Shitty ass endings to both major sports negbang
March 29th, 2019 at 12:05 AM ^
At least we still have hockey.
Oh. Wait..
March 29th, 2019 at 12:14 AM ^
I love seeing all of the new accounts popping up to bitch about this game. TT made six threes; we made one. Yep, an asswhoopin'. This whole team likely comes back, and Belien is amazing.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:18 AM ^
Need some young guys to step up next season.
Its tough to win against good defenses when you’re essentially playing 3.5 on 5 when on the offensive end.
Poole, Brooks, and Livers all got better this year and there's no reason to think that they can't be still better next year. DeJulius will get more minutes and has plenty of upside. Someone has to got to get to the point where they make threes reliably. We shoot 33% on the 3's yesterday and it's a very close game.
This program has come a long way when there's this much angst over 30-7 and a Sweet Sixteen, including calls for Beilein to change the offense.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:58 PM ^
Poole in no way shape or form got better this year. He was not good for most of the season.
Poole regressed this year. He needs to work on his shot selection and to be more consistent.
Cole and jaylen
March 29th, 2019 at 12:33 AM ^
After scoring the fewest points by a 2 seed in NCAA tournament history I don't want to hear how amazing Beilein is. The fact is Izzo and Beard coached circles around this man in the biggest games of the year. We won 30 games and didn't hang any banners. It was a good year, but the ending was a fucking disaster.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:35 AM ^
You're pissed like all of us and I get it. But you're also being too myopic and judging this one game as a reflection of Coach B's entire tenure.
This game was not the norm, but the exception.
We'll be back.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:42 AM ^
I'm judging him on the entire season. You can't lose to your rival three times and get blown out in the tournament and expect people to get on board with the Beilein is amazing talk in the immediate aftermath. Come the fuck on. The guy isn't above criticism. Yes what he's done with the program in his tenure has been awesome but the bar has been raised now and we peed down our leg in every big moment this year and our coach had no answers on offense all season. Just admit it.
And by every big moment, you mean every big moment that you want to count and ignore all the other big moments that we didn’t pee down our leg against all the good teams we beat this year, including beating a two seed by 30. I mean, come the fuck on, we had back to back 30 win seasons for the first time in our basketball program’s history and you want me to believe Beilein isn’t awesome because you said so. Also, come the fuck on and quit being a whiny bitch
Also, lol at you starting your post off saying you are judging him on the entire season and then pointing to 4 total games as to why you think Beilein isn’t awesome. Fuck off
Honestly I feel bad for people like this. They are never ever going to find happiness in life, the way they think.
Old98 is easily the worst poster on this blog.
You are aware that, prior to this season, Beilein has been more than a match for Izzo and co., right?
March 29th, 2019 at 11:50 AM ^
none of that matters, obviously. ohio state has a great recruiting class coming in and we're settling for participation trophies. or something...i forget which maizen account posted that one.
March 29th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
Found another Maizen account.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:49 AM ^
WTF does the entire tenure have to do with anything??! Dod OP say to fire Beilin??! No! You may have missed the second half of the season where we were below average at best. This game wasn’t the exception, it was all to common in the second half of the season, go count the L’s. You can stick your head in th sand and rewatch the glory years if you want , you do you. We have a real problem in basketball and football right now, go pretend we don’t and enjoy. Tell yourself it will just be all better in the morning. I’m not ok with being dog walked by State and I’m sure as hell not ok with two 2 decades of losing to the Suckeyes in fottball. I’m tired of “next year”.
With all due respect, I replied to the OP bc his basketball PMS was clouding his thinking when he was implying that Beilen isn't an amazing coach.
Correction: Beiliin is a fucking amazing coach and will go down as the best fucking coach you, me and Michigan will probably experience in our generation.
That doesn't mean he is a perfect coach.
After having the longest sustained period of success in the past 12 + years that has included two final four appearances, two big ten tournament titles, 3 consecutive Sweet sixteen runs, three 30+ winning seasons and above all else doing this while running a clean program that maximizes the talents of under the radar recruits, all I can say to you and the OP is this: Chill the Fuck out Dude.
I don't know what the "real problem" is that you are alluding to, but our flaws in basketball this year has nothing to do with questionable coaching and play calling that has plagued our football team. It's quite simply we hit our talent ceiling this year and our lack of shooters and play makers got exposed by the best defensive team in the freaking nation.
Yeah, it sucks that we went 0-3 against MSU but unlike our football team, we aren't going to lose every game nor win every game. If go on a 14 game losing streak to our rivals like our football team is doing then ok, that's when you have permission to complain.
But until then, just chill.
My apologies, that Is good advice, I was a little frustrated after the game. The score gave me flashbacks to a crappy fall day in Columbus. Love Coach B but he has to find a shooter.
LOL.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:40 AM ^
It's also really difficult to have a potent Beilein offense with a PG who is not a threat.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:45 AM ^
Well that's his own damn fault then. He took Z's commitment before Cassius was ready to make a decision. Winston had UM leading and he was more than likely coming here. It is what it is.
