Unverified Voracity Has 100 Problems
Sponsor Note. Did you ever want a lawyer who just appears in UVs because he's writing interesting things? Maybe someone who also has probity? Does anyone other than a lawyer ever have probity? I don't think so, but Richard Hoeg's got it in spades.
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Not a sponsor note. Here's a twitter thread from Hoeg on the early days of NIL and what looks like a full on gold-rush with little in the way of brakes:
And yet, according to this lawyer, either the restrictive language proposed *wasn't intended* to cover a circumstance where the owner of an entity tells a national media outlet he is arranging these payments to improve the team and institution, or *it's incapable* of doing so.
— Richard Hoeg (@HoegLaw) July 6, 2021
There's going to be a lot of sorting out to do. The much discussed Barstool NIL scheme is probably going to make folks ineligible since they're basically a sportsbook with some bolt-on frat bro misogyny these days. Unless legal incorporation fig leaves mean that it won't. I have some sympathy for NCAA compliance officers these days, who just got handed a bucket of cranky toddlers with no instructions.
[After THE JUMP: the specter of two cokes]
Mmmmm Hoke death spiral. You may have noticed your inbox get rather full of late:
— ace (@AceAnbender) July 13, 2021
I have repeatedly thought "didn't I just archive that?" in the past couple weeks. The fake people who want to write guest posts for this here site are hardly less persistent.
That's Ace's new site, by the way, explore it and see if you're interested.
One good thing about next year's team. Aidan Hutchinson, who makes PFF's top 50 returning players list:
29. EDGE AIDAN HUTCHINSON, MICHIGAN
Hutchinson played only three games in 2020 before suffering a season-ending injury, but the Wolverine seemed to be on his way to taking that next step forward on a mere 149 snaps (82.5 PFF grade). With a clean bill of health, he is quite easily among the best all-around defensive linemen in college football.
The 6-foot-6, 269-pounder is versatile, has incredible power behind his hands and is one of the more polished players at the position. For proof, look at his 2019 outing against Iowa when he became one of the few to post wins against 2020 Super Bowl champion Tristan Wirfs.
Hutchinson produced an 83.6 run-defense grade and 27 run stops along with a 76.0 pass-rush grade and 46 total pressures in 2019. Still, he never really put together a dominant performance from start to finish. We need to see more elite outings in 2021, and he easily has the potential to make that happen.
If Michigan can get some DTs next to him he could bust out. Otherwise, hello double teams.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. The NCAA's expert witness in the Alston trial is having a Falling Down moment in the aftermath of the NCAA's smackdown at the hands of the Supreme Court:
“I don’t mind that some people are jealous that Nick Saban gets so much money,” Heckman said during a recent hourlong telephone interview. “I personally don’t care if he has a private plane and flies to Monte Carlo. But I do think it is misleading to cast [college sports] as a labor market and to somehow think the goal of college is to make money off these athletes. I don’t see that as the goal.” …
Heckman decried Kavanaugh’s “rant” as a “bull—- opinion.”
“College is not an athletic market, and Wilken was irresponsible, and Kavanaugh was just insane in thinking this was an athletic market, and they were squeezing salaries down,” Heckman said. He says Kavanaugh was taken in by a handful of heart-tugging anecdotes about ill-treated college athletes, stories propagated by “yellow journalists” and “so-called sports economists.”
This guy has a Nobel Prize! For, like, economics! I could understand it if he had a Nobel Prize for shaping his opinions into pretzels that get him paid handsomely.
Take heart if you're lonely. You can be a millionaire with 2% body fat and still get dragged down, and then a Heisman winner can step into offer some fatherly advice.
Young fella you grown cut that shit out
— Charles Woodson (@CharlesWoodson) July 8, 2021
Maybe this is not actually encouraging. What will the rest of us with 3% body fat do? Nevermind.
Real free agency. Kofi Cockburn is returning to college but possibly not Illinois. Instead he may be going to Kentucky, which happened to hire two Illinois assistant coaches this offseason:
"He's the reason I went to Illinois," Cockburn said of Antigua. "When he left along with Chin Coleman, I decided to go in the portal to leave my options open.
"Kentucky? It's a serious option. Antigua is my guy. I'm going to consider them, but there [are] a lot of schools. I wasn't really focused on that while I was in the NBA draft. Now I can take my time and evaluate it better."
