Corum tweet

Submitted by Berger04 on December 9th, 2021 at 12:57 PM

His response to Stroud's comment on the team being sick for The Game I'm sure...

"Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else." Go Blue. 

Love it. 

MSU had 20 players out and still beat PSU...

 

TK

December 9th, 2021 at 1:02 PM ^

Love it too. But did MSU really have 20 players out? I’ve heard that also but I think that was based on a report that up to 20 players were sick. I dont think they had a lot of guys that didn’t play. 

mfan_in_ohio

December 9th, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^

I didn't know the flu made defenders not know to set the edge on outside runs.  Or caused false starts, or bad/mistimed snaps, or a loss to Oregon (and a shredding by Minnesota the week before) where the issues were basically the same as against Michigan.

Probably not good when your QB and Heisman candidate, supposedly a leader on his team, is looking for excuses instead of asking for accountability from himself and his teammates.  

matty blue

December 9th, 2021 at 1:22 PM ^

one.  hundred.  percent.

contrast that with mcnamara's postgame speech after rutgers last season.  it's the difference (some might say a Michigan Difference [TM]) between a leader and a follower.  hard to see that speech and not think he was going to win that locker room. 

stroud didn't look like a leader for one single minute that day.  i know - part of this is retroactive.  if ohio state had won, some might say he was steady, or undercontrol, or unflappable, or whatever.  but even when they were behind he didn't look all that interested.

1VaBlue1

December 9th, 2021 at 1:38 PM ^

Excuses...  At what point does exceedingly poor officiating change the game?  How many demonstrable penalties and no-calls can be made before the game is impacted?  If scoring a TD to take a lead, and the refs say 'Nope' so the points come down and there's no longer a lead - does that impact the game?  At what point do officials have to become aware that they are impacting the game in an unfair manner?  All the calls?  Half the calls?  17 calls, or 6?  Do no-calls have any impact whatsoever?  Lets say a 4th down pass see's the rec interfered with by two separate defenders, and no call is made.  Does this maybe impact the game?

I'm just trying to figure out where you are in terms of actual game impact.  Do you think the officials never impact a game in such a way that the final score may be swayed one way or the other? 

Because if that's how you think, then you're the biggest dipshit watching football in America today.