Klatt agrees with Leinart, The Game “was best environment I’ve ever been at”
November 30th, 2021 at 8:09 PM ^
At about the 9:20 mark...https://youtu.be/-nx-W1gRN6w
November 30th, 2021 at 8:22 PM ^
I just watched this. Thank you for posting.
Their comparison to the 2009 Stanford plowing of USC at the Coliseum was not too far off. Both cases, you had in the 4th quarter powerhouse teams with decided talent advantages as far as recruiting, wishing the opponent would stop running it at them and over them.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:46 PM ^
WHATS YOUR DEAL
November 30th, 2021 at 8:55 PM ^
What’s YOUR deal?
November 30th, 2021 at 9:35 PM ^
It was “their comparison” of the Harbaugh win…not the environment. The environments were nothing alike. I was at the USC and Stanford Game. That Game felt more like the Michigan vs Northwestern in 1995…where you left the game perplexed on how the hell the home team just lost that game to an inferior team.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:55 PM ^
November 30th, 2021 at 9:54 PM ^
He talks more about the scene some more at 16:50 as well. Apparently Michigan fans are on the cover of TIME magazine?
December 1st, 2021 at 3:02 PM ^
Colin also said Michigan fans are "classy" and that his wife is "from there" (Michigan, I assume).
November 30th, 2021 at 8:17 PM ^
I'm not going to lie, I got a little teary-eyed with the scene on the field after the game.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:55 PM ^
Oh I cried, full stop.
Ugly tears.
And it wasn't just about the win, it was just that feeling of something PERFECT happening.
We won, we go to the B1G Championship, recruits, most watched game in the country, Gameday, Big Noon Kickoff...and yes, ended the drought.
I imagine it's a little how Cubs fans felt when they finally won the World Series. Completely different circumstances. But it was more about "finally, good things can happen to me, too."
I was just so worn down, it was always someone else on the other end of the elation and dream story.
2006 would've been that as well, Bo dying, 1 v. 2...but it was always just "pain."
This was the best I felt since 1997 when it comes to Michigan football and it wasn't close. Finally a dream came true. Finally it was our time.
Man, that was the greatest feeling. I watched EVERY ounce of coverage. It was perfect.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:03 PM ^
A big bonus was my son seeing the crowd rush the field and hearing him say "holy cow... that's amazing!!!"
He gets it now.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:10 PM ^
The team played so well! Our DBs hung with their WRs. You saw the amazing plays their WRs had to make to get a completion! Every unit kicked ass! OSU had no answers. Did you guys realize their passing game won the time of possession over our running game?? We played so well. The crowd, the snow, it was amazing. I sorta felt like crying every now and then, but this team kinda said, "Ain't nobody got time for that! LFG!!!"
November 30th, 2021 at 10:37 PM ^
The losing team often wins time of possession.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:54 PM ^
It was a very similar feeling to the Cubs winning in 2016. I definitely had more tears for this one.
My kids not wanting to watch because in their mind it's just going to be another beat down, that's all they know. To the end where they're jumping and cheering after every Haskins run or big play on defense. Just awesome.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:18 PM ^
I knew it would be hard to top Under the Lights I for best game atmosphere, but Saturday did it. It will be near impossible to top Saturday. I've never heard it that loud on basically every down for the other team for the whole game.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:44 PM ^
Agreed. From beginning to end. A cacophonous impenetrable wall. Just amazing to be a part of it. Well done 12th man!
December 1st, 2021 at 12:35 AM ^
To be fair, many forget that UTL wasn't a very good game, just an amazing finish. We were down for almost all of the game, at times by a few scores. Kind of reminds me of Braylonfest in that regard...
December 1st, 2021 at 8:35 AM ^
Braylonfest... I was at a bar in the Thumb having dinner during a pheasant hunt camping trip. About 50 people in the place evenly split between MSU and UM fans. Man, did that place get ROUDY!!! What a game! Best time I've ever had watching a game when not at that game. Saturday would be a close #2, only because I was by myself sequestered away from distractions.
The end game results aren't close, though... As fun as Braylonfest was, it doesn't come close to matching this win.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:21 PM ^
I like that they said this was Harbaugh's Stanford over USC in the Coliseum. Hopefully the resounding announcement that our program has arrived
November 30th, 2021 at 8:22 PM ^
Rewatching the game. Does anyone know what song was playing right before the kickoff after UM went up 42-27?
Crowd/players were going nuts. Couldn’t quite make out what was playing since Joel and Gus were talking.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:29 PM ^
Pump it Up by Danzel. They played it in between each touchdown and kickoff. I'd never heard the song until in the stadium. I thought it was dumb at first but it grew on me and I didn't care with how good the game was going. By the end of the game everyone was jumping up and down like silly crazy people when it was playing. https://youtu.be/0HtyF0jux2Q
November 30th, 2021 at 8:32 PM ^
Good look. Ya never heard it before until then. Gave me chills watching that. Didn’t remember that watching it live bc i was a nervous wreck. Lol
November 30th, 2021 at 8:51 PM ^
God, I'm old. I first read "Pump It Up" and briefly thought, "Great! They love an Elvis Costello song!" Excuse me while I yell at a cloud.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:13 PM ^
Not his best, but by far my favorite Costello song.
November 30th, 2021 at 10:09 PM ^
The version in the stadium is a remix by Endor.
https://youtu.be/k1W6xwCYAMQ
November 30th, 2021 at 10:44 PM ^
Here's how it sounded in the stadium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8eAkkKrRf0
December 2nd, 2021 at 12:04 AM ^
I really don't see that much red . . .
November 30th, 2021 at 8:24 PM ^
I wonder what they would say if Fox had the SEC television rights?