Seems pretty bad for Brad Underwood that he's got a team coming off a one seed and it seems like the most important thing about the Illinois program was an assistant coach. I think we can extrapolate some overlap between UK and Illinois recruiting practices and while UK is always going to be at the top of the heap, recruiting-wise, I wonder if Illinois is going to be hurt by NIL leveling out certain playing fields, particularly in Chicago.
This is a good time to have a head coach who isn't a beet-red screamer. Widely beloved Juwan Howard is going to have an easier time holding onto guys than the Underwood/Miller/McCaffrey mold of barely controlled dynamite. I'm not sure that was what Big Ten ADs were thinking when they leaned into the Howard model with their hiring decisions this offseason, but it should be helpful.
Soon there will be a draft and this will stop happening. Yet more scouting of Michigan's 2021 draft class. NHL.com on Luke Hughes:
"To me, the runway (for Luke) is there and the upside is almost limitless," Central Scouting senior manager David Gregory said. "When you put together the whole package of his size, skill and IQ, there's potential that he'll be the best of the Hughes brothers. But he could be the best of this draft too. He has that kind of ability and upside.
"This is a player I think would have really made some people start asking questions (about who should be drafted No. 1) if he had been able to finish the year."
Article also contains several entertaining stories about the Hughes brothers growing up.
Meanwhile, Corey Pronman has superlatives for the draft class. #1 skater: Hughes. #1 puck skills: Kent Johnson. #4 hockey sense: Owen Power. #1 compete level: Matthew Beniers. Is that good? Yes. Also, further indications that Power and Beniers want to return to school pending what happens at the draft. More from the Daily:
“For me, I’m definitely leaning towards coming back,” he told reporters on Thursday. “Got a really good group coming back, a lot of good players. We’re gonna get a real run at a national title, I think, and I definitely want to win a Big Ten championship. (Defenseman Owen Power) is kind of leaning towards coming back, so that’d be fun if he came back and we got kind of the whole crew back together and gave it another go.”
Still in believe-it-when-I-see-it mode here but dare to dream.
Etc.: Do you want an I Heart Huckabee's themed mediation on the very nature of soccer, man? Of course you do. PFF ranks every D1 quarterback situation. Michigan checks in… uh… 70th. Metroid is real! Strauss Mann signs with a Swedish league team. Interesting. Devante Jones on his decision to come to Michigan. College sports fandom: now less gross. Matt Turner, save guy doing save things.
oh, geez, brace yourself for "ace is the devil" hot takes.
Meh, I don't have anything against Ace. I gave money to his thing awhile back and I'm glad that I did and I wish him well. I just never really liked his podcasts or his content all that much. It's just not my jam. I honestly skip alot of the donnie downer posters nowadays anymore; life is too short and they are too myopic.
So, Good Luck Ace; I hope your new site does well, I just won't be reading it or content from it.
Nah. I wish Ace the best of luck; checked out the site and found it to be fine but not a destination. I soured on him a bit when he got increasingly dismissive of Seth on the podcasts; this isn't intended to butter up Seth but I consistently find his football commentary to be some of the best around and so it was tiring to hear Ace talk down to him and then drop some "hot take" that in effect assumed everything would be fixed if UM fired Harbaugh and hired Matt Campbell.
That said, I think Ace and Dan and whomever else works on that site will carve out a niche and I hope they do well.
He missed a great opportunity to name his bball site "defending the block."
Hope he and his site do well.
no argument here - my comment was mostly related to some posters who (still) obviously hate the guy, for whatever reason. i never quite understood it, myself.
For whatever reason ? A caustic, hypocritical, narcissistic, shameless snowflake who abuses power, will never be loved. And should also add condescending and borderline shyster.
Really glad you mentioned the treatment of Seth. I stopped listening for awhile when that was going on. I don’t want to hear someone talk down to others like a dick. If I did, I’d listen to “real” sports talk which is obviously much less actual sports talk than Mgo products.
Yeah, I don't even think it was intentional every time, especially as the season started to go off the rails. But I could see the parent in Seth just let it go without always fighting back and while that's commendable as a person it also made a less-than-desirable listening situation.
I'm interested to see how this year's podcast goes with Ace gone. I really liked the hockey podcasts so maybe Dave and Alex can tag in.
I'm not sorry to say I rejoice he is gone from here. He was the Dave Brandon of mgoblog.. someone whose true bad character showed when given some power.
