just beat LSU.

Where you at? We just beat a top 11 team without our best offensive weapon. Yes we have lots to work on both sides of the ball. How about a little support for the guys. Young guys got better yesterday. The RT who I heard was aweful by many played very well. Our QB did what was asked of him and got us the win. Orji can throw the ball. Watching him in warm ups he's got a riffle. He has touch as well. Can't throw to a WR down field if the route doesn't have one down there. We have two games we should dominate before the BYE. Just get better every game. Give the boys some love for once you negative Nancy's.

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The kid from Washington State. Holly smokes. Now if you land BU this kid can start and BU can be a JJ from 2021. He's a bit shorter but man he's good.

I’ve been watching the scores and developments of this first 12-team college football playoff. There’s still two weeks to go, but it appears that the Big Ten and SEC will be providing 3/4 of the teams in this year’s playoff.

If you follow how much of the total CFP revenue the various conferences will be paid, it’s clear that while the B1G and SEC are getting much larger shares than the other conferences, they’re still permitting between 40-50% of the CFP profits to “leak” to conferences who will never place more than one team in the playoff field and hundreds of teams who will never be selected for the playoff field.

Why are the two dominant conferences creating the value, but permitting other teams to share in the profits without having to make an investment? There are probably less than a dozen and a half teams investing in their programs at a level which will result in them being selected as CFP participants. Why are the B1G+SEC letting so many schools share the profits without investing? Is there an alternative?

Yes, I think there is. If the B1G and SEC merged and then cherry-picked the best 30 teams from other conferences to form a 64-team conference or “Division I”, the 64-teams could…

• Negotiate for their own “premier league” playoffs and national championship.
• Organize both regular season play and the playoffs on a regionalized basis—16 teams in Midwest, East/Southeast, Southwest and West Coast subdivisions.
• Negotiate for their own TV rights deal.
• Resign from the NCAA and their set their own rules, so long as they don’t violate laws like the federal anti-trust laws. (Maybe start by re-establishing the one year wait for transfers.)

Hundreds of other schools would be very unhappy with that development. Conferences would have to re-organize or fail altogether. But if they don’t invest in the product, why should they be permitted to significantly share in the CFP profits?

The resulting “Division II” could organize as they wish, have their own playoffs and national championship, and negotiate their own TV rights contract.

You may think this sounds radical, but it would be effective and fairer than the current system.

I gotta catch us up
17-10 UM, 1:41 left 1qtr

Holloway 6pts
Swords 5pts
Hobbs 4pts

Been a tough season obviously but apparently Semaj and Will got together teamed up with a local retailer and donated 1k turkeys. We really do have good young man on this team. Hopefully Saturday on Senior Day they can all be sent out as winners. Go Blue enjoy the day.

Jim Harbaugh OWNS Ohio

He has beaten the Browns, Bengals, and Ohio State in the last 12 months.

Michigan Man.

What pure joy to watch him coach.
Everyone gets better when they play for Jim.

Yet picks up another 5* QB! Unbelievable and Michigan is hoping one says yes.

Moore recently said he spent half his time on NIL.

This is IN season.

How much time do we think Jim spent on those types of issues? 5%? Who knows right but way less than Sherrone is safe right?

So all those hours Jim, a much more experienced and safe to say without insulting Sherrone, BETTER coach applied some multiple approaching 150% more time devoted to cosching the team?

Theres a lot of crappy implications there.

It at the very least says that in the post Jim era the team is more heavily the product of the work of its (lesser) assistants than was the case under Jim.

You don’t only lose Jim, you lose the relative percentage focus of Sherrone.

This transition couldn’t possibly have been more challenging in terms of the unique circumstances it provided.

We’ve all focused on what it brought (a lot of returning talent on D…a good chunk of which got injured)

But in my opinion the mitigating circumstances of handling extreme staff turnover talent problems on O, the toughest schedule I’ve ever seen for a big ten team and the advent of the NIL era WAY outweigh the benefits of good returning talent on D.

We still might have the right guy - he’s just still got a heap of work to do to position this thing right for the new reality.

Thoughts?

Downtown has done a remarkable job improving. City was jumping Saturday night.
That is amazing to a guy that grew up in the city in the 1980's.

Lions killed it too. Ford Field was great.
Jags are miserable and even worse with back up QB.

Phil Longo. He’d been on the job 2 years. I never was convinced the air raid offense fit Wisconsin, tho they lost their starting QB in September.

I know a lot of smoke is starting to spread and as always like the game of telephone the story doesn’t stay accurate.

We’re going to stay the path we’ve been on all along and let things play out. We’ll report concrete stuff when we have it. But we’re working it. We’ve never been in a race to be first or to publish every rumor or detail to prove we have connections to the story.

The LSU situation has not gotten better in the last two weeks, Michigan is still in a great position, Bryce still ultimately makes the choice.

I do think we’re going to find out soon. So just let it play out. Post more when I can.

Kudos to Will giving back. A fine representative of UM.

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Rivals has the latest intel of Michigan touching base with a QB committed elsewhere.

The End of Brian Kelly’s Career in Death Valley?

Florida 27 - LSU 16

LSU alums and donors are a lot less tolerant than those at almost any other school I can think of. I can’t imagine that Kelly will survive 4 losses, including 3 straight trouncings by Texas A&M, Alabama and Florida in the last 3 weeks. Plus he’s a totally phony ‘southern boy’.

Ask Ed Orgeron. He was a real Cajun and a pretty good football coach. (He coached the 2019 LSU Tigers to a national championship, beating the defending champions Clemson.) They showed Orgeron the door with not so much as a good luck and goodbye.

This losses threatening Kelly’s tenure in Baton Rouge should encourage QB recruit Bryce Underwood to seek stability only 20 minutes from home in Ann Arbor. Will his friend and primary LSU recruiter Joe Sloan risk tying his wagon to Brian Kelly, or take the head job at his alma mater, East Carolina?

Knowing the intolerance of losing and lack of patience of the alum powers-that-be at LSU, if I was Sloan I wouldn’t take that risk. That would make Underwood’s decision a whole lot easier.

Sat on there side wearing alot of Michigan stuff. Not anything negative from their fans. Very nice people. My guy I sat with said he had not heard anything new but now the season is over this should happen quick one way or the other. Dotson will be interesting without BU. Not sure how that goes. Coaching staff for Belleville is aweful.

But they are a top 5 team. Their schedule is easier…. But the point is, this season is far worse than a 5&5 record.

a Michigan Wolverine. Let's see if the day of rest provides us with some fun......Go Blue. Night Night......

To try and take our attention off of recruiting since no one really knows what's happening, I'd like to highlight Mikey Sainristil's performance against the Eagles last night. Huge Commies fan so it was tough to see them lose (and Jayden to look bad), but Mikey played his best game of the year. Highest rated player other than Jalen Carter by PFF with an overall score around 90 I believe, and completely shut down AJ Brown and Devonta Smith in the red zone. You could tell the Eagles wanted to attack him yesterday especially in the red area where they tried to go after Mikey on a stop-n-go twice and Mikey played both perfectly.

He was also named a captain for today's game and if you watched the Commies play this year, you could tell why. He's had rookie moments but overall has been the best DB by far on that team and continues to play like that. His intangibles have already resonated with the rest of the defense imo and he's a natural born leader and a winner. Will likely stay on the outside as CB2 when Marshon Lattimore returns or they will move him back to nickel. Either way, he has excelled at both spots and will likely be an all pro type of player for years to come. Glad my Commies got my favorite Michigan player ever

Just lost a stud OL to Ole Miss. Just saying.