Congrats to Justin Meram, the Saad brothers and the rest of the 2010 Wolverines for bringing Coach Steve Burns their first Big Ten soccer championship.  Here’s a taste of Burns getting a bath: Make sure you check out the highlights when they are released, especially of the rocket off Meram’s foot for goal #2, the game-winner [Update: Highlights here].  Next up for Michigan is the NCAA tournament. Here’s the gang with the trophy after the game: If you haven’t, check out my interview with Steve Burns from before the season.

It’s confirmed that Michigan’s head of compliance, Judy Van Horn, will be leaving her post officially in January 2011.  Here’s the official statement from Michigan AD Dave Brandon: “Judy Van Horn served the University of Michigan well during her nine years.  We wish her well in her new career pursuits.” Van Horn started at Michigan in 2001, mainly overseeing the athletic department’s Compliance Services office. Van Horn currently serves as the University’s primary liaison with the Big Ten Conference Office, NCAA and Michigan’s Office of the General Counsel for compliance issues and is a member of the athletics department executive staff. She was of course a central figure in the NCAA investigation of the football program and the missing CARA forms.

The Big Chill at the Big House is just a month away and the athletic department has begun to distribute the tickets and they are sweet: The ducats are made of plastic (like a thick credit card) and come with a hole up top to hang from a lanyard or the plastic string they come with.  Don’t have tickets yet?  Stubhub has plenty ranging from $27-$109 all around the stadium: Of course the topic of the Big Chill will come up more and more as we approached the big day, and John Bacon brought it up to Tristin Llewellyn and the white-suspenders-and-pencil-thin-moustache-rocking Scooter Vaughn at The Arena on Tuesday on the Red show.  They each played it down as just another game, but hinted things would be pretty special playing in front of all those fans.  That’s certainly just what they are supposed to say, you can bet these guys are geeked.   Other stuff from the coaches show: * ’81 alum Roger Bourne offered a few great stories and noted that the team used to stay over on road trips on Saturday night and tore it up in the opposing town (but had to be ready to leave 7am Sunday).   Yes, there was an incident when a couple guys missed the flight home. * Red was out attending an NHL/college…

After the 2009 Purdue game – this was the best shot I got At today’s presser Rich Rod was asked about the postgame incident with Purdue Coach Danny Hope last year.   RR dismissed it and served up his go to Lion King line, "It’s in the past." If you don’t remember, when Rodriguez and Hope met to shake hands after the game, the Boiler coach brought LG Zach Reckman along with him to meet RR.  Why?  Reckman was suspended by the Big Ten for the Notre Dame game earlier that season.  This happened the week after the conference suspended Jonas Mouton and Rich Rod threatened to review film of other games to find questionable plays to submit for conference review.   Hope obviously believed that RR submitted something that got Reckman shelved for the Irish game, and wanted to stick it in his face. Here’s Rich Rod talking about it in the 2009 postgame presser, just after it happened: [display_podcast] I’m guessing/hoping it’ll come up again later this week.