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Brian

Quickly:

In retrospect, obvious. Shredder's latest and something I'm kicking myself for not putting in the preview:

denard-as-sonic 
Too bad it's a 100% guaranteed cease-and-desist magnet, or that would be a killer t-shirt.

Nacho dip. Obama's hard edge. Random seven minute video featuring Rodriguez and impressions of Rodriguez from his players:

Via MBN.

This is never good. Remember Brent Petway's rap? Yeah… now there's a Michigan State version:

So they've caught up to us in that department. Let's not return the favor with team-wide brawls. Also, athletes: stop rapping. That is all.

shaq

Not that this is a surprise, but… John Pollack continues saying "it's just a flesh wound" in AnnArbor.com, further revealing reasons no one should talk to him ever again:

“What happened was that Michigan Stadium was a unique stadium,” he said. “With the renovation, it looks pretty much like every stadium in the country.” … “If you take out seat-license fees, the whole financial model collapses,” he said. “And what did the average fan get in return? A quarter-inch. It’s not even worth repainting the numbers.”

1. The bowl has not seen the seats expand to their final size, since that process will take the next three years.
2. The noise in the bowl has gone up 30-40%.
3. Handicap seating is considerably more extensive.
4. Seat license fees were instituted a decade ago.
4. He continues insisting that now Michigan Stadium looks like "every other stadium in the country," which good lord:

michigan-stadium-renovation

spartan-stadium

He also keeps saying that the "mystery and surprise" that Michigan Stadium was just a HOLE IN THE GROUND was an asset since surely no one knew it was called "the Big House" when it was a HOLE IN THE GROUND.

False. If I had a picture of this man I would lolcat it like that. just "FALSE."

On the crushening of Denard. A small amount of chatter in the aftermath of the UConn game has been about how the Big Ten rabble rabble defense rabble linebacker rabble Robinson's spleen rabble rabble rabble. Jon Chait points out a reason the 29 carry(!) outing is not likely to be repeated:

The seminal thing about Connecticut's defensive game plan is that it did not work. At all. Michigan had one punt and zero turnovers. Ask yourself this. If you were designing a game plan against Michigan, would your goal be to make Robinson carry the ball as often as possible? Or would you try to force less dangerous players to get the ball? I predict most defenses who have seen what Robinson can do pick door number two, and his rushing attempts per game drop.

Also as Robinson's passing gains the trust of the coaches, Michigan's run/pass breakdown will retreat from 75% run to 70%, maybe 65%. And probably 50% of his carries will be touchdowns anyway.

On secondary aigh. Notre Dame's got some of its own. Starting safety Jamoris Slaughter will not play this weekend, leaving this in the ND backfield:

Slaughter's injury and freshman Derek Roback's transfer to Ohio University earlier this week leave the Irish with only three fully healthy scholarship safeties for the Michigan game - [sophomore Zeke] Motta, junior Dan McCarthy and senior Harrison Smith.

Stop me if this sounds familiar: Kelly says he's not moving anyone to the position because there's a 5'10" walk-on who they're "not afraid to put in the game."

Motta will start his first game tomorrow. He was a pretty big recruit, albeit one the sites all ranked as a linebacker. May his judgment of angles be correct for humans, incorrect for Denard.

Etc.: Good news for people in Denmark: NBC will stream the M-ND game live. This message will be repeated in the liveblog post. Another Michigan blog: Dreaded Judgment. Rodriguez says he "hopes" Forcier stays and competes. Big Ten Network ad revenue increases 22%. And, finally:

Comments

Brady2Terrell

September 10th, 2010 at 4:23 PM ^

You absolutely cannot ever, ever, ever remind the Irish (and the world) that Freekbass is "on their team" enough.  May that video live long and prosper along with Yakety-sax and Jimmy Clausen's title-ring picture.

Go Blue - M 38, ND 28

Nick Sparks

September 10th, 2010 at 4:23 PM ^

Also, athletes: stop rapping. That is all.

That obviously doesn't refer to the Notorious CONE correct?

And for whatever reason watching that We Are ND video never gets old.

 

BlueGoM

September 10th, 2010 at 4:46 PM ^

"Rodriguez says he "hopes" Forcier stays"

HOPES?  AARRRRRRGH.

This does not give me confidence.  Sounds like Tate is waivering.   Please stay, m'kay?  We need you.

Also expect another shootout tomorrow UM 38 ND 35, Go Blue.

