What does U Conn bowl win say about Mich.
U Conn. beats Oklahoma in their bowl and they will be celebrated as an up and coming team with a hot coach. While Michigan who handled them pretty easily has their coach fired. Guess if we were in the big east we would be undefeated. Maybe a healthy Denard like we had against them will make all the difference in our game.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 AM ^
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December 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 AM ^
Need everybody to do me a solid, need you all to up-vote me, have a dynamite post to start i know you all will be interested in. I know in spirt of U of M athletics i can count on you. would like to thank you in advance ( not you dennis, your not allowed to vote). Ok men lets get started.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:28 AM ^
He has the ability to blow up on a whim like Bouje. He's a complete whackjob, such as McFarlin or Emo. I was leaning towards Belch, but at least that dude was able to put together a coherent sentence.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:41 AM ^
I think this is a new species altogether.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 AM ^
I have absolutely no idea why I clicked this post... mostly because I was going to see if anyone had answered the OP with "nothing" yet. (which they have)
Now I'm just sitting back enjoying a classic meltdown.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:26 AM ^
So wait, do you and Dennis know each other in the real world? Like, not just mgoboard world? What an odd thought...
Also, this post has been one of the more impressive turn-arounds for any poster I've seen.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 AM ^
I just ended up spending way more time here than some of the other threads today. I agree that the premise of the post was probably less than spectacular, but these are usually the threads that end up getting the most posts. If people really hated these threads (I belive that secretly most of the posters on this thread love these threads) they would down vote, and not leave a post (Magnus who has a ton of points did just this). There are plenty of legitimate threads that only end up with a couple of comments, probably because its not as easy to leave a snarky remark or funny picture, and require an actual answer. OP, a word of advice, when the wolves are out, its best not to cover yourself in blood and run around making a lot of noise.
I'll give my 2 cents to the topic. Bowl wins for our opponents really doesn't affect us that much. It might add a little to our end strength of schedule, but Michigan will mostly be evaluated on whether they are 8-5 with a bowl win over the SEC or 7-6 with a bowl loss, and a whole lot of hot seat talk for 8 months.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:34 AM ^
Thank you sir, appreciate the well thought out articulate response, need more posters such as yourself. Have yourself a merry christmas.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 AM ^
... is "telling."
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 AM ^
Guess if we were in the big east we would be undefeated.
Unfortunately this is the exact sentiment that many people who want Rich Rod fired share.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:10 AM ^
Beating U Conn was a nice win this year, but them beating Oklahoma won't change our Big Ten record.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:12 AM ^
It says about the same as a Va Tech win would about James Madison.
Not much.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:14 AM ^
That Brandon will make his decision on. "If Huskies win, Rich is my man......and a Michigan Man"
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:17 AM ^
"We've never, under RR, beaten a ranked team"
Yes we have
"Well, we've never, under RR, beaten a team that finished the season ranked then"
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 AM ^
Are you suggesting that its an irrelevant distinction? That beating a team that's ranked early in the season yet finishes up 6-6 is as meaningful as beating a team that's considered top-25 in the country when all is said and done?
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:56 AM ^
I've just seen/heard that argument a lot and would like if I didn't have to anymore.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:18 AM ^
B1G TEN VS SEC/ B1G TEN VS BIG XII.
All the perception will be Conf vs Conf and sad to say if WIS and OSU shit the bed it will be bad for the rest of the conference even if the BT wins out.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:18 AM ^
I'm glad we played them the first game of the year and not the last game of the year.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 AM ^
Very little, if anything. UConn is brought up with some regularity this year in order to compare with Michigan, but everyone forgets (or doesn't mention) that this was the first time anyone saw this year's version of Denard. UConn got destroyed by Denard. Every other team had the benefit of scouting and could gameplan a bit against Denard.
For this reason, it is also troubling that many people here seem to think 'we would have gone undeated in the Big East' this year. I don' t think that would have been the case. The Big East is worse than usual this year, but the Big East has a surprisingly good record in bowl games in the BCS era (36-23).
But enough about the Big East. Let's Go Blue!
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:30 AM ^
The beginning of the season is a big unknown for every team. Denard was a big unknown for UConn. As the season wore on, Denard was analyzed and his idiosyncracies dissected by other teams -- especially B10 teams -- who had, at times, more success slowing him down.
