1986 Michigan at Wisconsin
Another game to get you through the offseason and its Jim Harbaugh related. Horrible camera angles for some reason. Thomas Wilcher scored 2 rushing tds. Jim Harbaugh with a nice playaction pass to Gerald White near the goal line and also added a running td late in the game. Michigan would go on to beat the Badgers 34-17. Enjoy! Also uploading all the michigan replays from that season as well. Should have them done soon.
They have a damn easy schedule next year. Should be only a 1 or 2 loss season for them.
"They have a damn easy schedule next year."
In all fairness, you could say that exact same statement in regards to Wisconsin for roughly 16 of the last 20 years.
With the way the BIG has scheduled everything to make the schedule work, it feels like it has been since about 1986 since we played Wisconsin.
good school, very good basketball and football teams, good college town, awesome stadium environment, coaches who generally behave well, no real drama off the field. UM and Wisconsin should be playing every year.
at Wisconsin. They were Purdue-like before he got there. He, like Fry at Iowa, turned a middling program into a very good Big Ten program.
Fry, Alvarez, Bo, Woody...these are the four best program-builders in NCAA history.
Harbaugh? Stanford was one of the worst teams in the country when Harbaugh got there. What was Ohio State like before Woody?
He hasn't coached long enough. Legendary status comes from longevity. All those men had it. Harbaugh is definitely well on his way though.
might want to have a conversation with you.
Some of the highlights from the box score:
Thomas Wilcher had 22 attempts for 74 net yards and 2 rushing TDs. The other rushing TD was scored, of course, by Jim Harbaugh, who gained 12 yards on 7 attempts on the ground. Wilcher's totals alone match Wisconsin's entire production for the day incidentally.
In the air, Harbaugh was 15-24 for 310 yards and 1 TD, caught by Gerald White. Of note, Harbaugh's longest pass that day went for 62 yards (I think McMurtry caught that one).
2001, when they muffed the punt and Hayden Epstein kicked the game winner with 10 seconds left. We've only played there 3 times since.
We were 22-3-1 all time at Camp Randall until the 2005 game when they beat us in the final minute 23-20 when we were without Mike Hart. Two years later, both Hart and Henne were out with injuries for the game (when the conference title was on the line) and we lost again. And finally in 2009, we had RichRod and couldn't beat anybody. That was the last year we were in Madison.
Long-time HC Dave McClain, a good friend of Bo Schembechler, died that April 1986. DC Jim Hilles took over. McClain was an average HC. Wisconsin had beaten Michigan and Ohio State a number of times, but never won more than 7 games in a season since his arrival.
Hilles took the Badgers to 3-9 in 1986 as interim HC and was replaced at season's end by Don Morton (Flint, MI) who brought the veer option offense to Wisconsin 1987.
Morton was a disaster of an HC. Wisconsin went 6-27 over 3 years.
Interesting historical tidbit: McClain was the former Ball State HC who had coached LB Brady Hoke, future UM coach.
I love how Dierdorf says "Bo Schembechler when he got to Ann Arbor was a maniac". Then Bo responds with "He calls me a maniac because I put him on the track at 6:30 in the morning if he didn't come in under 250" lol
that the crowd was so loud he couldn't bark out the signals for his teammates to hear. It was a rule then that a team received a penalty if the crowd was so loud that it impacted the away team's play. Asinine rule, but one Harbaugh took advantage of. That's the memory of Harbaugh that sticks out the most because my dad said how smart it was of Harbaugh to do that.
I remember it vividly, almost more than any other games I went to. I was a sophomore at Michigan, visiting my girlfriend at Wisconsin.
The crowd was deafening. I could barely hear the people around me. No wonder Harbaugh had a tough time. He worked on a silent snapcount for most of the game, or hand signals. Typical drunk Camp Randall fans (but lots of fun). Nearly got in to a fight wearing my Michigan sweatshirt a few times.
And yes, the Badgers were putrid back then.
that guy's been at CBS forever