Woodson : Michigan Not Emphasizing OSU Game Enough
Woodson: UM not emphasizing Ohio State game enough https://t.co/xtJ3VsoqbA via @detroitnews
— angelique (@chengelis) May 19, 2018
True enough and that brings me to the point of their obsession and hate with Michigan. Mr. Woodson would like more emphasis on the bucsputs. I don't think that's a healthy thing to do. Those two fan bases are so mentally beat up it's not even right.
The secondary and linebackers eating a ton of hotdogs and potato chips at halftime didn't help much either.
Michigan had the gameplan and didn't have the horses. I'm not sure how you emphasize The Game more.
Woodson has well earned his right to say what he wants about OSU. I won't speculate on the effort of the coaches and players who are never aspiring to lose.
However, our fans could be more engaged. I get that it's discouraging to lose so many over such a long stretch but the number of season ticket holders who see tickets like this only as an opportunity to make a profit are ridiculous. I know tickets are expensive, but they managed to do their dumb chant throughout the Big House last year. That shouldn't happen.
We don't need to sink to their level with the childish blocking out of letters and refusing to use the name of the school, but their fans are scrambling to buy tickets to these games, not sell them. Diminishing home field advantages when we have so few advantages over them would be a good start.
It's also pretty much the only thing fans have in their control, which are really the only healthy things to focus on.
Ohio State has clearly had a better team than Michigan for, what, 10 of the last 12 years (I'd say 2006 and 2016 were about dead even. Michigan was better in 2011 but that season was an aberration)? I suspect Michigan will start winning The Game when they start fielding a team that is just as good or better than OSU. Unfortunately that has been really rare for over a decade now.
for this series to be more balanced - with OSU having been as good as they've been - we'd have to frequently enter this game as a legit top 5 team which just hasn't really been the case.
The reality is that both OSU and MSU built pretty mighty fortresses during our years in the wilderness and that's a tough hole to dig out from. No matter who coaches Michigan.
I am 38 so I grew up with the Woodson era. Those teams had a Kill or Be Killed attitude.
I remember they focused on OSU every week! This needs to happen ASAP.
Woodson hit the nail on the head with this one.
"I remember they focused on OSU every week! This needs to happen ASAP."
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they did last season.
The '69 game probably had the largest talent gap and Bo beat OSU on motivating his team. Bo finally caught up to OSU talent wise by the '72 season. The last two seasons have been tough losses. I was a bit surprised the team came out so flat in '15, Harbaugh's first year. I hope things chance in the future and we can take the upper hand or at least play .500 in this series. The only time we beat them in the last 10 years was during their no coach season.
I'd like to know why former players over the years find it necessary to call out the focus and, honestly, intensity of the current teams regarding certain games. You'd think the one group of people who would be sick of lazy hot taeks needlessly and erroneously questioning the commitment of college athletes would be the same people who used to occupy those spots. And yet, every year, former players at every school say the same things, and it leads to the same reactions.
Woodson probably knows more about the inner-workings of Michigan football than the vast majority of people on this earth, but I'd be amazed if the actual players and the actual coaches didn't care about that game just as much as he did during his time at UM. Maybe they don't talk about it as publicly because, as we've seen in the intervening 20 years since Woodson played at Michigan, sports media has become a ravenous producer of horrible takes and love nothing more than to stir up shit to get page views, Nielsen ratings, and retweets.
I mean, this is a dumb issue that comes up during every offseason because when you put a microphone in front of someone they'll likely talk, but I don't see any real value in Woodson assuming, frankly, anyone currently with the program needs to be cajoled by a former great to care about beating OSU.
Not necessarily know all the challenges in the present.
Devin Gardner and Wilton Speight and yes, John O'Korn, took The Game seriously and wanted to win,I wish we could lay this meme to rest about whether someone "wanted" a victory more.
I don't recall this happening recently but I think it's high time Harbaugh invited Woodson to speak to the team before The Game.
Charles is correct. Despite having a good game plan offensively, vs. OSU, the Amazon series showed Harbaugh as being disconnected and ill prepared last year. For example, breaking in a new OL to play center just before the bowl game. Why was that not done earlier in training camp? The fumble which lead to USC coming back and winning the bowl game...he saw the improper personel in there but decided not to call a TO. Harbaugh needs to step up his attention to detail in 2018.
Love Woodson. Don't find this helpful.
to make people lose confidence.
you are so beaten down it warms my soul
don't know what you're talking about... but it's kinda cute, if you still think the world is fair
he probably even believes in free will. OSU fans lol.
...for every PamB, there are a hundred of us that would rather go 0 and forever than to ever feel the need to preserve our excrement in a refrigeration device.
...a miracle like accurate ball placement!
(Or don't expect miracles, just play hard, be competitive [like the last two years] and this time with a better talent x experience factor, we win the F'n game.)
Seem to be more of team confidence factor. When we were up during the last two seasons, we did not make the big play to put OSU away. Then the team seem to lose confidence and momentum swugn back to OSU late in both games. Hopefully, this will change this year or for sure by '19. I'm getting sick of losing to OSU and MSU most of the time.
..every blog's got one.
Wait..what?
A quick thought that tries to reconcile different personal view. \
Woodson (and Marcus Ray) were both Ohio kids. The Game was intensely personal to both of them and they were leaders on that team. Ray, in particular, delighted in coming home to Columbus and gloating. Further, it's unlikely that all teams focused on The Game with the exact same intensity. So, I actually wouldn't be surprised at all if those teams were more intensely focused on OSU than other teams. If there was some magical way to quantify the ethereal.
That said, I certainly think the current teams take the game serious enough. I'm sure it's the one game on their schedule they'd rather win than all others. The question isn't "Are you taking The Game as serious as Charles Woodson did?" -- it's "Are you taking The Game as serious as you need to?"
Just a thought. I can definitely see where Woodson is coming from based on his own experience, but the notion that JH's teams just don't care enough is also silly.
I think the emphasizing and focus on osu has been there for the most part besides 2015 and a few other years they were beat. To me, I think way more focus and emphasizing needs to be shown against msu!! We MUST beat them and the bitcheyes this season!! It's time,
Lets Go Blue!!!!