michigan hockey summer except good

That sounds good! Oh. This tweet has a very Ben Mason twist in it:

UM players say Ben Mason comes off the ball SCREAMING. Cesar Ruiz: "I only went against Ben maybe once or twice, but I remember the reps vividly because there was so much yelling and grunting and I almost didn’t believe it. I was like, 'He’s really yelling at me right now.'" lol

— angelique (@chengelis) March 30, 2019

Literally screaming at people is probably not as good as having an explosive first step. Mason's dalliance at three-tech is a wee bit alarming since he's listed at 254 on the roster. While that's not updated, there's no way he's able to get to reasonable DT weight in a year. It's going to be a rough year at DT.

Harbaugh's having a presser right now in which he's detailing various position groups, and there's an open practice Saturday.

This actually sounds good. Gattis offering glimpses into Michigan practices and his approach to routes:

Some times in order to teach you must show! If you know me you must master the details on 2nd level releases!
Head/eyes/hips ✔️
Inside foot stays in the ground✔️
Re-stem snap the head pin the shoulder on the out✔️#Crafting101
ft: young @MikeSainristil pic.twitter.com/IA92zbJKVL

— Josh Gattis (@Coach_Gattis) April 1, 2019

At the very least he should be a top-tier WR coach, and the idea of a guy who cut his teeth under Joe Moorhead getting Patterson, Black, Collins, and DPJ… could be good.

There's a real easy explanation. Insane article from Dennis Dodd in which a suit working at Virginia Tech looks at college football's attendance problem and concludes that facepaint is the solution:

"I wasn't an athlete. For me, at least, the fundamental [way] how you run an event is the way KISS runs a show."

Wurthman went to describe the anticipation built by the band's introduction hype video on the jumbotron -- KISS walking from dressing room to stage -- and the same old songs that are the foundation of classic rock radio.

Yeah, they rock the house. They could also lead a morning athletic department staff meeting.

"It is," Wurthman concluded, "quintessential sports marketing."

The article is full of people dancing around the real issue, because they are prohibited from realizing what the real issue is. USF's AD:

"The reality is that the national attendance numbers are going to continue to go down," Bulls AD Mike Kelly said, "mainly due to the comparative social and leisure experiences that can now be had outside the football stadium even if those experiences still center around the game itself."

Read that again. This is USF's athletic director saying attendance is going to go down because the in-stadium experience sucks. That's the problem. If a KISS concert had six commercial breaks in its first half hour, people would stop going to KISS concerts.

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