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2015 TSUN News

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Jaxbuck said:
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At least one of the grad transfers will be an AA by the end of the year.....:slappy:

never mind their distinct lack of AA credentials during the first 4 years of their college career, one good season of The Harbraugh is all it will take
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Dumbest fan base in college football, hands down.

While we're at it, Bolden as a second team all-Big Ten is a joke. He wouldn't be in the two-deep in Columbus, to say nothing of the rest of the LBs in the Big Ten.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
My favorite comment:



At least one of the grad transfers will be an AA by the end of the year.....:slappy:

never mind their distinct lack of AA credentials during the first 4 years of their college career, one good season of The Harbraugh is all it will take
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Let them get as arrogant and delusional about The Harbaugh as they can. The closer we get to Thanksgiving, the more they are all going to start obsessing over 1969, and it won't take much for the Michigan Man ego to believe that it's going to happen again. I have a feeling that Meyer intends to send The Harbaugh and all the recruits and high school coaches a huge message that weekend and not take his foot off the gas until the clock is 0:00. The more unrealistic that Michigan Man is; the more it is going to hurt.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
My favorite comment:



At least one of the grad transfers will be an AA by the end of the year.....:slappy:

never mind their distinct lack of AA credentials during the first 4 years of their college career, one good season of The Harbraugh is all it will take
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This exchange wasn't bad...

JORDAN DAVID KOVACSJun 1, 2015
One Rose Bowl appearance since the 80s is a nice run of success?




Duck, Duck, Harbaugh!Jun 1, 2015
But the most wins in history is just coincidence.


UM_CollegeFootballSuperPower(1901-1948)Jun 1, 2015
@JORDAN DAVID KOVACS 4 Rose Bowls wins in UM's last 16 appearances. Congrats on that.


Duck, Duck, Harbaugh!Jun 1, 2015
I mean does MSU have 4 wins in the rose bowl?



MotownWaltJun 1, 2015
@Duck, Duck, Harbaugh! Since MSU joined the Big Ten they have played in just 5 Rose Bowls and won 4 - an 80% winning percentage.U-M has played in 17 Rose Bowls during that same time ... they won 5 and lost 12 - a 29% winning percentage.MSU has won one less Rose Bowl game than U-M has won, despite playing in only five Rose Bowls vs. 17 Rose Bowls. I really don't think U-M fans should be bragging about their annual humiliation in Pasadena.
 
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Three lighthouses in TSUN or sale.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/07/14/michigan-lighthouse-auction/30124371/

Hey, I have an idea.

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Graduate Transfer Settling In At scUM
In June, former Iowa quarterback Jake Rudock arrived in an unfamiliar town surrounded by unfamiliar faces with a thick new playbook to commit to memory. Two months later, Rudock is expected to be a team leader as he competes for the starting quarterback job at Michigan when the Wolverines open camp this Friday.

How did he get from A to B over the span of a summer? Board games.

“We play Monopoly,” senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson said. “Rudock lives right across the street. He’ll come over with (receiver) Bo Dever, (defensive lineman) Chris Wormley and some other guys, and we’ll drink some Kool-Aid and play Monopoly.”
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But is Ruddock willing to choke someone over a game of Monopoly?
 
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Well, it's like this; I look at their schedule:

@ Utah
vs Oregon State
vs UNLV
vs BYU
@ Maryland
vs Northwestern
vs Michigan State
@ Minnesota
vs Rutgers
@ Indiana
@ Penn State
vs OSU
And what I see is that they could be 4-0 to begin the season, or no worse than 2 - 2. If it's the former, they could potentially be 6 and 0 when Sparty comes to town - but then I gotta believe the wheels fall off the cart - and they end up with 4 losses. Without Gardner, without Funchess - without freshmen to replace either, if they don't beat Utah, if they get beat by 14 or more, they could easily slip to 6 - 6 or 5 - 7.

