Unverified Voracity Yinzers it Up
[Eric Upchurch]
I have more jokes! Jared Wangler grew a mustache and it is glorious.
did Jared Wangler grow a mustache or did Dave Wannstedt finally download his soul into a 20-year-old's body pic.twitter.com/DNswLmB4Cn
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) August 3, 2018
Wangler is now
- Don Brown's greenhorn partner who gets killed in the cold open, leading Brown into a maelstrom of revenge
- a "vaudville barenuckle boxer"
- Ben Mason's accomplice in a series of crimes that shock the sensibilities of Victorian London
- a fullback
Thank you to the many Michigan football players who provide us #content with their bold sartorial choices. Henry Poggi will always be your king.
Khaleke Hudson's very productive day. Match Quarters has an extensive breakdown of Michigan's approach in last year's Minnesota game, which you may remember featured a vast number of Khaleke Hudson TFLs:
hen looking at the scheme Brown chose to defend the Gophers 11/20 pers. formations, one will notice the ultra aggressiveness towards the run and the lack of “coverage” for the H-back. Brown also had several change-ups and automatics to motion and the different formations the Gophers threw at the Wolverines. Below is a diagram of how Brown blitzed the Viper anytime the H-back motioned away.
Coach Brown during his clinic talk at the 2018 Lone Star Clinic noted the absence of the TE in the passing game during the Big 10 season. Outside of Troy Fumagalli at Wisconsin and Mike Gesiki at Penn State, one will be hard-pressed to find a TE that merits an extra man in the passing game. This allowed the Wolverines to add an extra defender in the box against most Big 10 opponents without worrying about an “H-Pop” or a TE streaking down the middle of the field.
![01 [MIvMN] Base DEF](https://i2.wp.com/matchquarters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/01-MIvMN-Base-DEF.png?resize=840%2C629&ssl=1)
Much more at the link.
[After THE JUMP: more Zach Smith stuff, Quinn Hughes doing Quinn Hughes things.]
The receipts, there are many. Zach Smith update:
Powell police reports reveal Courtney Smith filed nine police reports between January 2012 and July of this year.
In October of 2015, Courtney Smith told police a man in an SUV was following her and "making her nervous." Five days later, Smith reported a "domestic incident" at her home the previous night. She told Powell police she was a victim of "sustained physical abuse."
Zach Smith was never charged with a domestic violence crime. The couple divorced in 2016, but the police reports kept coming. In December 2017, Courtney Smith told police her neighbors saw her ex-husband "looking in her windows" and "banging on her door”.
This was a near constant stream of abuse that went on for years. Not occasional incidents. Constant. Post-divorce. Smith was the bad guy in a Lifetime movie. And Ohio State did nothing.
It'll be interesting to see what way the media goes on this. Dan Wolken's already decided, more or less:
The way Meyer views himself as a coach, the difficult calls are eventually made very simple by his sanctimonious, self-appointed sense of justice. Whether it was Aaron Hernandez running wild at Florida with no repercussions, Gators running back Chris Rainey texting “Time to die” to his girlfriend or star running back Carlos Hyde caught on video in a violent act before the 2013 season at Ohio State, Meyer needed nothing more than another stroke of his ego to justify giving someone chance after chance.
But the anvil that has finally cracked Meyer’s holier-than-thou image for good has arrived in the form of an alleged serial domestic abuser who was given a second chance on his coaching staff when a troubling incident came to light in 2009, then fired last week when Zach Smith’s ex-wife was granted a protective order. ...
when you have an outsized view of your own sense of truth, it’s easy to believe in the mission you’re on over all else, including the humanity being wrecked right under your nose. It happened at Florida, where Meyer left a rotten locker room culture and a broken program. And with that belief in himself seemingly rising again above the truth that was right there in plain sight, history may be about to repeat itself.
