Was the spring game cancellation unnecessary?
Enjoy the submarine until August!
It's a part of Jim's diabolical ploy to not divulge anything that'll hinder our path to 37 TD passes/3700yard season for Shea.
(According to Shat Sports)
I drove from Ann Arbor back to the UP starting at 10am this morning. Cars are doing 45-50 mph on the interstate. I’m only to Gaylord if that tells you anything.
Up here in traverse city.
When my high school team played West Iron County (Iron River, Michigan) one year, there was no snow on the ground during warm ups. It started snowing at the beginning of the game. By half time there was 8 inches on the ground. By the end of the game there was well over a foot. Never a thought of not playing. The snow seemed to help WIC. They won 16-6. Knocked us out of ranking.
I think it was the potential for lightening today that canceled the game.
Your story is embellished. Snowfall rates of 2" per hour are extremely rare and confined to convective sysytems that reach freezing levels at 850mb or convective thundersnow via unstable lake effect processes. Deformation banding can produce rates close to 2" per hour. Snowfall rates of 4" per hour have never been recorded in human history, so your story is bs unless your game lasted 6+ hours.
Really? On Christmas Eve this year we got well over a foot (14.5 inches to be exact) in the two hours it took me to drive to Christmas Eve mass and back, and that was actually measuring it with no drifts.
Yeah, that's not physically possible due to precipitable water amounts in the atmospheric column.
The radar archive shows an 8 hr + event to drop that amount of snow:
April 15th, 2018 at 10:20 AM ^
So I am imagining it and it never happened? Ok. I believe you, that snow never fell and i never measured it. You have obviously never been to northern Michigan if you think it takes 8+ hours for a foot of snow.
Who knows, maybe it was such a nightmarish game it seemed worse.
"Most Snow Measured In One Hour: 12 Inches"
Alaska: 10 Inches Per Hour:
Yes, those two events are due to extraordinary rare circumstances including extreme lafe effect convection and an atmospheric river, neither of which are geographically possible in SE Michigan.
What part of Michigan are you talking about?
I see at these links lake effect snow does hit Iron River, Michigan:
https://s.w-x.co/le-avg-mw-snow-mrcc.jpg
http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/where&why.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbelt#/media/File:Great_Lakes_Snowbelt_EPA_fr.png
http://www.weathernationtv.com/news/high-lake-effect-snow-chances-great-lakes/
April 15th, 2018 at 10:52 PM ^
Just seeing this...and you are so wrong. Snow fall of 2+ inches per hour happen every single year in the Upper Peninsula. Lake effect snow off Lake Superior produces snow like this yearly.
And if coach put you in, you guys would have won state. I heard you could throw a pigskin a quarter mile.
but did you score 4 touchdowns?
I spent the morning watching Swamp People on the History Channel. A colleague was just giving away his Swamp People Troy Bobblehead for free so I grabbed it for my collection. I felt obligated to watch a couple episodes. It's very strange how they edit the show. I don't understand why they can't show the Swamp People blowing the heads off of gators with shotguns. They show a clearly staged shot and a clearly dead gator, but they never show the actual scene.
I ran 4 miles this morning in Ann Arbor in the rain. Afternoon has been pretty tolerable here.
in worse weather. A few years back, it was 35 with 50 mph winds and sideways freezing rain
but it's OK. They were just going to practice anyway. They don't make the necessary plans to make the event what it could be.
I remember this. I attempted to play beer pong. The ball would quickly turn 90 degrees upon release and the wind just kept rolling the ball far across the parking lot. It was a short lived game.
can't blame them for cancelling based on the forecasts.
however, they could have rescheduled if they had wanted too, but chose not to.
i think it was a missed opportunity for Michigan, especially to get recruits excited about the program.
however, at the end of the day, the biggest recruiting tool is winning games...not spring practice games
With finals starting Wednesday, the Paris/Normandy trip on the horizon, and the NCAA 42 day spring practice rule, I believe rescheduling would have been mighty difficult.
would have meant waiting until after exams, which I believe I read are held starting in the coming week.
