Note: No Brian today; we got John U. Bacon to fill in. Things Discussed: Recruiting: Sam: look at the portal too. Seth: Barham is a GREAT pickup. Mark my words: in 4 years Michigan's 27 players are going to wind up providing more value to Michigan than Miami's 27 players are going to provide to Miami. But I would like to see us get better at the up-front bag game for cornerbacks and wide receivers and quarterbacks who have a lot of value on the open market because the skills you see in high school are more likely to translate. You aren't winning a 5-star who takes the bag to go to A&M. You should be winning 5-stars against Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama who know they're going to win and get developed AND get paid. Up-front payments are a line we won't cross, and I wish that wasn't the case, even if it does lead to stress-free signing days. Burgergate: Congrats to Ohio State for getting the #1 player in the country without using NIL as an inducement
Things Discussed: Al Borges has groupies. Iowa takeaways: 26-0 was good. Can't be 26-3, needed to come down after the intensity of OSU. Offense missed some opportunities: get a catch from Barner or Loveland and it looks different. Love that they gave Semaj Morgan another chance to get on the mic. Using Edwards: get him running, not reading. Sainristil: He's going to be drafted. Iowa: yes, but there were non-Iowa moments. He's playing cornerback very well. Portal talk: Not worried about Trente anymore. Walter Nolen? Sam says they need clarity on whether he's even in the portal. Hard to move on a QB when you don't know what you've got. They're in on the OL from A&M. Can't offer starting spots. CFP: Absolutely got it wrong. FSU had a better end to the season than Alabama, their 2nd string QB will be back, all of the arguments for Alabama are ridiculous post-hoc excuses for putting an SEC team in the Playoff. Michigan ends up better off because T
Things Discussed: The Game post-op: OSU was closer because they didn't play insane. Were conservative and that worked for them. Payoff for the light boxes all year. Seth's monologue: Ohio State has plenty of hate, Michigan swerved to love, and I'm so happy that they won so we can talk about how the players love each other and love Harbaugh, and how the fans uplifted them. Craig: That's Marxist! Ari Wasserman comes clean: Signsgate was always just about hurting Michigan by changing the narrative. McCarthy runs: obviously injured, OSU had some ideas to stop QB run, but M didn't plan the counters for that because they weren't going to run with him. Michigan didn't learn the lesson of JTT: If you leave him unblocked for a second he will kill you. Play-action is still missing. They are using it wrong. Orjicat: OSU doesn't have numbers with a safety high. McCarthy's read: He studied film on the robber, knew that guy was turning. Last TD: Wasn'