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Serious question - what leverage do they (i.e. NCAA) have now to get Harbaugh to show up at a hearing if one is scheduled? What possible consequences to the the 'U' if he just refuses?

according to Sportrac, Mahomes has void years of $60M *each* in '32 and '33!

or the opposite. The Lions are a young team with cap space now - you might want to front load a contract to Goff. But the point holds either way, contract value and cap hit can be managed not to be one to one.

We can always hope that Goff would rather be Brady (most rings) than Burrow (most $) 😇

Resigning Kane seems doubtful to me. I don't think Yzerman is interested in commitment to any older players. I think Kane came here as a short term marriage of convenience. The Wings have few enough highly talented players he would be able to get into the lineup here even at less than 100% and from the Wings side the cost of the upside potential of some short term production was low. I suppose if the Wings think any offensive help in the minors is further than they had hoped, I could see another one year offer, but if Kane stays healthy the rest of the way I can't see him accepting a one yr deal.

IDK - Flashes, but I haven't yet seen Kane be pre-injury Kane consistently. Maybe he'll get there.

I thought Walman was better last night also. Maybe just getting back to 100%

Point WRT searching if they do not pre-decide on Moore: "Ease" isn't much of a factor in the looking, they hire it out. They will get as much search work as they will pay for and $$ they have. Lanning is the ideal get, but as noted, why would he leave a good gig in the same conference to walk in to NCAA issues? Don't see what moving to UM offers him.

Now, if Lalonde can get Kane to buy in to the the new found defensive intensity....

Courtesy of MotownBombers in the Lions thread

Apparently bangs and legs sell well.

285/25. So you're saying without the HR's he could be Ichero? 😉

It's a lot easier to win a hockey game when you are the faster team on the ice.

As Ras decided to carry the puck I was thinking it was great to see the Wings playing the higher level game - don't just take an easy clear when you have some space - and bingo - instant payoff.

If he had come through any US system they'd have turned him into a 280/20hr guy. 🫤

Bally is carrying the game. So the stream doesn't have all the games that Bally has on 'linear' service? Poor.

yeah - I would agree. By the plainest reading if you turn 35 on inauguration day that should suffice. However it has never been litigated so a sufficiently loose cannon SCOTUS might foist any non-sequitur logic upon us courtesy of the Federalist Society.

It should be a fun posting to read on the University job board. Be even more fun if they note "there are internal candidates for this position", which I think is something they do, or at least used to do.

This for certain. Interviews with CC were always good listening.

Moore supposedly has the recruiting chops - has proven his offensive mind, and stood the test of managing the sideline in the two biggest regular season games, so he can stack up his credentials against other applicants without any embarrassment. What Moore lacks is the historical connection to the generation with money that Harbaugh had so he won't have the leg up on NIL/fundraising Harbaugh's name gave them, but there's probably no other candidate out there with that anyway.

Juwan came in with a huge natural advantage because he was NBA and he could sell recruits on being able to get them there. But that could only get him so far. He also had to be a good coach because if he didn't actually keep his program where the NBA would be looking at his players, that head start would fade away. And so here we are.

Well for certain Moore is not going to get the offer than was on the table to Harbaugh. He's making 900K now. Smith just hired in up the road at 6M, I doubt they offer a promoted assistant quite that.

All serious politics is a balancing act. In general, I think history shows Biden is willing to suffer short term bad PR if he thinks he can get a bigger payoff in the end. The public and esp the media always want instant reaction and high public profile on every issue, but anyone who has ever been effective at negotiating in a complex organization know that keeping your powder dry is often way to win the war. Now of course Biden may miscalculate the balance in the end and end up in a less than optimal position, and anyone can have an opinion that he should be doing it differently and produce arguments to that effect. But I think an observer would be mistaken to think the issue isn't being worked, even if they think a given strategy is a bad one. I also think Biden understands that his best game is to control the amount of video of himself in the daily news cycle and that comes into play as well.

Interesting if true but Iran would never confirm it, esp since they apparently failed to act effectively on whatever they were told.

They are not exactly hands-off, the admin has actually continued many of the policies they criticized Trump for. But more generally Biden's problem is that immigration is to the Democratic party what Social Security is the GOP, a third rail topic. There are significant factions in the democratic party, factions that bring a lot of the necessary energy to the party, who believe in an open or nearly open border. It's concept where as a liberal i can applaud the sentiment intellectually but understand that it's insanity in practice. Somehow the sane part of the Democratic party has to *quietly* bring the uber-immigration-progressive part of the party into line with the public, whose position in big majorities across both parties is that immigration chaos in untenable. The other part of the dance is that Biden knows he needs to make a deal with the GOP on immigration and the GOP knows it as well and both sides are strategizing how to avoid the other side getting more credit with the voters.