 

TheOracle6

September 10th, 2010 at 4:46 PM ^

Awesome video with coach Rod.  Guy is a very good person and you can finally see the family atmosphere that he was trying to install from day 1. 

Tomorrow can't come soon enough.  GO BLUE

Blue2000

September 10th, 2010 at 5:03 PM ^

Should we really be mocking an opposing team's horrifically-crappy hype video immediately before playing said opponent?  I remember that not working out well in early 2007.

Freekbass is awesome!  That video kicks ass!  Seriously!

bklein09

September 10th, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^

God I am so glad we're Michigan and not ND. 

Not that I needed the Freekbass to convince me of that, but holy cow!

Between him and damefan1 it is almost too much to take.

I would hang my head in shame if we had fans like that. 

wolverine1987

September 10th, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^

with regard to Michigan and Football. It may make me re-think my political worldview since he and I are in disagreement often. How can he be so right on the Freep jihad, Rich Rod, et. al. and wrong on the economy? Hmm...

MGlobules

September 10th, 2010 at 6:02 PM ^

there's now a version of the Silverlight player (Moonlight) available at the NBC site. Yahoo! Can watch the game on the 'puter tomorrow and not have to put up with 20 million FSU fans at Applebee's! 

M-Wolverine

September 10th, 2010 at 6:44 PM ^

After all that "Michigan Stadium doesn't look like ND Stadium was cloned from it anymore" rabble rabble nonsense.

Brock Mealer-

He considered pursuing his master’s degree in public affairs in Ann Arbor, where he would have been a student alongside his brother, Elliott, but the out-of-state tuition costs made it prohibitive. “I figure if I can get two degrees from Ohio State, it might be close to Elliott’s undergraduate degree,” he joked.

 

 

Edit: To be fair, it was pointed out here before me...

http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/aacom-article-john-pollack-michigan-stadium…

Zone Left

September 10th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^

I'm in total agreement about the 29 carries thing.  UConn had to pick there poison, death by run or death by pass.  Their secondary is really inexperienced, and they thought moving the eighth guy into up near the line would result in several Robinson to Robinson 40+ yard passes.  Other teams with more confidence in their secondary will choose to bring the SS up.  It will fail.

rdlwolverine

September 10th, 2010 at 9:20 PM ^

Of the 29 attempts, he stepped out of bounds and avoided any contact at all on several.  Further, it seems to me that it is better to take a hit while running for yardage where the runner often braces himself to absorb the hit (plus the defense is not getting clean hits on Denard), then to take the hits a pocket passer often takes when sacked or upon release.  I don't recall Denard taking many (any?) of those type hits

OldBlue74

September 10th, 2010 at 9:44 PM ^

About a month ago I had a similar conversation with someone from the Michigan School of Architecture (not a student.)  Similar comments as Mr. Pollack, plus a couple new ones like "It doesn't fit in with the neighborhood."  (What?)  And a general distain for anything made of brick, which was too boring.  Of course, he hadn't been to a game in years, didn't know much about football and didn't seem to be aware that the Athletic Department had a whole bunch of new buildings of similar style spread acorss the south end of the main campus.

The best approach for Mr. Pollack and is ilk is to ignore them.  They will go away, or more correctly find another big project (that they didn't design) to attack.

karaoke_queen

September 10th, 2010 at 11:22 PM ^

When I spent time at Miami University in the early 90s, Freekbass and his band, Shag, would play at one of the bars. My friends and I called him "Shoeboots" after the women's shoe fad of the early-mid 90s (or should I say boot-fad? Either way, they are hideous). Anyway, these were his preferred footwear.

It's hard to believe that he could become more ridiculous.

That video is going to everyone. EVERYONE. Go Blue!

MBAgoblue

September 11th, 2010 at 2:31 AM ^

The "we're number one" fingers from Tommy Kilborn and the other domers are what make this video particularly delicious.

This most likely translates to:

"We are the No. 1 Team in Northern Indiana, except when Purdue beats us!"

"If we beat Navy this year, it will make it One in A Row!"

"Michigan is jealous of us!" (That really makes no sense, but go figger, they're Domers).

 

 

Maximinus Thrax

September 11th, 2010 at 9:01 AM ^

I like the line that goes something like "We don't know failure".    My question then would be, if you don't know failure, what other word is it that you use to refer to the concept that we all know of as failure?  Because you must be intimately acquainted with the concept given your history.