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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 20 weeks 2 days ago | I wanted Denard to win the Rose Bowl and the Heisman too. |
I would've paid $1,000 to see him in the Rose Bowl, and I'm definitely not the kind of person that should be doing that kind of thing. But I don't have the same sense of melancholy as Brian, I guess. I feel like Denard leaves the team triumphant. He broke the streak against OSU; he broke the streak against State; he has the 2010 ND game and the Under The Lights game and a million highlights. He was always friendly and played hard even in the crappiest moments; he might be more responsible than anyone (including Hoke) for keeping together a random thing, Michigan football, that we all get to enjoy putting an undue amount of our time and emotion into. Being a sports fan is illogical on a lot of levels, but I kind of hate when people say it's _fundamentally_ illogical — I think rooting for people like Denard (and yes, tedious canard here, I don't know him personally and some day he might do something dumb — he might ALREADY have done something dumb that I don't know about, but in life you can't always know everything, you just have to do what you can with the knowledge you have) to do a crazy, difficult and awesome thing well (whipping through a sea of giant brutes with an aplomb and giddiness that makes old-man football lifers in the broadcast booth laugh out loud involuntarily in disbelief) is one of the MOST logical things to do with your time on Earth. And we all got to root for Denard, and enjoy life without feeling like idiots, and he did everything he could to keep this one particular life-affirming chain going, and with that, what more did he really need to do? To use something of a cliche, the only real shame would have been if we never got to see #16 dart around the Big House like a lethal goofball in the first place. |
| 24 weeks 3 days ago | It's not that Maryland didn't prevent it, it's Maryland's FAULT. |
...for dragging down B1G prestige. I mean, probably not literally/entirely. But it couldn't have made him want to STAY. |
| 25 weeks 1 day ago | It's not "my" website. |
We have like 150 employees. |
| 25 weeks 1 day ago | (In my defense, I'm doing my part.) |
There's this from the fall: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bml/the-most-scientifically-perfect-football-hyp... And a small slag in here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bml/does-football-have-a-liberal-bias |
| 25 weeks 5 days ago | Don't think this is true if you look at SDSU |
They had an interesting, kitchen-sink offense. This isn't to say that Hoke/Borges don't pull lizard-brain chokes in big spots and revert to "GRR RUN THEM OVER." But I don't think there's evidence that Hoke is actually an atavist overall. |
| 27 weeks 6 days ago | The only differences I can think of |
Between the weak turnout now and the thoroughly vigorous turnout when I was a student is that Irishmen are now allowed to vote and football has been invented. Revoke the Irish ballot and return to the days when the only sport was arguing over who had the most siblings die of tuberculosis and we'll be back in business. |
| 30 weeks 2 days ago | Thanks for this response btw. |
Having read it, and read some of the other good posts on this thread by Purple Stuff and Reader71, and thought about it some more, I have come to the conclusion that I have no idea whether I liked the game plan or not. One small observation: I feel like in the offseason videos and in the Alabama game, you saw a lot of quick slants, which would be the kind of thing people are calling for as first-down changeups with low Denard Derp risk. So one obvious defense — that there's only so much time to install plays, and maybe Borges/Hoke wanted to work on other stuff — doesn't necessarily hold water. That play is in our sack of plays. (Also, it's the simplest thing ever.) On the other hand I'm reminded by all this by a line of Scot Loeffler's from an old HTTV: "You can't let the defense dictate what you do every time." Which is to say, maybe MSU would not have minded if we had gone to those kinds of checks, because they felt they had a talent advantage on the outside, or that their linebackers were fast enough to quickly drop in front of those passes. I am _not_ an "RR offenses couldn't beat good defenses" guy, but certainly MSU and OSU were able to effectively counter RR's counters in a way that left Denard passing poorly. Those two games combined: 53% accuracy on 47 attempts, 6.4 YPA, three INT, zero TDs. Or put simply: "Mark Sanchez numbers." Anecdotally, we've all been traumatized by Denard winging what should be an easy quick TE out directly into the hands of an outside linebacker. Which is all to say, obviously checks have checks too, and maybe Borges/Hoke felt that strength on strength would beat check on check in this situation, which is not an indefensible position when your guy running is Denard Robinson and your receivers are odds and ends going up against a very good secondary. |
| 30 weeks 3 days ago | I'm curious |
Actually curious, not facetious-dickhead curious, how M could attempt 30 passes without challenging the defense in the air in a way that Brian or BWS found useful. Again, not being a smartass, but it would just seem to the casual box-score reader that this wasn't a run-only gameplan. |
| 30 weeks 3 days ago | it did |
get 325 yards and no turnovers vs. 250 yards and 2 turnovers last year. And with what, 17 points left on the field (Gardner, Gallon, penalties post-Denard breakout run)? It does sometimes seem like you're comparing him to a Tacopants playcaller who gets 500 yards a game, every game. |
| 31 weeks 5 days ago | Awesome, thanks. |
Why people get married in the fall, I'll never understand. |
| 34 weeks 6 days ago | I thought it was four |
The four Musburger predicted after he had, I believe, a nice first half against Northwestern. |
| 37 weeks 3 days ago | Ok, that all sounded smart, as I expected, but... |
