January 27th, 2019 at 3:56 PM ^
Um......
Let's just say i hypothetically agree with you that Arico must go. Exactly what sport are we firing him from?
Asking for a friend.
January 27th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
WBB and I disagree...she is a good coach...slumps happen.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:55 PM ^
Remember just a few years ago when everyone was ready to fire Beilein?
January 28th, 2019 at 8:49 AM ^
A few years ago? I think that was a month into each of the last 10 seasons (current season not included).
January 28th, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
I still think we should. Beilein hasn't taken Michigan once to the College Football Playoff or even the Big Ten title game.
January 27th, 2019 at 6:56 PM ^
We have a women’s basketball team?
January 27th, 2019 at 7:09 PM ^
Womp womp.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:00 PM ^
Who's Mel Pearson?
January 28th, 2019 at 6:03 AM ^
The guy with a toupee that coaches hockey after Red Berenson.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:00 PM ^
Dude looks like a lady
January 27th, 2019 at 5:29 PM ^
I thought it was Mike Tirico with a typo.
January 27th, 2019 at 6:17 PM ^
mGrowOld...that made me chuckle out loud.
I just cannot get into women's basketball. I find it to be the absolutely worst translation of a sport to a women's sport. Women's volleyball is amazing. Women's soccer is tremendous. Softball is super entertaining. Women's golf can be even fun. But Women's basketball, even at the highest level, just looks...poor.
January 27th, 2019 at 8:40 PM ^
Yup and you know why? Because it's played almost entirely below the rim.
I have always maintained (and gotten ripped by the PC crowd for saying it) that an elite 9th grade boys BB team could beat any girls BB team, HS, college or pro.
By 9th grade really good men BB players are dunking-its still a sports center highlight when any woman in any league can do it.
January 28th, 2019 at 7:59 AM ^
Don't apologize. You're right. When I watch the games, the skill level appears to be that of the pick-up playground games I used to play as a teenager in NYC. But, for some reason, that makes the game interesting to me. I can actually relate to what they're doing.
January 27th, 2019 at 10:24 PM ^
You forgot women’s tennis! The best one to watch when they’re not incessantly grunting. Love those tennis outfits.
January 28th, 2019 at 6:40 AM ^
I've never understood why women don't play with a shorter rim.
They're smaller than dudes, so they use a smaller ball. But they still play with a 10' rim. Why?
And I like that you mentioned women's volleyball, which is great to watch... because they play with a net that's 6.5 inches shorter than a men's net.
January 28th, 2019 at 8:14 AM ^
It would cost to much to retrofit every gym and playground.
January 28th, 2019 at 10:10 AM ^
Two Words: Baby Dunk
January 28th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
I think women's volleyball is better because the reduction in power means for better defense, better rallies. I've watched men's college volleyball and the guys can hit the ball so hard that it makes it hard to get any kind of rally going. The high levels of D1 women's volleyball are really fun to watch and definitely my favorite women's sport to watch along with softball
January 28th, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
I agree with this - I am a big fan of many women's sports (swimming, volleyball, even soccer), but I just cannot watch women's basketball.
January 28th, 2019 at 12:09 PM ^
Women's hockey is definitely neck and neck with women's basketball in that regard. I enjoy some women's sports, but hockey and basketball are unwatchable to me. The skill level of both looks equivalent to boys JV level on TV
January 28th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
It does seem odd that basketball is the one Michigan women's sport that has never really been better than mediocre. Seems like we could do better...but do we really care?
January 27th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
Learn to how to speak in complete sentences before calling for people to be fired please.
I know it’s hard for you because you’ve been doing this for years, but please.
just a week ago you were babbling incoherently about the team DURING the game and what happened? They turned the game around and beat OSU.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:07 PM ^
Lol so much irony in your post
January 27th, 2019 at 4:09 PM ^
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:22 PM ^
Pretty sure he understands that it is ironic that in the same post you were telling someone to write in complete sentences you made a glaringly obvious mistake in grammar.
Do YOU understand what irony is?
January 27th, 2019 at 4:32 PM ^
...and not just one mistake.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:52 PM ^
Since everyone is being a "dick" towards each other .....
Most be my turn to be "that guy". Grammar is the spoken language.In written form,it becomes "written English".
grammar (noun): the structure and system of a spoken language, or of languages in general, usual.ly considered to consist of syntax and morphology .
January 27th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^
I'm happy to be corrected (honestly), but I don't follow your distinction.
The word "grammar" typically denotes the structure of a language, and doesn't distinguish between speaking and writing. Etymologically, the word "grammar" literally comes from the Greek "to write."
It's strange that the definition that you provide is exactly the same as the google definition--except that the google definition does not contain the word "spoken." Regardless, while grammar does apply to a spoken language--how could it not?--it doesn't apply to it exclusively as spoken.
It is the case that, more colloquially, people often include spelling and punctuation under the term "grammar," and that's a looser application of the term, but as far as I know the term applies to the structural features of a language, whether in written or spoken form. Again, I'm happy to learn something new.
