Red Wings Rumblings What Could Have Been… Coulda, shoulda, woulda from Connor Earegood at The Hockey News. It’s a what-about-ism article that examines some of…
Mooch'd. Shemy Schembechler came, and then he went. Warde Manuel: "Effective this afternoon, Shemy Schembechler has resigned his position with Michigan Football. We are aware of some comments and likes on social media that have caused concern and pain for individuals in our community. Michigan Athletics is fully committed to a place where our coaches, staff and student-athletes feel welcome and where we fully support the University's and Athletic Department's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion." Schembechler got booted for his twitter account, which had dozens and dozens of likes on posts ranging between debatably racist and obviously racist. The ESPN story linked about asserts that "a source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN that Schembechler went through a thorough background check during the hiring process," which uh no he did not. When your background check misses publicly available information it was not thorough. Or even a &qu
If there is a broad consensus still left in America today, it is that drugs are bad. Nancy Regan told me this, but so has Darren Aronofsky. Richard Nixon. TLC. Kermit the Frog. An egg cooking in a pan. Breaking Bad. All vehemently anti-drugs. The Wire surely the last American institution to command broad trust was about how many things were bad, and drugs were certainly one of them. Drugs: nope. They're bad. But the first period of Saturday's hockey game asks a provocative question. What if… what if drugs are good? Because that game was on drugs. And it was good. By the end of one period of hockey folks in Yost Ice Arena had seen 34 shots, seven goals, eight penalties, two majors, and one game misconduct in a pear tree. Last week I wrote about how Old Yost felt, and Wisconsin came in like Northern Michigan or Lake State of old, leading with the jaw and throwing haymakers. They got blitzed on Friday, got pissed Friday night, and came into the Saturday game looking for any ex
Well, we've got a coaching vacancy. Due to Matt Weiss getting axed due to Computer Crimes, Michigan has an assistant opening. We spent a bunch of time talking about it on WTKA this morning, and we mainly discussed two scenarios: Promoting Kirk Campbell to QB coach, which is probably JJ McCarthy's preferred outcome. Moving Jay Harbaugh to QB coach, hiring someone else, and having Harbaugh re-assert himself as a QB whisperer. Possibly relevant to this: Chris Partridge got cut loose by Ole Miss and is now looking for a job. He was a co-DC at Ole Miss and may have gotten out over his skis a little bit in that job. Ole Miss's D was just 50th in SP+ this year. With Jesse Minter around, he won't have a DC title if he does return to Michigan. If he's fine with that, though, he was an ace recruiter and an ace recruiter would help out considerably after a down class. Also he might be an in with Davison Igbinosun, who was a freshman All-American CB for Ole Miss with 10 st