Michigan Tuesday: News and Notes

• Bennie Joppru suffered a stroke at the age of 32.  Bennie struggled with blacking out and other issues once he left Michigan.  Let's hope the doctors can figure out what is going on with Bennie and he can live a long healthy life.

• Bill Stewart who replaced RR at WVU is dead at the age of 59.   He had a wild ride at WVU, with some big wins and some big loses.   It's sad that he is gone at 59.

• Remember instate high school QB Robert Bolden?  Michigan was recruiting both Robert and Devin Gardner the same year.    Devin picked Michigan early and Robert choose Penn State.  Robert played early at Penn State but has struggled in most games.   He tried to transfer last year but JoPa blocked it, now it seems he is off the team and planning on transferring to another school.  Good Luck to Robert wherever he chooses.

• The Big Ten Schools will receive about $24.6 M from the Big Ten Network and Bowl Revenues. 

• Do you stay up late and wonder if Michigan has any speed at WR coming in?  Well, rest easy my friend - they do.  Here is Jehu Chesson's track meet finish in a regional meet:

Event 36  Boys 100 M Dash Class4 =========================================================================
    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals
=========================================================================
1 Jehu Chesson II     SR Ladue                       10.86 10.79  
2 Jamal Robinson     JR C.B.C.                       10.92 10.87  
3 Nick Patillo           JR   Poplar Bluff             10.98 10.93  
4 Durron Neal         SR DeSmet                       11.17 10.99  


He also won the 110 M and 300M Hurdles.

• Do you stay up at night wondering what Michigan's Big Ten schedule will be in 2015 and 2016?  Of course not, that would be silly.   All I can say is Hello Wisconsin and where is Indiana?  MSU, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Ohio State in the same year - (with Illinois, Wisconsin and OSU in the other division).   That seems fair.  We all want to play OSU in the last game every year but making sure that game is being played equals the hardest Big Ten schedule every year, when Michigan plays the likes of  Wisconsin or Penn State in the leaders division instead of Indiana or Purdue.

2015

Oct. 3: at Michigan State
Oct. 10: Wisconsin
Oct. 17: Minnesota
Oct. 24: at Illinois
Oct. 31: Bye
Nov. 7: Nebraska
Nov. 14: at Northwestern
Nov. 21: at Iowa
Nov. 28: Ohio State
Dec. 5: Big Ten Championship Game

2016

Oct. 1: Michigan State
Oct. 8: at Minnesota
Oct. 15: Northwestern
Oct. 22: Bye
Oct. 29: at Wisconsin
Nov. 5: Illinois
Nov. 12: at Nebraska
Nov. 19: Iowa
Nov. 26: at Ohio State
Dec. 3: Big Ten Championship Game