2004 UM/MSU Game
I painfully watched the replay of that game on the Big Ten Network last night. The game sums up the Lloyd Carr years. The man could really assemble a team, but you just never felt that even with all that talent, they could win it all in a BCS type setting. One game, against comparable talent, for all the marbles. Watch the game. You are filled with fear that somehow Lloyd will figure out a way to come up just short, and I KNOW it's a replay and they win! The roster is just sick. Other than the Miami Hurricanes in 2001-2, I would argue that nobody has had more talent on a team. Seriously...
Henne, Hart, Edwards, Avant, Breaston, Branch, Crable, Long, Hall, Harris, Woodley, Woods, Watson, Burgess, Mundy.
We talk about the "big games" Michigan should win? Michigan lost to ND, Texas and Ohio State. You can argue that those were the 3 biggest games of the year. OSU was not rated. An unranked, 6-6 ND team. They gave Texas the game. They barely beat San Diego State, Minnesota and Purdue. Teams, as people on this board have said, we should always beat.
In watching that MSU game, if you could not use the internet, could you even name a player on the MSU roster who was worth noting? How in the hell is Michigan behind 27-10? Also, admit it or not, the game was determined on an offensive pass interference call (against MSU) that was on the opposite side of the field. Wow!
For me, reliving that game was not an instant classic, but more of an instant heartache. It conjures up what should have been. I like Brady Hoke. I believe everyone deserves a chance and I hope he excels. I love his passion for UM. I just hope he lives up to the expectations of those who believe M should compete for a title. A National Title. I'm sick of hearing about the SEC.
January 26th, 2011 at 9:30 AM ^
Out of that list of great players ALL of them were freshmen or sophs except for Braylon, Avant and Watson. Pierre Woods was not a consistently great player.
So a team full of newbies wins the Big Ten title and goes to the Rose Bowl and barely loses to the prohibitive favorite, Texas.
And you decide to bitch and moan?
And you watch the 2004 M vs MSU game and aren't simply filled with joy at what a great game and great comeback that was? You actually consider that game painful to watch?
I read your first sentence and immediately assumed you were a visiting Sparty. Then I realized you are the worst sort of Michigan fan and I became filled with disgust.
FOAD.
Go away.
January 26th, 2011 at 12:26 PM ^
Dumbass, go away and do not come back until you have something intelligent to post
January 26th, 2011 at 1:10 PM ^
Shining moment in Michigan football history and smear feces all over it. That was a young team with a freshman quaterback that did much more than was expected. The way Braylon Edwards took over that game was something that I will always remember.
Oh and they did not give Texas that game, freaking Vince Young took it on the field of battle. If I remember correctly Michigan scored to take the lead with about 1:45 left and I told everyone that we left them with too much time on the clock and the way that guy moved them down the field for the last second field goal, was just a great effort on his part.
Just think of it this way.... Imagine yourself as an 18 year old kid in front of 70 to 90 thousand people screaming for you to be torn asunder every time you line up under center. I think Chad Henne performed astoundingly well during his freshman campaign. And I thnk that LLoyd Carr and his staff did a great job of preparing him for the success that he helped Michigan achieve that year.