Do you know anything about Michigan sports besides what you pick up from watching games?

that worked really ****ing well for Iowa didn't it?

I think Auburn football has it about right. Hire a cheap coach and just spend the money on players.

Right, and isn't anyone impressed by what Amaker accomplished under these conditions?

2001–2002 Michigan 11–18 5–11 T-8th
2002–2003 Michigan 17–13 10–6 T-3rd
2003–2004 Michigan 23–11 8–8 T-5th NIT Champions
2004–2005 Michigan 13–18 4–12 9th
2005–2006 Michigan 22–11 8–8 T-6th NIT Runner-Up
2006–2007 Michigan 22–13 8–8 T-7th NIT 2nd Round
Michigan: 108–84 43–53

I mean he inherited a mess, coached almost the whole time with the team on probation, and he had three 20+ wins in his last five years. Maybe I'm just a beaten down Michigan fan, but give me a coach that can put together three 20+ win seasons every 5 years and I'll be happy. Firing Amarker was always weird to me. What he accomplished under the conditions he faced, was astonishing and commendable. Obviously this is an extremely superficial analysis, but by the numbers alone, I would've been more likely to give Amarker a raise than fire him.

That said, I still believe in Beilein. How we played against Kansas and Ohio State, gives me enough glimmer of hope. We probably still need to assassinate Izzo though.

Amaker was definitely a better recruiter. The '06 and '07 teams are representatives of that. And you have to remember in '03 and '04, we had Blanchard and BRJ as upperclassmen. Beilein has been picking it up, but we won't really see the result of that until next year or even the year after.

Our leading rebounder vs Minnesota?

Novak.

With how many you ask?

3.

LOL

LOL SPARTY

Wow, thread title really does deliver. How the **** does that happen. I wonder if that's a record low for a leading rebounder for a team in any game in the history of basketball. (Tried a quick google search and couldn't find anything)

Novak 5-5 4 3pts 14pts in first 9 mins

This is literally inspiring. This is like beating Duke inspiring.

omggg someone gif Novak's facial blowup right there itd be an awsome avatar.

lolllllllll Morgan. Setting the ball into the hoop is far far too difficult, i agree man. gtfo off the floor u fat piece of ****ing ****.

told myself not to watch, now i'm sucked in...

playing really well. getting shafted on some calls tho. LOL over the back.

boom 3

Hardaway sucks

I think we're witnessing history right now. An empire on the way down, and an empire on the way up. State's done. Izzo's done. It's over.

glad msu didnt get a shot off, but have to make fts there

Michigan State be very well be done. Would be nice if we were on the way up. So nice not to start out a game 2-14 from 3.

We all know this is gonna be another soul crushing loss by less than 5pts though. Pretty sure no team in the country has ran worse than us.

Yeah in all seriousness I'm just glad we're still in it. Does anyone know the last time Michigan won at State?

mich st to
mich oreb
mich bucket
green hurt
state airball
state foul

best start we could ask for

Pretty sure it was 1997.

we're running like god

Yeah that sounds right to me.