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6 days 5 hours ago	Hoke! from an OSU fan	Love Brady calling notre lame 'Chicken!'
15 weeks 2 days ago	TAMU does not cheat	You are making yourself look uninformed, dude... TAMU is legit, and players - esp. in Houston and all the Spread Teams in TX ... like 70% of them ... love that Sumlin and Kingsbury (before he left) have Texas wired and they are in the SEC... Beat Bama - the school is hot right now and that's why kids are playing there.  It's not because of someone cheating... Stop with the lame analysis...
15 weeks 2 days ago	C'mon man...	Nkemdiche's older brother goes to Ole Miss.  It's not a bad school and has a lot to offer.  Freeze is good with these kids and their families, and Ole Miss sells family... Give 'em their props...
25 weeks 5 days ago	UM Offensive Strategy - OSU fan perspective	You are describing Tressel-ball.  Disclosure - I am an Ohio State fan. It can work - your first line is the right question.  What is the strategy?  If you are going to go somewhere between Tressel and Wisconsin - 21 personnel, TE/FB Pro-style, West Coast, then keep doing what you are doing. It truly hurt and was terrible, just horrible what happened to your RB Fitz Touissant.  Tactically - yeah - lining up and pounding out of the I is my favorite play; however, you didn't have the backs to run that on that D.  PA and a pass would have made sense.  I was pretty surprised that UM tried that several times. To the bigger question - you need to decide if you are going to play like USC, Stanford, Wisconsin, Alabama - Michigan of the 90's - or if you stop right now and play like A&M, Oklahoma State, OU, Oregon, OSU, Clemson, or even WVU. I personally love the I based TE/FB run game and even though Ohio state is winning and scoring, I still don't like this Urban Meyer spread offense as much as I liked Tressel-ball.  Maybe it's because I'm old-school or just old. That said, it does feel like Michigan is still in transition - Dick Rod had some offensive athletes, and staying with some sort of spread/ power run based offense would not be that much of a course correction for UM. You have a good class and that QB Shane Morris is excellent and can do a lot of things. Ohio State seemed lost at times offensively - or more accurately - Braxton Miller was still relying on his skills mostly vs. his progressions.  Game really could have gone either way.  OSU choked after a couple of gift turn overs. I spent a lot of time thinking of how Denard was going to smoke OSU on jailbreak screens, quick trips/ quads screens, then Roundtree on the backside.  Didn't really see any of that and Ohio State was getting smoked by UCF, Purdue, and Cal and those teams are not in the same league as UM. I do think UM has to seriously consider their offensive strategy going forward.  You are a national program and will recruit nationally.  Coach Hoke has done a good job in Ohio, and Meyer is ticking off a base of Ohio HS coaches by passing on some good Ohio talent. That said, Michigan has historically done well in TX and there are tons of QB's, RB's receivers, OL types out here.  There are QBs from California out there, as are some great RB's.  Take a national view and - as much as I hate the spread and love the Power Run game, UM probably needs to go that way because this spread game is here to stay.  Either compete and go Big and Play an Alabama/ Stanford style game which UM did in the 90's or go spread and get an OC like Kliff Kingsbury or other proven innovators because Michigan still has a buzz and this was going to be a transition year and you have a good class coming in and Hoke recruits his ass off. I wish OSU and UM both ran Power I but that is not going to happen until the game cycles back in a decade or more.  Other than Nebraska, OSU and UM are going to lead this conference for quite a while. O'Brien can coach at PSU - look at what they did without 10+ players.  They will be not half bad despite the scholarship reductions.  If UM had a Bill O'Brien type, that would work, too.  Just seems like UM is not yet set on who they want to be offensively. Hoke can recruit.  He is loyal - I actually like that - got a kick out of him in his short sleeves today.  He's got stones and I called him names last year and I actually like him.  He seems like a great guy and the real deal - BBQ's for the recruits, loves the Michigan tradition and won't ever let the program or the players or his staff down. There have been two tight games two years in a row.  These two teams will settle in to who they are going to be next year and they will be playing in Indianaoplis both next year.  I just hope they don't ever move The Game from the end of November to October or something idiotic like that just for this stupid conference game which will be boring no matter what is at stake. This Rutgers, Maryland B1G 14 to 16 bothers me.  I liked the old days, or at least adding Nebraska and PSU whcih are good fits.  Otherwise, I like it that UM and OSU tee it up the last game of the year.  Every year. Go Blue! Go Bucks!