It's because U of M believes in "playing school" that we're locked in to holding any kind of spring game/scrimmage by mid April, weather be damned.
Honestly, I think Harbaugh was perfectly fine to take any excuse to cancel the spring game. I mean, they haven't quite gone back into the submarine from his 1st year but there's certainly less coming out of spring practice this year than last year. We're not even getting fun snapchat videos of awesome spring plays being made in scrimmages this year. *sigh* It's going to be a long offseason.
I agree with you. Canceling and immediately following that with it will not be made up in any way I think shows a bit of Harbaugh's feelings towards the spring game this year. Maybe coach doesn't want notre dame to see what we're replacing the pep spread offense with?
Not that Harbaugh would show much in a spring game anyway, but I’m sure he doesn’t mind keeping this new team completely away from opponent’s tape.
Nothing would of stopped me from being there. The weather sucks nearly every year for the spring game. I wish they'd at least have and televise a mini scrimmage. We have a full sized indoor practice field don't we?
perhaps not
It absolutely was and it's a fucking bummer
Eh, everything's clear in hindsight. Up until this morning, it was supposed to thunderstorm and rain all the way from Friday night through to Sunday.
April 14th, 2018 at 11:55 PM ^
In California? Just asking.
Now go back to bed.
The weather where I live (just North of Grand Rapids) is horrible. Roads are really icy and slick. I wouldn’t have made it
Cancelling a football game is not a decision you can make at the spur of the moment - it has to be announced a few days in advance. The weather isn't fantastic at the moment anyway. It was raining earlier, and the temperature's been dropping.
scheduled for today has been postponed.
And with them proving to be our consistently toughest team, pound-for-pound, and not playing today, why should we expect to see a football practice, no not a game but a practice...
is going to decline to commit here simply because we're not having a spring game. C'mon people.
Right now it's 35 degrees, overcast, and anywhere in the stadium is going to be wet with standing water in places, and will only get darker and colder. Those are pretty miserable conditions to watch a glorified scrimmage.
Considering the large crowds at spring games at southern schools, from an optics standpoint it's better for us not to have one that's sparsely attended in shitty conditions.
Not beating your rivals, not making the playoff, countless talented players coming and going without winning a damn thing but ya canceling the spring game is what’s hurting Michigan football. We have so much work to do. Wasting time on a silly scrimmage is pointless. WIN ALL THE GAMES!!
How many people would have showed up in this weather anyways? Couple thousand it’s really depressing outside
The lack of rain aside for the moment, the falling temperatures and the persistent wind definitely would have kept some folks away all the same, and probably have altered the plans to some degree even if it were still happening. It would have been nice to see the team, but I applaud them for thinking of everyone's convenience and safety. In any case, the way the forecast looks right now, some folks may have had the damnedest time getting home either late tonight or tomorrow.
Harbaugh doesn't want the country to see Patterson running our new offense. Two things he can keep away from everyone else. We all know how secretive he likes to be
We cant even get "FANS" that post here as "fans" to even go to games, They sell their tickets for chump change to osu ... If you know someone that sells their ticket, they are not Michigan. They are fakes.
Fall ball is all that counts.
Urban can suck it.
in front of 55,000 in Death Valley, showcasing the No. 1 qb recruit in the country. I guess there's a bit of optimism there. Duke, meantime, played its spring game before a nearly empty stadium in Durham. Just the difference between two ACC schools with night and day programs in football and basketball.
So can anyone explain why there is not one practice videos of spring ball this year??.seems very odd..in the past there were always tons of videos.
I think JH didn't want to it.
since about 10:15 last night, so in hindsight yeah, it makes total sense to me that they cancelled.
Got an email from the power cord that estimated restoration time is by 8 am, keeping my fingers crossed...
Hot coffee!!
Flush toilets!!!
April 15th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
In this day and age if it were Bo, he’d be loving that he didn’t have to show anything. I think this team feels it’s up against a wall, and I personally wouldn’t want to put a Wolverine up against a wall. We’ll show everyone at N.D.