Final Four Sendoff
For those who weren't able to attend, the speech was a nice bit of fluff.
Beilein
These three guys have led us here for, some of them four years some of them three years. They have been an incredible asset to the University of Michigan. They exemplify what Michigan Basketball is all about. ... They're great students. They're great kids. They're maintenance free. They are gonna be on fire this weekend! ... All of them can play some defense too... so [I'll let them speak].
(pulls mic back) All of them are captains too, for those of you that did not know that.
MAAR
... Thank you everybody for coming out. It means to us, the captains and the team. We've still got work to do.
Wagner
Like Mohammed just said, this is something very special, something very cool for us as players. We are very grateful and happy that we can share something like this with such great people.
Robinson
Not to be redundant, but these last four weeks have obviously been really special. And that's a huge part too, you guys. All the support you've given us. It's meant a lot. So cheers! We'll go down to San Antonio...
Beilein
We got a long day ahead of us. We gotta get down to the airport. We've got a two and a half hour flight. We're gonna watch film tonight. We're gonna eat tonight. We're practicing in the morning there. These guys don't even know that! ... Michigan doesn't care. Just tell us what we've gotta do and we'll get it done.
We've got these great signs. These are going to be up in our locker room to make sure our guys remember all the great fans we have in Ann Arbor and around the world. GO BLUE!
Sorry for the choppy audio. Maybe someone can fill in the bits I missed.
Will shoot the lights out.
Go Blue.
It was my first "sendoff", it was very cool. I got to touch hands with some of the players (Teske came down the aisle high fiving everyone). Very cool.
In my opinion, this is a very cool thing to do. In the shadow of The Big House, nonetheless.
6'11" really translates in person.
Go Blue!!
I was in a tiny elevator with members of the Fab Five once. Yikes, they were freaks of nature.
The basketball phrase "going small" is the most ironic term ever coined.
For me it was standing next to Rony Seikaly in the tunnel at Crisler who at the time was supposedly the first seven footer...and...the final four in New Orleans...we had pretty good seats...sitting in front of me was Kareem Abdul Jabbar...luckily for me that wasns't his seat he was just visiting with someone...
Seikaly was 7 feet tall not Crisler..poor phrasing...sorry...
March 28th, 2018 at 10:32 PM ^
What do you mean by "the first seven-footer"?
I'll be there! With bells on!
My child,
"get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice"
-Ephesianas 4:31
March 28th, 2018 at 10:38 PM ^
Where did you read that from? I'm not familiar with that book...
March 28th, 2018 at 10:47 PM ^
FINAL FOUR BABY!!!!!!
March 28th, 2018 at 10:30 PM ^
Nice report, but it's John Beilein.
If we can spell Schembechler...
March 28th, 2018 at 11:01 PM ^
March 29th, 2018 at 12:28 AM ^
March 29th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
what do the white hats say?
March 29th, 2018 at 11:22 AM ^
Well that was Duncan yesterday so.