Purdue's Danny Hope Has To Answer For Santino

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I hope you haven't forgetten the BUSH LEAGUE move at the end of last year's game. I know I haven't...

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11/7/09

 

After today's Purdue victory at Michigan Stadium, Hope reportedly introduced Rodriguez to Boilers offensive lineman Zach Reckman and said, "Thanks Coach, we appreciate what you did." The Big Ten suspended Reckman for a game in September after he delivered a late hit to a Northern Illinois player after Purdue lost to the Huskies. 

"I was a little disappointed that after the game their coach seemed to bring the lineman over like I was the reason that his lineman got suspended for that one game," Rodriguez told reporters in Ann Arbor. "I don’t know where that came from. I talked to him on the phone and told him that wasn’t me that -- this is way back when. I didn’t have anything to do with that young man getting suspended for that one game." 

 
 

MadtownMaize

November 9th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^

and say that the reason that  Reckman got suspended was because he hit a player not only after the end of a play, but after the end of the game. It was obvious that he hit the guy out of frustration. Danny Hope needs to take his sorry ass porn stache and commence fucking off.

JayZ1817

November 9th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^

I hope after Saturday's win at Purdue, Rich Rod brings Denard with him to the post-game handshake and says, "This is a future heisman trophy winner, get yourself one."

Calvin

November 9th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^

I hate that Michigan has to even care about teams like Purdue anymore. I hate that Purdue gets to think that it's anything but Purdue. They get to sit and make snide comments and ridiculous statements that aren't true. I would be no happier if we destroyed Purdue this weekend. I'll also take a victory with a slight margin as well.

ChasingRabbits

November 10th, 2010 at 8:50 AM ^

I hate that UM fans seem to have fuzzy recolection of anything that happened prior to 2008.

1995 W 5-0 H

1996 L 3-9 A

1999 W 38-12 H

2000 L 31-32 A

If coach Rod wins Saturday and at home next year he will have started off against Purdue much like our previous coach... And I left out several subsequent "way to close" victories that we most definitely "cared" about.

profitgoblue

November 10th, 2010 at 9:32 AM ^

That 1995 game was epic.  I was a junior that year and by the end of the game the Big House was about 30% filled.  It started out cloudy, then it started raining in the first half, then it started sleeting, and then it turned to snow.  It was colder than a witches tit and neither offense could do anything in that weather.

kalamazoo

November 10th, 2010 at 10:19 AM ^

Didn't we at the time have a long consecutive 102,501 attendance streak (this was before the 1st of 2 rennovations)?  Well, this game definitely broke that...it barely cracked 100,000 and the few people that were there for the announcement couldn't have been more surprised we hit that.  The attendance is supposedly based on tickets received at the gate...not sold.

Thank god for parents weekend for freshmen and a few other programs or we wouldn't have the XX games above 100,000 streak we have today. 

My roommate's dad just kept saying "It was a baseball score!...It was a baseball score!" so many times I wanted to punch him in the neck...well not really.

profitgoblue

November 10th, 2010 at 11:36 AM ^

I remember standing there in the student section in the sleet with my arms spread wide, laughing.  It was surreal.  And I remember the crowd being extremely loud, louder than an average game with probably 1/2 the number of spectators.  Those who stayed were definitely true Blue.  And cold.

kalamazoo

November 12th, 2010 at 11:04 AM ^

Funny I saw the bentley.umich.edu page and it says officially two other games in 1995 were below 102,501 and not Purdue:

Virginia (dreisbach/mercury hayes last-play-of-game TD): 101,444

Memphis: 100,862

Purdue: 103,721

See: http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1995fbt.htm

Can you watch the tape again and count the fans at the Purdue game?  That would be funny.  This guy seems to have it on DVD: http://home.comcast.net/~mman3/games.htm

GBOD79

November 9th, 2010 at 11:32 PM ^

I hope after the game on Saturday Coach Rodriguez walks up to Coach Hope shakes his hand and tells him good game. Show Hope what class is and how to act. That is what a Michigan Man is and Coach Rodriguez is a Michigan Man. 

4godkingandwol…

November 9th, 2010 at 11:34 PM ^

... for simply starting a thread that has nothing to do with recruiting a WR. 

I agree, that was such a weird thing to do last year.  shows really a lack of good judgment, which is obviously a trait you want in a head coach. 

Looking forward to the game this weekend.  Would love to see the defense show a little more consistency and the offense to keep up what they've been doing.  And special teams... well, hell, I don't know.  Just hoping we give as good as we get.