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September 28th, 2008 at 12:16 PM ^
It wasn't reflected in what ABC/ESPN was showing. They would show Threet on the sideline emploring people to make noise and then cut to the crowd showing some jackass with his fist in his mouth.
Glad to hear it was a zoo. It should have been.
September 27th, 2008 at 11:34 PM ^
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September 27th, 2008 at 11:57 PM ^
Just got back to my hotel from the game. I have NO voice left. None. I'm exhausted, but happy.
So many people in my section left at halftime. Ha. Suckers. Good riddance.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:06 AM ^
Just finished watching Penn state and Illinois. Daryll Clark is jacked, guy can scramble and throw well at the same time. I couldn't help but imagine him running our offense. Anyways, I think we have a shot against Juice, but probably will lose against JoePa.
September 28th, 2008 at 8:49 AM ^
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September 28th, 2008 at 1:02 AM ^
...when my old man and I were walking back to our hotel, we passed McGuffie walking towards downtown on State street. I waived and said great game and he said thanks.
Then he hurdled me. It was kind of awesome.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:46 AM ^
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September 28th, 2008 at 2:58 AM ^
"I give all the credit in the world to Michigan to come back after hearing all the things that I heard being yelled at them at halftime." ~Brett Bielema
Absolutely disgusted to hear this.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:53 AM ^
Those of us who see problems in the current situation and provide suggestions for improvement are often called negative!
About the clock management. M takes over on it's 10 with 2:29 left in the half. We will get the ball in the second half kickoff.
2 runs and an int -- W gets the ball and makes it 19-0 on a field goal. Bad calls (were we really going 90 yards?) Bad clock management (with the 40 second clock each running play should eat up 50 seconds -- including time to run the play). The 2 running plays and int only took 1:14 or 74 seconds off the clock.
BTW, I have sat through more M games (started when I was 10 when Bump was the coach) than most and if anyone thinks that was not one of the worst 1st half performances in the history of M, you just weren't paying attention.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:00 AM ^
September 28th, 2008 at 11:11 AM ^
doesnt make you negative, your first posts after one of the biggest wins in recent memory, in which you start by talking about bad coaching, makes you negative.
Im glad you've watched a ton of games all these years, guess that overrides all the many years of coaching experience i have, and all the run-ins with fans like you i have tried to forget... I dont really care who you are, or what you think, you can think that RR is an idiot if you want, just dont expect it to be met with a lot of fan fare when fans are trying to celebrate..
September 28th, 2008 at 10:44 PM ^
Enjoy Life: Rich Rod did not throw the interception. They tried to give themselves some momentum going into the second half. 90 yards would have been a touchdown and 60 yards, a field goal. 60 yards in 2:29 is not a pipe dream. This game was a flash of schadenfreude in an ugly transition year. Rich Rod will win big one day. In the meantime, do a better job living up to your moniker, for those moments that deserve it.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:57 AM ^
I don't think anyone contended it wasn't one of the worst halves of offensive football in Michigann history. So, thanks for the straw man.
So, you think that a team that, up to that point, had fewer yards than plays, and is down by 3 scores should merely abstain from an opportunity to score? Run run run punt? Grind clock? The fact that Threet threw an interception DOES NOT mean that Rodriguez's decision to attempt to score was bad. It's not as if RR called "WR Fly Interception".
September 28th, 2008 at 1:06 PM ^
September 28th, 2008 at 11:02 AM ^
I wasn't even a twinkle in my dad's eye when bump was coach.
Fortunately, age and intelligence aren't correlated.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:10 AM ^
Good one. Neither is youth and intelligence.
BTW remember the famous Lloyd blowup when a reporter asked him why he didn't try to score at the end of the half?
The real reason (that is stated over and over and over again every Saturday and Sunday) -- We are getting the second half kickoff. The risk versus reward (starting from your own 10) is too high!
September 28th, 2008 at 11:36 AM ^
Neither is youth and intelligence.
Um, I said that age and intelligence aren't correlated. In other words, a person's age has nothing to do with their intelligence. So - I never even attempted to suggest that being young made one smart.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:46 AM ^
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September 28th, 2008 at 11:49 AM ^
This game gives new meaning to the quote "Those who stay will be champions"
SOOO excited, hopefully our boys can calm down and play like the 2nd half a bit more during the game. Especially when we get into rivalry games like MSU and tOSU....
