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Sports is way less important, as has been proven by the pandemic. Less important than what? The answer is just about anything.
Watching a basketball game for two hours, for instance, is not much different than viewing a movie, except that it is live. Being a fan has few benefits. Adulation of the players lost its glow long ago.
Merry Christmas,
Later today Michigan will play Nebraska in basketball. They will travel to Lincoln. Everyone else should stay where they are at but the players, the head coach, and everyone else who is nothing more than a hanger-on will participate also.
The game will give me more time to spew about Michigan football. Firing Don Brown was predictable because blame-the-assistants has happened before. Harbaugh runs a clean program and he is a .500 college football coach.
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Bert Bielema to Illinois. God what a business. We'll have to wait three or four years to prove it was a failure.
Therein lies the problem with Jim Harbaugh There is no one better.
As for Don Brown, the problem was talent, in terms of recruiting, development, and attrition. The latter two are less so--it is recruiting and talent that led to his downfall. You have to go out and get the guys and a few dark horses from New England are not going to cut it. It is like the corporate executive who wants to sit at his or her desk and direct things; sooner or later you have to get out and sell. No one is that smart.
Specifically, there is a wide receiver recruit, via juco, starting at safety. The two cornerbacks are not high-level Division 1 talents. A walk-on is starting at middle linebacker and the two others--this was supposed to be a strength for the team--are not playmakers either.
Carlo Kemp, a linebacker recruit from the 2016 recruit should not be starting or needed. Paye was capable, as was/is Hutchinson, and after that there is nothing.
Harbaugh will always be a run-up-the-score guy. Starters play the whole game. There has never been any depth under Harbaugh.
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