I cannot be the only one who feels the good vibe on this blog now from the new and respectful writers In MattEM and Brendan, to go along with our pleasant Groves grad Seth.
At what point do enough people need to feel strongly about something for you to even make an attempt to try and look at it from their perspectives? This board isn't some bastion of rationality, obviously, but lots of respected members have posted pretty in depth thoughts on their opinions and why they have them. These don't need to be rehashed. You don't need to agree, but dismissing how people feel as BS just because you don't agree seems irresponsible in and of itself.
generalizations are always risky (ha! obviously).
i'm not completely dismissing the opinions. i understand them, even if i don't fully agree with them.
i don't mean to dismiss how people feel; i do dismiss bringing those feelings into unrelated discussions. which has definitely been done.
The problem sports organizations, whether college or pro, will face now is that a lot of fans just stayed away from sporting events for the first time in years and realized how much easier and cheaper it is to watch games at home. Michigan football will be no different. Disappointing on-field performance and lingering covid concerns won't help either.
I'm here to tell you that PacBell/AT&T/Oracle Park (and I think I left some corporate sponsors out!) is routinely 90+% full since Cali allowed it in June.
The key to large, enthusiastic in-person attendance is not complicated.
Just think to yourself "What would Al Davis say?"
It will be short lived. Even the programs that win every year don't fill their stadiums every game. Notre Dame ended a sellout streak dating back to the 70s in 2019.
Then Michigan expects us to pay this bullshit like we're some elite program when we're not. 
Well, football & baseball are a bit apples & oranges, aren't they?!
But my point about the post-pandemic crowds at SF Giants games really did speak to both the community activity aspect AND the front-runnerness aspect of most in-person sports attendance.
The Giants had a 9-year sell-out streak end in 2019. Began the year of their 1st SF WS win, ended when it was clear they were rebuilding.
If only 80K people went to Michigan games in 2021, it would be a statement that the 100K+ attendance streak was both a community social activity AND an act of front-runnerness. It would also still be larger than 95% of all other college football teams' attendance!
I dont understand this thinking. Football games have always been on tv. Covid didn't just magically create this idea that you can sit at home and watch the game for less hassle. If anything, I would think there is more of a demand for in person games because we were denied the ability to do so for a year. I go to football games for the spectacle and the pagentry. For being surrounded by 100 thousand fans. You can't get that at home and it's not like it's anything new.
Imo, if the Big House isn't full next year it's because the fan base has gotten tired of us sucking and gotten tired of Jim Harbaugh.
I believe with technology getting better and better along with the gameday experience getting more and more generic/corporate, it has a least leveled the playing field a bit between the two experiences. I get what you're saying and the atmosphere of the game and tailgating and all of that is what I miss at times but the margin between the two experiences has certainly shrunk in my opinion.
Agreed -- i live here -- so I'm definitely in the go-tailgating-and-watch-on-tv train and have been for a while now (save maybe one game a year). Just isn't the same as it once was -- and I don't think it's the whole just-getting-older thing.
Agree. I'm not even tempted. Offer me free tix, and I still would likely turn you down unless my daughter was eager, etc.
Would sacrifice, OTOH, to get to most any game at Crisler.
To your short list of sucking and Jim Harbaugh, add the price of a ticket plus the other not so little kicker that adds almost $100 per ticket for the better seats.
The Stadium experience is fun, but now with the more than 150 games I've attended at Michigan Stadium, I no longer feel I can support with my wallet the product on the field. I missed things last year but not as much as I thought I would.
Each to their own of course, but I suspect I may not be on an island by myself.
- Prices have gone up.
- hassle has gone up
- in home technology has gotten *much* better
- parking is a non-issue at home
- food is better at home
This isn't 'Go to the cool tailgate at the golf course' vs. 'Watch on your 19' color TV with rabbit ears'; it's 'Drive to AA. Wait on 23. Wait on 14. Wait in town. Find parking. Pay up the arse. Get jammed in. Walk to the stadium, give high priced ticket and get body searched, go watch game and listen to people b*tch.' vs. 'Stay at home with my 65" OLED and great sound system with awesome order in food and great beer or homebrew'. And still save money. And I don't have to listen to the Yahoo behind me talk about his Harbaugh conspiracy theories.
Forgot to mention the 10 million tv timeouts and left with really nothing to do while that is happening at the stadium.
