Weekend Roundup, NIT-ology Edition: February 22, 2010

Here's what you may have missed around the internets while you fantasized about working for Sterling-Cooper (yes, I'm now on a Mad Men kick).

• There's a website called NIT-ology, and it prognosticates the NIT field.  Michigan isn't in it.


• Athlon has the recruiting class rankings, and Michigan comes in 13th in the country, 2nd in the Big Ten.


• More on the victors rally from our old friend Mark Snyder.


• Very cool article in USA Today profiles our new AD Dave Brandon.  Dude took a $1.8 million per year pay cut!


• I like the underdog role.  I like "playing with a chip on our shoulders," like Coach Rodriguez says we will.  I like under-promising and over-delivering.


• ESPN says Michigan is still #1, but overall attendance at college football games fell by 1%.  I blame the handicapped.


• The Tigers signed Johnny Damon for $8 million for one season....and I want Curtis Granderson back.


• JoePa had eye surgery and no longer needed his signature coke bottle glasses, so they were sold at auction for $9000.


• Some JT Turner fluff that I hope is all true from AnnArbor.com.  This secondary is going to be very young and very raw.


• Start looking to the future ('cause the present sucks) with a basketball recruiting roundup from UMHoops.com.