Wooo!

"NewManBearFreak"

Is this Enjoy Life guy (or gal) an ND/MSU/OSU troll?  He/she is certainly annoying enough to cause suspicions.

I got the highlight reel up on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6KZONZbn4A

 I don't know why it insists on going full-screen, sorry.

It seemed pretty clear to me on TV that Trent knocked the ball out with his knee.

did Butler play at all this game? did RR bench him?

My first post was "WTF, WTF, WTF"

If you need a translation that was jubulation for a great win.

Second post was congratulating the coaches for changing the scheme for the second half.

The clock management comment was several hours later. BTW, should we wait until poor clock management costs us a game to try to fix it??

Ask, Brian, poor clock management is one of his hot buttons that he has posted about several times

did Trent knock the ball out of his hand with his own knee on his kick return?

When the crowd began to cheer after Mich started to make some good plays in the 3rd quarter, the announcers said that the crowd was "mockingly cheering."  Is this accurate? That seems more like the announcers' opinion, and I don't really see how it makes sense.  What do people who were at the game think?

FWIW, my roommate who is not a Michigan fan but watches the games with me, said to me at the half that it is to the Michigan fans' credit that it took that much for them to boo.  I don't like booing, but he could be right in a way.  Not that booing is ever right, but there are fanbases who boo egregiously e.g. Miami fans booing Kyle Wright, WVU fans booing their team last year for not beating Louisville by enough.  I wonder what others think about this.  I think that the Mich fanbase is just more tame all around, whether it involves good or bad fan behavior.

Thank you Mike Barwis!

Run Defense was above average in many ways. Threet played as well as he could've. Some of the second half throws he made were right on the Michigan WR's fingers and away from the defenders. Catchable football passes. Greg Mathews will need to make those catches. The end zone grab especially. I could think of one or two former Michigan WO's who make those catches. I can also think of a few former senior MI CB's, who were technically more sound then M. Trent is. Trent will need to lock it down some more mentally. Physically he's got crazy skills, just seems a step off. Not saying those two(Mathews/Trent) are horrible or anything. Sure it all worked out for a W. But you cannot continually go down 14-0 or 19-0. And then when all hope is lost decide it's ok to relax and play now. Hopefully this game will help Michigan come to terms with itself offensively. 

For the guy who complained that other teams always snap the ball with the play clock almost out and we don't - there's a reason for that.  RR wants to increase the tempo of the game.  He doesn't want to give the opposing D almost 40 seconds to catch its breath between plays.  He wants our offense to capitalize on its superior conditioning  and snap the ball once we're ready.   In addition, doing so makes it more difficult for the opoosing defense to make situational substitutions.

is his introduction of new team- and fan-oriented rituals, esp. the pre-game walk through the fans to the locker room, and the gathering in the endzone corner to sing the Victors after the game. I loved seeing some of the players hopping up onto the wall to celebrate with fans.

New blood is good.

For recruits the first half must have been painful to watch, but the second half and the ending couldn't have been more impressive. 

... after this game is more than a little bizarre. It's one of the signature wins in Michigan history, for chrissakes, and if we'd lost, clock management would be the least of the reasons.

In particular, complaining about not taking enough time off the clock brings back all the times over the previous 13 seasons when we'd completely sit on a lead, doing NOTHING except bleeding clock, only to have that lack of aggression come back and bite us in the ass at the end of the game.

Not to mention that the benefits of Barwis are maximized on offense if you permit the opposing defense as little time as possible between snaps. Michigan has been consistently the stronger team late in the game, and if you bleed clock you're negating that advantage.

I thought Wisky would win because I didn't think our D, esp. the D-line, were up to the task. Yesterday they were magnificent, all things considered. If we could just get the offense to do half as well in the first half as they've been in the second, we could be pretty dangerous. A big part of that would simply be to not turn the ball over.

Above all, this win speaks to the character of the team and the coaching staff. That's more than enough for me.

This game gives new meaning to the quote "Those who stay will be champions"

SOOO excited, hopefully our boys can calm down and play like the 2nd half a bit more during the game.  Especially when we get into rivalry games like MSU and tOSU....

GO BLUE!!!

...call thenm interceptions any more. They're "air fumbles", as coined by a live commenter during the game.

Neither is youth and intelligence.

Um, I said that age and intelligence aren't correlated. In other words, a person's age has nothing to do with their intelligence. So - I never even attempted to suggest that being young made one smart.

I wasn't even a twinkle in my dad's eye when bump was coach.

Fortunately, age and intelligence aren't correlated.

I don't think anyone contended it wasn't one of the worst halves of offensive football in Michigann history. So, thanks for the straw man.

So, you think that a team that, up to that point, had fewer yards than plays, and is down by 3 scores should merely abstain from an opportunity to score? Run run run punt? Grind clock? The fact that Threet threw an interception DOES NOT mean that Rodriguez's decision to attempt to score was bad. It's not as if RR called "WR Fly Interception".

Those of us who see problems in the current situation and provide suggestions for improvement are often called negative!

About the clock management. M takes over on it's 10 with 2:29 left in the half. We will get the ball in the second half kickoff.

2 runs and an int -- W gets the ball and makes it 19-0 on a field goal. Bad calls (were we really going 90 yards?) Bad clock management (with the 40 second clock each running play should eat up 50 seconds -- including time to run the play). The 2 running plays and int only took 1:14 or 74 seconds off the clock.

BTW, I have sat through more M games (started when I was 10 when Bump was the coach) than most and if anyone thinks that was not one of the worst 1st half performances in the history of M, you just weren't paying attention.

"I give all the credit in the world to Michigan to come back after hearing all the things that I heard being yelled at them at halftime."   ~Brett Bielema

Absolutely disgusted to hear this.  

For someone with a handle of "enjoy life" he's finding a shitload to bitch about in upsetting the #9 team in the nation, coming back from a 19 point deficit.

...when my old man and I were walking back to our hotel, we passed McGuffie walking towards downtown on State street. I waived and said great game and he said thanks.

Then he hurdled me. It was kind of awesome.

My heart sank when that pass was completed for what seemed to be a successful 2-point conversion.  But then the flags came for ineligible receiver and the ensuing play was incomplete, thank God.  It reminded me of when Rutgers upset Louisville.  Judge Ito missed the FG, but he got a second try and he nailed it.  Wow today was awesome.

You can't have one without the other.....!

Just finished watching Penn state and Illinois. Daryll Clark is jacked, guy can scramble and throw well at the same time. I couldn't help but imagine him running our offense. Anyways, I think we have a shot against Juice, but probably will lose against JoePa.