gehringer_2

I'm not going to speak for anyone else but for me it's not outrage, it's just frustration for the M fan that college revenue sports are moving into a future that most people at Michigan believe is one that is more favorable to OSU culturally and institutionally. And I'm not saying that in a pejorative way. I've done academic work over the years with OSU folks and worked with lots of students that have gone back and forth between the two places. Sport is all faux rivalry. OSU is a great institution, but it is a different one from Ann Arbor, different history, different alumni cohort and more generally, Michigan is not Ohio when it comes to football at all levels (other than the NFL - for now - 😉)

LOL - At one time I played a lot of straight pool and and it's exactly the same thing. Guys that make a lot of shots give themselves a lot of easy shots to make. The other weird thing with the Wings is how when they bring in a player he always seems to start out making a nice impact and then by the time half a season goes by they disappear - I'm thinking Perron, Sprong, Walman. Even DeBrincat's 1st month was his best. Is it just a general hockey thing where guys come to a new team really feeling up against it or is there something about the Wings system that is crushing guys that come into it?

And with the addition of more money and the player mobility the background tension levels on college sports teams only increase. This ain't John Beilein's NCAA anymore.

one assumes they were prepared for the latter outcome but there seems to be enough legal incompetence in the US anywhere you look, and why would anyone think there wouldn't be in a profession where Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are two of the Nation's top exemplars?

Both teams are replacing their QB, that's a big injection of randomizing noise for both programs.

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.