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Predicting Michigan’s NCAA Punishment & more

Every Wednesday from 2pm – 3pm EST, former Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, former Michigan point guard Daniel Horton, and I come together on Steady Droppin’ Dimes, a sports show featuring real talk, and real views, from three real dudes. College football, college basketball, NFL, and NBA topics drive much of the debate, but discussion of […]

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June 8, 2025

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Every Wednesday from 2pm – 3pm EST, former Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, former Michigan point guard Daniel Horton, and I come together on Steady Droppin’ Dimes, a sports show featuring real talk, and real views, from three real dudes. College football, college basketball, NFL, and NBA topics drive much of the debate, but discussion of other sports will enter the fray some days as well. Non-sports topics aren’t off limits, and neither are celebrity guests.

On the season-ending episode of Steady Droppin’ Dimes, Sam Webb, Devin Gardner, and Daniel Horton share their predictions on what Michigan’s final punishment from the NCAA for “sign-gate” in advance of Friday’s hearing in front of the Committee on Infractions. The conversation then turned to next predictions for next basketball season where the crew debated the Michigan’s chances for winning the Big 10 championship and making the Final Four. A heated exchange over the comparison of coaches Dusty May and Brad Underwood ensued. The discussion then turned to the crew’s Michigan football predictions, with only one member predicting the Wolverines would reach double digit wins. The episode concluded with a conversation with the Ann Arbor Sports Commission and US Rowing about RowFest, one of the nation’s largest rowing community events, coming to Washtenaw County July 12th – 20th.

The contents and full episode notes appear below.

Contents and Episode Notes (Watch the full video on TMI’s YouTube channel, here.)

00:31 –Season Wrap-Up & “Hater” Banter

Sam’s opener: Playfully crowns Daniel Horton as “the original hater.”
Devin’s roast: “Daniel missed a show citing his disappointment over Michigan’s success landing Yaxel Lendeborg as the reason… but the real reason was, it was his wife’s birthday!”
Draft debate reignited for Danny Wolf:
Sam: “Daniel called me out for calling Danny Wolf a first round talent!”
Daniel: “You started talking about the lottery. I eventually said first-round at best.” (accuses Sam of “revisionist history”)
Sam’s point: “With Michigan’s recent wins and the #1 transfer class, where’s your optimism?”

05:00 – NIL Wars: Dusty May vs. The NBA

Dusty May’s pitch: “We offer second-round (or better) NIL money.”
Daniel’s skepticism: “How does college develop players better than the NBA?”
NIL rumors: ~$1–3.5M potential offers (Devin smirks: “Sam knows exact numbers but plays dumb.”)
Daniel’s Opinion: NBA has guaranteed development and college has NIL cash.
Promo for Ann Arbors Sports Commission.

10:08 – Ann Arbor Sports Spotlight

$226M impact: Michigan football’s ripple effect (jobs, hotels, local biz).
Devin’s challenge: “Prove you bike Washtenaw’s trails, Sam—or it’s all lies!”
Sam’s vow: “GoPro footage coming next season.”
Shoutouts: Golden Limo + NIL ambassador Zeke Berry.

13:00 – NCAA Suspension Predictions

Michigan’s move: Propose 2-game ban for Sherrone Moore… but skip Oklahoma/New Mexico.
Devin’s NCAA impression: “How ’bout we suspend games 1 and 2 instead? Pretty please?”
Daniel’s prediction: “NCAA will counter with 5–6 games.”
Sam’s insight: “This is just the next part of the process—Michigan can decide to rescind its self-imposed punishment, and fight whatever the NCAA comes back with if it thinks it’s too harsh.”
Consensus: Big Ten games (Nebraska) are more important than > non-conference (Oklahoma), and would actually be the costlier of the two to lose.
Devin’s playoff math: “Early losses forgiven if we dominate Big Ten.”

22:15 –Moore’s suspension likely to be more impactful than Harbaugh’s

Sherrone Moore’s suspension would be different from Harbaugh’s: Unlike Harbaugh, he’s fully barred from team activities.
Group prediction: NCAA pushes for first 2 to 3 games + potential fine.
Devin’s joke: “If I got fined in college, Sherrone better be ready!”

42:51 – Basketball season predictions – Is Michigan a top five team?

CBS Top-5 ranking: Daniel refuses to buy in. “Too many unproven transfers!”
Devin chant’s “Embrace the hate, Daniel!”

47:45 – Michigan vs Purdue / May vs. Underwood

Sam’s bold claim: “Morez shuts down Purdue’s Kaufman-Renn better than last year’s bigs.”
Daniel defends Underwood: “Illinois’ 3-point woes don’t define his coaching!”
Fireworks: Sam cites Underwood’s NCAA flops; Daniel retorts: “You can’t win if you’re not in it!”

Sam’s pick: Dusty May (“NCAA runs > Underwood’s 3 Big Ten titles.”)
Daniel’s rebuttal: “One year doesn’t crown a king.”
Devin’s peace treaty: “Check back in 2026.”

