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Harbaugh's third year team is going to surprise everyone. Wilton Speight is going to have a very good year.

It took years of great coaching to make this play happen.

The block by Seyferth is a thing of beauty,

but the play call by the BACKUP quarterback Seyferth, his execution of the pitch and his block are just excellent execution.

Well done by all concerned!

Heck, Manny Legace was run out by his own teammates!
Also, Wings coach & GM catch Holy H*ll.

has been hinted at for the Michigan job.  The first time was a week or so ago when Datsyuk's agent tweeted that Michigan was going to get a fantastic coach.  That was deduced to be Blashill.  fwiw

;)

and God bless your whole family. :((

Maybe he is playing through an injury?

I suspect his retirement is for something far worse than seizures.

Godspeed, Jerry Kill!

Do you have any sensory numbness or muscle weakness in your arms or legs?  If not, you likely do not have a nerve injury.

There is no way to tell about a disc injury withou an MRI.

This is probably related to your weight lifting accident.

Try this:

No weight lifting

Stretching 4 times daily. Yoga works

Apply heating pad

Sleep on firm mattress with lots of neck / head support

Take ibuprofen 800 mg 3 times daily

Take muscle relaxant if you have it

Massage if avalable

This will take longer than you will expect

See your doctor

Go Blue.

Could Wheatley play Tight End and WDE?

What happened to his pants?

They must be in the laundry!

as the UM coach, MGoBlog needs a plan to celebrate... 

After all, "the Ruskies don't take crap with out a plan" ...

Muppets? PB&J time?  A new banner?  All of the above?

Fire, smoke, cordite coming fom the computer?

Whatever, it has to be big.

;)

mgoblog will go up in smoke!

I think that would be a matter of priorities...

i.e:  If your priority is a nice guy who loves his players, you want a clone of Brady Hoke.

OTOH, if your priority is a guy who will kick some ass and win games, you want Harbaugh.

Regarding the wife, buy her a Gulfstream 6 and she can be in San Fran in 3 hours.

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Their owner and GM have made it obvious, & there is speculation he is leaving for another team or UM.  Under similar circumstances, teams are just not motivated.  Remember how his UM team played for RR in his last bowl game?

Professionals watch the odds and the timing.  When there is a sudden shift in the odds just before the race goes off, that is the way to bet.  It is telling you that the insiders know which horse is going to win.

actually started by people in the M athletic department going to the FREEP and giving them a story?

Go back and read it!

Nick was dead on!

Are you Nostradamus?

Counterpunt was absolutely perfect. 

Well done, Nick!

The backs continue to not follow their blockers and hit the holes.

It is long past time coach Jackson retires.

Gardner plays like he is stoned.

IMHO, the problem is Funk and Jackson.  Coaches whom Hoke was saddled with.

Could he be another Jake Ryan?

The O line is improving game to game.  In the second half, they were really opening some holes, and Green was hitting them for nice gains.

Pass blocking is improving, but Braden is a sieve.

Gardner's performance, like any quarterback, depends to a great extent on the pass blocking.

When Michigan drives ended in punts today, it was because they did not pound the rock. 

Too much passing, with poor pass blocking, meant doom.

Michigan played their hearts out.

The O line is a LOT better than last year.  We can run the football, and I think we out-gained ND on the ground.  Pass blocking was mediocre, but that takes more time and experience.  It will improve.

Gardner does not play well under pressure.  His turnovers killed us. 

3rd down conversions were non-existent, and I put a lot of this on Gardner and/or poor pass blocking.   

A big factor was penalties.  I predicted the refs would give ND 7-10 points, and they certainly did.

The D actually played pretty well, and really stifled the ND running game.  They needed more pressure on Golson.

Golson is a beast.  ND is a very good team. 

Do not underestimate the Michigan team.  Yes, they got an ass-kicking.  Hopefully this will leave a chip on their shoulder for the rest of the season.

Thank God I do not have to watch NBC sports ever again.

Do not forget that in South Bend the referees always give the Irish 7 - 10 points. :(

His teamates McCune and Smith saved his life!

He flew an SB2C HellDiver off of the USS Phillipine Sea in WW2.

