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Agree. Also lost in the shuffle was the bad shot trey took right after. He knew he had to press, took a bad shot, missed, and that was the game.

You could also see it on his face when Peyton was shooting those free throws - he wanted so bad to make it up.

who are the leaders next year?  Morgan and......?  

i understand the vitriol directed at mark may. i mean, i get it, i guess - espn talking head and all - but this seems more like "enemy of my enemy is my friend."  anyone who uses a loud pulpit to bash ohio is OK in my book.

We haven't faced a team that pressed like this all game. Watching VCU they play fast - very fast. I am a bit more nervous than I was reading Brian's assessment...

everyone have coming out of the South?  Can someone assuage my fears re Florida - or convince me to put someone else there?  Would love to go Michigan - but I just don't see them playing well that consistently to get to the Final Four...

It's like the old adage from high school - if you're unsure about an answer, go with your original choice.  I, on the other hand, am in full-blown tweak mode and probably will wind up doing more damage. Oh well.  

This seems to me to be the most wide-open bracket that I can remember, and I feel like some frenetic addict anxiously awaiting tip-off.  

:::::shoulder shrug:::::

That about sums it up for me.  This team peaked at the end of January finishing 6-6 in the big ten.  It’s hard to be upset, or even surprised, by this game, as its been a microcosm of the whole season.

If we’re looking for positives – I guess it’s nice to have a week off (though they didn’t do much after their last week).  Also, everyone is already picking against them so maybe they will play looser being a 3/4 seed.

Mehh.  Disappointing today, but not exactly unanticipated.  

needs to chill a bit.  they were literally one inch away from another big ten championship.  they certainly did not "peak" too early, the brutal big 10 is what drained them (and every other team).

on burke seemed to really slow us down.  what adjustments do you make with that? 

Wonder how Chris Peterson at Boise kept the guy in check... Unless of course he didn't and nothing was reported because .... It's Boise Idaho.

also had an article a few weeks back about the new fade amongst young people that involves "hooking up" instead of "dating."  It was something that Herm would have written: "in my day we used to only hold hands until marriage..."

Look at our last three games versus states:

Msu
1/31 Illinois
2-06 Minnesota
2-09 at Purdue

Michigan
2-02 at Indiana
2-05 osu
2-09 at wisc

Ten days, three ranked opponents, two on the road. State: Zero ranked opponents, two games at home over the same time.

Tough, ugly loss for sure but we are definitely closer to the team that played well against Indiana and osu versus the team that got crushed tonight.

We're not the #1 team but were no slouch either...

If I agree with your statement here: 

That is like saying because Miami, or Ohio, or USC all got caught cheating, other top-level NCAA teams are cracking down – this almost assuredly isn’t the case. People are going to do anything for more money  - lie, cheat, hell, maybe even make up fake girlfriends. 

In fact, the story about Juventus I think proves the contrary and more ominous point – if one of the biggest teams in one of the biggest countries for the most popular sport in the world fixes matches, then anyone and everyone could potentially be doing it, not just those obscure Turkish teams.

Exactly – if you read the Pete Thamel transcript from SI yesterday, Teo was en route to his home in Hawaii when he found out that the girlfriend’s family was going to “pull the plug on her.”  He was probably taking off from a plane in Southern California, talking to his girlfriend, while she was literally on her death bed in Southern California. 

The fact that this is one of many bizarre stories of this whole scandal just gives more credence to the whole “when there is smoke…” argument.  I might be able to believe he didn’t know anything…for a while…but don’t tell me he believed up until December 6^th his girlfriend was real – if he didn’t see her on her death bed.

For sure but this game hasn't changed ANYthing. So many factors against us today - geez if stauskas just hits ONE three we win this game. Anyways we won't be #1 - yet - but that was never the goal.

I will second the poster whose sick of losing to those "inbreds".

As always, f Ohio but well get them at home.

why i dont think a switch to nike will change the uniform carousal as long as dave brandon is the AD.

Could have used JT Floyd today- dont you think Magnus?

Overall 8-5 is a disappointing year- sad to see denard walk off the field for the last time...

Thought there were still enough positives to have optimism about next year. Obviously biggest question mark is the OL .

