August 21st, 2015 at 9:10 AM ^
My favorite play in that ND game was Forcier's run up the middle - that was awesome.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
Not the best quaility, but here it is. If someone has a better one, please post. Loved that run!
August 21st, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
I love the one cut and then right down the middle. What a fun game.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
Technically not the correct read. He should have given the ball based on what the read end did... but I'm SOOOOOOOO glad he kept that ball.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^
That is one of 5 or 10 moments of the RR era that are just hard for me to watch these days. One of those moments where I was so certain that we were going to be an ass-kicking ball of knives for 10-15 years under his watch. God damnit.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:58 AM ^
I never noticed until just now re-watching the clip but this actually looks like a designed play-action rollout pass which was blown up by the DE, so Forcier just took off.
QB doesn't really look to be making a read at the mesh and the receivers are all running legit routes and looking back for the ball.
Either way, one hell of a play.
August 21st, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
FWIW, I remember him saying that he read cover-0 and decided to run. When he decided that (i.e. pre-snap or shortly after the snap) is a good question though...
August 21st, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
It is cover 0. Probably close to the snap is when he recognized it because the safety rolls up late. ND doesn't help its cause by having an angle to the right where the flow of the play goes. It takes everyone out of the play except for the unblocked DE and the safety covering the H-back dragging underneath.
A perfect storm of no-nos for ND and the perfect play to run against that defense.
August 21st, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
I guess my point was that I'm not sure if, once he read cover-0, he audibled (at least internally) to a run that I guess you could call a fake-rollout QB draw, or if at the snap he was still going with the pass play and only aborted it and took off once the DE came screaming in...
August 21st, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
God I can't wait for football to actually start. 2 weeks still seems like forever.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:13 AM ^
This waiting is awful. It's just too exciting thinking about watching a well coached Michigan team once again.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
Just imagine if we had to wait two whole more days like the rest of the teams.
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August 21st, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^
It would be horrible!
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August 21st, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
But I just realized I'm going to be in China for the first game....
August 21st, 2015 at 9:28 AM ^
We will await your "anyone know where or how to watch the Utah/Michigan game because I will be in China" thread.
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August 21st, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
...or how to receive Sart Rake City TV from China.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
Totally random, but not thread worthy - I got PFT Commenter to challenge Darren Rovell to a blood test on Twitter yesterday. Rovell had posted this info about a blood test he took with a company in MA that calculates your internal age (compared to your real age) based on your blood composition and I said I bet PFT can score higher than Rovell. The blood test company and PFT responded that they'd set it up. Thought it was pretty funny.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
Emergency Blow!
August 21st, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
It's time to hustle to prepare for the season. Go Blue!
August 21st, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
Next week is going to go so slow. The only thing that will help is high school football is back. I'm very excited to see my alma mater play again.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
I get to parade my son around for flag football. That will be fun. Agreed on the High School Football. Can't wait.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
This will always be Greg Mathews' most memorable TD for me. His 4th quarter TD in East Lansing that got us back in the game and helped us beat Dantonio at Spartan Stadium.
https://youtu.be/6gQf1-C8KbU?t=5m10s
August 21st, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^
I was also thinking of putting that one up. Was at that game to witness it. One of the best game's I've been to.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
This play was one of the highlights of my fanhood to date. I remember sitting with my dad watching this and quite literally calling the play before it happened - Forcier rollout left to Matthews on an in-and-out for the score. I was almost WD-level obsessed back then.
August 21st, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
Mathews ran that route to a T. The defender was definitely fooled.
August 21st, 2015 at 10:13 AM ^
I too was watching this play with my father. I was thinking that we were back as a program and Rich Rod has found his savior at qb. Funny thing is that I thought the same thing the following year when we won in south bend. I always put too much stock in beating an overrated Notre Dame team
August 21st, 2015 at 10:11 AM ^
I don't think there has ever been an offseason where the wait has felt this long. Quite possibly the slowest 13 days of my life coming up
August 21st, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
WHAT ABOUT ME?
August 21st, 2015 at 10:56 AM ^
Saw Freddy Canteen playing defense in the BTN Speical? about the 5:20 mark.
August 21st, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
I feel like that old commercial where the woman is outside the glass door to the mall with her face pressed up against the glass repeating, "open open open open" over and over again.
Can't get here soon enough, especially considering I will be able to watch the game! No more evening work hours for me!!