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18 hours 57 min ago	If he's getting hit in practice	which I highly doubt, then I'm much more apt to believe the hype. If he's not, it means very very little.
19 hours 2 min ago	Honestly	it's not that hard. Kudos to the kid coming off the bench and sparking his team, but Georgia lost that game more than Tua and Bama won it. I really don't know who the better QB is, but one half of solid (and lucky) football doesn't automatically make you the starter next year.
19 hours 6 min ago	Where would those guys make the league?	Many of those guys don't have the height or arm strength to be valued by the NFL regardless of where they go to school. Regardless, they will get exposure if they play at OSU and almost all of them will get at least a shot in the league.
3 days 3 hours ago	CT HS ball is better than	CT HS ball is better than people think. There's money in the state and enough schools who put resources into it. I'd compare it to Long Island which is the best football in NY. It's not part of that VT, NH, Maine, RI grouping that has zero in terms of HS ball.
5 days 22 hours ago	73-8 overall and a ridiculous	73-8 overall and a ridiculous 49-4 in the Big Ten over the past 6 years.
1 week 23 hours ago	I just don't	know how you can have faith after that bowl game. He wasn't good at all. Everyone wants to put that on the coaches but the passing game plan in that game was extremely simple. Quicker PAP reads, a few 5-step routes with 1 read, screens, and some 3-step. And S. Carolina wasn't disgusing it's defense. He couldn't make the read. He just held the ball forever. Maybe he was still injured and if so, that's the beginnings of a reason. But he had absolutely no urgency to his play. None. OL was fine in the bowl game and the WRs weren't bad. RB protection wasn't good so that didn't help. At the end of the day though, the QB cost them that ball game. When you play really good teams, the QB has to be able to make plays. It's not always going to be Rutgers and MAC teams where the running game is working and you can do what you want because you're better.
1 week 1 day ago	There were "quick, check-down	There were "quick, check-down options" in the bowl game. JV HS type routes with JV HS type reads. Peters didn't read them.
1 week 3 days ago	A little surprised they didn't get it fixed	by the 3rd clip. It's not like HS or small college where you might not have enough eyes in the box to see all that happening.
1 week 4 days ago	I grew up in San Diego	as much as you can grow up being a Navy brat and it's damn hard to beat if CoL isn't an issue. The weather is fantastic for the vast majority of the year. Yes it can be cooler than most people think in some early summer months (May/June), but that's nitpicking if you're living in Chicago and it's 25 in April and then 95 in August. There's no humidity as well so you don't get that brutal heat in the summer that you do in most places in the country.  It's one of the safest large cities in the country. You have the California school system which is generally excellent (K-12) if that's important to you. Traffic isn't the best, but it's light years better than LA and SF.  For those that think weather is getting over prioritized, I want you to remember your lives in college in Ann Arbor or any other place you lived when it was cold. Remember those rare sunny and warmer days in spring when you felt you had to get outside to take advantage of it!! That's a life that's dependent on the weather. It's not just the shittiness of plowing and muddy snow and the brutal cold. It's adjusting your day because it's finally not shitty. You just don't have to do that in warmer climates and it makes a world of difference. In 1940, more people lived in Arkansas than Florida. In 2015, Florida became the 3rd most populous state in the country. It's a state with bad schools, mediocre service jobs, is mostly poor, and a culture that can kindly be called crazy. But it is fucking warm and that matters to people.
1 week 4 days ago	The KState clips	are all scheme oriented. KState is rotating their safety down on the motion, but their LB to the side the jet motion is going to is just sitting out there as well giving them 2 guys to play the motion man and not enough to handle the counter play. Mayfield could have handed the ball off on the first clip as well. My guess is the OU offensive staff found that KState wasn't adjusting properly when motioning from a FiB set and made them pay.
1 week 4 days ago	It would be great to see a defense	force the pull read by chasing the pulling tackle with the backside end.
1 week 4 days ago	Portland	isn't even possible because no job, other than barista, would relocate out there. Portland is where the young go to retire.
1 week 5 days ago	High risk, high	High risk, high reward--Giving up big plays, getting off the field and otherwise having a very good defense. Might not be a lot of turnovers, but a lot of stops regardless. At some point it isn't the parade of coaches (some of them that have had a great track record) that have come through here, but something in the program in itself. In the past 25 years that Michigan has less than 3 losses (4 times), Ohio State has done it a ridiculous 17 times. That isn't just coaching. That's something systemic in the program and school itself. Some of it is Ohio State is probably willing to win at football at all costs and Michigan just won't do that. But I'm also guessing there are other factors involved as well.
1 week 6 days ago	"we will be a perennial	"we will be a perennial 9-3ish team and a third place division finisher at best." And that's what Michigan is and has been for the past 25 years!! Only 4 times in the past 25 years has Michigan finished with fewer than 3 losses--97, 99, 06, 11. And they have finished with at least 2 losses every year since the 97 championship year. Everyone thinks the standard is Bo in the 1970s. That 40+ years ago!!  The defense plays high risk, high reward football. And most of the time they get the stops. Sometimes, they give up the big play at a bad time. Whatever issues they have pale in comparison to the offense.
1 week 6 days ago	It was called fairly even in	It was called fairly even in the first half when Villanova had committed 2 less fouls, but took 1 less free throw. And they were up 9. When the calls started going more against Villanova in the 2nd half and Michigan went on an 11-6 free throw run and Villanova was in foul trouble, Villanova EXPANDED their lead to 17. It didn't even out in the 2nd half. After a fairly evenly called 1st half, Villanova started picking up fouls, getting into foul trouble, and Michigan gained a significant edge in free throws. And yet Villanova expanded their lead.  "And number of free throws shot just indicates that most of our fouls were shooting fouls while theirs were on the floor---which is because we had to drive and get contact whereas they could draw fouls 50 feet from the basket by turning into a bobblehead." I'm sure that quote is based on a rigorous analysis of the game.