If and when—when—Ohio State decides that Meyer needs a rap on the knuckles and a stern word, how many folks in the media will forget about it? Everyone working for ESPN. Everyone on the Ohio State beat, which looks like a giant pile of Graham Couch today as TV stations dig up arrest report after arrest report that nobody at an Ohio newspaper touched for going on a decade. Like MSU, the press is complicit. I don't want to hear another word about "fanbois" from anyone at the Dispatch ever again, that's for damn sure.
More anonymous quotes. Athlon's schtick but it's pretty effective:
"They don’t have a quarterback, they are terrible on defense and they are one of the worst teams we’ve played in the last six or seven years. At one point last year, I remember watching film on them and thinking this team looks completely disinterested."
Whoops, that's about Illinois. The Michigan quotes are pretty boring. That's all but inevitable when Michigan comes into the season as possibly the most obvious team in the country:
"Jim’s problems are no different than most anyone else: He needs a quarterback. What’s surprising is that’s what he does best. He coaches quarterbacks and makes them elite performers and leaders."
This is correct but it's not exactly groundbreaking. Unfortunately the annual thing where Mike Spath gets a bunch of useful stuff at Big Ten media day didn't seem to happen this year. His replacements at Rivals got... not much. Gotta ask more specific questions.
Bear of a schedule. Michigan is 14th in the Peak Wealth Management Coaches' Poll, and, uh, gonna be some games this year. Relevant teams on the list:
- #3 OSU
- #7 Wisconsin
- #9 Penn State
- #11 Notre Dame
- #12 Michigan State
- #14 Michigan
Should be fun! Or absolutely not fun.
More night games. I still don't understand why we have to put all the games on at 8 PM:
Heard from a source today that is expecting Michigan vs. Nebraska, Michigan at Michigan State and (this is a new one for me) Michigan vs. Penn State to be night games.
— Michael Spath (@MichaelSpathITH) July 18, 2018
You'd think spreading out the good ones would get you more ratings. Having four in a season (ND is also at night) is a bit much. Each one of these that you throw in November is just making everyone attending the games a little more miserable. Not that anyone cares about people in the stands.
Good God y'all. Quinn Hughes's return should have you hyped. Dude is only getting more weaponized:
3️⃣ assists for Quinn Hughes today =
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) August 3, 2018
1️⃣ helper so nice, you won't believe it = pic.twitter.com/IcDp8ZQq07
He'll be the best player on the ice every game this season. Josh Norris got the slam dunk on the last one, BTW. Also there's this from a few years ago:
#fbf to seeing a real life magician sorcerer on ice. Quinn Hughes hockey skills are 100% savage pic.twitter.com/P1CrHo4bcC
— Pacific Rink (@pacificrink) July 27, 2018
Yeehaw.
Etc.: Even more basketball recruiting calendar changes. Eric Rudland profiled. Never been happier that the Borens transferred. Can we stop quoting Paternos about anything please? Cole Bajema is a basketball name to know.
Hughes, man. Hughes. He's going to be incredible. I'm on board the bandwagon.
That second clip of him playing keep away was almost Datsyukian.
Holy crap that last one was gross. Poor damn goalie.
I will eat a lemon if Meyer is fired. I'm not sure I have the technical skills to post a video of it on the blog, but I will do it.
Anyone know about all the arrest reports he's referring to? Haven't heard about those.
August 5th, 2018 at 12:05 AM ^
They aren't all arrests. Pretty sure he was arrested only twice. But there are nine cases in which Courtney called the police on him (mostly for things like stalking her).
August 3rd, 2018 at 11:09 PM ^
Hell yeah. I'd eat one too, if it would help appease the AUMHGs!
You said this on the roundtable too, but wasn't it Justin Boren that transferred? I thought Zach just went to OSU from the start
You are correct. Justin started at Michigan. He transferred when RR came aboard. Zach only went to OSU.
