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Brian

10/25/2014 – Michigan 11, Michigan State 35 – 3-5, 1-3 Big Ten

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[Eric Upchurch]

Mark Dantonio is a crazy mofo. This is his great power: he can be offended at anything, forever. Mark Dantonio free-solos Mount Outrage every year. Michigan tried their damndest to not give him anything he could latch onto this time around, repeating the same praise over and over again until even the perpetually bored media noticed that this week's pablum was even more insipid than the usual business.

Then they put a thing in a field.

Fueling Dantonio's never-ending rage at the concept of Michigan is unwise but probably irrelevant. If hate moved spaceships Dantonio would be scowling at little green men circling Alpha Centauri instead of East Lansing. Dantonio is still pissed off at something Mike Hart said seven years ago; a dumb stunt with a railroad spike is a power mushroom when you're already big and skrong.

On the other hand, apologizing after is a pretty good summation of where both programs are. Michigan got the pounding everyone expected and then said "sorry for spoiling for field sir" as they slinked back home. Scott Farkus threw a snowball in our face and we apologized to him for being in the way.

Putting a thing in a field and then woofing about it isn't poor sportsmanship. We should know what poor sportsmanship is: punchin' people. Trying to hurt people.  This series has seen plenty of that of late, on both sides. No one apologized after.

Apparently the standard for self-abasement has plummeted, though. So we get another statement. The latest in a never-ending series of PR gaffes. The chance anyone brings the spike thing up after the first round of LOL Michigan articles is zero, unless Michigan brings it up again. They of course do because Michigan refuses to learn Don Canham's first maxim—don't make a one-day story into a two-day story.

Thus more public emasculation for Brady Hoke. Dave Brandon seems to be deliberately trying to make his football coach look like the nation's most clueless goober. By the Maryland game he'll be wearing a beanie and a KICK ME sign. The crowning glory will be an Ohio Stadium weeping piteously at his imminent departure; Hoke will be dressed in nothing but a barrel and suspenders. The press conference afterwards will take place over a dunk tank.

I dunno man, I know this is some feelingsball right here but I can't help but think this is a big part of the problem. Hoke's response to the bullies asking him why he keeps hitting himself is "it's all in the statement." The team responds like their head coach. The man refuses to defend himself, either from his incompetent athletic director or his rivals laughing at him. The team gets plowed by the hint of adversity. Fight is almost totally absent.

When someone gets mad at your spike stunt, the correct answer is F--- YO COUCH. That is Dantonio's answer to everything. Would you like some baklava, Mark? F--- YO COUCH.

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Michigan likes to talk about being a Big Boy. Before last year's Ohio State game Brandon said Michigan is "going back to hard-nosed, big-boy football." Whenever a journalist asks Hoke about the internet hordes clamoring for his head he says "it's a big-boy business."

You know who doesn't talk about being a big boy? Big boys*. People who talk about being a Big Boy wear short pants and ask their moms for a quarter so they can buy candy. Big boys don't look at yet another plate of crap and eat it with a sigh of disgust. At some point, big boys stand up for their dignity.

I don't see anything like that. I see the same mealy-mouthed coachspeak week after week, the same covering for his inept boss. Of course Dave Brandon's watching film with him. 

Maybe that makes him a "great guy," as per the last possible defense of Hoke. I don't see it. He may be a nice guy; "great" at least requires you to have as much backbone as Ralphie in A Christmas Story.

*[Except Big Boi, who is contractually obligated to say his name several times per minute as per the Rappist Identification Act Of 1985.]

[After THE JUMP: not much, honestly.]

OTHER STUFF

There's not much point to talking about other stuff. It's pointless to talk about the performance of player X and how not good it is relative to expectations. This team is going nowhere and doing nothing and the only thing that'll fix it is a new year with new coaches.

THE END. When it's all over, this is the one sentence summation of the Hoke era:

"I think I was aware that something happened, but I'm not fully aware."

Deceptive or dumb. Your two options. Yes, you can pick both.

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[Upchurch]

On yelling at specific players. Or rather: on yelling at me about not thinking Devin Gardner was… this Devin Gardner.

