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It makes for a better, more exciting postseason for more participants. For the same reason conference championships aren't decided by pure standings anymore, and the #1 ranked team isn't just crowned National Champion. To your last question, why even have a postseason if that is our attitude? Crown the Dodgers or Giants champions. We don't do that though, because they were good, but they didn't win the games that mattered (more). I'd much rather see a team on the (very relative) outskirts make a shocking run than watch another Clemson/Alabama National Championship game. Is NCAA football really so different from all other sports that only 6% of all participating schools (only counting the Power 5) should be so fortunate and so good that they are considered "good enough" to ultimately compete for a championship? I'm not saying it should become like the NBA, where more than half the teams make it and first round games are often practical bye weeks for the better portion of the league. But expanding it a little bit (12 teams would be a little under 19%) I think would allow for more excitement and more meaning for more teams. The NFL includes about 44% for context. I think seeing what Utah could do, coming off routs of Oregon, would be interesting. Could they beat Alabama or Georgia? Probably not, but maybe. Likewise with Notre Dame as much as I hate them. They're 11-1, and were a different team in the second half of their season compared with when they lost to Cincy. Are they better on any given Saturday now than Cincinnati? I'd watch that rematch in a game that mattered long before I watch Notre Dame play Oklahoma State in a Fiesta Bowl that's made up where the points don't matter (and all the NFL prospects sit anyway). FWIW I don't think as much randomness would sneak in with a 3-4 round format as can in the NCAA basketball format. When I ran it through in my head, I thought the 5-8 seeds would win all of their first round games and the NC game would be between two of Alabama/Michigan/Georgia, unless Ohio State upset Alabama.

He's earned the looks he's getting. Hopefully he sticks around into January though and doesn't pull a Brian Kelly.

Players liked Caldwell, but I don't know that he got the most out of them... Caldwell's ultimate downfall was that he was going 9-7 with a roster that should have gone at least 10-6, if not 11-5 or better... The solution obviously wasn't to hire someone who was neither liked, nor got the most of his players, nor had any business as an NFL head coach, but that's neither here nor there at this point. The fact that the Lions are 1-10-1 but 8-4 ATS I do think speaks to Campbell's ability to motivate his players to perform to the best of their ability, even though they really stink. Outside the Bengals and Eagles games, the team has competed to the best of their ability in each game, even though that hasn't always been much.

This is why I find the Patricia comparisons absolutely laughable. Patricia's players quit on him at some point in each season. I would argue they quit on him before his 3rd season even began. Could you even imagine a scene like this in a Patricia locker room? Campbell has taken a trash team to 1-10-1, but they're continuing to fight their hearts out for him every Sunday.

Coming from someone whose EFC read "00000"... I owe the same amount in loans resulting from community college as I do resulting from my time at Stanford. I would consider my grand total of student debt (right now) negligible in the grand scheme of the student loan crisis many are facing, especially when you consider I spent a grand total of nearly seven years in undergrad (though many were part time). When I chose Stanford over Michigan, Michigan's financial aid offer was overall comparable to Stanford's, though a little less yearly.

We won't. But I'm still good with not drafting a QB this year. I don't think there is a point drafting a QB at 2.1 unless we are 100% certain they are the franchise QB. Just as certain as you would be taking him at 1.1... Pick #33 is too high to miss on a pick where you could certainly get a key piece elsewhere, and where a miss on a QB will set you back another 2-3 years while you let him try and fail as your centerpiece (see: Jalen Hurts, Drew Lock, DeShone Kizer, and Christian Hackenburg). Franchise quarterbacks are such a dime a dozen that it is very rare for every team in the NFL to pass on one that has true HOF potential. Not to say that it absolutely can't happen, it almost happened with Lamar Jackson. For every hit on a QB taken in the 30s though, there are far more misses. I would argue the last great QB taken in the second round (as in one who would get universal praise by the fanbase 10-15 years later) was Drew Brees, way back in 2001. Before him, Brett Favre was taken at #33 in 1991. Since Brees, the only QBs picked in the 2nd round who I would even call a serviceable starter in their prime are Andy Dalton (2011), Colin Kaepernick (2011), Jimmy G (2014), and Derek Carr (2014). That's 4/19, not counting Trask. Short of a "this is the next Drew Brees" moment, I think we are far better off going virtually anywhere else. There are enough holes that QB can wait another year, or even two.

