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Anzalone not listed and will play. That sure sounded a whole lot worse than missing one game and back to full strength when Campbell announced it.

“They’re probably just tanking for a higher pick they’re not actually that bad” -the NBA lottery system

Thanks for pointing this out. Everything I had read on it had made it seem like it happened this week. Makes it feel like someone in Buffalo would be pretty okay seeing him get canned. You don't sit on this for four years without some type of ulterior agenda at play.

Unless Alabama and Texas played, it was going to be that way for somebody. Kind of the nature of the beast with the northern schools, because most bowl games (and all playoff games) are played in the warm climates. UW couldn't fairly expect to jump Michigan. Yes they had four ranked wins to Michigan's three, but they also insist on playing down to their opponent. Nine straight games now that have been decided by 10 or less. The average margin of victory for Michigan this year has been 27.2 (27.4 in conference play). Washington's average margin of victory has been 14.1 (7.9 in conference play). Michigan played 7-5 Maryland closer than would be comfortable, but otherwise McCarthy barely saw the 4th quarter this season. If you're UW, you should really be able to put away teams like Stanford and Arizona State... Michigan's best win is better than UW's as well, which matters to some extent. If there was a semifinal blowout this year, Texas over Washington would be my first guess.

Like MTB, I am intrigued by this team despite not being a basketball fan.... it's like watching a structure fire. You feel bad.... but you can't look away.... Except there are no firefighters in sight.... I'm not watching games but I am checking ESPN and actively seeking out their scores on this streak. That said, from the outside looking in, I don't think Gores is that bad of an owner. He's just in way over his head. It seems like he genuinely wants the team to succeed and he's willing to spend money to make it happen, but he just doesn't know the first thing about how to be a competent owner of an NBA team. He needs basketball's version of Chris Speilman. I'm sure he'll fire Weaver eventually, but unless he gets help in picking the next GM, they'll fail too (and then he'll be on the way to terrible owner status). Wanting success and willingness to spend money puts him above WCF in my book, who I always felt was rather indifferent about success, and cared more about being liked and surrounding himself with yes-men. It also puts him above 1990s Ilitch with the Tigers for me, who was too busy playing (and winning) with the Red Wings to pay the Tigers any mind or money, in the one sport where the owner's checkbook makes the most difference in success.

Just wait until he doesn't re-sign with the 49ers and becomes a free agent target!

I think there is a slight distinction to be made here between players who have sustained an injury and (perceived) value. Like I don't think Holmes is Billy Beane, asking how many injuries a guy has instead of his OBP. Rather, he is willing to be patient with a guy who others will pass on because of a lack of instant impact. He wasn't interested in Jamo because he had torn his ACL. He was interested because he was available at 9 when he was a top five talent (in Holmes' book). Similarly with Josh Paschal and James Mitchell in 2022, and with Hooker in the 3rd round this past draft. They weren't drafted because they were hurt, they were drafted because we saw a high talent dropping (yes due to injury) and were willing to wait out the recovery to potentially get what we saw as a 1st or 2nd round talent the following year. Levi too to an extent, clearly he thought the value was there, though his college record really couldn't have predicted the injury issues at the pro level, so I don't put that bust (at least to the extent it's injury related) on Holmes as much.

I think Holmes and Campbell would have the authority to do it if they wanted to... Though she may come with a history lesson if they approached her about it.

The lone game Ron Prince was the Lions interim coach will forever be one of my favorite random pieces of Lions ineptitude lore

I agree wholeheartedly about Schwartz. I liked him a lot and with a little maturity I think he'd have been a great coach in the right situation. I don't disagree about Caldwell being the best of the bad, but I still maintain that it was the right call to fire him when they did. Just because they replaced him with the worse half of Dumb & Dumber who happened to have a degree from RPI doesn't mean Caldwell was a good coach. The team was never motivated for the must-win games and was never going to win anything significant with him at the helm. He was our Marvin Lewis.

I just don’t think a dude who says he’s too good for the first 14 weeks of the season really fits the “first to arrive last to leave” mentality. I also doubt he’s excited about the prospect of returning to Detroit, he didn’t seem to love it in the first place. Miami probably makes sense, he enjoyed Florida last time.

I doubt he would be a “culture fit”, for better or worse.

If you ever attend a volleyball event featuring Nebraska, their fanbase will blow you away.

When Michigan scores on its opening drive, I've already decided to text all my MSU friends "wow scoring against Alabama in the playoff sure is easy, huh guys!?"

I haven't seen anything. Usually they don't announce it until pretty soon before the game. I'm not sure how far in ahead it's actually planned.

I think this is closer to what my list would look like. I think programs whose popularity don't ebb and flow with success is very important... which is a hard metric when you have programs like Alabama and Ohio State to account for. I might add Nebraska and Texas A&M to the top ten.

Boise State/UNLV, SMU/Tulane, Appalachian State/Troy, and Florida A&M/Prairie View A&M? That's like saying Bally is losing Tigers viewers to people watching the SeaWolves game.

Lions have not lost while wearing their all-white uniforms since December 26, 2021. Throwing that out there in case anyone from the Lions was planning ahead for a road playoff game.

I couldn't have said it better myself!! 😉

In fairness, the SECCG ran unopposed, it was the only football on in that 4pm time slot. Louisville/FSU was competing with Michigan/Iowa, which was always going to gain more viewers. Not saying that Florida State is a bigger brand than Alabama, it's not, but the deck was kind of stacked against them.

Houston was reportedly late December, if at all, per Campbell. He has been seen in Allen Park working with trainers though... CJGJ had a cryptic post on Instagram that seemed to maybe indicate he would return to practice before the first Minnesota game though Campbell has been more conservative in his estimate when asked. If the division is locked down and we don't have a collapse, I would expect them to not be rushed... Maybe return for a trial run in week 18 before the playoffs.

I don't think getting Moore would prevent them from getting Underwood, unless the money runs out (which, when you're the #1 team in the country, it shouldn't)... Cade was Class of 19 and JJ was Class of 21... Dante is Class of 23 and Bryce is Class of 25. The way recruiting is, pay them both and let them duel it out. Those who stay will be Champions, those who transfer can lead Iowa to the Cheez-it Bowl.