Why isn't there a game recap on the front page?
I have been wondering since yesterday why there isn't a recap game write-up. They are typically up fairly quickly after a game (win or loss). But it is now almost a day later and the preview article from Friday is still the top story on the front page.
December 17th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
"I don't know"
December 17th, 2023 at 1:05 PM ^
You would do well in a courtroom
December 17th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Sometimes it is best to be honest, even when we don't know something. Too often we try to make ourselves sound intelligent by talking about things we don't understand or we know to be false, but we act as though they are fact. Admitting when we don't know something doesn't make us lesser, it makes us wiser.
For the record, I'm not criticizing you Indy Pete - Go Blue. I actually thought both you and Needs were pretty funny. As I was reading yours, this thought popped into my head and I felt the need to express it.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:14 PM ^
As a human, your username only further demonstrates your integrity.
Your post is on point as well.
December 17th, 2023 at 8:23 PM ^
TL;DR translation = talking out of your ass
December 17th, 2023 at 3:02 PM ^
Could you elaborate on this?
Yes.
December 17th, 2023 at 4:24 PM ^
December 17th, 2023 at 4:55 PM ^
Also because you touch yourself
December 17th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
A victory over the 299 ranked team on Kenpom maybe doesn't get the writing juices flowing.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:12 PM ^
Or maybe this team has stopped any juices flowing, like some sort of basketball induced Sjögren's disease
December 17th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
I enjoyed it. I was pining for some hoops, and glad they played well. Thought it was a good get-up-to-speed game and was curious to see if the guys were dialed in, distracted, just what. As Dylan said last night, this is a game you forget if you performed as expected, and remember if you screw up.
Was interested to hear Phil say in the pre-game interview that the CMU loss this time last year really sent the team into a tailspin. That's the kind of salient detail that somehow never made it into reporting, from what I know. Wish that somewhere we had a guy whose beat the team was who got close to the program and delivered up that kind of detail.
I've been looking out for the game report, too, but these guys don't owe us anything. They might have other things going on, not have planned to report on a relatively unimportant game, whatever. I'm with those who think it's a little bit impertinent to ask, but maybe that's because I know these guys work hard and are not ESPN.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:15 PM ^
I think the quality of opponent may be the reason why we didn't see a game recap. I faintly remember the blog does not write game recaps after basketball games like these. Not sure if that is true.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:59 PM ^
That would make sense if they didn't write a preview for this low quality opponent. But they did so I doubt it has to do with quality of opponent.
December 17th, 2023 at 2:23 PM ^
I'm sure the staff has better things to work on right now, like bowl prep for Team 144.
We could all talk about the basketball team's unimpressive win at home against one of the lowest ranked D1 teams, but why?
December 17th, 2023 at 11:24 PM ^
It's not a big deal if they don't do one, It's Christmas and there are personal things to do. Or since there's not much going on to talk about now if they do one Monday or Tuesday that's fine too.
December 17th, 2023 at 4:31 PM ^
My theory is that the Ypsi-Arbor sign was too cool to push down the page.
December 17th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
I got one after I paid 150 into the beveled guilt fund. Totally worth it for Brian's acrostic on Dug McDaniel and Alex's beautiful scouting prose.
December 17th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
Wondered the same thing.
December 17th, 2023 at 2:47 PM ^
Rather than an article, perhaps a final score graphic would be a nice touch.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:00 PM ^
Without the recap, I have no idea who to blame for the result!
December 17th, 2023 at 1:22 PM ^
Warde Howard Sanderson Stapleton III let us down again
December 17th, 2023 at 2:36 PM ^
Michigan dropped a couple of spots on kenpom. I blame the AD.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:05 PM ^
This is a fascinating observation posted by Jim Weber on Twitter:
“It's pretty hilarious that Central Michigan said they were "looking into" if this was Connor Stalions on their sideline at MSU, then never addressed it again & everyone just moved on.”
December 17th, 2023 at 1:24 PM ^
"hilarious" as in "telling".....
Further proof that this whole enterprise was never about "integrity of the game" and certainly not about "player health and safety". It was all about getting Jim removed from the sideline, sending the team to a tailspin (ha!), and gaining an advantage in The Game -- with the conference's backing and full support, of course.
Now that it all blew up in their faces, it's a non-story, at least until a couple months before the 2024 season comes, when it will all be dredged up to try and get Jim suspended (or show-cause'd) in 2024.
Fuck this conference. On the one hand, the leadership -- pushed by OSU and MSU and whomever else -- wants to disadvantage Michigan. But when it comes to viewership and dollars, oh yes, Michigan must play marquee games. Taking with one hand and slapping us with the other. No other elite team would stand for this.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
And that’s why Michigan vs everybody is so gratifying as we dominate this conference with numbing repetition.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:46 PM ^
Odds are, Stallions was making some $$ on the side interpreting signs for CMU, That's why CMU is quiet about it all. ESPN would want you to believe is that he snuck in and made it on the sidelines without CMU knowing and was stealing little Brother's signs.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:51 PM ^
I had just reached a point where I wasn’t thinking about this on a daily basis. Your post brought back all of those familiar feelings of anger.
At this point, I am choosing to focus on this team, the players, the opportunity in front of them and just take it all in and enjoy it. This is the best Michigan football 🏈 team in 75 years. We have Alabama in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day for a chance at a National Championship. What could be better?
December 17th, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
Bill22,
This is the way, for certain. Good on you for focusing on the positive.