Sorry, I guess? We'd seen enough from Gardner in trying circumstances to suggest that he was probably pretty good in a situation where the people around him were competent. Instead: nope.

Still, focusing your bile on him is beside the point. He threw a bunch of passes that his receivers dropped; he ate sacks when both of his tackles provided minimal obstruction to Michigan State players; the run defense was painfully eviscerated from the second drive. Gardner is no more disappointing than the WRs who can't catch, the RBs who can't find the hole, the OL who can't block, the defense that can't disguise coverages, the coverage that is a neon invitation to 20 yards on any returnable punt.

The only difference is that Gardner touches the ball on every offensive snap, so his shortcomings are more frequently exposed. In terms of underperforming expectations he has a ton of company. So don't bother. Maybe if he'd been coached since Hoke arrived he'd be better. Same goes for the rest of the team.

On "class." Arguments about whether Michigan State is too mean to us don't interest me. For one, Dantonio did us a favor by punching in that last touchdown. Once Michigan was clearly going to lose it's in the sane Michigan fan's interest to have them lose by a million so that there can be no question about what needs to happen after the season.

If there weren't persistent claims by connected people that Hoke wasn't completely done yet I wouldn't feel this way. There are, so I do. Hoke 2015 can't happen.

If you want to complain about something, complain about yet another cheap shot delivered in the waning moments of a game:

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[Upchurch]

Willie Henry took the brunt of a Michigan State OL to the side of his knee, just like Denard took late hits and Mike Martin took a dirty chop block long after things had been decided. As per usual, Michigan shrugged at it.

Quittin' part VIII. Michigan's wave of the white flag was especially laughable in this game, as it was a fourth and three—fourth and three!—down 25 with nine minutes left. They of course went for two after scoring their meaningless touchdown at the end of the game, and then onside kicked, because it is important to give the impression you are trying without actually trying.

Coaching malpractice part infinity. Michigan took all its timeouts to halftime when they could have had about 90 seconds to try and get some points. I retweeted a guy saying this on twitter and got a lot of responses along the lines of "lol this team couldn't go 75 yards in 90 seconds"; while that may be the case if you truly believe that Michigan shouldn't even try there's no point in even playing the second half.

Which I guess there wasn't. That's still no way to operate a football team.

What now? If not for our current situation with the athletic director Hoke wouldn't be the coach today. Unfortunately, the hopefully imminent firing of said AD means he is a powerless figurehead incapable of axing the head coach without 1) making it look like he's try to save his own ass and 2) putting the University in a bind about whether they will let the current AD run a coaching search or just do nothing for however long it takes to find the next guy. So the move is to just sit tight until that decision is made.

Yeah, a decision should have already been made but these things take time, people continually say. Buyouts have to be negotiated, supporters placated, etc.

The good news is that it doesn't matter much. The only school currently hunting is Kansas. The only peer school likely to be hunting this year is Florida. (Seriously: the only other power 5 school with any history that might fire its coach is financially-strapped Miami. I'm not worried about competing with UNC or UVA.) Michigan may have gotten unlucky with the relative paucity of candidates this year but they are fortunate that there aren't a lot of major jobs likely to come open.

The timing issues are not bad. If Michigan does end up installing an AD in December or early January, that would be right around the time Harbaugh and Mullen hypothetically become available. Harbaugh may have the 49ers in the playoffs, and Mullen would almost certainly see a Mississippi State Cofopoff appearance through.

The recruiting class tops out at 16 and if Michigan does lock down a sexy coach they are likely to have 8-10 solid prospects still in it. A late switch is much less disastrous than it was when Hoke was hired—they could have gone to 25 in that class, only got 20, and had significant numbers of washouts thanks to Rodriguez's death spiral and the late cram-job by Hoke.

I know it would be satisfying to axe Hoke immediately. It does not make sense to do so. Michigan will be in limbo until the AD situation is resolved.

