Tim,
If Iowa is so good at "Jumpin' the snap", can Michigan go to an off-cadence count to throw them off or try to get them to jump offside?
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Tim,
If Iowa is so good at "Jumpin' the snap", can Michigan go to an off-cadence count to throw them off or try to get them to jump offside?
I suspect we will do that, though the snap count can get difficult in a loud and hostile environment, especially with Mooseman snapping.
Also, when RichRod says they jump the ball well, I think it kind of also means they are very quick off the snap, meaning they get into the offensive linemen very quickly.
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By making this post (very) slightly related to the Tigers, I can once again note my great displeasure with last night and continue to voice my hatred for Minnesota, which once again has expanded to include all professional and collegiate teams in the state (although hating the Vikings really isn't that hard with Brett Favre on the team).
I hate the Twins.
and continue to voice my hatred for Minnesota, which once again has expanded to include all professional and collegiate teams in the state
Children have an innate sense of the malevolence in that land of damnation.
They are the worst. Just the worst.
I can't work up hatred from anything as bland as Minnesota. That's like despising ice cubes or fearing American cheese. There's just no traction . . .
I was irate at the sanctimonious Twins and all things Minnesota until I turned on the radio this morning and heard the recap of the first ALDS game (I know: radio --old school). 30 seconds of the sense of entitlement of pro-yankees announcers (I'm on the east coast), oblivious to the fact that they (and pretty much they alone) can buy 3 of the top 5 free agents every single frickin year, and I was muttering to myself about how much I'd love to see the Twins knock out the Yankees.
any truth? i read it on espn, fwiw:
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/4961/big-ten-afternoon-tidbits
With the emergence of Kovacs perhaps they will put Williams and Kovacs in as starters and move Woolfolk back to where he originally was (CB). That ESPN article is the first I've heard of it, FWIW.
Scouts had an article suggesting Woolfolk to corner too, I'll try and find the link for anyone interested.
No, god no. I'm a stadium employee and the 330pm games are bad enough.... it may be tolerable if they double the number of cops to handle all the drunks...
but good for us fans and the players. :-D
I just saw the Elliot Mealer E60 interview. Talk about super inspiring. I am very proud of my University and Coach Rod for honoring Elliot's scholarship from coach Carr. I wish Elliot and his family all the best. I hope #57 has an All-American career at Michigan.
game vs MSU a few years ago. I thought it was a great atmosphere. (weather helped).
I wouldn't be opposed to a 6pm start like an occasional SEC gets on ESPN. I do think an 8pm start would be a nightmare for traffic and public safety. You'd still have people trying to leave town at 1am. With a 6 pm start, most fans would get back home at a semi reasonable hour.
The fact that RR even talked about this in a press conference leads me to believe he might be pushing for one. Exciting.
Rouge telling the Bayou crazies they couldn't have a night game because of " traffic, trouble getting home to bed, and public safety". He would get laughed out of town.
I think AA needs to man up and let the University really showcase our resurgent program.
I don't know...Michigan's navy blue jerseys would make it kind of hard to see the players at night. We probably would need to go to maize jerseys for that game.
And have no offensive lines. Think about it: Tate in maize at midnight with 8 receivers but five unblocked blitzers EVERY PLAY! Now THAT'S what I call an entertaining Tuesday night!
Then, just to add more awesome, put spikes on all the shoulderpads. And put all the players on rollerblades, and make the surface a giant High-Def TV that can put a highlight and names of the players under them for the fans, and the color changes when he's moving really fast or about to make a "KEY PLAY"
Last thing: Key Plays should be in slow-mo, so we can all ooh and ahh when they happen.
...with Rob Zombie playing full-blast through the loudspeakers the whole game.
Robinson did face Iowa twice as the Syracuse head coach
2007 Iowa 35 Syracuse 0 @ Iowa, Iowa finish 6-6, Syracuse 2-10
2006 Iowa 20 Syracuse 13 @ Cuse, Iowa finish 6-7, Syracuse 4-8
One year late in my college career, a group of friends and I got this idea in our heads that it would be awesome to drive down to Iowa City with a bunch of maize and blue paint, and do a little redecorating. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anyone that night who was both a.) sober enough to drive, and b.) thought it was a good idea.
By the time those of us in Subgroup B were able to join Subgroup A, it was no longer Thursday, nor early Friday, and we had all joined Subgroup H.*
Fortunately, Marquise Walker bailed us out of that game, even if we did leave the walls pink.**
*Hung the fuck over.
**No, we didn't really put much thought into how to actually get in there the day before a Big Ten game, only a month or so after 9/11.
I say that every oncet in awhile you go up to the line of scrimmage, lift the foot, clap the hands, do whatever normally signals a snap, er, signal, and the team is told DO NOT SNAP THE BALL--wait for them to jump.
You could even have the QB say nothing UNTIL he wants the snap--or maybe a HUT HUT HIKE! (No Snap) followed by a code ord such as FERENTZ or a phrase like CHUCK LONG IS A PRICK--then you snap and before you know it they're all confused and you have slved the problem--and can move on to world peace and the economy (not necessarily in that order).