Cannot seem to find any statement anywhere from the B1G. I know that the investigation is on going but to say nothing to this point is very curious.

Hey guys! Rich Schnyderite here, publisher of The Knight Report aka the Rutgers-Rivals site. Just wanted to drop by and post our video / transcript from Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano's press conference today.

There is only a couple of Michigan questions / answers in there, so ENJOY!

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Washington & UTAH. These two schools will add travel partners for USC & UCLA while bringing in two universities the B1G President's would be on board with in the B1G. This would pit the B1G with all 4 time zones across the country.

This would give the B1G 18 schools which would still fit in the no divisions model.

The real question is how would a division less or pod less single division work with 24 schools. As the 24 team model appears to be KW's goal.

Personally, the single no division model simply doesn't work for me (my opinion). I get the idea behind it, but, does it really offer the greatest competitive format? It is possible, I suppose so, but the pod concept IMHO offers the greatest advantage to limit crazy travel and still allows a national competitiveness within the league over all.

Before any new additions our current or new media partners must come up with more money, with the right mix of schools, the demand for the content they would bring will be there.

I suspect that ESPN would have jumped on the western expansion, but, I believe they nixed that idea because they will fight against the B1G expansion because the b1G cut ESPN's pet animal, the SEC out from going national.

We will see as the league moves forward! It will be what it is... This is why the league honchos are paid the big bucks to manage B1G sports.

What a way to make a living!!!...

Give us one area of improvement you think needs to happen to beat OSU. Can be anything.

For me, I want to see us do a better job of blocking downfield - and I know that sounds crazy because we are pretty good at it.

But I think we can be better, and I think if we are, we will see some of Corum's 10 yard runs turn into 60 yard TDs.

Since the first half had several long passes where the msu wr used his size and skill to catch 50-50 balls, my question is what actually did um do to stop it in the second half? Thorne still had time although obviously the um pass rush pressure was increased. When msu ran the ball I was thrilled but I couldn’t see why they didn’t chuck it up to the wrs a lot more. I was concerned about that part of their game like in 2020.

Breakdown
Matt Weiss 00:00-52
Open :53-4:55
Rutgers 4:56-8:28
Michigan stats 8:29-10:18
UM taking its play to championship level 10:19-25:44
Saturday's games 25:45-31:02
Last two years vs Rutgers 31:03-36:03
Feedback on CFB Playoff rankings, Clemson, elite CFB programs & elite CBB programs 36:04-56:58
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Jim Harbaugh brings up a player or coach/staffer after every practice for what he calls “Wise Words.” It’s basically a platform to speak to the entire team to deliver a message whether it’s serious or motivating.

Walk-on RB Danny Hughes had his turn to speak on Monday. He played high school ball with Peyton Thorne and Jayden Reed and you can imagine that was the topic he discussed.

Keep in mind, Hughes has a mild to moderate stutter.

Needless to say, the contents of the speech really fired up the team after practice today. And, to top it all off, Hughes didn’t stutter once in what I’m sure was a pretty nervy situation.

Just something cool I figured I’d pass on. If Michigan wins, I’ll tell you all the synopsis of the speech.

Another grind it out win, Rutgers gets one fluke touchdown. We run the ball 50 plus times. Slow first half start, second half dominance, rinse wash and repeat.

I saw a claim at Mike Sainistril got punched at the end of the play.

Anyone have a good highlight of this play?

Rutgers has a bad offense but a solid defense. I am afraid all this spartan crap has distracted the team - plus coming off back to back "big games" and we end up in a slosh Saturday night. I mean we win but not overly impressive. Something like that awful performance last year vs them. I hope my fear is misplaced.

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So we are wearing maize since white is not an option?

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Already posted.

My good news is we gave a beating to the team from East Landfield. Nobody is happy about the events in the tunnel, but I'm thrilled that this is exposing MSU for who they are.

The MSU crap will bring our team closer and make Michigan a very hard out.

Harbaugh has been sensational in communicating and kept the media on point. Other UM alum have stepped up too. Desmond has been great.

The good news is I have been very pleased with how the Michigan men have risen to the top.

In other news, we sold $23,000 worth of pumpkins at church. We get about a 35% cut for the church. We use that for our Children's AWANA program.

Life is good, and I'm grateful.

What's your good news?
Go Blue!

I haven't followed that one that closely, but is this a surprise move?

I think LSU was the presumed favorite?

So that takes them out of the Davis sweepstakes.

Fully expect a B1G statement before Saturday’s games. A line has been crossed that won’t be tolerated.