Is there any hope we could be okay next year? Yeah, there's some hope. The team will get a ton older, what with the small recruiting class and even smaller group of exiting seniors. Michigan returns literally everyone on offense save Gardner and probably Funchess. They lose both starting ends, Ryan, Taylor, and Hollowell on defense but they should get Desmond Morgan back—at this point playing him would be nuts.

In that event your D looks like:

  • Charlton/Glasgow/Henry/Ojemudia—three juniors and a senior, plus some quality depth. Pass rush questionable.
  • Ross/Bolden/Morgan—all seniors, probably pretty good.
  • Peppers/Lewis/Countess/Wilson/Clark—safety needs some work but that looks pretty good.

The main problems are the same ones Michigan has this year: quarterback and OL. The OL returns literally everyone so they should get better (he said for the millionth consecutive time despite being wrong all 999,999 previous times); QB is… a problem. Michigan should look to pick off a grad transfer and have a four-way battle between Morris, Speight, Malzone, and New Guy; it's not likely to be an inspiring setup, and that'll put a hard ceiling on their ability to compete with MSU/OSU.

But the personnel looks like it could be an 8-4 team easy.

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Best and Worst:

Worst:  So Close

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This is Michigan's gameplan in a single gif.  They had halfway-decent field position on a couple of drives, and moved the ball in fits and spurts.  But every time they had the hint of momentum, they'd go for an ill-fated flea-flicker, or fail to execute a simple bubble screen, or just run the damn ball on 2nd-and-9 for 1 yard and waste any opportunity to keep the game close.  It was infuriating, it was depressing, it was par the course for the year.

Inside the Box Score:

Last week, Brian included a photo of the Michigan Football 2014 Team Goals in an Unverified Voracity post. Let's see how the team did this weekend:

Win? No.
Turnovers? No.
4th Quarter? Yes, but just barely.
Kicking Game? I have no idea how they judge this, but Wile made his FG and Sparty missed theirs. So, yes?
Time of Poss.? No.

Let's look at that last goal in the context of this game. In the third quarter, Michigan won the time of possession battle, 10:08 to 4:52. If that's one of the top five goals for the team, that must mean we did well in the third quarter, right? Let's check the drive chart in the play by play. Hmmm... State had one drive that consumed 0 plays, 0 yards, and 0:00 time of possession and resulted in 7 points. Of course, that's the pick six. State had another drive that consumed 1 play, 70 yards, and a whole 11 seconds. That drive also ended in a touchdown. 14 points in 11 seconds.

Ron Utah says goodbye to a great man, which I obviously disagree with but hey you might not.

ELSEWHERE

A guy has bought 2000 FIRE BRANDON shirts for the Indiana game. This person is not me, even if it gets mentioned on the message board.

Man I cannot read a Hoke quote anymore without immediately thinking of six different varieties of shade to throw at it.

"We have 11 guys out there, they have 11 guys out there," Hoke said. "We're trying to compete. They're trying to compete. That's what athletics is and that's what competition is, so no, not (surprised) in one bit."

Sometimes you have 11 guys out there.

Michigan State fans on Hoke:

They want to show their appreciation for Hoke any way they can. Late in the fourth quarter, freshman Amari Ellsworth yelled toward Hoke, offering to bake him cookies.

“I’d give him a hug if I could,” Ellsworth said. “He hates us, but he still needs a hug sometimes.”

Baumgardner:

The scene and the moment just made sense.

After his 11th loss in the past 12 months, Brady Hoke sat at a table inside Spartan Stadium squinting to make out the faces of the people standing in front of him.

"These lights are killing me," Hoke said in between questions after a 35-11 loss at Michigan State.

You can say that again.

Hoover Street Rag. Sap's Decals. Niyo:

"Well, you want to win more," Hoke said, after Michigan's most-lopsided loss in the series since 1967. "So is that frustrating? Yeah, you want to win more."

And no, he said, he didn't hear the "Keep Brady!" chants from the partisan Michigan State crowd, or see the 13 shirtless fans spelling it out — last name included — in the front row of the student section.

