Michigan - Iowa Game Thread

When was our last big play, like 30+ yard play? Indiana?

Tell me that dude stepped our of bounds

Wow.  Just wow.

Damn, DG

Ok. I have had it. Bench Gardner. He is just terrible

you have to expect that kind of thing

Gardener still fucking sucks

I am crying now

THROW THE BALL

Im almost glad we're going to lose so people will stop giving Borges a bunch of free passes. If we win, no one is going to remember we have like 50 yards of offense this half and this crap is going to continue for another year or two

we get into FG range

and

we can't hold on to the freaking ball.

Give the job to Shane and make Devin a WR next year...

The guy who runs the cafeteria at the hospital I work at really reminds me of big AL B. It doesn't matter what he makes he always uses the same two spices. He's affectionately known as "tony two spice".



Borges and his three plays a game remind me a lot of tony, and though I won't call Al anything affectionately, I will call him Al three spice from now on. Please DB, leave Al in Iowa after this game.

Wow, Hoke is pretty fired up. NOT!

Something is very wrong with Michigan. #InDepthAnalysis.

Dang

Please tell me that we will indeed fire people after the season? That's the only solace I take.

Three time outs left. Cmon D.

Gardner sucks so badly

Our D deserves better than this O.

Well stop em here and get the ball back

3 and out boys

Gardner made a mistake, no doubt about it. Yet why was Michigan in a position that they needed a game winning drive in the final few minutes? Because up until that point the Borges offense managed six yards total offense...

Dave Brandon should just meet Al Borges and Darrell Funk when they get off the bus in A2 and give them their pink slips. Well earned today

So Iowa has 2 missed field goals, 4 turnovers, and they still are going to, in all likelihood, win the game?



Why does that sound about right?

Everything. Especially Borges

There is no defense Michigan's offense can't make look spectacular.

My God Mason hates Michigan.

I can't tell if our defense sucks. I think they do. I KNOW our offense sucks.

Without Ross and Morgan filling gaps we're getting killed up front, Gedeon looks lost out there.

There is no defense Michigan's offense can't make look spectacular.

I'm going to stab me eyeballs now.

Iowa doesn't deserve the hardest working players. Borges does.

Is just mad bc Navarre scored against him on a 40 td reception Hahha.

They always deflate as soon as the offense blows the game. Now they're giving up 20 yard runs to that fat slow RB.

I can't defend him any longer!  Time to move on!  There is no excuse for that fumble.

Gardner is a shell of his former self.

Who's excited to see 30,000 osu fans in Michigan Stadium next week?

I just don't get him. He preaches toughness and physical play. But after three seasons, his team is the exact opposite of that. Whatever he is doing at practice, it's Fucking wrong!!!!!

We need a better S&C program for the D if they have to play the whole game.

Taylor likes to run along with tailbacks... TACKLE THEM!!!!

Hilarious, first TO of the day and all of a sudden all the blame is placed on DG. You guys forget how we got 21 pts? 7 from the defense, 14 from DG bailing out Borges' ass. 

I feel bad for Devin. Borges puts him into such a tough position with his shitty play calling and Devin has been trying to compensate by making big plays and probably trying too hard to make it happen.

Morris can't get a series? How is a 3 and out or a sack any worse than the garbage Gardner is producing?

Pathetic.  Worst offense I've ever seen this team have.  Been watching for 20+ years.  Can't run the ball, can't throw the ball.

Get ready for a 45-0 beatdown next week.

They had a 14 point lead in the second and have already given up 17.  Unacceptable!  We knew going in that we were going to need the defense.  

Everybody wants Shane Morris to play until he actually does and plays like a freshman. Then it's going to be "Shane sucks! Get rid of this guy. Whose idea was it to play him anyway?" 

Yes Gardner has made a few plays but his bad overshadows his good. He hesitates on throws, never checks to other receivers, refused to run north and get the easy yards, etc, etc.

Which offense was worse? Michigan 2013 or Michigan 2008 (RR year 1)?

We will be 7-4 after this game. 7-5 after next week. If we had won all of the close games, we could be 10-2 (assuming OSU game is not close). If we had lost all the close games (ND, Akron, UConn, Northwestern), we could have been 3-9. So 7-5 is about right for this team. Which, by the way, is pathetic for a coach in his 3rd year in this bad conference.

Great call

The offensive staff can't be let go soon enough

Fuck. Fire. Borges. Damn. Suck

When we lose next week, we'll have lost four of our last five.  We're an OT win over a terrible team away from a very Rodriguez like five straight losses to close out the season.  We've utterly collapsed.

