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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 17h

My brother and I happen to wholeheartedly agree on this, much to the chagrin of our father lol

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 17h

Aidan Chiles, Justice Haynes and Terry Lockett are among the notable injuries for Mitten teams this week: mitten-football.ghost.io/notebook-eas...

Notebook: Eastern Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan nursing key offensive injuries this week

From quarterbacks to skill to an offensive lineman, these three Mitten teams have some key injuries to monitor this week.

mitten-football.ghost.io

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 17h

Holden Caufield is deeply an unsympathetic character.

Signed,
A dude who had depression at that age, too

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 18h

Larry Scott somewhere yelling how he’s vindicated

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Mitten Football @mittenfootball.bsky.social · 18h

The Eagles, Spartans and Wolverines all have one or more key injuries to keep tabs on this week: mitten-football.ghost.io/notebook-eas...

Notebook: Eastern Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan nursing key offensive injuries this week

From quarterbacks to skill to an offensive lineman, these three Mitten teams have some key injuries to monitor this week.

mitten-football.ghost.io

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 19h

My brain is still catching up but I’m broadly on board with the concept bsky.app/profile/ande...

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 2d

“Indiana having a credible case to be ranked No. 1 in football” is literally something I didn’t think would happen as long as I lived.

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 20h

Athletic directors not negotiating against themselves would be a major solve for much of the spending issues in college sports but alas

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Chris Solari @chrissolari.bsky.social · 20h

Smith says MSU QB Aidan Chiles and OG Kristian Phillips will be late-week decisions as to whether they will play at Indiana.

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 20h

Fantastic: Broc Lowry
Functional: Michigan's passing game
Forgettable: MSU's bowl chances

Recapping the weekend in the Mitten: mitten-football.ghost.io/fantastic-fu...

Broc Lowry: Lowry seems to get better with every week of being the full time starter, and played a crisp, clean and über-productive game as Western Michigan shellacked Ball State, 42-0. Lowry went 23-of-27 for 241 yards and two touchdowns and added 108 yards on 13 carries, plus another touchdown. He’s been the engine at the center of the Broncos’ four-game win streak and gets better as a passer each time out. His 52-yard bomb to Malique Dieudonne stands out, but it’s the down-to-down consistency as a passer that’s started to show up and elevate Lowry’s play.

Michigan’s passing offense and the Bryce Underwood-Andrew Marsh connection: Underwood still needs to work out the misses and what appear to be some predeterminations, and the Wolverines passing attack can probably lean into more stuff to help him find more consistency down-to-down. But Underwood has been solid in his last two outings, save for the critical late-game interception against USC in the loss. He hasn’t been great, but Underwood is playing about as expected for someone six games into their career. And it’s obvious that he and Andrew Marsh have a good feel in the passing game, as the freshmen connected for eight receptions on nine targets for 138 yards and a touchdown.

Michigan State’s bowl hopes: Michigan State is 3-3 after starting 3-0. And the remaining schedule doesn’t look too forgiving: at Indiana, vs. Michigan, at Minnesota, an idle week, vs. Penn State, at Iowa and vs. Maryland. Indiana looks like a legitimate national title contender (Editor’s note: That phrase felt like a hallucination to write.) and for all the struggles that led to James Franklin being ousted today, Penn State, along with Michigan, has a better roster on paper. Penn State could go any number of ways under an interim head coach and a worse Michigan team still comfortably beat MSU last year. Games against Minnesota, Maryland and Iowa are probably the best shots for the Spartans to scrape into bowl eligibility. It will take some upsets, though, no matter what, for this Michigan State team to make it to the postseason.

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Dan Campbell game plans on shrooms (complimentary)

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Pope said “don’t say I don’t know ball”

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Baker Mayfield is the best show in football rn

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Flacco is inevitable for Green Bay this year, perhaps

Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 1d

Packers offense played with their food for three quarters against the Browns and lost earlier this season. Suddenly only up by three points against the Bengals, who had 65 net yards in the first half.

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Luke Fickell:

two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Past four games* (six for Penn State specifically)

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

I get the gist is to stop instant roster exodus when a coach gets fired but since we’re past six games the only players liable to leave are guys taking redshirts already, and the new policy can probably spell out a clearer definition on what actually opens the window when coaches are fired.

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

IANAL but I think one would argue that the announcement of an interim counts as “public announcement of a new head coach” and therefore a player could enter the portal on Friday this week.

Policy specifies “hire or announce” which is vague, and the NCAA ain’t winning in court much these days.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

This is exactly how the NCAA worded it in their announcement, btw.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

for my part, Sally the only things that gives me pause are her lack of journalism experience or ethics, her sophomoric writing level, the fact that she's a censorious scold, and a virulent Islamophobe but aside from that she's just as good as Les Moonves, the serial sex predator who used to run CBS

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mitten Football @mittenfootball.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic, Functional, Forgettable: WMU a MAC contender, EMU holds on as MSU, UM wither

Recap the weekend's action: mitten-football.ghost.io/fantastic-fu...

Fantastic, Functional, Forgettable: WMU a MAC contender, EMU holds on as MSU, UM wither

Saturday was rough for the Spartans and Wolverines, but the two Michigan MAC teams in action got to celebrate wins.

mitten-football.ghost.io

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Mel Tucker needs work

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

James Franklin needed to go because he utterly failed to create any programmatic identity for Penn State that they could rally around to elevate the program to elite, so highly-talent teams played worse than the sum of their parts. Bad at QB development, too.

I wouldn’t have done it today, tho.

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Jerry Neuheisel lol

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Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Wowee

Pete Thamel reporting that James Franklin has been fired

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Local hospital/medical center admissions for alcohol poisoning might be a better tranche of data but also harder to access, I’d imagine

Andrew Graham @andegraham.bsky.social · 1d

Love King Arthur flours — didn’t know I could get industrial quantities tho… 🤔

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