Never forget - the trip to the M00N
November 6th, 2017 at 10:39 PM ^
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November 6th, 2017 at 10:39 PM ^
The Hoke wins at Ryan field were the strangest games that I've seen in person. All you could do was laugh at the absurdity and certainty Michigan would win on some bullshit.
I slightly prefered the Dileo slides for OT in the rain game aka Hoke vs. America.
November 6th, 2017 at 10:38 PM ^
I was there. Nothing else to add, except I was there.
November 7th, 2017 at 12:35 AM ^
And we won a ridiculously rickety roller coaster at Ryan to victory.
I️ has a great time. I’ll post pics on the new blog when it’s up
November 6th, 2017 at 10:39 PM ^
November 6th, 2017 at 10:42 PM ^
Me: Put it down
Him: What? I didn’t do anything!
Me: It’s STILL in your hand you dumb shit!
Him: Oh.
November 6th, 2017 at 11:34 PM ^
has ever done to an opposing fan :)
November 7th, 2017 at 12:25 AM ^
Seated amongst my N'western friends. We were all awed by the assemblage of the field goal unit. Literally awed; they still talk about that today. Despite being soaking wet, it was one of the best games I've attended in person within the past ten years or so. What a game.
November 6th, 2017 at 10:42 PM ^
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November 6th, 2017 at 11:38 PM ^
November 6th, 2017 at 11:16 PM ^
John Elway watched this game and decided he'd found the next starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos.
November 6th, 2017 at 11:27 PM ^
I was at that game. Left in the fourth and had to listen to the last drive and 2pt stop on the radio. Crazy ending to a wildly embassasing game on both sides.
November 6th, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 12:26 AM ^
Not only did they beat ND the week after M00N, they hung 43 on the #18 Irish in an OT thriller. I don't know if I've ever seen a bigger week-to-week difference in performance than Northwestern's offense over the course of those two games.
Sports are so freaking weird, man.
November 7th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
squeaked by Minni. We blew them out. They beat PSU when we lost badly to PSU.
The transitive property doesn't apply to college football. Each game is more of a discrete event than most of us who like to predict and analyze care to admit.
November 7th, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
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November 7th, 2017 at 12:21 AM ^
Good stuff!
November 7th, 2017 at 2:31 AM ^
Including Mason Cole, who will surely be in this group, I counted twelve Michigan players who played in this game and have spent time on a regular season NFL roster. Hoke was truly the worst of the worst.
November 7th, 2017 at 11:55 AM ^
Wikipedia has a basic depth chart for this team.
DL started Glasgow, Henry, Frank Clark and had Godin, Charlton, and Ojemudia in the 2 deep. The secondary wasn't a total disaster either with Countess, Raymon Taylor, young Jourdan Lewis, Jeremy Clark, and Jarrod Wilson. LBs weren't great but still had Jake Ryan (as a MLB for some reason) and Joe Bolden (who was at least average).
On offense, you still had Devin as QB, Funchess, Chesson, and Darboh as WRs, and young versions of Cole, Magnuson, and Braden on the line.
That team under Harbaugh probably goes 9-3 or 8-4 largely because of a young offensive line.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:46 AM ^
it would have been interesting. The weather was very Chicago-esque- blustery with shades of chill.
I was visiting NU as a parent. I came away impressed and discouraged. This application stuff is not for the weak. My visit is perhaps as close as my child will ever get to NU. We are very fortunate to have Northwestern in conference.
In football terms... not so bad. I took in the game at the Valley Lodge ... I made nice with a Wildcat-cum-Ursinus grad to whom football was slightly foreign but conversation was collegiate and comfortable. It made me regret Univ of Chicago's absence from the B1G.
Northwestern was in Lincoln for a NUNU game that turned out well to boot.
A stellar weekend for sport if not college visitation. I wouldn't hesitate to redo a MOON game.
My student tour leader is actually in the internet famous pic for this game... I could be wrong but I'm not. She is from a small town in Kentucky and was charming, well spoken and a die hard Wildcat...
She is a senior today about to embark on an internship to report on the coming Olympics.
Kids today impress me when the world doesn't.
NU was my third favorite college visit to date ( I don't think we will do Michigan... I just can't do that to my daughter... she can visit on her own if she is accepted.) I back played this and other college visits in my mind as a diary post. This will do.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:35 AM ^
Why don't you want your daughter to visit Michigan?
November 7th, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^
if she doesn't get in... she might take it wrong and ... it's not about me.
The schools we visit ... I thought she would have a reasonable chance of attending... she doesn't. I've tapered my expectations while trying to bolster hers (she doesn't really know what is coming to be fair.)
