U of M thread (in the Lions Forum) :)

[jaadam4]

the bar has def be lowered then.. i dont think he deserves it at all.

[chemiclord]

Voters are going to look at his record, his conference championships, and national title, and eventually vote him in.

That he probably could have done better with the talent he had, and that his NC was won largely with his predecessor's players will steadily become less and less of a factor as time moves on.

[LionsWolverines]

Yahoo sports says tressel new about the "gear scheme". Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...osuprobe030711

[chemiclord]

Join the club already talking about it: http://www.detroitlionsforum.com/for...t=5014&page=11

[LionsWolverines]

Join the club already talking about it: http://www.detroitlionsforum.com/for...t=5014&page=11

It was like the second topic too. Fail on my part.

[nhwbrooklyn]

For shame.

[gjdodger]

OSU news is never UM news.

[gjdodger]

The Sleazy Weasel threatens to, but does not, name names:

Former Michigan coach RichRodriguez defended Ohio State coach Jim Tressel during a radio interview Thursday, and said that while the Buckeyes never negatively recruited against the Wolverines during his three seasons in Ann Arbor, others did and will soon be revealed.
Tressel and OhioState officials on Tuesday night responded to news he had violated NCAA rules by withholding information in an investigation.
Rodriguez was interviewed by Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio.
Cowherd told Rodriguez he no longer trusts Tressel; Rodriguez responded by defending Ohio State's coach.
"If you run a program at Ohio State or at Michigan or something like that, so much of what you do is public," Rodriguez said. "There's not all this crazy cheating and things like that going on that people think. There are some guys out there that bend the rules a little bit or they get around the rules and try to get a competitive advantage. I don't think that was the case in this at all. There were five guys who sold items who shouldn't have sold it. And they were wrong for doing it. Did that give Ohio State a competitive advantage? I don't think so."
Rodriguez continued: "There's coaches out there that are trying to get a competitive advantage the wrong way, a handful, and they seem to get away with it. And there are other coaches that are really trying as hard as they can, doing everything in good faith, and they seem to get nailed. I think that's the thing that frustrates coaches, like, 'Geez look at what these guys did, and they're winning and they did all that.'
"How do we fix that?"
Rodriguez said that while he and his staff at Michigan dealt with negative recruiting, it was never at the hands of Tressel and the staff at Ohio State.
"In my experience in three years of recruiting against them we didn't sense that, hey, Ohio State is one of these schools that are on the edge," Rodriguez said. "There were others we thought were doing that."
Cowherd pressed Rodriguez to identify those schools.
"You're putting me on the spot," Rodriguez said, chuckling. "I think some of them are getting looked at right now. So that will come out here pretty soon."
Rodriguez quickly added another emphatic defense of Ohio State and its recruiting habits, at least as it related to the Michigan-OSU rivalry.
"(We experienced) … a lot of negative recruiting (while at Michigan)," Rodriguez said. "People just bashing individual coaches and schools and programs, and I think that's a bad practice to do.
"Some people would think Ohio State-Michigan is such a big rivalry, they probably did a lot of negative recruiting. They didn't. There were other schools that did, but they didn't, and that to me sends a message they're trying to do things the right way."

[Cody_Russell]

This Michigan vs Illinois game has somehow become a MUST win.

Probably biggest game for Michigan Sports since :
- Oklahoma vs Michigan NCAA Tourney game 2 years ago
OR
- Michigan vs ohio state football game in 2006 ...
OR
- 5-0 MSU @ 5-0 Michigan football this last year

In which Michigan is 0-3, therefore Michigan loses to Illinois today :(

[gjdodger]

This is biggest since the 42-39 football loss at Columbus. This validates progress by B-line. 9-9 and 1-and-done is not progress.

[SeattleLionsFan]

Wow. Didnt see that coming. The team without a senior, that was expected to be the bottom of the big ten, making the tourney now isn't enough? You are a tough taskmaster dodge.

[froot loops]

He is a Michigan Man, that is to be expected.

[gjdodger]

True enough. But my era was the 70s, when there were only 48 tournament teams and Michigan went most years. That's my standard. Sucking one year and battling back to .500 is very Richrodesque.

[Kstat]

Given what he inherited, he's made amazing progress.

He's also not "battling back to .500." U-M is a hair away from 20 wins for the 2nd time in 3 seasons. He might be .500 in-conference, but RichRod never came close to sniffing .500 in the big ten.

Just about everything you said is way off.

[gjdodger]

How has B-line's tenure been better than Amaker's? Because he made the tournament once?