When a bigtime college football power decides to hire a new coach, the histrionics and master-narrative-generation that attend the search often overshadow the facts on the ground. Last time around, we dealt with shredded files, molested cheerleaders, tracked flights, and coaching trees. This time around, we’re dealing with the prodigal son, the Pope, the anti-Pope, [...]

Top candidates for jobs rarely come better-packaged than this one does. An upright man, the time of whose apprenticeship elapsed at the master’s knee. A man whose journeypiece comprised three consecutive winning seasons at Barry’s proving ground, and whose masterpiece involved coming out atop the heap of corpses 2007 left in its wake, while looking [...]

As our esteemed colleagues in reportage at the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, and elsewhere have made clear, the eagle is in the nest. The jig is up.

It was 9:45am on a cold Tuesday morning when the sounds of a golden eagle CAW-ing outside awoke veteran Michigan CB, WR, CB, WR, CB, James Rogers.  “Holy CHIPS!  I’m Late!”  He exclaimed.  He had a Final at 10am for his Gravitational Physics class, which was a good 15 minute walk from his apartment.  Rogers [...]

Sorry for the lack of round-table last week for OSU. Don’t worry, friends of the Revolution, we’ll have our 2008, 2009 and 2010 OSU Roundtable posts up the middle of next week. This week’s round-table focuses on the recent MICH FOOTBAW BUST and the use of a Josh Groban song. The question this week is [...]