Recent content by Holy Man

AD is all about organizational politics and Belien doesn’t strike me as a politics guy. If he’s the figurehead and there’s a staff doing the work, maybe but I don’t see it.

I think Dutch gives him a run on the class act scale, but no serious argument here.

True, but at some point recruiting success has to be evaluated and it seems both getting the guys you prioritize and getting success in the program are factors in evaluating. Neither are zip code dependent but if the guy was a high priority and chose a rival that’s a miss and is magnified by it...

At this point, is missing on any high school recruit really a miss? I’m sure there will be a once a decade guy like the kid from Illinois that comes out of nowhere, but if you’re not an immediate national contender, the guys who make difference immediately will be out of reach.

I’m trying to obliterate that era from my memory. 😵‍💫

I’m still a little skeptical. Way too many bottom feeders on the schedule this year. Glad for the power 4 upgrade though.

With the very lucrative ten year pension plan for NBA players, he has a huge incentive to fight through for a couple more years.

Brilliant! Is Ben pals with the head coach?

Comes from a family of very high achievers. Habits of success demonstrated all over the house. Impressive.

Deliverer of one of the best quotes in Gopher history, perhaps around senior night, when he said how grateful he was for his family and how so many of the guys he played with “had nothing in their lives except basketball.” Part of the Dutcher Michigan connection in the 80’s.

I look for Gard to seek out Michigan alum Juwan Howard as a special consultant.

Pretty sure the era belongs to guys like Oats who are open about not caring about any rules or sense of fair play.

Sort of too bad. I kind of liked the guy. Calm demeanor. Success in lower level and the stuff that makes you want to believe it can be done the right way.

Call me shocked that any transfer tampering would ever happen in the virtue driven enterprise of educating young athletes while they get a college degree. Call me even more shocked that anyone in the institution really cares about such matters as long as the historical powers benefit.

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