Outcoached

Maybe the point threshold needs to be upped to 500 during football season.  Why are these 300-point idiots bitching about the coaching staff already?  

We went through three years of fuckheads bitching about the coaching staff.  Now, they have a new staff and they are bitching after one fucking loss?  Brady Hoke is the coach now, and he deserves your support.  Period.  

Your RCMB-style micromanagement of the coaching staff is duly noted.  I'm sure you could have gone 12-0 if you were behind the bench.

i know this may be rude, but i'm over it.  we lost.  it happens.  6-1 is 6-1.  bring on purdue.  let's make it 7-1.  enought already. 

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This isn't really news.  Coach Hoke himself said during his press conference that we were "out coached and out played."

It's been 24 hours.  We all need to quit our bitching, accept it and move on.  

Sparty only played slightly less sloppy and failed to execute a little less than Michigan did. Michigan played poorly because they've only been practicing with our much, much better coaches for maybe 4 months. In other words, this is a load of barnacles.

Please don't up the points!! I'm almost there and will have lots of great stuff to contribute!

The team was out-coached.. but the coach himself was realistic.. In every post-game press-conference Hoke's been saying that the team is over-rated.. He wants his players to keep their head down, work hard and earn respect rather than act like they own it in legacy. I like Hoke.

"Hot routes" were obviously part of the gameplan. In fact, the pick six was the result of a miscommunication between Denard and Vincent Smith on a hot route.

Can we stfu with all the useless complaining? If we had made that 4th down and scored, it could've changed the game completely. It's not like we were blown out like last year. I mean, it's all right if you're pointing out something new we could have done better, but bitching about   shit others have already bitched about (which was fine then because the game just ended and they were pissed) is just getting ridiculous. No, we are not going to replace Denard, the staff is fine, they'll adjust, and we all know msu is dirty so stfu.

this is me bitching about everyone bitch, i know, stfu. 

If Rich Rod were still our coach we'd be 7 - 0 right now.

I'm sure there were a combination of problems, just not bad coaching. We'll see how good the coaches are in improving our players through the remainder of the season. I'm happy with the improvements I see on defense and being 6-1, and look forward to playing Purdue at home in less than 2 weeks. The team should just play hard and take one game at a time. Don't take any B1G team for granted!

We were outcoached and outplayed in every part of the game. The good news is that all of the problems we had can be resolved from coaching. We have good coaches. I support our coaching staff 100%. I may not agree with every call they make, but that is why I am not making the big dollar that they do. I am sure that Purdue will try to use the same tactic against us that MSU did. We will see how our guys respond.

I admit that it hurt a lot losing the game the way we did. I am just not ready to give up after one game. Not many teams can go undefeated through a whole season. We should just move on and concentrate on the next game which is in two weeks. I hope Michigan comes out ready for Purdue and makes a statement that Michigan will not fold.

Sorry for the double post.

"I hate to admit it, but we were outcoached on Saturday."

Hoke said as much during the presser, but one thing that is apparent is that he has coached this team with a class and composure that Mark Dantonio would be incapable of doing. The decisions on the field have been second-guessed, third-guessed and so on in the span of about 40 hours now, so there is little need to contribute more. All I will say is something I know has been said by several people already - many of these plays that you mention actually work...with different personnel in strategic locations. The coaches are doing just fine with what they have though. 

It's been said,  of course, but Hoke gets it - we lose to MSU,  but there are five winnable games left. You fix what you can and move on. Our opponent on Saturday only has this game, at  least pstchologically, and even if they win it, they will neither get nor deserve that respect that they crave. 

Out-convicted

Yes we were outcoached, but Hoke admitted it. And 2 things.  One, MSU had an extra week to prepare for us.  Two, we still are getting the Big 10 bodies to once again play Big 10 football.  A lot went wrong, but we almost won.  Beginning of the season, I thought we had no chance in East Lansing.  We are improving.  We need to calm down.  

I read every day, but post very infrequently. If I could vote you up, I would give you five points for this one. Any idiot that thinks a Rich Rod coached team could've won that game shouldn't be allowed on the board.

It's time to move on. Let it be a lesson of what "toughness" really means and keep improving. I think having a week off to let this loss sting a little will hopefully bring a new attitude about what it takes to compete in the Big Ten. Lots of season left.

But I would like to hear their explanation for the lack of response to MSU's timing of our snap count. It should have been clear by halftime that they were successfully anticipating the snap, and I would think that changing the count would have been a relatively easy thing to do.

I have no idea how people define toughness, but playing to the end against a good team that committed an unusual number of personal fouls without really retaliating, holding them to 21 points, and being within a couple of plays of at least squaring the game at the end is pretty tough to me.  And as some people noted, RR's teams were just as tough, they just sucked on defense because of inexperience, talent, and horrible coordinators.  This team may have been outplayed AND outcoached this week, but they lost for reasons beyond a single coordinator or play call.  Sometimes you just lose.

Somtimes teams are just better. Their DL demolished our OL. Their OL handled our DL. They were just a better team. End of story.

We were outcoached and outplayed. 

But there's no need to get angry about it. 

Slightly depressed = normal.  Angry = psycho.