Michigan vs SDSU 2004 Highlights- Hart's Breakout Game
Finally. After all of these years of trying to find highlights online, and bugging people to upload them if they had them. I finally got a DVD copy of this game. This was a close call and an ugly win. But this game had a lot of historic things to it.
Braylon Edwards broke Marquise Walker's career record for receptions (but he fumbled after he caught it). This was the game where Mike Hart was "noticed". His first career start. This was also the first game that I attended with a group of friends that still go with to this day.
The broadcast was from ESPN with the Beckmann & Brandstatter WJR radio broadcast playing over it. It may be a little a faster than the video in the beginning for some reason.
Check out the cheap shot on Henne by that SDSU dirtbag at 15:06.
Love the interview with Hart at the end.
Getting to it. Got to order it from this site. I'm doing that one, 2003 vs CMU, 2005 vs NIU, 2006 vs NW, 2007 vs EMU, 2007 vs Minnesota and 2003 vs Indiana.
I'm gonna have a little trouble figuring out how to get VHS onto a hard drive. May require some equipment.
August 1st, 2012 at 11:05 PM ^
August 1st, 2012 at 11:20 PM ^
Canopus makes VHS to digital converters. I bought one for my mom a few years ago so she could convert old home movies to digital. They were a little more expensive then. I think you could get a new one for $150 now or find one for cheap on ebay.
August 2nd, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
The best way would probably be to get a capture card.I have one of these and it works pretty well -
It is fairly easy to setup and there are a few options for capturing raw streams from the card.
August 1st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
Utah '02? That one was pretty boring.
was just crazy. Loved seeing Braylon get into that asshole's face, though.
I think Underwood started this game and the next week at ND too despite how much better Hart looked in the SDSU game. I remember after the ND game, Lloyd said something like "We lost the game but we found a running back" which made me think Y U NO WATCH SDSU GAME?
I'm pretty sure we played ND before we beat SDSU.
You're right, I'm confusing SDSU and Miami (NTM). Both are minor footnotes to the frustration of the ND game in my memory.
One of the "what if" teams. They should have won that damn game at ND. Really. I understand it was Henne's second start and it was in a hostile environment, but you mean to tell me the defense had to fall apart like it did in the second half?
The game at ohio....I wish they would have played Zwick. Too many mistakes, turnovers, dropped passes.
Rose Bowl still hurts to this day. Especially how Shazor was so close to blocking the kick. Defense shouldn't have gave up that many points to begin with.
The ultimate "what if team" is the 1999 team. I believe they could have beat FSU.
August 1st, 2012 at 11:05 PM ^
I am probably biased since it was my freshman year, but I feel like the 2003 team was one of the most stacked Michigan teams in a long time. A special teams meltdown cost us both of our regular season losses and if not for a holding call on a long Braylon TD we would have blown a top 5 OSU team completely out of the water. And the biggest "What if" moment of that entire season: What if Braylon doesn't drop a sure TD on the opening series of the Rose Bowl? That team could have beaten anyone that year.
August 1st, 2012 at 11:52 PM ^
Agreed regarding the 1999 team. This team was so ridiculously stacked on offense, and also the front 7 on D. The back to back losses were devestating. But the season had so many great combacks (ND, PSU, OSU, Bama) that it's really hard to be disappointed with that season even though they could've had a very legit shot at the MNC.
I just went and watched the youtube of the UM/MSU game in East Lansing, which I attended as a sophmore. We had absolutely no answer for Plaxico Burress. Resorting to putting David Terrell out there to try and stop him. We also couldn't get anything going offensively, particularly in the 3rd quarter, which ultimately ended the 1st Qtr/2nd Qtr alternation of Brady and Henson at QB. IIRC, this was the only game during the QB controversy that Henson "won the right" to play in the second half based on his first half performance. States defense was blitzing like crazy. This was the last game M has played vs a Saban coached team. Hope Hoke and company are more prepared for aggressive defense in Dallas this time around.
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:14 AM ^
The one guy we missed was William Peterson. He was supposed to be Woodson's replacement at corner, but got kicked off the team. Without him, that position became a weakness, while Peterson ended up in the NFL.
Henson also played the second half against Syracuse, BTW.
August 1st, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
Interesting. I had forgotten that almost all of the scoring was in the first half.
The only thing I really remembered about this game was Mike Hart. I was still so pissed off over losing to a shitty Notre Dame team the previous week that I watched this one in a zombie like state...still pouting, still too angry to really remember anything else about it, even the cheap shot at the end.
One thing I do remember, this was during the beginning half of the season where the secondary was playing pretty good and picked off a ton of passes but they weren't above giving up a huge play at least a couple times a game.
I remember the crowd being in a bit of a cranky mood, as it often was following a loss. At about 14:25 in the video, you can hear the crowd reacting to the fact that we ran the ball on that last 3rd and 9 before Hart unexpectedly picks up the first down. The crowd groaned at the playcall and was probably going to boo there if it had failed.
Anyone remember why Clayton Richard went in during the 2nd quarter?
Henne wasn't the clear-cut starter at this time. He got the start for the opener partly because Matt Gutierrez was injured. At this point in the season it wasn't clear if he was the #1 guy or still just a fill-in.
Henne was struggling the last previous few series.
I will always remember the awed feeling I had as I walked into the BIg House for the first time
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:13 AM ^
August 1st, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
Is that an "asshole" chant going right after Henne took the cheap shot?
There is a current Michigan football coach starting in this game as well.
This game was so miserable. Awesome in retrospect but having just lost to ND and with people questioning Henne--I believe Clayton Richard got a series or two in this game--watching the offense contunually go run, run, sack. Very frustrating.
The cheap shot on the Henne kneel down got everyone fired up.