Wolverine247 Board

Thanks Frank. +1

Shane Morris.

Bower is coming to the BBQ? Nice.

When is the BBQ?

July 29th.

Anyone know what is being served at this BBQ? I'm hankering for a good one and wouldn't mind crashing the party

Also, while on visits, what does Michigan show recruits as far as facilities go? I'm interested to learn more about your programs both academically and athletically.

They're taken on a tour of the athletic facilities and academic institutions, just like every other school. Our most impressive things during tours that are always brought up by recruits are the academic talks given by Sheri (I think?) that just tells how supportive the academic staff is and how elite the education is at Michigan. Recruits also love our facilities, as they are very modern and awesome. Huge weight room and practice facility.

Then they all sit down with individual sessions with our coaches. They get to sit with their position coach, their coordinator, and the head coach. They usually watch film of the kid and of Michigan players at his position with the coaches telling the kid what they like about him, what he should work on, what Michigan does, etc. Then Hoke talks a lot about the history of Michigan, what it means to be a Michigan Man, and what it would mean to wear the winged helmet.

Basically the same with every school ever.

The Michigan Man b.s. has been around a minute, but strongly resurfaced during RR's tenure. And by "b.s." I'm not talking about the standard. I'm talking about it being used as a divisive tool.

Edit first part: I'm dumb

And the board was completely BS because he basically only counted your walk-ons and reserves and didn't do that for us (IIRC, it was something like that but I don't feel like looking it up). I couldn't care less about that, but I know that all of our players have tons of support and it's very easy for them to get jobs in whatever they want to do. We have engineers and business school students who are part of some of the toughest programs in the nation.

Thanks Kenetic.

We're getting iPads here as well. A few of the students were complaining because the Lantern (the student newspaper, but not for long) printed how much it was going to cost Athletics to pay for the iPads. $400,000 is the budget for them, and a lot of students would hope for that to be aid and were saying how it was unnecessary to buy iPads for all of the athletes, but when other programs have it, it's just one more thing they have we don't. I think Nebraska has iPads too..I don't think our students understand that Athletics donates about 20 mill a year to the university. Anyway, I didn't think that the majors board had a fair sample of your team and that's why it was so skewed.

If I were a student athlete, there's no doubt in my mind that I would ask to be redshirted and find a way to injure myself to get a grayshirt as well and get in a very well respected program. Become a doctor or an engineer or something prestigious. Wouldn't mind having 6 free years of college since I'll be up to my neck when I finally graduate here.

Bo used the term Michigan Man on almost a daily basis.

I take offense to anyone labeling it BS (but maybe I'm just misinterpreting the above posts).

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