I’m simply saying that Voltrons argument is without reason in MY view.
Far be it from me to question the euphoric joy that MattD must feel on a daily basis when the sun comes up in the morning 
And sane1, while the phrase “past performance does not guarantee future results” is an often-used disclaimer with investments, I’d much rather put my money in the stocks Carl Icahn, Warren Buffett or David Einhorn are investing in than anywhere else. Sure, any one player that John Beilein offers a scholarship to may not pan out, but his batting average is pretty outstanding, especially when you consider he’s usually picking from a pool of talent that is outside the top 25.
Man, I can’t help but be encouraged on the new film on Davis. If he indeed does end up reclassifying to '17, he could really be a steal. Looks way less gumpish than some of his earlier film.
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@theoracle do you happen to have tomorrow’s lottery numbers?
Y’all should read some of the earlier comments in this thread and keep them in mind before any doom and gloom stuff about Juwan, a player, the direction of the program, etc. After that Illinois game the season was literally over.
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Rather interesting to read through the hot takes for several years ago. I wonder, with 3.5 seasons worth of data on Davis, if anyone’s opinions have changed?
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Lots of funny Easter eggs throughout the thread, some of which are creepy. This was my favorite
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Always funny to look back at old posts. But considering Davis did not really contribute much at all until the 2H of his 4th year, hard to say any of those people were wrong. The funny stuff was people talking about the 16-17 team going to be a disaster. Foreshadowing the Fire Beilein stuff that came that season, and then the turnaround. We were doomed to being a middling B1G team to some, way behind the juggernaut being built by Turgeon 
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Yeah, Davis being horrible for 3.5 years until becoming a solid offensive backup big over the last couple weeks is not exactly proving the doubters wrong lol. Particularly since a lot of people’s skepticism (and I remember mine as well) partially revolved around his only strength being post-ups which he would never be allowed to do on a Beilein team. And now all of a sudden we have a new coach who was an NBA big. That changes the dynamic a bit.
I mean maybe it’s hard to say that any of the takes about Davis were wrong but all the hot takes about the program being a failure were super out of whack.
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Watching him now just reminds me of one of my personal favorite (and now accurate) Beilein quotes.
Since the Wolverines already had big-men Moritz Wagner, Mark Donnal, John Teske, Beilein decided to redshirt Davis for the 2016-17 season. Beilein originally thought Davis was not ready for college basketball.
“In the middle of January, it all started slowing down,” Beilein said. “Guys just throw him the ball and he puts it in. There’s no drama, there’s no Kardashians. The ball is in. The ball goes in.”
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Half of the takes are about how this random commitment was gonna bring upon the destruction of the program and end life on earth as we know it. Did it do that? If not, I’d say the “haters” were pretty wrong.
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This was one of my favorite quotes, as well.
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The takes were generally “this was a really bad commitment to take” (which is clearly still true even in hindsight), and that the program projects to be mediocre going forward. Both completely reasonable thoughts at the time.
Then almost two years after these takes were said, Derrick Walton became a NPOY overnight, and Beilein began to care about defense after 40+ years of coaching and the program took a sharp turn back to a good place. Sometimes miracles happen. It doesn’t mean people are big stupid dumbasses for not expecting miracles.