1. If Blake Countess put his name in for NFL draft rating, he should Google Donovan Warren and find his future. Warren had a better three seasons than Blake ever did and is unemployed.

2. Time to DROP the crap and videos around the "This is Michigan" theme - it's an insult to those Michigan teams that played real Manball. 

Alright, we sucked, in basically every facet of the game.  There is no denying that, and I think all the manners in which we sucked have been covered, as have the obligatory "fire everything and everyone" responses.  Let's look at that game and see what we can take positively from it:

• Morris was strong armed as billed, more accurate than expected, showed poise in the pocket, and seemed to make good decisions.  Whether he's playing next year due to Gardner injury or in two years, I feel good about our future at QB.
• Justice Hayes, the forgotten man in our RB corp, played heavily and looked ok, particularly on a couple blitz pickups. 
• While still failing to open holes for the running game, the O Line at least gave Morris a pretty clean pocket most of the game.
• Fitz finished his career with a touchdown.

That's all I got.  I don't have any foolish belief that that was a good or positive game, but all told, it could have been (slightly) worse.  Thankfully, 2013 football is behind us, and hopefully 2014 will be a step back in the right direction and show this season to be an abberation of youth and bad luck. 

With a team of so many underclassmen I'm still inclined to be on the side that "makes excuses" for the coaching staff.  In a way, that's the only credible position for me to take; not knowing enough about football or coaching to criticize things like playcalling, etc. 

I do believe that major staff changes would have a detrimental effect and not be a magic bullet of any kind.  Not giving RR a 4th year was a colossal mistake and repeating that mistake will do the program lasting damage, partly because it would ensure more tense "rebuilding" years and partly because I can't see any good coaches choosing to come here for any amount of money if they are not supported.  I could be wrong there, but if Brandon fires the guy that he hired only 3 years later.... would you want that person to be your boss?  And speaking of DB, he has to take a good look at his own leadership style.  Leaders do bear responsibility for developing the people below them.  If Hoke, who is not ignorant about football, isn't improving as a HC, then his leader is tasked with figuring out how best to help him accomplish that.   Looking forward in hopes of a better 2014 for this program.

I'm the head coach of a football team in a BCS conference. The coach that preceded me had seven straight winning seasons, won 9 games in his final year, and took his team to three bowl games. He was the winningest coach in my school's history as of when I was hired. So I did not take over a losing program, much less a tire fire.

My first two years were 2-9 and 3-8, a huge disappointment to my school's fans, especially considering the established success of my predecessor. I appeared to be over the hump in my third year at 6-4-1, but my fourth year was barely over .500 at 6-5. My fifth year was a big disappointment at 5-6, and my sixth year was a disaster, going 2-8-1. By then, many fans at my school had concluded that I wasn't going to get the job done and demanded that the Athletic Director fire me. For whatever reason, he kept me on, and after 13 seasons of double-digit wins and an appearance in a national title game, I'm now considered by most college football observers to be one of the most successful coaches in college football over the last two decades

Who am I?

I was naughty and I lost my 100 point balance.

I prepared for my posts well but apparently just didn't execute. Most likely this is because I am a rather young poster and was trying a new system. But no worries, I have some 5-star memes prepared and am recovering from my boo-boos.

Shitty end to a shitty season, but the pessimism is pretty crazy. This team will be much better next year and you will all be forced to acknowledge it this time next year! :P

Gotta put this one squarely on the D. Borges had a solid gameplan that played to Morris's strengths under neutral circumstances. Once we were down 2-3 scores, that was no longer tenable. C'est la vie.

Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.

I didn't expect much from the Offense, but I expected the Defense wouldn't be so bad.  That D was a dumpster fire.  We made a mediocre K State look like an NFL Offense.  I know I'm just re-stating the obvious, but damn, that was a painful game to watch.

I'm more pissed off about our D than I am the Offense at this point, and that's saying something.