1:07:00 Michigan Football Forecast

Devin 7-8 wins, losses: Oklahoma, OSU, Nebraska? Trap game – Washington
Sam 10-2, losses to Oklahoma and Nebraska with strong finish
Daniel 8-4…”Youth plus tough schedule = growing pains.”

1:17:02 – Ann Arbor Sports Commission & US Rowing on RowFest

AASC’s Meaghan Hughes & US Rowing’s Jules Zane:

July 11–20 @ Ford Lake: 3,000+ rowers.
Learn-to-Row Days: July 12 & 18 (public welcome).
Volunteer ops: “Help us make history!”

1:33:53 – End | Season Wrap

Season 3: Returns September 2025.
New merch: “Jerseys, hoodies—mockups look.”
Recruiting Insider: Offseason drops every Tuesday.
Final words: “Thank you for the support—see you in the fall!”

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Michigan bill introduced to limit NCAA’s regulation of NIL deals

A local politician is pushing back against the NCAA’s latest rules regarding college athletes’ name, image and likeness rights. State Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, introduced House Bill 4643 to prevent colleges and athletic departments from blocking student-athletes from profiting off NIL. “House Bill 4643 really specifies that no entity has the right to be able […]

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June 18, 2025

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A local politician is pushing back against the NCAA’s latest rules regarding college athletes’ name, image and likeness rights.

State Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, introduced House Bill 4643 to prevent colleges and athletic departments from blocking student-athletes from profiting off NIL.

“House Bill 4643 really specifies that no entity has the right to be able to prohibit a student-athlete from executing a contract involving their name, image and likeness,” Tate said.

The bill prohibits universities from upholding any limitations on an athlete’s NIL rights; from complying with investigations into agency agreements, NIL agreements, NIL compensation, or NIL activities; and from reporting any NIL information to an athletic association such as the NCAA.

House Bill 4643 also prohibits the NCAA and other athletic associations from punishing an athlete or university for issues related to NIL rights, or from requiring either party to report NIL information.

The bill comes in the wake of the June 6 approval of the House v. NCAA settlement by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken. The settlement allows college athletic programs to directly compensate athletes with revenue sharing beginning July 1. A sum of nearly $2.8 billion in damages will also be distributed to athletes who competed over the past decade. But a key change in the aftermath of the settlement is the creation of an NIL clearinghouse — NIL Go, run by Deloitte.

NIL Go requires athletes to report all deals worth more than $600. It was created by the College Sports Commission, a new group tasked with enforcing NCAA regulations.

The goal of establishing NIL Go is to limit the participation of NIL collectives in pay-to-play, which has become a growing problem in college athletics according to coaches and administrators. However, as Tate points out, limiting these NIL opportunities is an issue of state law.

“We’ve seen already up to this point with the settlement outcomes,” said Tate, himself a former Michigan State offensive lineman from 2000-03, “that there are conflicts with the Michigan statute that we do have on the books allowing student-athletes to take advantage of their name, image and likeness while they are at the university that they participate in as a student.”

That previous statute, Public Act 366 of 2020, paved the way for student-athletes to profit off NIL in the state of Michigan, as a number of other states also approved at a similar time when the NCAA’s rules on NIL rights changed. House Bill 4643 would reaffirm the state’s position while addressing ways in which athletes’ NIL rights might be limited.

Ramogi Huma, executive director of the National College Players Association, noted that the House settlement itself directly stated that the settlement’s outcomes do not overrule state law.

“That’s why it remains important for states to adopt NIL laws that grant college athletes and recruits robust freedoms and protections,” Huma said. “However, I’ve seen media reports about conferences attempting to pressure universities to agree to violate their own state NIL law if they conflict with NCAA and conference NIL restrictions. It’s my sincere hope that this is not true, as it would threaten college athletes’ rights and ultimately lead to new lawsuits.”

Limiting NIL deals is unfair to student-athletes in the eyes of some detractors, including Dr. Tom Dieters, a former MSU baseball player who is now president of NIL deal-cutter Charitable Gift America.

“If a school is to allow Deloitte to determine a student’s fair market value, it completely goes against capitalism,” Dieters said. “School administrators and coaches are very quick to negotiate their own seven-figure contracts without a third party determining their value, and students should have those exact same rights.”

The path forward may see friction between individual states and the NCAA as new NIL regulations go into effect. This bill may be the first step of many in Michigan’s pushback against NIL limitations.

“Speaking as a state legislator around legislation that was passed, that’s the law of the land, the law of our state,” Tate said. “I think that is something that we would continue to address too, if we see those explicit conflicts with the NCAA in particular, trying to essentially punish student-athletes for something that is their right here in the state of Michigan.”

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In new NIL era, West Virginia launches Blue & Gold Enterprises

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The court forced a move toward pay-for-play in college sports comes in two parts, revenue sharing paid by the schools to its athletes and NIL, which allows athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness.

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Iowa State Athletes Can Promote Casino Resorts Through New NIL Deal

Share Tweet Share Share Email In a bold move that merges athletics, community, and NIL innovation, Iowa State University’s athletics department and the We Will Collective have announced a landmark partnership with Elite Casino Resorts. The deal includes a significant contribution to We Will and opens NIL opportunities for select Cyclone student-athletes to appear at […]

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