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Confirmed: Judas!
Borendict Arnold!! confirmed. Borendict Arnold
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Jake: Your Money Maker
So Jake Long will be the #1 pick in this weekend’s draft, signing for just under $58M. Factoids for you: * He joins the great Tom Harmon as the only Michigan #1 overall picks in the draft. * While we’ll never know the exact figure, taking a swag you figure that Long made himself an extra $30 million or so by staying an extra year at Michigan. Of course, he didn’t get paid last season (we hope) and may have cut off a year of NFL life. But all in all, he made out big. * I know Henne’s stock is rising, but perhaps the fellow four-year starter could join Long in Miami as the Dolphins’ first pick of the 2nd round? * What could Long do with $58 million? How about buy every seat for every game in the Big House next season plus every seat at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2009. He’d have some change left over for parking and Twizzlers.
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From now on, You’ll be Fritz
Great, great stuff from the bountiful Sports Illustrated Vault. I found this beauty via the excellent Winged Helmet message board posted by uber user BlueCheeseHead. It’s a lengthy piece on Fritz Crisler first published in February 1964 titled “The Man Who Changed Football“. Definitely check it out. It presents the former Michigan coach and AD’s influence on college football rule changes but it also provides a few nice nuggets. Among them: Specifically how he got the nickname Fritz: Coach [Amos Alonzo] Stagg fastened the nickname of ‘Fritz’ on him after he had fumbled three times in a row. Stagg made the sarcastic point that there was a violinist, a great artist, who spelled his name Kreisler. He said he was naming Crisler Fritz because he bore absolutely no resemblance to Fritz Kreisler, the artist. On his strategy to defend “the sleeper”….where the offense hides a player near the sidelines, hoping the defense doesn’t notice: “We would put a bugler up on top of the press box with instructions to watch for that sleeper, and when he spotted one to blast out reveille with all the fervor and wind that was in him. It worked, but we could only use him at home games. There was a limit on the number of men we could take on a trip. One time…
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Spring Game: B side Photos
A few more pics from the Spring game a Saline including more of what you savor: Barwis and recruits: Lamarr Woodley and a few former players attended From the end zone More players; Barwis was moving around and barking Rodriguez meets recruit Henry Conway – the fridge II Coach Rod takes the field Barwis with Threet – barking Nick Sheridan waits to stretch
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Cool Rod greets Ann Arbor alums
Last night Bill Martin and Coach Rodriguez kicked off their ‘On the Road’ tour to give Michigan alumni a chance to meet the new coach. The Junge family center between Crisler and the stadium was the venue, and props to the Alumni association for running a first class event. Coach Rod worked the room for a little while then signed autographs. Martin gave a brief introduction and Rodriguez spoke for about 20 minutes. He did a real nice job. Some old material, some new, but overall he did a real nice job. Like most coaches, I imagine that he hates this kind of stuff but it didn’t show. The only thing I would have changed? He didn’t take any questions, at least in front of the group. This said, he was very approachable before and after the event so it’s not like he did his 20 minutes and split. A few tidbits: * He made no projections for next season, he said his players will play hard and physical and joked that he can predict that he’ll play eleven guys. He did indicate that he’d be playing quite a few freshman on offense this year. * He touched on the Page Six items very briefly: his lingering WVU issues, the Ann Arbor News investigation, the ‘eroding family‘ thing, the recruiting…
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Season Ticket Renewals Arrive
1909 Season “Foot Ball” Pass In the mail today. A little less clutter in the envelope than usual, just the application ($375 per seat), an ad for their new radio device from live sports radio and a promotion for the 2008 student t-shirt from the mden*. Renewal deadline is May 16, 2008. The letter to season ticket holders takes some time to talk about the changes to the stadium to support fans with mobility impairments. My regular tickets are just out of the range of rows they removed for the new platforms; I’m curious as to where they put fans that were affected. Re: the ear device….I’m not sure if this the same company as Earradio, the company that had the thing last season. Either way, I still wouldn’t get one, although this version looks a little slicker. *Memo to M Den: How about an affiliate program for bloggers and the like? Goodness gracious.
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Coach Rod meets Ann Arbor Alums tonight
Original post. I should have some photos (maybe more) tonight or tomorrow.