Mr.TaterSalad

It's morning in America again. Another day, another senseless mass shooting.

Giving podcast interviews about how the SEC football programs used to slide the money in the backdoor to recruits.

Les Miles is available for try number 3 lol

Kyle Wittingham is a Utah lifer, but a damn good Head Coach. He's been with the Utah program in one capacity or another since 1995 I believe. I'm sure he is stepping down to either retire or take a Mark Dantonio type of role within their Utah Athletic Department. He's 66 years old as well, which would be a factor. But if he were willing to keep coaching, and do so outside of Utah, he's a name I might consider. Age is the only real concern I'd have here.

The fact that you're so obsessed with someone that you'd do it on the job, during the middle of coaching the biggest game of the season, I think says so. The dude is sex-obsessed it would seem and has some sort of addiction there.

I have no idea how credible Justin Spiro really is. He was right a few weeks back when he alluded to something dropping with regards to Sherrone Moore. But if this dude was actively messaging and hustling an Only Fans Model during the game, that is just wild. This guy needs serious mental health help and I hope he gets it. It appears he has needed metal health help for a while now.

I have been a fan of the University of Michigan and UofM Athletics all my life. Since I was a little kid, I have taken an interest in Michigan football, Michigan basketball, Michigan hockey. I've gone to countless games with my father and other friends of mine over the years. I've spent hours upon hours of my life invested physically and emotionally in watching Michigan games. Being a Michigan fan this past decade has been particularly exhausting and in some cases, flat out embarrassing. This University has been plagued with scandal after scandal after scandal. The latest scandal, with the Sherrone Moore coaching situation and Moore's actions behind the scenes, are one more in a long line of embarrassing and deeply troubling scandals. In my view, it won't matter who the football coach is unless the culture changes within the University of Michigan and its athletic department. The culture won't change until Warde Manuel is gone. You can bring in Nick Saban himself, the best college football coach in America, and this athletic department will still remain broken as long as Warde is steering the ship. Michigan has reached a point where keeping Warde Manuel as athletic director is no longer sustainable, given how he has utterly failed to handle some of the biggest controversies and scandals across multiple, major, athletic programs. From basketball to football to hockey, we've seen one scandal after another under Warde's tenure as AD. Enough already! Under Jim Harbaugh and Warde Manuel's "leadership", Michigan athletics have went through went through multiple, highly publicized NCAA investigations. Its been the worst in our football program, but hasn't stopped there. Recruiting violations, players getting gun charges off the field, sign-stealing allegations, cheating in games, and now the Head Coach allegedly sleeping around with his subordinates. These scandals seemingly never end and yet Manuel was largely invisible throughout the process, offering little public leadership. Beyond football, we have had numerous issues in other sports. Michigan hockey facing scrutiny during the Mel Pearson era when he was the Head Coach. You had allegations about program culture and creating a toxic work environment for women who worked with the team. You had Pearson apparently pressuring hockey players to lie about their Covid status as well. Warde's response appeared slow, opaque, and reactive. Michigan basketball, under Warde Manuel and Juwan Howard, dealt with numerous incidents as well. Juwan Howard, the alleged leader of young men on the court, got into an altercation and threw punches at another Head Coach. He should have been fired after doing that, but Warde let him skate. He screamed at and had altercations with basketball staff and little was done there. Warde has shown a consistent pattern of weakness, fecklessness, minimal visibility, and an inability to change the culture of Michigan Athletics. To borrow a line from Brady Hoke: "This is Michigan!" Michigan should be too significant and too proud of an institution to be dragged down by a "leader" who doesn't improve the culture, nor hold people accountable. When your AD shrinks when the moment demands real leadership, time and again, it's a problem with him personally. For the stability, credibility, and to make any sustained cultural changes within Michigan's Athletic Department, it’s time to move on from Warde. The University and feckless UofM Regents need to buck up and bring in an athletic director who can provide the leadership necessary to change the culture and succeed on the field. Get Warde out of town now, otherwise nothing else matters and nothing else will change.

