Graham Brown Inbounds Blunder
Trying to remember a basketball game, I want to say from 2006, where Michigan led in the waning seconds, basically just needed to inbound the ball. At which point Graham Brown chucked it up in the air, it hit the scoreboard for a turnover, and Michigan ended up losing.
I can find no evidence of it via Google. Does anyone recall this?
March 17th, 2023 at 10:19 AM ^
That poor dude is just sitting at home somewhere minding his own business.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
Still a big GB fan!
don't fret GB, at home minding your own business, "There's a steal by Bird" via Isiah.
It happens to the best of them.
Good ole "Hambone"
March 17th, 2023 at 10:22 AM ^
I watched every game even during The Dark Years. I don’t recall this ever happening. I think you may have dreamed this.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:26 AM ^
I’m not as confident as you, but if a play that idiotic is not on YouTube, it probably didn’t happen.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:29 AM ^
Why in the world would you want to have us all re-live this, assuming that it is true. Seriously, are you a masochist, are all the free porn sites on the interwebs shut down for you, I hear Tik Tok has cool dance videos?
March 17th, 2023 at 11:09 AM ^
This is like me reliving all the Rose Bowls during the 70’s.
March 17th, 2023 at 12:08 PM ^
It still hurts.
March 17th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
First thing I thought of when I found out that he died. Doesn't make me a horrible person, does it? I mean, it wasn't his fault that multiple officials were blind and/or incompetent and/or corrupt.
Glad I've gotten over it.
It doesn't make you a horrible person. It makes you a Michigan Man. We all thought about the same thing. He was a great athlete and it wasn't his fault that the refs suck.
Never forgave him for his I saw I was over the line so I let the ball go comment.
Totally agree. As SC joins the B1G, I wish there was a way for all of us who witnessed that fiasco play to get some recompense from a comparable ref blunder against SC when they play M. God bless Charles White; it wasn't his fault! Try as he did, he didn't score! That was actually 1/1/80, after the '79 season.
And then there was the last second field goal by Stanford to beat M in 1972.
And, of course, not in the Rose Bowl but nevertheless a RB memory was 1973 when they were unceremoniously voted out of it for no rational reason.
I was there for every one of those games! At least the sunset was beautiful and the halftime shows were terrific, not to mention some of the flyovers and the weather.
So xgo...was that 73 game where Mike Lantry badly missed a very makeable kick late in the game? I may not have been completely sober back then.
Remember how when we came back from Christmas break, Moes had this picture blown up in its store window? Pain.
The first time as a kid that I understood how badly refs sucked. I was incredulous. I had no idea they could be that wrong. I literally couldn't believe they let it stand (as if they'd overturn it by replay or discussing it and "doing the right thing". Learned about sports injustice that day.
March 17th, 2023 at 12:15 PM ^
I remember this play but it doesn’t bother me. Amaker just wasn’t the guy to bring Michigan basketball back. Winning that game would have meant that our mediocre coach would have gotten a big extension and we would have had several more years of mediocrity - and someone else would have hired Beilein in the meantime. That game was a classic case of losing the battle to win the war.
You guys watched the Amaker years? You must have a deep desire to be hurt.
They were, in fact, an improvement over the Ellerbe years, if you can imagine that.
Yes, I didn't care for Amaker for all kinds of reasons, but I could understand keeping him around. Ellerbe is the only football or basketball coach that I've said he has to go. It's fascinating to me that Ellerbe had a good first season and then he Wile Coyoted.
Ellerbe - nice guy but that hire was one my biggest nooooooooo! moments. Coach had absolutely no resume to justify keeping him around because kids he didn't recruit went on a brief roll.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^
is this related to the UVA guy yesterday? i dont recall that, but that sounds like a perfect summary for the early 2000s UM basketball teams
March 17th, 2023 at 10:35 AM ^
Felt bad for that kid yesterday. Truly one of UVAs great players that was huge in their championship run a few years ago, and he just totally lost his mind for a second. Tough way to end his career.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
Agreed, although I did get a dose of humor from a story related to that tough moment. My son’s baseball teammate gets in my car last night, and the boys are discussing that game and its ending. The teammate describes it as the player “going all Kirk Cousins at the end,” which makes me LOL. The teammate isn’t a M fan, and we live in Ohio. Random but funny.
March 17th, 2023 at 11:36 AM ^
Definitely sucks for him. I'm sure most Virginia fans will remember this play against Purdue in 2019 to save their season and Championship run.
March 17th, 2023 at 11:36 AM ^
Did they have timeouts? If they did it really was as much the fault of somebody else not calling one immediately after the pass went back to him. He was completely trapped with no angle to a ref. Granted, what he did was not good but he really did not have any good options.
March 17th, 2023 at 11:44 AM ^
ncaa tournament timeout something something...I don't know what you mean.
Yeah, still too soon.
March 17th, 2023 at 12:14 PM ^
UVA had one time out left
March 17th, 2023 at 12:28 PM ^
No doubt, Tony Bennett should have called it as soon as he was cornered.
In a live-ball situation, the player has to call the timeout.
Any player or the player with the ball?
In 2019 they changed the rule so coaches can call a timeout during a live ball if there are less than 2 minutes left.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:34 AM ^
Was that the season that MGoBlog came out with the epic "Crunkest Team Ever" t-shirt? I was just thinking this morning where this year's team lands on the Crunkest list ...
Edit: It was the "Crunkest Team" (or at least part of a multi-year run of them)!
https://247sports.com/college/michigan-state/Board/93/Contents/Crisler-Arena-Banners-1916226/
March 17th, 2023 at 11:12 AM ^
Anyone that says the rivalry has gotten worse over the past few years...
nah, man. RCMB has always been a cesspool, and that thread proves it.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:43 AM ^
I remember being pissed off about it, and then cheering myself up by watching that Sinbad genie movie and eating a salad bowl full of Fruit Loops.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:59 AM ^
Mandela effect be out there
March 17th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
I loved Shazaam!
March 17th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
Then I read my kids a Barenstein Bears book before they went to bed.
Which FYI if anyone is a diehard Mandela effect believer I'm sad to say my wife has old Barenstain Bears books from the 80s and they definitely were spelled -stain.
Only in your dimension
Some of these books have been found with the -stein ending. But the vast majority are -stain.
I was at Woodstock! I remember the whole thing very clearly!
I was at Woodstock but it was the year after the concert.
I'm glad we got split into the reality where the play og described didn't happen.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:43 AM ^
I DO remember that! I remember it specifically because I had just finished watching Shazaam with Sinbad playing the genie and reading some Berenstein Bears books when I turned that game on. I figured everyone remembered it.
EDIT: Ha, beat to the punch by literal seconds but leaving it here because I'm pretty sure everyone was also reading the same books.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:49 AM ^
I do recall a game michigan lost where the inbounds pass hit the old score board but i cant remember against who. your not crazy
March 17th, 2023 at 10:57 AM ^
I do not remember that. Looking around through game recaps of close losses Michigan had during Graham Brown's time, the closest I came across was this:
https://mgoblue.com/news/2003/12/30/Wolverines_Dealt_First_Home_Loss_by_Boston_University.aspx
The Wolverines (8-2) had a chance to win the game with 2.0 seconds left, but sophomore Graham Brown's (Mio, Mich./Mio-AuSable HS) length-of-the-floor pass was intercepted by the defense and the clock ran out.
March 17th, 2023 at 10:59 AM ^
It was against UCLA on 12/17/05. Remember it distinctly well for some reason.
this wasn't a close game