How does that affect Hairball? - not much. Even if he goes 3 - 9, he's still a first year coach playing with the toys Hoke left him and the fans will go for two more years at the very least.
 
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I'd put Maryland, Rutgers, and PSU as 50/50s... any of those 4 can beat each other.
I don't have a clue what to expect from Utah and BYU but the latter may be desperate to impress BXII search committees and apparently Taysom Hill
has a score to settle with Harbaugh (signed an LOI to Stanford)

“I’m very excited to go to Michigan and play in that venue, to play coach Harbaugh,” Hill said at BYU's media day in June. “He and I have exchanged a few text messages since he accepted the job. We’ve talked about it. I’m very excited about it … I would have never imagined this. I sent him a text and said, ‘It’s not ideal, it’s not like we planned, but I’m grateful and super-excited to finally be on the same field as you.’ His response was, ‘I’m not looking forward to playing you, my friend'.”
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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...m-Harbaugh-who-once-recruited-him.html?pg=all

Oregon State is a perennial bottom dweller, they may as well have scheduled Purdue.
Minnesota could fall off the map without Cobb, Maxx, or Nelson.

Not sure how I expect the division to pan out this year. Rutgers, Maryland, and scUM are all replacing QBs. Maryland seems to like their guy, the other 2 are questionable at best. Indiana has lost Coleman and Wynn, Wilson needed to go bowling last year when the QB situation blew up in his face.
Ped State is still in recovery mode... not sure how much better I expect them to be and whether Hackysack and Franklin will continue to regress or turn it around.
MSU lost 2 from their 3 headed monster and a lot off the OLine. Expect Dantonio to find solutions on defense this year if they're going to continue. Even if he doesn't, should still be able to beat most of the division/conference. Harbaugh doesn't appear to have cooled relations between the two.

cincibuck said:
How does that affect Hairball? - not much. Even if he goes 3 - 9, he's still a first year coach playing with the toys Hoke left him and the fans will go for two more years at the very least.
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Sorry to only post part... but I think it will have an affect. They'll stick with him for at least 3 years.
But despite all the media hype and big proclamations being put out there... he's been a disaster on the recruiting trail. If the Savior can't get them to 8-9 wins t his year... the recruiting situation is unlikely to improve.
People always say wins and losses don't matter that much for recruiting, but this is one situation where I think it does. He's not winning many kids over with their current pitch -- he needs to SHOW he can win and deliver NFL prospects.
 
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kujirakira said:
People always say wins and losses don't matter that much for recruiting, but this is one situation where I think it does. He's not winning many kids over with their current pitch -- he needs to SHOW he can win and deliver NFL prospects.
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Wins and losses don't necessarily matter for established brands. Ohio State can have a rough year, and keep rolling. Same for Florida State, or Bammer, or LSU. A down year won't have a large impact overall, because kids know those programs will bounce back.

In 2015, scum is nowhere near an established brand. They're a former power that has sucked since the kids they're currently recruiting were 8-9 years old. Brady Hoke actually recruited quite well there, but he was known as a strong recruiter going in. He just failed miserably at turning those computer-stars into actual stars on the field. TheHarbrau™, wasn't necessarily known as a particularly strong recruiter at Stanford. And while I think he is a good coach, I think his record gets exaggerated a little. He took over a 49ers team that was loaded with talent. To his credit, he got them to play to their abilities were others had failed. However, he was consistently good for at least one head-scratching decision a game...often related to challenges. My God, he was horrible at those. I spent 2012-14 praying somebody would take those goddamned red flags away from him. And when the talent began to wane a bit in 2014, he was a .500 coach. He was pretty mediocre at Stanford until he convinced a generational talent at QB to come to Palo Alto. Replace Andrew Luck with the kids scUM has had at QB the last decade and he's probably a .500 coach. If he can find another QB in Luck's stratosphere, he might make scUM into something. Otherwise, I think he gets similar results to Lloyd Carr, minus the 1997 outlier.
 
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