Michigan's Football last 4 weeks has been all about good or bad timing. Let's take a quick review:
12/10: Michigan fires Sherrone Moore
12/12: Kyle Whittingham announces he is leaving Utah
12/19: Kalen DeBoer's Alabama Team upsets Oklahoma in the CFP
12/20: Kenny Dillingham signs a new deal with ASU, rumor is he wants the Cardinals job
12/20 - 12/25: John Harbaugh is vetted by the search committee, he declines and recommends his OC and former Georgia OC Todd Monken.
12/26: Michigan hires Kyle Whittingham as its new head coach
1/1: Alabama gets embarrassed by The Big Ten's best team Indiana in the Rose Bowl
1/5: The Arizona Cardinals job opens up
1/6: John Harbaugh is fired from the Ravens, insiders say in part due to his unwillingness to fire Todd Moken.
My late mother always thought everything happened for a reason. Kyle surprisingly becoming available 2 days after Michigan's job became available was a huge bat sign for all of us.
Kalen the reported top candidate won the game many thought he would lose and then gets embarrassed in the grand daddy of them all to a Big Ten team. Kenny acts like a kid in the transfer portal. John my first choice for the job was never going to leave the NFL (probably due to what his brother went through with the NCAA) and was clearly trying to give Todd a soft landing. Reports are that all the NFL openings want John to interview.
This has been a crazy month with either Michigan's top candidates becoming available or not becoming available at the right or wrong times.
- Well we got a glimpse of how Michigan Basketball will lose their first game last night to a pesky Penn State team without their best player. Michigan sneaks out of Happy Valley with a 2 point win.
- Michigan gets good news from offensive lineman Link and Guarnera who both are staying in Ann Arbor.
- Zeke Berry is also back!
- Fingers crossed for Justice and Marsh!
- Michigan signs its first portal player in Long Snapper Nico Crawford from Pitt. Nico do you know any good punters?
- Michigan Freshman S Jordan Young is also now in the portal.
8 comments:
The NCAA has officially caused college amateur athletics to become insufferable. IMHO!!!
Amen .... I am just wondering if over time things go south for college sports. Might take decades but the college spirit like the 70's and 80's will slowly evaporate. things change over time. Could college football be like the Miss America pageant > that is it used to be watched like the Super bowl (in numbers), now it might be on an obscure cable channel (if at all). College football is not the same product > loyalty is now to the holly greenback.
In the end I think Whitt is just a short gap hire. back in the day, if your preferred candidate wasn't available, you hired an interim, and then conducted a deep search the following season. now with the TP and NIL that's a roster death wish. you cannot give a guy an interim tag, or more than half your roster is in the portal. In the end that's all Whitt really is, is an interim hire. sure, he'll be around for more than 1 year, but he's 67 years old. how long does anyone think he's going to coach in AA?
I think age could be a motivating factor. Whitt knows his time is limited. A younger coach may not feel the same pressure to win a Natty. That said, not many coaches last more than 4 or 5 years in one place anyways.
I gave thought on how to regulate all this transfer portal nonsense. Seems whatever actions needed to counter the madness would violate most right to work laws, nullifying a players right to leave a school. My next thought was how is that any different than what you and I are allowed to do, which is leave an employer whenever we feel like. We are all just people in the transfer portal of life.
the only....ONLY way to regulate it is collective bargaining, i.e. the U word...Union....that's the only way...but then the players would have to give us some of their individual power to be part of a union.
Sprague is coming back!!!
Hey, there's a surprise for you....a MI person calling for a union!! As if they haven't done enough damage in the state of MI. Doesn't need to be that heavy, just some new rules by a body of people that actually have some brains and credibility. Obviously that wouldn't be today's NCAA....the weak and feckless morons they are. First rule; you have to be at a school two years before you can apply to transfer. Means no freshman. Also means no more one and done's. Then, NCAA establishes a ceiling for annual NIL $$. Teams would have to figure out who they want to pay and who they don't. Expand the playoffs and get rid of useless bowl games if they aren't a playoff game.
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