All Things SkunkBear

[Some Irish Bloke]

Burn it down. I love it.

 

[DCDomer]

OSU might try to get 100 after all

 

[IHateMarkMay]

OSU might try to get 100 after all

If for some reason they lose before the UM game and they play the last game of their regular season, you know they'll go all out to persuade the committee.

 

[zelezo vlk]

If for some reason they lose before the UM game and they play the last game of their regular season, you know they'll go all out to persuade the committee.

Just another reason to root for a Buckeye loss...

 

[IHateMarkMay]

Just another reason to root for a Buckeye loss...

In an ideal world, OSU loses to two teams before the UM game, think they can get in with a blow out, win 70-0, and still miss the CFP.

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">COMMITTED 🦅 Thank you to everyone for your support <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachVoulgaris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoachVoulgaris</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJeffHafley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoachJeffHafley</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeSuIlivan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeSuIlivan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BCFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BCFootball</a> <a href="https://t.co/Tcwgkt8jB7">pic.twitter.com/Tcwgkt8jB7</a></p>— Casey Phinney (@caseyphinney) <a href="https://twitter.com/caseyphinney/status/1307348819751981056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2021 3* ILB Casey Phinney flips from Michigan to Boston College

 

[Legacy]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">COMMITTED �� Thank you to everyone for your support <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachVoulgaris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoachVoulgaris</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJeffHafley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoachJeffHafley</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeSuIlivan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeSuIlivan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BCFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BCFootball</a> <a href="https://t.co/Tcwgkt8jB7">pic.twitter.com/Tcwgkt8jB7</a></p>— Casey Phinney (@caseyphinney) <a href="https://twitter.com/caseyphinney/status/1307348819751981056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2021 3* ILB Casey Phinney flips from Michigan to Boston College

247 documents that he committed to BC and decommited from Skunkbears on the day BC offered. Phinney is a teammate and Michigan target Drew Kendall, OG.

Michigan has 2022 four star ILB commit from Acton, Mass, Tyler Martin. Isn't BC more attractive than Michigan, Tyler?

 

[dublinirish]

https://247sports.com/Player/Marlin-Klein-46098636/

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Top 2022 TE target Marlin Klein commits to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Michigan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Michigan</a>; story here: <a href="https://t.co/XN3ONlTSeN">https://t.co/XN3ONlTSeN</a> <a href="https://t.co/G4BhARAcXH">pic.twitter.com/G4BhARAcXH</a></p>— Steve Lorenz (@TremendousUM) <a href="https://twitter.com/TremendousUM/status/1308413726098423808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

3 star TE out of GA, has an offer from UGA but no other SEC schools

 

[PANDFAN]

https://247sports.com/Player/Marlin-Klein-46098636/

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Top 2022 TE target Marlin Klein commits to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Michigan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Michigan</a>; story here: <a href="https://t.co/XN3ONlTSeN">https://t.co/XN3ONlTSeN</a> <a href="https://t.co/G4BhARAcXH">pic.twitter.com/G4BhARAcXH</a></p>— Steve Lorenz (@TremendousUM) <a href="https://twitter.com/TremendousUM/status/1308413726098423808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

3 star TE out of GA, has an offer from UGA but no other SEC schools

believe he is from germany

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoBlue?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoBlue</a> 〽️ <a href="https://t.co/Uze1d5j0nl">pic.twitter.com/Uze1d5j0nl</a></p>— Willie Allen (@willie_allen77) <a href="https://twitter.com/willie_allen77/status/1316899733785423878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Louisiana Tech OL grad transfers to SCUM

 

[dublinirish]

https://www.michigandaily.com/secti...ions-sexual-misconduct-title-ix-investigation

Nine months after two reports of sexual harassment were filed against former University of Michigan football player Mustapha Muhammad in Jan. 2019, the University’s Office for Institutional Equity cleared him of violating sexual misconduct policies.

Muhammad said Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, tight ends coach Sherrone Moore and former associate athletic director Greg Harden were aware of the claims against him.

In September, a Michigan Daily investigation uncovered four accusations against Muhammad spanning from sexual harassment to misconduct, including unwanted touching and stalking women living in a campus residence hall.

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines (2018) <a href="https://t.co/cDgIDBSQr6">pic.twitter.com/cDgIDBSQr6</a></p>— Lindsey Pehrson (@LindseyPehrson) <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyPehrson/status/1317189951742763008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[ulukinatme]

Garbage is right. We lost to the rain last year, it's BK's Kryptonite. Michigan certainly isn't better than Georgia, and that game was close at the end.

 

[Valpodoc85]

Muck Fichigan !

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Michigan LB Charles Thomas has officially entered the transfer portal.<a href="https://twitter.com/von_lozon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@von_lozon</a> has more: <a href="https://t.co/zY5r4gBQFE">https://t.co/zY5r4gBQFE</a> <a href="https://t.co/oEg5W9rZCo">pic.twitter.com/oEg5W9rZCo</a></p>— Maize n Brew (@MaizenBrew) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaizenBrew/status/1318186532793159688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[NewEnglandGuy]

Thomas is the second Michigan player to enter the transfer portal this season along with fellow linebacker and freshman Osman Savage.

