Did people actually thought Sissoko was going to play asap?? I thought there were more people saying he was a project and take time.
Thorir Thorbjarnarson plays 60% of minutes for Nebraska, behind only Allen, Banton, and McGowens. His PRPG! on Torvik is -1.5. The closest guy to him in the B1G is Anthony Gaines at Northwestern: +0.6 in 50% of minutes.
I know there are built in bye weeks to get games in but with Penn St postponing 4 games, Nebraska/Purdue postponed, Nebraska/Illinois postponed, maybe Nebraska/Illinois on Saturday gets postponed. When should teams start trying to move games around now instead of trying to get in 6 games during these byes?? I think it would be wishful thinking to believe there wonât be anymore games postponed between now and when the byes start.
Loyer ever being a top 100 prospect was probably the most baffling ranking I remember since following recruiting closely.
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Yeah, if youâre 5â8 and a below average athlete, the rest of your skillset is just completely irrelevant.
247 had Loyer as a generic 3 star and that made more sense.
I think if you developed a quick algorithm for composite team talent weighted by age, Michigan would possibly end up #1 in the Big Ten? We are 2nd behind MSU in raw talent and 3rd in the Big Ten in experience, but MSU is well behind us in experience on KenPom. Plus, if you weight by age, then Dickinsonâs rankings would get a boost. Youâd probably expect a 20 year old top 50 recruit to be better than an 18 year old ranked around the same spot for the coming season (except if it is Sissoko, apparently).
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I think the issue is that most of the postponed games in the Big Ten right now involve either Penn State or Nebraska â and they are both on a pause.
If Penn State was back playing, then I think you could just replace mutual opponents with Penn State instead of Nebraska but thatâs not where we are right now.
I still think itâs quite odd that there isnât any guidance on how a regular season champion will be crowned in the event of unbalanced games played. Hell, even guidance on determining BTT seeding.
I get the conference wants to play every game and has implemented those collapsible byes, but itâs certainly possible that they logistically wonât be able to reschedule every game. Or a team has an outbreak after the last collapsible bye in February and canât play their final game or two in March days before the BTT.
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Why bother? They ignored the rules they set out preseason for football, so maybe âmaking it up as we go alongâ is a more honest approach?
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Hadnât seen this posted yet, love to see the two together!
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Cool little nugget that Franz and Hunter were in Beileinâs leadership class that he teaches
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MatchupsâŚ
Smith - Simmons
Eli - Saddi
Franz - Sanderson
Livers - Juwan
Hunter - Hunter
Iâd pay to watch that.
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Enjoyed that. Made me scratch my head a little though when Beilein said we donât turn the ball over
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Beilein called this Michigan team âweâ a couple times. I think he realized and consciously stopped
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This means Maryland will be off for over a week before coming to Ann Arbor next week.
The optimist in me is going to refer to that as the âDonta Scott Cooling Off Periodâ
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Delays starting to pile up. I hope thereâs a plan for that.
We still have the two zippered byes. If the delays get huge we might need to schedule some back-to-backs?
Yeah I think the byes are nice but when the shutdowns become this prolonged there are going to have to be other options.
I think that teams that shut down will be expected to play a lot of games in not a lot of time.
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