October 14th, 2023 at 9:05 AM ^
GameDay is 90 mins too long.
Noon kickoff has 100% too much Urban and Ingram.
Fight me
October 14th, 2023 at 9:37 AM ^
Why would we fight you when you speak the objective and incontrovertable truth?
October 14th, 2023 at 9:51 AM ^
Written with the arrogance of the Michigan difference.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:10 AM ^
Agree. I don’t watch much of either unless there is a big Michigan game.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:44 AM ^
Yeah, they could cut out 50% of their glossy video tributes and stupid bits with guys like McAfree and it would be way more enjoyable.
Any Urban Meyer talking is too much Urban in my book.
October 14th, 2023 at 11:33 AM ^
McAffee is awful. I dislike Urban but he’s fine. Don’t care too much. Don’t mind Ingram but I don’t think he’s very good. He should get better with time. Does Big Noon still trot out that chud Clay Travis? He’s awful too.
October 14th, 2023 at 9:11 AM ^
Just saw Sanders' after game comments - where he threw his team under the bus. Disgusting. I'm not a Sanders hater, but even if the comments are true you can't say it like that. His team is immature and lacking fundamental behaviors that winners display. They flat out fell apart in the 2nd half last night (this morning, actually). And that is all on COACHING.
Look in the mirror, Coach Prime, because you're not quite ready for prime time yourself...
October 14th, 2023 at 9:15 AM ^
Harbaugh would never do that. And you know there were games early on in his time at Michigan when he thought the exact same thing that Deion did, but he kept it in-house.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:21 AM ^
2020 was a really rough year and even with all that and all the negativity directed toward him, Harbaugh never came anything close to what Sanders said.
October 14th, 2023 at 9:23 AM ^
Epic collapse by Colorado. I turned the game off at halftime last night. Looking at the final score this morning had to do a eye rub to make sure what I saw was correct.
October 14th, 2023 at 9:29 AM ^
Me too. I turned it off at half time and went to bed. I saw the final score on ESPN this morning and I thought it was a typo given how absolutely pathetic Stanford looked in the first half. I actually went to another site to confirm the score.
October 14th, 2023 at 9:41 AM ^
I think I've said before that I was enjoying watching him. Yeah, that's gone. Over and above what he did, this is his hand-picked crew. The players he chased off should thank their deities of choice that they are not there.
I saw an article about Locksley recently. It included the snippet below. That's a coach.
https://www.insidetheblackandgold.net/everything-mike-locksley-said-heading-into-illinois/
On whether negativity/nitpicking was validated by mental errors in Ohio St. game
“No, it doesn’t because we coached those things and now it’s a matter of continuing to coach. I always say there’s nothing worse when a coach says I told him 100 times. I said, well, what makes 100 the magic number? How about tell him 101 times, right?
October 14th, 2023 at 10:39 AM ^
New found respect for Mike Locksley. And then I remember that he hired Gattis to run his offense, and I lose just a little respect all over again... C'mon, Mike!!!
October 14th, 2023 at 9:59 AM ^
That collapse falls squarely on his shoulders, and his shoulders alone, not his players. Yeah, Stanford started making plays in the second half they probably haven’t made in any game this year, but to go from domination in the first half to playing so poorly in the second that you allow that comeback is on him. Not his players. Not his coaches. Him. He could have adjusted their attitude for the second half to the right tone, the right mental state, in order to clean up all of their mistakes from the first half. To play better in the second half. To be sharper and end the game early in the third quarter.
Instead, his team played even worse, accumulating 17 total flags(9 more in the second half), allowing even more space and breathing room for Stanford’s wrs and qb to make plays. He could have shifted the offenses gears in the second half just a bit to run more time off the clock, shortening the game to where even if Stanford went on an unprecedented roll of making incredible plays there just wouldn’t be enough time left at the end.
It’s on him, and if he doesn’t learn from this mistake in coaching, his teams may continue to be exciting but ultimately won’t be near good enough to win consistently.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:54 AM ^
Kind of yes but no.
