Hey.  How are you?  I often think about how tough this must be for you, riding this out, knowing what you know, and trying to find a way to articulate it at press conferences without betraying the previous regime or belittling the current players.  I think about how the words “you can’t make chicken salad [...]

…should make you want to puke.
Get behind Your Coach folks, because everybody wants him…everybody except the impatient asshole portion of our fanbase.  [UM's Rodriguez Has No Interest In Clemson - DetNews]

“…I don’t want our team to expect to win; I want our team to deserve to win, and there’s a big difference in that. That’s our focus for our players and our staff and everybody in our program to deserve to win football games and to win it the right way. I know everybody who [...]

Football / Tailgating season is but a month away.  Your fair Wolverines have brought in a new coach that will, starting Friday, install a new offense, new look, and new overall gameplan.  And here you are, sitting at your desk, staring at your computer screen, wondering what the new season will bring.  You are not [...]

By now you’ve heard all about Rich Rod settling up with West Virginia.  WVU will get its $4 million.  No interest, no legal fees for them.  Michigan will reportedly pony up $2.5 million of it plus pay Rich Rod’s legal fees.  What does this mean to you, the average fan?  Not a damn thing.
Seriously.  This [...]

Michigan football is full of traditions, I think. I guess it depends on your definition of tradition. How long of a history does something need to have to be considered a tradition? Is a tradition something that find its roots in the fanbase or does it come from the team? [...]

If nothing else comes from the “transition” that has resulted in the unceremonious exit of Justin Boren, it’s that whatever was going on before Rodriguez was not good. And by “not good” I mean bluntly that players over the last several years were not pushed to their potential. I’ve bared my soul about [...]

Had a conversation with G-Daddy this afternoon…that’s the Godfather to you at home. He told me he’s actually hung a noose from the ceiling fan with all the depressing news about Michigan Basketball, Terelle Pryor, and RichRod lawsuits, and that he is prepared to use it if things don’t start looking brighter on UMTailgate.com.
Fear [...]

The busy law students at the Harvard of the East Washtenaw Community College of the Appalachians have gathered together and made a new blog. This should be a wake up call to any of you out there that thought creating a blog was too difficult to manage or too technical. The fact that [...]

I’m sure there will be a YouTube or BTN video clip of it soon enough, but head coach Rich Rodriguez addressed the crowd at halftime of the Michigan-OSU basketball game. It came off of an alumni weekend and a Friday event that had 300 plus in attendance. From the Sporting News:
During his remarks, [...]