Blue By Ninety - E75: B1G media days

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

There seems to be a renewed sense of energy surrounding Michigan's coaches, players and fan base following the Big Ten media days. Is this hype or real? The boys dive in and give their opinions. Crack a cold one and enjoy the show.

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Touchdown, Wolverines! Alright, welcome back to Blue by 90. I am Justin, joined by Jack and Kalen as always. And it is Wednesday, July 28th. We are so close to August, which means a couple different things that means we're that much closer to football students are going back onto campus i know we're way too old for that but you know it i i drive by ann arbor sometimes when students are out and like playing beer die or beer pong or whatever and i'm just like man if i if i could do that on a on a wednesday afternoon again that'd be fucking the life you're really aging us here

i know it's a it's a different uh it's a different energy downtown for sure when the when the students are back it's a lot more a lot more energized definitely a lot younger feel um but i'm not gonna lie i love my summers in ann arbor man when the students are gone you can actually go places which is nice especially during covid when capacities are all fucked up so uh but yeah students will be back soon man it's gonna be uh hopefully a normal fall we'll see what happens looking forward to it just bringing that energy back to campus back to downtown you know there's always that that time kind of just before september late august we were like okay like this town's alive again football's around the corner it feels good it's true it's true i love ann arbor in early fall is one of my favorite times to be in ann

arbor because there is hope for the football team there's hope for just like oh and maybe it won't ever get cold again you know and then two weeks later that hope is gone for the football team and the cold weather but there's there's a good stretch there in early fall it's pretty fun um but the other thing that august uh brings is the blue by 90 shop we will be dropping that merch officially on the blue by 90 shop we're going to send out a link to uh to our site here uh in the next few days and get you guys all the gear that you need to, to head to whether it's our tailgate or your own tailgate or sitting on the couch at home,

whatever it is, we're, we're pumped though to, to get you guys some new gear. It's like, I mean, if I had to describe it, it's like a little bit fun,

edgy stuff. I would say like, I don't know. There's some plays on some things and maybe something that you won't see at the m den is my point definitely things you won't see at the m den yeah yeah that's a great description there you go so and and we're gonna you know we've got a kind of um we've got a good chunk of of gear to drop right away and then we'll just continue adding to that all season as different things come up and uh different games come up like the michigan state game and uh ohio state and and on and on and on so maybe some maze out gear throw you throw your maze on that you know we might have a maze out game too so uh pretty pumped for that so all right

but uh you know let's get into it here a lot happened over the past week um big 10 media days uh and so michigan sent to indianapolis haha michigan made it to indianapolis right that's the funny joke right uh for the first time uh mich Michigan sent to Indianapolis Jim Harbaugh, Aiden Hutchinson, Josh Ross, and who else was it? Hassan Haskins. Hassan Haskins, you're correct. So those, you know, from everything I saw, those will probably be captains, three captains this year, which makes sense. You send

your captains to media days. You know, Hassan is the guy on offense and then Aiden Hutchinson and Josh Ross are definitely the senior guys on defense too. But you know, the first thing that stood out to me at media days was Jim Harbaugh talking. And I thought, like, just from a looks perspective, he looks thin. He looked healthy, like not that stressed. Whereas in the past couple of years, I felt like he was like had more gray hair and wrinkles every single day we saw him. Do you guys think the same? I don't know, man. I don't i don't want to buy into anything i've already i know i told you guys already i'm already kind of they got me a little bit hyped up with the ohio state stuff but

um jim did look good i'll say that i'll say that i don't know if it was he looked any better than previous media days he did he didn't look as worn down i'll say that that's for sure um and i know some of the players talked about a renewed sense of focus and um excitement for the ohio state game kind of sorta uh but it definitely got me back uh back on the hype train i'm back guys i'm i'm ready for the season i'm excited for it i'm gonna hate myself if michigan loses every saturday it's uh i'm i'm i'm ready for the season i'm excited for it i'm gonna hate myself if michigan loses every saturday it's uh i'm back unfortunately welcome back thank you oh it's good to have you jack oh god there we are that's all it takes but uh i i don't know i mean i just thought that with jim like, usually,

