The Shawn Crable Memorial Bad Personal Foul Award goes to ....
September 11th, 2010 at 10:39 PM ^
I spent the whole second have trying to stave off a heart attack. I just couldn't believe ND didn't try to move the ball ten yards closer...or that Crist threw it out of the end zone.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:39 PM ^
Bad as in undeserved? He shouldn't have dove but the only thing he hit was the ground. Focus on the well deserved win, Cullen will get it together soon enough.
September 12th, 2010 at 12:28 AM ^
I was in a room with two ND fans and they found the call indefensible...in that Cullen couldn't reasonably have pulled up.
"Welcome to South Bend" they noted.
People should get off Cullen's ass on that one.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:40 PM ^
It was a bad play, but what can you do when you're going to a formation that requires you to put every walk-on and true freshman defensive back on the field, and hope none of them screws up?
September 11th, 2010 at 10:40 PM ^
September 12th, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
well said.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:40 PM ^
I thought it was an iffy call, probably a no call if it happens on the other sideline. I thought the refs were very pro ND today, I can think of at least 2 instances where I saw blatant holding and no call on ND's offensive line.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:53 PM ^
They also whiffed on a blatant roughing the passer penalty. I think there was at least one ret who had a good view, but no call.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:43 PM ^
Bad Form. No need to hate on either Cullen or Crable by posting like that. I'll give you a break though, since you had the aneursym.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:51 PM ^
I understand Crable's hit is infamous, but that was when we were trying to get the ball back when we were behind.
When I saw the flag on Cullen, I had major Michigan-MSU flashbacks to the 2001 "clock" game, when a previous CB, LeSueur, kept their last drive alive and they proceeded to go down the field to get their ill-begotten win. Luckily, Dayne Crist doesn't know how to throw a last-second pass in the field of play.
I'm not down on Cullen, as he's a freshman, but man, that play hurt.
September 12th, 2010 at 1:39 AM ^
now I need to go bang my head into the wall to lose that memory again.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:51 PM ^
McFarlin post of the day goes to...
September 11th, 2010 at 10:52 PM ^
Awful decision, but it did not hurt us and Buck will learn as he gains more experience. Great win boys. GO BLUE
September 11th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
Yea man dont worry, Cullen is a few months removed from high school. I like the guy and Michigan still won the game.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
He dove well before the receiver was out of bounds. It should have been a no call.
September 11th, 2010 at 10:55 PM ^
i really thought it was a marginal call.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:05 PM ^
Omameh told him to do it before the play.
It's the only reasonable explanation as he was responsible for every other penalty in the game.
We gotta get that guy out of there....He's killing us.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:31 PM ^
It's nothing new... it's the sort of mistake made by rookies since 1901. Get used to it.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:39 PM ^
the penalties on offense. It was like everytime we got one, it wasnt just a 5 yarder and it immediately killed the drive. I still want to see the Dorrestein clipping penalty that went for 15 yards, but we saw no replay of.
September 11th, 2010 at 11:56 PM ^
September 12th, 2010 at 12:00 AM ^
Molk's holding penalty was ticky-tack as well. ND was lucky as hell to get all these borderline (at best) penalties. How many times in the second half did we gain over 10 yards on a set of downs but have to punt because a penalty put us in a hole?
September 12th, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
...but I think it actually helped Michigan. Why on earth would I say anything so ludicrous? Because it turned a "hail mary" throw into a "tweener throw." It was too far to throw on a line, but not far enough that he could just throw it in the air.
Consequently, instead of being able to throw the ball with authority, he had to try and use some "touch" on it. Since it was his second start at ND, the pressure got to him and there was nothing resembling touch or finesse on that last pass.
September 12th, 2010 at 12:19 AM ^
I thought Cullen did little if anything wrong. Maybe they thought he was going low, but the ND player was so close to the sidelines, and he was already in motion to make the play, I can't fault him.
I was rooting for Boise State earlier this week, and I hated to see the ref call the late hit on the VT player. Late in the game, when its barely out of bounds, lets let the kids decide the game, not the refs.
I've always thought Crable got screwed, but I think they called the late hit more because he went up high and "lead" with the helmet more than anything.
As for LeSueur, we were so bad on offense that day, and made so many mistakes on defense, it's hard to pinpoint one play. And on top of it all, the damn time clock operator.
September 12th, 2010 at 12:25 AM ^
I resent your post Dude! Crable's hit was a clean hit. It was a horrible call and It's the one play I will never (ever) forget as a Michigan alumn...Christian's hit today was out of bounds but it was a bang bang play (a very borderline call)> The type of call that you'd expect would go against us @ South Bend...
September 12th, 2010 at 12:49 AM ^
bad mistake, but he's just trying to play hard. he's a true freshman and he'll learn
September 12th, 2010 at 1:19 AM ^
tackling is obviously not a strength of cullen. he was probably just worried about getting beat that he was overly anxious to lay out a hit.
that call has always annoyed me. as far as im concerned no harm no foul. the more often they make that cheap call, the more likely there will be a play analogous to the one involving Vince Young and i believe Osi Umenyiora where osi rapped up young but let him go as to avoid the late hit call, and then young got the first down. at some point a ball carrieris gonna fake like he is running out of bounds, and the defense will slow up so as not to get a late hit, and then the ball carrier will run right by him.