Taylor Lewan doesn't appreciate your talk about Bellomy

I'm sorry, but Lewan is wrong.  I don't want to make Bellomy out as a scapegoat here, because we would have lost regardless once denard went down...

But to say that "nobody could have done better" is just insane.  I could have have spiked the ball 16 times and had a better result.

 Fans are critical of any player who doesn't perform well. They do it on all levels of sports in every sport. From pee-wee leagues to the pros and I'm sure if he had a bad game in high school he had a few articles wrote about that.  It comes with being a visible public figure on a big stage. He should have been ready to play , he wasn't and he took some heat

He is right but for a different reason.  He's right because the criticism should be on Borges for having nothing to counter the Nebraska blitz, and for having Russ so underprepared.  Hostile environment has little to do with it.  Borges is the one who should be taking all of the heat, with a minor frown going to receivers dropping balls.

Bellomy.

QB is the leader of the offense. It was an exceedingly tough situation but like the coaches have preached the next person has to be ready.

No way you or I could have done better but he is a D1 QB so he has to do better than what we saw on Saturday.

All this said no need for personal attacks.

That was me. I'm not fully placing blame on him, but he was not competent. He had the same number of completions to Nebraska as he did to Michigan. There were lots of the 18 pass attempts that were not even close to the receiver as they skipped off the turf or flew high to our old friend Tacopants. 

I was there on Saturday, and yes, it was loud, but it's not his first year in the program, nor has he shown to be a viable option even when playing at Michigan Stadium, as his numbers are just as bad. 

I place more blame on the coaching staff for not having the kid ready to step in when needed. There has been more than once this season that Denard was still playing in the 4th quarter when the game is out of reach of the opponent. We all know that Denard has gone down in previous years and someone had to step in for an extended period of time. Hoke and Borges should have inserted Bellomy earlier to prepare the kid. 

In short, Bellomy appears to not be ready and the coaching staff has made mistakes by not assuring that he is when Denard gets injured. 

I fully hope for him to imporve and become a great player at Michigan, he just hasn't shown it yet. 

This is an offense in transition. The kid wasn't brought in to run the spread, but right now that's kind of what we do. So, Bellomy is playing in an offensive scheme in flux right now; certainly not one suited to his skills. I'm not at practice, but when Bellomy is getting his reps I'm relatively sure that the coaches don't make a wholesale shift into "future offense mode." As much as the transition is or has hurt Denard, the current limbo can't be helping Bellomy either.

I know that I had some unfair expectations.  Prior to the Nebraska game, Hoke said that they have lots of faith and confidence in Bellomy.  Because of that I thought he would be able to manage the game better.  Stepping back from it, I know he tried his best in the situation he was placed in.  It just so happens that it wasn't good enough that night and it wasn't all his fault. 

You're acting like he got to play his first true snaps against some MAC team and built up to a real defense like most freshman qbs do. This was coming in for an injured Denard Robinson against a Big Ten defense, on the road, at night, in one of the most hostile environments in college football. I'm impressed he only threw 3 picks.

I agree. His closing speed on interception returns is what sets him apart from freshman Navarre.

We still know next to nothing about Gardner, though.  Except he's older. I want to think he'd be ALOT better, but we really don't know.  If Gardner starts at Minn, we still won't know because he'll face a different defense.

double post. 

Part of me wants to say, "There's an expectation to play that position at Michigan", however, I can't reasonably expect Bellomy to match those expectations at this point in his career. On the same note, I can't reasonably expect the coaches to prepare him to match those expectations at this point. Heck, we haven't seen Denard meet those expectations in some games this season.

Which is why I am more disappointed in the coaching staff's inability to prepare a running game that doesn't rely on Denard after 8 games this season. Any resemblance of a grind-it-out type running game in the second half would have relieved the pressure off Bellomy and given them a chance to win the game.

Agreed. Not a grown a$s man here, but still mature enough to see this. On Sunday I woke up and was still very upset about the game, on the way to the cafeteria in South Quad I passed none other than Bellomy himself and that set me straight in a way. I felt bad, but just thinking about how hard this kid has worked and how bad he must feel was sobering. As fans we're allowed to be sad and upset (the emotional connection to the game is the point of being a fan), but in the end, A) you're just a fan, and B) it's just a game. I stand by my criticism of his game, and I still say that was one of the (if not the singular) worst QB performance I have seen in my life watching Michigan football, but personal attacks and slander take it way too far.