I thought it might have been his best media appearance in quite some time, where usually, you know, and maybe it's just because it's early in the season, and once we get into the middle of the season, he's not going to share much. But I felt like he was, like, a good speaker for the most part. He didn't seem as defeated as he typically does where it's like you know long pauses and like weird stories yeah it's like it felt like he was like sharing like good information with the media maybe sharing even more than he has in the past. And it just felt like he was like, truly like a little jovial and, and had some, some,

you know, jumping in his rhythm and all that. So I don't do, do you want to read into that? Like, Oh wow. Everything's changed now. Probably not,

but maybe it's like a little bit of the old Jim is back. You know, how sweet would it be to start off the year and Jim's throwing fucking clipboards and shit on the sideline. You could not even, I don't even care about the game, but at least we have some entertainment back. You know,

I'd be, I'd be all for it. I think what it could be too, is he's just like, shit, I need to try to get the fan base back on my side a little bit. Let me give a little bit of a little bit of emotion at these media days and, you know, say the right things. And maybe maybe the fans will come over a little bit. I mean, that could that could be it.

That's kind of my perspective on it. And I mean, it's not false that it needs the fans back on his side because everybody was calling for Matt Campbell. Right. Weren't they? I mean, last so um yeah so it's a good step for Jim I think to just show a little bit of emotion you know get some people excited for the football season because I don't know how I don't know how many people were actually pretty very excited for it I mean I know obviously coming from my end I didn't really have too much excitement until media day happened and you know people started talking and then it kind of brought it back so um I'm with you man I'd love to see Jim get fired up throw some clipboards with some referees and shit on uh saturdays in the fall that'd be great yeah at the risk of being too bought in too early

like i i do think that he was genuinely like excited to talk about his team which i can only assume means that he he's happy with the product that he sees at practice and hopefully that leads to good play in the fall so i i hope i think it was genuine i hope it actually leads somewhere but i'm also kind of like tempering my expectations still yeah for sure i i think that though like all right let's say it's not, you know, he's not 100% bought into his own team or like really, like, let's say it's a little bit fake, fake it till you make it right. I think that energy, if you have the energy from your head coach, it does trickle down

a little bit to your assistant coaches. It does, you know, get to your players. So I think that, you know, whether or not it's genuine, I think it's good because they needed that energy and whether it's coming from Jim to other people or what I think is actually it's coming from the other coaches probably to Jim and he's feeling like, oh shit, I've got some younger guys on the, on the staff now. They're, you know, They're coming in with energy. It's not Don Brown being stubborn anymore. Maybe there's some rejuvenation there that he needed in his own career,

let alone in this team specifically. And the other thing that I thought was really interesting that he said, speaking of his own staff, was how it sounded like they were very collaborative. He said something along the lines of, yeah, we all get in one room and nobody's afraid to shout out an idea or say something or get in an argument about something. It's very like everybody's all in and can speak their mind. I don't know. I haven't been in any of those rooms, obviously, over the past seven years.

But I don't know that Jim was that guy for his tenure at Michigan, let alone ever. You know, he seems like he's always been the alpha dog that makes sure that everyone knows that he's the decision maker in the room and nobody better, you know, give their opinion. So I think that's a good thing as well. How about you guys? Um, yeah, I mean, obviously there's a lot of speculation coming from that, right? Like we don't know what happened in the past, but, um, another thing, I mean, something that, I mean, I didn't listen to the whole media day thing. So I

don't know what they're talking about when they're in all those rooms together um hopefully it's about alternative uniforms because if we don't win at least we can look good losing um i don't know man god damn it we're getting into all this hype talk and it did we got him i can't handle it he's so it he's so i can't handle it i've i i've got i don it. I don't really have anything to say on that because I don't want to speculate too much. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, and I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know if it's a good thing. Well, okay. It's good that people feel like they can show up and share their ideas, and there's not some asshole on the team who's just shooting everything down.