Comments

Artichokes Anonymous

October 27th, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^

In regards to heading to halftime with all 3 timeouts, the announcers agreed with the decision, saying something like "with this offense Hoke feels more comfortable just heading to the second half." This ridiculous, indefensible coaching flub seems reasonable with how bad our offense is this year.

ST3

October 27th, 2014 at 1:43 PM ^

I normally would agree, because the last thing I want to see is us give the ball back to State with any time left, but they were down to 1 timeout. So it seems to me, the play there is to give Norfleet a chance to return a kick, maybe throw a deep pass, or have Gardner roll out to the sideline (which worked on the first play of the game, but I don't remember us ever going back to that) and try to take advantage of state playing bend but don't break before half. Of course, they don't play like that, so send Butt up the seam again, or do something. Don't just give up. A TD was out of the question, but a FG puts you down 1 score, gives your team momentum going into halftime, and gives you hope at least.

dnak438

October 27th, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^

At this point is anyone surprised that this team (1) cannot deal with tempo and (2) can't use tempo to get an edge? It's so frustrating.

 

funkywolve

October 27th, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^

Hey Mattison, MSU got the ball with 3:30 seconds left in the half on their own 27.  If you're surprised that they decided to pick up the tempo so they could try to go 73 yds before halftime, I don't know what to say.

 

charblue.

October 27th, 2014 at 1:11 PM ^

Brandon, image over substance, a seeming pr effort that seeks to gouge its fanbase while pretending to recreate the past.

This murkily-led Maize and Blue regime, woofed, wobbled and then tumbled like a pitiless tough guy, left to bleed more shaming green again Saturday in EL. And afterward, the winning coach was pissed. A wow experience, if there ever was one.

And in defeat there is no shame for prideful failure, and I mean to stand up for teammates hit illegally or with apparent intention to injure. And then this rutterless program apologizes to a coach who claims some dimwitted offense

No pride demonstrated by this team, because their coach wants to duck the hard, tough issues by not dealing with them directly and then apologize for failing the Michigan brand.

The Michigan brand was established by a prepared, organized chairman who knew his team inside and out. Schembechler had a sixth sense in running his program. He knew what was going on at all times, and said so. Those Who Stay Become Champions. Those who stay now are........just waiting for Godot.

Hoke has become a sky-writing joke, a punching bag for a punchless, leaderless softly competitive team that  doesn't have the guts to stand up for itself and then apologizes to its rival for a bs motivatonal tool. What a sad state this program has reached. Lost pride after the fall, 

You know, I like Dantonio's fire and brimstone approach, because you know where he's coming from and what to expect. He's the fucking guy you love to hate and doesn't care, because he just HATES Michigan more. Respect is just another thing when you have nothing left to lose.

And Michigan seems to think that just showing up with the winged helmets makes them tougher than Sparty. What a joke.

Hoke's teams are lightyears behind those which performed under Bo, Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr which came to play for 60 minues, always gameplan ready, confidently prepared, organized and motivated. They saw their rivals as just another opportunity for a notch in the belt before moving on. Fergodsakes, this team isn't Michigan.

 

bronxblue

October 27th, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^

Great stuff.

I still don't think Hoke quits as much as he is remarkably clueless at times (look at his press conferences and you see a guy who just doesn't know what to say) and just makes dumb decisions at inopportune times.

I missed the late hit (I stopped my DVR before then for some reason), but that just adds more credence to the idiocy of Mark Dantonio and his self-imposed insanity.

A grad-school transfer could always be a Russell Wislon-type, so who knows.  8-4 sounds right, but then again we said that this year.  

I don't think anyone should care about recruiting this year.  They'll get a couple of kids who are wooed by the school, and getting worried about a wayward 4* here or there doesn't mean much.

jmdblue

October 27th, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^

Made pancakes for the kids.  Took my 10 year old boy to the park and chucked the ball around a little.  Quizzed him on the 3 great Michigan coaches (he always needs a hint for Fritz Crisler).  Life goes on.  Our team sucks for the moment, but we're still Michigan.  The stadium, helmets and tradition are still here and can't be destroyed by RR, Martin, Goss, Brandon, or Hoke.  On top of that we have a good talent base upon which the next coach will build.  Most importantly, we don't have anything to be ashamed of.  No Mo Clarrett.  No T. Pryor.  No NC pretend classes.  This is the nadir.  How quick our return will be is up to conjecture, but return we will. 

