynical people left on the board, I figured it was worth sharing.
and after that we'll watch CBS hit new lows in viewership rating, the program's rising star anchor to quit and move to a new network, and CBS to be investigated by the FCC for having too many producers present on set during dress rehearsals.
While most of the campus hostesses and recruiting girls are not ready made whores, and to imply that is incorrect, it's closer to reality than we'd like to readily admit. The practice was started by Bear Bryant and his hottie collection was known as Bear's Angels. The gorgeous co-eds provided campus tours and some quality time with top recruits, clearly in an effort to persuade them to join the program under the premise of "look at how hot the girls at our school are!" It's become common practice now. Since a head coach and even position coaches aren't going to spend every single minute with recruits during their visit, they allow these girls, who are affiliated with the administrative offices of the school, to tour the kids around and then take them to parties to show them the fun social life at night. What happens at the parties or afterwards is certainly not required of these girls but if I had to guess there are a number of recruits nationwide who chose their college because of the awesome night they spent with some females.
If in fact this Kyle Warber character, interviewer extraordinaire, can't find Zima at his local Hiller's, my guess is that he just settles for wine coolers. Good for Shane for not just calling Kyle a dick and hanging up the phone mid interview.
That's fascinating, I had no idea...but makes sense I can see that. He actually came up to UM my senior year and (along side Sonja Sohn who plays Kima) did a Q&A symposium on The Wire and how it reflects American society. Profs from all over the country flew in to AA and read discertations and ran lectures/panels on the topic for 2 days. Amazing stuff.
If it were Scott Templeton he would have fabricated a story about how the person injured was a janitor (name not given) who was trying to support his 6 children. On a side note, I think Gus Haynes would make a terrific linebackers coach.
If Michigan Man were, in fact, a comic book character, who would he fight? Every good comic book has an eternal struggle against a primary villain or a clan of evil doers. Would it be The Golden Domers? Perhaps simply, The Vest? Or since The Vest may be vanquished soon, they might turn their attention to a new plot arc, the newly introduced Children of the Corn?
I dont get why people are "questioning his coaching style". The guy has brought Michigan hoops back to a nationally respectable level and taken this team to the NCAA tourney 2x in his short tenure as coach. Other coaches KNOW that he might break out a 1-3-1 trap defense and so they prep for it....but still succumb to turnovers and panic mode when it hits them. That's due to his coaching and player execution, not because of the individual players Michigan is trotting out. One more thing, let's not forget that a few months ago during the tourney, he went toe to toe with arguably the greatest coach in college basketball history, the country's defending national champions (consisting of a Naismith POY finalist, the likely 2011 #1 draft pick, and a much deeper, bigger, more battle tested team) only to come up a single basket short. To say this isn't due to tremendous coaching is crazy. Belein shouldn't have to defend his coaching chops to anybody. For my money, there is only a handful of coaches I'd rather have. He's one of the more under rated coaches working today.
It's nice to compare the recruiting battles between us and other Big 10 (or national) programs and it feels great to snag 5* talent but you never know exactly what you have until a couple years down the road. Once your young guys put on weight, get adjusted to college speed and size, and learn how to balance their football with the class room, that's when you know what kind of a player you actually have. So often we overlook the value of a correct fit within a program which is why the Alden Hill interview posted by Tom a little bit ago speaks volumes. Guys like Ryan Mallet and Demar Dorsey were nationally recruited 5* guys and David Molk was a 3* prospect with a middling offer sheet. A few years later, 2 of those guys were no longer with the program and the 3rd went on to become the anchor for the offensive line, starting 3 years. While it's always nice to deny OSU and Little Brother the players they covet, I could care less about which schools we "win" recruiting battles over. Let's get the right guys in here, build them up, and create a program that gets the most out of its talent. Everything else is trivial.
it doesn't turn out that way. I'm definitely still pondering all of the "what ifs" regarding a junior Morris running the show as UM put up a real fight for a B1G conference championship...but it wasn't in the cards. I'm rooting for the kid though and hopefully he can snag that 1st round pay check for himself and his family.