" He could have adjusted their attitude for the second half to the right tone, the right mental state, in order to clean up all of their mistakes from the first half. "
This is not realistic. This isn't what happens in reality. Where it falls on Sanders' shoulders is in the week to week, day to day preparation. That's where you build not only skills but emotional resilience for your team. Human beings aren't bleeps and bloops in Madden where you push a button and they do the thing. It ain't like that. So no. But yes, sort of.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:00 AM ^
Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. That was one of the worst second half coaching performances I’ve ever seen.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:34 AM ^
You can't really blame Prime. He accidently called the wrong plays when he was inadvertently blinded by his gold plated headset.
Yes, he wears a gold plated headset.
But hey, the problem with too much showboating and not staying focused lies strictly with his players.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:12 AM ^
I've never seen a team look as inept as Stanford did in the first half and come back like that. It was like a gust of wind hit Colorado's house of cards and they just completely collapsed.
We talk about Michigan culture. It gives you some tools to deal with adversity. Colorado simply imploded.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:28 AM ^
If you hype yourself up and take the credit for the wins, you have to be ready to take the blame for the losses.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:47 AM ^
But typically those who inflate themselves publicly and seek the limelight do so because of a deep-seated need that also keeps them from publicly acknowledging personal failings. I feel badly for those with that fragility of ego.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:56 AM ^
I hope Coach Prime has some AFLAC insurance for that work injury he suffered last night.
October 14th, 2023 at 11:28 AM ^
After the dust settled the true Deon comes out. I didn’t like him in the nfl or the majors and can’t stand him now. Deon is all about Deon.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:59 AM ^
Usually people who announce they are not something, are.
October 14th, 2023 at 9:25 AM ^
I support the companies that support college football.
Dr. Pepper is at the top of that list. That is a great Dr. Pepper commercial about college football conference realignment. That's commitment. That's not a commercial you can use anywhere else but a college football broadcast. It would not make sense to 90% of the country. They are not just mailing it in.
When I am at a fast food restaurant like Taco Bell that has self-serve Dr. Pepper, I deliberately pour some extra down the drain just to increase their sales.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:08 AM ^
The Fansville commercials are incredible in theory, and terrible in execution.
Could be a season long soap opera, but instead, it's just the same 4 commercials all season.
October 14th, 2023 at 11:03 AM ^
The man in the red hat, the one who steps out from the sidelines and wields absolute control over the game, is the enemy of the people. The companies that advertise support college football in the sense that the man in the red hat is college football. This idea that the monetization and commodification of every aspect of a thing supports it, that there is no value to a thing outside of its contribution to private equity gains, is an idea I can't really wrap my head around, though it is extremely popular--even sacrosanct in the US. Yet it seems like a grotesque perversion to me, something a parasite would convince its host of in order to continue bleeding it dry. But that's just my e-pinion.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:16 AM ^
Not to hop on the bandwagon late but pat mcafee is and continues to be insufferable.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:26 AM ^
Get used to it. When Corso is no longer part of the Game Day broadcast, McAfee is going to be the lead "comedic" role on the show.
October 14th, 2023 at 11:30 AM ^
I think he’s pretty funny now strutting his C cups around in his tank top on a weekly basis.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:22 AM ^
As we play Indiana today I can’t imagine how it must grind on Hoosier fans to have to see all this hype about Penix when they had him all that time and he just could not stay healthy.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:31 AM ^
If you are a lower-tier team, the Portal is going to pick your pocket every year. We are guilty of some of that ourselves.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:29 AM ^
If Washington's mascot is a Husky, it's a friggen' LARGE husky! Holy hell, it looks more like a Malemut to me...
October 14th, 2023 at 1:08 PM ^
It's a mix.
October 14th, 2023 at 10:38 AM ^
That’s a shame, looks like Mullings is out today. Would have a been a good game to see him mow some people over in the wet and cold conditions. Maybe Edwards gets more rushes today then let’s see.
October 14th, 2023 at 11:34 AM ^
McAfee just said that ND & USC had a combined 24 Nattys
I immediately did a Scooby Doo "ERRRRRRGHHHHHH?????..... Roh K Shaggy"
October 14th, 2023 at 1:29 PM ^
11 each by my count, but then I'm old and my memory/math isn't as good as it used to be.