PSU Blog BSD Michigan content.
Wanted to get PSU view of Michigan so I went over to Black Shoes to see what they had to say...
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/
Know Your Foe, Week Seven: #16 Michigan Wolverines
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2013/10/9/4819798/know-your-foe-week-seven-16-michigan-wolverines
Brief Interviews with Horrible Men: Michigan Edition
Just the Stats: Penn State vs Michigan
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2013/10/9/4821350/just-the-stats-penn-state-vs-michigan
Just another thing to get us by till the DEF UFR. Oh I almost forgot...
EDIT: Mgo.licio.us has a post, DAGNAMIT.
October 10th, 2013 at 11:19 AM ^
I remember when Devin was just another defensive linemen. Going through the daily routine. Now suddenly he's a quarterback living the dream. Easily the best story in college football.
October 10th, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
Yeah what the hell was that about. Mgoblog really is far and away the best sports blog around.
October 10th, 2013 at 12:03 PM ^
Ol' 98
October 10th, 2013 at 11:19 AM ^
Actual conversation between me and my three year old son when I showed him that picture:
Charlie: Go Blue! (This is his reaction every time he sees a Michigan football player)
(Charlie then points to lifeless Morelli)
Charlie: What happened? Does he have an owie?
Me: Yes. Yes he does.
Charlie: Go Blue!
October 10th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^
+1 for excellent brainwashing.
If/when I have kids, I'm starting from day 1.
October 10th, 2013 at 12:58 PM ^
Having kids is awesome. You can teach them to hate the same things you do.
~homer j simpson
October 10th, 2013 at 1:18 PM ^
My son is now 8 years old... 4+ years into being unable to say "Nick Saban" without putting "The Eeeeeevil" in front of it.
He also has a pavlovian response that makes him boo or at least scowl at anything Sparty or Ohio related.
All I need to know I learned from Homer.
October 10th, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
My Six year old will automatically says "boo" when MSU or Ohio is mentioned.
October 10th, 2013 at 1:08 PM ^
Don't forget about the Bill Simmons approach. Get ND/OSU/MSU stuff, show it to them, then hit them with it
October 10th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
Took little macdaddy to his first game when he was 6 months old. Now he's a Michigan sophomore. Mission accomplished.
October 11th, 2013 at 6:46 AM ^
I think it's time to start teaching Charlie some more adult manball nomenclature: it's not owie, it's boo boo.
October 10th, 2013 at 11:20 AM ^
Means more discussion. I don't see a problem with it being posted here too.
October 10th, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
Even though the m.golicio.us link is in the sidebar, I think it is fine to discuss this on the main MGoBoard too.
In any case, the stats matchup basically agrees with the current line on the game in that these are two teams that, on paper, are fairly evenly matched although with a slight edge to Michigan on several important metrics. I don't know if I entirely agree with the idea of basing who has the edge in what for all the metric on national rank. As we have seen here, even relatively slight differences in, say for example, 3rd down conversion rates make a huge impact on games, so success rates might be more telling. That's just me though.
October 10th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
W vs.Syracuse (2-3 0-1ACC) 23-17 *in NJ
W vs. EMU (1-4 0-2MAC) 45-7
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
EMU | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
PSU | 7 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 45 |
L vs. UCF (4-1 1-0AAC) 31-34
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
UCF | 7 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 34 |
PSU | 7 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 31 |
W vs. Kent St (2-4 1-2MAC) 34-0
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
KENT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
PSU | 7 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 34 |
L @ Ind (3-2 1-0B1G) 24-44
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
PSU | 0 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 |
IND | 7 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 44 |
Shooting from the hip I would say they are slow out of the gate and make good adjustments at half (besides MAC schools).
October 10th, 2013 at 12:09 PM ^
I'd be fully expecting a 5-6 win season. Not particularly promising to play close against Syracuse, lose to UCF, and get beat down by Indiana.
OTOH, we nearly lost to Akron and UConn so glass houses
October 10th, 2013 at 12:29 PM ^
Did TWIS ever go up this week?
October 10th, 2013 at 12:42 PM ^
I've been waiting since yesterday as well.
October 10th, 2013 at 1:12 PM ^
Don't you just hate it when your tailbacks have a 4.1 YPC?
October 10th, 2013 at 1:53 PM ^
I am just frustrated that, under Hoke, our team hasn't performed well on the road where we barely beat average or below-average teams. Under Carr's 2nd year in 1996, a mediocre Michigan team beat 2 top 5 teams on the road. A good team is largely defined by good road wins. Without them, championships are far to reach. We really need to build the attitude that we can and should win anywhere.
October 10th, 2013 at 3:47 PM ^
Hoke is 5-5 in road games at Michigan. The five losses are to 2011 Iowa (which finished 7-6), 2011 MSU (11-3), 2012 ND (12-1), 2012 Nebraska (9-4) and 2012 OSU (12-0).
The only average team I see in that group is '11 Iowa. The rest were all very understandable losses (in the case of Nebraska, it was at least after our QB was knocked out of the game). You could throw in 2013 UConn as a bad performance, but I'm still not really seeing much of a trend of playing down to competition (do two games in three years make a trend?). To me it just seems like we've been catching our rivals at bad times - they seem to be up when we play them on the road and down when they come here.
October 10th, 2013 at 3:38 PM ^
I know our record wasn't great in 1996, but that wasn't a mediocre team. A team does not go from mediocre to the best in the country in one year (unless maybe you pick up a guy like Cam Newton, but that's not what Michigan did). That 1996 team was extremely talented but just hadn't put it all together yet. Not exactly the same thing.