1 week 6 days ago	"Maybe it was even between	"Maybe it was even between the two teams upon  unbiased review" Yes, yes it probably was. That's the whole damn point.
1 week 6 days ago	Too bad	considering that the defense has been excellent the last two years playing a coverage that doesn't lend itself to getting a lot of interceptions. But great analysis and response to what I wrote.
1 week 6 days ago	Man coverage	doesn't lend itself to a lot of interceptions. Hard to interecept the ball when your eyes are on the man and not the QB. I don't think 23 interceptions over 26 games is too bad given the circumstances.
2 weeks 38 min ago	Spring games mean shit	unless the QB is live.
2 weeks 14 hours ago	The QB was god awful in the bowl game	Seriously, I highly recommend a rewatch. South Carolina wasn't disguising coverages. It was pretty clear what was going on. He held onto the ball forever on quick routes. He took a month to get the ball out on screens. Easy man reads in the passing game and he didn't throw the football. There was nothing positive from that position in the football game. Nothing. Peters took the sack at the end of the game and waited too long to throw the ball on 4th and 10. Tough throw. Yes. But gave his team zero chance throwing it late. For the millionth time in that game. At some point during the 2018 season, no matter how good the defense, the QB position is going to have make some plays. Nothing from that bowl game would tell me Peters would be that guy.
2 weeks 14 hours ago	Rewatch the bowl game	It isn't the OL. The WRs are part of the problem, mostly caused by the coaching situation. THE problem is the QB. End of story.
2 weeks 1 day ago	Might change in 10 years	because Dabo has a machine right now at Clemson, but Meyer is clearly ahead on the pecking order right now.  49-4 in the Big Ten since 2012. That is a ridiculous statistic. Bo's first 6 years in the league were 40-4-1 and the league wasn't nearly as deep. Woody's best 6 year stretch was 43-4-1 from 72-77.
2 weeks 1 day ago	Yes	But I think it's quite clear Meyer deserves more.
2 weeks 1 day ago	If you just wanted to win	and nothing else mattered (character, shadiness, Michigan ties, not being from OSU), who would you want, Meyer or Harbaugh?
2 weeks 1 day ago	I've coached at a high level	I've coached at a high level in sports and I can promise you Michigan coaches aren't bitching about the refs in their internal meetings. Very, very rarely does that happen even in close games. I also thought adding some actual objective facts as opposed to "bumps and hacks on defense" would better illuminate the situation. Because, in basketball, bumping and hacking occur quite often. Villanova got bumped and hacked and it wasn't called a few times as well, but that clearly doesn't fit your meme (or the original poster's).  And what made Michigan "more worthy" of more calls? Both teams had roughly the same amount of 2 point shots.  This "everyone is out to get Michigan" trope is so overplayed at this point it's become an embarassment. Michigan didn't have to "play through the refs." They needed to play better. They didn't.
2 weeks 2 days ago	Why is it always the referees fault?	The referees had no effect on the outcome of this game: At halftime, Michigan had been whistled for 9 fouls to Villanova's 7, but had shot 1 more FT than Nova (7-6). With 13:01 left in the 2nd half, Michigan was in the BONUS!! You think Villanova might have felt hosed at that point with the referees, allowing Michigan to stay in the game? They didn't care because they were up 17 at the time!! With 13:01 left in the 2nd half, Villanova had been called for 1 more foul than Michigan in the game and had shot 5 more free throws: 11-6. Again, they didn't care because they were up 17 at the time! As late as 6 minutes left in the game, Michigan had shot 6 more free throws than Villanova (18-12) and had been whistled for 2 less fouls in the game. Did the referees make mistakes? Of course. They are human. But they didn't "hose" Michigan anymore than they "hosed" Villanova.  Michigan lost because they didn't play as well as Villanova on Monday night. Period. Why is that so hard to admit instead of blaming the referees?
2 weeks 2 days ago	It's not "faking" injuries	It's players not practicing through soreness or some pain even though they probably could. And this happens at every program in America regardless of division.
2 weeks 2 days ago	Arizona State	has tried to put a professional model (as opposed to college) around Herm as much as any program has ever done. This seems to be a natural extension of that model.  That being said, colleges have been doing this for years. Just not so explicitly.
2 weeks 6 days ago	I've never quite	understood the negativity around Harbaugh this past season. But the one thing he should be legtimitately crucified for is not having a FT WR coach. No disrespect to the GAs in the program but they have a burden beyond coaching a position and can't be expected to take that on as well, especially with their lack of experience. The WRs can't even run a simple shallow cross correctly (too deep in the Outback Bowl) and those details fucking matter. The appearance of McElwain should really clean that up.
2 weeks 6 days ago	Rewatch the Outback Bowl	We're not talking about complicated reads here. We're talking 3-step routes with a clear pre-snap and post-snap read and he just doesn't pull the trigger. This is HS stuff. In Texas it's pre-HS. What tools? He's tall and I presume has a good arm. Beyond that, what? If you want to argue he was still hurt or gun shy, fine. But that doesn't explain holding onto the ball until he gets hit in that game. I would be surprised if he takes a meaningful snap in a game in a Michigan uniform again.

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