Michigan vs App State highlights, WolverineHistorian style

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

A WolverineHistorian-style highlight video of yesterday's game in HD, as promised.

Notice the first image of Michigan Football in 2014 is of Spike Albrecht, Caris LeVert and Andrew Dakich on the right of your screen?

 

Black Socks

August 31st, 2014 at 7:06 PM ^

You know the announcers are bad when you have to mute them during the highlights.  Sounds like bad constipation.

Thanks for the video WH.

SF Wolverine

August 31st, 2014 at 7:21 PM ^

Thanks.  Also noted that on ASU's first TD (looked to me in real time that he was bobbling it on the way out), Beth Mowins said as the reply was being shown on the big screen something like "even the Michigan fans were oohing over that catch."

 

Um, no Beth -- sounded to me like they were questioning whether he had control as he went out.  But thanks for playing.

Sheesh.

M-Dog

August 31st, 2014 at 9:30 PM ^

Anyone else still surprised that App State even agreed to schedule this game?

I know they got a payout (around $850,000), but it was not a program-changing amount of money.  They could have gotten similar $ from other top programs that need to fill up 7 home games.  Why go back to Michigan and do anything to deliberately make the first time look like a fluke?

They could have gone forever undefeated against the winningest program of all time.  Why dilute their biggest win of all time for no good reason?  They will always have the win, but some of the mystique is gone.  

We get mad at our AD for selling us out, but their AD really sold them out.

 

M-Dog

August 31st, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^

Seems they could have gotten that by playing any number of top 25 programs, all of whom need bodybags for a seventh home game.

I'm not sure how good their exposure was on Saturday.  They just looked like a small nothing-special school.  All the mystique is gone . . . they have the origianl win, but you don't feel like they could ever do it again.  Yet there was a time were you were just not 100% sure.

M-Dog

September 1st, 2014 at 8:41 AM ^

And now it's done.  The mystique is gone.  What do they really have to show for it?

If I'm an App State fan, I'd rather have the unblemished win than the "attention" of getting pasted in a rematch that removes any doubt that the first win was a one-time flash in the pan thing that will never happen again.

Several of the App State players from the first game have said this very thing.

Mike Kenn

August 31st, 2014 at 9:40 PM ^

thats true. it does kinda ruin the way they played michigan once and had the biggest upset ever. they will still always have that game, but it does kinda take away from their win..and id be lying if i didnt say it makes me feel better about that loss...at least a little bit

M-Dog

August 31st, 2014 at 10:17 PM ^

I don't feel better about the loss, but I do like the symmetry of us taking care of business and closing the book on that chapter.  It already feels like a grainy historical event that happened three coaching staffs ago.  It has lost any relevancy to today.

On the flip side, i feel a little sad for their fans.  I work with a guy that went to App State.  He said that until their win over Michigan, he was ashamed to say that he went to a place called "Appalachian State".  But he's not anymore.  Because of that win and the attention it got.  And he's not even a football fan or even a sports fan.  It does not matter, that win put that program on the map.  It is more than a win in a football game, it is now part of the very DNA of the university itself.

To take some of the mystique away from the win for no compelling reason just seems unnecessary.

 

Blue in Time

September 1st, 2014 at 8:30 AM ^

Kudos, Devotee, great highlights. With all the obligatory caveats, I'll go out on a limb and say that I haven't seen a Wolverine offense this crisp since I don't know when. The gut test comes this Saturday, obviously, but if I'm an Irish fan, or coach, I'm not happy about the prospect. At its best, and there was a lot of best on Sunday, this team looks like it knows exactly what it's doing. 

Logan88

September 1st, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^

Did they review the 4th & 4 play by App State on their 2nd TD drive? It didn't look like the guy made it to my eyes but there was no replay in the highlights. That looked like a VERY generous spot on first viewing.