Merry Christmas to all who celebrate to my Den family members.

Thank you so much for being here, your presence is very much appreciated as we continue to grow and evolve with time.

I hope you all spend the day with those you care about and it’s full of laughter and love.

Here’s hoping Santa was good to you and yours, too!

With McCulley committing to Michigan tonight, not a huge shock to see Virgil headed elsewhere. He was linked to some big schools, so somewhat surprising Texas Tech gets him.
Still think Michigan adds another X receiver and 6'2" speedy receiver to play Z and replace Morris.

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Rumored to have punched Coleman Hawkins in practice. Also rumored not to have been his first incident in practice. Word around Manhattan is he's going to be dismissed from the program.

My dad and stepmom got me a bottle of Blanton’s for Christmas so I’ll be cracking into that

He spoke with Seth as the Wolverines make his Top 12 today.

A friend mentioned this to me as word of mouth / am not aware of anything I’ve read verbatim, but what I heard with the indirect citing of a Rivals article is that Michigan has started to recruit Ryder Lyons (top 2026 QB, BYU - Ole Miss - Bama - Oregon suitors, USC as the favorite).

Is there any smoke to this?

Perfect fit for portal QB IMO $$$$$

Watching the way Marshall ran today and Justice Haynes with Braedeson leading the way in front of them….its going to be tough sledding for defenses next year. Having to defend that 30+ carries a game is not going to be fun!

With Derrick Moore and TJ Guy likely back for 2025, we have some more clarity on the Michigan defense in 2025.
Here's a depth chart breakdown of who is leaving, returning, joining, and what other moves Michigan could look to make.
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Graduated before he left for Michigan. Today he walked 😂😂😂

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Your 8-1 #14th ranked Michigan Wolverines take on Coach Cal's 7-2 and just outside the top 25, Arkansas Razorbacks. Tonight 9pm est in Madison Square Garden. ESPN. Michigan -3.5

Before we get into the specifics about this game, I think this is a good time to look at where Michigan excels and where we have room for improvement. I also put that this is a 4 game season in the title. We have 4 games left before we get back into conference play. At a minimum we must go 2-2 to stay on track. 3-1 in this stretch and we may sneak into the top 10. 4-0 and we may sneak into the top 5. We have an exciting 3 weeks of basketball ahead of us and it starts tonight.

Part 1:

Michigan through 9 games The Good: (Rankings based out of 364 D1 Teams)

• Opponents pts per game 63.1, Michigan ranks #23rd
• Opponents assists per game 8.3, Michigan ranks #4th
• Opponents Assists per turnover, Michigan ranks #2nd
• Opponents are shooting 41.7% from two against Michigan which puts us at #8th
• Opponents are shooting overall 37.3% against Michigan which puts us at #10th
• Opponents are snagging only 18 defensive rebounds per game which ranks Michigan #9th
• Michigan is holding opponents to 31 second half points which puts Michigan at #7th
• Michigan averages 5.2 blocks per game ranking us #22nd
• Michigan is shooting the ball 60.7% from 2 which ranks #9th (Makes sense with two 7 footers starting)
• Michigan is shooting the ball 50% from the field which ranks us #21

Summary: To be top 10 in that many defensive categories is prime Tony Bennett at Virginia level of play. Offensively, these rankings suggest we get our fair share of good looks and are taking advantage.

Michigan through 9 games The Bad: (Rankings based out of 364 D1 Teams)

• Free Throw Percentage 68.7% ranks us #259th
• We only make 13.3 free throws a game which ranks us #216th
• We only rebound on 70.7% of our opponents misses which ranks us #239th
• We average 15.1 turnovers which ranks us #336th
• We turn it over on 18.3% of our possessions which ranks us #326th

Summary: We are not only bad, we are really bad at the things most championship teams are elite at. We aren't shooting free throws well and we are as careless with the basketball as you can be in ALL of college basketball.

How are we 8-1? Defense travels. It's no more complicated than that. Usually at this level, it takes to around Christmas break to have sound defensive rotations, especially with this many new faces. We started the year off with Sound Defensive rotations. That's an incredible accomplishment by Dusty. I'm in awe of it. We rarely "Over-help." Everyone trusts their teammates to do their jobs. If we can cut down our turnovers and say, get our rankings into the mid to low 200's in that category, pencil us in for a sweet 16 at a minimum.

Part 2 on deck:

Please tell me there’s no way that Warren is the starting QB next year.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...3/college-football-playoff-2024-bracket-picks

7/12 of their CFB writers picked Notre Dame to make it to the national championship game (none of them picked ND to win)