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If Sherrone Moore can put together a team this year that defeats OSU, heads will be exploding in more places than just Columbus. 😱

So irony is alive and well. Jon Sanderson has just taken a gig at Illinois. Sanderson's son has an offer to play basketball there.... https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2024/03/14/michigan-basketball-former-strength-coach-jon-sanderson-illinois/72980205007/

could be. I'd lean a little more to the likelihood that if we are getting strong rotation results in Det and Tol in a couple months somebody gets moved. Tigers 1st opening offer would be Maeda but the ask from the other side will be someone younger.

Doesn't say much for the team but it does say that Larkin is probably a better player than he is ever given credit for either around the league or even in Detroit.

great competition going between Mize, Manning and Olson. Manning with the worst ERA but that mostly from the HRs given up in a gale one start - he has the best WHIP and K/BB of the three. Olson and Mize look neck and neck with Mize's weakness being too many walks. 2 in 4 IP today was better but still not great. This is expected after the layoff of course and may be why he gets the nod over Olson in the end. And Alex Faedo looking like the guy they drafted for the 1st time since. He would be quite the bonus out of nowhere if he keeps pitching this well.

How much will it cost to fire/buy out Lalonde?

Kostin scores a goal tonight - of course.

And the unfortunate fact is that who the coach is isn't going to matter much if the program cannot compete $$ wise for players. The player who would have been their #1 this season walked away for more money.

Speaking of conservative. The more I think about it, the more their use of Seider frustrates me. Here you have a player that can dominate the ice and you task him to be the guy standing in front of your own net most of the time. Total waste of skill. Sure it's great if he adds that to his overall repertoire but if that's their career plan for him someone in the FO may need to take a BC twohander upside the head to figure out that's a stupid strategy. Turn him loose.

I'm a fan of Jansen's concept: draft a high ceiling tackle, play him at guard until Decker is done then slot him into Sewell's RT spot as Sewell replaces Decker at LT.

more pressure to keep the pocket moving inward from the center leaves the QB less room to step up which gives your DEs a straighter, shorter path.

Wings call up Czarnik, sit Sprong. Deck chairs on the Titanic.

Yup - its the NFL, you can take the under on a 12 win season for pretty much any team any time.

I would never count on UM raising the same amount of money exclusively for sports that OSU does, and that will probably insure that OSU is able to stay at the top of the recruiting heap.

Dan Hasty/Bobby Scales

I think the way this is going to work is that they are going to go to Howard and ask him exactly what he does to make next yr different that this year, and his chance to stay is make a compelling enough case that everything is going to change. The situation is analogous to where they were with Harbaugh after 2020. If all Juwan has is "we're going to work harder and do better, he's gone. If he has a remediation plan that checks all the boxes -assistants, portal management, recruiting, academic management etc., and it's impressive enough - maybe they given him year to try.

It's always and everywhere major human endeavor on the part of some people to control other people and those forces can and will take advantage of and/or bend any vector to that end. I don't think that actually says all that much about the vectors per se.

I believe Hinch has said not to pay too much attention to his ST batting orders as there are various sorts of ST only considerations that go into them that will be gone once the season starts.

maybe - but the most likely predictor for what a guy is going to do tomorrow is what he did today. You don't want to have to depend on 4 or 5 guys all suddenly being able to discover their missing timing on March 28!

I don't doubt that for the overall numbers that is true, because none of the early performances mean anything, but the nearer to the end of ST when the regular players are starting to see real pitchers, the more significant it becomes if a hitter still isn't finding a groove.

I was hoping they would move a Dman just so we could get to see Edvinsson.

Hindsight is 20/20 but objectively, we knew/should have know that Lyon was too big a part of the surge after the 1st of the year and that it was not sustainable, in which case I wish Yzerman had done some selling to obtain more future assets. Maybe he tried, no way to know. Stevie is a tight lipped as any GM in the history of major sports.

I'd order vegetarian.

LOL - I get it, but I have a certain amount of sympathy in that almost nothing is safe anymore. if they had said 'underage female' there are quarters from which flak would come. As noted 'underage girl' is redundant. "girl" by itself would be criticized as too unspecific. So any number of land minds. 😥. But sure - why not just say "a 13 yr old" because for that matter, the sex isn't even relevant to the criminality.

Turnabout for Mattison. TBH, I imagine only one in 10 coaches has any special bond to the school where he is working. For most of them the school loyalty is just part of the job uniform. It gets left in the old locker room when they move on.