MichiganCardinal

I will say I wish they were a bit more personalized... or at least normal.... I constantly get Macy's underwear banner ads and dental implant ads on vignette. I think that's a Google thing not a MWG thing though lol

Even with him being at the weakest position group on the roster, I'll be surprised if he makes it past final cuts.

This made me lol

I’m becoming more convinced the Browns are going to give Hopkins a ridiculous deal out of desperation hope that Watson returns to his Houston form. Which I don’t think he will.

Someone put this dude into concussion protocol.

They have the cash the Lions do while also having the lack of strategy necessary to spend it wisely.

Raiders out here playing 4D chess going to be starting *checks notes* Brian Hoyer as QB1.

I think it is very dependent on what he wants. I’m sure Holmes has already called his agent and inquired about an asking price (as I’m sure the vast majority of teams would). If he’s okay signing a one-year deal worth $14-18MM to go to a contender - maybe a two-year deal that is heavily incentive laced in the second year - and he views Detroit as a contender, I think he makes a lot of sense. We have the cap space, something of a need (though I don’t think it’s dire), and we should have a good football team this fall. If his agent says he wants a three or four year deal though at $15MM per, no thanks. I’m not going to get into a bidding war for an aging WR with diva tendencies. Holmes’ history says he probably feels the same. Let someone else overpay and/or overcommit.

The post I saw on this was a meme… the one that started like five years ago when a black dude with dreds was confused for Larry Fitzgerald and it went viral. Now you’ll see the pic all the time with the caption “(insert athlete) was spotted today at (insert airport)!”

I think the whole quote may have been directed at the Cardinals honestly. I expect Hopkins to go to a top 10-15 team that should make the playoffs, but beyond that he will go to whomever will pay him the most.

I would offer him a one-year deal today for a considerable amount of that cap space we have available. I would be extremely cautious of committing any length of time though to a 31yo dude with an injury history and diva tendencies.

The surrounding circumstances of this and reading between the lines makes it seem like this was not or is not somebody who was going to be making the 2023 team.

I just wonder what kind of conditions are attached to a pick in the 200s three years from now. That’s virtually nothing to give up.

A conditional 2026 7th 😂

It wouldn’t surprise me if there were generally more bets placed on Vegas Raiders games than your average team. It’s fact that the NFL is in bed with the books. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was influence on what games were prime time. The league can just say the Raiders have a big fan base though and it’s not like they are really wrong.

65-12-5 is still mind blowing to me. Only to lose three in a row to a team that came within a point of not making the playoffs. This Panthers run is slightly redeeming to the Bruins I'm sure (if consolation points mean anything when you're watching from home). I think they'd likely be the ones up 3-0 on the Canes if they had won game seven against the Panthers.

Shame that they will end the streak of the Super Bowl winner hosting the next year’s draft.

Their PR folks have gotten to the point of “what are they going to do, relocate my job?!”

Looks like Michigan self-reports a 96% freshman retention rate. (source). So the roughly 2,000 transfers Michigan accepts yearly make up for that 4% they lose, plus what they had previously planned on bringing in. If I had to guess probably 100 or less makeup the athletic portion of those. It seems to me like they could be a little more forgiving to transfer applicants about what is accepted. But I'm a dumdum what do I know.

I understand this and as a current grad student can respect it to an extent, but at the same time the dichotomy that exists between Michigan and other peer schools is puzzling. Without looking it up, I can't imagine that Michigan has a problem of mass exodus with their freshman class before their sophomore year that needs to be remedied by harsh standards in the transfer class. It seems that other schools fill this gap with the best their admissions department can find, and the registrar trusts that those identified have taken quality coursework to "cut it", while M has two lines of review, with Admissions potentially saying "we want this person" and the registrar occasionally saying "that's nice, but we don't want the courses they come with" I also think there is a difference between a transfer student (who takes courses precedent to enrollment usually for an ulterior purpose than graduating from M) versus an enrolled student at M taking coursework elsewhere (whose purpose is solely to graduate from M without spending 100% M prices). I think it's okay to evaluate those two students differently.

The Michigan Admissions problem goes beyond athletics. I was accepted to multiple schools as a transfer student. The vast majority were totally chill. They approved over the maximum number allowable credits, and just lowered me the maximum allowable of 60, first semester junior status, using the credits that made the most sense for graduation requirements. At Michigan though, they performed this comprehensive audit on my entire academic history. They threw out AP courses that had been previously granted by my prior college and evaluated the courses I had taken individually, deciding on a course-by-course basis whether there was a "Michigan equivalent" course. I remember receiving this ridiculous email asking for the syllabi for courses I had taken four years prior (which of course I didn't have and had to contact professors who barely remembered teaching the course, let alone me). This process led to courses that, while rigorous (more rigorous than some courses taught at UM), getting tossed, because the same course (or one "similar enough") wasn't offered at Michigan... Eventually Michigan offered me about 50 credits (midway sophomore status). I thought it was about money, and wanting to nickel and dime me for every credit hour they could squeeze me for. It's not about money though if they're doing it to athletes on scholarship too. It must be some holier-than-thou prestige thing, but it's just incredibly stupid, and it's surely costing them both traditional and athletic transfers. I'm sure they aren't alone in this crusade, but they are the only school I encountered that devoted more than a due diligence glance to care what credits I was coming in with.