Kinnick Stadium at Night
I was on youtube, and I stumbled upon a little video on how Kinnick stadium can get a little nuts a night. And i hope the atmosphere is this crazy when UM goes in there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyh44R6sK7M
I know UM always plays in rowday atmospheres, but this game seems like its going to be a good one. I'm looking forward to this game.
I ****ing hate zombie nation. Just thought I'd add that.
Me too.
But you like Jump Around, right?
well his name is House of Pain...
My point exactly
look at that, who would not like that in Michigan Stadium? minus the zombie nation though. But we need something like that that the crowd can yell or sing along to before the team comes out of the tunnel...but what?
I would love if the old people and youngins could come together like that in Michigan Stadium. I think rich rod and bill martin know what most of us want. In a few years, that could be what our stadium looks like at night...
That's gonna be a great game.
I was wondering how long you could go before talking about night games again. How do you figure that a night game is what most of us want?
don't forget the T-shirt cannons.
Is there any way to set up a poll on this site? Honestly, I think most people wouldn't mind a night game here and there.
I don't want them here but I don't mind the there
I don't get why some people are so opposed to the idea of a night game. It seems like they've always got the best atmosphere for whatever reason. There really was nothing like that 2004 MSU game (granted, it probably had more to do with the triple OT than the night aspect).
....and I disagree that the time of day dictates the atmosphere. Ever been to a Michigan - Ohio State game?
That said, one night game a year wouldn't be an issue, but the forces against it have been explained ad nauseum in this space over the past months.
I guess I forgot about the start time on that one. Must have been just how ridiculously long that game was that made it so dark at the end.
By the way, I just got chills watching the highlights. By far the wildest crowd in my 4 years at UM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1QAi3ZL8s
The Victors dance remix feat. Little John and Lady Gaga?
It is called the Victors. You may have heard it wonce or twice if you have been to any Michigan sporting event. Leave the small-time crap to schools that don't have an identity, and are looking to artificially inflate their ego. This would be akin to giving away free pizzas at Crisler (oh, wait, they do that?)
won't Minor going for 212 with 3 td's on 23 carries not silence Zombie Nation?
that Iowa's defense will not permit that this year.
methinks the_white_tiger dost protest too much
Methinks that i am a realist. Iowa's defense is really good. (King and Kroul were not responsible for Angerer (nice name) and the secondary).
methinks you are right, I just wanted to say that ^
This is what I've been saying. Iowa is going to have a damn strong football defense this season. Michigan stands about a 5% chance of winning this game
...but Michigan has a 50% chance to win the game right now. Once the game starts, the percentage chance of winning will adjust accordingly.
I think Michigan will win in Iowa. It will be Iowa's first experience with the Rich Rod spread, and I think for the first half at least they will be off balance due to the speed (one thing Iowa is not is a fast team). Hopefully, during that time, Michigan will build up a large enough lead to ensure a victory.
Agreed.
I'm not going to argue technicalities because I don't know a lot about statistics, but my point is that if you played this game over and over, Michigan would only win about 5% of them.
Iowa has seen a spread offense before, this is nothing new. Maybe Michigan's athletes are better, but Iowa has a great defense that should be able to handle the Michigan offense just fine (unless it is at WVU levels of awesomeness. Call me a pessimist, but I doubt it will be by October 10th). It's interesting that you say their defense will have troubles when it should be Iowa's strength. If Michigan wins, it will likely be a low scoring affair.
Still, nighttime, second straight road game early in the season, Iowa fans are crazy, our quarterback will probably be a freshman, our defense is a total question mark, and Iowa will be one of the Big Ten's best teams. None of that says Michigan win to me
...perhaps we should have NCAA 2010 play the game 20 times and see what happens? Then I might change my mind.
I agree with you about statistical eventualities and probabilities (hell, I'm an economist). The only difference is that these teams only play once, hence, a sample size of one, hence, they probably start out at the same point. If they played 20 times I'd agree with you. However, probabilities over a 20-game stretch mean nothing to us.
Especially if/when Michigan wins.
Looking at Iowa's past schedules, they played Florida in year one of the Urban Meyer Experience and lost, and played the Northwestern and Minnesota neutered spreads. Neither of those latter teams had the power and speed combo Michigan will have this year.
I saw the Iowa 55-0 beatdown of Minnesota up close last year (I'm a Gophers season ticket holder). Things they are = strong and smart. Things they are not = fast. I'm not sure they will be able to handle Minor, Brown and V. Smith in the backfield, or Stokes, Odoms, Hemingway, Stonum, Roundtree and Koger on the splits.
I don't buy that Iowa will be one of the Big Ten's best teams. We'll see - they rode the Shonn Greene horse and I find them very similar to Michigan State sans Ringer. I'm not sure what they've got there. But I don't find them so intimidating as to think Michigan can't win in Kinnick. Michigan can get it done. It'll be Coach Rod's first prime time game at M, and his first really BIG road win.
http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2008/Internet/conf%20stats/2008000000827TD.HTML
Notice how Iowa finished in the top 2 in almost every defensive category while Michigan State finished around #7 in each one. That Iowa defense, which was great last season, returns 8 starters. It loses its best player in Mitch King, but almost the entire unit is back. They finished 12th nationally in total defense and 5th nationally in scoring defense last season. They are definitely in a different boat than Michigan State. Their defense is for real.
Yes, they have question marks on offense, but they have 6 returning starters on offense including two very good offensive lineman and their quarterback. Shonn Greene is a huge loss, I'm not disputing that, but their defense should be good enough that only a few scores will be necessary for victory against most teams.
You forgot the most similar example to Michigan's 2009 offense in the Penn State spread of 2008. That offense had an inexperienced but athletic dual threat quarterback, a great tailback, talented and experienced wideouts, and a nasty offensive line. I know that they were coming off of a bye week, but Iowa was still great on defense, allowing only 289 yards of total offense to a team that averaged 449 yards/game. That game was played last season, against basically the same Iowa defense, with a Penn State offense that in all likely hood was better than Michigan's offense will be this year. Iowa is a legit contender and will almost certainly beat Michigan
And I appreciate it, but all you said won't mean squat until they play this year.
Thanks to you, Iowa's Sports Information Director.
Take a game by game look at Iowa's D. Their first three games they collected 7 of their 23 INTs and only gave up 8 points(2 being a safety on the O) against Maine, FIU, and Iowa State. They gave up 390 yards and 22 points to Northwestern in a loss. 332 yards and 27 points to Illinois in a loss. Yes they played well against PSU, but gave up 409 to Wisconsin, 337 to Purdue, and 286 to IU.
If you combine the Minnesota and IU games with the 3 OOC's in the earlier paragraph their D looks absolutely awesome only giving up 3 points a game and getting half of their INTs. While they were successful against PSU's spread they lost to Northwestern and Illinois while giving up 360 YPG and 24.5 points(average).
.... for parsing through the stats in a way I was not inclined to do.
If NW and Illinois can get 25 points on Iowa, I'm sure Michigan can do the same this year. We'll see.
it's May. Allow me the mental indulgence.
there listening to stadium music. Seems pretty dumb to me.
Maybe they have a shitty band.
The only piped-in music that would ever "work" at Michigan Stadium would be "Killing in the Name" because the majority population of Dude Bros would think, "Sweet! Rap metal! Let's get rowdy brooooo!" Whilst the minority, yet still vocal and prominent, population of unwashed socialists would think, "Politics! The extreme left wing! Zapatistas! Mayhap this football squad cares about my agenda!" And they would all start moshing together in the unity of angry piped-in music.
So, all things considered, let's stick with the band.
We will be playin music before games too. We will be up there soon.