Said this before, but the whole Boren family is low rent trash. Mike Boren waited until Bo died before publicly trashing Michigan because he was too much of a fucking coward and knew that an 86-year old infirm man would've kicked his ass for being a gutless traitor.
Fuck the Borens and their crotchspawn.
Bo was 77 when he died but yeah.
Ah, my bad - but yeah. I'd still put money on dead Bo vs live Boren any day of the week.
That's why we call him Ol' Flubby References
Michigan had two home night games last season and should only have one this year per new contract. If they have two Warde has some explaining to do.
Warde's hands are tied due to TV contract. There's not much he can do if he wants the money to roll into the athletic department. He may have some say by saying he prefers to have one home night game a season but considering the home slate, it's not a problem.
2019: We might see ND and MSU as home night games but we don't know how well they'll perform until after the season started.
2020: Maybe Wisconsin and PSU but it's two years away.
2021: Washington and MSU but again it's 3 years away.
Night games are amazing and we should have one every year, with the goal of two.
This! I’ve been going to games since 1990 and LOVED the night game I went to (UTL II). I really don’t understand the animosity about night games. It was an incredible experience, I thought.
Toe touches leather at 12:00 on Saturdays, or something along those lines
The contract is for a minimum of 3 home night games over the 2 years. They can, and likely will, have more. PSU sounds like the other choice.
97 we played the toughest schedule in the nation and started ranked right around 14. I hope we can duplicate that!!
If Urban is fired (or "resigns"), I hope the buckeyes focus their anger on MSU not firing Izzo/Dantonio rather than trying to murder Courtney Smith or McMurphy. They both seem to be getting the "Herbstreit Treatment" already. That place is an asylum for diseased zoo animals.
It won't be much of a stretch, if Urban is fired, to suggest that he was fired in part as a reaction to MSU's colossal fumbling of this situation.
And if he gets fired the scrutiny on MSU's athletic department should definitely be turned up to 11. I for one would praise OSU for decisiveness and ask why MSU hasn't shown the same level of initiative.
We have seen why MSU will not show that level of decisiveness - they are an absolute cesspool of moral blindness, victim-shaming, and circle the wagons groupthink. As a taxpayer in the State of Michigan I am disappointed and appalled not only on what occurred there but what is currently happening with "new leadership."
This is why the refs in 2016 were not going to call JT short. He's short, you're a ref who lives in Ohio, your life and your family's safety passes before your eyes ....
Lol at those Columbus journalists. Only one or two professions that are more self-congratulatory than that crowd (pat themselves on the back "we're so underappreciated by people...the people need us for FREEDOM and TRUTH").
In reality, most journalists are no different from most people in any other job. They aren't going to dig too hard when presented with facts that may negatively impact their own self-interests (protecting their own gig). Ratting on Urban or Izzo or Dantonio == blocked access to the program, so they don't tread on uncomfortable ground. They then rationalize it in hindsight with nonsense like "that's outside the confines of what I write about." So it's within your coverage to write about Payne being a media darling with a sick little kid, but not to write about the not-so-secret sexual assault allegations? Got it.
Disagree that night games make people in the stands more uncomfortable. Night games were the best atmospheres by far at the Michigan games I attended. Its a different crowd that is objectively more involved.
November. He said night games in November, and he was not wrong at all.
Eh, NFL has had night games in Green Bay, NYG, NYJ, Chicago, NE, etc. in January yet they still have fans showing up for the games.
Beside with global warming, November isn't as bad as it used to be. Sure it's cold but not uncomfortable cold to the point where it's impossible to stay outside to watch the game. The average temperature in November in Ann Arbor is somewhere between 42 to 55 degrees which isn't terrible.
The number you gave for "average temperature" is the average high temperature, which happens around 3 pm that time of year. The average low temperature, of more concern to people going to night games, is somewhere between 27 to 37 degrees in November, which is terrible.
NFL average temperature is around the same as low and could be as low as below zero yet the fans don't have a problem showing up for a game. Just wear winter hat, gloves and coat.
