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ESPN Incompetence

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:11 PM
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ESPN Incompetence

While watching ESPN this morning in preparation of the tournament I've heard not one, not two, but THREE different analysts talk about how the hardest thing for Tennessee to deal with today will be Michigan's 1-3-1 zone defense.  Hubert Davis, Jimmy Dykes, and Digger Phelps all ranted about this.

Meanwhile, anyone who has actually WATCHED Michigan this year knows that they almost NEVER play that defense.  I would estimate they play it 5% of the time at most.  It is amazing that the 4th place team in the best conference is so unknown to the "experts".

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:15 PM
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ESPN: all hyperbole an no

ESPN: all hyperbole an no analysis.

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:17 PM
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Yeah

Yeah just saw Jimmy Dykes talking about our 1-3-1 zone defense, and some idiot at the press conference call John Beilein, "Sean"!

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:19 PM
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Unfortunately it won't be

Unfortunately it won't be suprising to see us use some 1-3-1 today.  Which is going to reassure the fact that we use the 1-3-1 all the time to all the "analysts".  After we play man defense about 70% of the time today, everyone will say "Why did Beilein decide to not use his 1-3-1 defense all of the sudden?" and he'll get criticized.

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:32 PM
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Wrong

No matter what defense he runs he won't get criticized because we are going to win!!

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:36 PM
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Was Digger

Was Digger wearing his dress and wig? He has lost it over the years.

Pearl should have had his team practicing for THJr and the Butterfly.

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:38 PM
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Agreed.  I imagine the same

Agreed.  I imagine the same person is feeding all of these guys the same false information about us.

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March 18th, 2011 at 12:57 PM
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beating a dead horse

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March 18th, 2011 at 1:54 PM
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faith in experts

Just yesterday a perfect example of what counts as "expert" journalism in college football was posted here:

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1201150

Most of the time, *most* of the fans won't even know that the experts have outdated or incorrect information.

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March 18th, 2011 at 2:01 PM
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Way to get upset about

Way to get upset about completely irrelevant stuff, guys.

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March 18th, 2011 at 2:28 PM
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To be honest though, we did

To be honest though, we did not start winning till we went to a zone. I guess even though the exprerts were wrong they still know what they are talking about, UT struggles against the zone.

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March 18th, 2011 at 2:29 PM
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Maybe...

Maybe after this game, all of those analysts will see how little 1-3-1 we play.

Duke's up next GO BLUE!!!!

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March 18th, 2011 at 2:44 PM
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posted from iPhone
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March 18th, 2011 at 2:55 PM
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ummm

to the OP: oops.

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March 18th, 2011 at 3:48 PM
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During the half time

During the half time interview with Bruce Pearl, he did mention that his guys struggled when Michigan went to a 1-3-1. So there must be a little truth in what these analysts have been saying.  

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