All the while, the program has weathered a stream of defections. Since the advent of the NCAA transfer portal in October 2018, Michigan has watched 38 members of the team exit the program, including 11 scholarship players in the last 12 months. Consequently, the Wolverines have fallen to No. 18 in 247Sports’ team-talent composite — by far the lowest ranking during Harbaugh’s tenure.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...igan-football-jim-harbaugh-record/3673779001/

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nico Collins is not on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Michigan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Michigan</a> roster. Am told that he signed with an agent when it didn't look like there would be a fall season, and that he never came back to the team and has been away training for the draft.</p>— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/1318226811260526598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Irish#1]

Would love to see a video of Jimmy's reactions everytime one of these kids, tells him scUM is not for them.

 

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW: The health department says the number of COVID-19 cases among students is increasing and represents over 60 percent of local cases.<a href="https://t.co/d0d1ANGpcc">https://t.co/d0d1ANGpcc</a></p>— WXYZ Detroit (@wxyzdetroit) <a href="https://twitter.com/wxyzdetroit/status/1318617071396204544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

ruh roh

 

[Irish#1]

Gonna be tough to play ball if they don't isolate those guys.

 

[dublinirish]

Gonna be tough to play ball if they don't isolate those guys.

order does not apply to athletics but still gonna be a challenge for them

 

[ColinKSU]

Thomas is the second Michigan player to enter the transfer portal this season along with fellow linebacker and freshman Osman Savage.



https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...igan-football-jim-harbaugh-record/3673779001/

We love to see it.

 

[Legacy]

Drew Kendall, OG, has seven Crystal Balls on 247 for Boston College and one for Michigan. Kendall was the Skunkbears fallback after losing Rocco. A 247 article reports he is down to BC, Duke and Stanford.

After Spindler committed, 247 had six of eight CBs for Michigan.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Sent from my SM-J337U using Tapatalk

 

[Irishize]

Pete Thamel bringing the heat:

They are begging for him to stay in Columbus. They are pleading for him to stick around in State College. They are worried in East Lansing about a contract that’s set to expire in 14 months. Heck, even Indiana is planning on upsizing at their expense.

Amid its sixth season, the Jim Harbaugh experience at Michigan has officially flipped. It began with carnival barker attention and overzealous amounts of Big Blue optimism. It teased within inches of national prominence on the infamous J.T. Barrett fourth-down play at Ohio State in 2016.

But after No. 13 Michigan’s 27-24 home loss to 24-point underdog Michigan State, the Harbaugh experience has spiraled into a predictable heap of uninspired mediocrity.

Michigan has failed its brand and history so resplendently that opposing fan bases are openly rooting for Harbaugh to get a lifetime contract. Don’t laugh, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said just last year he wants Harbaugh to “retire here.” Hail to the Underachievers, this is one topic the Big Ten can finally all agree on. Even Nebraska.

The latest Michigan flop under Harbaugh marks the low point of his unremarkable tenure at Michigan. Michigan State entered the game fresh off a brow beating from Rutgers, and instead of burying Mel Tucker’s recruiting juice locally, Harbaugh delivered a triple shot of adrenaline to his nascent tenure.

This is worse than Harbaugh’s 2-12 record against top-10 teams, 0-5 record against Ohio State and his four consecutive bowl losses. This is about getting beat by a decisively inferior roster, as Michigan State’s roster features a group brought in during the sputtering twilight of Mark Dantanio’s tenure.

This is exactly the type of loss that would make it insane for Michigan officials to extend Harbaugh at his pre-COVID salary of $8 million per year. And that’s why opposing fans are rooting so hard for Manuel to stand by Harbaugh, the grand diluter of a great football brand. This is Harbaugh’s third home loss to Michigan State, a statistic out of the Hoke/Rodriguez horror files.

It’s descended to the point where folks around the Big Ten are snickering at Harbaugh’s aloofness, gawking at the predicament Manuel has on his hands and texting each other popcorn GIFs at what will happen next. Michigan is now that program in a league that everyone is staring at, wondering what they’ll do next. Do they extend the status quo and continue the laugh track? Do they try again to lure a foil to Ohio State’s juggernaut?

There’s no easy answer who they’d bring in as an upgrade. Any morsel of 2020 hope mustered after an opening blowout of Minnesota was sledgehammered away. Michigan State delivered an upset that’s as improbable as any Spartan win in the more than a century this series has been played. But there was nothing fluky about it. Michigan State was better coached, more disciplined and kept pounding away at Michigan’s obvious weaknesses, the sign of a well-coached team.

While Michigan was costing itself points running a wildcat, MSU just kept picking on those hapless Michigan corners.

