MGoPodcast 15.22: And Here Y'Are, And It's a Beautiful Day
1 hour and 59 minutes
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1. The State of College Football
Starts at 1:00
We are uh. We are out of content (still managed to record a two hour podcast). With regards to Ben Franklin's sex life. Craig Ross turns 3,008, wish him a happy birthday (still hasn’t seen a worse Michigan men’s basketball team). The Big Ten and SEC got together for a working group and the thing they were working on was screwing the rest of college football. They already want a 14 team playoff with auto bids. What would be different about college football right now if Dave Brandon was in charge? Nothing. College football is great for reasons that the people who only care about money could never understand. Adding Maryland and Rutgers was the beginning of the end, Brian is going to dance on Jim Delaney’s grave. What can you even do about it besides complain about it on podcasts.
[The rest of the writeup and the player after THE JUMP]
2. Big Ten Hockey Tournament vs Notre Dame
Starts at 23:41
They didn’t make it easy but Michigan hockey sweeps Notre Dame in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. Nobody played better than Notre Dame’s goalie, despite giving up nine goals. Notre Dame is 10-1 in games where they only score three goals, they can’t score but the goalie keeps them in games. Was it an icing? No. Another week, another discussion of the terrible major calls. The Ohio State vs Wisconsin game determines whether Michigan plays in East Lansing or Minneapolis (Michigan will play in Minneapolis). Michigan is at their ceiling in terms of RPI (#10), but the gap between them and 14 is very small. According to Alex, Michigan is a 99%+ chance to make the NCAA tournament, so they’ve basically punched their ticket. Who stays and who goes after the season? Make Brian an NHL GM, he plays Football Manager and won the championship in the Turkish league.
3. Warde Manuel and Juwan
Starts at 1:03:22
Takes hotter than Warde Manuel's seat if he retains Juwan Howard. Warde Manuel has become controversial amongst Michigan fans, and by controversial we mean everyone wants to fire him except Santa Ono. What is Warde doing if he wants to keep Juwan around? Seth has been told that Warde Manuel has repaired Michigan’s relationships with the NCAA and Big Ten, Brian has curled himself into a ball and crawled under Walter White’s floor and is laughing maniacally. R.I.P. paper tickets. If he doesn’t get rid of Juwan Howard, what is actually going on? There are a lot of Fargo references in this podcast. Warde is the head of the college football committee in charge of the worst college football playoff we’ve ever seen.
4. Gimmicky Top Five - Non-Michigan Fandoms
Starts at 01:29:22
Five non-Michigan things we are fans of. Oh no, how many of us are just fair weather Detroit fans? The National Parks are good and you should go but not when I go because they’re overcrowded now! Brian does not hate National Parks, why would you think that? Who is the bigger dork, Seth or Brian? Shout out to Lindsay Ellis, the Brian Cook of film theory and why The Hobbit Trilogy is bad. Brian turns down a $1300/month murder basement.
MUSIC:
- "Gen X Cops" — Vampire Weekend
- “Midwest" — Vacations
- “Forget Everything”— BEL
- “Across 110th Street”
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"He's been in Tennessee, he could've impregnated a raccoon, we don't know. We gotta check."
When can we expect the "Ben Franklin's Sex Life" Tshirts??
My challenge to the guys before we started recording was to name a historical figure (no relations) whose profligate sex life was more profitable to your quality of life. I for one am grateful to the man who fucked his way through Versailles for naval support against the British that also bankrupted the ancien regime.
Doing the lord’s work, I vouch.
Seth - I highly recommend Expedition Evans too. Really good couple sailing channel too.
EE's got a bit too much psychology for us, which isn't a bad thing except my wife's a psychologist, and when we're turning on a Youtube we're trying to escape work.
Point of order regarding Brian's sci-fi series: it would only be fiction of the dolphins WEREN'T psychotic
The B1G and SEC should be pushing for preferential treatment in regard to the playoff because they are playing on a different level from everyone else. A 9-3 season in those conferences will be on par with 1 loss seasons in the ACC or Big 12. Those two conferences and Notre Dame could combine, and they don't have the horses that the B1G and SEC do.
College football isn't going back, the toothpaste is out of the tube. If you want the Pac 10 back, your only path is move forward and hope. Maybe a 64-team super conference gets put together, and there is a "West" or "Pacific" division made of USC and UCLA and Oregon, etc. There needs to be a player's union on one side and a united, singular negotiating partner on the other (not the NCAA, and not even conferences who need to focus on basketball or field hockey).
Seth wants us to slow down, but we need to speed up if you have any chance of getting this done before you chase off what made college football so great - the fans, traditions, regional rivalries, rivals between regions, etc.
If it is true that Warde’s main concern is top line revenue in the athletic department then it would seem that a new MBB coach would be the easiest course of action.
In a few short months, Warde will need to convince season ticket holders to renew and probably eat a price increase. If he wants to do that with Juwan as coach, Warde will have to show himself to be the best song and dance man in the business. It would seem easier to market a new coach and a “new beginning “.
Fantastic Parks and Rec reference.
Money please!
National Parks:
Fighting forest I was stationed in the Umpqua National Forest north of Crater Lake, which I loved visiting because it was beautful and because it was the closest alcohol and women.
Same thing later: stationed on the Flathead NF west of Glacier National Park, with the same attractions: beauty, beer and babes. (Actually "women" but I love alliteration.)
Seems like pretty universal approval for non-Michigan over basketball content. Excellent content! Thanks.
My takeaway from Brian's comments on college football: Dave Brsndon was ahead of his time.
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