Zero Point Zero
Notre Dame 31, Michigan 0
Michigan had never been shut out in the history of the Michigan/Notre Dame rivalry. Michigan hadn’t been shut out in any game since Ronald Reagan’s first term. Neither of those things is true right now. In fact, nothing is true but the alcohol.
Football is strange sometimes. Michigan outgained Notre Dame 289-282. If you find comfort in this fact, I applaud your zen-like quality, or the quality of your alcohol. Devin Gardner turned the ball over four times. Matt Wile missed two field goals badly. Devin Funchess may be hurt. Raymon Taylor may be hurt. Jabrill Peppers was too hurt to play. On a day in which the Big Ten looked terrible, Michigan’s performance stands atop the flaming heap as the worst of the day.
This game will cause many questions to be asked. For now, I can provide you with only one answer.
September 7th, 2014 at 8:57 AM ^
^^This guy needs to be Bolivia'd. He asserted the race thing in another thread. There's no place for that here.
September 7th, 2014 at 9:38 AM ^
"Its as if people do so because of race."
Fuck you.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:07 AM ^
September 7th, 2014 at 10:11 AM ^
If that is in fact the problem as you see it, it is Hoke and Nuss's fault for sticking with him. They make the personnel decisions. All of these issues fall on the head coach. Stop making excuses for him!
September 7th, 2014 at 12:59 PM ^
Because it's totally DG's fault that Sheldon Day keeps coming in unblocked and that he takes a 7 step drop and still can't follow-through without hittting his center in the back, because Miller just got put on skates all the way back into the "pocket". Why can't he just block for himself? He's so selfish and entitled.
September 7th, 2014 at 8:09 AM ^
Pitchforks must be sold out in Ann Arbor judging by the recent threads
September 7th, 2014 at 8:47 AM ^
Tough fucking loss. UM outgained, out rushed, out time of possessed ND. Hell ND even punted more and still UM got routed. Three turnovers and inablility to get 1st downs were telling. Appalacian State must really suck.
September 7th, 2014 at 8:58 AM ^
I'm still just as liable to say things that 'polite company' would be okay seeing me hit over the head and taken out to the wood chipper for.
September 7th, 2014 at 9:12 AM ^
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September 7th, 2014 at 9:15 AM ^
After the 8-4 season, losses to ND, OSU, MSU, and PSU will it be Harhaugh the younger brother or Harbagh the older brother?
Maybe it will be a guy with Michigan ties that successfully turned around a MAC program and a middle of the road team on the west coast. No wait, they tried that already.
Go big or go home.....
September 7th, 2014 at 10:06 PM ^
Hoke did not turn around Ball State. It was basically a .500 program for multiple years before he arrived. Each of Hoke's first four years was worse than each of the three preceding years under Lynch. Only in his fifth year did Hoke barely eclipse .500 (7-6), and he had one fluke year in 2008 (in which his team lost by 18 points as a ranked team to an unranked Turner Gill squad in the conference championship, and lost by 32 in the bowl game). After he left, the program he "built" went 2-10 the next year. (Compare this to excellent coaches who build stable programs with good coordinators -- i.e., take a look at Stanford post-Harbaugh, Oregon post-Chip Kelly.) Even a mediocre coach can have an above average year once in a while. Hoke did not turn around the program.
September 7th, 2014 at 9:18 AM ^
Big milestone last night.....Hoke did something that RichRod was never able to do
....toss a shutout.
I suddenly wish Tate was back, at least there was some fire there.
September 7th, 2014 at 9:21 AM ^
Maybe he will get a wow experience Monday morning. The type that involve a brown cardboard box and a security guard.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:00 AM ^
Reply if you think John Beilein's staff could do a better job of coaching our football team than the current calamity of folks we've got.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:17 AM ^
Belein has always had the reputation of a coach that developed his players. If I saw some form of development, I might have a different opinion. Unfortunately, I have seen a slow downward trajectory. My guess is that this team goes 8-5 after a bowl loss. The schedule is too weak for it to be worse than that, especially with the B1G as down as it appears. The pro-Hoke crowd will find solace in the record, but in reality it would be disastrous! All we would get out of it is that Hoke can beat a bunch of cupcakes!
September 7th, 2014 at 12:55 PM ^
Where the heck do you find 7 more wins?
Former UM lineman and regular Rivals podcast contributor Doug Skene just predicted this is a .500 team the rest of the way. I agree.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:05 AM ^
I'm cleaning and doing laundry this morning because I don't want to turn on the TV and accidentally see highlights of last night. This sucks.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
September 7th, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^
He isn't coming here. He is a NFL and west coast guy. Move on.
September 7th, 2014 at 11:57 AM ^
I am with you Sal, how can anyone suggest Jim Harbaugh?
We are now 1 - 1. It seems a bit early to panic and I am reading panic in every post.
September 8th, 2014 at 6:42 AM ^
John Harbaugh?
John Harbaugh.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:21 AM ^
was maybe the worst performance i have ever seen from a michigan team. i have been a supporter of hoke since the hire but that shit show last night was unacceptable. that said, it's just one loss and you can't let that carry over. your 5th year senior qb can not turn the ball over and make decisions that a freshman makes.
