Bellomy is/was injured

That was the last time Michigan beat a top-10 team.

Psh. Where's the Threet?

Actually, what was said in the postgame presser was that Bellomy had a "situation."

A reporter followed up and asked Hoke what Bellomy's "situation" was and he said he didn't want to talk about it.  

The fact that he could've simply dismissed it just as easily by saying Bellomy was injure and had a "boo boo," yet he didn't do that, kind of leads me to believe it wasn't injury related.  

Well, it depends on what you mean by pressure.  I tend to think that people complaining about Borges on the internet is not pressure. 

Michigan is coming off a remarkably successful season last year, is in line for its second successful recruiting class in a row, has a 5-star QB coming in next year, is still in consideration for the B1G championship, and the "pressure" is coming because when our star QB went down, the backup did not play well.

No, I do not think Al Borges is feeling the pressure.

If it suits Brady Hoke, it suits Michigan. They are one in the same

I'd rather not get into the REAL reason this pisses me off outside of being "one AND the same," but you completely missed the point of Section 1's phrase. Every coach has their way of handling this.

It was very odd for Kennedy to go in and not Bellomy at the end of the game.

Double post, nothing more to say.

Personally, I very much doubt that Gardner would have been able to win that game in Lincoln had he been called on even if he had been taking the 2nd string QB reps for weeks. I'm not even sure UM would have won had Denard been healthy the entire game.

Nebraska has shown a propensity for erasing deficits this season (17 to Wisco in Lincoln, 12 in Evanston and 10 in E. Lansing) and UM didn't even have a lead in the game. I think we are just going to have to acknowledge that UN is pretty good this year. They are MUCH better than I thought they were going to be.

I look at it this way.  Should the coaches have figured out by the time of the Nebraska game that DG is a much better QB than Russell Bellomy?  Absolutely.  And I'm sure they did.

But, in case you haven't noticed, our WR corps. has also been struggling all season--as a result of which, our opponents have often been able to render us one-dimensional.   We help ourselves at WR by playing DG there.

So, put yourself in the staff's shoes headed into the Nebraska game.  We have Denard, who had never missed significant time to that point in his career, ready to play QB.  Now, let's assume though that the coaches know he has an elbow issue and there's a decent chance he'll be injured in the game.  We can either prepare DG to play WR, where he will definitely be needed, or we can prepare him to be the backup QB, where he might be needed (and for how much of the game, we don't know either).  Realisitcally there is probably not enough time to prepare DG for both positions.

Based on DG's historic performance at QB, chances are we don't beat Nebraska if Denard goes out early anyway--even if DG spends the whole week preparing to back up Denard.  Therefore, prepping DG to play WR and gambling that Denard gets through the game is probably the smartest play.  It's at least a defensible decision.  The coaches have to take those kinds of risks because we don't have historical levels of depth.  Sometimes the chips fall your way, sometimes they don't.  

And of course, we don't know how much of this information the coaches actually had in advance anyway.  Did they realize Denard's elbow thing was bad enough to keep him out a whole half-plus?  Did they realize DG was capable of playing like he did that last three quarters against Minn?  Did they realize Bellomy would perform that poorly if he had to go in?

It's too bad we lost to Nebraska, but there's no sense pointing fingers at anybody.