Yeah, I’ll pass on that schedule. I don’t want them to be burned out before the tournament
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Not sure! Is that what happens to you if you just went and counted athletic-department employees who aren’t coaches and clear $200k?
(There are 9. Hard to know exactly how many were in the room when covid protocols were set, but going by job titles at least 4 people on that list surely would have been. This group “earned” $1.9m in salary last year, paid with public money)
Which is still wild to me. I get you might be wary of asking athletes to not room with their friends and only teammates, but if you want to contain spreads…
So like, ever get replenished replenished anger renewed by the endless cascade of more dumb piling on the huge dumb pile already blocking your view of the sun?
Those stats are scary, hack, and scarier than that is that probably not a single employee will be held accountable to any discernible measure.
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and for putting his head in the sand and reluctant to take responsibility. Warde is no better than Brandon
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It is nice that UM makes it easy to look up that Warde makes 950k in salary to run an Athletic Department too dumb to quarantine a person when they return from the UK.
https://www.umsalary.info/deptsearch.php?Dept=Athletics&Year=0&page=1
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This has been my fear for about a week now. I’m assuming Howard still has plenty of f-you money, and can permanently relocate to Hawaii should he become fed up with “The State.”
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I am burnt out.
I’d be absolutely furious if I was Howard – not at the state for imposing the ban, but at the AD for failing to take the basic and obvious precautions to keep this from happening in the first place. You build a contender, you start rampaging your way through the conference schedule, and your AD can’t even be bothered to make a public statement in support of his athletes. Kim Barnes-Arico and her kids probably feel the same way, and same goes for Mel Pearson and his kids, and the Olympics candidates on scholarship as well.
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A lot of people have made their point in here. Just want to send out a warning to please try to stop spamming this thread with the exact same comment/thought over and over.
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Can that schedule be done? Sure. Should it be done? Probably not. In a 2 week period to have 4 road games in a row, then follow up shortly with Illinois/Iowa, then back to back against MSU to end the season? No thanks. Not to mention then being ready for the B1G tourney and the NCAA.
There needs to be some direction from the league and soon at this point. Are they trying to get 20 games in for everybody? Use conference tournament for make-ups? Move tourney to Indy? Give Michigan the OSU football treatment and say your the best team in the league…here is your banner and #1 seed? Seems like they keep kicking the can down the road and there needs to be come clarification and soon.
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Are the postponements/further delays being reported anywhere else? Or just Balas? Where there is smoke there is fire…but I just need more than a couple of tweets.
Exactly what I was thinking. When someone drops something like this, it usually turns out to be true but I would like to see some confirmation. Michigan is one positive Covid test away from the season spiraling into an all-time “what-if” and “what-could-have-been”. Very disappointing. Makes me legitimately sad for the guys on the team. Games being taken away from them left and right through no fault of their own. But, I hope it all works out for the best.
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I think that’s too much of a grind. I’d drop the games on 2/16, 2/23 and 3/1 and finish with 17. A lot of Big Ten teams will not make it to 20 games, so it won’t be that big of an issue.
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Anyone else find it a bit ridiculous that the league has yet to say anything about what they’ll do in the event all teams don’t fill 20 games? Not surprising, but ridiculous nonetheless.
This pause just feels worse the longer it goes on bc there’s just no precedent set as to how many games Michigan will need to make up to win the conference. I know there’s a lot of moving parts still but I don’t think it would hurt anyone if the Big10 just came out and said you needed to play X number of games to be considered.
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The meltdowns by illinois fans about this is something…
Has there been any real talk or rumors of canceling the conference tournament so the league can use that week to make up games? If Michigan has to make up all these games in that short of period I’d think taking that week off for rest before the tournament would be better than heading to Indiana to try play 3 games in 3 days for a conference tournament title.
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Made the mistake of checking out the reddit thread, where we have other B1G fans insisting the B1G force Michigan to play, and if not they should forfeit. Or that Michigan is clearly just trying to get a conference championship by the easiest path possible
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Well, they already forced Michigan to play right away after a plane crash so I think it’d be fantastic to tell them all week that we’re coming and just not show up…
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That would make an awful lot of sense. Big Ten decisions don’t always make sense though…
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