...I still don't get why the plays that ended up as Vincent Smith running to the outside couldn't have ended up as Denard running to the outside. Let the boy water your plants! (Let the guy who's good at running do the most running.) |
| 37 weeks 5 days ago | Yeah |
This is probably a sound argument overall, but the question remains: when we DID run, why did we run our least effective available option? Even Hopkins probably had a better chance of getting yards than Smith To The Outside. If you're really worried about Denard's health try Hopkins or Hayes/Norfleet or keep trying Rawls hoping that he starts figuring something out by carry 10 or whatever. Just don't do the thing you definitely know wouldn't work even against, like, Illinois. |
| 39 weeks 21 hours ago | I'm in somewhat the same situation |
I live here, but all my M-watchin' pals are out of town and the lady has generously agreed to watch the game with me. So I don't want to take her somewhere we'll have to stand for four hours. My planned solution, which has worked whenever I've tried it before, is just to go a good but non-Michigan-affiliated sports bar. There are so many Michigan grads and fans in the city (and Brooklyn, where I live) that you'll almost always find fellow rooters and a good atmosphere, without the standing-room madness of BroJo's or P. Thom's. I'm specifically going to Dram Shop in Park Slope, but have also had fun watching games at Angry Wade's in Cobble Hill and (for Michigan basketball) Standings in the East Village. More on NYC sports bars: |
| 39 weeks 21 hours ago | I'm in somewhat the same situation |
I live here, but all my M-watchin' pals are out of town and the lady has generously agreed to watch the game with me. So I don't want to take her somewhere we'll have to stand for four hours. My planned solution, which has worked whenever I've tried it before, is just to go a good but non-Michigan-affiliated sports bar. There are so many Michigan grads and fans in the city (and Brooklyn, where I live) that you'll almost always find fellow rooters and a good atmosphere, without the standing-room madness of BroJo's or P. Thom's. I'm specifically going to Dram Shop in Park Slope, but have also had fun watching games at Angry Wade's in Cobble Hill and (for Michigan basketball) Standings in the East Village. More on NYC sports bars: |
| 39 weeks 3 days ago | The Yale Bowl has been brought up |
And is not the worst idea. It fits 64,000 (built when Yale was actually one of the best teams around), has major parking/tailgating space thanks to the one day a year when it's in real demand (Harvard/Yale), and is in a town that's accessible by public transport from NYC. Personally I like it because it's a good old-fashioned no-frills college-football stadium. It has that autumn feel to it. Foxboro looks like a spaceship and Yankee Stadium is not designed for football. Yale Bowl! |
| 39 weeks 3 days ago | Yes! |
Good find. |
| 39 weeks 4 days ago | The play is... |
...at 1:03. |
| 39 weeks 4 days ago | Tailback vs. defensive end |
Defensive end loses badly. Brandon Minor! |
| 42 weeks 2 days ago | Man |
Green Bay had a fast punter! |
| 1 year 20 weeks ago | Whoa |
That Kelly Clarkson cover is actually totally killer! SING IT KELLY |
| 1 year 20 weeks ago | I don't usually try to make references like this |
But is it possible that Jareth Glanda is related to Jareth Cutestory? |
| 1 year 20 weeks ago | Fowler knows our talking points |
Love it |
| 1 year 27 weeks ago | What that play at least came out LOOKING like... |
Was Smith running the RB speed-option action as a diversion while Denard cut up inside instead of going to the edge. Whether that was by design or simply because Denard saw a giant gaping hole in front of him and figured "why bother running outside when the end zone is right there two yards away" is a question. |
| 1 year 33 weeks ago | Diamond of Doom is the clear winner. |
I don't like "Fritz" because it's a synonym for something not working. You don't want a formation called "The Shitshow" or "The Hindenberg." |
| 1 year 38 weeks ago | Six player in rotation on DL |
I was perplexed by that quote as well. Only thing I can think of is that they internally refer only to the interior players (SDE, NT, 3-tech) as d-linemen. Small evidence of this is I think Mattison called Roh's position "rush linebacker" or some such at one point. |
| 1 year 39 weeks ago | Guys, this is great stuff |
But this is, after all, MGoBlog. Have we really determined that Hoke's pointing is more frequent and effective than the average coach? At the very least we should search an industry-leading sports-photo wire service's database for Hoke's name vs. several other comparable big-name university coaches' names for a time period ranging from the beginning of their coaching careers until a given date after their hiring at their current prestige job. (You could make it the number of days between Hoke's hire and today.) Then we would look at the ratio of pictures featuring pointing (semi-objective criteria involving elbow angle and finger visibility would have to be established) to total pictures. This would just be a start, of course. There are a few obvious issues to be worked out, methodologically; for one, the fact that Hoke spent his early career at a high-profile gig might affect the number of pictures he's involved in, actually suppressing his pointing ratio. (anyone standing next to Woodson in 1997 was going to get photographed, but a guy who spent his early career at a more obscure school would ONLY get photographed if he were doing something visually interesting like pointing.) I'm sure Misopogon can help with this. |
| 1 year 44 weeks ago | Nothing to add or suggest |
Just: nice job, thanks for posting. |
| 1 year 44 weeks ago | YESSSSSSSS |
I love when soccer players who have just scored huge goals react with seconds of utter disbelief. It's such an event they can't even fathom what happened in order to celebrate |
| 1 year 48 weeks ago | Their contracts are bad |
But not Gilbert Arenas bad. Villanueva especially is at a price that some GM could justify if he felt he were one or two pieces away. |