To this day he can tell you exactly how to fly that plane, dive and hit the target, and catch the cable to land it.

He grew up the son of a share-cropper.  His mother had died in child birth.  They had no electricity or running water.  His sister sewed his pants from horse blankets.

He is one tough SOB.  I know of nobody in my (baby boom) generation who could match his mental & physical ruggedness.

"The greatest generation", indeed!

"I think he instills a lot of confidence in the group," Crosby said of Babcock. "He leads by example and I think you can see that he trusts every guy out there, and the situations he puts them in, he puts them in for a reason. Definitely to have a group come together this quick isn't easy, and everyone's kind of laughing at the ball hockey in August, but you know what, all those little things go a long way sometimes. He definitely did a great job, his whole staff, of preparing us and getting us ready for all the adjustments we needed to make on the big ice."

http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/icehockey/story/_/id/10505881/2014-sochi-olympics-canada-defense-first-mindset-delivers-win-ages

If you watch the video, you can hear what Pierre LeBrun says.

Marshall Lynch just scored that long touchdown on an inside zone run.

I learned that today by reading the diary from "Eye of the Tiger" on MGOBLOG

What part did Brandon play in this firing of Borges and hiring of Nussmeier?

Would Hoke have made the change on his own?

Dantonio is an excellent coach, as is Narduzzi.

No doubt, the better team won the game.

Congratulations.

On the basis of the data published in that paper, we compute that the rate of ACL injury in the nonbraced cadets was 3.0 times higher (95%CI: 1.0-9.2) than in braced cadets. It should be noted that the number of ACL injuries was small. Only 16 ACL injuries occurred: four in the braced and 12 in the nonbraced condition.

http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/can-functional-bracing-reduce-the-risk-of-acl-injury

Not the players.

I was at the UM overtime win against Penn State in 2002.  That was one of the best games I have ever attended.  I will never forget it.

So yesterday you have Penn State...a proud old program with great fans...humiliated by the scandal and loaded down with drastically limited scholarships and a bowl ban for years to come. 

Despite all that, they packed their stadium with 108,000 loyal fans.  The team played their hearts out, and their freshman quarterback played well.  And in a 4 overtime circus, they won.  This game will be the highlight of their season, and those fans will never forget it.  Good for them and good for their program.

I hate the loss. 

Michigan did not deserve to win. 

Why do we not put all linemen in steel kneee braces to prevent at least some of these injuries? 

300 pound linemen are a natural set-up to put a large amount of abnormal stress on their relatively little knees.  In playing their positions they do not need to pivot as much as a running back or cornerback or quarterback does.  I would think the minor loss of mobility could be compensated and the potential gain from avoiding injuries would be significant.

Needs to be replaced.  His offensive line play is atrocious for the 3rd consecutive year.

I hate Texas almost as much as I hate Notre Dame.

So Gerg and his beaver are going to the Longhorns!

hahahahahhahahahahahah!

The Wolverines certainly understand how these injuries can impact the fortunes of the team.

Nobody wants to see these dedicated, talented student-athletes get injured.

Best of luck to them and their team.

are great:  Gordie howe, Ted Lindsay, Alex Delvecchio.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1104/sports.figures.with.statues/images/gordie-howe-statue.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1104/sports.figures.with.statues/content.11.html&h=515&w=641&sz=76&tbnid=ul_rGstbQLvbpM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=125&zoom=1&usg=__wExpVkYaufOSpA_EsOqwnTa9mrE=&docid=6e8yUEBYG8mBLM&sa=X&ei=l9WxUa3BJ87lygHn24CQBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC8Q9QEwAA&dur=0

Shawn Hunwick came out of the NAHL!

He played in Alpena 2006-2007

http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-hockey/mtt/hunwick_shawn00.html

My daughter graduated IOE, joined a consulting firm, left and earned her MBA from Carnegie-Mellon.  Now she is an executive at Siemens Inc..

My son graduated ME, and is doing very cool (and secret) stuff for the U.S. Navy.

Go Blue!

When the B1G adds teams 15 & 16 on the East coast, then they simply move THE OTHER Indiana team to the West.

Could this be a reason Alabama football teams are bigger, faster & stronger than everyone else, year after year? 