The irony of this image going viral on the same day that Trump signs an Executive Order banning states from regulating AI is chefs kiss. There will be many more of these to come I am sure.

Don't forget Mazi Smith with a gun charge. How Warde Maunel still has a job is both disgraceful and embarrassing for the university. No one can defend Warde at this point. He needs to go.

Not that having Joel Klatt agree with you is the be all, end all. It is not. However, I'm in complete agreement with Klatt that Michigan's first call should be to Cignetti and the university should make him say no. And if he does, then you simply move on to other coaches on your list. That's why you have a list of many candidates, not just one. From Klatt yesterday . . . "I understand that he just signed an extension, but listen, are we really that naive to think that, 'After the extension is signed and you coach for a year, then we can start ripping up contracts,'" Klatt said. "It's just legal jargon, so all the coaches that signed extensions, I would at least have them in the pool, because why limit your own pool? So force Cignetti to say 'No.'"

Once again, my belief the division winners shouldn't get automatic playoff births is rearing the ugly side of its head. This time it could have a major negative impact on The Lions. After Tampa lost to Atlanta yesterday, there is a real chance that the winner of the NFC South has a losing record. However, that team will still get a playoff spot. This is BS! There's a real shot that an 8-9 Buccaneers or Panthers team makes it in, while an 11-6 or 12-5 Lions team (or someone else) is left out. Just because you win a garbage ass division, by getting to play a bunch of bad teams twice on your schedule, doesn't mean you should get an automatic playoff birth. It's pathetic that the NFC South gets a team in, while a team with a winning record playing in one of the clearly superior NFC North and NFC West divisions, might not get in. Overall record should matter more than winning a crappy division. I'll never change my mind on this.

I know Petersen doesn't meet the requirement of being a Michigan Man. Ladies and gentleman, we'd like to welcome our new Head Coach and Michigan Man through and through, Ron English. In all seriousness, I'm not pining for Petersen, all I said is I wouldn't be mad if he got an interview since his name was brought up earlier by someone else. I think there are several candidates that could get interviews. Petersen wouldn't be the worst of the bunch. I've seen people and media outlets suggesting Jeff Brohm, Dan Mullen, Manny Diaz, Butch Jones, Lance Leipold, Matt Patricia. LOL, Petersen would be as good or better an option than any of those.

I wouldn't be angry if they at least interviewed Chris Petersen but think they could do better. Petersen had a lot of success at Bosie and then did well at Washington too with a 12 win season and multiple 10 win seasons. My main issue with him is that he has been out of coaching for 5 years and has never coached in the NIL era. He may also not want to come back to coaching period as he retired due to burnout I believe. Back when they had hired Hoke, Petersen was one of the guys I wanted here at Michigan. He was near the top of my list and I certainly wanted him over Hoke. I think that era and this are completely different and Petersen has never coached in the modern NIL era and that matters.

At this point, first and foremost, I hope Sherrone is OK and those around him are not harmed either. This is a very real situation involving other human beings. I hope no one ends up getting harmed or Sherrone harming himself.

How Warde survives all this is amazing, but somehow I think he'll manage to survive. He deserves to be fired though too.

I like this one. Dilingham has some a real nice job at a second tier school at Arizona State. He seems to be both a competent in game coach and a good recruiter too.

So is this a sexual assault case now?

Should Jesse Minter get an interview? If he's not waiting around for an NFL job I think so.

It specifically says not Connor Cook on the handle lol

We don't even know though that Penn State tried do we? What media reports leaked out saying that Penn State went after Cignetti and was rejected?

HOLY F****** S***! I did not see this coming. Why did they wait to late to do it? In any case GO. GET. CIGNETTI.

You know this is likely what's happening. Our risk adverse GM has only made one major trade during his tenure and that was for DeBrincat. I see Hughes going somewhere besides Detroit. I hope we can land him though.

If Vancouver was willing to trade Hughes to us, but said they wanted one of Kasper or Danielson in return, who would you rather trade away?

The dude is Shawn Kemp, except they all have the same mother.

Yes. Lander is a practicing Jew as well. I guess he's not the right type of Jew though because he isn't a Zionist through and through.