Beilein was notorious for reviewing these or needing them to officially give out an offer.

This is what I'm not really understanding in terms of what keeps happening for bball. Instead they stood pat for a month and a half despite no assurances on him. In fact, martelli let it slip in the summer that is was more of a "hope".

Taking love's commitment is fine as long as you keep recruiting in the interim to cover all bases.

Aside from the coaching issues, there is just not enough of a fundamental understanding of the paperwork/school side of things.

These seasons are essentially over before they begin after mistakes in the summer.

I just don't understand how you can have a staff and all the other people on the bench, that this stuff isn't more organized.

RB, WR, DL, LB, CB and S officially open

RB-
Demarco Murray, Oklahoma RBs
Denard Robinson
Ron Bellamy
Mike Hart
JB Brown?

WR-
Ron Bellamy, positional versatility
Potentially a few other names in play that could assist in Co-OC situations, but we'll see they haven't been confirmed

DL-
Mike Elston
Joe Cullen

LB-
John Egorugwu, NYG LBs
Jordan Kovacs, Cincinnati Asst LBs (speculation)
Cato June, Indianapolis Asst LBs
Roy Manning, formerly USC Edges

CB-
Steve Clinkscale

S-
D'Anton Lynn, USC DC, unconfirmed whether contact has been made. Signed for $2M+ and a housing allowance in late Nov-early Dec

Roy Anderson, formerly Seattle DBs (speculation)
Aubrey Pleasant, Los Angeles Rams DBs (speculation)
Kovacs
June
Bellamy
Deon Broomfield, Iowa St DBs, recently exchanged Twitter follows with Coach Moore

The Big Ten's two worst teams are battling it out today at Crisler. Less than 30 minutes until tip and this is one of the more pedestrian crowds I've seen this season.

Also, this could be the only possibility for a win for quite some time. The upcoming schedule after this game:

vs. Wisconsin
at Nebraska
at Illinois
vs. Michigan State
at Northwestern
vs. Purdue
Tough games up ahead.

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No news on any potential staff departures, no news on incoming staffing news for now.

I always take the no news is good news approach when it comes to departures. This weekend is an all hands on deck recruiting weekend so I’m not sure what kind of news will happen.

Just keeping you all involved.

Dug up this old post of mine from from January 2018 when iI was at the AFCA convention and attended an NCAA presentation on possible rules changes, including the portal and the one time free transfer. Sort of blew my mind.

Below is the post. It was actually very much overlooked on that day because I posted a since deleted elephant post that I believe set the record on this board for most responses within 24 hours.

Another second half slide puts Michigan on the wrong side of a 69-59 final score.
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About 20 years ago I wrote a letter to the previous owners of this site and, specifically the publication that was associated in it. In that letter I appealed to Athletic Director Bill Martin to live up to our names, the leaders and best and not simply follow the heard to the emerging seat licenses. Yes, we would fall behind our competitors who were raising money for stadium expansions and coach's salaries but there had to be a better way to raise money and not make the experience of attending a Michigan football game unaffordable for most.

Tonight I sit with a similar plea for our athletic director - LEAD, find a better way. Find the RIGHT way Mr. Manuel - even it means reducing the kingdom of you and yours across the country.

I really enjoy WTKA's roundtable on Thursdays. Sam Webb does a great job hosting three great contributors. Brian Cook, a leader and innovator in his field that shattered paradigms on what you can and should get for free. I respect, admire and even am proud that Cook is "ours" despite often being annoyed at the occasional abuse of his influence as he attempts to paint matters that are many shades of gray as black and white - entirely comfortable slandering the living hell out of other humans in the process. His co-worker Seth is a fantastic football analyst and Michigan sports commentator and Craig Ross is an Ann Arbor gem. It's must listen for Michigan fans.

Today the group took on NIL and Michigan getting it wrong. Sam presented that, while it may not have made a difference, JJ McCarthy was never presented with the type of proposal that he may have been at other schools and Michigan is going to need to take a hard look at how they do business or risk not being able to compete. Frustration was expressed at Michigan's reluctance to pay for performance and Brian Cook went on a rant about Denard Robinson not being compensated as he should have been and this being wrong.

He is 100% correct. Denard Robinson and thousands like him should be compensated for the revenue they are generating for a business. The worlds most obvious anti-trust violation has gone on for 100 years without paying their labor and Denard, a player that generated millions for his college, but couldn't sustain an NFL career is one of the biggest victims of that crime.

