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Prominent Sites React to the Michigan Academics Scandal

Posted: Mar 17th 2008 3:07PM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: Michigan Football, Big 10, The Word

A gathering of reactions to the Ann Arbor News' investigation into questionable academic practices at Michigan's athletic department:

New York Times

This could be a huge blow to the reputation of Michigan, a university that fancies itself as a model for both academics and athletics. On the surface, this appears to be significantly worse than what Auburn did ...

... It doesn't help things here that both the president and athletic director refused to comment. For N.C.A.A. sanctions to occur here, one of the big things that would have to be proven is lack of institutional control. The college twice investigated the professor, John Hagen, and didn't find anything.

Every Day Should Be Saturday

The details shouldn't shock, even for an august academic institution like Michigan. We're more than comfortable with the notion that BCS grade college football is at its core a professional sport operating under the aegis of academic institutions. What is–oh, just piquant, we tell you!–is that we get to tell Jim Delany to dine on poo, because his conference's flagship athletic/academic titan, doing it "the right way," has to resort to the kind of academic funneling done at legendarily accomodating schools like Auburn or USF.

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New NCAA Rule Worse Than 3-2-5-e Disaster

Posted: Feb 18th 2008 10:36AM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: NCAA FB Fans, NCAA FB Scandal, The Word

5 COMMENTS

Holy hoodwink, Batman! Remember me?

From the venerable Sunday Morning Quarterback:

Make no mistake: fifteen extra seconds on the play clock is a dramatic, terrible change, and will fail miserably at its attempt to maintain plays and scoring at 2007 levels. Lengthening the play clock produces less plays, and therefore less scoring ...

...a conservative estimate - the number drops to 120 plays, 60 per team, a loss of something like three full possessions every game. If it allows enough of a slow down to average 35 seconds per play, the average drops to about 51 plays per team, almost a full 30 percent decline.

That's a staggering decline in actual football in favor of standing around (and commercials, which of course will not be cut), and also in favor of taking knees: 15 more seconds of standing around between every play means 45 extra seconds per three-down series if the clock is running, extending the amount of time that can reasonably be run off by kneel-downs from a little over a minute to a full two minutes. The committee should be devising rules that encourage last-second drama, not choke it out of existence

This is bad for college football. I stand with EDSBS, The Wizard of Odds, Get the Picture and others in opposing this specific piece of legislation that takes away from the college football experience instead of adding to it.

For the more active citizens among you, please take the following message from EDSBS to heart:

Michael Clark is the committee head. Here's his email address: mclark@bridgewater.edu. Oh, and here's his office number: 540-828-5406. Give him a call, write him and email, and tell him how hard this rule sucks, and will suck until it fails and is revoked next year.

Previously at FanHouse
Rule Changes Proposed for College Football

Blogs React to Michigan's Defeat

Posted: Sep 1st 2007 5:10PM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: Michigan Football, Big 10, The Word

39 COMMENTS

The meters are spinning at Technorati as blogs are reacting to Michigan's stunning defeat at the hands of Appalachian State.

EDSBS: Hot! Hot! Hot! Appalachian State 34, Michigan 32

Screw Ohio State and Michigan. The Mountaineers should have gotten the title shot against Florida last season

Watch that YouTube video to get the joke. The school with the worst promotional video ever just beat the school that ran with "Space, Bitches. Space".

SMQB: This shakes the foundations.

"The upset of the year!" suggests one of my friends on the phone. "This reminds me of Miami Ohio's upset over LSU in 1986," texts another. No. No. They lack understanding. A I-AA team beat Michigan. This shakes the foundation of my comprehension of the world to such a vastly greater extent than any upset, sighting, conspiracy theory, apparition, miracle or act of nature I could possibly cite. This is frogs raining from heaven. This is physically impossible.

The great MGoBlog: we'll get back to you later.