No. 16 Michigan opens title defense at home against Oakland

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNumber sixteen Michigan opens its title defense Monday at Crisler Center against Oakland, and it is paying Oakland ninety thousand dollars for the game.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorBarnaby Szymanski, senior managing partner at Holloway Reed Strategic Advisory, joins us. Mr. Szymanski, who wins?

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   Barnaby SzymanskiThe data suggests Michigan. I'd want a full engagement to confirm, but the data suggests the team with the trophy.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLast season Michigan beat Oakland one hundred twenty-one to seventy-eight in the opener, and won thirty-seven games overall. What does your engagement add?

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   Barnaby SzymanskiContext. The data suggests that a team which scored a hundred and twenty-one points can score again. That's a four-thousand-dollar sentence, by the way.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOakland returns one of its top seven scorers from a sixteen and sixteen team. Does that change your model?

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   Barnaby SzymanskiThe data suggests that losing six of your top seven players is a headwind. I clicked the stopwatch for that one.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou're timing yourself?

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   Barnaby SzymanskiBillable seconds, yes. Twenty-three straight openers. At my rate, that's a very expensive way to say the calendar.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOakland's only win in the series, nine and one, came in November two thousand. Should they wait for that kind of weather again?

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    Barnaby SzymanskiThe data suggests they should wait. Possibly twenty-six years, and I can scope that for you at a discount.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMy rating for your advice: it is correct, which I did not need you for.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYour stopwatch has run through this entire interview, Mr. Szymanski, so your invoice now exceeds the guarantee, and Michigan will pay it before Oakland.