MGoPodcast 7.14: Not Entirely About Darts
1 hour 26 minutes
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OFFENSE
De'Veon Smith as Ricky Vaughn, I be like dang Jake Rudock, three amigos 2016, offensive line maybe kinda shaky on the ground but pass protection was superb.
DEFENSE
Not particularly tested due to the opposition. Peppers necessity on D next year, linebacker collar-pull, Henry and Wormley beast mode.
BASKETBALL
Pumping the brakes a tad on Mark Donnal, but hooray that anyway. Rotation emergence, shooting of the three, all of the three.
INSIDE THE CROOKED BLUE LINE WITH STEVE LORENZ
'Crootin talk featuring Rashan Gary, Dylan Crawford, Lavert Hill, Chase Allen, and many others. Also darts. In fact like the first five minutes of this segment are somehow about darts.
MUSIC
"Across 110th Street"
"Hail Hail," Shovels & Rope
"The Man Comes Around," Johnny Cash
"Little Acorns," The White Stripes
THE USUAL LINKS
January 5th, 2016 at 3:51 PM ^
Friend of mine used to work for Kevin Trudeau, the quack writer guy ("There's a cure for cancer doctors don't want you to know about!"). He might be in jail these days, no idea. He had a holdings company. All sort of weirdo businesses all run from a small office in Chicago. Anyway, at one point was trying to or did acquire a pro darts league.
January 5th, 2016 at 5:19 PM ^
January 5th, 2016 at 5:33 PM ^
January 5th, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^
That was a good podcast.
January 5th, 2016 at 5:51 PM ^
A pocket QB who has an accurate arm, he will make an offense that functions around him and it'll be good. He ain't even got to have a strong arm, just an accurate one. Florida's offense with the steroid boy was pretty good considering how shite the talent level was.
But oh boy, if you give Nuss a QB who is primarily a runner, he will just pretend he can throw. He just don't believe in it.
January 5th, 2016 at 6:42 PM ^
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January 5th, 2016 at 9:27 PM ^
Disclaimer: I know we are having a phenomenal recruiting year so I don't want to sound like sour grapes, but I couldn't help but wonder.
Is there any concern that we don't seem to be landing that many of the state's top recruits? Maybe I'm wrong, but there seems to be a recent trend towards OSU, ND, and MSU getting a higher percentage of in state talent than I would have expected. In the 2016 my hunch is that UM only lands 2 of the top 10 (Hill and Onwenu) and OSU takes the #1 player (Jordan).
In 2015 UM got 3 of the top 10 (Cole, Malzone, Perry), but again OSU got the #1 player (Weber) and the #5 player (Alabi), both of whom are Cass Tech kids. MSU got 3 of the top 10 and would have 4 if Campbell didn't body slam a school security guard.
In 2014 UM again got 3 of the top 10 (Harris, Marshall, Ways), but again OSU got the #1 player (Webb) and MSU got the #2 player (McDowell). MSU also took 3 of the top 10.
It just seems that OSU is having an awful lot of success landing the top overall players out of Michigan and that certainly isn't true the other way around for Michigan recruiting Ohio. I get the feeling that Harbaugh is having a more national recruiting base, which is great. And, I'd have to assume that Hoke's W/L record in a downward trajectory didn't help in 2013 and 2014. But, it sure would be nice to have Webb, McDowell, Weber, Alabi, Jordan, and Kareem on the team.
January 6th, 2016 at 9:28 AM ^
When did you start watching football? 6-8 years old right? These guys are 18 at most. So let's look at the past 10 years. Oh, you don't want to? Well neither did these damn recruits. We were god awful for half these kids lives. MSU and OSU have owned us. Why the hell would you want to go to Michigan over those two schools if that is the case? (Just football stuff, I know academics is big, but the top 5 to 10 players in the state have legitimate NFL dreams).
Out of state/region players haven't paid as close attention to Michigan as kids in the area. So they aren't as down on us. Let's get back to consistent 10 win seasons, and the recruiting success in the state will follow.
January 6th, 2016 at 10:41 AM ^
#Harbaugh.
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January 6th, 2016 at 12:51 PM ^
Michigan had that in the 70s under Bo and for a portion under Carr during the late 90s and early 00's. But, even during the Tressel/Carr eras OSU had more 10-win seasons than UM. OSU has been better than Michigan in terms of W/L records for a lot longer than the past 10 years.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not asking when UM is going to be better at recruiting long term than OSU. I personally don't see that happening because of the talent difference between the two home states and because MSU is a lot better than any secondary school in Ohio that OSU has to compete with. Maybe Harbaugh et. al can out-recruit Meyer, but that's another argument. My point is even when OSU had more wins in the 90s my impression is that Michigan always got the top in-state talent that it wanted unless it was like a legacy kid with MSU. Now, OSU is taking the top kids, even from "pipeline schools" like Cass Tech. It would be quite a blow if OSU landed Peoples-Jones, especially after getting Weber, Alabi, and Webb the past few years.
So, are you saying if we start going 50/50 with OSU and MSU and win 9-11 games even if OSU wins 10-12 games you think we will start getting the top 3 kids in MI with more regularity? It's hard to predict because the landscape of recruiting and college football in general has changed so much in the past 20 years with all the social media, TV, and recruiting websites.
January 7th, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^
So, are you saying if we start going 50/50 with OSU and MSU and win 9-11 games even if OSU wins 10-12 games you think we will start getting the top 3 kids in MI with more regularity?
Yes, this is exactly what I am saying. We have to be competitve with our rivals before we can start dominating the in-state recruiting. And not just in the head to head match ups, but bigger picture as well. OSU and MSU have both made the playoffs in the past 2 seasons and both have contested for the B1G Championship Game pretty much every season since it's inception. We need on field results, and we can start owning the state again.
January 6th, 2016 at 10:17 AM ^
Did this just get shortened to exclude the recruiting portion of the show?
January 6th, 2016 at 5:01 PM ^
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