This is a team that has thrown in the towel completely.  No defending coaches that allow this to happen.

Giving up a 3rd and 12. That said, the defense played well enough to win (given Iowa's propensity to self-destruct) if the offense had done anything whatsoever.

+ all the points to the first person to create the Fire Borges thread

commence meltdown

Game over

11-2, 8-5 and probably 7-6 this year.  I can only imagine how our O will be when Borges gets all his guys in here.

Program is going in a bad direction.  Wonder how many seats will be available at Michigan Stadium next year.

My faith in this coaching staff, particularly the offensive staff, is waning by the week.

Hey guys, remember when we used to make fun of MSU's offense?



Yikes....

Blow this one

...

Well not as bad as the 1 v 2 Chuck Long loss in '85 but very very bad nonetheless.

Losing to Iowa sucks because Iowa is not very good. But neither is Michigan.

Entire staff needs to be fired after OSU, this team embarrassed themselves today and are very poorly prepared in all phases. We would be third tier MAC team.

Iowa celebrating as if they just beat a good team.  Might as well go nuts after beating Iowa State.

What?  They did that, too?

If Borges isn't fired, I have lost faith in Hoke.

This is all the fault of not having a separate second half thread.

So we have an outsider (RRod) a shot at the coaching job and now a "Michigan Man" a shot as well.  Don't know where Michigan goes from here.

next week should be fun.

Might as well bend over now and get ready for it. It's going to hurt reeeeeaaaaal bad.

17 - 0 in the 2nd half.  4 Iowa tunovers did not hurt them.  1 Michigan turnover killed us.

Ferentz tells Leman "You know football better than I do."  That's the guy that just outcoached our guy.

Lots of players on the field with their helmets off. /s

I feel bad for the players

I was going to get tickets to The Game, but I decided to save the money and save myself the punch in the nuts.



Good lord, I have no faith we'll even score a point next week.

Never have I called for Hoke to be fired. But rationally thinking, how is he in any way outperforming Rich Rod? Sure, he had the 11-2 debut, but he has regressed to equal RR's output, where at least RR progressed to that point.

I just don't know if I can keep doing this to myself. If the powers that be don't care enough about this football team to make tough decisions and hire competent coaches than why should I care this much about this team.



I just feel terrible for the players. They put their faith and careers in the hands of this staff and those on offense couldn't have been let down more if they had been coached by my grandmothers lawn bowling team. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Assuming a loss next week (and I think that's safe to do,) we're two plays away from being 5-7 with losses to UConn and Akron.

This hasn't just been a bad season, this has been one of the worst seasons in modern Michigan football history.  The only reason that isn't jumping out at people more is because the Rodriguez era distorted our perception of success and failure.  This has been a disaster. 

Can a coaching staff rebound, not from a disappointing season but a disatrous season?  I don't think that happens too often.

I'm not saying they should fire Hoke; okay maybe I am, but hire a frikin' coach who's going to bring Michigan back to glory.  I don't care who it is, just pay the man.

I think the people hating on Gardner are a bunch of shitheads and I hope they defect to OSU. Yes DG should have gone out of bounds, it was a good play by the D.

I still think he can be a very good player, but the guys running the show aren't up for the job.

It was an improved game for Borges but that isn't saying much. Greg Davis probably called a better game, maybe, I don't know, its a toss-up.

At the end of the year DB needs to have a sit-down with Hoke, heart-to-heart and if he doesn't like what he hears i.e. the offensive coaches are doing a great job... it may be time to fire Brady Hoke. Part of it depends on what's available right now.

Are you saying "Boo" or "Boo-orges"?

We needed the win for our psyche, the players' foremost. And maybe a few hundred MGoFollowers.

Urban will do anything possible to run up the score next week to impress voters and win recruits. Not good.

By and large, the Michigan I grew up with made half-time adjustments and owned the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.

Just discouraging.

The bowl game match up should be interesting.

So sick of hearing about Hoke being a great recruiter.  It's not showing up on the field, in fact I see RR's guys still doing most of the heavy lifting on this team and I fear for next year when our only 2 functional O linemen are gone, our #1 WR is gone, and the Gordons are not making plays on defense anymore.

This is Michigan, I expect top 10 classes every year, and Hoke has delivered, but we have the 15th ranked class so far for 2014, and it's not likely to improve all that much, that's not GREAT recruiting.

Hoke has to be held responsible.