Was the spring game cancellation unnecessary?
Enjoy the submarine until August!
(According to Shat Sports)
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.
April 15th, 2018 at 10:20 AM ^
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:
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 ^
And if coach put you in, you guys would have won state. I heard you could throw a pigskin a quarter mile.
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.
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
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.
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 ^
Now go back to bed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 15th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^