My good news is Spring ball is in full swing, and the Tigers are playing good baseball.

My sister is recovering nicely from heart surgery.

Work is going well.

Church is great.

I'm blessed.

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This one has been super tough to follow as there hasn’t been a a clear program leading the way as he’s set to announce today.

I THINK this one is BYU but Michigan has made it very, very close coming out of the visit so it could go either way at this point.

I will continue to ask around leading up to his 2 pm MT announcement.

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M&BR has the latest on Michigan Football GM Sean Magee.

have stayed in Ann Arbor an average of 1.5 years. Insanity.

Will Tschetter is the only player in the last four recruiting classes to spend more than two seasons in the Maize and Blue, with LJ Cason still TBD.

2024
Justin Pippen (1)
Phat Phat Brooks (1)
LJ Cason (1, and counting)

2023
George Washington III (1)

2022
Tarris Reed Jr. (2)
Jett Howard (1)
Dug McDaniel (2)
Gregg Glenn (1)
Youssef Khayat (2)

2021
Caleb Houstan (1)
Moussa Diabate (1)
Kobe Bufkin (2)
Frankie Collins (1)
Isaiah Barnes (2)
Will Tschetter (4, and counting)

Was just at player availability.

Evan Link says this spring the offense is definitely throwing the ball down field more this year. Credits QB’s strong arms and talent at wr.
The downfield passing game has been a theme with questions that players have confirmed with Link being the latest.

Link says Andrew Babalola doesn’t talk a lot but has a freaky traits for an offensive tackle.

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2026 four-star OL Gregory Patrick recaps his recent Michigan visit.
Also sets a timeline for his commitment with Michigan, MSU, Penn State, and Notre Dame set for OVs.
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For AD. Didn’t have that on my bingo card.

information he's received on ND and the ACC.

The SEC wants UNC & UVA. The B1G wants UNC & UVA as well.

The SEC apparently has the upper hand, because the money people and those in the government at UNC want UNC in the SEC while, the University, academia want UNC in the B1G.

Greg's main source and all the others he speaks with (some have info from the B1G offices) believe the SEC will pounce first and take UNC, UVA, FSU & Clemson.

This is based upon 2 reasons, the SEC wants new contagious expansion. The SEC wants UNC & UVA for basketball, and their academics. The SEC wants to show that they do care about academics.

Clemson is an SEC fit and they believe the SEC will overcome any South Carolina resistance from Clemson joining the SEC.
FSU is the kicker here, the SEC does NOT want the B1G to get a FSU & MIAMI blend into the B1G. Also, the SEC has absolutely NO interest in MIAMI. All the people Greg has spoken with are convinced that the SEC will take UNC, UVA, FSU & Clemson.

Now, how does this fit ND. They explained to Greg that ND's scheduling agreement with the ACC guarantees the Clemson game every year and every other year Miami & FSU. This is important because it fulfills their contract with NBC for games with national brands which includes ND's yearly game with USC. All ND games currently and as a future B1G member is located where their are large numbers of ND fans. The Big 12 is not an option because the brands are not big enough and thre are few is any ND fans throughout their regions. ND knows this and has acknowledged so.

With the ACC now fractured, everyone knows that FSU, MIAMI, Clemson, UNC, UVA, DUKE all want out of the ACC. Where will they go?

The big money people and apparently the B1G office believes that the SEC will take UNC, UVA, FSU & Clemson. The SEC will make this move to keep the B1G from getting FSU & Miami with 2 of the 3 major brands in Florida.

We can all agree that this move with these 4 schools to he SEC, USC in the B1G and the SEC vs B1G scheduling agreement will make it impossible for ND to have at least 4 major national brands for NBC.

This is where NBC, the ACC collapse with no major national brands in the ACC forces ND into the B1G.

Now, why MIAMI. The B1G presidents were 100% all in favor of MIUAMI becoming AAU. MIAMI is a high quality academic school and their research is massive for a school it's size. In fact, the B1G President's supposedly refer to MIAMI University and a mini U of M. This is how all of the B1G Presidents view Miami University. Also the B1G and our media partners want south Florida for the B1G. NBC & CBS more so want ND & Miami because it will bring far more marque games to be spread around all the major networks. FOX wants this as well because FOX wants NBC & CBS to be happy media partners.

It is believed that with B1G Money and better national exposure MIAMI will become competitive again. This will give the media partners Michigan, OSU, ND, PSU, USC, MIAMI, Oregon, Washington and hopefully NEBRASKA & UCLA to continue their upward trajectory, having 10 bigger national brand will bring the B1G and our media partners the big game environments for all 3 major TV partners to win ratings wise.

This is pretty much what was gathered from the last 2 - 2 hour PATC shows on this subject.

It appears the B1G & SEC will soon have 20 schools each and a B1G vs SEC scheduling agreement.

That's my take...

GO BLUE!

When asked about getting down to 105 earlier in spring practices, Sherrone seemed to suggest not only were they not concerned with it, but they didn't believe the 105 number was going to be a for sure thing this year.

Well, looks like he might be right.

As the House settlement comes together for the NCAA, one of the biggest sticking points as been the roster limits. The Judge rightfully believes this will be unfairly detrimental to walk on players and that a lot of players will lose scholarships. The options being proposed are that the roster limits be scaled down over time, so first 125, then 115, then 105 or that current players are grandfathered in similar to what they did with Covid exemptions.

Either way, it seems very likely that there won't be hard 105 cut this fall. I'll keep an eye on it.

Australia Day for me is finally here. After having to reschedule and everything else in between, I didn’t think this day would actually get here.

Here we are.

I still plan to be around as best as I can despite the 14 hour time difference. With spring ball and stuff, I’ll be around as best as I can. The fellas will hold it down. But don’t worry, I’ll have Intel.

NOT looking forward to this flight today, 15 hours is a killer. I have a flight to LA to get through first.

First time I’ll be back since I left the country in 2000. A bittersweet moment.

It's way too early for a Top 25 for next year's basketball season, which is why we say it's way too early.

That said, ESPN clearly believes in Dusty May and the Wolverines in year two with a top 5 ranking.
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M&BR has the latest on UAB transfer Yaxel Lendeborg.

Merry Christmas Den. Let’s have a nice 4 day holiday together!

Louisville vs Creighton kicks us off at 12:15pm on CBS. Should be one of the better opening round matchups.

Purdue vs Highpoint at 12:40pm on Tru. Highpoint will give the boilermakers all they can handle imo.

The latest observations with Michigan football spring practice going on. Also, the outlook how good do things look on the basketball front.
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Open 00:00-1:57
Spring theme 1:58-9:42
Downfield passing 9:43-12:38
Underwood 12:39-23:10
Feedback 23:11-41:30
UM basketball 41:33-52:50
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