james hudson

4 hours of this is not fun if you're trying to say things [Bryan Fuller]

Events. There are some. If you're in NY or DC I'm sorry to report that I'm unable to make it out this year for various reasons. All the things that happened this summer plus two small people mean that I'm scrambling to catch up on season preview stuff and can't take four days in August. Next year there will not be a coaching search and College World Series. Probably. Also I've been told that once children turn four you can sell them? Is that true? Don't look it up, it's probably true. 

A graphed history of Michigan football. Most of it, anyway. Bill Connelly's S&P+ graphed and annotated:

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The Schembechler era is even a little more bonkers because the only negative outlier in there is when Harbaugh broke his arm and they went 6-6.

Also here's West Virginia, the Tweek of college football:

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I'm getting queasy just looking at this thing.

Also also, give it up for Charlie Weis:

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xoxo miss you big guy.

[After the JUMP: BTN visits! Nothing happens.]

trying to hear the haterz [Eric Upchurch]

Hey, what about… Nope. Don't care.

Here's another bullet? Stop it.

It's in your contract to talk about these things. What contract?

The one you foolishly signed with the internet before clearing with with Richard Hoeg? Ah, dammit, never sign a contract with the internet. FINE. You win:

IN WHICH JIM HARBAUGH SAYS A THING LIKE A WEEK AGO. Jim Harbaugh has an unusual tendency for a head football coach: sometimes he opens his mouth and says things that he thinks. At Big Ten Media Days he made the case for a one-time no-sit transfer by invoking the prospect of players making stuff up, particularly about their mental health, in an attempt to get a waiver.

Since James Hudson is currently trying to get a waiver by asserting his transfer was due to mental health issues he did not report to anyone at Michigan, people put two and two together. And they're probably right: Harbaugh probably was referencing Hudson, and probably thinks his case is dubious.

But people mess up and Harbaugh in particular will occasionally speak like a human being instead of a robot preprogrammed to expel the most boring things possible. Harbaugh was trying to say that Hudson should be eligible. Okay. It seems like he does take mental health issues seriously. Okay. Sometimes he says stuff badly. Okay.

[After THE JUMP: the bad thing Harbaugh didn't say]

let's drink some damn mead [Bryan Fuller]

image-6_thumb_thumb5_thumb_thumb_thu[1]SPONSOR NOTE: Reminder that Matt is hanging out at the Charity Tailgate at 327 East Hoover (if you were at the preseason MGoEvents this year and last it's the same place). It's right next to the train tracks on Hoover. The band goes right by it on their way to the stadium, which is cool. Say hi.

When not tailgating Matt is also a person who will get you a mortgage right quick from the comfort of your own home.

FORMATION NOTES: Michigan stuck to the four man front for almost the whole game, with just a few attempts to play a 3-3-5. The Rush package remains unchanged after Gary's return. Michigan did have some exotics, one a 3-1-7(!) alignment with two vipers and Bush out there on third and ten. This was the Glasgow sack.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Massive rotation across the front with even Chase Winovich bowing out on occasion. Gary's return and his absence from the rush package amped up a rotation that is ten guys deep now: Gary, Winovich, Mone, Kemp, Paye, Marshall, Solomon, Dwumfour, Uche and Hutchinson (sort of). As a result everyone save Winovich saw maybe half of Michigan's snaps. Also Donovan Jeter got in late.

LB was the standard: Bush and Hudson all the time, Ross and Gil splitting WLB snaps with Ross having an edge, and assorted cameos from Glasgow and Furbush. Ditto the secondary. Woods was the only backup S to get in, interestingly.

[After THE JUMP: the lamentation of their message boards]

Michigan loses the heir apparent at RT in a bizarre transfer decision

Ed Warinner speaks to the media about -- you guessed it -- the offensive line.

BEN MASON BLOCKS LIKE THIS

Jim Harbaugh's weekly press conference, looking ahead to SMU.