With that game, I can't believe Lewan wouldn't be gone.

was our punt returner - not norfleet.   and your point is that norfleet would have had better stats if he had better players around him? uh, yah. so would everyone...

bo pelini is my favorite coach in the bigten.

would have been a great addition:

-academically they are right there with ohio, in front of purdue, minnesota, msu, indiana, etc

-good grad programs too. UPMC is internationally recognized.

-pitt is a great city and would have been a fun road trip. Only 4 hours from ann arbor.

The problem is they cant even get on local tv – they don’t bring eyes.  No one cares about pitt– it’s a professional sports town.  also, I’ve never been to Rutgers, but pitt would immediately come in as the worst stadium in the big ten (professional stadium, tailgate under a highway).

I will be waiting for Brian’s UFR but it seemed to me he had an efficient game…until the point it became clear the offense was sputtering and he started to press.  I thought he played well in the first half, at least well enough to feel confident moving into the second half.  After halftime though, he never seemed to get back into rhythm – which I blame on playcalls.  It seems like he would complete a pass on first down and get pulled out; or a run would lose yards on first down, and Devin would have to come in in a passing situation.  By the time he got extended play it was that last drive where he seemed to really be pressing and totally out of synch…

…unrelated but something worth mentioned was the 10 yard holding penalty on Schofield on the last drive, which I believe negated a Devin first down (on the OSU side of the field…).  That’s a huge call that went against us, as we had just put together two first downs.  That might have been the call that cost us the game.

Greg Davis approves of that play call

big ten's greatest coaches - ralph friedgen

i saw this pop up on twitter too and was hoping this would be brought up on the board ---

but does anyone know why we wouldnt have already applied for his redshirt?  seems odd that, instead of doing it immediately after his first year, we would wait for a capricious time years later, no? 

that floyd made probably the unheralded play of the day by holding the edge on state's last 3rd and goal.  he forced bell back inside, otherwise, that may have gone for a touchdown and probably ended the game.

bob beat spain in s. africa. and, i know a wins a win, but the mexico victory was...fluky.  

anyways, i support JK but its hard to deny the fact that he has looked...underwhelming.  theres a pretty good article here about his tenure so far.  

with some of these questionable call-ups i think most of us would be lying if we said that we were not nervous for the remaining WCQs. 

But yes... I think so. It should be 10-10 or something close to that

more homer-ish in my predictions (i thought we would beat alabama.....) but im not scared of ND.  navy isnt good, they almost lost to purdue, and i dont think their performance against MSU warrants the fear about the front-7 (as MSU's offensive line is...not very good).  

i may be crazy, but i think we win...comfortably. 

being facetious, hence the " " 

i suppose i need to add the "/s" tag in order to be more obvious. 

All the bemoaning still going on over the neutral site dallas game.  It seems to me that there are two arguments trotted out each time this conversation comes up:

1)      We made a few thousand less than another home gome

who really cares?  Neither you, nor brian, nor myself will feel that “hit”.  Michigan athletic department will still be significantly in the black; the football and basketball programs will still maintain a nearly unlimited fountain of resources; and the non-revenue sports will still get proportionally their slice of the pie.  The lamenting that we “could have made more money” seems almost superficial (especially for those complaining about new jerseys that increase revenues) – unless of course, one constantly makes it a point to criticize mega-corporations in which they have no financial affiliation. 

2)      Its not a home and home

there seems to be a feeling of “what could have been” by travelling to tuscaloosca for an away game.  But I ask – if you complain that you cant experience an Alabama home game, have you travelled to every school in the big 10?  For the vast majority, my guess would be no.  If your complaint is that you couldn’t experience a major college town atmosphere – I am sure you could still do so by visiting Penn state, Wisconsin, Nebraska, iowa, or even OSU.

(And its not like lodging, ticket cost, and travel expenses to Alabama will be significantly cheaper than going to dallas - if at all)

the same way.  watching live (and drunk) it seemed much, much worse.

the first denard INT after that long touchdown seemed to deflate the defense alot.  having to defend bama against that short field seemed to really put the nail in the coffin. it was demoralizing. 

i really hope i am wrong on this one, but i just cant get on the hype train.  

our basis for projecting him as a threat includes one highlight video from high school and practice hype.  thats it.  

on the other side, those who attended the fall scrimmage said he didnt necessarily impress and - of course - he has never played reciever....

but the first thing i thought was: if they can do this at notre dame, why cant they do something similiar here?

