6 Straight losses against OSU? F that...

Submitted by griesecheeks on
Ugh. I guess it's just now setting in, but really? It's hurting my head to be reminded of things like 'John Navarre was the last QB to beat OSU'. REALLY? it's gotta stop. this isn't a rivalry right now. We've got to have this win on saturday. I've been down recently, and finding myself getting apathetic with regards to the team's performance. I feel like this team and the fan base are displaying a kind of 'battered-wife syndrome'. We've been beaten down so much that we just accept an imminent loss until we're rebuilt and able to contend. Well, we were losing to OSU even when we were 'built', so that needs to go out the window. This team needs to step the f*** up this weekend and make it happen. Get focused and rip it on saturday. Have some confidence. People seem mopey and distracted right now. That's totally unacceptable. Rich needs to bring these kids together and get them jacked. A win over OSU and a solid win in a low-level bowl game would completely rejuvenate the program and ease the pressure off of Rich so he can get this team ready to contend in the Big Ten next fall. here's to hoping this incredulous streak of losing to OSU ends on saturday. it's got to. where's the sense of urgency? go blue.
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Thorin

November 19th, 2009 at 3:51 AM ^

Found this at the ozone: The last time Michigan beat Ohio State in football was November 22, 2003. On that date: "The Da Vinci Code" had come out earlier that year. Not the movie. The book. Saddam Hussein was still at large. Outkast had a big hit with “Hey Ya”. Theatergoers anxiously awaited the release of "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", one month later. “Elf” was the top film that weekend. The European Union had 15 members instead of 27. The world had known the name "Steve Bartman" for about five weeks. The last "missing" episode of the recently-cancelled Fox cartoon "Family Guy" had been aired two weeks prior. Barack Obama was in the Illinois state legislature, and Sarah Palin was the chairperson of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. None of us had seen Britney Spears naked yet, and it was still an appealing concept. LeBron James had been playing pro basketball for three weeks. After a trip to Europe, a friend spent $200 developing my pictures into prints from the rolls of light-sensitive film on which they had been captured. The CIA would still contend that Iraq had WMDs for several more months. The two defending NFL conference champions were the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A child who is in kindergarten today was born. This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_backlight_transparent.png) is what an iPod looked like. Avenue Q and Wicked had just opened on Broadway. Arrested Development's first season had premiered several weeks earlier. New episodes of “Friends” were being aired. GMail and Flickr were still months away from Beta release. Howard Dean's "scream" was about two months away. The minimum wage was $5.15 an hour. You could still buy a new Oldsmobile. Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan were still alive. Tyrone Willingham had another year at Notre Dame. Urban Meyer was in his first year coaching... at Utah. The NFL's New England Patriots had a trio of rising-star assistant coaches who were expected to go on to great success in head coaching jobs: Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennel and Eric Mangini. Terrelle Pryor was in middle school. Rich Rodriguez would be the Big East Coach of the Year. John L. Smith would be the Big Ten Coach of the Year. Related: 8 Big Ten teams have changed head coaches since then. Notre Dame was on a 40-year winning streak against Navy. Michigan had the longest active streak of bowl game appearances. No Michigan team had ever lost more than seven games in a season. No Michigan team had failed to win back-to-back games at least once in a season since 1962. Every fifth year senior had left Michigan with at least one win against OSU. And finally... The last time Michigan beat Ohio State was November 22, 2003. Nine weeks later, Facebook was founded.

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blue note

November 19th, 2009 at 7:40 AM ^

man, way to make me feel like a loser next time I go to Wolf Camera to get my film developed... Seriously though, great list. Am I the only one who can't believe I went through college at UM without gmail? I think when I was there we had about 50mb of email storage space. Or was it less? Crazy.

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tomhagan

November 19th, 2009 at 4:12 AM ^

In order for this streak to stop, a coach needs to be in place that understands how to win big games and how to stop momentum...how to disregard the past and capitalize on NOW making a statement: WE WILL NO LONGER GET PUSHED AROUND AND WE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN THIS GAME, ANY STRATEGY ANY SCHEME, any sacrifice. Does that exist now?

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PurpleStuff

November 19th, 2009 at 8:00 PM ^

Rodriguez's teams won two BCS bowl games at WVU. Those are pretty much the biggest games there are right now (aside from the national championship). He knows how to win, and has won "big games." Here are the other current coaches who have won two major bowl games: Stoops, Carroll, Meyer, Brown, Miles, Paterno, Tressel, Bowden, Spurrier, Richt, Beamer, Erickson, and Saban. Pretty impressive company. Of that group, many did it at schools that have a long history of national success in football (WVU had never won a major bowl game prior to Rodriguez's arrival).

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exmtroj re-loaded

November 19th, 2009 at 7:49 AM ^

Time to put the Michigan jersey on for the last time this year, sit in my chair with my UM lawn gnome, consume frightening amounts of Jack Daniels and Sam Adams, and wonder again if this is the week I should burn that autographed Rich Rod 8 x10 I have hanging on my living room wall. Crazy how much OSU gameday has changed over the years.

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Topher

November 19th, 2009 at 8:16 AM ^

What REALLY sucks about this is that Ohio State is not that good this year, and they are still expected to win by bunches of points! Tressel has an astounding ability to outperform teams of equal or slightly lesser ability. Even a semi-competent team should be able to beat this year's OSU team. At least they will get their asses kicked in the Rose Bowl.

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Six Zero

November 19th, 2009 at 8:25 AM ^

And if we all wish hard enough, all our dreams will come true!! Don't you guys think that the team WANTS TO WIN??? Don't you think that Mike Hart would've given his spleen to win in 2006, or any of them for that matter? Don't you think there's an entire army of Wolverines that will live with this the rest of their lives, and it will haunt them more than it ever will any of us?? We all know we need this game for the program, that losing to them has singlehandedly affected our quality of life since, like, 2003. It hurts. And we all want it to end. Hell, man, yesterday my boss got inspired from a viral email and instituted some sort of military-support-themed 'wear red' dress day policy for Friday, and I literally sent back an email explaining why I would not. Why The Game precludes that I could not. I hear the urgency in your message, dude, and how much you want this to end on Saturday. I am SO with you, but the truth is it will not affect the game. The power of dreams occurs in PG family movies on DVD, not on the unmerciless reality of the football field. If our wishes could come true, things much worse than losing would happen to the Vest, to Terrell Pryor, and to the OSU football program as a whole. I guess my point is that, no matter what happens on Saturday, just remember that the program wants this more than we do.

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