October 5th, 2015 at 10:28 PM ^
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October 5th, 2015 at 10:29 PM ^
Yeah, isnt this what they do on their blogs?
October 5th, 2015 at 10:31 PM ^
75% of the posts there are about Michigan and Harbaugh
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October 5th, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
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October 6th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
stop drinking and go to bed.
October 6th, 2015 at 3:24 AM ^
To be fair, "kawter," there are three OSU posts on the mogoboard side display right now out of a total of fifteen. All three are relevant.
I am not trying to be rude here, but I am curious. Are you old enough to remember when Michigan vs OSU used to be one of the two or three best games in college football every year?
October 5th, 2015 at 10:30 PM ^
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October 5th, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
field conditions/wind, or what a great job our punter did. I think he took alook at the stat line and mailed this one in. Agree that he could have easily laid the same criticisms on his favorite team.
October 6th, 2015 at 9:32 AM ^
October 5th, 2015 at 10:31 PM ^
I don't understand why we care what they think...
October 6th, 2015 at 12:25 AM ^
Why we care, per Sun Tzu:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
October 5th, 2015 at 10:32 PM ^
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"Michigan under Jim Harbaugh, however, is never going to be defined by its weaknesses. Instead, it will be defined by how it overcomes those weaknesses, and — somehow, someway — even turns those weaknesses into strengths.
That is what Michigan Football is going to be under Jim Harbaugh, and things already look to be ahead of schedule.
The only thing missing now is depth and talent, which isn't going to be missing for much longer."
He's 100% right. Party's over Buckeye's - daddy's home.
October 6th, 2015 at 12:26 AM ^
we're only lacking in experience in Harbaugh's system. We have the next 6 games to take care of that.
October 6th, 2015 at 8:42 AM ^
This is spot on. I was going to post the same thing, it's a perfect synopsis of Michigan under Harbaugh so far . . . by a guy with no vested interest at all to say it.
Yes the Buckeye party is OVA. Oh, it's not like they will just go away. They have great recruiting and coaching. But so do we now. Michigan-Ohio State games will go back to being decided on a turnover or a missed call . . . not one team's utter domination over the other.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^
but i went ahead and clicked on it anyway. not a bad article, not bad at all. and a few good quotes too. if only all ohio fans were as dignified and possessed of a sense of humor as this guy, you could almost like them. paging buckeye jon ross.....
October 5th, 2015 at 10:35 PM ^
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That the only decent team we played scored 24 of those pts.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:37 PM ^
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October 6th, 2015 at 8:25 AM ^
Yeah, well, when I'm playing I try to throw the ball, and the men opposite me on the field, they try to take the ball away. Now, then I try to throw it to a place on the field where the opponents aren't standing anymore. And if they manage to get there, I run around and try to throw it to another place on the field where they're not standing anymore. And sometimes I or one of my teammates goes outside the lines on the sides of the field. And if that happens, the officials blow their whistles, and that's very bad if it happens to me. But if it happens to the other team, I really like that.
October 5th, 2015 at 11:22 PM ^
I believe that's refered to as Whistling past the graveyard.
October 6th, 2015 at 8:50 AM ^
He is starting to shade things a little bit. His quotes and stats are still accurate, but they are a little selective to make Michigan look more disjointed than it actually is.
We were easy for a Buckeye to write about when we were just a cute little lion cub taking its first shaky steps. But now that we've killed a few villagers, we're not so much fun to write about.
Expect future Michigan Mondays to accentuate the few negatives that can be found even more.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:40 PM ^
that we played two pretty good offenses already in Utah and BYU.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:41 PM ^
I normally like his posts, but this was poorly written, illogical and teeming with bitterness.
He spent the entire time criticizing both our offense AND defense for beating Maryland 28-0. He also described BYU as a horrid offense (not accurate. they may not be great, but they're not worse than average). OSU has looked much worse than we have in games against bad competition.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
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don't come as a result of a single explosive play. Of course, that also means that OSU's most impressive touchdown drive against Indiana was 30 yards.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^
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October 6th, 2015 at 8:53 AM ^
Fun and lies with statistics.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:53 PM ^
the safeties which is generally a good thing. I'm not sure about that criticism. The offense is playing about average. The main issue is the inability to hit the deep ball. They are protecting the QB well and until Maryland where getting a decent push in the run game.
October 5th, 2015 at 11:09 PM ^
I don't have any idea what issues at safety he is talking about. The secondary generally hasn't given up any plays downfield, which means the safeties are doing their job.
Calling BYU a terrible offense is also not accurate, they are average at worst. The numbers UM held them to are impressive, regardless of how anybody wants to slice it.
October 6th, 2015 at 3:25 AM ^
What the hell is that guy smoking?
The same BYU squad that's averaging 30+ points per game (if you throw out Michigan) and against the toughest schedule in Div 1? What a strange post.
October 5th, 2015 at 11:02 PM ^
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October 5th, 2015 at 11:32 PM ^
Despite OSU being 5-0, maybe he is getting nervous about how dominant UM's defense has looked. The only valid point he made about the defense is that they haven't gotten to the meat of the schedule yet, but he negates that point in a way by saying that UM won't see much better offenses the rest of the year.
October 6th, 2015 at 8:56 AM ^
Our defense has some yards to spare. Even our offense does not need a complete shutout to win. If our defense has a "bad" day and gives up 17 points against a decent offense, we would still win.
October 5th, 2015 at 11:50 PM ^
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I think I'm a pretty smart guy, but I cannot wrap my head around what he's trying to say with that dessert analogy to Maryland's offense. Maryland paid for defense? And feels like they don't need offense. All I'm saying if WOOF, nice try, guy.
And in the last paragraph he says we don't have talent or depth. Talent, maybe, at certain positions. But I think we're actually pretty deep at every positiion save QB and LB. Lots of guys are contributing all over the field.
October 6th, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^
This is an interesting Michigan Monday. Last week, I thought that Gerdeman was a bit off. Today's column confirms it for me. I think his tone is shifting just a wee bit. I don't know when Gerdeman began Michigan Monday. But I think this may be one of the first seasons when Michigan appears to be a legitimate threat, and OSU is . . . struggling. As noted above, it is easy to be patronizing and condescending when Michigan is bad. But as Harbaugh moves the team forward, this becomes a harder column to write. I completely agree with MGrowOld as to the money quote, on how things have really changed under Harbaugh, and they're not going back.
October 6th, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
I don't know when he started the column, but for over a decade he has had the priviledge of writing it with a condescending "little brother" tone, since we haven't beaten an OSU team with a winning record since 2003. They have been able to look at us the way that we look at Minnesota and the tone of that column reflects that. It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming years of HARBAUGH! comes to full fruition. Smug can become bitter fast. Of all the insults, nothing truly hurts more than the fact that they no longer seem to hate us. They haven't had a loss that rips their heart out since at least 2003, and even in that one everyone knew that we were the better team going into it and they were really lucky to be 10-1 at that point. They have totally forgotten what it feels like.
October 6th, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
I don't want to take anything away from Michigan's win, because they did exactly what they were expected to do
Funny, I don't remember us going into that game as 28 point favorites.