The Bucket Problem

Meet at Midfield’s Taylor Fulton (@seltzermom) and Kevin Harrish (@Kevinish) join the podcast to discuss the Michigan hockey mess and our lists of the best players in the Big Ten East.

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Ace and Kevin work together and we did not predict this.

A discussion of credentials and the freedom of not relying on them, inspired by Kevin’s post on Thursday morning.

Michigan hockey won’t even let us have more than a few minutes of laughter from “NFTuck.”

Taylor leads a lengthy discussion of Mel Pearson, another WilmerHale report, Warde Manuel attempting to dig in against university leadership, and everything else regarding the hockey investigation. (The latest: Manuel has suddenly fallen in line with leadership — who would've thought! — and a decision on Pearson's future should come Friday, per John U. Bacon.)

One of our worst transitions into a Homefield ad read yet!

We accidentally come up with Reverse NIL.

On an individual player basis, it’s hard to compete with OSU’s dominance.

We envy Kevin for being able to enjoy the above.

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Meet at Midfield’s Taylor Fulton (The Bucket Problem, @seltzermom) and Ryan Donnelly (Flipping the Field, @B1G_Ryan) join the podcast to discuss our new project and discuss our choices for the top five football players in the Big Ten West. There are only two players on both Ace’s and Taylor’s lists. Ryan critiques the TBP crew’s choices and adds several players to watch of his own.

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Ace gets the episode number wrong, fails to notice.

Meet at Midfield! What is it, other than a non-government entity promoting Big Ten supremacy?

Read Taylor’s post!

Is Jim Harbaugh behind the new avian flu?

What on earth is happening with the M hockey program?

Please sponsor us, WilmerHale. We know you have the money.

Warde Manuel is not controlling the narrative.

We mention Chez Mellusi, as is contractually required. Is he real, though?

Champaign-Urbana: The reviews are in, and they’re terrible.

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The Bucket Problem has a new co-host! We welcome Taylor Fulton (@seltzermom) for her first of many appearances on the show. Once she’s introduced, we cover everything from fall camp position battles to Jaden Ivey to the Michigan players who were formative for us to (sigh) Jim Harbaugh’s anti-abortion comments and how they run counter to the University’s stated values. We kept that last discussion quick, I promise.

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Would you like to listen to a podcast that talks about football but does NOT mention NIL? This is that podcast.

This week we discuss the Big Ten adding USC and UCLA before turning to Dan's overall rankings of Big Ten offenses. After listening to the second segment, you may want the conference to hasten the transition to the new alignment discussed in the first.

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The week we rank the Big Ten’s wide receiver rooms. While there are no arguments about #1, the 2-5 spots aren’t separated by much. Other topics: Youssef Khayat commits to MBB, we don’t want to talk about football recruiting, and Jim Harbaugh rap-reciting Eminem lyrics.

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The week, the whole crew is on the pod to discuss the Joey Baker transfer and men’s basketball roster outlook before delving into our Big Ten football coach hot seat rankings. Other topics include: breakfast encounters with James Franklin, college basketball becoming more center-dominated because of the value NBA places on big men, conference schedule draws for men’s and women’s hoops, and holy hell have coach contract extensions gotten out of control.

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The week, Dan and Connor join the podcast to discuss Erik Bakich’s departure for Clemson, football recruiting, Dan’s Big Ten tight end rankings, and the Michigan games the proved formative to us.

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The pod returns from a summer break with a solo mailbag edition. Ace answers your questions on Warde Manuel’s comments regarding Bo Schembechler (TW: the Robert Anderson case is discussed), the athletic department’s most successful year on the field in recent history, baseball being on the wrong end of a terrible (and possibly biased) blown call to end their season, how MBB recovers from Moussa Diabate and Caleb Houstan going pro, whether either hoops program has enough shooting, WBB’s outlook post-Naz, and if the softball program needs to alter their course.

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This week’s episode features the full crew for the first time in a while. We run through our big moods, latest changes to the men’s basketball roster, a five-star addition to the women’s team, and Michigan players who were taken in the NFL Draft before diving into Dan’s Big Ten running back rankings, which are subject to intense (but friendly!) debate.

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This week, we run through the latest men’s hoops news and Dan’s tiered rankings of Big Ten offensive lines. Topics include: the NFL Draft is too damn long, the role of NIL rights in Hunter Dickinson’s return, how admissions deals with transfers, Iowa’s OL being downright bad, Michigan’s OL being very good, and much more. Are there more than two good offensive lines in the conference this year? Not sure! Is there a Rutgers lineman named Terrence Salami? Yes!

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