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With apologies to Bette Midler & Kris Kristopherson (sp?): “Down & Out in Williams Arena” (even the right number of syllables).

Confounding & humbling—I’ll chalk it up to the accumulation of fatigue after playing four tough games missing key players. Get healthy and come back with an edge for the second half of the conference season. Need to kick some ass at Munn Arena next month—a little Quinnipiac de ja vu…

Remember the Covid-depleted squad going to Lincoln in 2020 snd winning just for the hell of it…

Great game to attend—both teams played to their strengths before a packed house. Scoring a second goal in the first five minutes would have won the game but Augustine made huge saves. Time for the Big Ten to end games which result in a tie after playing overtime. Each team receives their...

E.g. Bob Hanson to Bill Musselman—it helped to have Jim Brewer & a Wild West mentality—but Williams Arena went from moribund to 19,000 against Indiana in a matter of months…

Wonder if there was a Brosmer/Atlanta connection to his recruitment?

Firing Ben in December is unlikely to happen: 1) New president doesn’t want the distraction; 2) No suitable (no Coach Mo) interim on the staff; and to a lesser extent 3) a fairly high caliber recruit (Cochran) who hasn’t had a chance to play yet—it would be breaking faith with him. That said...

Also Carpenter—IIRC a huge kid from Tennessee who lasted about a half year near the end of the Dutcher era (circa 1983-1984)…

We’re there! Random memory of North Carolina: the ‘89 regional in Greensboro beating Kansas State & Siena—loved the Sweet 16 & Elite 8 teams!

On a happier note our win at Columbus in 2000 gave him a Gopher win in every Big Ten stadium. Crazy: Ray’s first year announcing Gopher football was 1950–we won at OSU in 1949 and not again until 2000.

Cornerbacks equally ferocious so far.

I was at the game—it was a misty night at a largely empty stadium. Tellis Redmond ran wild in the first half and, if memory serves, we were leading 21-0 and driving. Perhaps we had a fourth & short and we settled for a field goal. This seemed to have angered the football gods and NCSU came...

Perhaps he’ll have another great run at UCF & UNebraska-Lincoln will rehire him…

Refusing to call the penalty has resulted in the normalizing of the Michigan cross-check for the game.

And it’s Shomer…

Bob Stein; Tony Levine; in earlier years: Sig Harris; Butch Levy; Neil Litman; Lou Gross;

A favorite MSU memory of Clem vs. Judd—even though we lost—was the double OT thriller on Senior afternoon 1990. I recall the sellout crowd rising as one for a prolonged standing ovation as Shik/Willie/Richard/Melvin walked up the stairs from the lockeroom—before Dick Jankowski could even...

It would be fun for the Axe & the football captains to appear tonight and energize the crowd.