A UConn win wouldn't say a whole lot.
On the other hand, a decisive Michigan win would say quite a bit!
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:01 AM ^
We beat UConn handily but Fristbase is right on. UConn had no film on Denard as a starter and had no idea what we were coming out of the gate with.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:56 AM ^
our defense only allowed 10 points? The more I think about that the crazier it seems...We hold a BCS team to 10 and an FCS team to 37?
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:41 AM ^
A possible UConn bowl win says.............NOTHING about Michigan.
It would, however, speak volumes about UConn, their players, and their coaches. That team was 3-4 after 7 games and could have Spartan'd the remainder of their season, but didn't.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:54 AM ^
It says that Michigan had an opening-day win against probably the worst team to ever play in the BCS.
In other words, it says absolutely nothing.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:54 AM ^
even if UConn upsets Oklahoma (because that''s what Oklahoma does, lose bowl games), UConn is still an average team.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:57 AM ^
UCONN was better at the end of the season and Michigan was worse.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:02 AM ^
It says nothing except that the Big East is a horrible football conference and that the BC is FUBAR!
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:08 AM ^
if we played that schedule we would have won at least 10 games. And we would only lose games based on our own problems, not because of anything any Big East team would do to us.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:04 AM ^
Football wins are not transitive.
If X beats Y and Y beats Z does not mean that X beats Z.
Take a look at MSU/Wisconsin/Iowa
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 AM ^
Nice math example.
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:24 PM ^
I am just trying to get my points up to 100 so that I can start threads like this.............
/s
December 22nd, 2010 at 3:17 PM ^
Have a couple on me. Go get 'em!
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
Spartan fans still don't understand that math. It's amazing how many of them think they would have beaten OSU this year just because the Bucks lost to Wisconsin.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:05 AM ^
Our D is amazing for holding them to 10 points? Am I right? YESSSSS
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:08 AM ^
Not 1 person thinks that win was worth a shit.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:00 AM ^
Because it made me feel good.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:10 AM ^
Unless you consider . . . . . . no, it still doesn't say a damn thing about us. all it means is that a lot of Oklahome players were injured in that game.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:13 AM ^
is right. Really, let's be honest. These bowls tell us next to nothing about these teams because they are played a month after the season ends. We should basically consider them glorified spring games.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 AM ^
I disagree.
Using your logic, NFL week 16 games are more like "offseason scrimmages" than week 11 NFL games. That makes no sense.
If anything a bowl game is good for demonstrating how good a coach is. He has a month to gameplan and get his guys ready. These same coaches don't even have a month to get ready for the first game of the season (practice starts second week in August).
It also shows how well a team can play on the road, at a neutral site, with a lot of distractions.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:36 AM ^
There might be a month between week 11 and week 16 games but the nfl teams don't have that entire time off.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 AM ^
that was a definite logic fail.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:18 AM ^
The longer the season goes, the more information coaches have against other teams. UConn is a different team now than they were in September, just as we are. I thnk many teams would have felt the wrath of Denard early in the season - unfortunately, as the season progressed, more videotape was available of his tendencies and teams adjusted (the same could be said about opponents scouting our defense). I put very little weight in the UConn win.
Also, I logged on this morning and wondered how someone with 36 points started a thread. And then I started reading. Sorry, jimbo.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:38 AM ^
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December 22nd, 2010 at 9:47 AM ^
How did we allow jimbo to accumulate 100 points? Did anyone not envision him posting this type of nonsense?!?
Anyways, it's good to see him back in the negatives.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:16 AM ^
Not for long, check the rebounding point total, seems alot more people on here are tired people like you jumping on every post they put out.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
I wonder what jimboblue named the sock puppet accounts he uses to posbang his own posts.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
Sock puppets.. Hahahahaha..... oh man sock puppets.....Hahahahaha ...stop it shirtless,the man is hilarious. And then he throws in the word posbang, man keep posting, that was great
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:00 PM ^
are you fifteen years old?
December 24th, 2010 at 12:31 AM ^
Man you got back into negative territory in a hurry. I was wondering what the holdup was.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 AM ^
It would mean that Temple and Louisville and Rutgers are BCS quality teams, I guess, by your logic?