@RedRamageis correct on my thought process. I was fine with going for it on 4th Down there, I was not commenting on prior decisions. I'm also lukewarm on the play call. I know the QB sneak on a 4th and 1 had failed by like a quarter of an inch earlier, but I still think Jamaal picks up one yard more often than not in that situation. We shouldn't ignore all fundamental coaching decisions because we have a bad team, but we should be viewing them in context. I don't think going for it on 4th and 1 there with this team means that Campbell would have made the same decision to go for it with a 7-3 team two years from now.

Walker deserved an invite. Good for Hutch though.

In the timeout situation, I thought they should have let it run. Up 17-6, I thought they should be happy to take that score to halftime. They took the timeout and it worked. Cool. In the 4th down situation late, I agreed with the call to go for it. You’re 0-10-1. Not to be crass, but honestly. F*** it. You could just envision the punt leading to a game winning field goal as time expired. Let’s try something different! They did and it didn’t work. Damn. That’s that though. These aren’t season defining decisions, nor should they be decisions that we base Campbell’s future off of.

Michigan by a million. Book it.

The lack of controversy is nice, but I still don't think we will get to see the teams that are not Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, and Oklahoma compete for championships on a consistent basis without expansion. I also think it would be nice to let a school like Pitt capitalize on their ACC championship, or let a team who surprised with a 10-2 record like Michigan State or Ole Miss attempt to make a run. I am almost certain that at least one team in the 6-12 range of the rankings would have won a National Championship in the last decade if given the opportunity.

We should all remember this when the Lions win one or two more and sports talk radio implodes at the notion of picking #2 or #3. 😉

I still want to see a 12-team playoff. Power 5 champions get the top five seeds (until the Big 12 finally folds, then just top four seeds). Top four teams get a bye, the best Go5 champion gets #12 seed, everything else is wildcards. Byes: (1) Alabama, (2) Michigan, (3) Baylor, (4) Utah (5) Pitt v. (12) Cincinnati (6) Georgia v. (11) Michigan State (7) Notre Dame v. (10) Oklahoma State (8) Ohio State v. (9) Ole Miss

Y’all should enjoy this win. Best weekend for Michigan sports in a very, very long time. #TimeoutGate2021

An 81-yard Goff led TD drive right??

In a two-point game with under 10 to go in the 4th quarter, Ford Field has begun a wave. The headache…. Make it go away.

Does this count as exciting December football?

14 points in the first half?? 😱

I don’t know. Maybe at some point in the game this became true, but they were playing for an undefeated season and an SEC Championship. That’s not nothing, it’s not like they played backups the whole time.

At the end of the day you have beat the best if you want to be the best. All four teams are very good, I don’t mind who we play first.

They’ve used that exact formation on multiple past occasions. I’m sure the entire defense knew exactly what Goff was about to do when he audibled to it. Also, this place is VERY empty today.

The child will almost certainly receive a life sentence. The only thing I could see changing that is if the prosecutor will offer a small carrot (like life with the possibility of parole instead of without the possibility) to the child in exchange for testimony against the parents.

I don't think the parents are blameless. They should live with the full guilt of what their son did, their role in it, and what their role could have been in preventing it, for the rest of their lives. They are not good people and they are not good parents. But they still deserve their day in court.

To a certain degree, everything has to be speculation based on what is known right now because there hasn't been a trial, and won't be one for a while. To answer your question, probably not many parents would, but I don't know that the father calling the police and reporting his gun missing, and being concerned that his son was the shooter, creates the criminal liability of involuntary manslaughter. They were staying at a friend's art studio, probably trying to keep the media circus off of their friends and relatives too.

According to what Smith stated at the arraignment, McDonald avoided contact throughout Thursday. Then, at 3:00, while Smith is in an unrelated trial, she announces charges and expects the parents to be able to teleport to Pontiac to be arraigned by 4:00pm, without any prior notification. When they can't do that (likely because their attorney didn't know it), McDonald goes and claims they are running and that they are not talking to their attorney, neither of which are true. They speak with their attorney and agree to meet at 7:30am at Novi District Court to turn themselves in and be arraigned, which was then relayed to the prosecutor. At that point, the parents options were to either turn themselves in immediately and spend the night in jail waiting to be arraigned from the jail, or to sleep one more night where they were and appear presentable in an arraignment. In any other case, no one would have batted an eye at them choosing the latter. The Judge did agree with the prosecutor. I disagree with the ruling, and can't help but believe it was swayed - at least in part - due to the media perception spun by McDonald.