Nobody's arguing that people won't show up. Of course they will, for a big game. I will be there, day or night, and so will most people I know.
I don't think it's ridiculous to be annoyed by November games at night. I'm willing to bet that it's by far the majority view among students and non-students, if you ask the ones who actually go to the games.
It is ridiculous to be annoyed by November night games because they're big games. I was a student and would be fine with 8pm start time because you know that it's a big game. What non-big game that is actually a night game? Zero. If it's a big game like OSU, you'd bet everyone is gonna show up for it regardless of the weather.
The only legit complaint is if it's a freezing rain. Otherwise, meh.
Yeah, the Rocket game was miserable (for multiple reasons)
August 3rd, 2018 at 11:42 PM ^
Because 100 proof antifreeze
Speak for yourself. Team Brian on this one when it comes to November and having to do this multiple times per year. Was planning on coming to town for Penn State. Now? Probably not.
preemptive /getoffmylawn
Shave it.
Works for Don Brown.
Does not work for Wangler.
This is a blasphemy on par with those dolts who keep saying "Dilly Dilly."
Take it back. Tack it back RIGHT NOW!
Isn't Dilly Dilly sort of over?
Sorry to offend. But the stache works for some guys and not for others.
August 4th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
People that complain about Dilly dilly are the worst. Relax and laugh once and a while.
"Can we stop quoting the Paternos about anything" - Gold!
I thought that we had some limit over the number of night games in a two year stretch, at least for home games? And I'd thought we'd done our quota since we had MSU and Minnesota as night games last year. Yet clearly if Nebraska and Penn State are planned at night, I'm mistaken in some way.
I am confused about night game policy too. We can control our own night games at home, but we can't control road games. Every year we are going to have 3 or 4 away games that are the biggest home game on that team's schedule, and now more and more of those are going to be night games too. I am Grandpa Simpson shaking my fist at the world regarding all the night games. I don't like 'em. In fact, I live 45 minutes from Michigan Stadium and I won't attend any night games because I don't want to get home at 2 in the morning after battling traffic to get out.
We do not fully control our ability for home night games. The new contract gives most (maybe all) of the control to the TV networks except after the first weekend in November. Starting with the second weekend in November, Warde can decline night games. We are guaranteed 3 home night games between last year and this year, but they can include more if the networks want.
I recall Ohio State's second touchdown last year, a guy streaking from around the tight end position (not sure who it was or his position) straight into the end zone, where he was all alone as the ball came his way for the easy catch. Did Ohio State catch Don Brown sleeping on that kind of play?
I hear and see these yinzers ever single day on and off the parkway. Please don't yinz this up!
Zach Boren is the absolute worst.
Not just Zachs named "Boren." Those named "Smith" are pretty much scumbags, too.
Very Mac-ish.
August 4th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
Several unrelated points, yet still related to the post:
1). The college-age Dave Wannstedt did not have the stache, which was shocking to me:
2). Part of what made the Minnesota night game extra miserable last year was the fact that, if it had been a noon game, it was gloriously perfect football weather, cool, but not too cool, cloudy, and a slight breeze. Instead, fans attending the game had to wait out a storm in Crisler before we could even get into the game, which started an hour late, and then sat through weather that threatened to have the skies open up again. For the fan at home, yeah, no big deal. For the people in attendance, it was a suboptimal experience.
August 6th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
This was a near constant stream of abuse that went on for years. Not occasional incidents. Constant. Post-divorce. Smith was the bad guy in a Lifetime movie. And Ohio State did nothing.
This is a profound statement to make right after stating that Zach Smith has never been charged with a domestic violence crime. Would probably be best to preface this with an "In my opinion,". It's dangerous to present things that are your opinion or guess as a fact. I would be very interested for you to break down, in specifics, which parts of the evidence lead you to believe this and why you believe the police disagree with you.
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