November 30th, 2021 at 8:29 PM ^
Klatt is an exceptional color commentator. He calls it as he sees it and pulls punches when necessary, which is commendable.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:40 PM ^
He’s got a tinge of arrogance to him, which turns me off a bit, but I do think his analysis is always fantastic.
Even earned arrogance is unbecoming
November 30th, 2021 at 8:46 PM ^
I don't get that vibe from him at all.
Also, you must really dislike sports and its figures, in general.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:35 PM ^
I definitely get the arrogance vibe from Klatt, too. He wants the listener to know that he's smarter than them. I can also think of a couple of things that he's gotten completely wrong.
When Michigan got the ball back with good field position and up 7-0 against OSU, he said that this was the time to go all in and throw it downfield to strike quickly (Michigan was winning LOS, momentum on their side). My immediate reaction was "No, you have OSU on their heels....run it down their throat". Cade threw the interception on the next play. Obviously, there's no way to know what the right call was.....but his desired play turned into a pick (and we know that Michigan ended up running at will all day).
Also, Klatt was all over the refs for "re-officiating" (I think that was word he used) after the Ojabo/Hutchinson TD was overturned during the MSU game. He went on at length about how there was no visual evidence to reverse that call. Then when Michigan jumped MSU in the polls a week later with the same record and the head-to-head loss, he got indignant about Michigan making the jump. The guy was literally at the game and watched Michigan dominate MSU....and he knew a critical play was overturned......but he complained about the rankings. If he didn't KNOW that Michigan was better than MSU after all of the football that he watched...then he loses some of his "smarter than you" points.
November 30th, 2021 at 10:12 PM ^
Cade threw the interception on the next play. Obviously, there's no way to know what the right call was.....but his desired play turned into a pick (and we know that Michigan ended up running at will all day).
But Cade didn't have to throw it to a guy in double-coverage. Edwards would have walked in with a TD if Cade had seen him.
December 1st, 2021 at 11:35 AM ^
He had talked about for weeks before the UM-MSU games that at a certain point, results on the field must matter more than advanced stats and the eye test.
So it's not exactly surprising that he would be so into putting MSU above UM, and honestly I don't disagree with him. The better team doesn't always win in sports, and it's not a beauty contest. If Michigan was the better team truly deserved to be ahead the full resume would show it by the end of the year. Lo and behold, it did.
I don't think he ever thought MSU was the better team than UM (similar with Oregon and OSU for awhile), but that if we are ranking the teams by their resumes, and one of those data points is team A playing team B, then if all other data points are relatively similar put the team that won that game ahead of the other. My only issue with his take (and where his bit of arrogance comes in) is that he made it out to seem like having UM above MSU was completely indefensible and irrational, when it wasn't. Head to head is often used as the first tiebreaker in standings, but there's no specific reason why it must always be the first tiebreaker (especially in a sport with very few data points, huge home vs away disparity, and wildly varying strength of schedules)
November 30th, 2021 at 8:57 PM ^
“Even earned arrogance is unbecoming”
You’ve met Michigan students and alumni, right?
November 30th, 2021 at 8:55 PM ^
You know that a pulled punch is a fake punch right?
November 30th, 2021 at 10:49 PM ^
I agree. I am not a big fan of Gus but he was pretty good in the OSU game. But Klatt is always on point. I also like Herbstreit. Both of those guys are the gold standard in color commentating of college football, IMO.
December 2nd, 2021 at 12:07 AM ^
Herbstreit as a commentator though is wooden and boring. He kind of mutes the atmosphere of a big college game.
November 30th, 2021 at 8:47 PM ^
Klatt is very good and I think he and Cowherd actually are fun to listen to. Thanks for the link.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:00 PM ^
Again a big THANK YOU to those that were there and to those that cheered from their living rooms as well!
November 30th, 2021 at 9:08 PM ^
Does anyone know what he was referring to with the cover of Time magazine showing the stadium with 100,000 on the filed after the game?
I googled and couldn't find anything related to that.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:44 PM ^
I was wondering the same thing.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:47 PM ^
Here you go. What a wild sea of people and picture perfect scene!
November 30th, 2021 at 11:04 PM ^
Great picture. Cute that Klatt thinks it’s a real Time cover.
December 1st, 2021 at 12:24 AM ^
Wait, it's not?
December 1st, 2021 at 1:51 AM ^
It is not. Read the cover. Does that sound like Time?
December 1st, 2021 at 10:37 AM ^
Damn, I was almost going to subscribe.
December 1st, 2021 at 2:17 AM ^
Time should go with the maize and blue color scheme from now on... it's a good look.
November 30th, 2021 at 9:18 PM ^
Klatt wasn't asked about what Leinart said. He brought it up unprompted.
Now, he and Leinart aren't SEC guys and don't have the SEC beat, so that is a qualifier--the SEC has some incredible environments.
But they're not slouches, either. They've been at this for a while. Leinart played in the Bush-Push game at Notre Dame, a game legendary for both the game on the field and the crowd. Worth remembering, too, that when Gameday was at the Stadium (including after the game) for UTL I the hosts, who have been everywhere, couldn't hide their amazement at the scene. So it holds up.
And the environment includes, at least according to Klatt, the general scene, which included snow, which was everything you could hope for.
I mean, it was a spectacle. The noise was incredible, and came through on tv. The visuals were amazing. It's Michigan-Ohio State, there's never anything like it, and this was the best of the best. This is everything we've wanted to see for 20 years.
November 30th, 2021 at 10:06 PM ^
I did not mean to imply that he directly agreed with Leinart. Just that he said virtually the same thing. I wanted the title to acknowledge them both.