34 weeks 3 days ago	UM and OSU and the B1G are just not good	am an OSU fan from TX, and enjoyed talking football with a lot of great UM fans a few weeks ago for the Labor Day kick off game. I am really stunned at how weak OSU's defense has become - and am equally stunned at the production decline from UM. Look, no one is going to beat Alabama; however, the performance of our two teams and the B1G overall is really hard to analyze.  OSU is struggling with weak teams and cannot stop anyone.  Their D was solid for a decade and I don't get Fickell and Vrabell and their scheme. UM is in transition to the style of offense I think OSU should stick with (Bo: FB, TE in a 3-pt stance ...) and I get that; however, Denard is Denard, and he is not being put in positions to make him as multi-dimensional as he should be. Both OSU and UM have good recruiting classes and the future should - should - be bright.  But right now, Hoke and Meyer as solid as they are, I don't see the B1G competing with the SEC.  Shane Morris is going to be solid, and UM is going to be good.  OSU will be good.  I just don't see the two schools or the B1G winning the NC until Saban retires. I think UM and OSU will be competitive for the next decade in the B1G.  Don't see a NC unless something drastic happens like changes to oversigning.  The economy is not coming back in a big way ever again to the MidWest, and the recruiting bases will have to compete in the South and the West and those 5* players will stay home and we can plan on developing 4* talent and playing our asses off.  It is a different decade ... Which brings me back to my opening line - having grown up in the NE/ MW/ B1G country and having lived in TX since the 90's, there is a solid population shift, and the base for our two schools is shifting and that will make it tough to win the NC.  Being competitive is one thing - playing for a legitimate NC title is something else... Eager to hear from UM fans... Go Army - Beat Navy!
34 weeks 3 days ago	We are just bad all around - OSU fan here	I am an OSU fan from TX, and enjoyed talking football with a lot of great UM fans a few weeks ago for the Labor Day kick off game. I am really stunned at how weak OSU's defense has become - and am equally stunned at the production decline from UM. Look, no one is going to beat Alabama; however, the performance of our two teams and the B1G overall is really hard to analyze.  OSU is struggling with weak teams and cannot stop anyone.  Their D was solid for a decade and I don't get Fickell and Vrabell and their scheme. UM is in transition to the style of offense I think OSU should stick with (Bo: FB, TE in a 3-pt stance ...) and I get that; however, Denard is Denard, and he is not being put in positions to make him as multi-dimensional as he should be. Both OSU and UM have good recruiting classes and the future should - should - be bright.  But right now, Hoke and Meyer as solid as they are, I don't see the B1G competing with the SEC.  Shane Morris is going to be solid, and UM is going to be good.  OSU will be good.  I just don't see the two schools or the B1G winning the NC until Saban retires. I think UM and OSU will be competitive for the next decade in the B1G.  Don't see a NC unless something drastic happens like changes to oversigning.  The economy is not coming back in a big way ever again to the MidWest, and the recruiting bases will have to compete in the South and the West and those 5* players will stay home and we can plan on developing 4* talent and playing our asses off.  It is a different decade ... Which brings me back to my opening line - having grown up in the NE/ MW/ B1G country and having lived in TX since the 90's, there is a solid population shift, and the base for our two schools is shifting and that will make it tough to win the NC.  Being competitive is one thing - playing for a legitimate NC title is something else... Eager to hear from UM fans... Go Army - Beat Navy!