Thursday Night Open Thread - College Football
Of Interest to the MGoBlogosphere, a couple of potential coaching candicates:
The "Mad Hatter" Les Miles and LSU at "The Home of the 12th Man" Texas A&M on the World Wide Leader
The great Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers host the Seattle Seahawks
Happy Thanksgiving (American Version) to everyone.
November 27th, 2014 at 8:01 PM ^
Therefore the horned frogs are perfect for colorful hallucinations. Go Frogs.
November 27th, 2014 at 8:06 PM ^
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November 27th, 2014 at 8:36 PM ^
What's the worst that could happen?
November 27th, 2014 at 8:12 PM ^
TCU looks mad scary...
November 27th, 2014 at 8:26 PM ^
There are two football threads that have been created in the last few minutes, and normally this would be my cue to consolidate things, but it is a holiday and I have beer and whatever. I might clean up the place later on the backend, but I am watching LSU / TAMU at the moment.
EDIT: OK, if people are going to complain, I altered the titles to remove the question of redundancy.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:10 PM ^
You are like the Senator Mansfield of MGoBlog.
November 27th, 2014 at 8:33 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 8:42 PM ^
I bet you knew they were serving turkey today too.
November 27th, 2014 at 8:45 PM ^
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November 27th, 2014 at 8:53 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 8:55 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 9:05 PM ^
When ever there's a potential riot I'm getting blasted on grain alcohol.
November 27th, 2014 at 11:37 PM ^
also be sure to pop that shirt right off
November 27th, 2014 at 9:27 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^
I'm sorry you had to go through that. The horseshoe is great if you're an Ohio State fan. The horseshoe is the worst if you are the other team's fan.
November 28th, 2014 at 12:18 AM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^
DO NOT wear maize and blue. That would be a very, very terrible idea. Ohio State fans are ruthless-the student section is the worst faction of the fanbase. For you and your friend's safety, do NOT wear maize and blue.
November 27th, 2014 at 11:27 PM ^
I've attended in the Maize/Blue. No problems.
Just make sure you attend with "at least" six of your friends.
Be prepared for a lot of verbal abuse; I'm old enough to have attended when Michigan won at the shoe. The winning made it worth it.
November 27th, 2014 at 9:22 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
Video or it didn't happen
November 27th, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
Sumlin doesn't look like such a genius now does he?
November 27th, 2014 at 9:27 PM ^
Kind of helped.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:39 PM ^
What about Mike Evans? Oh it's not thread worthy but some had floated Chad Morris as a super long shot, well cross him off looks headed to SMU.
November 27th, 2014 at 9:32 PM ^
Someone, please, make this Harbaugh thing happen. Throwing on the sideline before the game? Mixing it up with the players? Catching balls on the sideline? The announcers gushing about his life-long love of football? Crouched over wearing a headset? Watching the play intensely? No clapping? Um, yeah. Please, let this happen.
November 27th, 2014 at 9:35 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 9:53 PM ^
Like so many people here, I really wanted to believe Brady Hoke was the guy. I bought in, happily, especially after the Rich Rod debacle. I admitteldy bought into that whole nightmare too, and am still trying to atone for my lack of respect for the good times we had with Lloyd Carr, back in the days when wins rained down on this program like gaffes and ineptitude do today.
Harbaugh coming to Ann Arbor would be storybook at face value. It might not eventually be what we want it to be, or it could be all of our hopes and dreams come true. We don't know.
But it's not the only answer, and we need to prepare for a world where that doesn't happen. Because like some other people have alluded to in other threads, we seemingly can't have nice things anymore.
In the event we can't lock down our storybook coach, we have to prepare ourselves to accept that the next great Michigan coach might be someone we don't know. It might not be a big name. It may just be a diamond in the rough, someone out there with the ability to coach football, to talk sensibly to teenage recruits and young men, to run a ridiculously tight ship, to ignite a fire that translates into a strong work ethic throughout the program.
I thought maybe Brady was that guy. I was wrong. But if we can't get our storybook coach, I hope to God the people running this show know what they're doing, and are not afraid to pull the trigger on a lesser-known name with zero ties to Michigan.
We have the best resources in the football world at our disposal. It's time to go to work and get this thing back on track for good. Enough is enough.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:09 PM ^
http://www.csnbayarea.com/article/peruball-jim-harbaugh-south-america
On and off the field, a perfect fit for Michigan. I hope Hackett does everything he can to make it happen.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:04 PM ^
Did the Niners fire Jim Harbaugh yet.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
Rumour has it that Brady Hoke has been hired as the new 49ers head coach.
-From my inside sources
November 27th, 2014 at 10:13 PM ^
that is a HOT MOTHERFUCKING TAKE
November 27th, 2014 at 10:14 PM ^
No but Kaepernick is doing his best to make sure Harbaugh gets fired.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
Maybe Colin wants to come to MICH with Jim and be his QB coach
November 27th, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^
Mind Blown.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:08 PM ^
Still dreaming of a scenario where Bama and Miss St both lose this weekend and the SEC is left out of the playoffs. That would unfortunately mean FSU, Oregon, TCU....and OSU. Not sure what would be more hilarious: SEC being locked out at #5 or OSU being locked out at #5
November 27th, 2014 at 10:08 PM ^
"That would unfortunately mean FSU, Oregon, TCU....and OSU."
That would also mean (IMO) that OSU would win the NC.
I can't get behind that.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
teams. OSU is not winning a NT this year. Not with that defense.
November 27th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
Oregon would score about 50 on Ohio State.
They would give up 35 but that would be fine.
November 27th, 2014 at 11:21 PM ^
In that playoff scenario I think where the order would probably be #1 Oregon, FSU, TCU, OSU, I think Oregon wins big on OSU (like 50-35 as the above said) and then TCU over FSU. FSU could easily be a 3-4 loss team right now. Oregon-TCU would be a sweet national title game. Not sure who'd win
November 27th, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 11:29 PM ^
I think people would revolt if one of the 1-loss Pac12, B1G, ACC, and Big 12 champions was left out for a 2-3 loss SEC team. The SEC is good, but not that good.
I know there's just reputation behind Bama, but their best win past Miss St is....#19 Ole Miss. I don't believe another team they've played is currently ranked. MSU has Auburn and...no one else who's ranked. Their resumes really aren't impressive enough to say 'We survived the murderer's row and deserve to be in anyway'. Hopefully the comittee can see that
November 27th, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
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November 27th, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
Bad call
November 27th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
TCU would be the ideal team to replicate... If only Michigan can look like that. Solid ball hawk defense with an explosive passing offense with a soid running attack.
Sigh...
November 27th, 2014 at 11:24 PM ^