Anyone Making the Trip to Penn St?
Who’s going? Any tips? I will be there!! This is my first trip there and I cant wait to see the looks on their faces when we shock them. My prediction is that it’s going to go down something like 05 game in the Big House. I was at that game as a young fan and still one of my favorite memories. Let’s make a new one.... TOUCHDOWN PEOPLES-JONES!!!!
October 13th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
I have my probation hearing. Can’t make it
October 13th, 2019 at 10:47 AM ^
Was it from that night I saw you at Taco Bell at like 3am?
October 13th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
No the waitress didn’t press charges.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:20 AM ^
Taco Bell doesn’t have table service, silly
October 13th, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
Not that kind of waitress.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
I'll be there. Excited and terrified. Hoping to do some (friendly) tailgating beforehand.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
Good luck with the fans being friendly.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
I live in Pa... these guys act like Michigan is the devil incarnate. I don't understand their vitriolic hatred at all, but it's insufferable. I can't tell you how many times I've heard..It's 4:35 (put in any time you want) and Michigan still sucks. They do this all the time.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
We beat JoePa nine years in a row. They have never digested that.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:06 AM ^
Probably because our fanbase still reveres a pedophile enabling coach....oh wait, that is them!!!
BTW, FUCK ped state and all their delusional joepa loving fans and all the paternos and field goal franklin!!!
October 13th, 2019 at 11:27 AM ^
YES!!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FROM YOU EGJ!!! MAY YOU CONTINUE TO STATE THIS IN POSTS ALL WEEK!! GO BLUE!!
October 13th, 2019 at 12:20 PM ^
I say we pool our money and hire a private plane to pull a "Joe Knew" sign over Happy Valley.
The outrage would be delicious.
October 13th, 2019 at 12:44 PM ^
I'm in.
October 13th, 2019 at 12:46 PM ^
Find someone to do it, and make a thread. I’m in for $100.
October 13th, 2019 at 7:33 PM ^
I'm in for $250!
October 13th, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
Carr's teams beat the pedophile enabler's teams regularly. That and they were used to talking shit about Pitt and how weak it is academically there. Then they found out it's a lot easier to get into penn state than it is to get into Michigan.
On another level. They pretty much hate everybody. It's an insular, weird place.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:14 PM ^
^^This, and everything before it. It's the weirdest place I've ever lived. When Sandusky's gut-churning abuse came to light in '09 (read the indictment if you want to have nightmares for the next year), I thought for sure there would be some kind of reckoning with Paterno's deification. (BTW, it's not even a sliver of an accident that the story was broke by a reporter outside of State College. No way was a Centre Daily Times person gonna research the whispers.) But no. There was honestly more outrage on "JoePa's" behalf than the victims'. As a human being, I'm horrified. As a therapist who works with abuse survivors, I want to retch. They finally removed his statue from in front of the stadium, but they just popped it indoors at the "Penn State Sports Museum" or whatever it's called. "Insular" is a fantastic word for the general whackedness that pervades the charming little streets and rolling farmlands. They've taken the view that "outsiders" came in and passed judgment on them and their team without knowing the full story. Well, yes--people did pass judgment...b/c the man you placed on a pedestal chose to protect his football program over vulnerable children, and no amount of money donated to the library negates that. The Onion captured it best with their story: https://sports.theonion.com/rest-of-nation-to-penn-state-something-is-very-wrong-1819579277 (Hope this comes through.)
October 14th, 2019 at 7:00 AM ^
So true. Watch out for the urine bombs they like to toss at the opposing fans and the opposing bands. Is our band traveling there?
October 13th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
Recommendation: Drink heavily.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
Yeah, cannot imagine the monetary expenditure to watch us get dismantled.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:49 AM ^
If you and Nervous Bird aren't hanging out already, you should start. Your excitement meters are off the charts!
October 13th, 2019 at 10:51 AM ^
How can you not be excited. Time for the boys to man the fuck up. If they don’t, then fuck it. As fans we have no choice but to be excited, until we get disappointed.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:04 AM ^
I was excited before the OSU game last year. I was excited before the Bowl game last year. I was excited before the season this year. "Until we get disappointed"!? What team are you watching!? Dude...it's been nothing but disappointment.
Harbaugh hasn't made a single quarterback better. Hasn't developed or recruited a single starting quarterback. No single quarterback has progressed under Harbaugh. The team consistently looks ill prepared. Executes sloppily. Plays without heart / checks out at times.
Unless you are completely delusional...why would you be excited about this game? Truly. I would love to be excited. I would love to think this season is salvageable. What in the world do you see (objectively and not wishful / hopeful thinking) that things are going to get better or that this game is going to turn out well?
October 13th, 2019 at 11:14 AM ^
Jake Rudock definitely improved over the course of 2015. He was a completely different QB by season's end.
Wilton Speight also got better over 2016, too. He had a shaky game against Colorado and then was playing at a really high level later on.
The QB issues have really just been in the last couple of years - not even last year so much, just 2017 and 2019.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
My thoughts exactly, after osu game I stayed away from michigan football until August. I had moderate expectations this year, had doubts about defense. But now the offense is horrible, the team is unprepared and lacks heart and leadership. Harbaugh doesn’t win big games especially road games. I have no faith they will win, all the same problems this year will show up like Wisconsin game.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:34 AM ^
Seriously? We play what 12 games a year? And you need to keep worrying about each game and make yourself miserable. Life is short to be worried this much on a Sunday.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
Nothing but disappointment? You didn’t enjoy last season? Before the fall of course.
i thoroughly enjoyed beating Wisconsin, penn state, and MSU last year. Yes there was disappointment but there was a lot of joy and excitement along the way.
