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Wednesday Quick Hits: Basketball Programs Get New S&C Coach
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Leave a Comment- Mike Curtis has been hired to be the strength and conditioning coach for the men’s and women’s basketball programs. Curtis had the same job with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies for the last six years. A Q&A with Curtis can be found here.
- After being honored during halftime of Saturday’s Michigan game, Lloyd Carr threw out the first pitch at Monday’s Tigers game against the Yankees.
- USC is the new top-ranked team in both the AP and USA Today Coaches’ polls. Michigan, as expected, is no longer ranked in the Coaches’ poll and didn’t receive any votes in either of the two polls.
- All the worries offensive coordinator Calvin Magee had going into the Utah game happened last Saturday.
- The Hoover Street Rag has a rundown of the songs that are going to be played during Saturday’s “Boy Band” halftime show. Unless you’re a 13-year old girl chances are the show won’t be all that appealing to you, but hey, whatever floats your boat. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that)
- Tate Forcier sure is a confident person.
“I thought the quarterbacks did pretty good for it being the first game,” Forcier told Rivals.com. “There’s a lot of things I saw from the sideline even though I know it’s not the same from the sideline. All I can say is that offense isn’t for them, but it’s tailor-made for me.”
He is telling the truth. The perfect analogy for Steven Threet and Nick Sheridan trying to run Michigan’s offense is that they are a square peg trying to fit in a round hole. Tate Forcier, according to him, at least, is that round peg that Michigan is desperately waiting for.
- Three juniors from the state of Michigan, including Fred Jackson’s son, Jeremy, have received scholarship offers from U-M.
- Tickets to the semi-finals and finals of the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament won’t go on sale until Thursday, but if you want to pick them up today starting at 10 a.m. ET you can get a pre-sale password from UM Hoops. Getting tickets would assume that Michigan will advance to the semi-finals of the tournament, meaning they got by Campbell and UMass or Northeastern.
- MVictors interviewed Michael Rosenberg and discussed Rosenberg’s new book on the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry.
- According to Rich Rodriguez we shouldn’t expect a home-and-home series with West Virginia.
- Nick Sheridan and Stephen Schilling played the “Teammate Game” (sort of like the Newlywed Game) for the Big Ten Network.
- Some Texas A&M fans took stupidity to a whole new level.
- Matt Hinton (a.k.a the man behind SMQ) writes that the new clock rules have pretty much gone unnoticed. I’ll echo those sentiments as I didn’t even think about the new clock rules nor noticed them on Saturday.
- Jim Tressel claims that Beanie Wells is “going to be fine.”
