Looking Ahead - 9/25

Marshall averaged 7.1 yards/carry.... So I think we'll have some success on the ground?

If we can stop BG one time I think we will be okay.

Bowling Green scores a lot of points so I think we're definitely in for another shootout.  45-42 M

Well I looked at Bowling Green's roster on rivals

Link: http://usc.rivals.com/cdepthtext.asp?Team=BOWLGREEN

If this is up to date, thats 10 senior starters on that defense. I'm not really concerned about how our offense putting up points though. Its the 10 upperclassmen on offense that bothers me.

We will look better next week. Greg Rob can work with the d, and we can hopefully get a little more confidence in are d again. They need to get too the qb to take pressure of are secondary. If we can do that on games are d will look better. Today umass had a year to throw each play and the result. They picked are secondary a part. And aside from not pressuring the qb, they couldn't stop the run. Hopefully they will look better next week though. I have faith in them

Do their players have a pulse?  Do \they have an offensive coordinator?  If so, I'd say we're screwed

is their as a Grad student and handles all kicking duties

The only thing I'm looking ahead to is a beautiful sack of White Castle burgers my wife is bringing me home after a long afternoon of drinking and notching another W in the win column.  I will save my predictions and breakdowns until after I shake this hangover with an a.m.  Bloody Mary.

Threw 4 picks, 2 of which BGSU took in for TDs

I attended both the Michigan game and the Bowling Green game (where I am a student) and can honestly say UMass is better than Bowling Green. The Falcons lost their biggest offensive weapons in their quarterback Tyler Sheehan and wide reciever Freddie Barnes. While Willie Geter is no slouch at running back, their offensive line is not as impressive as the UMass one.

Did anyone else notice a lot of substitutions on the D during the game?  -- I am assuming this was to get game experience for the backups.

I don't normally notice specific players when Michigan is on D - but saw Leach get owned like 3 run plays in a row on one drive.  I don't think hes seen the field much at all up to this point.  Does anyone know if this was injury based or just what I hypothesized (sp?) above?

I guess I'm just looking for any silver lining / excuse for the D today so I can sleep between now and the start of the B10 season.

In other glass-half-full news - even pending the final result in Tucson both Iowa and Wisconsin looked beatable today (UW particularly if we can keep the offensive pace as fast as ASU did) and PSU doesn't look like they can put up many points - even against Michigan - if we can score against their very good D.  So I'm saying there's a chance........

You need to realize that MARK MAY agrees with you.  Perhaps you will reconsider whether that is a sane opinion

is take care of business and grow as team from the BG game. Win big or win ugly like today, just win and get it done with.

Then focus like hell on Indiana. 

that our defense improves.  Simple as that.

Our poor defense puts tremendous pressure on our offense to score almost every time we have the ball.   Our even worse kicking game adds even more pressure to the offense to score TD's since a FG is pretty well out of the question.   Then our equally poor punting game makes it seem like we have to go for any 4th and short that comes up or risk another kicking disaster.

But its all going to get better...............................right?

We need to have Roh line up as a DE.  It seems like the D as a whole plays more aggressive whenever that happens. 

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