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First going to post another poll for the next 2025 position breakdown. We've done DTs and OL so far.

Also, looking at starting a series for the rest of the winter looking back at how position groups fared last season. Thoughts on that, what you'd like to see (numbers based?)

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Fire away with your questions and we'll get back to you.

Hail to the Podcast is up.
We talked recruiting and portal additions, “misses”, and why Michigan’s strategy is still the best path forward in this new era.
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So, now that last night is finally over, the question now is how much do rivalry games really matter. Certainly, bragging rights are a big deal. But the new format makes it possible to end up a National Champion with 2 losses and no conference championship.

For ever the bucknuts who buy their limited edition championship football. The one loss staring them in their faces is Michigan 13 - Nuts -10! How righteous is that? Michigan gave the Nuts an asterisk!

Nuts Natty Balls

Good start

in this modern day of CFB. OSU is picking them apart. OSU is looking like Bama or UGA of 5-10 years ago.

ND's issue is they are so dependent upon the run. They do not have the passing attack we had last season (23).

I will guess that OSU will break 40 at this rate.

One of the two teams I despise the most will lose tonight. 😀

Further evidence that Michigan is in a great spot coming out of the weekend.

The trophy may end up in Columbus, but blah blah blah. Real ballers know who owns who, and who the rightful champ is.


So, back to back mission accomplished, how likely is a threepeat?

Step one get decent QB play and I think we got a shot

TCU championship game a few years back. Turning it to a movie

Right here in the Rumor Mill:

It seemed like Northwestern was trying to go at Wolf when it was on offense. Did anyone notice this?

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Since the Lions season ended two days ago, going to create a thread so that folks can post links for the Lions heading into the 2025-26 season! Big offseason ahead! Go Lions

The Lions?

The Colts have interviewed "at least five" candidates for defensive coordinator.

Wink Martindale of course, Steve Wilks, Lou Anarumo, Ephraim Banda, and just on Friday Dennis Allen.

There is mixed reporting about whether the Colts will now make a decision from this group, potentially interview more candidates, or go to a round of second interviews, but the expectation is they will make a decision next week.

Two reasons this felt like a better landing spot for Wink than Atlanta, are the stated goal of the Colts to "be more aggressive" and the belief GM Chris Ballard is fond of Wink from years back.
But Ballard did confirm that Colts HC Shane Steichen will make the hire, but Ballard will provide input. You decide what that means. From what I can tell, Steichen does not appear to have any prior connections/relationships to any of the candidates.

Their Amateur Radio License ?
I just received my Technician license, last week.
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Thought it would be fun to have an ongoing thread to keep up with the Big Ten basketball season throughout the next few months, to see how things change every week or 2. We're about 1/4 of the way through the conference season, as all teams have played 5 or 6 Big Ten games thus far.

Standings: The current standings, as of 1/12, are below.

Contenders: Michigan and MSU look to be the top 2 contenders, along with Purdue, Illinois, Oregon, Wisconsin and Indiana in the mix. From my seat, it looks like Michigan/MSU at the top, and the next 2 strongest contenders, IMO, are Purdue and Illinois. Was great to see Illinois trip up and lose to USC this weekend (even with missing Jakucionas).

Schedules: One thing that is interesting is the conference schedules for each team. Everyone plays each school 1 time, and then has 3 teams that they play twice (home and away). Here are the teams that the leaders play twice:

-Michigan plays 2 against MSU, Purdue and Rutgers
-MSU plays 2 against Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota
-Illinois plays 2 against MSU, Wisconsin and Northwestern
-Purdue plays 2 against Michigan, Indiana and Rutgers

Question for the board - what conference record do you think the Big Ten regular season champion has? I'm going to predict Michigan wins the Big Ten at 17-3.

2024-25 Big Ten Standings​