buddha

what a joke of a power play. compher has looked bad. kane looks rusty. debrincat looks awful.

unless theyre traded for bogdanovich and burks in which case its good value.

bojan would have gotten a first last year. everyone has said that. dealing him AND burks a year later for what they got is less than what they could have received last year. that's bad asset mgmt. moving bagley and seconds to get off his contract is poor asset management, especially considering they signed him to that extension in the first place. you had to give something of value away in order to have someone TAKE your asset. you signed bagley to a contract that was so bad (that you criticized) that's bad asset mgmt. the contract was bad and dealing assets to get rid of it was bad. using your cap space to trade for harris. poor asset mgmt. cap space is an asset. using seconds to get off the plumlee contract was poor asset management. YOU criticized the plumlee deal and said how much he sucked for years and asked why they would sign him. then they used picks to get out of the deal and you dont think that's poor asset mgmt? they did not have to trade for dedmon and then stretch him to sign grant. there were other things they could have done. you dont think trading bey for wiseman was poor asset mgmt? they compounded their mistake in trading assets FOR the right to draft bey with then trading bey for one of the least valuable players in the league. how is that good asset mgmt? and dont give me the "they would have had to sign bey" bull****. 1) no they wouldnt have had to sign him and 2) they could have traded him for something other than the least valuable player in the league. he's horrible at asset mgmt. how do you go through a rebuild and four years later have the worst record in the league and NO pick surplus? you dont know what youre doing, that's how.

so now after years of bashing weaver and the pistons mgmt, del has to put his contrarion hat back on and now defend weaver. here's one that del wont defend: turning the #7 pick into killian hayes, then waiving hayes for nothing 4 years later.

trading bruce brown and luke kennard for three years of saddiq bey and then turning bey into the worst player in the nba.

bogey. saddiq bey. spending picks to get rid of bagley. spending picks to get rid of plumlee. spending a future first to get stewart. trading for and then stretching dedmon. just to name a few.

clinkscale leaves too. it was fun while it lasted.

do you think the rich donors of other universities got that way by "spending money on things like college football salaries"?

there is no reason michigan could not compete with the osu and nd's of the world. michigan has one of the richest alumni in the world.

usc is the prize. they dont come without ucla.

how weaver still has a job is beyond me. "yeah, i waste assets like crazy but hey look cade and ivey are playing well so i'm a genius."

wow. if michigan beats ohio state four years in a row will they go out and hire bill belichick? spend $20 million on players? both? jim harbaugh broke ohio state's budget.

i think it might be the other way around with tellum/weaver. weaver has misused assets since he got here. he's also had a fetish for big men. to suddenly aquire picks and trade AWAY big men is a complete 180 from the last four years.

for all the justified weaver bashing, these types of trades are what they should have been doing last year instead of bringing in the likes of bagley, wiseman, and harris. getting rid of ancient vets with limited use and instead getting younger (except for fontecchio) shooters to surround your young core. spread the floor. everything we all asked them to do. the bagley/gallinari trade where you had to include two seconds to get off the bagley contract was another waste of resources. waiting too long to trade bogey and burks so you dont get at least a first round pick was another waste of resources. but finally getting shooting means....something? right? waiving killian so monty cant bench ivey or sasser is.....something? baby steps to proper roster management? maybe weaver has been kneecapped and tellum is making decisions now? maybe its someone else? cause these trade deadline day moves are almost the exact opposite of everything weaver has done to this point.

i've read mgoblog since the blogspot days and the episode following the natty was a good listen for all of us old timers. that said, i get a little tired of the homerism from seth and craig, and the cynicism from brian. i'd rather just listen to sam. i swear to god, seth thinks michigan's players and coaches are all geniuses and every other team is just so poorly coached and cheats. its annoying. but i still listen and read because its the most in depth sports blog out there. has been forever. alex drain is really good, so is his substack.

i dont know, but that's where it is going. that's where it HAS to go. there will have to be contracts that provide teams with stability re: rosters and players re: money. then the ncaa's job becomes enforcing the cap when ohio state cheats and pays everyone extra under the table. oh, and cheeseburgers.

another guy jeiii was gushing about at the time, which means weaver was high on him.

if he left weaver in place and told him to change the team or else, you would imagine some short term deal for a big money guy (or a forst round pick) would result. instead you had more movement on the edges. i dont think this is any indication that weaver is going anywhere. but i dont know. im just speculating.

other teams also double team cade whenever he has the ball, ivey not so much. yet.

collective bargaining and a salary cap.

his company produced the plans for the proposed new white sox stadium. there was speculation this morning that maybe he might buy the team when reinsdorf sells/dies.

letting him make all these trades tells me weaver is going nowhere.

they gave up bogey AND burks to the knicks for grimes, garbage, and two second rounders? you turned down first rounders for bogey last year and then PACKAGED him for two SECOND rounders? what a garbage gm. grimes is fine. the italian dude is fine. waiving killian is fine, i guess, but wiseman is still on this team for some unknown reason.

ivey doesnt pass as well as cade. ivey also gets out of control sometimes. i dont think ivey is a primary ball handler type. cade is a much better passer.