So that's good but i i'm not sure it's good that everybody is like calling plays and things like that too many cooks in the kitchen that's what i was almost gonna say yeah so that's kind of where i'm like i like hearing everyone's idea but i don't want everybody to be sharing their ideas on game day right right right there definitely has to like there's a time and place for everyone to put in their input but then there has to ultimately ultimately be somebody saying yes no here's what we're going to do because we've seen that in the past right where they're like oh we're like calling plays by committee and it was you know look at the 2017 season basically. Right. Yeah. I mean, um, I, I, you gotta do that the right way. Um, I think that maybe that's Mike McDonald coming in and it has a different

philosophy where Don Brown is like, here's what we're doing. We're running man coverage and I'm not going to stray away from that. Even if we beat deep 100 times, you know, where it seems like Mike McDonald will probably, you know, go through the game and make adjustments and things like that. That's what I feel like Aiden Hutchinson, I believe it was Aiden Hutchinson said something. He was saying the defense isn't going to be predictable. You know, there's going to be predictable you know there's going to be a lot of different looks coming from Mike McDonald's defense so

I mean I I know as Michigan fans that sounds great to us because we knew you know anybody goes deep man coverage especially against Ohio State and some of those top top level teams you know Michigan's VBs are getting cooked and then that's when we lose games. So I'm excited to see what Mike McDonald's defense can do. And obviously I know a lot of players when they talk, it's just the same thing every year. Like you're getting fans excited for it. You're trying to, you know, speak all this stuff into existence. But you've got a new defensive coordinator coming in from the NFL, from the Ravens. Apparently John Harbaugh was saying that he was in line to be the next DC for

the Ravens. And, you know, he wanted to do his brother a favor or whatever it was. So that, that, that got me excited for sure. I want to see what McDonald's defense is going to look like, you know, compared to what we've seen the last few years with Tom Brown. Yeah. And the, we also heard Aiden Hutchinson say something like, you know, we'll have, sometimes I'll play as like a stand-up linebacker and drop

back into coverage and i immediately my mind went to like oh chase young was the most recent guy i can think of who just destroyed us doing that kind of play so i'm like hopefully we can see our arguably best defensive player really take a step up and be utilized as his athleticism is displayed on the field i don't know if i want to see him lined up as a linebacker though that just gives me flashbacks to crossing routes and people getting exposed unless he's laying people out and like doesn't give a fuck about pass interference then i'm okay with it just get them down before they catch the ball but well what makes me happy about that is i'm hearing oh we're actually looking at matchups we're actually looking at you know what's the offense doing who's on the field what players

do we have on the field and how can we adjust to call the best play this down and then we're going to do the exact same thing next down and i feel like we did not do that for the last four years well i think in general just i mean my hope for this defense is a i have to assume it's not going to be you know a hundred percent perfect buttoned up you know after only one off season with him coming in with on pretty much short notice but what i hope is hey we don't show everything in week one. We show probably a lot in week two against Washington. But we have enough ammo out of one defense over the course of one year that by the time our big games come around later in the season,

it is going to be unpredictable that we have things that we haven't shown yet. And so whether we have all the talent in the world or whether it's a great scheme or not, maybe it works because they just haven't seen it before. That's got to be our hope. I think in year one of Mike McDonald or year one of any new coordinator is like just new shit and it screws everybody up because they don't know it yet um you know and so that's my hope for mike mcdonald and and whether that works or not i don't know but for me as a fan watching i'm just excited to see hey what can he bring to the table is it going to be a ton of blitzes i think i read something that uh the

ravens were number one in blitz percentage uh for a game last year so i like you know that was the one thing i loved about don brown is you're just like sending people putting pressure on the quarterback it works if you send everybody and actually get people uh and pressure on the quarterback what hurt don brown was when you send people and still you have five guys blocking seven and then you're beat deep. Right. And so that's the problem. So if you can actually get pressure on the quarterback, I love that blitz,

but I hope that Mike McDonald is not as stubborn. And if he sees, oh, they're picking up the blitz really well. All right, let's stay back and let's help out our defensive backs can only hope for the best you said it so well beautiful spokesman i see what you're saying it's i don't know i do feel a little bit sad in a way because i feel like what i took from that was what can i be happy about for mike mcdonald this year i hope we fool someone because we can't beat him on talent well i mean do you disagree do you do you know i mean you're you're right on but in terms of like ohio state it's like the only way we're gonna beat them is if they didn't see it coming.

