Monday, December 1, 2025

Michigan Monday: The Fox Conspiracy Theory

We need Pablo Torre on this pronto! It seems Fox didn't send all the clips to the Big Ten officials for the Jeramiah Smith fumble out of the end zone.  Which means the officials didn't have the angle to show him juggling the ball and stepping out of bounds.


Why would Fox hold back replays from the booth?

1. Fox has a ton of money on the line to have the best football game in the country this Saturday.
2. There has never been a #1 ranked team in the nation play the #2 ranked team in conference championship game. 
3. We have already seen IU play Oregon once this year anyways.  
4. Fox was too busy cueing up their next 1000 commercials to show us during the broadcast 

It's clear Fox lost the game for the Wolverines!  Is that how you do it Ohio State and Michigan State fans?  Yes, that play was a turning point, but Ohio State was clearly the better team on Saturday and still would of won the game. 

A lot has happened in college football since the game ended.  
  • Michigan received two new commits. 2026 4 star CB Jamiron Vincent (I like to call him Jam!) who flipped from Baylor.  Welcome Jam! and 2027 4 star DE Recarder Kitchen from Muskegon.  Welcome home guys! 
  • Lane after a long think decided to go to LSU and Ole Miss is not letting him coach in the playoffs.  They have already hired their DC as head coach. 
  • MSU didn't surprise anyone by firing Jonathan Smith and sending him away with $33M, the surprise was Sparty immediately hiring former Northwestern head man Pat Fitzgerald.  Pat is a good coach but struggled the last few years in the Big Ten when he had the Northwestern job. 
  • Mark Stoops was finally fired at UK, not sure what took so long there.  Maybe his last name. 
  • Florida seems to be hiring Tulane's coach Jon Sumrall. 
  • Arkansas hired the Memphis head coach. 
  • Penn State your up?
  • National Signing Day is Wednesday.  Crazy I know.  Its actually the early signing period, but its become the #1 Signing Day. 
  • Michigan looks to be headed to the Citrus vs. Texas or Vandy.  Should be an interesting exhibition. 
  • Corum might have has his best day as a pro, he had 81 yards and TD as the Rams got upset.  Nice to see Moody back kicking well for Washington. 
  • The ACC Championship game is very funny.  Duke vs. Virginia.   James Franklin is going to rule the ACC world soon. 
I have thoughts on Sherrone and Michigan's season, but I will save those for later this week.  

6 comments:

MichiganMan said...

Another great season. Thank you Bob for all the hard work you do for this blog. I wish everyone a Happy and Health New Year. I forgave all the haters here so cursed at me. I know its all out of love and frustration. Lets hope we have a better season next year. I going 9-3 for my prediction for next year....I am off to Dubai and will be back in couple of months.

Blue for life

Chowman said...

Pat Fitgerald? Fitting for a two-bit program. Dude was so overhyped. His team played in a crap B1G West and could only have a winning season every 3rd year. Good luck and welcome to modern college football. Hire screams of a bargain bin purchase.

Not sure if its even an exhibition. you have to wonder who's even going to play in the game. The era of guys playing in bowl games has passed. its all about making business decisions now. It's either CFP or what you can get on the open market

Chowman said...

Great season? Bit much, isn't it? There were only 3 teams on the schedule with a pulse and you lost to every one. Coincidently, those same three teams were teams Wink had no answers for defensively.

Mastermind said...

This season was terrible. Even the easy games we looked like 💩. Sherrone ain't developing players and his offense got worse as the year went on. Dont know what anyone sees in him as a coach.

ScottyDoggs said...

Mastermind and Chowman spoke for me ..... can't wait for Bob's take on Moore {No more Moore}, give him to Michigan State.

Chowman said...

Look I think this is a critical offseason for Moore. He needs to bring in at least one top tier WR and really needs to address the OL. The OL got better at run blocking as the year went on, but pass pro was still abysmal. Michigan DOES NOT get guys out of the TP from Ferris State and Cal Poly.

Y'all know my opinion on Wink. I don't think he's a fit at Michigan, nor a fit for college football. he's no different than Don Brown, he plays bully ball. when he has the superior talent his D looks good, but when its even or the other team is better he looks bad. Please don't come at me with Bama last year. That was an effing bowl game that Bama didn't show up and Milroe blows as a QB. Milroe better version of Alex Orji. And OSU? Ryan day wanted to show how big his cajones were and tried running the ball down Michigan's throat with 2 first round picks at DT for Michigan.