After playing ball with the boy We got my 15 year old daughter and we took a walk toward campus.   As we walked through the Diag and crossed under the West Hall arch she shook her head and said "I just want to be here SO bad".  We're stil Michigan.  It'll get better.

buckeyejonross

October 27th, 2014 at 1:44 PM ^

Yea you're right, Pryor is way worse than Brendon Gibbons. Jalen Rose and Chris Webber wouldn't dare throw shade at Mo C, right? Everyone commits violations, lies to you, lies to me, whatever. You have a lot to be proud of at Michigan, acting like there's nothing to be embarrassed of is not accurate.



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jmdblue

October 27th, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^

or how bad it was.... You may be right.  It may have been really bad, but I don't know.  That said, I've found the difference between your people and mine is that we've spend 20 years flogging ourselves over the Chris Webber mess.  You trotted out your great leader to be honored 1 year after T. Pryor ran around being photographed with his various cars.  There's a vast gulf between what you're proud of and what we are.

BTW... Jalen Rose has become a credit to our university.  We're rightly very proud of him.

buckeyejonross

October 27th, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^

Your own university said it was bad enough to expel him. I'm guessing it was bad. And come on man, this blog jerked off for a week straight over the Fab Five doc on ESPN. So don't act like it's wrong to be proud of on-court accomplishments while glossing over off-court issues. This blog does it. People do it. Besides, Clarett has become Jalen-like in his transformation and ambassadorship of the program and university. We are all proud of his life transformation.

 

BTW... the cars thing was disproven years ago. But ok.

AmishRule

October 27th, 2014 at 1:31 PM ^

I sure wish Harbaugh's Michigan blood is boiling over the product we are showing, Dantonio's spew and the need for a Michigan team spinal surgery. It's all blending in nicely to eat at his inner competitive core and the need to guarantee some more Michigan victories.

He is tired of fighting patsy NFL administrators, his whole being is to get in the ring with a dick like Dantonio. I can see it now, Dantonio at the annual Big Ten Football meeting makes a critical mistake and brings up the stake incident, the camara moves to show Jim's eyes turning a maize color of green....the Hulk...

 

aiglick

October 27th, 2014 at 1:31 PM ^

You make me happy Brian and say things quite eloquently. If we could get one of the homerun hires I think next year could be pretty good even if QB is a huge question mark. Last year MSU had a huge question markat QB but they proved it is possible to overcome that and possibly mitigate that weakness with great talent development. Hopefully a completely new staff with competent position coaches and head coach should make us a much better team next year and maybe even allow us to pick off MSU or OSU (probaby OSU if I'm being honest).

That Mark Dantonio critique was spot on but you'll probably have to watch him turn that into bulletin board material also. Fiddlesticks I just did the same thing. Screw you Dantonio I hope Harbaugh comes here and kicks you and Narduzzi's teeth in your mouths.

We will come back eventually just hoepfully the damage to the fan base isn't long term. Keep on fghting the good fight sirs.

RJMAC

October 27th, 2014 at 1:37 PM ^

The University of Miami probably isn't changing football coaches. It looks like they are finally getting better. They just trucked Virginia Tech.( sleeper upset pick when they play FSU) One less coaching vacancy Michigan has to compete with. So there is that .

UM Indy

October 27th, 2014 at 2:08 PM ^

Summary and sentiments are dead on balls accurate.  I would have thought the over the top reaction from Nuss on the touchdown warranted comment.  That was laugh out loud embarrassment/entertainment.  Scoring a meaningless TD against Sparty is now cause for Super Bowl level excitement.  There's a cliff just past Loserville and we've driven over it Thelma and Louise style.

caup

October 27th, 2014 at 2:27 PM ^

A major failure of our coaches is that they can't seem to realize that Gardner is a dual-threat running spread QB. How many designed QB runs were there on Saturday? Zero. That is coaching malpractice right there.  Even Borges knew better!

