Michigan Football 2026: Rebuilding, Rebranding, How to Be What You are: an Elite Program.

[Shelton]

On 12/27/2025 at 11:07 AM, MichiganCardinal said:

I don’t see him as going rogue as much as I see him telling the truth. I take him to be a straight shooter. They named him interim for the bowl, that comes with a media circuit, he was asked hard questions, he answered with the hard truth. Play Where’s Waldo with The Regents and Warde, except it’s a transcript of Poggi’s comments and the game is Where’s the Lie.

If there was some media narrative line he was supposed to toe, he’s probably not the guy for the job. And all of that aside it’s not like Michigan was likely to do better than Whittingham (at least not from the moment Alabama came back against Oklahoma).

Poggi has said all the right things since not getting the job. I’m sure he won’t be on Whittingham’s staff, but I hope he lands on his feet.

Super weird biff poggi appreciation. 
 

I find it kind of gross for folks to claim they knew all along how rotten everything was. It’s fine that he is being forthright during his mandated news conferences I guess. But he also doesn’t need to go on garbage podcasts and talk ****.  
 

Anyway, good riddance, biff. And good riddance to everyone else. 

[gehringer_2]

3 minutes ago, Shelton said:

Super weird biff poggi appreciation. 
 

I find it kind of gross for folks to claim they knew all along how rotten everything was. It’s fine that he is being forthright during his mandated news conferences I guess. But he also doesn’t need to go on garbage podcasts and talk ****.  
 

Anyway, good riddance, biff. And good riddance to everyone else. 

I Whittingham is the straight arrow he's being billed as, we'll find out how long a clean program that loses is viable.

[romad1]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I Whittingham is the straight arrow he's being billed as, we'll find out how long a clean program that loses is viable.

The new rules would seem to make it possible to win within the rules.  I mean he's got a death star of money.  Unless OSU suddenly (and I am not trying to manifest this) becomes Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's favorite program.  You'd have to think having Larry Ellison of Oracle backstopping the program would be a nice guarantor of the budget. 

[Hongbit]

50 minutes ago, romad1 said:

The new rules would seem to make it possible to win within the rules.  I mean he's got a death star of money.  Unless OSU suddenly (and I am not trying to manifest this) becomes Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's favorite program.  You'd have to think having Larry Ellison of Oracle backstopping the program would be a nice guarantor of the budget. 

Remember this past year was on outlier.  The $21M budget for NIL spending went into place in July.  Many big deals were signed and preloaded before this time.   Lots of extra money got spent this summer.  It’s how Texas Tech bought a team for $28M.  Going forward all NIL above the $21M (includes all sports and not just football) will need to come from outside the program and be approved by a 3rd party clearinghouse.  They will also have to show some legitmate work that is commensurate for the payment.    Larry’s mysterious lady friend will have to find an actual job of some sort when she writes the check.   

[romad1]

49 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Remember this past year was on outlier.  The $21M budget for NIL spending went into place in July.  Many big deals were signed and preloaded before this time.   Lots of extra money got spent this summer.  It’s how Texas Tech bought a team for $28M.  Going forward all NIL above the $21M (includes all sports and not just football) will need to come from outside the program and be approved by a 3rd party clearinghouse.  They will also have to show some legitmate work that is commensurate for the payment.    Larry’s mysterious lady friend will have to find an actual job of some sort when she writes the check.   

Yeah, perhaps the enforcement of limitations will allow more latitude for the unscrupulous.   The Wild West works for the wealthy and powerful but when caps and limits are actually enforced they only help the lawbreakers who get away with it. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Going forward all NIL above the $21M (includes all sports and not just football) will need to come from outside the program and be approved by a 3rd party clearinghouse.  They will also have to show some legitmate work that is commensurate for the payment.    Larry’s mysterious lady friend will have to find an actual job of some sort when she writes the check.   

all of which are fair and good ideas but as per history in college football, programs will find ways to cheat like crazy - the money will just go back under the table. Again, if history is any guide enforcement will be both feeble and arbitrary.

Edited 28 minutes ago by gehringer_2