I think COVID shutdown probably got more people who were always at the game in person to reevaluate why they go to the game. A lot of people think the product on the field will not be great. Add that with the travel time plus cost and a lot of people might not go.
Last year broke an 11-year streak of my dad and I going to a game in person and we decided this year that we would skip out on a football game again and wait for basketball season to see something in person. Had that not happened I think we would still go up to keep the streak alive. We just realized it can be a lot nicer to just watch together from one of our homes.
I love that you go with your Dad. I used to go to the spring game back in the 90's with my Dad.
But yeah, that's an excellent point. The game day experience isn't as much fun. When I was there (queue old man voice) the games were like High School games on steroids. TV was there and there was some interruption (it was fun throwing marshmallows at the camera guy) but the pace of the game was generally much better.
Now... it just isn't as much fun.
On top of that, CFL just isn't as much fun as it used to be to me with a 4 game college playoff.
I think overall this will hurt college football. It's happening all over. I think CFL teams are younger and more emotional that pro teams and the lack of direct fan support won't be great until they get used to it.
On top of that, CFL just isn't as much fun as it used to be to me with a 4 game college playoff.
also a great point, although for me it's less to do with the playoff than the rank hypocrisy of a bunch of generally well-off people cheering (and booing) kids that are putting life and limb on the line for limited / compromised return. maybe NIL will change the way i feel, maybe not.
i think what flipped me were grant newsome, and jordan mcnair, and any number of other similar stories. newsome almost lost his leg, and for what? it appears that he was and is smart and driven enough to not let that ruin his life. how many hundreds of kids don't have the ability to do that?
and those are just the big stories. how many kids already have CTE from college football? thousands? tens of thousands? it's gross, and no amount of NIL will make that go away in the future.
Yeah, I attended a game after I graduated and the experience as a "normie" was significantly less enjoyable than as a student when I could just walk over from my house with my friends and didn't have to deal with traffic, parking, etc. Yes, if UM is winning Big 10 titles people are less bothered by the hassles but even then you'd still see people throw their hands up at some point and drop out of the rat race.
It was usually an all-day production for me, back in the seventies and early eighties when I went to most home games with my dad.
We'd drive into Ann Arbor with my father, which is normally about an hour but on game day of course there'd be significantly more traffic so we'd have to leave by nine or ten in the morning (depending on the start time). We'd have to park, usually on the golf course, and walk to the stadium and get to our seats. Then there was the game. Sometimes we'd eat in Ann Arbor afterwards, but more often we'd head out to the car and sit in traffic waiting to get out before hitting one of my dad's favorite places on the way back.
When my dad passed away not quite twenty years ago, I lived too far away to take advantage of his season tickets so we let them lapse. I haven't been to a game since 2001. They're great, but I still enjoy them at home.
Don’t forget that the younger generation tends to work more hours these days and spending 8+ hours away from family every other Saturday is a tough sell.
that last point is so, so underrated. maybe it's a consequence of growning older, maybe it's the fact that i'm generally pretty optimistic about every michigan sport, but the simple fact is that there's always someone near me in the stadium that i would avoid like the plague if were weren't forced to be near each other.
there's always at least one miserable sonofabitch that wants to spend the entire game complaining, right from the opening kickoff through double zeros on the clock, and it doesn't seem to matter whether we're winning or losing. those people almost never show up in my living room.
...and yes, i'm well aware of the irony that this board often feels like that, and yet i remain. i contain multitudes.
there's always at least one miserable sonofabitch that wants to spend the entire game complaining, right from the opening kickoff through double zeros on the clock, and it doesn't seem to matter whether we're winning or losing.
Stop getting your tickets from Maizen’s scalper.
I thought things were bad with sports radio all the time in the late 90's. But now with social media... The Hawt Takes are just insane. And I hear them everywhere. Some dude sees some crap in the morning and wants to take me down at a graduation party when he sees me later in the day. 'DID YOU HEAR ABOUT MICHIGAN? RUMORS SAY HARBAUGH WILL BE FIRED AND DIVORCED BY THE END OF THE YEAR!'
Where did you hear that?
'A friend of a friend on facebook!'
WTF.
Or you get the old school people. I remember sitting in the stands one year while we were beating the shit out of someone (can't remember who) when I was at UM, and this after the other team gets an admittedly nice TD I start hearing him 'Can you feel it slipping away Gary? Can you feel it? Always happens to you...'