completely with the detroit spartans comment - watching this defense last year melt down time and time again made me feel like a spartan fan.  it felt....dirty. i love the lions but this team is hard to root for sometimes.

another thread, but dempsey dives way too much...he has to stop doing that.  .

also, nearly half way in, it seems like guatamela's strategy is having the goalie punt kick it the entire way down the field.  its like elementary school playground soccer.  unfortunately, US hasnt done much better...

with most everything you say, but i would argue that dempsey is our biggest flopper, and jozy is right behind him.  dempsey, specifically, is our most sucessful player abroad - has he learned to dive because it helps him get the calls?  its hard to say - but  you see significantly more flopping from international players/leagues. 

with all that being said, some inernational players (messi comes to mind) dont dive at all....

constant battle against the free press and uncanny ability to hold grudges - even if you yourself, as far as i can tell, have never been personally slighted - is really amazing.  im way past the point of being annoyed - now im just thoroughly impressed.

i support this, but dont have any witty comments to add

:(

when i was living in spain i befriended a northern irish man who , because of his thick accent,  kept saying his favorite team was "serie". not wanting to show ignorance (and not having a clue what team he was referring to) i went along with his favorite team as "serie" for weeks until i realized he meant "city" as in manchester city.

so long story short, i will be rooting for city, as well as barcelona.

does anyone have a barca link that i could watch at work? dont know if its on epsn3 but our internet here has that channel blocked anyway.

no suspension was coming because it wasnt syndey crosby who got hit.

hi guys, its not like this HASNT happened before.  yesterday we scored 20 pts at half. lets all chill out a bit - this team is going to make a run and pull it below 10.  they may not win, but they're not going to get run off the court.

has one coach ever gotten so much positive attention from one play? how many times have the recruits, media, etc brought up how they really respected hoke and how he handled the situation after that incident?  it seems like ive heard that repeated countless times.

now, compare that with brian kelly.....

ace is saying on twitter, gotta remind ourselves that we're still going to have a top 10 class.  but man, we sure have stumbled down the stretch.  looking where we were in the summer, and where we are now, its hard not to feel a bit dissapointed.

ohio goon in the back left of the picture under "Calm, Easy Breathing Bullets" looks like a legitimate zombie.

i wont be watching either.  not only do i despise the idea of the rematch - especially since alabama lost at home - but i dont feel like listening to three hours of an SEC slurpfest.  im sick of the national media's love affair for the sec, always pointing out how good of a conference it is while completely ignoring the reason it is such a good conference - oversigning.  

edsbs twitter account sums it up perfectly:

not bad all and all for osu, but this is like catching chlymadia - its curable, but it still burns.

I thought this exact same thing.  Assuming meyer isn’t lying and he knows whats coming, how the hell could the ncaa even pretend to do its job anymore?  If this were the case, osu would be so clearly in the ncaa’s pocket that they know ahead of time the consequences they are going to face.  That screams collusion.   On the other hand, if meyer is just flat out lying to the recruits, and he has no idea what the punishments will be, that just makes him look like an utter dirtbag. 

I don’t know. But this whole situation with osu vis a vis the ncaa is very upsetting.

That negated touchdown still bothers me.  What was that ref thinking? Seriously. What was he looking at?  Did he just utterly neglect the one camera angle?  There is no way that call should have been overturned.  The worst part is listening to all these osu mouthbreathers: “they couldn’t even beat the spread against our worst team in a decade derp derp.” But uhm we kinda did beat the spread.

Also, there is no doubt in mind we beat msu if we played them today.  The improvement from week 1 – when brian literally lol’ed a poster for suggesting we win 10 – to now is unfathomable.

notre dame game was fun and all, but without a doubt the play of the year is the avery interception against ohio.  that was pure euphoria and football bliss that we havent seen since lloyd's last game.

a disheartening loss, especially to a virginia team that may or may not be good (they lost to TCU afterall). 

so far this team has been wildly bi-polar: uninspiring in their first few OOC games, beat up memphis and ucla, fought hard with duke, then came out flat against UVA.  what do we have here? i dont know but im chalking this one up to post-maui hangover...i still think expectations are high for the team.  lets not jump off the cliff yet.

im not scared of urban at all - bring him on - but the fact that ohio can blatantly cheat for a decade, get their "legendary" coach fired, and then (at least on paper) find a coaching upgrade is...annoying.  ohio is the poster child now for the benefits of not playing by the rules - huge upside, no risk.  what a joke.

small sample size? 