This whole thing just pisses me the hell off, and it helps for me to lay it out on here. Didn't mean to try to harsh your buzz. Keep on keepin' on.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:34 PM ^
Yeah, the fact everyone involved seems totally fine with this "investigation" going on its third month tells you all you need to know. It's pretty clear CMU's got a guy who likely also engages in this stuff, McElwain didn't know about it but is still liable under the "anything anyone does on your staff ever is your fault" bullshit reasoning by the NCAA, and since he's not at a program anybody cares about there's no rush to find the real culprit.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^
Haven't we all been saying this for weeks?
The way this can make sense is:
1) The theory that CMU staff went rogue and brought in CS for in-game consulting, without telling McElwain, is correct.
2) NCAA has determined that CMU bringing in an outside consultant is not an NCAA violation. But this is part of the Michigan investigation.
So we won't hear about it again until Michigan's deal is wrapped up.
Why McElwain is keeping people on staff who aided CS in doing things that he claimed "have no place in the game," I couldn't say.
December 17th, 2023 at 4:14 PM ^
The other way this makes sense if
1) The guy on the sidelines with hair on his head was not CS, who shaves his head
2) CMU knows this, but
3) cannot talk about it because it is being investigated by the NCAA and the NCAA gags everyone but its own leakers while an investigation is going on.
I think this much more likely than that Signal-Stealing Guy was Conner Stalions in disguise, especially because the only people actually alleging that it was CS are pinhead OSU fans..
December 17th, 2023 at 4:44 PM ^
It's clearly not someone who was supposed to be on the CMU sideline. If it was someone who was on their team they could have said that immediately. There would have been no NCAA investigation about CMU's sideline if CMU came out right away and said "That's Joe."
So if it's part of an NCAA investigation, and it's not CS, then it's some other guy that CMU is in trouble for having on the sideline.
Possible, but that would be a coincidence that he was falsely ID'd as CS but was some other guy who shouldn't be there.
I did ask several times--still no answer--who first publicly identified the guy as CS and why everyone believed it so quickly. The closest I got to an answer is that Alex Yood is suspected to have been a source on this, though he did not publicly disclose it.
December 17th, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
If I were CMU, I'd let it drop too if no one forced me to deal with it.
What upside is there for CMU to bring attention to it?
December 17th, 2023 at 2:52 PM ^
The point is that no one is forcing them to deal with it. That's the part that's "pretty hilarious." No one expects CMU to go out of their way to keep this in the headlines.
December 17th, 2023 at 5:31 PM ^
I'm confused by everyone's anger over this. I understand why CMU might not be happy about an employee of the Michigan athletic department being on their sidelines, and I guess in theory I can see why Michigan would wonder why one of their employees is on the CMU sideline, but ... why should the NCAA care? Why should anyone else care?
Je suis confused.
December 17th, 2023 at 8:43 PM ^
The NCAA would care if it's Stalions because that would be an incident of advanced in-person scouting. Now, given that they're seemingly accusing him with many counts of improper advanced in-person scouting, one more incident hardly should matter. But it is, as far as we know, the only case where he actually went personally.
As for why we care, it's because Stalions being at the MSU-CMU game was treated by ESPN and others of their ilk as an egregious act for which Harbaugh should resign. McElwain himself said he's aware of the pictures of the "sign stealer guy" and "there's no place for that in the game."
And determining if it was or was not Stalions is exceedingly simple: You ask the person who was standing next to him during the game who the person is.
And yet, obtaining this answer is nigh impossible! ESPN had to resort to asking Michigan State to use its patented high-tech face recognition software to state with 60% certainty that the person in question is, in fact, Stalions.
For something that was deemed so important by so many for a week, and for something that is so simple to uncover, it seems we should not still be waiting on a final answer for this. Our continued interest in this, I believe, is more about underscoring how preposterous ESPN (and others) acted when going crazy over the idea that Stalions was at the CMU-MSU game. Same as when we carried on about how Petitti is only concerned about the health and safety of players when signs are obtained in a certain way. If they are obtained in a different way, suddenly he no longer cares about the health and safety issue.
Lastly, there's an outside chance CMU was involved in something that does violate NCAA rules in regards to sign stealing, and if that is discovered, we're all going to be interested to see how outraged everyone is about CMU and Jim McElwain. My guess, not very.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Because Brian and his staff knew it would annoy you. And now that you've posted, they'll draw it out even more.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:20 PM ^
just for fun, not because OP is sooo far out on a limb of ingratitude
December 17th, 2023 at 2:02 PM ^
Has nothing to do with ingratitude. To he honest, I don't even read the game recaps. I just found it interesting that there wasn't one.
December 17th, 2023 at 2:09 PM ^
Thanks XM. There are lots of websites where one can get a game recap to sate one’s curiosity without making it seem like the blog writers are slacking. Especially around the Christmas holidays when I’m sure they have stuff going on.
December 17th, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
She’s a bad egg
December 17th, 2023 at 4:21 PM ^
Didn’t a horn blow or something and she went down some chute? Oompa-looompa EMS dispatch?
December 17th, 2023 at 5:31 PM ^
Yes. She failed the quality inspection.
December 18th, 2023 at 1:22 AM ^
She was a seether!
December 17th, 2023 at 1:24 PM ^
Alex is on strike.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:26 PM ^
Alex may be on vacation?
December 17th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
A brief summary:
EMU sucks. We won. We hit a lot of threes. Game was boring. Crisler was empty. I switched to the Vikings-Bengals game to catch the end. Someone on the board bet on Michigan and we didn't cover the 23 points so he lost his money.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:35 PM ^
Karen from HR sat next to Juwan on the bench.
December 17th, 2023 at 1:36 PM ^
101,
This is actually an awesome recap. Made me laugh, too. 🍻