Honestly I think there is better dollar wise and savvy education closer to Oregon. I don't want her that far away unless she really wants it. Honestly she just doesn't know what is possible. If she did... she'd get up earlier, not turn in late work and make her bed before breakfast (that might be a metaphor... honestly.)
November 7th, 2017 at 6:36 AM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 5:26 AM ^
We were leaving through the concourse and I was chanting, “We suck less. We suck less.” Some elderly NW fan chanted back, “Not by much. Not by much.”
November 7th, 2017 at 5:57 AM ^
the psu and msu games this year were much worse than a fucking WIN that morons like brian still complain about. the 2 losses to msu at home under harbaugh were coaching malpractice at its worst.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:19 AM ^
I think the program will need another few years to finally have all the pieces together to eventually be able to compete against better programs and MSU, that has the uncanny ability to make lemonade out of lemons. Gotta give a ton of respect for Dantonio and his staff for keeping that team together. Their fight and spirit as a unified team is at a level I have yet to see from Michigan.
November 7th, 2017 at 9:09 AM ^
Yes, we've had some trouble against MSU, but they didn't happen in a vacuum.
And I look at wins like our win against Minni our first year, our *very* close lose to FSU and OSU last year... I see a team that doesn't fold.
One of the reasons I launched so many model rockets during the latter part of the Hoke and RR era was that the team didn't seem to have the same fight. Once they started down an 'oh shit' path that was it. This team I always think has a shot. They are mentally tough in a way they haven't been in years. It has paid off now, and will reap greater rewards in the future.
November 7th, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
think the program will need another few years to finally have all the pieces together to eventually be able to compete against better programs and MSU
Whoa there. We lost two years ago on a one-in-a-million play and this year by four points when we were -5 in turnovers. Our problem has not been that we can't compete. We just didn't finish the deal.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:43 AM ^
Are you related to Hoke or something? You seem obsessed with defending him (and attacking Brian for criticizing him).
If you want to talk about poorly coached games under Hoke, M00N probably isn't even in the bottom 10. It was just comically bad in execution, by both teams.
November 7th, 2017 at 1:13 PM ^
but seriously I call brian out for slamming hoke for coaching during a win but giving harbaugh a pass for the msu debacle in 2015. i also give brian shit for still bringing up hoke after losses. he still does it in year 3 of harbaugh. AND I give brian shit for not criticizing a coaching staff that has harbaugh, hamilton AND turner all coaching qb's that have been average at best this year.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:03 AM ^
had some not so nice things to say about the coaches philosophy when it comes to injury
November 7th, 2017 at 6:53 AM ^
term issues.
I don't know the exact stats but it's like a 50% chance of arthritis.
Butt could have retired from football post first surgery? Is that what should have happened? I don't think he got any advice at Michigan that he wouldn't have received from the Broncos.
Football is not a healthy sport. That I agree with. There is little wrong with the care Michigan provides on the sidelines. What was wrong is fixed. What is wrong is being reviewed. That is my fan take.
This is not a story.
I did not neg here. I'm just not seeing it... if Jake makes that more overt I'm all ears. It's a quote taken out of context IMO.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:54 AM ^
Harbaugh's staff had nothing to do with that. Butt tore his ACL the first time in the spring of 2014, under Hoke.
The second time was in last year's Orange Bowl, his last game in college.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:56 AM ^
same. Michigan doesn't clean AT or medical staff with coaching changes like some schools (and not many do - AFAIK.)
November 7th, 2017 at 7:37 AM ^
Brian is responsible for Butt's two knee injuries.
November 7th, 2017 at 7:21 AM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 7:30 AM ^
Vomited in my mouth watching that video.
November 7th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^
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November 7th, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
Wow. Things were bad. I really started to question my UofM football loyalty. Something i never ever thought could happen. It was a humbling time and I am glad I stuck with it.. but sheesh!!
November 7th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
Is that the game was sponsored by 5 Hour Energy! HA!
November 7th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
love the vid. worth the watch.
November 7th, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
Still the dumbest game of football I've ever watched. By a country mile.
November 7th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
This was more of an inflection point than a low point. The '08 and '09 teams lacked the talent. The '14 team lacked everything else. I managed to half-watch most of the games that year, but for the Northwestern game I was locked into watching it at a bar in LA. It was just my group of friends, and of course one Buckeye heckler.
Looking back on it, I think the reason many Michigan fans are nostalgic (and slap-happy) about this game is that Brandon had just been fired. There was an overriding sense that, no matter how bad it got, it would all be ending and rebooted soon. What was happening the field was not, by comparison, all that important in the scheme of things.
November 7th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^