I actually think Gordon/woolfolk is advantage Gordon, especially with the injuries woolfolk has been experiencing. 

There is no sugar-coating losing RVB and MM, but man, we return everyone else and add a year of maturity & of mattison.  I cant help but to think next year we may have – not just a good defense – an elite defense.

I think its exactly because iowa ruined gopherquest that we lost to them. We all know iowa is not as bad as that Minnesota team but because they lost against minny their season was on the line – they were going to give everything they had against us (as evidenced by ferentz’s riverboatgambler impression).  Iowa losing to minny made me more nervous for that game.

Anyways, I think this team will bounce back.  We still have a lot to play for, even if it wont be a b1g championship.  This game will be something like san diego state – ie comfortable score but it feels close.  We will win by +/- 13 pts.

To respond to my own post.  Brian complains about the Alabama game next year?  I don’t get it, we’re mad about scheduling a mac cupcake or we're mad about scheduling a real opponent?

anyways I dug up what he said originally about the game, and the only hesitation he had then was that the game was in dallas, and not a home and home:

This comes with a set of crazy conflicting emotions. Hurray awesome nonconference game, boo that it's in fricking Dallas in a corporate death star of an NFL stadium and not a home-and-home in Ann Arbor and Tuscaloosa. I guess that's what it takes for a lot of actual nonconference games to get done these days, but awesomeness of trip to Dallas to see M play 'Bama <<<<<< awesomeness of M-Bama home-and-home. On the other hand, awesomeness of M-Bama Dallas >>>>>>> awesomeness of M-BGSU anywhere.

WHY ALL THIS COMPLAINING NOW?

But we haven’t collapsed yet.  That’s the point I was making.  We have one very winnable game IME at Illinois, and two games at home against flawed opponents.  to say that the “avoiding a second half collapse” meme is “isn't looking so hot” after one game that came down to the final 2 seconds on the road in a hostile environment is completely jumping the gun and totally reactionary.  

"Good thing we avoided that second-half collapse thanks to the toughy tough toughness instilled by Brady Hoke. Like the second-half adjustments, that meme isn't looking so hot. At least the second-half thing had something more than a win over Purdue arguing for it."

Jesus, this is as reactionary as the MGoBoard – one loss and now we’ve collapsed again?  Tell me, what is a guaranteed loss remaining on our schedule?  A ron zook Illinois team who lost to purdue?  A Nebraska team who just lost to northwestern at home?    Or an osu team who eeked out the perennial powerhouse that is Indiana, also at home, who will bring a freshmen quarterback to the big house? 

before iowa lost to Minnesota I thought this was going to be the hardest of our remaining four games because of kinnick stadium and the fact that very few big ten teams have played well on the road. Iowa losing to Minnesota made this game that much tougher because iowa was playing for their big10 lives – we were going to get their best kamikaze impression, as we saw when ferentz went all river boat gambler on us. 

There were a lot of factors working against us on Saturday – some of which were external and some of which were internal (the offense) – but to say we’re on a sinking boat like the last two years after one game is so fickle I would expect it from randommgoblog user who types in CAPS and argues for DEVIN GARDNERRER!)@!)###! 

I still think there are at least two wins left on the schedule and 9-3 to me does not equal “second half collapse”.

Re Hoke’s injury report: chengelis tweeted that Hoke said in his presser that Lewan’s ankle/knee is “fine.” Which probably means Lewan’s whole leg is about to fall off, if it hasn’t already.

Completely Agree.  And as I mentioned in another thread, the book seems so focused on a narrative that shady dealings brought down RR that it neglects most of RR’s poor football decisions.  Bacon does address the blundered press conferences but only to the extent that it brought on more heap from the outside.  What he does not address, however, is what I thought was the biggest mistake in the RR era: firing Shaffer and bringing in GERG.  All of a sudden in the book,Schaffer kind of disappears and GERG is in his place – without any mention of what that caused.  The bottom line is this:  if RR could have cobbled together a semblance of a defensive staff, he would have been here today, regardless of the muffed coaching search, the WVU drama, the negative press, the “cockroaches.”  He couldn’t do that because he brought in Shaffer, fired him, brought in GERG, and eventually forced him into 3-3-5 with defensive coaching assistants that were inept at best.  This latter part is hardly mentioned in Bacon’s book, which to me seems like a glaring omission. 

to me was the funniest part of the book, especially because, if my memory serves me, it was initiated and led by mgoblog viewers (of course). i seem to recall a particularly funny comment: "rosenberg's war as they knew it gave me herpes."

but I feel like state has consistently taken advantage of it more so than any other team we have played in three years.

ugh I can't read these anymore. so frustrating to think about what could have been if we made just a few simple adjustments.

