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Can MGoWeather post earlier this week . . . like now?

Are those . . . students?

It will never happen, but I'd like to see the polls based more on team strength than win/loss record . . . team #1 is the team that would be expected to beat all the other teams, team #2 is the team that would be expected to beat all the other teams except team #1, etc.

If team #2 plays team #1 on the road and loses by a field goal, then that says to me that yes indeed, team #2 is the second best team.  

But the current polls will often drop that team below every team with one less loss, often out of the top ten.

The current polls still count number of losses too heavily, and therefore still reward an easy schedule too much.  

Every DC says they are going to run an aggressive blitzing scheme.  Unfortunately it sounds way cooler than it winds up being.  Not everyone can do it . . . .

We have always been their Superbowl and for 30 years in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, it didn't matter.  We dominated them.

Time to get back to that reality.

His good-time Mardi Gras personality will go over great down there.

Hi.

That was his high road.

It did, but the technically correct term - smoking hot college chicks - is not always suitable for a mixed audiance.

They can replace the pocket full of condoms that aren't necessary.

W. had some cat-quick reflexes there.  Nice economy of motion.  Looked like Tom Brady side-stepping a blitz.

This was awesome.

That is all.

They do look very tight all the time.  Notre Dame is a very mechanical team.  There is no "art", no feeling for the game with Brian Kelly teams.

I don't know why in the world an elite recruit with lots of quality options would ever want to play for him.

There is no margin of error.  One "bad" season (i.e. like a whopping 4 losses) and they want your head.  

You can't survive multiple 4 loss seasons like Lloyd did in the 90s while you hit your stride.

First class for doing this, Mr. Horchem.

My god, Tom Hermann may have his pick of LSU, Texas, Notre Dame, USC, Oregon, or Oklahoma in the next season or two.

Each of those teams has played for a National Championship in the last 5 years.

and Penn State.

Les and Rich Rod should team up.  Between the two of them, they care about both sides of the ball.

I miss it already.  We only had it for like 3 quarters the whole year.

What's Miles going to tell Harbaugh, Brown, and Drevno that they don't already know?

Franklin sent out the field goal unit to turn a four-score game into a four-score game.

And to think, there are some guys he beat out to get that job.

I am no longer worried about our strenght of schedule.  Turns otut our OOC schedule was pretty decent.

But . . .but . . . night games are dangerous.  That's why we can't have them in Ann Arbor.

The SEC can get away with it because they have calm, well-mannered fanbases.

Oh, wait . . . .

The consensus is season-ending?

That needs to be blue:

No way.  And you can't recruit freely like you can at Ohio State.  Yet the delusional ND homers expect you to win like Ohio State.  That job is poison.

Never take a coaching job where the expectations of 30 years ago exceed the reality of today . . . ND, Penn State, Nebraska, etc.

Nice.

Even Ohio State didn't have a win today ;)  Happy Birthday!

I thought the networks controlled that.

MSU's faceplant may keep Game Day out of EL when we go there.

OK, Wiscy, now you're just showing off.

Give it up Sparty, this ain't gonna be your day.

Or year.

You'll always have that glorious win over an elite Notre Dame team, Sparty.

Oh, wait . . .  

All the dice are coming up badger eyes.

They're not losing this game.

He keeps calling him Horney-brook.

TING!

We'll do a UCF on them.

Wiscy gonna be hard to run on inside.

Respekt the ball, Sparty.

These questions were better than usual.  And by better, I mean they did not all totally suck.  

There were a couple of good ones that tried to pin down Drevno on what is going on with the OL blocking and assignments.

Drevno did not actually answer those questions, but hey, at least they were asked.

Brown presser:  Better answers than questions.

Drevno presser:  Better questions than answers.

Uh, you moved without a job??

I like your style.

An upgrade for both programs.

Don't worry, the game will be over by 3:45.

It's Friday.  Knocked out another week.

Good thing she's wearing a raincoat.

I like that they have them in every fanbase's colors, including their own.

Nice touch.

I honestly thought it was an Onion-esque joke piece until about 4 or 5 paragraphs in.  Then I realized they were actually serious.

Nobody can LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU like Penn State.

Which explains a lot.

It's new.  I like it.

Gonna see a buch of them on the freshman-heavy Ohio State roster, right?  

RIGHT??

How in the world is undefeated MSU and undefeated Wisconsin on TV on the BTN at noon - the tradtional home of Purdue - Toledo games - while Michigan against crippled, deranged, soon to be two-loss Penn State is on at 3:30 on ABC?

That's some quality disrespekt.

You have to get in all your tricks early, because they simply won't work later in the game.

Hackenberg is gone.

Now we'll have to rush all three to get a sack.

We have all those stickers that cover up our helmets.

Oh, wait . . .

As we know ourselves with Brandon and his cronies, it only takes a few people in highly placed positions in an institution to override everybody else.  It does not change until they are removed.  As we also know, this is not easy and it takes a long time as factions fight back and forth.  There is no simple Off button. 

There are a lot of Penn State people that want to excommunicate Joe Paterno as the face of Penn State.  But they are not running the show, especially in the Athletic Dept.

I make no apologies for them, I'm just explaining it.  They are in charge and are making unethical and incredibly tone deaf decisions.  

So they get what they deserve.

To your point, if they keep propping up Paterno as the face of the university, it will not be a "world class university", it will just be a sick joke.

It's their decision.

Not the best judgement.

As someone who grew up in PA, had both my brothers go to Penn State, and followed Penn State and Joe Paterno since the '70s, I'm very dissapointed with how the PSU administration is handling this.

