Bakich leaving for Clemson
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Damn. I'll do without the bad news link.
Hire Borges?
We probably didn't match the salary. I guess back to square one?
That is not the case. He is from that part and started his coaching at Clemson. Money was not the problem.
You're so full of shit.
Chill. Even if he's wrong you don't need to say it like that. Grow up.
He is from California..
I find California people to be way more mellow than Michigan people.
After living in both states for a long time ... I humbly yet firmly disagree
TBH, I don't know how much he makes. I was listening WTKA round table with MGOBLOG. Seth talked a bit about him and what it would take. If you listen to it, you will see why I made that comment.
I saw an article that said he was making $400k at UM and his new deal is for $1mil.
So they just adjusted for inflation?
(ducks)
Fire bakich
Bire Fakich
Hire Bakich!
Fu-uck.
As college sports becomes big business, Michigan's going to take some hits. I still think that the top universities in the ACC, Pac 12, and B1G should form their own conference, like the Ivy League, and go it on their own. Reframe some of these sports to keep them fresh and interesting, keep a little bit of the cynical manipulation away from the kids and play ball. Pump the scholastics. I don't feel any f*cking need to play the shitty Alabamas and Clemsons of this world to prove my school's worth; Michigan's worth 20 of those jive-time institutions.
I cannot agree with this enough. I was a D3 football player, and I love the sport, the postseason tournament, competition, etc. I follow my school and am passionately involved.
You don’t need to play / beat some asshole football factories in the South to feel school pride, and to be excited about athletic competition. I put Clemson squarely in that category.
I’m in this boat. Go back to how it used to be. You go to a school for an education and maybe a sport can get you a scholarship. No under table deals or coaches making tens of millions. Make it for the love of the game. Don’t care if we ever beat an SEC play schools that are also there for the right reasons
I think they should make your job voluntary - make it for the passion and love of the job.
I don’t really think that - I wouldn’t want to put my hand in your pocket or stop you from earning a living from your work. So maybe consider that when you out your hands in other people’s pocket.
Those under the table deals go back a very long time, maybe more than 100 years. You're yearning for a past that didn't exist.
Michigan is closer to Alabama in Athletics than they are Northwestern or Vandy. Just get better! Taking your ball and going home never is the route. We have been competitive in all the top sports, why run from the competition?
Agree - if we get a few universities together and join an "Ivy League like conference", our teams will never be on TV and won't compete for national titles. We'll be recruiting 2 star players...
These institutions need to be taxed. You want to solve the student debt crisis? Make college football revenue taxable.
Taxation makes puts these institutions under the scrutiny of the IRS and treasury. Which has subpoena power.
And tax the PGA and the NFL while you're at it. Insane that those orgs have nonprofit, untaxable status.
Hospitals are typically non-profit too & they are huge revenue generators. When all the revenue is paid out, there is nothing left to tax. Doesn’t mean that doctors (and all medical staff) & pro golfers & football players don’t pay tax.
Yes, and while the NFL may have non-profit status, the teams do not. They are the entities that make the big money.
The NFL is a pass through entity that funnels all it's money to the NFL teams... who pay taxes on it.
I've been suggesting the same thing. Do what the University of Chicago did 100 years ago, and pull the rip-cord on this thing.
Funny thing is, that's kind of what we had for a long time. The National Championship was always out there, obviously, but our focus was on winning the Big Ten and going to the Rose Bowl, to play the winner of a conference that was, in many ways, the West Coast equivalent.
With the possible exception of Ohio State, which may have Alabama more in its sights than we do, seems like we could get the Northwesterns, Illinoiseseseses, Minnesotas, and Indianas to recommit to a sensible and shared NIL agreement (with, I suppose, some oversight to ensure no grotesque aberrations), and ... go forward on that model.
Hell, the winner of the Rose Bowl-equivalent could be part of a four- or eight-team playoff, if we wanted, with the understanding that the Alabamas and Texas A&Ms of the world were operating, essentially, on a completely different model.