I agree with a lot of other comments though...it seems blatantly obvious that there has to be something we are missing, right? how could borges not adjust to this? and how come its always state who is able to exploit this? this has happened for three years now...why does it seem like dantonio is the only one who knows this?

thats a liberal use of the word "joke"

remember, last year through four games he went out in 3 of them.  this year through four games he hasnt left for a snap.  sample size and all but he seems to be holding up better so far.

this was stuart scott and not michael wilbon?  because i know wilbon said the exact same thing on PTI today...

jamiemac and im surprised no one has mentioned the defense yet.  i thought, all things considered, they gave a very underrated defensive performance last night.  they started slow but once they got going they really kept the nd offense in check.  

largely ignored today is the fact that michigan only had 90 odd yards of offense after the half but were only down 10.  also, how many big 3rd and 1 stops did the defense make? last year the problem (or one of the problems) with the defense was they could never get the one big stop - whenever we needed them to keep our offense within a score the defense could not get it done.  last night for three quarters the defense did great, IMO, and kept us in the game.

i know the word on him is that he is good to go but until i see him out there ill be skeptical. it seems to me this staff likes them some gamesmanship AND troy was carted off the field last week.  i wouldnt be surpirsed if he isnt 100%.

Im not as happy as others here about this move but it had to be done. also I'm not convinced were going to land klinsmann but he should be option #1,2 and 3

taking the PA bar exam. good luck to everyone - if youre in PA please help bring down the curve

we will agree to disagree re howard tongiht. FWIW, the other soccer pundits didnt think much of his game tonight either.

mlssoccer.com, si.com, and goal.com all gave howard his worst ratings of the goldcup and they all came to the conclusion that he could "have done better" with a couple of the goals.

from who we have....who else is out there? spector? ream?  obvioulsy bornstein was bad, but it was obvious that mexico has the better players.  they have the better team.  wheres our chicharito? dos santos? we dont have those players.

and as far as howard, anyone can see he didnt play his best game.  he was caught out of position on the fourth goal on his knees 10 yards out of the goal; that doesnt happen, ever.  the first goal he didnt even move, and the third goal was soft.  usually tim howard makes at least one, if not two of those saves. he wasnt helped by his defense but he hasnt been helped all tournament and yet he still had 4 shutouts.  he wasnt the reason we lost but he sure didnt help.

bradley doesnt coach the developmental league...he plays who he has.  you saw what happened when cherendulo came out. we have no depth, especially on defense. 

ill admit his substitutions are questionable, but i dont know if he could have done anything to change the outcome of this game. 

thats an interesting lineup.  honestly, i think alot of people are making too big of a deal out of the one pass that adu had last game.  outside of that, he didnt do anything...at all...to warrant being a starter.  we'll see how this works.

im a big edu fan and rather see him in the lineup.  i dont get bradely's aversion to keeping him out of it until the 89th minute.

but i dont think it has anything to do with honduras' defense.  my point (albeit poorly stated) was that honduras has played poorly on defense but chicarito hasnt done anything to take advantage of it.  

adu but not edu? wtf bob bradley

bedoya has been playing great while ld has been dogging it.  sends a good message that no spot is secure.

us 1-0.  they are playing good but not great.  i think they look pretty sketchy in the back, and their finishing hasnt been there.  but hard to complain when they get something like 10+ shots in a half.

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this is a great 30 for 30. the second best one imo...

5 seconds, but only 5 seconds, to feel bad for that kid.  i mean, he didnt get any favors from the people who needed to help him the most, including that douchbag jim tressel and his "mentor" sarrniak. 

heres another high profile flameout under jim tressel's watch and for the life of me i cant believe he still rides off with half the media slobbing that knob.

i was underwhlemed as everyone else, but according to the video at the end of the article dohrmann was only in columbus for 2 weeks.  if he dug this up in two weeks im assuming there is still much more to be discovered.  

at least thats what im hoping...

a way to block section 1?

the real bouje?