Are PED's what make the SEC dominant?

There is a lot of money and pride involved...

GERG...

He still exists?  That episode seems so far in the past....

A nightmare from childhood...

Buried Memory with a stuffed beaver. 

and yet...

Best of luck to Scott Shafer at Syracuse.

If I ran an executive recruiting business, I would immediately go into athlete recruiting, and market my company as a "turn-key solution" for college athletic departments.

from Boise?  I thought he was going to Arkansas.

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In fact, the next pair probably needs to bring more than 100 million, as there’s clearly no point in making a move if it’s just a push. It needs to be compelling.

The next pair:

Boston College with the Boston cable TV market.

Notre Dame with their national audience.

Simple, man ....We are not juicin!

I remember Richrod brought him in to solve all his problems at kicker.

How did that work out? 

:((

I would like to see Ken Holland give Hunwick a chance in the professional minor leagues.

I am sure pro scouts say he is too small, but that has been said about him and other successful goalies in the past, and he has proven them all wrong.

The Wings wasted a first round pick on a huge goalie a couple years ago ...Thomas McCollum, and he is a bust.

Holland was a goalie, and the Wings need depth in goal.....

Give Hunwick a chance!

Could he also play roundball for Beilein?

Is read by a lot of NHL folks, as well as a lot of the media.

Meyer must have stolen RichRod's Wizard Hat!

110,000 is a lot of hockey tickets. 

The best way to make sure you sell them all is to schedule Toronto. 

Toronto fans will come by the trainload.

What a blast that will be!

These guys played a great game, and were very well coached. 

They really shut down Michigan's running game.

They never quit.

They got some tough calls, especially that reversed TD pass.

Yet there is no post-game whining, excuses, or finger pointing.

Congratulations to coach Beamer and Virginia Tech.

They lost with dignity!

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/08/19/lose-with-dignity-celebrate-with-grace-part-i/ 

It is all about losing assistant coach Pearson.

Why not do an echocardiogram on each athlete?

Well deserved!

And such a classy guy!

Bo Schembechler would be mighty proud of this Michigan Man!

I always mute the TV and watch the game while listening on the radio to Branstetter & Beckman.

Good Luck, RichRod!

I expect great things from you and your team!

Go Blue!

Your

WIZARD HAT!

No doubt a group of people will  find fault with Miles having his quarterback take a knee.

OTOH, if he had continued to pound the ball, a group of people would also be critical.

IMHO, his call was made for the right reason.  He was not trying to humiliate that team.

I am sure that under similar circumstances, Brady Hoke would do his best to not humiliate another team.

Enough said.

"Anytime you’re not on the field as a defense, they can’t score too many points on you, so I think they do a great job holding the ball and moving the chains. They aren’t doing that hurry-up tempo anymore, so I think that’s really helped us out.” 

Kovacs makes an interesting point vis-a vis the RichRod Offensive game plan.

The results speak for themselves.

He did not put it in the book. 

Certainly Dave Brandon wanted nothing to do with Les Miles.

Michigan is SO much better with Hoke, Mattison & Borges! 

Brandon has his own man, and will give him & his staff all the money and support they need to succeed.  Success for Hoke means success for Brandon.

Total support was not the case with Richrod, and would likley not  be the case with Miles.

I am amazed he played so well despite a bad hamstring injury!

His hamstring injury explains why he pulled up on that early 1st quarter play around the end.

I find it amazing that he played so well on interior run defense during this Iowa game.

He is one tough dude!

And my theory is that the deaths of Brad McCollum and Ruslan Salei stopped the Wings in their tracks.

I think they are still grieving the loss of their friends, and are having trouble focusing enough intensity at hitting a piece of rubber into a net.

Thanks!

Very explosive stuff.

I used to watch him in Alpena (NAHL Junior A league). 

He was different than the other players because he always played his best, even when the team around him did not play well. 

One time Rick Comley and his son (who coaches in the USHL) came to Alpena to scout another player.  I mentioned to Comley's son that Hunwick was an excellent goalie, but he replied: "He is too small."

Give credit to Kolarik and Porter for talking Red into giving Shawn a chance.