This is false. Winston was leaning Sparty and was stringing us along.
That is total BS. We took Z because Winston wasn't coming. If we hadn't signed him early, he might have gone to MSU, too.
The team wasn’t that good this year. The fact that they LOOKED good shows that the coach knows what he’s doing.
A disappointing end to this season would have been a first round loss. Losing in the round of 16 on the back of a terrible offensive game shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Beilein is amazing
It's a given after a loss. The Fire Beilein crowd has been waiting months for this moment.
The team was flawed and those flaws got magnified here. But good Lord some of the scalding hot takes about the state of a program are hilarious.
This times a thousand. Is it really that difficult to see these trolls.
ditto
March 29th, 2019 at 12:28 AM ^
OSU wins the big ten in football AND HOCKEY, and MSU wins it in basketball. Just awesome.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:51 AM ^
That’s ok, we have until next September to say “next year”, sigh.
baseball?
March 29th, 2019 at 12:05 AM ^
WE DID IT!! WE DID IT BABY!!! WE HIT A THREE!!
Saddest 3 in the history of 3s.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:30 AM ^
One of the ugliest, too. Amazing that somehow dropped in.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:46 AM ^
When your walk-on in garbage time is your leading 3 point scorer . . . well that shows what kind of night it was.
Love JB, wouldn't trade him for any other coach, but really makes me wonder what Beilein's recruiting philosophy when his team goes 0-19 on threes in the tournament. His recruiting is just so.... odd... Whatever that "system recruiting" is, I just don't understand why it's so hit or miss and why he can't lock down more athleticism. Livers, zero points. Simpson, zero points. Yesterday we needed a player good enough to take someone off the dribble to break down that defense and like, crickets. Also, the team flat out seemed to be playing afraid. How many open threes did Simpson pass up? Just odd.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:06 AM ^
Let downs in both major sports this year. Just flabbergasted that even Beilein has no offensive answers just like in football. Smh.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:07 AM ^
Unlike Football, Beilein doesn’t have the horses to succeed offensively
March 29th, 2019 at 12:10 AM ^
Isn't that kind of Beilein's fault?
Wasn't Michigan favored for Winston at one point and we got Z instead?
Winston gives Michigan a national title. He's perfect for a Beilein PG.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:12 AM ^
Tyus Battle committed to us, and thus Winston went to MSU.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:16 AM ^
That was Langford that committed because of Battle. Not Winston. Either way, it's a 40% 3-point shooter that would've been nice to have the last three years.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:17 AM ^
That's not true.
Beilein was tired of waiting for Winston, signed Zavier, then revoked Winston's offer.
It's worked out pretty well, except for a game like tonight, where I don't think Winston even makes a difference.
TTU is a dominant team this year. Kudos to them
March 29th, 2019 at 12:47 AM ^
Texas Tech lost 5 of their top 7 scorers from last years team where's all the excuses for them? Oh wait only Beilein gets excuses.
A PG who averages 19 ppg and can shoot doesnt make a difference tonight ?
March 29th, 2019 at 12:15 AM ^
Stupid. 17 year old decides to go to another school and its Beilein's fault?
March 29th, 2019 at 12:34 AM ^
Post-game hysterics are the best kind.
March 29th, 2019 at 12:49 AM ^
Many Michigan fans are going through basketball PMS right now. They can't think rationally :)
March 29th, 2019 at 12:58 AM ^
Many Michigan fans find it easier to cling to mediocrity than to expect a not embarrassing end to our basketball and football seasons. It’s gonna be Ok next year, right ?? Lol. Wow
33-7 and 10-3 isn't mediocrity. it isn't top 10 or NC challenging, but it isn't mediocrity.
M will consistently be a top 20 program in both sports. M won't consistently be top 5 in either.
in football, M doesn't have access to enough of the very best players to be top 5 most years (if ever going forward). demographics matter in in football.
in basketball coaching ethics & institutional norms limit M.
if winning a NC is your definition of above mediocre you are going to be very agitated watching M.
Sorry but being in the Top 20 for UM is mediocrity by definition. I’d like to hear how our demographics work and why we don’t have access to enough or the top players in football. 190 miles to the south they have a prett good track record of bringing in the athletes needed to be near top 5 every year. Are you claiming that 190 miles is a continental divide that can’t be crossed. Save the “bagmen” bs which is such a garbage excuse. We aren’t recruiting well enough in football but it’s not because of geography!! The “ethics” part is such a lame ass excuse when we watched the Gibbons and Lewan fiasco play out. Hell even if Grant Perry played for anyone else we would have roasted them. Ethics as you use it is a tired bs excuse for poor recruiting and even worse coaching. I get we weren’t better than the suckeyes this year and I can live with that. 62 point and 2 decades of futility is harder to swallow. Quitting in bowl games back to back years is coaching and has nothing to do with our level of talen.