After watching the comeback game against Notre Dame in person and then the gritty performance in the loss against Michigan St. my intial thought was "wow...we're gonna be watching this kid lead our program into its next phase". As we all know it didnt exactly turn out that way but I'm guessing Tate felt more robbed than we did. After a very impressive rookie campaign, he thought he had the keys to kingdom (however misguided that self inflated opinion might have been) only to find himself publicly humiliated with a Wingless-helmet and sitting on the bench. He clearly had some growing up to do and some work to put in but I can't imagine the personal feeling of dejection he must have gone through. That's a lot to put on a young kid. He might have been great, he might have been average, he might have been benched in favor of Gardner if Denard didn't pan out, doesn't really matter. All we know is that a young kid had the world at his feet one moment with Sports Illustrated covers and darkhorse Heisman chatter, and in the blink of an eye everything was gone.
With our commitment to serve Insiders as quickly and relevantly as possible, for a brief moment earlier today we lost our sense of what matters most.
We recognized and addressed our insensitivity within 20 minutes, and we apologize to everyone, especially the family, friends, teammates and fans of Aaron Douglas.
1) Sept. 27, 2008: "In the first half, the Wolverines trailed 19-0, had mustered 21 total yards and had turned the ball over five times - two interceptions and three fumbles."
2) More of a general pride anytime a former Wolverine dominates. Watching guys like Tom Brady and Michael Phelps make history everytime they compete, is a pretty awesome feeling.
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But I've spoken to a few co-workers and clients (I work in athlete marketing) who are former Michigan basketball/football players and they told me that as of yesterday he still isn't playing 5-on-5s or doing contact drills. I'll prepare for the onslaught of "cool story bro" negbangs, but for the few non-cynical people left on the board, I figured it was worth sharing.
"Our Brady wasn't a bitch"
I believe they are facing off against Ohio St on August 12th. I'll be rooting for them quite hard.
and after that we'll watch CBS hit new lows in viewership rating, the program's rising star anchor to quit and move to a new network, and CBS to be investigated by the FCC for having too many producers present on set during dress rehearsals.
While most of the campus hostesses and recruiting girls are not ready made whores, and to imply that is incorrect, it's closer to reality than we'd like to readily admit. The practice was started by Bear Bryant and his hottie collection was known as Bear's Angels. The gorgeous co-eds provided campus tours and some quality time with top recruits, clearly in an effort to persuade them to join the program under the premise of "look at how hot the girls at our school are!" It's become common practice now. Since a head coach and even position coaches aren't going to spend every single minute with recruits during their visit, they allow these girls, who are affiliated with the administrative offices of the school, to tour the kids around and then take them to parties to show them the fun social life at night. What happens at the parties or afterwards is certainly not required of these girls but if I had to guess there are a number of recruits nationwide who chose their college because of the awesome night they spent with some females.
Inside sources have indicated that Hoke will not be wearing a base ball cap, but rather, vicious dreads as a sign of team unity.
If in fact this Kyle Warber character, interviewer extraordinaire, can't find Zima at his local Hiller's, my guess is that he just settles for wine coolers. Good for Shane for not just calling Kyle a dick and hanging up the phone mid interview.
That's fascinating, I had no idea...but makes sense I can see that. He actually came up to UM my senior year and (along side Sonja Sohn who plays Kima) did a Q&A symposium on The Wire and how it reflects American society. Profs from all over the country flew in to AA and read discertations and ran lectures/panels on the topic for 2 days. Amazing stuff.
If it were Scott Templeton he would have fabricated a story about how the person injured was a janitor (name not given) who was trying to support his 6 children. On a side note, I think Gus Haynes would make a terrific linebackers coach.
