March 07, 2012

Way Back When-sday Pic of the Week

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Michigan vs. Central Michigan 2003The first Luau tailgate theme — Michigan vs. Central Michigan 2003
The first Luau tailgate theme

March 06, 2012

Twitter Tuesday

March 06, 2012/ The Webmaster

Bad things can happen in 140 characters or less.

Twitter is a public forum, and counts as such in the eyes of the NCAA. That's the lesson that Roy Roundtree and Kenny Demens will be learning the hard way, as their "shout outs" to Mike McCray, Michigan's latest verbal commit, are actually violations of NCAA rules. Current players are not permitted to publicy contact unsigned recruits...even when they are from your former high school.

S/O to my lil brotha Mike McCray @MJM92013 for committing to Michigan today - Roy Roundtree

and

@MJM92013 Welcome to the Maize & Blue my dog. - Kenny Demens

...is all it took for the University to self report. A couple of things here: #1) The NCAA needs to come up with a policy regarding social media. These are the times we are in. Wake up a get a handle on it. Kids shouldn't have to be punished for connecting with their fans and connecting with other players (past and present). There's nothing cooler than watching (reading) Desmond and Denard talk to each other. And #2) Until there is such a policy, as much as I enjoy the inside look at the program through the tweets of the players, the Michigan policy should be NO TWEETING.

In other twitter news, Braylon took a shot across the bow and Coach Hoke and family for not recruiting his little brother Berkley.

I don't understand how my brother has the 8th (fastest) time in the country in the 60m, ran for 1800 yards last year and 20 and UofM wontcall. - Braylon Edwards

Later he calls out Carr, who he said would have missed out on him if it wasn't for "soup" aka Coach Campbell:

Love my school and I played for coach (Hoke) but call my brother before its too late and you guys miss out like Lloyd would have ifnot forsoup.

Can't see how this is going to be productive Braylon. I also can't see how we're going to have room for an unranked all-purpose back when we're signing 4-stars by the boatload.

March 05, 2012

Weekend Roundup, Banner Hanging Edition: 3/5/12

March 05, 2012/ The Webmaster

NFL combine roundup from Rittenburg/Bennett has Cousins stock on the rise. Goofy bastard must have made another speech to impress people. I'll tell you this... if you're the kind of team that likes to take games that you have control of and let the opponent back in Sparty-style, this is your guy.
Tremendous interview on Grantland with Tim Hardaway Jr. Playing one-on-one with his dad, his version of the UTEP 2-step, and the Fab 5...it's all covered here.
The New York Times discusses Michigan's "Renaissance," from Beilein rebuilding the system, to the University rebuilding the basketball facilities.
Bracket predictions seem to have Michigan solidly as a three seed...but there's still a Big Ten tournament to be played. Jerry Palm (CBS) has us facing Davidson in Columbus with a second round Gozaga matchup looming. Lunardi also has us facing Davidson in the first round...only he has us in Nashville with the Washington - Vandy winner waiting for us in the second round.
The Wall Street Journal says The General is the man that slowed the Big Ten's marching speed...and man is it slow.
Some San Diego State senior love for Brady Hoke comes out at the combine to AnnArbor.com.
Some must-follow twitter accounts for March Madness via Mashable.
A recap of the fellas heading back to the player development center to catch the end of the game from AnnArbor.com.
"The sleeping giant is slumbering no more." says Ben Estes in The Michigan Daily.

March 05, 2012

Championship Sunday Picture Page

March 05, 2012/ The Webmaster

Were we always this fired up about regular season titles? I guess I always thought of the Big Ten tournament champion as the Big Ten champion. I felt that way in '98, when Michigan won the inaugural Big Ten tourney. College basketball is a game predicated on tournaments. I'm pretty sure Kentucky didn't cut down the nets Sunday afternoon and declare themselves the regular season National Champion. In March, nobody cares about regular season championships. Nobody that is except a banner-starved fanbase that just wants to hang something from this century and get a ring for the fingers of a couple of un-recruited kids from Indiana.

Banners really mean something around here. We've hung our fair share, as well as unceremoniously taken a few down. The 1986 Big Ten banner and 1989 National Championship banner have remained. But that's getting to be an awfully long time ago. I can remember thinking it was a long time ago when I was here as a student. For a college student today, those banners might as well be from 1956.

But there will be fresh cloth to hang from the rafters now. 2012 Big Ten Champions.

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