Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Michigan Tuesday: Brandon Graham is Expected to Retire Today

Brandon Graham was sacking quarterbacks when Rich Rod was the head coach at Michigan.  That seems like a million years ago.  He is now a 2 time Super Bowl champion and has played 15 years in the league.  He is an Eagles Legend and today is expected to retire from the NFL.   Way to go out on top big Michigan Man and Congratulations on your Hall of Fame career!    I hope you still want to be around football and maybe become an assistant coach in Ann Arbor? Update: News confirmed!


  • Michigan Baseball player Mitch Voit has had a fun week.  He has been crushing the baseball but jokingly pretended to snort the third baseline after hitting a triple.  He apologized for the act. 

Monday, March 17, 2025

Michigan Monday: Just Call Them Champions

Dusty came to Michigan with a clean slate.  Literally, not much of any roster.  He went to the portal and built a team that just won the Big Ten Tournament!  He found some of that in-season magic again this weekend which propelled the Wolverines to 3 wins in 3 days.   


Now, the news is not 100% perfect.  Michigan and Wisconsin played a Big10 Championship that looked like a Wednesday afternoon pick up game at the YMCA.  Both teams were tired and Wisconsin just ran out of gas in the 2nd half after getting an 11 point lead.  

After the win, it only took a few minutes for Michigan to get further disrespected.  Michigan got a 5 seed in Denver and will play on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.   Did the committee do their seedings last week before any of the tournaments?  Michigan played late on Sunday and now has to travel across the country to play on Thursday?   That is BS and another sign the committee had this wrapped up on Thursday and played golf on the weekend. 

  • Iowa Basketball Big Man Owen Freeman has entered the portal after Fran was let go and lists Michigan as one of his potential schools. 
  • Michigan has hired Charlotte defensive tackles coach David Denham, I believe Michigan is trying to have a 1:1 ratio player to coach. David was at WMU prior to Charlotte with Biff.

Friday, March 14, 2025

Michigan Friday: Purdue Again

Purdue and Michigan play the rubber game this season tonight in the Big Ten Tournament. Both of them won on their respective home floors. Michigan has lost 3 in a row and looks to be a very tired team.   Purdue is favored by 2.5 points.   I hope Dusty can re-open that Michigan magic he had for most the season.  On a side note, Michigan does have a win over Purdue-FT Wayne this year as well!  

  • Josh Ross get signed by Coach Mac and the Seahawks 
  • 4 star RB Javian Osborne will visit Ann Arbor on 3/28
  • 4 star 2027 Athlete and Bama commit Alexander Ward is visiting Ann Arbor next week.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Michigan Thursday: Now This Is Interesting

Jim Harbaugh knows a number of NFL players from recruiting them or coaching them at Michigan.  This week he signed two players he knows well.  First was Steelers RB Najee Harris who was enrolled at Michigan but decided to get on a flight to Alabama instead of Detroit Metro after the Army All-American Game.  That was a painful loss, when Michigan needed a stud RB. 


Now here come the real interesting one.  Jim and the Chargers have signed former Michigan Wolverine CB Ben St-Juste from the Commanders.   If you don't recall this story its a good one.  Ben was recruited by Jim out of Canada and he had the skill set and body type to be a great Michigan DB.  He then goes on to have years worth of injuries that wouldn't allow him on the field.  I believe it was chronic bad hamstrings, if I remember correctly.  The Michigan Doctors recommended and Jim needing his scholarship asked Ben to "medically retire".   Which means he gets to keep his scholarship but no longer can play football (it also open up a scholarship for a recruit or another player on the team).  

Ben disagreed with that analysis and decides to transfer to Minnesota, where he becomes the CB we all thought he would be.  Gets drafted and has had a nice career with Washington.   After Ben goes to Minnesota he gets on social media describing what happened and how he was treated by the Wolverines medical staff and coaches.  That is was a series of bad luck and not a medical issue that required him to leave football.  He clearly was right.  At the time, Michigan was in need to good cornerback play and honestly must have thought Ben's hamstrings would not hold up. 

Now Ben and Jim are back together again and bygones are bygones, we assume. 

  • Bryce Underwood is on the next EA College Football Cover with about 100 other players.  Little early for a player that hasn't taken a snap yet. 
  • Minnesota has let Ben Johnson their basketball coach go.  That was the Wolverines worst loss of the season.  I guess Ben will have to go back to track and field.