I gotta think that whenever Gattis takes a HC job Mike Hart is the next in line for us. He had an associate head coach title in Indiana last year and I mean *gestures at our RB room.*
Honestly I would love to see some well thought out takes on the most utterly contrived “we flew every player/team in the sports league to a private island for two months” tournament formats. What would a radical reimagining of a sports league season look like to fit it within those constraints?
Yeah, say what you want about Pep/whatever but saying we’ve had lackluster QB recruiting (during all of Harbaugh’s tenure) is a terrible take. We’ve nabbed a solid blue chip QB prospect in every class AND have hit on 2/3 transfers. The only bad thing you could say about our QB recruiting is that we haven’t landed a Natty boi wunderkind like Trevor Lawrence.
Wrestling wouldn’t play well with football at a collegiate level anyway I don’t think. It seems like football players are mostly trying to bulk up more, while wrestlers are unilaterally trying to cut tens of pounds to an arbitrary number.
It’s good that he’s gone, but it’s still a terrible look on MSU’s regents that it’s happening now instead of months ago when he was doing all sorts of unethical things. It seems to me that they brought him in with covering things up in mind, let him be reckless and terrible throughout this entire Nassar scandal, then only after they’re mostly clear of it, fire him. Meanwhile he gets millions of dollars and MSU’s image is “redeemed” because they made the bad man go away.
Solomon playing the "Fuck Michigan" long-con. Show up with flashes of greatness a true freshman, be out for most of his sophomore year with injuries when he was projected to start, transfer to Georgia and sit out 2019, then eat McCaffrey alive in the 2020 playoff semis.
Agreed that if anyone it'll probably be Johns. Castleton needs to put on 50 pounds of muscle, Nunez has looked like he's probably well behind Brooks and DeJulius on the bench. The team seems to operate pretty well with any two of Simpson/Poole/Brooks, so DeJulius would have to break through something there. If we wanted to do a small-ball lineup and spell Matthews or Iggy Johns could probably be that guy.
We definitely were running more than a 7 man rotation last year. Starters + Duncan, Simmons, Teske were all seeing real minutes, with Poole getting time for a few spot ups. Livers being able to be both a change of pace at the 5 and play his more natural position at the 4 definitely makes it harder to justify time for other players though.
Diag is amazing but you’re going to want to get there as early as possible if you want to get in - it’s going to be full to capacity before 9:30am most likely, probably even earlier.
There’s a lesser known one in the Wicker Park area called Fifty50 that was pretty nice and not ridiculously crowded like Duffy’s/Diag usually are.
I’m pretty sure we’re all hoping for at least another 5-10 years of Beilein. Yak probably won’t be a coach in waiting for that long but if he does well where he moves onto he’s probably at the top of our list.
I agree about this. Thorson started the game 9/10 and just about every throw allowed the covered receiver to make a good catch on it. Thorson played like a first rounder in the first quarter and then regressed to the mean.
It probably wouldn’t happen for a while. Wiping out OSU is obviously our goal, but the real enemy is Nebraska/Oklahoma/TexasAM - both allied groups would want to at least wipe out some amount of the opposing alliance before it would make sense to consider going against the group. And even then, being the first to flip on your alliance is a pretty dangerous choice because you probably share lots of borders with your allies, so they could quickly pressure you.
It’s a little more like waking up to the 2016 Game every morning. By all measures we should be winning things but something stupid keeps happening that prevents us from running away with it.
A lot of players in recent history have had massive year 1 to year 2 leaps. Burke, Stauskas, DJ Wilson, Mo, LeVert, Zavier, etc. all made massive strides in their second year after being role players or seeing spot time their freshman year. They both have 6-7 months to complete rework and tune their game with college coaching and on court experience at the highest collegiate level, compared to just 2-3 months with no on court collegiate experience coming into this season when they enrolled.
That's like 7 points on the board max. It doesn't really make sense to think that teams should just always shoot 1.00 from the stripe. A great free throw shooting day is the team going ~0.8
I mean, the first game of the BTT we went to OT with Iowa, who is in all honesty probably worse than the Montana team we did end up beating by double digits last night. We came out of the Northwestern loss laying the torch to 9 straight opponents to finish the regular season.
Offensive line looked basically fine on most downs, pass pro usually broke down after two plays with a clean pocket where we threw multiple incompletions because we couldn’t hit an open man (or a man couldn’t get open). The OL this year wasn’t amazing but it wasn’t an absolute tire fire, whereas our WRs and QBs were very much a tire fire.
I think Delaware State is a more apt example. Especially with how it turns out Florida State isn’t actually postseason eligible because they scheduled them.
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It seems like Harbaugh’s pitch to every QB is that they’ll come here, enroll early, redshirt, compete for the starting job, and if it doesn’t look like it’ll work out here, they grad transfer with 2 years left.