You know what, though? I mean, let's think about it, though. Let's look at the recruiting. When are we ever going to have better talent than Ohio State? At some point, we're going to have to beat them by two things. We somehow come up with a game plan that they have no idea it's coming and it screws up everything and b we get fucking lucky yeah i i mean i go back to watching michigan state for their you know eight year span when they were great there under dantonio and i thought they had some black magic shit going on they got lucky week in and week out and it was just like shit just worked for them at some point for us to beat ohio state that something like that is

going to have to happen yeah gotta have luck on your side sometimes unless you're alabama being fueled by 40 and that's that's not the team that i believe michigan is right now so you got to get lucky. You got to get a couple calls to go your way because if a couple calls don't go your way, I mean, that could be – that's a differential and, you know, up to two touchdowns possibly. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I guess, you know, hopefully the misdirection of Mike McDonald can help us get lucky, quote-unquote. I get what you're saying kaylin that the reality of that of say of hearing that is tough yeah yeah it's not uh you know i

don't know it's just whatever all right well now that we're back off the hype train there we go back to reality oh shit um you know i i think that the going back to the media days uh the the couple things that definitely seem like every single player touched on that they are putting a bigger emphasis on ohio state too little too late or is it like you know what fuck it we might as well never too late i'll say that never too late i want to obviously we don't you know we don't know what's going on inside shebeckler hall right like they they could have been putting just as much much emphasis on ohio state as had previously. I know when Brandon Brown and Chris got a camera, Chris last name, they're talking to Mozzie Smith, I think, last week sometime. Breiler. Yeah. And, you know, they're asking Mozzie about Jim Harbaugh and his renewed excitement, all stuff. And he was kind of saying, you know, Jim's always been that guy to me.

He's always kind of been he's shown emotion, all this stuff, yada, yada, yada. But what I did love when we talked about previously is you see like the count that or the what are you doing to beat Ohio State today in in the field house and whatever. And, you know, just to hear players say that, whether it is, you know, more focused on Ohioio state or not just to hear them say it out loud feels good as a fan that's that's for sure and now it's almost like all right put your money where your mouth is you're speaking it into existence you know fans are going to want to see it on the field you know that's that's what we want to see happen you want to see you match up i mean even if you lose make it a close game you know we just want to see a little bit more emotion out of out of those guys so show some that's what i'm looking for this year yeah show

some fight you know get get emotional on the field you know obviously you don't want to do it to hurt your team but show some show some emotion make a big play you know stuff like that that's just i feel like ohio state brings that every year and we just we just don't it doesn't seem like we've seen that out of michigan as much yeah i i think that some of the things they're doing now you just never know it can it can be the one little thing you do extra that puts you in a place where you can now compete right against a team that you maybe shouldn't really be competing with so that's where i'm like okay i'm down to try literally anything to beat Ohio State. That means putting signs up. That means Jim has to dress up like Woody and you have to fight him. Like, I don't care what you do. Do whatever you have to do to beat Ohio State.

And so anything as far as i'm concerned is great well and that's the thing that sucks too it's like on paper michigan doesn't look to ever really have a chance against ohio state in the last let's say decade or so but you're seeing teams like purdue you're seeing penn state i could be wrong about um michigan state you know all these teams they've beaten ohio state within the last 10 years michigan hasn't done that you know it's just that's the most frustrating thing to me yeah and I mean so that's what I I thought actually Jim said it best I I think he received he received some flack for it on social media and you're gonna receive flack no matter what if you're Jim Harbaugh and you're 0-5 against Ohio State. But he said, hey, we're going to beat Ohio State or we're going to die trying.

And you know what? I think that's about the best thing you can say. And he's saying what you're saying, Kalen, where we're going to do literally everything we can to beat that team. And if we can't, you know what? Put a freaking knife in me, right? Like we're going to do everything we can in our realm to do it. And it may not be in the cards, but it's not. I think his point is like we're not taking that game lightly. We're not taking practices off.

