Brian Fowler

Running this back from previous: Wilt Chamberlain is the all time leader in career 70+ point games, with 5. Second place is now a nine way tie with 1 each.

Yeah. I expect Michigan will get a lot less of the portal exodus we've seen elsewhere this winter. ------- If I'm not mistaken, this year is the first time a team that made the CFP has ever had to replace their head coach. And the second time. And the third. I'm also pretty sure that, not counting the Scott Frost/UCF claimed championship, this is the first time a national champion has had to replace their coach since Tom Osborne retired after the split Natty in 97.

Update: officially official. Even in Moore's Twitter bio.

Looks like Moore is now all but officially the next head coach at Michigan. Adam Schefeter reporting school sources have told him they've decided to hire Moore. I imagine they apply for a waiver so they don't have to wait a few more days to make it official.

If I had to guess, I suspect they will get probation for about two years, a small scholarship reduction with it (maybe five per year), and the school will pay a hefty fine. I think a post-season ban is extremely unlikely if only because did you see the ratings Michigan pulled in this year? Also, they seem to be moving away from using bans in favor of monetary penalties. History says vacating wins is somewhat unlikely but not impossible. AFAIK, the only time the NCAA has ever vacated wins for anything other than playing ineligible athletes was Penn State, and they ended up restoring those. Also, I think the NCAA would rather not wind up in another lawsuit right now, so they'll tread somewhat lightly in this. Get too aggressive and Michigan still probably sue Anyway, even if the NCAA does vacate wins, it's highly unlikely the CFP, AP, AFCA, and NFF all vacate the national titles they awarded and ask for the trophies back.

Sounds like Atlanta wanted Bill Belichick the head coach, but they weren't interested in hiring Bill Belichick the General Manager or Bill Belichick the CEO.

I guess it has worked in fairly recent NBA history with the Cavs firing whatisname and giving Lue the job. And not the same situation, but way back in 1979-80 with the Lakers having McKinney in the bike accident and then Westphal taking over. And college but my Michigan fan status means I have to bring up the 1988-89 Wolverines when Bill Frieder took a different job right before the tourney but planned to coach through the end of the season. Bo fired him, promoted Fischer and they won their only basketball Natty. But it's still a weird situation.

I really don't know if Moore or Minter had any idea how Stalions was stealing signals, which is the real point. Brent Venables at Clemson was notoriously great at signal stealing. Michigan firmly believes Ryan Day had Don Brown's signals, etc. I think it's entirely plausible that Michigan knew Stalions was really good at stealing signs, but assumed he was doing it the same way other teams did, a combination of watching the TV broadcasts, watching the All-22, and the network of staffers at other schools who are friends and share information after games. I'm not at all convinced they didn't know, either, just to be clear. But I do think the "everybody successfully steals signs, why would we have thought he was doing it differently?" line is a plausible one. ----- But anyway, unless Michigan thinks the NCAA has specific info on Moore, I'll be shocked if he doesn't get the job. You open up one team to try and recruit from, sure. But you also open up your entire roster to be recruited by 132 other schools, and you are fighting this without the coaches who have relationships with the players. Alabama has basically been ravaged by this and don't have any real chance to restock until the spring window. The thirty day rule makes sense, but it's brutal for the program that gets left behind.

I'll be shocked if it's not Sherrone Moore. Especially seeing how devastated teams losing coaches late have been by transfers. Moore gives them, by far, the best chance to keep everyone in house. I'll also be shocked if it takes more than about 36 hours, tops.

I still think Atlanta was a better fit both for him and for the team, but if anyone can get the Chargers to stop Chargering, it's Harbaugh.

And meanwhile the Trailblazers got royally fucked by the refs tonight.

You know how the NBA releases those final two minutes reports on reffing for each game. According to the report, the refs blew ten calls in the final two minutes of last night's Hornets-Timberwolves game. One foul assigned to the wrong Hornet, three missed fouls by the Wolves, two missed travels by Charlotte, and four missed fouls (including two on one failed late drive by KAT) by Charlotte.

There has to be a non-basketball reason for this, right? Firing a first year coach while currently holding the second seed slot would be beyond bizarre otherwise.

KAT picked the wrong night to drop a franchise record 62.

Here's an interesting little fact: The Texans played 19 convinced regular and post season games this year. They scored offensive touchdowns in 17 of them. The only two were the season opening loss to Baltimore and the playoff loss to Baltimore.

Those two losses to Brady are going to be what hurts his GOAT case. He wins both of them and Brady only has five rings and he has at least three, maybe four. And, fair or not, he's going to have to get at least awfully close to Brady in rings to get the public sentiment. As great as they've been and he's been, it's hard to imagine another four+ super bowl wins because, well, only the pats have ever done that.

Well, getting a much better slate of games this weekend. (Sorry Houston)

They won 12 games this season. I don't see where you would even start a worst team argument considering we've seen a 9 win team take home the Lombardi

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES HEADING TO SAN FRAN YES

If your goal is to extend the game and get to overtime, kick the PAT. If your goal is to win the damn game in regulation, you go for 2. I mean, this isn't obscure math. And they still keep a path to getting to OT despite not getting it. Seth Walder explained it here really well. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28100383/going-2-8-points-why-nfl-teams-keep-doing-why-analytics-backs-up Bucs made the right decision, just didn't execute it.

Julian Sayin to Ohio State is kinda weird? Two five star freshmen pro style QBs in one class isn't something you generally see a team do.

Damnit I really think Mayfield was down before he released that pass. Wish they would've challenged it.

He referenced Big Time Wrestling during the Lions/Chiefs game that opened the season as well.

I hate this but what a fucking catch.

In a bit of a surprise, Noah Fifita and Tetairoa McMillan announced at a basketball game they are both staying at Arizona. Huge win for the new coaching staff.