Michigan Hoops and Fat Guy Moments

UM Basketball has been on a hiatus...a 15 year hiatus.  Although they made the tournament 2 yrs ago (eliminated in the second round) they have essentially been irrelevant since Tractor Traylor.  Yeah, remember that fat guy who looked like he was 45 when he was 18? 

Off on a tangent, searching for this image got me thinking of great fat guy sports moments.  There are a lot, maybe none better than this one:



I think my favorite part of this is the half second after Traylor gets tackled and he's just lying there face down like a fatally wounded beached walrus.

Anyway, not that a win over Oakland Unversity (Oakland, Michigan) should cause someone to take notice but it does.  Oakland lost to Sparty by 1 and beat #7 Tennessee in the last week.  It's just amazing how Michigan hoops has fallen off the face of the earth.  They have zero seniors.  How does that happen?  And it's not like Michigan has zero seniors b/c of all their early-entry NBA draft picks.  Of course it doesn't help that Michigan's downfall has coincided with Little Brother continuing to be annoyingly consistent and the Luckeyes being rejuvinated.  However, there is something to be said for watching a young team grow up and play better than expected.  I think they need more fat guys.