 

Instead, they want DG to run a pro-style offense where he is expected to sit in the pocket and scan the field like he's Tom Brady.  And then they wonder why it fails miserably.

 

Gardner is Vince Young. He is Denard 2.0. He is NOT Tom Brady or John Navarre.

 

Does anyone really think VY or Denard would succeed in our current offense?  Of course not.

 

I have no doubt Gardner would have flourished in the proper offense that does not ask him to do things he clearly CANNOT do.  He will never be an NFL QB.  Everyone should KNOW this by now!  And yet they repeatedly ask him to do the same shit, with the same shit results.

 

That's like putting Jake Butt at Center and then being frustrated when he can't shotun sanp it properly or pick up an A-Gap blitz.  Sure, I'm exaggerating to make a point, but the point still stands.

 

Hoke/Nussmeier have bungled the offense spectacularly.  The results speak for themselves. 

 

CLord

October 27th, 2014 at 2:39 PM ^

Could not agree more.  Personally, I think Hoke sat Nuss down before the season and said "manball... and manball... this is the Big Ten with stout defenses, so we need manball...., no misdirection, no modern dual threat schemes, just predictable physicality and pro set schemes."

GoBLUinTX

October 27th, 2014 at 2:48 PM ^

if they are to be successful, can't be dropping hand offs (first drive of game) and throwing the ball to the wrong colored shirts (first play after D gets a fumble).  Nor can they be staring down receivers and not going through their progressions.  

Being a Dual threat QB doesn't absolve him of the normal responsiblities of a QB, it in fact increases his responsiblities.

CLord

October 27th, 2014 at 2:36 PM ^

Brian's the only guy who's stated what I felt.  Dantonio looks for any reason, no matter how marginal, to get after Michigan.  Had the Michigan ball boy on the State side of the field farted near Dantonio, that'd have been reason enough to run up the score.  I actually thought after the game Dantonio would say he ran it up because of the playoff, or some other semi-bogus reason, instead he used the utter disrespect that oh my god, a stake into the field signified... Hide the children...  And this is the person that is supposed to teach kids about class when he, a man in his 50's, can't even get over his butthurt at what a 20 year old Mike Hart said 7 years ago..

Then that dunce Hoke plays into it, with his apology being the most embarrassing thing to happen all weekend.  

Hoke's custodianship of this team has been so egregious the last two years that the university should set aside any negative impact of a mid-season firing and axe him now to make the statement that we just cannot have this type of mediocrity (mediocrity would be a compliment at thsi point) associated with a school and football program of these resources and caliber.

What a sigh of relief I will feel once Hoke is gone.  Nice guy, but soft, and not bright.  Incredibly, worse than RichRod, who was also no answer given the historically awful defenses he allowed under his watch.

qualitypie

October 27th, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^

" can't even get over his butthurt at what a 20 year old Mike Hart said 7 years ago.."

You know, this is where I kinda disagree with the majority of commentators here. Is it really 'What Mike Hart said 7 years ago" when we see the fan base, even the posters here, invoking Mike Hart's words constantly to this day? We say Sparty should get over it, but at the same time we don't see it leaving the lexicon of U of M-on-Sparty trash talk any time soon.

I don't know, I can't really tell that Dantonio is at being whiney or butthurt in his response to the stake thing. In all honestly, he was merely throwing out a pretty good zinger considering the results, and when pressed for clarification on his feelings about it all he said was U of M can posture and condescend all they want (which anyone with eyes can see that's what they were doing, no matter how trivial the display), but he and his team were going to stick to sending messages on the field.

JudgeMart

October 27th, 2014 at 5:31 PM ^

Messages like personal foul after personal foul after personal foul the last 7 years?  Or chop blocking below the knees of Mike Martin and Willie Henry?  State's coaches teach those things, like "60 minutes of necessary roughness."  Dantonio is an ass, and needs to be dealt with like one.

qualitypie

October 27th, 2014 at 11:57 PM ^

I mean, if we are going to be sneering at the idea of being affronted by inconsequential b/s we ought to be at least consistent; everyone knows narduzzi was making an off the cuff remark about football being tough sport by design and not actually advocating or teaching his players unnecessary roughness.