Go Blue!

is a fantastic football player.  I love to watch him.  He will probably be the most exciting player we will ever watch.  But he is too inconsistent with his passing.  That is why Dantonio can just play him for the run, and blitz him all day long. 

I cannot help but feel bad for the Minnesota fans.

Can there be any left who have not killed themselves?

Shades of the Lions!

Recognizing that these great schools and their students have a lot in common.

We should start taking bets on the date that RichRod gets hired by one of these schools.

Thanks for the article! 

Brady Hoke will do great things at Michigan.

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Q: What was the greatest lesson Bo left you with?BW: Just integrity. When you're with a coach that does the right thing all the time and would never sway away from doing the right thing, you think at that time, that a lot of people are like that, that the world is like that. Then you get away from someone who has been so influential in your life and you realize that it's such a rare breed, that the world is full of liars and cheaters and manipulators. But with my four years at Michigan, I was there with an honorable guy, a good guy, an honest guy, a guy full of integrity, and you miss that in life. I wish there were more people around like that. He didn't always do that right thing, but his intentions were always right. He was such a good guy. 

is correct that Michigan had to rebuild.

What he does not say is that his defensive coaching / staff was unacceptable.

And behold, the 2012 recruit class is full of LBs!

to Notre Dame. 

However, he may be entertaing next week at the Big House.

Will they play his rants on the HD scoreboards?

hahahhaha

Don:  And that is exactly what Red is trying to tell them.  If they do not take his advice, at least he tried.

I will never forget when OSU was in a bowl game Pryor's freshman year.  OSU had an excellent senior quarterback, and Tressel benched the senior and played Pryor.  (I bet this was a promise he made in recruiting) 

They lost. 

Now Tressel goes down with Pryor.  They deserve each other.

Sounds like a lot of advertising space to me:

Crisler:

· Four (4) 6.28’ x 6.3’ Pi10 10mm advertising displays
· One (1) 2.1’ x 81.9’ Pi10 10mm top video ring display
· One (1) 2.1’ x 44.1’ Pi10 10mm bottom video ring display 

Yost:

· Four (4) 12.5’ x 6’6’ F16 corner displays
· One (1) 2.5’ x 75.59’ F16 video ring display 

load bottle rockets in a 3 ft copper pipe and shoot it down the hall like a bazuka.

I would think that at this time Barwis is the one guy who the players can rally around.

At least they have 1 coach.

He would give the team members a point of continuity and allow them to continue to focus on their conditioning and their football careers.

They can still go in and work out and hang out with a coach they trust.

At least a little bit of "life as normal"

straight up.

Dave Brandon will undoubtably make a better choice than Bill Martin....If for no other reason than having learned from the RichRod years.

I feel terrible for the players, for the recuiting class, for RichRod, his coaches, and their families.

the team about his possibly getting fired, and emotionally told them it was out of his control.

This must have demoralized the team, and they sure played that way:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110102/SPORTS06/101020672/1054/sports06/Michigan-coach-Rich-Rodriguezs-limbo-is-rough

I think DB made the decision when he took his job that he would never change coaches before the end of the bowl games.  This way the teams get to play their bowl games with their present coaches without all the ugliness of the transition.  The mess that happened the last time was ugly for Michigan, West Virginia and LSU. 

This is why he says he will not evaluate a team till after its season is over.

If Brandon has decided to make a change, it is already a done deal and will be announced the day after Stanford plays their bowl game.  Short and Sweet.

Please remove the thread.

For Michigan to lose an in-state 4 star talent who has been a big UM fan and has visited the team many times is just a fail.

Scholars Division

Leaders Division

RR says he's more worried about the (kickers) getting the confidence to perform in a game.

Having watched the place kickers all year, they really do have the distance on their kicks, and they were not recruited if they were not acccurate.

The problem is confidence...psychology.  You know that is the case when the guy bangs the upright from 25 yards.  I think that kicking in front of 112,000 fans plus national TV just freaks them out.  

Surely the University has a sports psychologist in the faculty whom they could call upon.

complete with hats, magic wands and snake oil.

 ....  RichRod vs Saban.....

That sound like good hockey weather.

The Big House will help obstruct the wind, and the ice will stay frozen.

The worst weather would be warm and rain.

They like it hard.   :)