Michigan Men's Basketball: AKA the Michigan revenue sport that doesn't have an uber jaded fanbase waiting in the dark for failure.

[buddha]

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

UConn hung about as tough as you could and still lose.

So, is Warde Manuel still a moron for Sharrone Moore or a genius for Dusty May?  

yes

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Chris Webber traveled all that way to finally see Michigan win a National Championship. I hope he takes some time out for partying on his trip. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Michigan's defense was amazing all tournament long. They smoother everyone and win every lose ball rebound. Their shot blocking is incredible too. They are in position and on the ball like crazy. It was Michigan's defense that got them through the dance and got them a National Championship. One of the best defensive performances in the tourney in recent history. They destroyed Tennessee and Arizona, then kept UConn under wraps for much of this game. Great job by these kids to play shutdown defense all tournament long. 

[buddha]

the big ten is champs in football, mens bball, and womens bball.

Money talks.

[MichiganCardinal]

 

[Shinzaki]

UConn got them into their game and they still lost...nothing more disheartening than that

[Mr.TaterSalad]

22 minutes ago, buddha said:

the big ten is champs in football, mens bball, and womens bball.

Money talks.

I hate the way the system is, but it's how it is. Dusty May is doing what I pleaded for years for Harbaugh to do. He's doing it the SEC way and finding success because he's a great coach himself. It's really ****ty that this is what college athletics has become, but at least Michigan finally caught up in the NIL era. 

[buddha]

Just now, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I hate the way the system is, but it's how it is. Dusty May is doing what I pleaded for years for Harbaugh to do. He's doing it the SEC way and finding success because he's a great coach himself. It's really ****ty that this is what college athletics has become, but at least Michigan finally caught up in the NIL era. 

once you made it legal, you opened the door to sports obsessed schools with huge, rich alumni to open their pocketbooks.  michigan, ohio state, indiana...

it was always a benefit to michigan once they got comfortable with the idea.  now that they are, you see them winning.

with that said, dusty may was the biggest part of that.  football has more money than god but couldnt get out of its own way, michigan put together a great team, and then coached them well enough to win.

dusty earned that big ol raise he's about to get.  

[gehringer_2]

19 minutes ago, buddha said:

once you made it legal, you opened the door to sports obsessed schools with huge, rich alumni to open their pocketbooks.  michigan, ohio state, indiana...

it was always a benefit to michigan once they got comfortable with the idea.  now that they are, you see them winning.

with that said, dusty may was the biggest part of that.  football has more money than god but couldnt get out of its own way, michigan put together a great team, and then coached them well enough to win.

dusty earned that big ol raise he's about to get.  

Somewhere, lost in all the Noise and Chaos that is the current US government, there now are  proposals beginning percolate between the Admin and the Senate, and enough interest that something may yet emerge. They could take some of the issues out the court jurisdiction, possibly rationalize things a bit, or just make it all worse! But in any case, I don't think we need to worry about the current state being the final word for college sports.

Edited 18 hours ago by gehringer_2

[buddha]

8 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Somewhere, lost in all the Noise and Chaos that is the current US government, there now are  proposals beginning percolate between the Admin and the Senate, and enough interest that something may yet emerge. They could take some of the issues out the court jurisdiction, possibly rationalize things a bit, or just make it all worse! But in any case, I don't think we need to worry about the current state being the final word for college sports.

no, but this admin isnt organized enough to do anything about it.

[Stanley70]

Part of the reason Michigan has had to hit the portal is the tire fire that Howard left the program in. The fact that in Dusty's 2 years since the team went 8-24 he has led them to a sweet 16 and a title is amazing really. The best player on UConn, Reed, stated at Michigan and transferred out after Juwan left.

I think moving forward, with or without congessional intervention, they will have more of a balance between recruiting and portalling.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, Stanley70 said:

Part of the reason Michigan has had to hit the portal is the tire fire that Howard left the program in. The fact that in Dusty's 2 years since the team went 8-24 he has led them to a sweet 16 and a title is amazing really. The best player on UConn, Reed, stated at Michigan and transferred out after Juwan left.

I think moving forward, with or without congessional intervention, they will have more of a balance between recruiting and portalling.

That seems right. 

[GalagaGuy]

The only way I see things getting fixed is with a salary cap, as ridiculous as that sounds for college sports.  Cap how much any one player can be paid as well as how much a team can spend on their total roster.  

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

The only way I see things getting fixed is with a salary cap, as ridiculous as that sounds for college sports.  Cap how much any one player can be paid as well as how much a team can spend on their total roster.  

 I think Buddha has mentioned collective bargaining - but getting even a subset of the schools on the same page to create a coherent bargaining unit on the management side seems like a daunting task.

 

[Hongbit]

Go take a look at the IG pages of Yaxel and Jeremy Fears at MSU.  This is how NIL is supposed to work.  Most of the posts are paid ads from large companies.  Actual branding that is used to effectively market directly to kids of their generation. It’s not just free money handed out for nothing.   It’s actual paid work that has value.    
 

Unfortunately, this doesn’t come close to solving the real issue which is there is no honor among thieves.   Schools and their boosters are always looking for an edge and will continue to illegally use money to gain an advantage.  The NCAA has tried to play ball and given every school $20M to legally pay players and that’s still not nearly enough.    I don’t have the answers and I’m not sure they exist but they need to figure how to create penalties with some teeth in them. 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Hongbit