Worst prediction ever
Watch Lunardi's "breakdown" of the Michigan team before the game today. (The guy sure knows how to go in-depth.) In terms of scoring margin, this may be the worst prediction ever.
I love it--I am definitly expecting us to be huge dogs against duke can't wait to show them whats up.
Was Lunardi's flopping double chin. This is why guys who can't run from one side of the gym to the other should not be telling the public how to pick games...bracketology fine, predictions not so much.
No one thought we would take Kansas to overtime. No one thought we would sniff Syracuse's jock. No one thought we would give Ohio State all they could handle and ESPN declared us the loser in the BTT with 4:30 to go down by 15. Few picked us to beat Tennessee let alone blow them out of the gym. Let's let everyone keep underestimating us. We will just keep competing. Now let's give Duke everything we got.
to rip on ESPN for their lack of knowledge and what they consider journalism, the btt after the first two rounds was on CBS.
Much more fun to have Clark Kellog reliving his glory days.
That's right, it was CBS who declared us the loser. Thank you for the correction.
ESPN is horrible.
Water is wet.
Michigan is awesome.
when you follow it up with the UT UM highlights...
It was clear that anyone saying "Tennessee blowout" probably hadn't watched much of either team, at least not since January. That said, the Lunardi prediction definitely reminds me of similar predictions I heard before the '06 Notre Dame (football) game, predicting Brady, Weis to run us out of South Bend, etc.. We all know how that turned out.
EDIT: I now realize I should have chosen my words more carefully. Weis E. Coyote is not running anyone out of anywhere, ever. I apologize for the error.
I just lol'd
March 18th, 2011 at 11:46 PM ^
HALOL!
but Lunardi is right there in with him. He looks like a bookkeeper at a shoe store.
Seriously, I'm consistently disappointed in the level of team on team analysis with sportscasters attempting to be different by predicting dumbass outcomes. Michigan and Tennessee might have been tough to call in terms of who would win, but predicting that Michigan would get bitched slapped is straight bullshit. This is a talented, well coached team that won't win the tournament, but you had better pack your f'ing lunch when you play them. Go Blue
If you're consistently disappointed in their prediction abilities, I think you may be setting the bar a tad too highly.
Lunardi really shit the bed this year. Fuck him.
What got me today was that virtually nobody thought it possible that UM beating a BCS team by 30 was due to the Wolverines being any good. Every analyst just said that it was because Tennessee just gave up. I'm sure when UM beats Duke on Sunday, it will be because Duke screwed up.
Ya have noticed that too and it doesn't make sense. Tennessee played fine in the first half. How can they justify it only affecting them for the second half? It makes no sense.
March 19th, 2011 at 12:48 AM ^
Maybe Pearl gave a dogshit halftime speech. As predicted, the Michigan win came because the Vols were distracted.
At least he says he expects great things from Michigan in the coming years. But double digits losing to Tennessee? Come on, man. Sparty, Illini, Wiscy, OSU, and Minny were all probably better than Tennessee this year. How many games out of those did we lose by double digits?
Minnesota's probably worse, but MSU, OSU, Wisky, Illinois, Syracuse, Kansas, Purdue, etc. were all better than UT.
March 18th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^
He just made a complete ass of himself. Anyone can be wrong on a prediction - but that was ridiculous.
If Michigan beats Duke, they'll be ranked #15 to start the season next year.
Probably even better than that. Last season we were pre-season #14, and we only won one game in the tournament the year before. A win over Duke would likely put us in the top ten next year.
Lunardi makes his predictions based on what seed a team got and what seed he thought they should have had. Because he had them as an 11 and they got an 8 he had to pick Tennessee. Pretty sure he didn't look at the match-up and realize that it was perfect for Michigan. He should probably stick to picking the brackets.
March 19th, 2011 at 10:20 AM ^
... from the whole idea that Michigan dropping the biggest victory by a number 8 seed ever still doesn't mean they "belong" in the tournament. Well WTF does then? We beat the ever living crap out of a team most thought would do the same to us - if laying the biggest smack down in the history of the NCAA tournament doesn't prove you belong then nothing other than going to the Final Four would.