Honestly kind of wonder about that. If Wisconsin wins the B1G at 12-1 they could get in. There are no 1 loss teams remaining in the PAC, and the choice is basically between 1 loss B1G champ wisconsin, 2 or 3 loss PAC champ ???, or the runner up to the SEC or ACC who just lost a game to an opponent who is presumably in the playoff.
Basically everywhere on the defense. I suspect the depth on defense is more Mattison’s doing than Hoke’s though, but we had senior and deep position groups across the whole defense. Even this year when the cupboards are basically dry or super young everywhere else we have Hurst/Winovich/Mone/McCray/Furbush. This year is basically the first year Harbaugh’s recruits on defense are seeing the part of the field as starters.
Freshman WR can be pretty good but it’s a lot easier if the team has other good veteran receiving threats on the team to be the main dudes. Basically every person except Perry who has caught a pass for us is either a freshman or a RS freshman.
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I gotta think that whenever Gattis takes a HC job Mike Hart is the next in line for us. He had an associate head coach title in Indiana last year and I mean *gestures at our RB room.*
Honestly I would love to see some well thought out takes on the most utterly contrived “we flew every player/team in the sports league to a private island for two months” tournament formats. What would a radical reimagining of a sports league season look like to fit it within those constraints?
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We could take a shot at Mark Few? Could definitely give him more money.
Yeah, say what you want about Pep/whatever but saying we’ve had lackluster QB recruiting (during all of Harbaugh’s tenure) is a terrible take. We’ve nabbed a solid blue chip QB prospect in every class AND have hit on 2/3 transfers. The only bad thing you could say about our QB recruiting is that we haven’t landed a Natty boi wunderkind like Trevor Lawrence.
Wrestling wouldn’t play well with football at a collegiate level anyway I don’t think. It seems like football players are mostly trying to bulk up more, while wrestlers are unilaterally trying to cut tens of pounds to an arbitrary number.
Ah, this is a fair take as well, I forgot there was an election that affects the board of trustees recently.
It’s good that he’s gone, but it’s still a terrible look on MSU’s regents that it’s happening now instead of months ago when he was doing all sorts of unethical things. It seems to me that they brought him in with covering things up in mind, let him be reckless and terrible throughout this entire Nassar scandal, then only after they’re mostly clear of it, fire him. Meanwhile he gets millions of dollars and MSU’s image is “redeemed” because they made the bad man go away.
Solomon playing the "Fuck Michigan" long-con. Show up with flashes of greatness a true freshman, be out for most of his sophomore year with injuries when he was projected to start, transfer to Georgia and sit out 2019, then eat McCaffrey alive in the 2020 playoff semis.
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Agreed that if anyone it'll probably be Johns. Castleton needs to put on 50 pounds of muscle, Nunez has looked like he's probably well behind Brooks and DeJulius on the bench. The team seems to operate pretty well with any two of Simpson/Poole/Brooks, so DeJulius would have to break through something there. If we wanted to do a small-ball lineup and spell Matthews or Iggy Johns could probably be that guy.
We definitely were running more than a 7 man rotation last year. Starters + Duncan, Simmons, Teske were all seeing real minutes, with Poole getting time for a few spot ups. Livers being able to be both a change of pace at the 5 and play his more natural position at the 4 definitely makes it harder to justify time for other players though.
Diag is amazing but you’re going to want to get there as early as possible if you want to get in - it’s going to be full to capacity before 9:30am most likely, probably even earlier.
There’s a lesser known one in the Wicker Park area called Fifty50 that was pretty nice and not ridiculously crowded like Duffy’s/Diag usually are.
I’m pretty sure we’re all hoping for at least another 5-10 years of Beilein. Yak probably won’t be a coach in waiting for that long but if he does well where he moves onto he’s probably at the top of our list.
Michigan and getting amazing defensive minds from cold calls, name a better pair.
This would be simultaneously the darkest/dankest timeline. The Game being the Harbowl would be insane.
I agree about this. Thorson started the game 9/10 and just about every throw allowed the covered receiver to make a good catch on it. Thorson played like a first rounder in the first quarter and then regressed to the mean.
Injecting this directly into my veins thank you.
Unfortunately I don’t think that was the worst thing he did.
Yeah, if those teams hadn’t figured our defense out surely our unstoppable offense would’ve brought home the W.
This is true, but Villanova is actually playing their lottery pick for starter minutes.
That's like 7 points on the board max. It doesn't really make sense to think that teams should just always shoot 1.00 from the stripe. A great free throw shooting day is the team going ~0.8
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I mean, the first game of the BTT we went to OT with Iowa, who is in all honesty probably worse than the Montana team we did end up beating by double digits last night. We came out of the Northwestern loss laying the torch to 9 straight opponents to finish the regular season.
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Vintage Beilein thrashing.
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