Postgame Presser Notes: Penn State

Thanks Tim, for the effort, even so late at night. 

Correct it? Really? Cause it looks like every week you come out and make the same mistakes over and over and over......  This defense makes me cringe every time they step on the field. At this point managing one more win unless a small miracle happens looks like all that's in this teams future. Illinois has really come on and Wisconsin and OSU have been playing at a high level all year so here's to the Purdue game.

"we're going to back to ann arbor, watch the film, not correct our mistakes, go from there and get pushed around, not tackle, cover backs and TE's and give up 35+ to Illinois for the 3rd year in around, and hope Denard can score 50+"

was my thought going into the season. Beginning of season, I marked PSU on the road as a loss.

Still my thought is 7-5 now, athough I did drink some Denard kool-aid and was hoping for 9 wins.

If we can't gut it out against an evenly matched Illinios at home and then whip on a crappy Purdue for 7-5 then I will also be moving to the exits under the RR big top.

However, we can go 7-5, win a bowl for 8-5 and look for marked improvement next year. 

I see a Dallas Bowl against Texas or Texas A&M in our future.

"Mike Martin's injury: "It was a different ankle."

I can't decide if that is good or bad.  Two hurt ankles now?  Jeebus.   We simply have to have him ready to go.

youth on defense is the problem.  Bullshit!  We should have enough talent to do better.  I'm not looking for stops all the time.....but damn...we suck on defense.  I mean suck.  We do everyhting poorly...everything.  Throw in no kicking game, bad special teams....uh.... we are not a good team.  Screw the youth excuse.  put together a scheme that works....period!

The D is young and inexperienced plain and simple. We can't expect the D to be our foundation and we all knew it heading into the season. I do think we have a serious issue at DC! Even with the most inexperienced secondary you still should be able to coach tackling and fundamentals.

at the post game pressers, but it is the same things that rise up to bite us in the arse. We all feel bad, frustrated, but no one feels as bad as coach, you could see it in his face as the minutes fell off the clock.

It's 9am where I'm at, and while I feel bad about the loss, I do feel that there was a small amount of progress. The guys didn't give up, they fought hard. The defense was thrown around, but it was a complete chicken with it's head cut off thrown around. Some new guys got experience. Happy Valley is a tough place to play

Let's get it together and move on...24 hour rule fellas...

Looking at the first q to rr in your post gave me yet another new perspective... Our d is so bad that it makes the shit show that is our special teams seem competent.

I simply cannot believe that we lost this game.  I just can't believeit.

A win against Illinois would definitely be a quality win.  This team is capable and would likely lead to us being 7-3 going into Wisky.

Everybody is frustrated because last night was a great opportunity. People who know more than me had Penn State down as a team treading water with problems in spots on defense we could exploit. We didn't when it actually mattered. Third week in a row that was the case.

One piece of evaluation at the end of the year might be to figure out where our purported best players stand up against the purported average Big Ten power program starter.   Last night has gotta make a person of reasonable intelligence  wonder if the end game I keep claiming will be so great, really will be.

Talking specifically about the offense, not the defense.  

That was a defense also playing inexperienced guys that gave up around 4 bills of yards to Minnesota.  It is fair to expect with two weeks to prepare that we'd do way better and put up points early and often. Not just in desperation when the other team is burning out the clock.

Some one suggested a bowl match up with Texas. Not too long ago they were in the National Championship game and this year they have 4 losses. We now have 3. Who's to say they will even get to a bowl game. They own the state of Texas when it comes to recruiting and look at their struggles. My point is it happens.

This blog was predicting doom and gloom for our D when Warren announced he would not be returning (is that on RR?). Then Woolfolk is lost pre-season. Even worse doom and gloom. Yes, 5-0 all gave us hope but we knew what was possible.

Let's stop calling for RR's head. At least give him the rest of the season to see what we can do and IF we can improve. Hey, many on this board were all excited by Vinopal at FS. If nothing else it shows RR is trying different things to see what can help.

They haven't given up and neither should we.

I don't get why people are still pointing to 7-5 as a likely record. Does anyone really think we have a chance next week? Schelhausse or whoever is gonna break juice's Michigan stadium record and their D is going to use Penn states strategy and make our offense look like it's 2009 all over again. We might get that sixth win on the road in West Lafayette, but to expect us to beat any of the quality teams left on this schedule is really a reach at this point...

I guess I hope we get lucky, seems like all the bounces go against Michigan these days. But I'm not expecting anything good to come of this situation from here on out. I've wasted way too much time thinking this team was ready to take the next step.

I don't feel any better the morning after.  At some point after I turned 40, college sports didn't impact my emotional state very much but this is busting me up.  I love Michigan and I love college football and this is just sad.

Did Roh make one play last night?  Mouton seemed non-existent to me.  Banks?  They aren't freshmen.  It did seem like Demens played is ass off and was always around the ball.

Where was Stonum (clipping)?  Where was Hemingway (drop)?  I know I've become a rambling idiot at this point.  I feel like I'm a disillusioned teenager again.  Shit!