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Things Discussed: Dusty May's new staff: got himself a D guy and a recruiter. Good sign that he's addressing his first perceived weaknesses, bodes well for gathering the best players from FAU and bringing Khani Rooths back. Akeem Miskdeen: Like Dusty May, nobody has a bad word to say. Rebuilding a basketball roster: Feels confident they can get Davis and Goldin and others from FAU, adding Miskdeen gets them in the market for the Oklahoma State guys in the portal and Rooths, whom Miskde...

Things Discussed: NCAA as Romanovs? How to talk to your kids about systems of government. How to fix the NCAA: Gonna need contracts and collective bargaining, but the NCAA should be at the point now where they realize they'll get more negotiating with the players than getting sued by them. Transfers should NOT be open. You're devaluing education, which is still the best thing the schools have to offer. Keon Sabb: hurts, but get that Bama was able to sell him a bill of goods on playing ...

Things Discussed: The coaching staff is finally all younger than Brian (this happened sometime in the Bronze Age; he was looking around like "I thought stone tools were fine, but okay I guess we're all going into this mining business.") Clink: It wasn't about the money; he needed to be the DC, and Sherrone needed experience. If he was only staying for the buyout it wasn't going to be great for either party. We're going with guys who watched the Usher performance at ...

Things Discussed: Clink back! Outbid Harbaugh. Wink Martindale: If you want a Ravens guy he invented the Amoeba. He's not young and not gonna stick around, but he holds this team together, and when he leaves he might have Clinkscale ready to take over, which he isn't now. Matters if he's going to take one or two jobs (IE bring his guy) on staff because they need some recruiting juice if he's going to be a Mike Macdonald-level recruiter. Lee Aaliya: This should be the last str...

Things Discussed: Seth is on early to talk about the Lions, relates it to Harbaugh/Sherrone Moore: Dan Campbell is a culture guy, and that's a hole that the NFL left when it shifted to playcallers as head coaches. Harbaugh to NFL: Seems the program is set through 2024, need to figure out their plan for 2025. Where were you when you heard? I was about to start the final boss fight of a very long D&D campaign. Expected? Yeah, said so in the previews. Michigan tried but Harbaugh was going ...

Things Discussed: Seth comes on early to talk Lions. Jim Harbaugh: If the NFL is willing to give him everything he'll go. If they won't he's got leverage to get what he wants from Michigan. Minter: Gonna be hard to keep him. Has the chance to follow MacDonald's career path. Worth keeping? Absolutely. Please offer him whatever you can to stay because he is incredible. But what can we offer other than money that NFL can match when he's already shown he's at that level...

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 ...

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 cha...

Things Discussed: Maryland Game: JJ looked very off, felt like a Lloyd Carr game with the playcalling. Pressure: Either Michigan got two guys free or zero. Very vanilla. Maryland moved the ball underneath two-deep with well-planned RPOs. Frightening thing was Wallace and Johnson getting beat, Wallace even when they had a cushion. Saw them go with McBurrows at nickel and Sainristil at corner because of it. Maryland run game is like OSU's: stretch and counter. Michigan mostly shut it down wit...

Things Discussed: Tony Petitti is an idiot. A little basketball. [Hit the JUMP for the player, and video and stuff]