September 7th, 2014 at 10:28 AM ^
Listening to WTKA right now, and AC is talking about the '81 debacle to start the season. He talked about how Andy Cannavino called a meeting and got the players on track. AC said "the captains are going to have to do the same."
Except for the fact that this team doesn't have captains.
Who are the leaders on this team when Hoke doesn't trust them to elect some?
September 7th, 2014 at 11:05 AM ^
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September 7th, 2014 at 1:30 PM ^
If you listen to Bo talk about it, there was a demonstrated leadership problem on that team. Going back to the previous year, they'd lost the last three games of the season, won the season opener, then dropped two. The wheels were on the verge of falling off. Bo was worried he was losing the team, called Cannavino into his office, and had the classic "Come to Jesus" talk. Cannavino took care of it, and the rest was history. Disaster averted.
That's what's at stake here. The only problem is this team doesn't just have a leadership problem; it has no leadership to have a problem with. Hoke isn't Bo, either. Our guys were laughing on the sidelines last night. We're sunk.
September 7th, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
Great. Fucking. Point.
When you have different captains every week, you don't have any.
September 7th, 2014 at 2:26 PM ^
September 7th, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
Why did we not stuck with the running game? We had the ball moving, somewhat, on the ground and then we tried to get cute with it. What ever happened to staying committed to the run, no matter what, to set things up offensively, wear down the D, and churn up clock. We were getting 2-6 yds a run I thought, not bad early. No wonder Chris Clark wants to take visits because the TE is completely absent in this offense right now. Throw it to Williams! I dont care if he is huge and not a deep threat, curl him in front of the Mike, run a 5 yd out with him, or Hill, or Shallman, or anyone!
What ever happened to a crossing route, a deep post, why were we throwing Funchess bubble screens and trying to look cute. Throw deep to Funchess and let him utilize his size to box out defenders 30 yds downfield. Why did we look nothing like the offense that got called last week?
I told my buddy this last week and apparently I was wrong, I said that I felt like we finally had a coordinator that would insist on dictating the pace of and the game. I wish it was back to the Anthony Thomas days of running the football where we said,"you know what we are going to run but good luck stopping us anyways", get in a damn I formation and run the ball, then do a run fake and roll out and throw it to the TE on a delay route.
Aaaaand another thing, FRANK CLARK IS NOT A STAND UP PLAYER WHO SHOULD BE DROPPING INTO PASS COVERAGE. Tell me why our best pass rusher is not rushing the passer on some plays, he already lacks consistency so lets switch him between positions. Get wormley and hurst out there more, Bolden is slow, what happened to our man press SWAG? Ryan looks lost out there, bad move probably, what was so bad about defenses scheming away from him when he was an overhang guy, at least you took away like a third of the field. Move him back to, well, Will now and let him play up on the line where he can beat slow tackles on a pass rush. Taco for Beyer please.
Thank goodness I developed my love and passion for Michigan football from 1995-2003, at which point I went off to college, then it became an addictive obsession that has turned out to be a waste of 10 years of emotion and time.
ANTHONY THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT!!!
September 7th, 2014 at 11:07 AM ^
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September 7th, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^
Except the part about "his time has gone". Sadly, it was never here to begin with.
September 7th, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
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September 7th, 2014 at 12:50 PM ^
I live in the SF bay area and follow the Niners news a good bit. Harbaugh is an NFL guy. College is just the minors to him. He'll take a college job when he has no choice, but until then, he'll stick in the league until the NFL phones stop ringing, SF or otherwise. I doubt SF will be his last gig.
September 7th, 2014 at 8:29 PM ^
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September 7th, 2014 at 9:48 PM ^
What about John Harbaugh? Reportedly, he would have taken the Michigan job if offered earlier this year.
http://www.chatsports.com/michigan-wolverines/a/Insider-John-Harbaugh-w…
September 8th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
- Jim Harbaugh is an NFL guy and he has not demonstrated any recent real love for Michigan. He loves Bo, but UM...?
He hasn't won a Super Bowl, and all accounts make it seem like he is burning to win one. If he leaves SF (real possibility), he'll have his pick of top NFL jobs -- Dallas, New York (Giants or Jets), Bengals, etc -- whatever team has an opening at the end of this year (and at least two of those teams will very likely have an opening for him). NFL teams will fire coaches just to get Jim; he's been that successful.
- Meanwhile, John Harbaugh has already won a Super Bowl, and he now will be dealing with the continual Ray Rice situation all year. Back that up with the fact he actually went to HS in Ann Arbor and seems more attached to UM than Jim (weird, b/c Jim went to UM and John didn't), I say if we need a new coach, back up the brinks truck for John.
I still give it a less than 10% shot, but that's higher than our prospects with Jim.
September 7th, 2014 at 12:51 PM ^
Hoke......it's now or never. Let's turn this around.
September 7th, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
I think the season record is 100 percent irrelevant, since the schedule is so weak. All that matters is how M fares in the three rivalry games (and, perhaps, a bowl game). Anybody could win 8 games with this schedule.
September 7th, 2014 at 4:06 PM ^
September 7th, 2014 at 8:15 PM ^
Good game fellas!
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