We're doing everything we can. And at this point, you know, i know there are a lot of people out there that are like hey you know that good's not good enough right you have to get that done but like shit what do you want them to do you know like if they go out and do the best that they can now i'm like sounding like a pussy about that you know what i mean but like fuck like i don't know like come on guys just try hard yeah that's not like the point but you know what i mean like shit it's not like i don't know people out there i think have this like perception that jim harbaugh like doesn't care about that game or they're not trying hard enough and it's like i know that they're fucking

trying hard like that's a stupid argument that they're not trying hard enough or they're not putting enough emphasis on the game. Like, it just hasn't happened. Ohio State's on an incredible run. And, you know, that's not an excuse because Jim Harbaugh was hired to come in and beat that team specifically. But, you know, we can count on, like, our literal one hand about teams in the Big Ten that have beat them in the past like decade. So it's not that fucking easy.

No. And I think you've got a point. You know, I do. I think I mean, obviously, right. They're trying. They want to win the game. But I mean, there's definitely some games, right? Like, I mean, we've we're all former athletes. We've been we've gone to some games where it's like you've lost before you even step on the field right you see this other team you're like they are just so fucking good and if you don't believe you can win you've already lost the game like they you just need they the players just need to have this mentality not saying that

they not saying that they don't but if you don't have that mentality that we we can win this game you're not going to win the game right so? So I think that's a lot of things. I feel like that's a lot of what the fan base maybe feels about the players right now, which I'm not saying that that's true, but I've been in that situation as a player, obviously not on that scale of Michigan-Ohio State, but going up against another team that's on a crazy dynasty run, some people are going to feel those emotions. That's possibly what's happening or has happened in the past.

Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, go ahead, Galen. Well, I was going to say, too, while I – anybody who says they're not trying is full of shit, okay? Like, they're trying but there could be something to saying like they're not putting enough emphasis on it like i would be open to hearing that level of criticism uh in the past now i'm starting to say okay maybe they're turning over here they are putting more emphasis on that game i i think too to jack's point as well i think there is something mental about it right now that there may not be the same way that us three in this room think right now

that there is about a five percent chance at the most that michigan beats ohio state at the end of the year there's probably there are probably a lot of guys in in schoenbechler that feel similar they're just like hey we're gonna do the best we can but do we like at the end of the day if you had to put a hundred thousand dollars down who are you putting it on ohio state 100 you can't blame and you can't blame anybody for feeling that way right now you haven't you some of these kids you know maybe haven't even seen a michigan game where they beat in ohio state you know what i'm saying years like it's 16 out of 17 years dude like yeah i agree with you the espn fbi has it at 20 i saw Which I was like, damn, that's kind of high.

Oh, man. The sad thing? All I'm saying is Dan Valari at QB, anything can happen. Oh, fuck yeah. Now let's get back into it. We're back on the high train, baby. Let's go. Dan Valari takes some hill to the house.

He's going to return a kick for a touchdown, return a kick for a touchdown return a punt for a touchdown throw for a touchdown run for a touchdown catch a touchdown michigan wins 42 to 42 to 3 now that's a misdirection yeah i will i'll lose my mind if ohio state they come out and they're like, all right, our new OC, Mike McDonald. Holy shit. What? They really threw us off. Oh, my God. All of a sudden, Mike McDonald's calling plays on offense? All right.

Now we've gone off the rails a bit. Oh, Lord. We went from losing to Ohio State 100 percent to dan valari winning the game to real quick these are all of the all the cards that ohio state hasn't seen yet there you go there you go they're gonna they're not gonna know what hit them oh man i think they gotta hire us to be on the coaching staff to give some suggestions here maybe not the coaching staff maybe behind the scenes somewhere well yes suddenly that really accepting room is going to be not very accepting when all three of us walk into our first day with valari for heisman shirts on

beautiful we gotta believe oh my god oh lord that was i mean that was just a roller coaster of emotion where we went from all right we're all we're all hyped up to there's no chance we ever beat Ohio State back to we're hyped up. I mean. The life of a Michigan fan. I feel good. I feel good about it. All right.

