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It appears that Brady Hoke took the Michigan job without knowing what his comp package would be.

As a Michigan alumnus and fan, I love that kind of passion.

Go Blue!!

Very Cool!!  Thanks to my brother in law Jay’s father Jim for alerting me to this.

Go Blue!!

Has Michigan stopped recruiting Texas?  I worked in the Michigan equipment room for Jon Falk in 75-79 and I have contacted Michigan 3 times about Caleb but have rec’d no response.  He already has offers from Notre Dame, Stanford, TCU, Nebraska, etc.  The Big House Blog is reporting that LB is one of Michigan’s biggest needs for 2010.  What gives?

UPDATE:  As of Friday, February 27, Michigan has offered Caleb full ride.  GO BLUE!!

Check him out at www.caleblavey.com

A lot of folks are asking me if I have given up hope on Rich Rodriguez, the spread offense and Michigan in general.

Oh Contraire, mon ami!

To be honest, the loss to Utah was only somewhat dissapointing. Utah is a good team and has a good program (undefeated a couple of years ago – when did we last do that?). We have a new coach and a new system. Most importantly, we do not have the same key skill guys we have had for the last 3-4 years to anchor the offense. We will miss Henne, Hart, Manningham and Jake Long a lot this year and this game was our first view of that happening. Even if Lloyd was still here, our traditional offense would have struggled due to graduation (did those guys graduate?) losses.

These factors combine to lower my expectations for M football a few notches for this year. I would hope we are more competitive (as we were on Saturday) the further we get into the season. We need the defense to keep us in games until the “O” comes around. That the “D” didn’t get it done in the first half against the Utes was probably the biggest dissapointment of the game. Hopefully, we will show good improvement this week against Miami and be ready to spank the Domers the following week!

Tonight, the BCS announced that the National Championship game woud pit #1 ranked Ohio State against #2 ranked Florida. What a colossol disappointment!!

I thought the BCS was supposed to be the two best teams playing for the championship.  The fact the Florida has jumped Michigan in the polls demonstrates to me that the voters were more concerned about engineering the outcome of the BCS championship game than properly ranking the teams.  I challenge anyone who saw the Gators barely beat a crappy Florida State team last week, then saw last nights game against Arkansas, to justify how this is the 2nd best team in the country – it ain’t happening!!  If Arkansas doesn’t make a bone headed fumble on a punt which should never have been fielded, the Hogs probably win by 11 or more going away.

It’s clear that Harris and the Coaches have prostituted themselves in order to determine the BCS game they want, and not the game pitting the two BEST teams.  And don’t give me that “most deserving” line either.  If the criteria is most deserving, then Boise State should be playing in Glendale a week later than they are currently schduled.

By either criteria – the two best teams, or the two most deserving teams, Florida is not invited to the game.

One thing I found particularly galling (other than Urban Meyer’s continual whining for the vote the last couple of weeks) was the way that CBS announcers Gary Danielson and Verne Lundquist were actively pleading Florida’s case last night during the game.  I understand that CBS carries the SEC and so it is expected there will be some bias.  But the unbridled campaigning that these announcers did last night was over the top.  Comparing schedules is one thing, and Fla probably did play a tougher schedule.  But to declare “style points” irrelevant, as if beating Vandy by 20 (Michigan) is the same as beating Vandy by 6 (Florida) is disingenuous.

Now it is up to Michigan to take care of business and beat SC.  If we do that, then we will end the season # 2.  If we don’t, then this argument is all for naught and we will have validated this snub.