Where the discussion is dead wrong is that NIL is not, should never have been and should not be the answer. NIL is a scam on top of a scam. Its the NCAA and Universities trying to side step the obvious illegalities of free labor. They need to get paid, so we'll allow them to get paid from sources other than the revenue they generate for us. We still want to keep that. It's beyond ludicrous. Worse, its opening up a system that could make a negative dent on sports all around the planet. You want Jared Goff to re-sign, well Detroit fans, the Lions are limited by salary cap, the community needs to show us love and we need to crowd source 10 million to keep him. I know you just paid $600 for your playoff ticket, $100 for your sweatshirt but we really need you to contribute $500 a month to get him here.

Yeah, that's a smart formula to maintain the appeal of sports. Ludicrous. But its what college sports are giving birth to in order to avoid paying athletes from the revenue they create, such as done with just about every other job on the planet!!!

So what should be happening? That's obvious. Athletes need to be classified as employees and they need to be able to unionize so they can bargain with their employers. The hundreds of millions, if not billions, generated from TV contracts and ticket sales....THAT's where the money should be coming from to pay players. Fair contracts and salary caps and working conditions can be negotiated. However, that requires some leaders to stand up and say "we've been unethically swimming in dirty money on the backs of unpaid labor, that structure needs to change and needs to change immediately". Someone needs to have the guts to cut off the university and athletic department joy ride and mold the college sports experience of the future. If it takes five years, I'd be willing to take my chances on 15th ranked recruiting classes and culture to get it right and stop giving birth to a system that could ruin the sports experience going forward to serve the NCAAs crooked end around.

In another world, i've noted the absurdity of so many duplicated jobs in the education world. Why does Ann Arbor, Saline, Dexter and Plymouth Canton all need a school board, superintendent and staff to administer the same services. 200 years ago they were a long horse ride away from each other and represented different villages with different needs. Now there is obvious consolidation needed and why won't it happen? Because that would require bodies voting themselves out of existence. That's it.

Why is it going to be slow to get players a chunk of the TV and gates? Because presidents and athletic directors have to have the courage to shrink their kingdom. Because they don't, we'll continue with absurd end arounds like "NIL". That isn't "NIL" is GYDAFTPYL (get your donors and fans to pay your labor).

You want to get on Warde? Get on him for THAT. Have the courage to do the right thing and create the right future.

Sorry for the rant, just so tired of seeing so many get it so wrong to service short term wins and perpetuate an increasingly broken structure. Lead Michigan. Lead.

Too many sheep out there calling for people to throw money at an obviously pathetic system.

Nm

“As one of my favorite programs, and finally getting the acknowledgment I dreamed of, it definitely makes me think."

Class of 2026 USC commit Brandon Lockhart discusses offer from Michigan, a family tie to the Wolverines, visit plans to AA and more:

While I’ve been able to confirm that this is NOT Michigan’s Junior Day, they will plan to do something bigger once they’re staffed up.

Also, plans are in place for April for 2026 recruits.

This is who is expected on campus this weekend.

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This one flew COMPLETELY under the radar.

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Has been an analyst with the program working with special teams since 2021.

Michigan football is hosting a handful of key prospects this weekend in Ann Arbor before the dead period comes into effect on Monday.

Breaking down each visitor and where the Wolverines stand with each:

Big Ten Conference and SEC both have a press release.

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They had Milroe on skates!

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I couldn't remember what the football team's GA staff looked like, so I googled "Michigan football GA" and found we have a posted job opening. Obviously DC and the the on-field positions are more pressing, but it can also be fun to think about who else can help round out the staff. I think we have at least two GA openings right now, so I looked up the NFL retirement announcements to see if any names jumped out to me as candidates who might be interested in coaching.

Chase Winovich: if Roney goes to LAC with Harbaugh, Chase is the first and most obvious candidate to come in and help coach the OLB/Edge. His last year at Michigan was Sherrone's first year, so they should have at least some level of familiarity with each other.

Jahleel Addae: hasn't played NFL football for a couple years, but he just formally retired in December. He played college football for CMU, stuck in the NFL for almost a decade, and his older brother Jahmile was a GA for Michigan in 2008-09. With JB Brown taking up an on-field coaching spot and not taking a position (at least not yet announced), then Addae might be an option to get some on-field coaching help for Clinkscale without taking taking up one of the permanent on-field assistant slots. Retain Mallory and give Clink an NFL veteran GA to help coach the DBs, and I would feel a little better about Clink having to coach the secondary "alone" as a position group.

Who else would be a good GA candidate?

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No parade? No Sherrone press conferences. No presence on the trail. Nothing.

The silence - whatever the reason - doesn't make a good statement. We're going through a massive transition, we won a natty, he's one of us.

Where you at Mike?

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Frustrating that these guys haven’t been locked up yet. Hopefully good news is on the horizon there

Any update @Josh Henschke ? His X profile still shows UMich OLBs.

Kirk Campbell to OC.