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sure why people are criticizing shoe for posting this article. if this was a freep hack i would join the mob, but hinton is very respected around these parts, and may be the best college blogger out there (that includes brian, IMO).

GERG, theoretically, would not have been the only one fired. so would gibson and dews, who both have been with rich for a long time.  

anyways, thats ancillary to my point im trying to make.  the thing is, people who complain about the process do so by saying that "if only we had a new defensive staff..." what they fail to realize is that could have been a viable option that was turned down.  no one knows.  but to bitch and moan about something that may or may not have happened seems, at this point, completely unnecessary.  

for that quote. i had not seen it yet and it kind of pokes holes in the meme that mallet was gone "no matter what."

the point is, no one knows what mallet was going to do with rich rod, a pro-style coach, or even lloyd carr for that matter.  what we do know is that rr contacted mallet only three times (or thrice as conan would say) and apparently that was not enough.

doesnt have a wr coach and they have openly said they might not have one until after signing day.  i dont know how common it is not to have every position coach filled but im sure its not devastating for a program.

to law school for the same reason as you - because of the versatility i thought a law degree would open a lot of doors.  which is true, i think, except now law schools are churning out so many lawyers there are very few jobs for anyone, especially in public interest. (and i went to a "good" law school).

if i were you i might stick it out at this point but honestly if i had to do it all over again i would have looked into a different degree, probably one in public policy.

everyone think lloyd carr is some nefarious wizard behind the scenes?  i dont understand how this was HIS idea.  lloyd carr was fired, or let go, from the athletic department by, guess who, david brandon.  why are we to assume that 1) david brandon subsequently asked lloyd for coaching advice 2) lloyd suggested hoke and 3) brandon acted purely on that suggestion.

no one knows what actually happened yet at the same time they have concluded, for no reason, that it is lloyd carr's fault .  this is absolute insanity! the man hasnt coached a game since january 1, 2008 and he's no longer employed by the university yet he's still the scapegoat for all things wrong with michigan football.  unbelievable. 

needing OT to scrape by Little Brother

 

yes, how dare they. the audacity to beat little brother in OVERTIME, my god, instead of losing by 30 in regulation. 

are kind of useless IMO.  just because we run a defensive scheme based more on speed rather than brawn does not mean we have the same level of coaching or emphasis on defense that TCU has.  theres very little we've seen from these defensive coaches that makes me think we would be successful in anything, whether that be a 4-2-5, 3-3-5, 3-4, 4-3, or something even more ridiculous than what we're doing now.

with everyone who said denard is following RR if he's gone. after all, it was just a few short years ago when all of RR's stud WVU players followed him here after he left.  man, watching noel devine in the winged helmets was really something, wasnt it?

the year in the top 20 (15, i believe) and went 7-5 despite bringing back a lot of key pieces from last year's team that won 10 games.

soccer game, and just want to say to anyone who lives in southern california, you need to go see this team play on friday.  it was the most fun ive had at a non-football, michigan sporting event (ie hockey, basketball).  we had a great showing, probably about 1/4-1/3 of the stadium, and we were definitely not your "typical down in front crowd"

anyways, maryland dominated the shots, but soccer is about being opportunistic.  the bottom line is, we finished and they didnt.  sure this team looks outmatched at paper, but i wouldnt be so quick to count them out.  watching the game saturday, you'd think that 'someone' was looking out for this team, though i guess we'll see how long their luck can keep going.  either way, i can all but guarantee the game will be much closer than the 7-1 beatdown earlier in the year.

Can't embed on my phone but it appears you're wrong...

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what you said above, which was effectively "smaller guys can work in the big10. just look at our offense."  now you're backtracking on your argument, saying "well we are actually not that small off a defensive team."

no need to get defensive, i just wanted to point out the two have no correleation. 

i know...I know...bare cupboard, people hate him, the sun was in his eyes

 

have YOU tried coaching with the sun in your eyes???  its not as easy at it looks.

nice write up mispogen. good summary of where we're at today, its too bad its buried in a page with 2000 responses