So the other big part of college football news over the past week, which is like, got to be kind of the craziest. I mean, I feel like I've said this how many times throughout the past week which is like gotta be kind of the craziest i mean i feel like i've said this how many times throughout the past year wow this is the craziest week of all of college athletics in the world but this one really was pretty big with conference realignment and it was i mean at first i don't know you guys. I want to hear your take on this. But in my, how I took it was, I was like, oh, Texas and Oklahoma are going to the SEC. Rumor mill, no chance it happens. Like, all right, whatever. We've heard this before, blah, blah, blah.

And then it was like two days later. All right. Yep. They're in like officially applying. And I was like, days later, all right, yep, they're in, like officially applying. And I was like, wow, that happened fast. Yeah, I mean, I know we mentioned this earlier, but what I would love to see now is, you know, realign all the conferences. Get a major four or, you know, power for whatever it is. And then hopefully that way,

I think if you can do a power four and just, you know, separate the wheat from the chaff and get all the top teams in the four conferences. And then you have the college football playoff, possibly going to 12 teams. I think that's what they were talking about previously. So the conference champions, so the Power Four,

they get a bye to the college football playoff week two or whatever, and then you have the next top eight seeds after that duke it out in week one. The winners of those top eight games then go on to the playoff to face the teams that got the bye week one. And then you go from there. I think it makes it more exciting. I think it gives more possibility for the so-called bottom tier teams to get into the playoff. So you get kind of like 116 matchups like you and March Madness makes a little bit more fun to watch um but i'd love to see both things i know i kind of like wrote the

playoff into this but i would love to see a power four just makes sense i feel like power five is just weird it's an odd number it doesn't make sense to me get an even number of conferences four is perfect and um just realign everything realign everything everything. Blow it up. Blow it up. Start over. I had no idea. I thought it was just like a blog boy popping off when I first heard it. I was just like, what? And then, yeah, exactly like you're saying.

It was like, all right, yeah, we're doing it. I was like, what? So I want to know, is this going to spread to other conferences because i thought i saw something that big 10 was looking at iowa state but then they were looking at only aau colleges and all this other stuff so i was like i have no idea where this is going does anybody know what an a i didn't know what aau was other than the basketball circuit before they tweeted that. And they were like, yeah, we only want AAU teams. And I was like, you want like the Boston Ballers? I don't know what it is.

Right. But like, I was like, I've never heard of that before. And so I think part of that is uh big 10 only wants people that are like have good academics as well they want to be stay conservative on that end so it's not they're not letting in like you know bad academic schools to to this don't want don't want too many good athletes you know yeah there's no way we should have you know like yeah fuck man we can't we can't possibly give up you know our academia jesus um but uh but yeah i mean the rumor for a minute there was kansas and iowa state coming to the big 10 uh i don't know i don't think that actually

i think that was actually a rumor like that doesn't seem like it's, it's coming through. But I think that Michigan and Ohio state from the big 10 have a lot of chips in their corner with this, you know, Texas. The only reason I think Texas is in the same boat as Michigan here, that Texas has a bunch of chips, not because they're good at football right now, but because it's a gigantic brand and they got a lot of money and buying power. Michigan's the same way. If Michigan wanted to strong arm the Big Ten and say, hey, bring in these people or we're leaving or do something or we're going to the SEC as well or we're going to the ACC

or we're doing our own thing, whatever. I feel like they could. Do they have the balls to? I don't think so. But I'm just saying, like, with all this going on, I do think that they hold a significant amount of power. I agree. And I think that's a good comparison. I mean, Texas is riding Oklahoma's coattails just like Michigan's riding Ohio States.

Right. So if that were to happen, you know, Ohio States, obviously the powerhouse of the big 10 and then Michigan's got the the brand power that goes along with that. So I'm with you. I think if you could get the, the big guys at the table to talk about conference realignment or, you know, whatever it is, I think there would be a big, a very, very large possibility that it could actually happen, but you'd need those big names.

Yeah. I'm like, I'm still trying to figure out if I was Texas or Oklahoma, why would I want to go to the SEC i'm just going to get destroyed i agree i think texas is i don't think it's very i don't think it's good for either team i think the big 12 is their ticket to the playoff and going to sec i do not think that is going to help them at all no yeah that annual texas texas a&m game it's just going to be a massacre. Well, I mean, shit, you could also be playing Alabama, Florida, Auburn. LSU. Whoever I'm missing, LSU.

