Katz: Cheer up, state of Michigan, Beilein's boys are here to save you

OK, for some reason, MSU fans always say otherwise. But they've got a dog in the hunt.

 

No way. Like 65-35. Nobody roots for EMU, CMU OR WMU as a primary school, when I went to Central all the Chippewa fans rooted for UM to win.

 

yes, but Central fans are mo-mos...

 

I'm not going to respond to that because I need your football team, which is inferior to mine, to win next week. ;D

Our third consecutive MAC championship and Motor City Bowl Title thanks you in advance.

 

Not until Ed Martin pays Albom as well as he did the Fab Five.

And Starman, there are some decent points. But all in all, forget it. It was a good win for Michigan, and if even half of what people say about John Beilein is true, bully for him.

 

Well, Starman considering only one guy on the Fab Five team was being paid (two if you count Bulluck in the later years) I would say that does not constitute as a payroll. Besides, do you honestly believe Webber would have gone anywhere else?

That's the sad thing. They could have gotten him without the money and won- oh wait, they didn't win because Webber blew it.

 

Well, he also has that whole death thing working against him too, and all...

 

No, but he'll write a book as if he did.

 

Ahh, WMU and CMU get a few percentage points in GR, Muskegon, Saginaw and Traverse City.

Kalamazoo is probably 60 UM, 20 WMU, 10 MSU and 10 ND.

Grand Rapids is as near as an open city as there is in the state, probably 60 UM, 10 CMU, 10 WMU, 10 MSU and 10 ND.

Lansing is probably 60 MSU, 30 UM, and the directionals splitting up the rest. UM heavily dominates the rest of the state.

Jalen Rose was on the Ed Martin payroll, too. And of course, neither he nor Webber ever seriously considered going anywhere else. They went through the recruiting charade mainly as a way to scam free travel and free tickets to big basketball games off of sucker coaches at other schools.

 

True, but you of all people know that Mitch knows how to maximize revenue streams ... living or dead.

 

Fixed.

And I have no dog in this hunt, but "unmitigated bucket of suck" is one of the great expressions ever coined here.

 

Perhaps Ed Martin is one of the five people Mitch'll meet in heaven.