This is a poker player mentality, only remembering the bad beats and losses.
October 13th, 2019 at 12:54 PM ^
why would you be excited about this game?
Because it’s Michigan football and I’ve been getting excited about every game since 1976 — it’s in my blood and there is nothing I can do about it, nor would I want to.
If it’s so hard for you to enjoy it, if you cannot accept that seasons and programs ebb and flow, then find something else to occupy your time. I want to win every game, but I also understand that there are only a couple of programs that live up to the expectations that many in here set.
Before you start with the “Harbaugh’s 5th year” meme, again, programs ebb and flow, and are almost all constantly in flux.
October 13th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
I differentiate two things:
1. I root for "Michigan" and hope they win every game. Been a fan all my life.
2. I don't choose to support a Coach that has shown he is incapable of building a winning team that can challenge for B10 Championships. That is what Harbaugh was paid to do...any other thought is naive. He is getting paid top 5 coaching money to be maybe the 3rd-4th best team in the B10 over his tenure. Not good enough.
October 13th, 2019 at 6:52 PM ^
Ok so, not good enough. What now? What’s Michigan’s next logical step?
Are you willing to accept another deep valley in the program in the hope that the next guy is “The Guy”? Obviously, he could be. How long would you support him? What about the guy after that? When does it end? What is the toll on the program vs the possible upside of sticking with Harbaugh. Lots in here like to prognosticate about what Harbaugh can or can’t do, but then act like asking, “what if ...” about the next guy is an irrational position.
Harbaugh is a good coach. He’s built the program back up to where it was, and the best it’s been since the early 2000’s. Yes, he’s not there yet. But, IMO, the downside risk of starting over FAR outweighs the risk that Harbaugh will never win a Championship. Again, be very careful what you wish for. People would do well to look around the nation at all the programs who have exhibited impatience and patience, and look at their relative trajectories. Of course, there are outliers. But, IMO, the last thing Michigan can afford in its effort to beat OSU is to start over again.
If you think that not supporting Harbaugh will help, if you think that making the fan base look disgruntled and Harbaugh’s seat hot to potential recruits, then by all means keep complaining and expressing your lack of support. I think it’s not helping in the least, and is actually hurting, and starting over will set the program back another 5-10 years. If you’re ok with that, I think you’re being childish and selfish but that’s your right.
October 13th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
Thank you, Sten Carlson. Couldn't have said it better myself....
I, too, grew up watching the 10 Year War of Bo vs. Woody. It's in my blood.
I'll never give up on our Wolverines. Ever. I just can't, no matter what.
Good, bad or ugly...I was born a Michigan fan, and will die a Michigan fan.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:34 AM ^
>>As fans we have no choice but to be excited, until we get disappointed.
So basically, excited all summer, disappointed by the 4th quarter of the second game? Got it.
October 13th, 2019 at 10:52 AM ^
That's like asking: "Anyone going to be shoving toothpicks into their eyeballs voluntarily?"
October 13th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
You seem like a puss...
October 13th, 2019 at 11:27 AM ^
Shea I've seen you play, I'm not sure you're the person to be throwing that insult around...
October 13th, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
Big tough internet guys who talk about college kids not being good. Buckeye fan maybe?
October 13th, 2019 at 10:56 AM ^
Maybe if you get off the golf course and into the playbook we would have a chance at winning
:/ I know you’re not Shea allegedly
October 13th, 2019 at 11:21 AM ^
Get off mgoblog and study playbook and defensive schemes
October 13th, 2019 at 11:02 AM ^
Do your obliques feel better?
October 13th, 2019 at 11:15 AM ^
If his obliques aren’t right the pain can be acute. Or are you purposely being obtuse?
Triangle humor. I’ll just see myself out.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
Speaking of obliques: Consider the physiological impact of golf. Very assymetrical impact on the obliques. Repeatedly stretching one side of the body and compressing the other. Recipe for back problems.
Shea wouldn't know this, but he set himself up for injury. If he spent the summer doing comprehensive, appropriate exercise this whole football season would be different.
On top of that, he's playing scared because that's how he's being coached. Ugly situation.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:13 AM ^
This is Shea Patterson’s first trip to Happy Valley, too.
?
October 13th, 2019 at 11:18 AM ^
I’ve thought about going, since I have a little time off, but ticket prices seem pretty steep. Will probably end up drinking and throwing things at the tv at home instead.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:20 AM ^
Why would you do that to yourself?
October 13th, 2019 at 11:25 AM ^
I’m going. My first time too. I need to go PSU, Rutger and Nebraska to complete the bucket list of seeing Michigan on the road everywhere in the B1G.
October 13th, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
Have fun!
After Saturday - you and I will be in the same situation. I will have seen games in 12 B1G stadiums, missing both Rutger & Nebraska.
(PSU plays at both in 2020, so I could finish the list then, U-M you could finish by 2021).
October 13th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
You seem like a simpleton.
October 13th, 2019 at 11:38 AM ^
I've been twice. A Rich Rod night game that we got pummeled and a Harbaugh day game we won with a very animated coach on the sideline. The fans there are really nice and I had great experiences both times. It's a pretty wild environment though. Those white-outs can be deadly. I'm just hoping that "Revenge Tours" don't have consequences...
October 13th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
I went to the white out game in 2015 (Harbaugh's first year). Although the game was at noon and PSU was not very good, the experience was awesome. The atmosphere is amazing and PSU fans are generally welcoming. Except for the guy next to me, he was really irritated by Jake Butt. GO BLUE!
October 13th, 2019 at 1:38 PM ^
I would be okay with Michigan 28 PSU 16 again.