I mean, you're not playing Kansas State anymore, right? Like, you're playing the best of the best week in and week out. Yeah, it's not doing them any favors. No. yeah it's it's not doing them any favors no well so i i tweeted this out the other day and i was wondering okay i think that they're like texas and oklahoma going to the sec is not actually helping texas and oklahoma it's only helping the top four teams in the sec now because i don't think texas and oklahoma are going to actually compete in the sec but what it will do in the sec is it'll give alabama auburn lsu you know whatever those top three four teams are in the

sec if they beat oklahoma and te Texas, instead of beating fucking Vanderbilt, it gives them a better strength of schedule. And now you're right. It gives them a better resume. And now them being, even if they're 10 and two or nine and three with great wins, they could get in over a 10 and two big 10 team. That's what I think it does.

Instead of actually saying, yep, Oklahoma and Texas are now like big dogs in the SEC. They're going to get slaughtered, I think. I agree. Yeah, I wonder if they would kick out some of the low-tier SEC teams like the Vanderbilts, Arkansas and whatnot. I don't know if they necessarily could kick them out, but they could possibly just not resign them, I guess, whenever their contract is up. But I have no idea. I have no idea how that works. That's all speculation on my end. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know either. But I think that like i mean vanderbilt's sweet at

baseball sweet at baseball but that's about it i mean i guess i don't really know i don't watch like their other uh non-revenue sports but like i mean it does unfortunately that the case of college athletics is if you're not good at football in the sec nobody gives a shit about you right like that you know even basketball it's like you can be great at basketball but if you're not good at football in the sec nobody cares yeah but i don't know i guess okay one question for you guys all right if you can pick two teams out there out of acc, Big 12 and Pac-12, what two teams would you bring to the to the Big Ten? Is it Kansas and Iowa State or do you have a couple others? I I'm not going to go from a conference at all because I'm going to pick an independent

because they're a bunch of fucking assholes uh notre dame bring notre dame to the big 10 um but i also i didn't hate the kansas to the big 10 just because of basketball i would i wouldn't mind seeing kansas in the big 10 for basketball that's for sure duke oh yeah i was gonna say north carolina They're decent at football. That would be a bad addition. Yeah, I was going to say North Carolina, yeah. Yeah. I mean, Notre Dame is the obvious one, right? I mean, they really belong in the Big Ten. You're sitting right there.

Just join the fucking conference. Bunch of bums. They suck, dude. Honestly, how many years in a row have they fucked up everything for everyone they they screw up the college football playoff every single year because they're the one team that has uh the you know 119th out of 120th strength of schedule and they i don't think that's actually accurate i think that they actually usually have a decent strength of schedule because they play some good conference teams but they're the 119th out of 120 strength of schedule but they are always like oh you're not enough you're not a conference champ

there's all this stuff join a fucking conference you cowards and let's get to let's get to going i'm sick of it i really am especially if we're talking conference realignment it doesn't make sense i know they've got a bunch of money and they want to keep it to themselves fucking join I really am, especially if we're talking conference realignment. It doesn't make sense. I know they've got a bunch of money and they want to keep it to themselves. Fucking join a conference. Tell the conference. If the ACC, if they joined the ACC and said, hey, we still want 75% of the ACC money, the ACC would still be like, okay, we'll do that.

Yeah, I mean, Notre Dame's got a big name. Yeah, because, you know, first thing you think of when you think south bend indiana is atlantic coast i know i know so that's the other thing with this conference realignment is like there is a rumor that the big 10 was going to take on usc and ucla and it's like when you think Big Ten football the last thing you think of is Los Angeles California like I think what they need to do they need to conference realignment literally put the USA into quadrants equal quadrants and get the top teams from each four quadrants and put them in a fucking conference in their region like don't have people jumping from fucking maine to play in the pack 12 out in california like makes no fucking sense put them in quadrants put them in your region and

