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beats watching baseball.

you have no idea what its been like living among the cult of justin fields. i knew bears were stupid but they took it to a whole new level with fields.

on the one hand, yes the bears are a qb killing franchise. and they did the stupid thing of drafting a qb before they had any oline in place to help him. otoh, justin fields cant read a defense to save his buckeye life. it wasnt all the bears. fields sucks. this is why tpfan is not a gm.

you jinxed the senators.

there's a lot of high end talent at very important positions in this draft (qb, wr, lt, cb) that could push a lot of interior lineman down the board. i hope the lions get some ragnow insurance. theyre going to need it soon. getting a center who can play guard would be ideal. not sure it needs to be in round one unless you want the oregon kid.

michigan has been passing athletes for years. kineseology majors, anyone? even when my grandfather was teaching there it was common knowledge that certain professors would always give athletes "Cs" no matter what.

Nate Oats Porter Moser

no no NO! this isnt a jim harbaugh situation where he left after all the other good choices were hired by other teams, michigan has their pick of the litter. they can interview and hire any number of up and coming coaches. beilein is too old. although i dont put it past michigan to re-hire him. its an easy decision that requires little thought or proactive action.

make a tournament with what? half the team will leave. he has limited talent left on the team. what recruit will come here knowing he's a band aid coach? what player can they get in the portal when they refuse almost everyone who isnt a freshman or a grad transfer? you wouldnt be building a program, you'd be pining for nostalgia with a 70 year old man who hasnt coached in years. find the next john beilein, not the retired john beilein.

beilein has been out of bball for years now and is 70 years old. hiring him would be stupid.

nate oats is the man to get if he wants to come back home. depends on whether he wants to leave a good spot where they actually get good players into school. michigan basketball may be a poisoned chalice if the admissions department doesnt get on board the "were professionals now" train.

then why hire the consultant firm?

thank god. not even warde manuel could avoid the coach of the worst team in modern michigan basketball history. good job warde, only a year too late.

i dont know if "credit" is the right term, it might say more about the market at the deadline. but at some point theyre going to have to trade for or sign a "star." i know they kind of did that with debrincat, but they need a second line center in the worst possible way. and with the very slow way they bring prospects along (as well as the contracts they signed with copp/compher), it will be a few years before we find out if kasper or danielson is that type of player.

i hope they draft a long snapper. that will show that they mean business. /throwbackfights

i'd still make that trade.

if you have a qb and a good coach, you can turn things around pretry quickly in the nfl. look at the texans. i would have cut bosa if i were the chargers. dude is getting old and is always hurt. but they re-negotiated today. they should trade out of 5 and rob the vikings. the chargers trading out of 5 so the vikings can draft mccarthy would be kind of ironic considering harbaugh is their coach.

the forwards are as bad or worse than the defense. copp and compher were supposed to be solid vets who knew where to go and played solid defense. instead, compher looks like a third line center and copp is now either 4th line or a winger.

it's the same **** they did with mel pearson. that process took months and months and it cost michigan hockey top recruits because warde wouldnt pull the trigger himself (or wasnt allowed to). cost them trey augustine. the same thing will happen here. juwan will dangle for months while the investigation is completed, michigan will miss out on any hot coaches, and recruits will leave. stanford just fired their coach. its easy to fire a coach! just do it!

it's an administrative proceeding designed to cover the administration's ass when they fire him. "well, we had a consultant group come in and review and they told us that things were amiss!" its a weak administrator's way of building a case to fire someone. warde cant make a decision on his own. they have more than enough evidence to fire him for cause.

i'm not outraged by any of it! i wish michigan would have outbid them! and osu already self-reported violations about tampering with recruits (which doesnt bother me at all either) so they were making offers before the portal period even opened. again, i dont care. my comment was more directed to osu not taking michigan's recent ascendency laying down. they spent a lot of money on this team, from chip kelly to bringing back a whole bunch of players who were very draftable. that costs money. osu media saying osu "finished second" for recruits is like michigan media saying michigan was in on recruits but they couldnt get into school, sometimes its true but its usually just an excuse to make us feel better that we didnt get a kid and cover for the coaching staff. so even if a caleb downs said "osu finished second", he likely had other suitors and osu had to fend them off with some cash. and that's perfectly legal and i'm fine with it.

dude, laiatu latu had spinal fusion surgery and youre all about drafting him. 😉

latu was injured in 2020 and medically retired for two years. he had neck fusion surgery. ymmv, your doctor's mileage may vary. but that's way too risky for me. maurice hearst fell to round 5 because of a heart murmur. if latu is there in round 5, i say we take him.

keenan allen is also 32 years old and very expensive. how many years does he have left before he becomes an expensive possession receiver?