buddha

the more i read pronman's stuff the less i think he knows. you cant possibly follow that many prospects in that many leagues and have any real idea how they are playing PLUS follow nhlers? nhl teams have multiple scouts for multiple levels, pronman is supposed to make us believe he follows all the major junior hockey leagues, the european leagues, the russian leagues, the ahl, and the nhl? gtfo. take his stuff with a mighty grain of salt.

if michigan makes another stupid coaching hire - and remember, they lucked into jim harbaugh - it could definitely happen. lol.

it hasnt happened yet because breaking away from the ncaa is hard. the money is there. television has taken it over, its just a matter of time before they succomb to the sweet lure of saudi funded PC money. christ, theyre going to be playing more games in a season than the nfl soon! its absolutely crazy. people watch arizona vs carolina in the nfl, people will watch ole miss v michigan state in cfb. and they will never tire of georgia-michigan, texas-penn state, usc-alabama, and ohio state-florida. just like they never tire of bears-packers, giants-cowboys, raiders-broncos, etc. what will die is temple v northern illinois. or, games like that will return to the small time sport it was before all of this happened. i do wonder what happens to college basketball. if it stays under the ncaa rubric, or if they take that with them too. unlike college football, college basketball's huge draw is the tournament, and part of that draw is the little guy pulling the upset. so they might keep that and just break football away. we'll see.

16.6 million for ohio state texas last week. 9.6 million for michigan oklahoma. both of those are huge numbers for regular season games. osu texas is the biggest week 1 numbers ever, i think. imagine what the ratings will be when the sec and big ten break away and there are marquee matchups like these every week?

you talk about the bulls like they are a normal franchise trying to win.

its the bulls. they will always be cheap. their goal is to make the play in every year. building your team around josh giddey and coby white is a good step toward always achieving and never surpassing that goal.

the big ten needs programming from noon to midnight on saturday.

danielson is considerably taller than suzuki, horvat or compher. that's a plus for him. he was over a point per game player in juniors and did really well once he got to portland and away from the wheat kings. he's a center, so distribution will be his game. i thought he was on track last year but he plateaued a bit. he didnt show well in the playoffs but none of them did. people point to kasper's point totals in his final year and say how danielson was the same, but kasper waa coming off an injury and finished on a high note and played great in the playoffs. danielson did not. that's wjy he probably plays in the ahl this year until someone gets hurt. danielson looks like a defensive center with some playmaking chops. put him with a skilled winger and let him do his thing. i think he'll play well in the nhl, maybe better than the ahl.

sherrone moore was not ready for the michigan job.

i think there were better coaches available but this administration was left with little wiggle room thanks to harbaugh. with that said, a little vision may have gone a long way. make him the interim coach and conduct a full search the next year. and there were TONS of coaches who would sign up for michigan. i'm still mad they missed out on jedd fisch. he's had some bad luck at washington, but he can coach.

i think a lot of these guys have the self-awareness of a 15 year old.

next year michigan has the #1 back in the country coming in, that's why i think he will leave.

kevin durant at 11? maybe a few years ago. i'm a big devin booker-stan, but 18? nyah.

bryce underwood made it very clear he wanted to get paid. and he did. every player is a one year rental. i'm more concerned about marshall leaving than underwood.

he's trying to say the play doesnt seemed to be designed very well. i guess.

i'm not panicking after one game. but i do think all the worries we had coming into the season were on display in that game. no pass rush. arnold isnt any better at cb. the interior oline isnt the same without ragnow and zeitler. the play calling on both sides of the ball isnt as good as last year. its only one game. and its a hard game too. the packers are legit. but the lions could not take advantage of the packers' weaknesses while the packers easily exploited the lions'.

if this game doesnt worry you a bit, youre either very young or you just started rooting for the lions. looked like old times in green bay. it reminded me of that turkey day game a few years ago where the packers just killed us. couldnt stop them all day. how long until dan campbell starts calling plays? week 9?

looking like a really ****ty sports weekend.

you've been saying this for years. just like you keep saying that michigan is going to give up football because the professors dont care about it. how much did larry ellison give them last year? michigan football is a money making machine.

we all know what happened. kwahi's amazing agent team was asking other teams to do the same thing and (they say) they declined. there is so much smoke here only true wilfully blind people like adam silver wont be able to find any rule breaking. kwahi wont get any penalties, fat be it for the players to take any responsibility. but the clippers should be fined heavily and stripped of multiple years of draft choices. speaking of which, do the clippers have any draft choices left? im sure the league is sweating how its going to come up with a creative way to rig the draft process to get the clippers a #1 generational player in the future.

college football has general managers now. where is the blame for whatever brain trust didnt add to michigan's woeful oline in the offseason?

i find it hard to believe people are blaming an 18 year old kid in his second start for this game! i think underwood has looked pretty good for a guy in his second game. oklahoma's defense is no joke and michigan's oline and receivers are. again. underwood is a bright spot for this offense. him and justice hayes are the only good things on the whole offensive side of the ball.

jim harbaugh giveth and jim harbaugh taketh away. we get a natty and a great end run against ohio state, but we end up with a program on probation and one unable to conduct a proper head coach search that have left it in a precarious position. moore is looking "more and more" (no pun intended) like a guy thrust into a position he was not ready to fill. an offensive line guru whose lines have been terrible for two straight seasons. a guy whose offensive play calling regime has been bad and whose decision making on 4th downs has been even worse. and now a defense that is reverting back to early last year's performance instead of late last years. the one thing he has been able to do is spend the university's (and larry ellison's apparently) money. they have locked down two straight recruiting classes in the borderline elite category, but followed it up with two middling portal classes, with no real helpful additions in the areas of greatest need: offensive line and wide receiver. so what to do? this season is going to look a lot like last season. with all signs pointing toward 2027 as the date for a championship run. if this year goes off the rails, moore might not have that long. harbaugh left a mixed legacy indeed. ultimately scaling the ultimate heights, but leaving the cupboard bare, jetting out of town in a manner that left the school little choice but to promote an inexperienced coordinator as his successor, and a program disgraced in the national media largely because of his inflexible personality's inability to compromise. 2023 will always be an awesome memory, 2024-2026 are likely to be an extended hangover.

well deserved.

this is the byproduct of paying the players. its now professional sports and is treating its customers like pro sports fans. i'm old enough to remember when michigan-osu tickets were all the same price...and the same price as michigan-northwestern. sigh. i'm going to go outside now and shake my fist at this passing cloud.