WTKA Roundtable 2/6/2020: Snakebit Year

MSU things discussed:

• Dantonio's irregularities: it sounds like he lied in his deposition (which is why Mars is getting involved?)
• Does NCAA actually care about the alleged violations?
• Is it a better job than Cincy? Cincy you can take to ND soon. MSU the last two recruiting classes: not so hot and total garbage. No matter who takes that job it's three and out.
• The board of trustees hires the football coach, not the AD. Let's get some Michigan fans together and elect a board that's going to hire Brian Ellerbe!
• Dantonio got away with it because there's no more bootlicking media in the Big Ten than MSU and OSU.

Basketball things discussed:

• Craig: Bilas was right, it wasn't a basketball game.
• Franz needs to shoot his way out of his slump.
• This year's cascade of bad luck is payback for the national championship run two years ago.
• Craig: some of the officials that used to be good have been wretched. Example: Teske is about to have a layup and they call him for 3 seconds and yeah it's a good call. Late in the game same thing with Wesson and he's in the lane for 8 seconds, same ref Carstenson staring at it. Wesson finally gets the ball, up two, the guy makes a three.
• The call on Simpson: a call we've never seen and will never see again. Brian: pile all the bad luck into this season.
• On Johns: are people paying attention to him now?
• Michigan needs an infusion of athleticism badly. Zeb, Christianson, come on down. Without Livers the limitations of this roster are very apparent.
• MSU? Without Livers they don't really have the firepower to win this game.
• Funny how both basketball and hockey are both snakebit fundamentally sound teams missing talent.