November 3rd, 2013 at 7:35 AM ^
November 3rd, 2013 at 1:51 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:16 PM ^
MGoBlog right now:
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:46 PM ^
That is all I see you doing in every thread.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:56 PM ^
Yeah, Reader 71, stop using logic and reason; that's not what this thread is about.
November 3rd, 2013 at 1:57 PM ^
Do you get paid to ask inane questions you already know the answers to?
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:17 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^
Wow is all I have to say. Funk and Borges need to be fired, and it needs to be done by Dave Brandon, because there is no way Hoke is going to do the deed. Just dissapointing at the way Borges planned with two weeks, and Funk is continiously showing why he doesn't' belong in Division 1 football.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^
I would like Hoke and this staff gone. However, that's not going to happen. DB will not fire his Michigan man, and Hoke isn't going to dump anybody. Right now the excuse is Youth.. next year there will be another one. Michigan... another name for mediocrity.
I have to admit though.. I have a certain morbid fascination, in how long DB is going to stretch this thing out. How long will it take him to admit, that hiring Hoke was a mistake.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:21 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:20 PM ^
I don't care ff this repetative. The man needs to go. And he can take Borges with him.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
but again, this was supposed to be the game wherein I ate my hat or whatever and I stopped my stupid heart from wanting Hoke and Company gone, but no.
Today happened. Today in all its gross, predictable shittiness happened.
And it's sad. I haven't had confidence in like 10 years! in m football.
I've said this before, in other threads, but it needs repeating.
At least with RR I hoped and believed in some real or unreal future ( a blitzkrieg o, a fast mutable d) something we could possibly become.
And right now. I'm trying very hard to project what we're supposedly shooting for? Big Ten Championships? National Championships? What are we trying to become with Hoke? A man brawl team? The north's alabama?
That shit is so boring. And we don't recruit at that level anyway.Right now, our future is an obscure, dark thing, a shadow of a film clip from a bygone time, recognizable only to those types who write "bo would be rolling in his grave if....."
I want to be inventive. Smart. Creative. Exciting.
I want a Brad Stevens esque hire up in this mother. Truly I don't give a flying fuck about M traditions and all that. The 80s and 70s were fucking forever ago. Three yards and a cloud of dust isn't how the game is played anymore.
You either need freaks (Cam Newton and Fairley, Jameis Winston), greasy palms, or schemes.
We have none.
Personally, I want schemes. I want coaches. New, adaptable, quick thinking people.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
We've already done that before. It didn't work.
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 9:29 PM ^
No - the point is that we reportedly sent feelers to Petersen and he wasn't interested. Every year, he's on the top of everyone's list and he always says no.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:35 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
What other reaction do you want? 2 weeks to prepare, and that's the best you can do? Please tell me what players have gotten better under this staff? Also, please don't use the excuse of youth... that has run it's course.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:40 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:55 PM ^
Whether our players have improved enough isn't a question. They haven't. I think even Hoke would concede that.
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:10 PM ^
The offensive line play has shown no improvement. That wouldn't be happening if every single player had gotten better. The defensive performance has also not been better on a week by week basis, and I am having a hard time thinking of defensive players whose individual performance has gotten better on a week by week basis.
November 2nd, 2013 at 10:56 PM ^
November 3rd, 2013 at 7:44 AM ^
November 3rd, 2013 at 1:59 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
typical michigan fan yea have fun being a second tier program with your second tier coach.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
on the plus side we could be NW
FIVE losses in a row, including just now on a last second 50 yard hail mary.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:23 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:23 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:24 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:29 PM ^
It's amazing how quickly Northwestern has gone from 100mph-to-Northwestern. Unbelievable.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:23 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:24 PM ^
but Hoke and his staff should be put on notice there jobs are on the line. Any competent coach can bring in a staff and make better players with what we have. AND UNDERSTAND THIS; MSU IS ONLY ABOVE AVERAGE AMONG SECOND TIER TEAMS! If they played any of the top ten teams in the country they would get crushed.
This only points out how low the MIchigan program has become. Today, they got their asses whipped big time. After so many hits DG was afraid to run for a first down. After his interception, he wasn't hurrt. He needed to get out of their.
Bottom line is MSU BROKE OUR WILL. FWIW, this is what Nick Saban preaches to his players. Break their will. You witnessed it first hand today.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:26 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
Why? Mattison hasn't proved much more than the rest of the staff.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:33 PM ^
Mattison does a good job with the players he has. You just can't expect the defense to be on the field this much.
We had a pretty good game plan and turned in pretty good results against that boring offense MSU runs for most of the game. But when your Defense never leaves the field breakdowns are bound to happen. Mattison stays, it is crazy to suggest he needs to go.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:43 PM ^
Mattison has a bevy of 4 star talent to work with. I am sick of hearing about the cupboard on defense. On offense I can at least say its an OL issue. Mattison has two 4 star starting corners from 2011..... MSU stars a 2 star from 2011 and leaves him on an island. Calhoun is a 3 star and is a star already. Stop leaving Mattison blameless. Is he an improvement over past 5 years? yes. He is not perfect and is underachieving in some ways as well with all this 4 star talent lavished upon him.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:50 PM ^
True, Mattison isn't perfect but he is turning in good games on defense with a lot of youth and playing a lot of downs.
I think you judge Mattison and Hoke next year though Hoke gets the hot seat this year if he doesn't get rid of Funk when the season ends.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
Some of you really need to chill out. It's a football game. Yes, this staff sucks. That's what happens when you hire a MAC level coach. But it's still just a game.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
I'm all for discussing the game. But some people seem to be taking the loss as a personal insult, and that's what I don't get. An anonymous group of athletes beat another anonymous group of athletes. OMG MY LIFE SUCKS!
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:31 PM ^
I'm prepared to die for UofM football man.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:36 PM ^
I assumed this was sarcastic. Please tell me this was sarcastic.
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:11 PM ^
but the program asks me to pay for football tickets ($95 for ND and Ohio State), plus a seat license, plus $50 to park at pioneer, pay $4 for a bottle of absopure water in the stadium. Ungodly prices for other concessions, purchase legacy jerseys, and so on and so forth. John Bacon estimated that $500 is the average spent on a gameday with all the activities. With that sort of request for a monetary outlay, I expect a better product. And we're not getting it when we lose 5 out of 6 years to a program who spends 1/3 the amount of money on athletics as we do . . .
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:55 PM ^
Why don't you work on not being such a jerk and leave us to our wallowing.
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:03 PM ^
You pretty much said it all right there.
At the end of the day, win or lose, it really is just a bunch of kids from one school playing a bunch of kids from another school.
And in the grand scheme of life.........means pretty much nothing.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:25 PM ^