Michigan President Santa Ono after a short 3 years stint in Ann Arbor has decided to take his talents to the University of Florida. For Michigan Football and Basketball fans, Santa was a guy we had all hoped would change Michigan's NIL policy and admissions restrictions. He did make some progress even though the Harbaugh negotiations seemed strange and disjointed at times. I'm not close to the situation to understand what happened, but John U. Bacon is and he said this on Twitter:
This is a surprise - but maybe it shouldn't be. I can't recall any UM president starting higher, nor falling faster. I'm not hearing from anyone who regrets his leaving - and his resignation letter seems rather insincere, given his abrupt departure. He leaves as a footnote.
Ono seemed like a genuinely nice guy, and his public enthusiasm for UM/Ann Arbor was received as a breath of fresh air after Schlissel. But Ono quickly seemed overwhelmed by the scale of the job, the conflicts that come with it, and an unusually tumultuous era.
I've since heard from insiders that now-former Michigan President Ono had pursued Oxford and Harvard -and didn't get close on either - but was pursued by U-Florida in October. Offer was too low, but when they upped in January, he interviewed. A surprise to Regents.
There you have it.
So I finally watched the Spring Game. Nothing like giving insights into a game that was played two weeks ago, I know.
- I liked the active role Biff was playing. He was on the field with Sherrone. He is going to be a great help to the program and Sherrone.
- Michigan will have the best RB room in the country.
- I like the different formations that Chip was running on offense.
- Bryce is very talented and raw, needs more time and live game situations. Still very good for a true freshman.
- Davis windup is really bad. He does well on short timing throws but him dropping the ball down at his waist is really bad.
- I think the defense is going to be really good next year. I might have been wrong about Wink.
- #13 the IU transfer is going to be a star in Ann Arbor, best WR by far.
- TE room might be sneaky good. Hoffman had a really good game. I hope he sees some time.
- Former Wolverines: Vlad, Wolfe and maybe a future Wolverine Yaxel invited to the NBA Combine.
- Michigan Baseball beat Ohio State 23-1 on Saturday
- Giles Jackson signed with the Eagles
- Devin Bush was arrested on Sunday on assault charges.
1 comment:
I generally don't like the idea of having to hire a babysitter for your HC. If you need to do that, then maybe he's not qualified for the job. Michigan basketball did that when they hired Phil Martelli to serve as Juwan's advisor and how'd that turn out. Look I know some of you were big fans of the Juwan hire! In retrospect, it was the wrong hire, but I can separate Juwan the player from Juwan the coach. The former was awesome, the later not so much!
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