There are...
...days until Warde Manuel (DT 1986-1989) sees the Wolverine defense continue their legacy of intimidation, this year hopefully on a new level of readjustment capability. I hope he also is using this game to celebrate the successful end to the third season he will have AD-ed, with a big World Series for Michigan Baseball to honor, and an exciting new Michigan Basketball Head Coach!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warde_Manuel
Go Blue!
Today, let's look at the exciting first game of the 1989 season, Warde's senior year:
Thanks WH as always and enjoy!
Love me some Keith Jackson. Miss his announcing. Thanks for posting.
What happened to him?
If you wait long enough, undoubtedly someone will post some relevant news on Keith Jackson. Seriously, the man just disappeared one day. Anyway, more to come....
He joined a football broadcast for a few minutes within the last year or two. Just retired.
i was at that game, on the UCLA sidelines courtesy of greg robinson who was the OC for UCLA at the time. i had to be very low-key about the win for obvious reasons.
Speaking of Bruins.....was at the Michigan/UCLA game at the rose bowl back in 2000 (living out there at the time). It was so ridiculously hot people were passing out - they literally had stretchers going up and down the aisles and were spraying sections of fans with hoses. They had UM fans mostly crammed in the direct afternoon sun-facing southeast corner. Was unbearable. Reported temp was 110° during second half. The 8/28 incompletion clinic Navarre put on was equally painful.
Was also there. Bought a case of water with a full ice bag on top for the 8 or so of us that were there... there was nothing left of the ice or the case of water when the game ended... not one of us ever used the bathroom. People were taking shelter from the heat in the tunnels to the sections, when the game was over and we were leaving they all got jammed up from all the people in the way. It took forever to get through to the point where I was starting to get anxious and I am not claustrophobic at all... and my adidas slides melted right off my feet. Threw them in the trash on the way out and walked back to the car barefoot.
Fun day in the end outside of the loss, but hottest day of my life.
It's so fitting that in Greg Robinson's only season as an OC that UCLA went 3-7-1, by far Terry Donahue's worst season at UCLA. Their highest point total that season was 33, and it was Robinson's last season at UCLA. It took another two seasons for the Bruins to regain the form that Donahue had established prior to that disastrous 1989 season.
RR made a boatload of poor coaching decisions at Michigan, but by far his worst was the boneheaded decision to anoint Robinson his DC. He sealed his doom with that one.
greg won 2 super bowls as the DC of the broncos.
as it relates to michigan, RR had used up all the scholarships on offense, leaving greg with only 28 scholarship players on D. total. and RR mandated the 3-3-5 defense which greg had never run before. that is a recipe for failure for anyone walking into that scenario.
...days til Jack Blomgren and his dislocated finger take the field to exact some revenge on Texas Tech and end the 35 year drought of playing in the CWS.
170 days until this fanbase *might* be satisfied.
Wrong countdown. The correct number is 2.