Dear Diary at the Point of DeBordure
Adam asked and we received:
Now available on http://t.co/xjgqs4rSln thanks to a great idea from @aeschnepp @alexcook616 @Misopogon pic.twitter.com/B6yyUMD52b
— UGP Ann Arbor (@UGPGoBlue) April 2, 2015 If You Could Go Back. Deadspin recently had one of those articles asking fans what one event they would change if they could have one. I would choose to go back to when I found an ancient lamp and have it produce an unlimited wishes genie. Then I'd have Gingell kick that field goal at the end of that game when an I-AA team almost upset us, and sigh in relief that Crable's juuuuust a bit late hit on Troy Smith didn't ruin Michigan's national championship season in 2006. Then I'd spend about five wishes per play on Gardner's career, all of them on "this time ____ blocks somebody and…"
Another dude tried a thread on alternate histories. Dominoes in college football are particularly um, dominoe-y. If you imagine Carr goes out on top in 2006 Michigan might have anointed DeBord as Lloyd desired, or made a play for Saban, or most likely settled on the top candidate at a Midwest school, Cincinnati's Mark Dantonio.
And It Was All Yellow. The spring game lately has been more of a public punting practice but there's actually a long tradition behind what used be called the Blue-White Game (yes Penn State uses this name as well). The first reference Wolverine Devotee could find in the papers was for Kipke's 1930 team, but it may have started earlier. Here are the 1930 and 1934 articles he referenced:
Return of the Fritz. This is an interesting alignment snapped from a spring practice video:
Harbaugh likes to go heavy so not very surprised they'd bring back our favorite Gopher killer. Not sure if that's A.J. Williams split wide. There's a cool triple-option veer they used to run out of this at Nevada with Kaepernick that I'd love to see brought to Michigan.
Survey. Same guy who capped the above does that informal survey of people who will click on a survey link on this blog. Please be one of those people.
Etc. So long Michigan Men's Football Experience, and Women's Football Academy, things that people found awesome but had to go with the coaches' needing all the time they can spare for football things. Sauce Castillo Night in Sacramento—if you want the MGoShirt order fast before people with copyright attorneys on retainer decide they came up with it first. More practice video.
How is this still a thing?
Brady Hoke is watching a Mike DeBord offense to study football. I do not have a joke.
— Bryan Mac (@Bry_Mac) April 1, 2015 Mike DeBord offense. How is this still a thing?
Your Moment of Zen:
Is it weird that I like the Notre Dame song?
Different strokes I guess, I couldn't get past 25 seconds
It's not like they're a rival or anything. If we ever play them again, then hate it.
Totally acceptable. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it obvious that its mostly making fun of the rabididlty of their (supposedly) religious fanbase.
Seth, you have Kaepernick at Nebraska instead of Nevada.
Two shout-outs! I feel famous.
Heywood Banks and he is from Michigan. He just played at the ARK in AA last Friday and he did that song (only it was adapted to Michigan).
No joke - if Hoke would've studied DeBord last offseason, he might still be working in Ann Arbor.
It's easy... run left.
Isn't it pronounced Notre DAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEME?
Words below are vertical on the shirt with horizontal text being the player names starting with the letters in (parentheses).
(T)hat was (N)o(T) a (G)** D*(M)* Foul
While I am totally flabbergasted that Tennessee hired DeBord as their OC. I am LOVING it.
Because. If I had to choose a disgraced, National Championship winning Michigan OC to watch again, I would take DeBord over Nussmeier every day of the week.
AND NOW I CAN WATCH THEM FLAIL AWAY AT EACH OTHER SAFELY IN ANOTHER CONFERENCE THAT I DO NOT LIKE.
The only way this could get better would be if one of those teams got paired with Arizona in a bowl.
You made a Dear Diary, reference the pistol thread,
and skipped over the whole "Fred Jackson is my substitute calculus teacher" beauty? That whole thing was HOF worthy.
in late April or even in May, but these days we're told that later games can't happen because of finals.
Has Michigan's academic calendar really changed that much over the years?
I'm not sure if Football Outsiders tracks historical finals schedules, but please let us know what you manage to dig up.
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I don't get the shirt...
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I can't speak for Taters, but he may have been referring to the shirt with the names and ampersands. I have to admit, I don't understand the reference either. (But I am hopelessly out of touch.)
I *know* this is not what the shirt refers to, but it was the first thing that came to mind. And by the way, I had a vague recollection of this movie but I couldn't remember the title, any actors, or really any specific information other than that the title had names and ampersands. Not an easy thing to Google.
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It's the first names of our 2013 starting lineup in the NCAA tournament. You know, the group that made the national championship game.
Come on guys...
Haha--I know who the names refer to! It was the specific design--the list of names connected with ampersands--that I assumed was a reference to something else. (Or maybe you were being sarcastic? I don't even know anymore!)
I'm not sure what else there is to "get" other than that.
Google image search "undercrown dynasty t shirt." I guess that design is a thing? Not that there is something to "get," but I figured it was so stylized that it *must* have been meant as a reference/homage/take-off of something else.
I actually found the defensive alignment to be the most interesting (Harbaugh has used pistol and heavy formations, so not a surprise there).
The Dline appears to be in an 4-3 under scheme and the LB's are aligned for an over front; i.e. in this case personnel are heavily invested on the field side wheras the offfensive formation is tilted to the boundary side. Interesting.
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