At some point, I've come to the conclusion that people's real entertainment is being miserable about shit that doesn't really matter.
one. hundred. percent.
yes, social media, but an underrated part of the whole collapse of civility (and i say that with no small amount of sarcasm) is the very existence of 24-hour media. politics and sports both - the 24-hour networks need 24 hours of programming, and the easiest way to get those 24 hours is to get two dumbasses in front of a camera to argue about something, and it doesn't matter what. just open your mouth and start talking about whatever some production assistant found, and it doesn't matter where they found it.
i haven't watched an entire sportscenter in years and years and years, and i'm sure as hell not going to watch any of that other shit. life's too damn short.
Much like small talk at a social/networking function, I can’t fucking stand passive aggressive commentary from those sitting around me at college football games. Whether it’s Michigan fans just echo chambering hot takes from message boards or fans on the road with their digs on Michigan, fuck all of it. I almost want to wear headphones to block out everyone’s bullshit.
"Football games have always been on TV" is true, but (a) the technology around the gameday experience has taken significant jumps in the past 5-10 years (which tracks with attendance at sporting events generally dropping), and (b) COVID-19 absolutely broke some long-ingrained patterns with fans as it relates to attending college football games.
I do think fans won't attend games to watch a team they don't think is all that good, but I doubt most fans harbor a particularly negative view of Harbaugh as coach distinct from the team underwhelming. Like, if UM goes 11-2 this year and Harbaugh hasn't changed one iota as a coach I doubt fans will respond with "I like that they're winning but Harbaugh is still a weirdo".
Not sure about that. Besides the fact that Harbaugh won when he first got here he was the "firey get in the officials face" guy we all expected that would translate into how the team played, but Jim and the team have never looked like they've had the same fire or passion since 2016 which makes it seem unlikely we're going 11-2.
It makes me cringe every time I hear Harbuagh interviewed, how do you think the team reacts when he addresses them?
Harbaugh won a bunch when he arrived and then went 8-5 after 2016 and people started souring on him because UM looked behind OSU. They then went on the "revenge tour" in 2018 and everyone was back on the bandwagon until they got pantsed by OSU and Florida and the "players have quit on him" started up again. Oh, and this site started to say Harbaugh must have begun suffering from the side-effects of CTE caused by his playing days.
Harbaugh has changed since he arrived at UM; most coaches do as the years progress. I think "screaming on the sideline" is an overrated characteristic of good coaches, and people saying they "cringe" now when Harbaugh is interviewed must not remember his 2015 interview with Colin Cowherd that ended in 6 minutes, his "chicken meat injects weakness into human beings" discussion from 2018, the time he walked out of an interview because reporters asked how long two players were suspended for, him having a sleep over at Nordin's house, etc. I think the team doesn't like to lose, and so when you lose you typically get tired of the guy who is running the joint. But I also think lots of guys say they enjoyed playing with him and speak no ill will toward him. I personally don't think I'd love to be around Harbaugh socially but as a boss/coach he seems perfectly competent and protective of his players. I have to assume that speaks well to his players.
Most players will defend their coach, guys defended Rich Rod and guys defended Hoke, that doesnt mean they're the right coach.
He still didnt act the same in 2018 as his first two. The team comes out completely unprepared for the biggest game of the season, and then a bunch of guys wanted to sit out the Florida game.
2-12 against top ten teams and 1 win as an underdog in six years doesn't exactly show his guys will run through a wall for him.
Do you actually think Harbaugh addresses the team or individual players the same way he would an interview with the media? His media interviews have always been awkward, even when he took the 49ers to the Super Bowl.
My point is, that is likely an overblown issue. Someone else made the point his time in the NFL may have made him shift his mentality even when back in the college game at Michigan. The expectation is everyone coming to do their job and being ready. College athletes might need more direction and prodding.
Whatever it is, I hope he addresses it. I, too, want the more animated, tour de force that was hired in 2014/15.
Did you watch the Amazon special after the 2017 season? It was pretty similar.
I did. A few times. It doesn’t stand out as that odd to me. I just want to see him have life again out there.
To be clear, he’s definitely an odd duck and your point is not groundless. It just seems to me to be a bit overblown these days. Then again, it’s that time of the year when we all hyper-analyze as we await fall practice.
They should lower ticket prices, to assure sellouts... It'll bring tons of young people to the games, and who most aren't at risk. Anyone under 18 should get in for $ 10. The streak then won't be at risk.
