Michigan wins Big Ten title #45, that’s three in a row if you are counting at home and we know every one of you is counting at home. And a return to the Granddaddy of Them All, the Rose Bowl - can you feel it (in your plums)???
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Vanquished! Thoroughly. (Michigan 42, Ohio State 27) | Sights & Sounds
What happened Saturday was the fulfillment of the promise of Harbaugh – the antidote for the seemingly unbeatable Buckeyes. For all the times people tried to channel Bo and the 1969 (24-12) game during the last dozen years, it actually happened in 2021 – when no one really talked about it or prophesized it. Click here for the Sights and Sounds:
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Blame Lee Corso? | This Week in Michigan Football History
This week we head back to 1975 when Lee Corso and the Hoosiers came to town. Of historical significance in 1975: This game was the last time Michigan Stadium had an announced attendance of fewer than 100,000 (93,857). So as Craig Barker suggests, should we blame Lee Corso? 1975 was the first season the B1G allowed teams to go to bowl games other than the Rose Bowl. And Michigan was invited to play the Oklahoma Sooners in the 1976 Orange Bowl. (And at that Orange Bowl, the Michigan Marching Band unleashed the epic JAWS formation!). This was a tough year to pick – of historical note on this day in U-M football lore: The 1997 Charles Woodson one-handed interception at Michigan State – the greatest play I’ve ever seen in any sport. The great Bennie Oosterbaan passed away in 1990. You can catch all of the This Week in Michigan Football History clips here…And don’t forget to catch it live Saturday on the KeyBank Countdown to kick-off on WTKA 1050AM starting at 11:30am. Follow MVictors on Twitter script: This afternoon we drop back nearly 4 decades to October 25, 1975 as the Big House welcomed the Indiana Hoosiers. Even your host Ira Weintraub, who was just a day old, knew that our friends from Bloomington had no chance to upset…
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Bringing it WWE Style (WTKA audio)
Keep Ira and Sam in your thoughts. They’ve graciously kept the WTKA phone lines open since Monday morning. I’m pretty sure if they continue this for the entire week they qualify for sainthood. In the aftermath of Saturday’s shutout, Ira even took the onslaught from callers on the postgame show. Just after midnight Paul from Toledo dialed in: [display_podcast] Forget Engineering! (Sorry Cook.) Update: This has pretty much gone viral. Thanks to Lost Letterman for taking a run at the transcription: “Yeah, this is Paul. [Inaudible] I’m headed back home. I just gotta tell you right now: That is absolutely a joke. I heard one of your sponsors: Come Get Some Burritos. Brady Hoke can grab some burritos and get the heck out of town. You got to be kidding me. I mean here’s the deal: Devin Gardner’s got a defensive lineman number (#98), get him on the defensive line! Let’s get a quarterback in there that knows how to throw and throw to our team! Let’s get John Beilein coaching both teams, Crisler Arena and the Big House are right next to each other. Let’s get John Beilein, Jon Horford – let’s get all those guys – Mitch McGary; I don’t care how many trees he smokes, he can score touchdowns, then get him on the field! The Maize…
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Coach Beilein Joins Sam & Ira (WTKA audio Feb 25, 2014)
It’s always fun to hear what the coach has to say after a big win. This morning coach B talked about everything from the zone, his relationship with Steve Fisher, to his philosophy & history of working on the refs, to Mitch McGary’s status and much more: [display_podcast] As always, catch all of the WKTA podcasts here. If you missed it, check out sights and sounds from Sunday’s big win.
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Bacon Saves your Soul (WTKA audio)
You missed it. I’ve got it. From this morning it’s author John U. Bacon who joined guest host Larry (Pee Wee boys machine-pitch baseball coach) Lage and Ira in studio at WTKA to discuss his latest tome, the long awaited yet-to-be released Fourth And Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football. [display_podcast] Bacs was kind enough to share an advanced proof copy of the book with me and I’m digging in right now. I can already tell you my favorite chapter is entitled “The Battle for the Brown Jug” and the term “Brown Jugologist” made it through the first few edits. $$$ A few less jug-enabled media members have torn through the book as well and here are a few testimonials: “John U. Bacon went deep inside the world of college football, penetrating the locker room doors to meet some players you won’t forget and, most amazingly, learn the secrets coaches protect more fiercely than the CIA. By getting so close to the heart of the sport, Bacon reminds us what we love about our greatest game.” – John Saunders, studio host at ESPN and ABC College Football “John Bacon’s exploration of the uncontrolled greed, intellectual corruption, and sheer mendacity that have captured college football would be depressing – if it weren’t so wonderfully reported, engagingly written, and…
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Getting Huge
I was out of town last week and noticed today that Bill Simonson’s “The Huge Show” is occupying the 3-6PM slot once again on WTKA 1050AM. I believe Huge last filled this time on WTKA was back in 2008 before he was moved to a tape-delayed segment from 6-8pm. AnnArbor.com chatted with PD Ira Weintraub about the change this weekend. The reason for the change per Ira: “Budget cuts,” explained WTKA Program Director Ira Weintraub on Friday. “It was based on decisions made elsewhere and decisions made locally.” Ira told me they still plan to preempt the show with their popular afternoon special events like Signing Day and Grill Wars, which is good. “We’ve definitely had people that wanted to hear from Marcus [Ray] and Jeff [DeFran] and from Ben [Holden] and The Beatniks.” Ira added, “We’re trying to do a few things to bring back some of the staples that were on in the afternoon.” According to Ira it came down to who to syndicate in the afternoon slot between CBS radio host Doug Gottlieb and Huge. “I chose the regional coverage over the national coverage because we have national coverage for the previous 5 hours [John Feinstein 10-12, Jim Rome 12-3) and when it’s over we have a lot more national coverage.” Ira added that given Simonson is…
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Michigan Stadium Construction Photos, and The Buried Crane Myth (1927)
A few rare, possibly never seen before by the public, photos of the Michigan Stadium construction (1927):