January 27th, 2019 at 5:32 PM ^
For all our friends who are unsure:
1. the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy irony"
-synonyms:sarcasm, sardonicism, dryness, causticity, sharpness, acerbity, acid, bitterness, trenchancy, mordancy, cynicism;
2. A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
plural noun: ironies
"the irony is that I thought he could help me"
synonyms:paradox, paradoxical nature, incongruity, incongruousness, peculiarity
"the irony of the situation hit her"
3. A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
noun: dramatic irony; plural noun: tragic irony
January 27th, 2019 at 6:03 PM ^
WD is a chubby chaser
January 27th, 2019 at 7:32 PM ^
It's not by choice.
Chubbies are the only set of women that will put up with his arrogant, controlling, ways.
January 27th, 2019 at 7:32 PM ^
So? Don't judge us chubby chasers... #sayNoToBodyShaming #IGetAChubbyForAChubby...
January 27th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
They turned the game around right then? Bingo!
That's what happens when you leave the verb out of a sentence. I learned that in grade school.
January 27th, 2019 at 3:59 PM ^
Sorry but I have no clue who Arico is or what sport he/she coaches.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:02 PM ^
I never really thought she was that good of a coach. She is a good recruiter but cant coach. She is the Tom Crean of womens basketball. With the talent she brings in, we definitely should have more than one ncaa appearance since 2013.
January 28th, 2019 at 8:18 AM ^
She is the Tom Crean of womens basketball.
So, her suits don't fit either?
January 27th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
lololol lest we forget Cheryl Burnett?
Bad seasons happen. You don't fire good coaches when there's a blip on the radar, especially when the program isn't a tire fire anymore.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:08 PM ^
I have no opinion on Arico--she generated excitement when first hired. But I have found myself wondering why Michigan can't field a strong women's hoop squad.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:13 PM ^
administrations of the past neglected the program, hired duds that were hated by their players and then stuck with them until they burned the entire program down.
I could write an entire diary about it because there is a lot to tell, but basically every women's sport at Michigan has found *that coach* that is the face of the program and has built their respective program up into a championship-level program.
Softball has Hutch, W Gymnastics has Bev Plocki, W Swim & Dive had Jim Richardson, W Track has James Henry, W Cross Country has Mike McGuire, Volleyball has the Rosens (haven't won a B1G title yet but have a Final 4), Field Hockey has Marcia Pankratz, W Tennis has Ronni Bernstein.
Every sport but two here. WBB and W Golf.
If you go back and look at W Gymnastics, Field Hockey & Volleyball in particular prior to the 3 coaches I named above being hired, the history is very ugly and full of losses. Very similar to WBB's.
WBB just hasn't had that long term coach that builds it up. KBA is Michigan's winningest coach all-time and it didn't take her very long to do it.
January 27th, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
WD
Any ideas concerning the losses of Boogie and Kysre?
January 27th, 2019 at 5:01 PM ^
To WD's point, KBA just feels like the WBB equivalent of Tommy Amaker, i.e. the 'coach before the coach'. Good enough to stabilize the program, but probably not gonna get you over the top. I could be wrong tho, and I think KBA should get some more to time to find out.
January 27th, 2019 at 5:36 PM ^
Spot on!
January 27th, 2019 at 5:36 PM ^
Spot on!
January 27th, 2019 at 5:39 PM ^
Borseth wasn't a "dud", though perhaps not the right person for the Michigan job. He has won 664 games. He had a winning record at Michigan. He's gone 175-40 since he left with 5 NCAA appearances in 6 years, albeit not in the B10.
I believe a solid argument could be made the Sue Guevera is a better Xs and Os coach as well, and killing it at CMU.
Arico's teams really do have an in-game Amaker feel to them. Plus Arico is 4-12 against MSU without a single win against State in the B10 tourney. Arico's record is worth discussion.
January 27th, 2019 at 5:50 PM ^
If you read below I said the burner should be turned on if we miss the tournament.
The duds I were referring to were Trish Roberts who had a........5-63(!!!!!) B1G record. Think about that for a moment. As well as Cheryl Burnett who had a 10-54 B1G record and named a true freshman as a team captain. That alone says a lot.
Stop measuring this program against MSU. There is no comparison right now, and there wasn't any when Borseth was here because he never even beat them.
January 27th, 2019 at 6:44 PM ^
I think Borseth was a good coach and not a great recruiter. Need a combo of the 2 to make it to the next level.
January 27th, 2019 at 10:35 PM ^
You're working too hard at this. So you get to skip Borseth to make your comparison. How convenient. And I will always compare how we are doing vis-a-vis MSU and you should too. MSU ain't UConn or even ND---plus it has been top 20 only once in the past 5 years. My Gawd your bar is low.
January 28th, 2019 at 12:14 PM ^
Tough to think of a spot where I'd name a true freshmen a captain, but that alone doesn't say a lot. You need the full context of that situation to use it as evidence of a bad coach. That record tho.. that alone says enough.