UM hiring Howard

[Michchamp]

I think everyone has their personal preferences. ...

On the internet, there are no "personal preferences." Everything is either right or wrong.

 

[tinselwolverine]

On the internet, there are no "personal preferences." Everything is either right or wrong.

No it isn?t.

 

[Michchamp]

No it isn?t.

Ah...

AHA!

 

[Spartanmack]

No it isn?t.

it is when it comes to baseball.

 

[Spartanmack]

What you quoted was about baseball, you must?ve read it.

it was about whether or not baseball is boring, which it is. I'm happy to engage in that conversation when not much else is going on - now that Beilein quitting on uofm and the hiring of his replacement is old news. What I won't read or engage in discussion on is any sports news about baseball games, players, teams, stats, seasons, rankings, etc, etc like I do with college football and basketball.

 

[Spartanmack]

I think everyone has their personal preferences. I would rather go to a baseball game than a football, hockey, or basketball game. I watch a lot of Tigers games but usually not from start to finish...just catch a few innings here or there. I follow the Tigers more closely than any other professional team. Baseball's not an exciting game...but that doesn't mean I don't have a good time going to a game. It's more about spending time with the people you are there with.

Of course, I may be odd, I like golf. I'll watch golf and would rather play golf than watch any sporting event...live or in person.

nobody says you can't like boring sports - to each his own. Obviously, I'm mostly being sarcastic. I don't hate baseball, I just find it tedious with the obnoxiously long season and the stupid expanded playoffs that make that obnoxiously long season less meaningful than it used to be.

While I would prefer to go to a college football, basketball or hockey game, I do like going to baseball games now and then but unlike those other sports, I don't watch it on TV and I have no idea why people listen to it on the radio.

My aunt and uncle watch every Cubs game every year and I have a friend who probably misses less than 30 pitches of a Yankees' season - if he's not at the game, he's watching on TV or listening on the radio. He literally rushes from his desk to his car between innings so he doesn't miss anything if a game is on when he's leaving work. That's way too much baseball.

 

[byco42]

it was about whether or not baseball is boring, which it is. I'm happy to engage in that conversation when not much else is going on - now that Beilein quitting on uofm and the hiring of his replacement is old news. What I won't read or engage in discussion on is any sports news about baseball games, players, teams, stats, seasons, rankings, etc, etc like I do with college football and basketball.

So you have no comment that Josh Harrison, with his .086 BA with RISP, is more useful to the Tigers on the DL than he is in the lineup?

 

[SpartyNash]

They were really in a tough spot here with Beilein leaving so late, not a lot of good candidates out there and most of the hot names have either moved or gotten extensions from their schools. Howard is likely not going to succeed, seems like a reach for a guy who has never coached in the NCAA though he had a long NBA career and was a good locker room mentor. There's a big different between doing that and running a CBB program, as Chris Mullen and Patrick Ewing have found out.

My thought is that he wouldn't get a look at any other major program in the country. The fact that he's a Michigan Man is the main reason he's getting this job. if an equivalent NCAA job came open, Howard wouldn't be in the top 50 candidates

Pretty much agree for the most part. I think it?s obvious they?ll take a step back as a program. Not to say they can?t be a solid program or will become a dumpster fire but it?s hard to envision Howard replicating the success Beilein had. Could recruiting improve with Howard? I suppose, but I question how much a high schooler is enamored with the Fab Five, I think the former NBA player angle and teammate of Lebron and Wade is more valuable.

I would have rolled with Yaklich or Washington honestly. It?s zero appeal to the fan base but I still would trust them more.

 

[Spartanmack]

So you have no comment that Josh Harrison, with his .086 BA with RISP, is more useful to the Tigers on the DL than he is in the lineup?

None. Never even heard of the guy. Even if I listened to sports radio after the final four, I live 20 miles from NYC so I wouldn't hear about the Tigers unless they were playing the Mets or Yankees and then they'd only talk about the pitching matchups and any great position players or hitters the Tigers have.

I recently read an FB post from an old high school buddy that said he'd take the 2003 Tigers over the current bunch, which I took to mean the Tigers stink, so I'm guessing they don't have a lot of great pitchers or position players at the moment.

 

[tinselwolverine]

So you have no comment that Josh Harrison, with his .086 BA with RISP, is more useful to the Tigers on the DL than he is in the lineup?

I?m going to step in and field this one, or maybe I should say I?m going to step up and pinch hit?although there are no runners in scoring position.

The answer is...there is no answer.

The question is a puzzle, inside a riddle, wrapped up in an enigma.

At 11 games under .500, And a 15 1/2 games out of first place, the Tigers are simultaneously just as bad, yet at the same time, no worse, than they would be with Josh Harrison, either in the lineup, or on the disabled list.

@ 0:59

(@2:20 for those too lazy or shallow to give a fuck about the timeless underlying meaning about this deeply beautiful story).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qscPswsNzpw

 

[Mitchrapp]

That is deep, especially at 12:30am.

 

[tinselwolverine]

That is deep, especially at 12:30am.

I could?ve gone with a Schrodinger?s cat reference, which would have been more in keeping with the whole ?simultaneousness? theme, but I love references that display the profound auspiciousness of Mean Girls.

 

[Spartanmack]

I could?ve gone with a Schrodinger?s cat reference, which would have been more in keeping with the whole ?simultaneousness? theme, but I love references that display the profound auspiciousness of Mean Girls.

I've never seen Mean Girls but I watched your clip and think you should have gone with the cat reference. There is a limit to how good or bad the Tigers can be - but I still wouldn't pay any more attention even if they were playing at or near the upper bound of their potential, well maybe a little more but that would cut into my time obsessing over how Juwan Howard is doing with uofm hoops, so there's definitely a limit to how much more.

 

[Michchamp]

I don't know, folks at the uofm board seem to think he's going to start beating MSU right out of the gate - just like Harbaugh did in footba...oh wait, maybe they're wrong.

Nope.

 

[Spartanmack]

Nope.

Yeah, we just 3 in a row and 5 out of 8 from consistently shitty effort. All credit to Juwan, he must be the second coming. At least you?re keeping your streak of saying stupid shit alive.

 

[Michchamp]

Yeah, we just 3 in a row and 5 out of 8 from consistently shitty effort. All credit to Juwan, he must be the second coming. At least you?re keeping your streak of saying stupid shit alive.

huh?