GO BLUE!!!
September 28th, 2008 at 11:53 AM ^
... after this game is more than a little bizarre. It's one of the signature wins in Michigan history, for chrissakes, and if we'd lost, clock management would be the least of the reasons.
In particular, complaining about not taking enough time off the clock brings back all the times over the previous 13 seasons when we'd completely sit on a lead, doing NOTHING except bleeding clock, only to have that lack of aggression come back and bite us in the ass at the end of the game.
Not to mention that the benefits of Barwis are maximized on offense if you permit the opposing defense as little time as possible between snaps. Michigan has been consistently the stronger team late in the game, and if you bleed clock you're negating that advantage.
I thought Wisky would win because I didn't think our D, esp. the D-line, were up to the task. Yesterday they were magnificent, all things considered. If we could just get the offense to do half as well in the first half as they've been in the second, we could be pretty dangerous. A big part of that would simply be to not turn the ball over.
Above all, this win speaks to the character of the team and the coaching staff. That's more than enough for me.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:00 PM ^
is his introduction of new team- and fan-oriented rituals, esp. the pre-game walk through the fans to the locker room, and the gathering in the endzone corner to sing the Victors after the game. I loved seeing some of the players hopping up onto the wall to celebrate with fans.
New blood is good.
For recruits the first half must have been painful to watch, but the second half and the ending couldn't have been more impressive.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:32 PM ^
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September 28th, 2008 at 2:40 PM ^
Thank you Mike Barwis!
September 28th, 2008 at 3:13 PM ^
When the crowd began to cheer after Mich started to make some good plays in the 3rd quarter, the announcers said that the crowd was "mockingly cheering." Is this accurate? That seems more like the announcers' opinion, and I don't really see how it makes sense. What do people who were at the game think?
FWIW, my roommate who is not a Michigan fan but watches the games with me, said to me at the half that it is to the Michigan fans' credit that it took that much for them to boo. I don't like booing, but he could be right in a way. Not that booing is ever right, but there are fanbases who boo egregiously e.g. Miami fans booing Kyle Wright, WVU fans booing their team last year for not beating Louisville by enough. I wonder what others think about this. I think that the Mich fanbase is just more tame all around, whether it involves good or bad fan behavior.
September 28th, 2008 at 3:18 PM ^
September 28th, 2008 at 4:35 PM ^
Yes the cheers were mocking. Cheers came when Michigan did not fumble or completed a pass as if we were expecting them to fumble every kick return, punt and throw and int. every pass.
I was upset w/ the Booing but as a 2006 graduate, i feel like the student section is way more involved (maize out every game, block M in the crowd) w/ cheers. They were pretty loud and crazy all game. So maybe some sparratic booing comes w/ the incresed fan involvement. I happened to be by some Frat boys that fell every big play taking out about 4 rows of fans. It was annoying but they got what they deserved when about 4 Jack Daniels bottles were broken on the ground around them and they kept coming up w/ cut feet.
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September 28th, 2008 at 4:35 PM ^
My first post was "WTF, WTF, WTF"
If you need a translation that was jubulation for a great win.
Second post was congratulating the coaches for changing the scheme for the second half.
The clock management comment was several hours later. BTW, should we wait until poor clock management costs us a game to try to fix it??
Ask, Brian, poor clock management is one of his hot buttons that he has posted about several times
September 28th, 2008 at 4:57 PM ^
Seriously? If they had ran the ball 3 times and punted you'd complain too. If IRC Wisky had at least one TO left, so they could have gotten the ball back had UM not gotten a first down on those 3 runs.
Complain about clock management when it's a clear cut Bill Stewart fuckup, not in the situation above.
September 28th, 2008 at 6:55 PM ^
Troy Aikman, .19 left in first half of Washington/Dallas game.
"Not a lot of teams spend a lot of time going over it and not a lot of QB's go over clock management and yet, it is such an important part if your team is going to go on and have some level of success."
September 28th, 2008 at 7:26 PM ^
very important.....agreed
September 28th, 2008 at 7:47 PM ^
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