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http://www.offthebag.com/ncaa/2010-big-ten-football-preview/
"Michigans JV Defense better have improved alot since last year"
Hmmmmm. For some reason I dont think that our starting defense is very JV. Especially since we held Ohio State to 21 points last year.
we didn't hold them to 21. They went conservative on offense (HA!) when they had that commanding 11 point lead in the third quarter.
Yeah, because im sure the Ohio State Buckeyes would settle for only beating us by 11 when they "could have won by more". We would have done the same thing right?
NO
If you don't think Tressel packed it in, I'm not sure you were watching the same game that I was.
Yes, that had to be the simplest offensive scheme I've seen in a while. He just told our offense to beat them.
Tressel is known for running a conservative offense in a lot of games. He only passed the ball 17 times against us, but he also passed the ball exactly 17 times against Iowa and Penn State too. Basically, if he has a small lead he trusts his defense as long as his offense isn't turning it over. I honestly think that part of the reason is that he didn't fully trust Pryor to sling it down the field - at least until the Rose Bowl.
They did go conservative on offense.....
the author of this article is an ass clown...i actually dont think he knows anything about our team. Rabble rabble bull shit...NEXT!
is it in the realm of possibility that we only win 5 games next year?
Yes it is.
As much as it pains us to hear that until RR makes a winner out of Michigan we will see predictions like this until he proves people wrong. This will not be the last site to predict us <.500.
I fully understand that. I just think that these sights are basing their opinion off of last season, not the improvments, the pracitces, and film. I understand where they are coming from. I just think they dont really understand what they are talking about.
generates lots of clicks which = lots of money.
True. Didnt think of that. +1 for leaving me speechless.
ditto.
let this be the final word on all such predictions.
Although, sadly to say, the way we were playing on offense OSU's 11 point lead was pretty commanding.
Yes. I dont think they stopped playing hard though. Everyone knows in a Michigan-Ohio State game embarrassing the oponent would be the only thing better than a win.
reasonably well against OSU's defense. Unfortunately, Foricer transformed into a human turnover machine whenever we got in the OSU red zone.
Forcier handed OSU 7 points when he fumbled at our goal line WITHOUT EVEN BEING TOUCHED BY AN OSU PLAYER (sorry for the all caps, but that still pisses me off) and then Olesnavage completely deflated the team and the crowd by shanking a 20-somthing yard field goal. Add in 2 picks thrown by Tate (one of those was a late throw into the OSU end zone to a receiver who WAS open, Tate just threw the ball really late) when we were in the OSU red zone and that was an absolute nightmare scenario.
That was, by far, Tate's worst game last year, despite the yardage totals he put up.
Our starting defense had 10 JV players last year. I don't know why everyone thinks that there will be that much improvement.
In the "About" section of the site:
Offthebag.com was started in March of 2010 by a collection of friends who all share a common interest in sports, but from different perspectives.
Not exactly the exemplar of legitimacy. The OP need to raise the bar a bit for whose predictions we should care about. Please.
Not to mention the writers have the grammar prowess of GBMW.
"They may still be the golden gophers, but the metaphor of golden is as far from the truth as it comes when explaining the situation of Minnesota football"
Why can't there be a literacy test for the internet?
because john22 would never be allowed within 500 ft of a computer..C'mon guy,"our" and "are" is not that hard to differentiate
they have MSU going 10-2?
"Mr. Jenrette, Mr. Winston, your hearings will begin at ten past two".
I can't tell if you're talking about years in jail, or the number or chances Dantonio gives his players.
+1 for Jay Dee
...fuel for the fire, boys. More fuel for the fire.
Sure hope RR is creating a notebook full of this stuff to use and motivate.
This kind of stuff will make it that much better when we are back on top.
Moe says nay. Bring it on bitches.
This is my theme music until further notice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek
My undead gangster heart is full of hate for statements like this that are exercises in selective history:
struggled to maintain key recruits as numerous big names have transferred to other institutions.
In the ohio state game are defense played awesome, just got burned on a couple of plays.and remember the fumble in the end zone, plus five ints, one in are endzone. after all that the score should have gotten ugly. and for the prediction, are you serious, we should be in a bowl game by week 7!!!
Ohio State 12-0? It seems like they're predicted to finish undefeated every year...
But even more ridiculous: MSU 10-2?! We'll see.
It sounds like the "writer" has UM confused with MSU and vice-versa.
Bear in mind that many "experts" also predict the annual pre-season championship for USC. And they've won how many in 10 years? One? While that's certainly respectable, it doesn't justify the annual beatification of the Trojans.
It all comes down to a simple message: this is why the games are still decided on the field.
Sometimes every once in while, prognosticators get it wrong. The great Beano Cook said something to the effect "Just send the band" in 97', when M headed into Happy Valley and certain defeat at the hands Joe Pa and the Nittany Lions.Early in 1970 the great Joe Falls, writer for paper whose name I dare not mention, predicted something like Colts 120 Jets 0 in Super Bowl III, my dumb 9 year old ass believed him and went into premature nirvanna, only to be let down with a thud.
i was there in 97. worst home loss for jopa. also the same week nebraska got saved by the refs against mizzu. i remember listening to the end of the game in the mudfilled parking lots in happy valley.
Keep posting so I can keep negging. Reading your posts is like sticking a screw driver up my urethra.
p.s Stop pos banging yourself when you post with your other accounts. How can, "I did not take that into account. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. +1" garner 3 points (I knocked you back to 2)?
Sept 4th is when we can start proving people wrong, until then we will just have to deal with predictions like this. Redemption will taste sweet when we do!!!
There is no way in hell I'd sign my name to even a post that smacks of such laziness. If UM ever fielded a team that was "JV:" caliber it was, basing it on talent level and experience, the 2008 offense. With 1.5 returners and a walk-on leading half the games from qb, we very much qualified as a jv caliber unit. In fact, our experience level that season probably fell below the level of many j.v. squads that have mostly two year players starting. Such was not the case with us.
Also, those "high-caliber" transfers happened early and have not been the norm at all and although they might have provided more victories for one season, the departure of the OLmen with a 5th year left did not hurt us that much. They played a limited role under Lloyd, and their departures actually allowed for some seasoning in what this imbecilic article labeled a "sparse:" unit or some such nonsense. This is, by far, our best position group and the one most likely to get stronger as the season progresses. We're a solid 2 deep at every position on the OL and competition is fierce. And most importantly, our roster, although bottom heavy with inexperience, actually is filled with near 85 scholarship players for the first time since '07. If the person writing that article is ever hanged as a journalist, they're killing an innocent man.
Yet another site? By my count, that makes two. (To say nothing of the rather unprofessional look of this one.)
