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1. The Final Coaching StaffStarts at 1:00
Jack Tuttle has been approved for a 7th year, does this incentivize you to switch over your offense since he's so different from Orji? Whoever the quarterback is, they just need to have a Cade McNamara year. Sabb hitting the portal is sad. The coaching staff is final (other than what's up with Mike Hart). The average age of this coaching staff is too close to Alex Drain. The Tennessee message boards are like "RHWRRRGHREWRGRR". Things seem to be moving positively on the NIL front with Sherrone Moore in charge. Michigan is losing assistants at a higher rate because if you succeed at Michigan you go to the NFL.
2. Legal Talk With Bryan MacKenzie! (Part one)Starts at 27:12
We discuss the myriad legal issues facing the NCAA. Tennessee, the university and state, are sticking it to the NCAA asserting that NIL restrictions are anti-trust and cannot be legal. The NCAA has said that you can talk about NIL but you cannot use it as an incentive. What? When was the last time the NCAA even won a lawsuit?? The NCAA is potentially facing a $4 billion lawsuit, how do you calculate that and does it bankrupt the NCAA or do schools have to pay for it?
3. Hot Takes and Legal Talk! (Part Two)Starts at 41:31
Takes hotter than Travis Kelce in the first half of the Super Bowl when he was yelling at Andy Reid. Dartmouth men's basketball (yes it exists) is leading one of the charges. At private schools, we could be approaching athletes being employees with the ability to collectively bargain. There are 11,000 division I football players and 5,000 division I basketball players, how do you account for all of that under the tent? Signing a contract could help solve the transfer portal issues and sitting out bowl games. The NCAA is so paranoid about people being employees that they're hurting their own product. Legally, you may have to show your athletes as minimum-wage employees, can you show that with scholarships? Moving forward, how does the NCAA show a distinction between professional and amateur athletes? What should the final play be? We have no idea.
4. Hockey vs Penn StateStarts at 1:21:32
Hockey splits with Penn State which is not good, Michigan is slipping off of the bubble. The Friday game, Michigan won in the 1st period. The second game was extremely un-inspiring. They're running out of centers. Michigan has to be able to out-score their mistakes and they just don't have that right now. Michigan has a hero-line and it's getting held up and are gassed by the 3rd period. The inconsistency of major penalties in Big Ten hockey is ridiculous.
MUSIC:
The Ace Pod 3.10: Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party
The Michigan Hockeycast 3.14: Wish I Could See a Replay
MGoPodcast 12.22: Barnburners
WTKA Roundtable 2/18/2021: Why Aren’t You Screaming at the TV?
The Michigan Hockeycast 3.13: Moving Your Headskin
MGoPodcast 12.21: Steering Into the Skid
WTKA Roundtable 2/11/2021: Craig Ross Gets a Library Card
The Michigan Hockeycast 3.12: Like a VHS Tape
MGoPodcast 12.20: Novak Flushed It
WTKA Roundtable 2/4/2021: Great Kid, Don’t Get Cocky
The Michigan Hockeycast 3.1: Team Upturned Rake
WTKA Roundtable 1/28/2021: Three Hundred Years Ago I Was Hedging
The Michigan Hockeycast 3.10: What Happens in Bowling Green
MGoPodcast 12.19: Stops
The Ace Pod 3.9: Glad and Sorry
WTKA Roundtable 1/21/2021: Ziyah Holman’s Boyfriend
The Michigan Hockeycast 3.9: Lions Already Did It
MGoPodcast 12.18: I Know Someone in Guam
WTKA Roundtable 1/14/2021: Why Bring Negativity Into a Positive Environment?
The Ace Pod 3.8: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
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