Michigan has slipped to the definition of unfounded arrogance — the Wolverines are the bluster without the results, the brand with the wrong ambassador and the familiar logo that’s making you forget why you recognized it in the first place. They are old money hanging around the country club because they always have, but as the years go on everyone else forgets why.

The issue here is that Harbaugh has failed the program with his inability to modernize it. He’s hired staff haphazardly. His recruiting department is devoid of strategy and the other Power Five recruiting departments are praying they don’t change. Forget beating Ohio State, they aren’t even competing with them for recruits.

Two games into Year 6, this is Michigan’s identity in the Harbaugh Era. It’s a disjointed offense, a defense that heads into the fetal position at key moments and, most clearly, the worst big-game coach in the sport. Annually and consistently, no one lets you down when the stakes are high more reliably than Harbaugh. But the problem that Saturday’s flop brings up is the issue of Michigan failing against a pedestrian opponent.

Michigan has no direction, no leadership and an identity tied only to its shortcomings. And they’ve yet to face a team in 2020 with superior talent. That’s when defensive coordinator Don Brown’s defenses annually turn from paper tigers into shredded paper, his schemes so predictably limited that you can already set the over-under for Ohio State at 55. (Won’t find a lot of action on the under.)

If Michigan State freshman Ricky White can catch eight balls for 196 yards, how many will Ohio State stars Chris Olave or Garrett Wilson grab? There’s nothing more certain than Brown’s aggressive man coverage getting torched each fall by high-end talent. Brown would be America’s worst chiropractor, as he’s either is incapable of adjustments or flatly refuses to execute them. Over and over, rinse and repeat with no signs of progress or hope for evolution. That’s on the head coach for enabling predictable failures.

But this is also where the program’s scattershot recruiting comes in. Michigan’s corners looked like they belonged in the MAC on Saturday, and if your whole defense is predicated on lockdown corners, wouldn’t it be wise to have a better stable than the overmatched bunch that Michigan State mowed into infamy?

That takes head coach leadership, investment and vision. Perhaps Harbaugh’s biggest failure has been his inability to be engaged enough in Michigan’s recruiting to give it a chance to compete with Ohio State, Clemson or Alabama. Anyone who has followed recruiting closely could have seen the drop-off in Michigan’s overall talent.

We entered the season knowing that the opt-out of Ambry Thomas, Michigan’s best corner, left them vulnerable this year. It’s just that we didn’t think they’d be so vulnerable that they’d manage to make Michigan State quarterback Rocky Lombardi, a middling Big Ten quarterback, look like an All-American.

For the first five years, Harbaugh’s teams had taken on a rhythm as reliable as the tides. They’d beat up on the Big Ten’s flotsam and jetsam and then bow down to the elite competition in the league.

Harbaugh isn’t a dummy. He’s won 72 percent of his games (48-19) there for a reason. But this loss is different. This is the worst loss of Harbaugh’s tenure because of how it exposes all its shortcoming in one resplendent mess.

And with Michigan likely an underdog at Indiana on Saturday – let that sink in – and staring at a potential 4-4 season, Michigan may finally deliver the high-end drama Harbaugh’s hire promised.

Will they keep them? Will they overpay for his results, enable his bizarreness and chuckle at his recruiting board? That’s Michigan’s national relevance these days.

Fingers are crossed in Columbus. They are thumbing rosaries in State College. And in Bloomington, they are shushing any criticism. After all, how many times does Indiana potentially get to be favored against Michigan?

They are cheering for an extension, and it would be on brand for Michigan to perpetuate Harbaugh’s unfounded arrogance. They are the only ones who fail to realize how sideways this Michigan era has gotten.

 

[BobbyMac]

Let's all take a minute to congratulate our Irish lovin' brother, Rocky Lombardi and his fine game vs. MI. His Dad was the OC at my HS the past two years.

Rocky, named after Rocky Bleier. Would've been Irish if ND had offered in 2017... same with:

Sean Clifford - PSU

Kenny Pickett - Pitt

Jack Sears - SC/Boise

Funny they ended up with Avery Davis who is trending to be one of their better WR's finally.

 

[ulukinatme]

By my calculations our win percentage all time is back up to 0.72890625 now.
After today Michigan falls to 0.7290274684484039. We're very close to overtaking them again...we'd be ahead a bit if the NCAA hadn't taken those 2012 wins away (How do we manage to lose those and Ped State got theirs back? What kind of message does that send?)

Unfortunately Ohio State is now at 0.7298850574712644, so we still have some ground to makeup on them and that may be difficult to do while Ohio State is rolling.

In short, fuck Michigan!

 

[phork]

Somewhere Dantonio is grinning.

 

[Huntr]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jim Harbaugh just Clay Helton with a Dockers endorsement deal</p>— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) <a href="https://twitter.com/rodger/status/1322627682442579969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2020</a></blockquote>

 

[zelezo vlk]

https://twitter.com/MSU_Football/status/1322650371437854720?s=20

Sent from my SM-J337U using Tapatalk