I mean, if the winner of the Ivy League can play in the NCAA basketball tournament, I see no reason why the winner of the Rose Bowl-equivalent couldn't play in the national championship playoffs (with, presumably, about the same chances of success).
But with their academic standards and lax admissions criteria, we're already playing with one arm behind our backs, and I do not look forward to the prospect of getting into an out-and-out bidding war for student-athletes. Ugh.
i’ve been saying this for years. big-time college sports are no longer compatible with the very notion of a University, and indeed undermine the concept on a fundamental level.
When they increased Michigan Stadium capacity to seat 100,000 back in the 1940s how was it "compatible with the notion of the university".
it wasn’t.
Michigan is fine with college sports being a big business. That's why my 2022 OSU ticket cost over 300% more than my 1997 OSU ticket for the exact same seat (even after adjusting for inflation). That's why the Big Ten is about to sign a $1 billion a year TV deal. That's why they charge $8 for a 20 oz of Coke at Michigan Stadium.
Michigan is happy being in big business college athletics where everything is transactional (sorry Harbaugh) as long as they are the ones benefiting. Now that the world has changed, UM will have to decide if it's ok sharing with the players.
Every time Michigan loses a game, loses a recruit, or loses a coach someone has to come in with the holier than thou "I hate what college sports have become, let's take our ball and go home". Yes, let's become Vanderbilt and be lucky to get 15,000 per game, or just get rid of athletics all together and let millions of dollars worth of athletics buildings sit empty.
Those aren't the choices. But one thing is true--second-tier status WITHIN the confines of the increasingly venal minor league sports arena that the major college sports are becoming IS a possibility that Michigan faces.
We just won 13 conference titles in one athletics year...
THIS!!!!!!!! We are the best athletic department in the B1G! Yet people act like we’re Dartmouth in sports. Bakich is a great coach, but he isn’t the only coach that can win here. They found him and hopefully they can find another coach of his caliber to be here as well.
People are so eager to (sloppily) shear all the nuance off of an argument--I said we'd be in danger of perennial also-ran status in comparison to the Bamas and Clemsons and Texas A&Ms, not that we would be garbage.
This might be good timing for a change for both parties. Bakich did the most he can do with this program.
He may have done the most anyone can do with this program... There's a reason Michigan was the first team from a cold weather state to even make it to the the championship in 50 years.
Open the wallet and see if Chris Fetter will come back. Doesn't seem likely, but that should be the first call.
They won't get Fetter. With how well he's doing with the Tigers staff he'll be a prized MLB commodity. Realistic great hire potential would be Jordan Bischel from Central Michigan. Arguably has had the best baseball program in the state since 2020, 3 straight regionals at CMU, and they kicked Michigan's ass in last year's regional, took Florida to the wire this postseason. He would be a home run (pun) hire.
Bischel interviewed at Kansas today.
He could probably turnaround Kansas as well, but initial thoughts is that would be a downgrade for him program wise.
The Tigers are one if the 5 worst teams in baseball this year. Why do you think he has done a great job? Skubal has been terrible this year and Mize hasn't progressed much either and now the bullpen has come back to average lately so curious where you see improvements.
Skubal has a 2.71 ERA. Mize threw 10 innings before going down for the season.
The Tigers are 12th in the majors in ERA despite several injuries to starters. They were 17th last season. The problem is they’re the lowest-scoring team in MLB by far (more than a half run per game worse than second-worst Oakland).
The Tigers bullpen through May was 2nd best in MLB. Fetter has been doing a phenomenal job with the Tigers' pitching staff.
What a terrible take. In the misery that this year has been for the Tigers, pretty much the only bright spots would be Fetter, his very deep starting rotation, and his bullpen. Skubal may be the single best development for them this year in particular.
Mize getting TJ and the team not being able to hit the broad side of a barn certainly doesn't fall to the pitching coach.
If you want to argue it's not all on Fetter and these young arms were already in place and just needed more development time, that's one thing. But even so we can just look at the sentiment from seemingly everywhere in baseball praising the job he's done.