That tribute last week was the most tone deaf thing ever.  Things were perhaps starting to settle down and BOOM, the PSU administration inflamed it all over again.  On purpose.

Paterno betrayed Penn State.  Penn State owes him nothing.  This episode is a black stain on Penn State's history.

You (and I) would like Penn State to attone for past sins, turn a clean page, and move on to a beter future.  But its very own administration won't let it.

Penn State is a large, diverse, world class university that is defined by more than just one person.  Joe Paterno does not get to define Penn State to the world . . . unless they keep insisting he does.  

It won't work.  You won't hear it well enough on TV.  It will sound like "Let's Go Blue" or something like that.  Seriously.

They're the ones not good enough to start at Purdue?  Yikes.

As we see at places like USC and PSU, sanctions can take a long time to climb out of.  Just because they are lifted does not mean that all is well in a year or two.  If you couple that with incompetent coaching, the situation becomes even worse.

Good.

A fully functional USC with its head not in its ass is our biggest Rose Bowl fear.

With the way USC can always recruit, all you have to do as a coach is not step on your own dick and you will play for the Pac12 championship.

But they can never even do that.

USC will still get top recruits by various, um ways, and they will still have their heads up their asses.

Billy was a mountain.  Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder.

The Buffaloes’ punt team, which had one blocked for a TD, one returned for a TD, and kicked one for a seven-yard loss, might have had the worst special teams performance of ANY season.

Fixed it.

There's a problem with the earth's gravitational pull.

It's cute.

Works for me.  

If he doesn't come, I'll take his place.

Both Johns Hopkins and the Cleveland Clinic - top Urology departments in the world - disagree with the USPTF Assessment.

Someone can check, but I doubt Michigan's Urology department agrees with it either.

It has been widely debunked in the actual medical community.

Solved the tickets, now somebody get his wife a job!

You done yet?

Yeah, the "standard" Don Brown defense is not going to work against Ohio State.  

If your plan is to aggressively blitz JT Barrett while your safety's are alone to cover Samuel and Noah Brown, you are going to have "Across the Field" ringing in your ears all day Sunday.

You will need to play sound assignment-and-contain football, keeping Barrett in the pocket and the receivers bracketed.  We will see how good Don Brown is with that kind of defense . . .

Yeah, some of these bland ambiguous questions are the coaches' fault.  If you ask a specific incisive question you get shut down.  So you learn to just say "Talk about XXX", and the coach will say whatever he feels like saying.

Direct questions about actual football don't always work well with Harbaugh's many moods, but if you say "Talk about player XXX", you'll usually get something.  

It's a waste of everybody's time, but hey, they're all getting paid to do it and we fans get a little morsel of info here and there every once in a while, so everybody's happy.

Sort of.

Poor damn Drake Johnson.

Even if they were not wearing the shirts, you could still easily tell that they are assholes.

The shirts just save time.

I feel like tech practices offense all week then 15 minutes before the game starts they say "oh shit we forgot about defense"

I like it.

We have to beat Illinois.  

I think Warde nixed that before the season even started.

It's been around since 1983.  Somebody likes it.

It's overdone, but in the enormous bowl that is Michigan Stadium, it is a thing of beauty.

Wave trivia:  It's official name when it was first started at Michigan Stadium was "Maize in Motion."  

They are being dumb.  Penn State is a large, diverse, world-class university that is not defined by just one unethical person . . . unless they let it be.

It would have been an epic night game.  Don't think for a moment that when we return to Camp Randall that it won't be a night game.

Wasted opportunity.

I actually do care, but people tend to interpret Bo's "wishes" for their own agendas.  They don't really know what his true wishes were, other than to beat Ohio State.

I was at that game.  The weather sucked at noon too.

Bo also hated the Wave the first time we did it.

YAY!!

I'm bringing my whole family for the game, the first time they've ever gone, or have even been in Ann Arbor.  

The pre-game atmoshphere and buzz around campus for a 3:30 game is light years ahead of what it is for a sleepy noon game.

I wanted them to be able to see Ann Arbor in full game-day glory and now they will.

Nice.

For that game it actually was.  Being from PA, I can tell you that Penn State can wake up latent Pitt fans like nothing else.

That's too bad.  I hope they get fully healthy   ... just in time for their game with Oho State.

If they kick away from him, we'll retain that field position advantage . . . automatically.

It's all about the endzone.

TDs on offense, TDs on defense, TDs on special teams.

We are causing some of those errors.  

That punt into the back of your own teammate was a direct result of the punter have the yips from our pressure and block his previous punt.  

Dude was a nervous cat out there all day.

Love you?

Nobody says we're not making progress, but we're greedy . . . we want National Championship stats.

You mad at him?

I sense that Tom Brady was a good guy even before he came to Michigan.

More pressure, higher level of competition.  Growing pains.  

This is still only his 3rd start, and the competition has ramped up significantly.

JK.  Everybody but us and MSU now runs some form of spread in the Big Ten East.  

Time to get used to it.

Everybody struggles against it.  Even the vaunted Alabama defense gave up 40+ points.

It's a very effective offense.  Teams are not consistently winning games 14-7 any more.  You have to assume that you need to score at least in the 30's to win.

It makes college football entertaining as hell, IMO.  I can't watch the Pros for more than 10 minutes anymore.  Too tedious.

You have to keep pace scoring-wise when you play a spread team.  You can't just keep punting and playing field position, ala Woody and Bo.  You'll be down 3 TDs in 5 minutes before you know what happened.

I think they were actually ranked, but not 100% sure.

So just like that they're good at it?

Rich Rod's first Michigan teams say "Hi".

Utterly tone deaf.