I know a lot of people who have expressed this opinion
just not worth it, losing is part of it of course.
But once you found you can live without something it isn't that big of a priority and the hassle just isn't worth it.
I plan on going this year but will do it for work and on work tickets, if not for that I would skip it. My wife isn't interested anymore of dealing with Drunk A** idiot fans and being crammed into a tiny seat with no leg room and I don't blame her, our stadium sucks for the fans
it is all about the $$$$ and Michigan hasn't cared about it's fans for years
Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that right out of the gate, there's already shenanigans going on under the guise of NIL endorsements? No way.
That's hilarious! Everytime this site would invoke the "money cannon" I would chuckle to myself.
As if the Florida & Alabama (and osu's) of the world were going to allow themselves to be outspent by an academic institution just because it has a larger endowment!
As if winning a charity donation contest every year correlated to willingness to circumvent any restrictions that might be placed on compensating student-athletes.
I've said since the term NIL was first mentioned - if Michigan isn't designing a Business Major program expressly designed around self-marketing in the era of social media, then Michigan doesn't get it! Use the 1 great advantage you still have (aside from the best helmets!)
I'd be willing to contribute $10 to the Walter Nolan fund.
If we sincerely want this young man to play for Michigan, one absolutely free thing we message board dwellers can contribute is spelling his name correctly!
N-O-L-E-N
Come on DOWN Walter!
I don't know. The program misspelled Aubrey Solomon's name on a card thanking him for attending a recruiting event that he didn't even attend and he still came (at least for a little while).
Just because our lovable Groves grad misspells Nolen (on the recruit roster page) doesn't mean you should. Seth gets a pass...
I've said since the term NIL was first mentioned - if Michigan isn't designing a Business Major program expressly designed around self-marketing in the era of social media, then Michigan doesn't get it!
^^^THIS^^^.
FFS use the Ross school to try to create branding for recruits coming in and leverage our huge alumni base. The rules are murky so we can start doing stuff NOW and let the NCAA wallow/catch up without any real risk of violations because no one knows what the hell they are. The SEC will complain, and likely come after us, but so what? Who cares? At this point I'm in 'ignore the NCAA mode' because they are so useless.
But we haven't. And we likely won't. Because 'Michigan doesn't do that' and the leather patch on the elbows crowd thinks it's a bit too plebian to cater to athletics so much. And the rest of the University is a much bigger money operation than football and what they really want out of athletics is 'don't embarrass us'. And we are conservative as hell when it comes to stuff like this.
I'm beginning to think if fans really want a change in Michigan football it's well beyond this coach or the next one. It's fans and donors demanding institutional change. We've had three coaches now, two bad, and one very good who hasn't gotten us to where we want. All have underperformed where we thought they wood. We need to start thinking that maybe it isn't the coaches. It's either that or we just accept that we are a good, not great football team that will win between 7-11 games most years, usually settling between 9-10.
I'm honestly fine with that. But then let's stop pretending that we are somehow elite and just held back by needing that *one coach* from the National Champion Coaches store that we never seem to be able to get. Let's just enjoy what we are.
If we want to be elite, we need to get hungry and be willing to risk some mud on our reputations, because that's what division one college football is today. We might be able to do it in a way that is okay. I don't give a rat's arse about the NCAA rules. The NCAA doesn't seem to care about the players anyway. But maybe we could attract players, give them a degree and education that will help them in the league, and set them up with a good brand. Bring in older players like Woodson as guest lecturers to talk about how to be in the league and not get taken advantage of.
To me, *THAT* would be the Michigan difference.
Then stop having a top five spending budget and top five profit margin in all of college football and selling fans that they "believe in championship football". only to not be trying your hardest to win. Pretty sure that can be done a lot more cheaply. Iowa does it.
Then stop having a top five spending budget and top five profit margin
That might be the problem right there. From a money guy perspective who doesn't much care about on field performance... why on earth would they want to cut profit margin? It's more likely that they would want to stop spending the top five budget.
I think honestly the football staff is trying it's hardest to win. Within the silly boundaries we set for ourselves. No JuCo guys. Make it a bear for transfers. Pursue NIL like a rabid wolverine? How gauche! Mr. Worthy would like in early? Did he file form 628 stroke 2 by this date? No? Terribly sorry son. We're the University of Michigan and you should be more responsible.
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