If Michigan Man were, in fact, a comic book character, who would he fight? Every good comic book has an eternal struggle against a primary villain or a clan of evil doers. Would it be The Golden Domers? Perhaps simply, The Vest? Or since The Vest may be vanquished soon, they might turn their attention to a new plot arc, the newly introduced Children of the Corn?
I dont get why people are "questioning his coaching style". The guy has brought Michigan hoops back to a nationally respectable level and taken this team to the NCAA tourney 2x in his short tenure as coach. Other coaches KNOW that he might break out a 1-3-1 trap defense and so they prep for it....but still succumb to turnovers and panic mode when it hits them. That's due to his coaching and player execution, not because of the individual players Michigan is trotting out. One more thing, let's not forget that a few months ago during the tourney, he went toe to toe with arguably the greatest coach in college basketball history, the country's defending national champions (consisting of a Naismith POY finalist, the likely 2011 #1 draft pick, and a much deeper, bigger, more battle tested team) only to come up a single basket short. To say this isn't due to tremendous coaching is crazy. Belein shouldn't have to defend his coaching chops to anybody. For my money, there is only a handful of coaches I'd rather have. He's one of the more under rated coaches working today.
but I stand by everything else
It's nice to compare the recruiting battles between us and other Big 10 (or national) programs and it feels great to snag 5* talent but you never know exactly what you have until a couple years down the road. Once your young guys put on weight, get adjusted to college speed and size, and learn how to balance their football with the class room, that's when you know what kind of a player you actually have. So often we overlook the value of a correct fit within a program which is why the Alden Hill interview posted by Tom a little bit ago speaks volumes. Guys like Ryan Mallet and Demar Dorsey were nationally recruited 5* guys and David Molk was a 3* prospect with a middling offer sheet. A few years later, 2 of those guys were no longer with the program and the 3rd went on to become the anchor for the offensive line, starting 3 years. While it's always nice to deny OSU and Little Brother the players they covet, I could care less about which schools we "win" recruiting battles over. Let's get the right guys in here, build them up, and create a program that gets the most out of its talent. Everything else is trivial.
but rather, I'm pretty sure, what passes for a final thesis at the OSU Biophysics graduate school program.
it doesn't turn out that way. I'm definitely still pondering all of the "what ifs" regarding a junior Morris running the show as UM put up a real fight for a B1G conference championship...but it wasn't in the cards. I'm rooting for the kid though and hopefully he can snag that 1st round pay check for himself and his family.
After watching the comeback game against Notre Dame in person and then the gritty performance in the loss against Michigan St. my intial thought was "wow...we're gonna be watching this kid lead our program into its next phase". As we all know it didnt exactly turn out that way but I'm guessing Tate felt more robbed than we did. After a very impressive rookie campaign, he thought he had the keys to kingdom (however misguided that self inflated opinion might have been) only to find himself publicly humiliated with a Wingless-helmet and sitting on the bench. He clearly had some growing up to do and some work to put in but I can't imagine the personal feeling of dejection he must have gone through. That's a lot to put on a young kid. He might have been great, he might have been average, he might have been benched in favor of Gardner if Denard didn't pan out, doesn't really matter. All we know is that a young kid had the world at his feet one moment with Sports Illustrated covers and darkhorse Heisman chatter, and in the blink of an eye everything was gone.
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From the Editor
With our commitment to serve Insiders as quickly and relevantly as possible, for a brief moment earlier today we lost our sense of what matters most.
We recognized and addressed our insensitivity within 20 minutes, and we apologize to everyone, especially the family, friends, teammates and fans of Aaron Douglas.
1) Sept. 27, 2008: "In the first half, the Wolverines trailed 19-0, had mustered 21 total yards and had turned the ball over five times - two interceptions and three fumbles."
Good thing football has 2 halves http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=282710130
2) More of a general pride anytime a former Wolverine dominates. Watching guys like Tom Brady and Michael Phelps make history everytime they compete, is a pretty awesome feeling.