make it make sense i don't disagree i i mean if the if they can make that work money-wise and split up the good teams, I think that makes sense. Because I think what people are missing on what's going on with this realignment and what will probably continue to happen as the dominoes continue to fall, is it's going to suck for any fan that wants to go to some away games right or or the families of players that have to go from fucking michigan ann arbor michigan to los angeles california to play usc on the road like if that's a real thing you know that sucks and so I don't know. Just, I mean, I just think from a fan's perspective, this just isn't great, you know. And it may add a couple better games on that SEC schedule. You know, that's the thing is they want, you know, every week in the SEC is a marquee matchup when you take out Vanderbilt and add in texas and oklahoma

you know not that vanderbilt's being taken out but you know what i mean and so they have like they have a draw game something that is going to draw viewers every single week nationally now and i think the big 10 feels like they probably need to have a chess move back to say, hey, what is our draw game every week? Because Nebraska versus Penn State just ain't doing it. Right. Ohio State Rutgers not doing it. I mean, yeah. So we'll see how it goes. But I don't know.

Do you guys one more question for you guys? Do you feel that this is kind of the beginning of the end of college football as we know it? What I've seen a lot on Twitter too is like people are like, I get some people don't like change, right? But people are making this sound like it's going to be the end of college football and it's like not going to be fun to watch anymore. I think the exact opposite. I think change can be a good thing. And if it's done right, it fun to watch anymore i think the exact opposite i think change can be a good thing and if it's done right it can make college football even better so i think there will be a change going forward and depending on how it's executed i think it could be really

really good and improve college football honestly yeah i Yeah, I honestly have no idea. I have no idea where we're headed. I have no idea how it's going to go. So I'm just like, all right, I like Michigan football. I'm just going to strap in for the ride, and hopefully we beat Ohio State. So I know that doesn't answer the question, but that's where I'm at. Love that attitude. Love that attitude.

Just blind, going in blind faith blind faith yeah well um you know that's all that's about all we have for today you know i know that was a lot of info that was a little longer than we've gone and i think it was directly correlated with this is the first time i've had beers during the podcast for a few weeks. So those two things are directly correlated because I talked a lot more than normal. And so with that being said, maybe don't have beers next time, Justin,

because this is what happens. All right. Anyways. So other than that, did you guys have any closing comments before we head out? I'd just say stay tuned to our social media. Everything's ramping up. Justin's throwing some good tweets out there that I'm able to copy and paste into Instagram that we're getting some traction on.

And, you know, tailgate merch coming soon. And like Justin said, as things pop up, we'll put new retail out. And it should be some fun stuff. So I think everybody should get ready and excited for, if you're not excited for the football season, get excited for tailgating because that'll be a good time. Yeah. Also, as we're ramping up towards the season and you can't wait for games, I've noticed there's a few games streaming out there on YouTube and other places and whatnot. I saw Amazing Brew did their streaming season already.

I think they went 8-5, lost in the bowl game by one against LSU, I think. But if you can't wait, there's some content out there for you. And the Olympics going on right now. A lot of Michigan athletes out there. A lot of them. I know Sam McCulloch on gymnastics. There's swimmers out there. My good friend Amanda Chittister on the softball team.

They took silver. Shout out Chitty. She killed it out there. And so it's been, I mean, I think, I wish I could figure out how to watch the Olympics. But other than that, it's been fun to watch. It has been kind of a pain to figure out. That's for sure. Fucking Peacock.

Are you kidding me? Like, what are we doing here? Even on YouTube TV. That's where I've been watching it. And, like, they've got random ass stuff, like, under the sports section. And then, like, for softball, I had to search softball to watch a gold medal fucking game. Makes no sense to me. Like, what are we doing?

I don't know. Yeah, that 12-hour time difference is killing me. I know. That is a big deal. That is a big deal. Yeah, it was, like, 6 a.m. and I'm watching softball. Didn't hate it. You were sitting at work doing that?

Love it. Oh, yeah. That's a good way to that's a good way to get get through work it's true but uh i do i want to give a you you said it on social media here give a little shout out to the followers to all the people retweeting us and liking all our stuff we got to a million impressions in the month of july so pretty sick to to have that that many people looking at our stuff we're just three idiots just talking and throwing stuff out there and so uh you guys all love it that much and get to a million um it's pretty cool it was cool to watch that go to 1m

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