As far as far as actual cheap shots and personal fouls. Ugh think it's pretty apparent sparty gets penalized with more personal fouls on account of confirmation bias. Their opponents, especially in these rivalries, aren't actually playing so much cleaner, sparty just has the reputation and thus being scrutinized heavier. Hard truth, but true nonetheless. If U of M were actually playing like they wanted to win those apparent cheap shots would be surfacing on occasion as well.

Steve in PA

October 27th, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^

Right now this could be a rivalry mentioned in the same breath as Bo vs Woody.  Dantonio hates Michigan (the school) and anything associated with it.  His douchiness seems to be largely fueled by that rage.  It reminds me of Woody not buying gas on recruiting trips in Michigan.

We counter his rage and douchiness with a trained Walrus that can clap.  A coach whose press conferences sound like a Chris Farley skit, "Well, ya know I was somewhat aware but not really aware."

Dammit, where's the anger!  Staee has stolen his girlfriend, lunch money, and then our coach offers to carry his books too.  Dantionio's reaction to Hart with visceral anger was the correct one.  Not, "Well, ya know we just need to execute better.  We looked good in practice"

The only fire on the sideline was from Nuss.  The rest seemed to be trying not to upset the bully.

Under Hoke Michigan football has become George McFly to state's Biff Tannen.  I'm sure I'll get negged but dammit I think we care more than the coaches at this point.  I want a coach that answers Dantonio with blowout wins AND trash talk.  These players deserve better than this.

 No more Beavers, tent stakes, or other trinkets!  Bring on the next Bo vs Woody war!

UofM Die Hard …

October 27th, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^

Harbaugh to step up to the podium on his acceptance day and say "Thank you (current AD) for giving me this opportunity....dont have much to say other than..enough of this shit, here I come"  

 

drop the mic, walk out

west2

October 27th, 2014 at 3:13 PM ^

are the post game potshots by Brian. I find that I am rooting for the team to lose and then wait for the inevitable entertaining dumb antics following the game. This season would have made a great reality show!

cjpops

October 27th, 2014 at 3:24 PM ^

"Willie Henry took the brunt of a Michigan State OL to the side of his knee, just like Denard took late hits and Mike Martin took a dirty chop block long after things had been decided. As per usual, Michigan shrugged at it."



This.



Other Andrew

October 28th, 2014 at 7:24 AM ^

Excellent work as always, Brian. You've captured the moment effectively.

I can't wait for the season to be over so that we can end this embarrassment and proceed with new ones next year. Anything different would be better than this.

My name ... is Tim

October 28th, 2014 at 8:45 AM ^

Who on Michigan's sidelines would challenge Hoke on some of these clock management decisions? I don't think all of it is Hoke being a stubborn manball coach like some of us presume. In that Penn State halftime hail mary gaffe, he looked legitimately confused and regretful when he saw the result of his mismanagement, not proudly defiant. I guess I'm curious as to why it seems that there is no one on the sidelines at least challenging him on these calls or discussing them with him. Am I just missing that? Not an excuse either way, but it just seems odd to me, as I often see other head coaches engaging their staff in these situations before making the ultimate call on timeouts, etc. in late-in-the-half situations.

Publeus

October 28th, 2014 at 9:30 AM ^

As Desmondo pointed out, it is Scut Farkus - not Scott Farkus.  I was very surprised to learn this recently.

BTW, the Redford Theater in Detroit is showing 'A Christmas Story' on November 21-22 with special guest appearances by Scott Schwartxz (Flick), Yano Anaya (Grover Dill), and Zack Ward (Scut Farkus).

MSUDersh

October 29th, 2014 at 3:36 PM ^

Suck it, Michigan.  Suck it long, suck it hard, suck like you love me - bc with the amount of virtual ink your butt hurt leader Brian spills over MSU, it's clear that you love me & wanna suck it all night long.