October 12th, 2013 at 11:12 PM ^
October 12th, 2013 at 10:40 PM ^
I also think Michigan and Penn State are similar this year -- mid-level dwellers in an unimpressive conference. Difference is we were able to pull out a couple wins that Penn State couldn't.
October 12th, 2013 at 10:41 PM ^
the home cooking, the miracles. Aaaarggh\
Devin looked spent that last OT.
October 12th, 2013 at 10:52 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 12:33 AM ^
what a beating he took
October 12th, 2013 at 10:44 PM ^
I don't know why everybody is so upset.
A week ago, we were the worst undefeated team in the country. Now we are the worst one-loss team in the country. What's really changed?
October 12th, 2013 at 10:56 PM ^
blowing 10 point lead
playing not to lose
OL underperforming
Also UM lost the game, I don't know, people tend to get worked up about that around here
October 12th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
Even if we had won against Sanction U, it would have only temporarily masked our season-long issues. This was bound to happen. We were not a good undefeated team, and now we are not a good one-loss team.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:16 PM ^
I'd prefer to be a not good undefeated team as opposed to a not good one-loss team. Call me crazy.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:36 PM ^
Yeah, me too.
But "not good" and "undefeated" are not a long lasting relationship.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:06 PM ^
So now does this mean that our quarterback, offensive coordinator, CBs, and placekicker are all in shells psychologically?
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October 12th, 2013 at 11:48 PM ^
Good counterargument. It's one thing to criticize the team's performance (that's one of the chief functions of sports blogs). It's another to get childishly defensive and reflexively insult people. Go browse Us Weekly or something rosier.
October 13th, 2013 at 12:35 AM ^
Indiana - win. Iowa - win. Nebraska - should be win. MSU/NW -toss ups. OSU - prob loss.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:44 PM ^
Gardner is consistent in his inconsistency. That means in addition to his disaster games, he's got at least one more game where he forgets he's Gardner and plays out of his mind.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:11 PM ^
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October 12th, 2013 at 11:15 PM ^
I don't think we're going to hear from Brian for a few days. The return of Lloyd ball, has probably sent him into a coma.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:19 PM ^
What killed me the most is Hoke allowed this to happen. I understand letting coaches coach but fergodsakes when your tailback carries 20+ at 1 yard a clip something has to give. Akron and UConn where embarrassing enough, at what point does the coaching staff figure that this isn't working.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:30 PM ^
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October 12th, 2013 at 11:59 PM ^
I'm embarassed by people thinking what we've seen the last three years is going to miraculously change.
October 13th, 2013 at 10:33 AM ^
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October 13th, 2013 at 1:00 PM ^
"real fans" shit.
October 13th, 2013 at 2:04 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 2:55 PM ^
Do you really think the sample size people are using for why they want Hoke and/or Borges fired is just this one game?
October 13th, 2013 at 3:43 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
You know what else I didn't do, come back after that terribly blown bowl game last season. Or the woefully inept offensive second half of the Ohio State game. Or that god awful snoozer that was the Michigan State game. Literally fell asleep during that one. That Iowa loss two seasons ago? Didn't respond after that one. Or after the absolute shit-kicking Alabama gave us to start last year. Or the Akron game. Or the UConn game. Or the playcalling in the Air Force game. Nebraksa last year? Nope, didn't then either.
Yes, this is his worst loss. However, it's not his only bad one. Nor is the "a win's a win" always a valid defense.
Conservative playcalling on offense late in the game with a lead. Then try to play prevent defense with little time left. All that does is prevent us from keeping the other team out of the endzone. Am I talking about South Carolina, or Penn State hm.....
Just because I wasn't here venting my frustrations doesn't mean I wasn't elsewhere. This game finally pushed me over the edge to come back and see if people finally agree with what I thought was the inevitable outcomes of this coaching philosophy. And, so far, I'm being proven right.
Won in year one with RichRod's players.
Stumbled during year two due to a stubborness towards "manball" offense.
Stumbling even moreso due to that same stubborness.
That November schedule still looming.....
I've been calling for Borges's head for over two years now. Again, just not here. Don't expect that to stop. Didn't want him hired in the first place. Now look at where our biggest problem areas seem to be. QB play. Borges. Offensive line. Funk. Defensive line. Hoke.
People want to rail all day long on Gardner as a QB? Fine, Borges is said to work extensively and exclusively with the QBs. Their poor play is a mark on him. The offensive line has shown no improvement the last two years. Haven't even shown the ability to be rated as high as "mediocre." That's on Funk. Defensive line consistenly gets no pressure. Hoke apparently works extensively and exclusively with the d-line. Their play is a mark on him. What does he do during the game? He'll occassionally yell at someone. But mostly he just stands there with no headset on, and his thumb up his ass. He looks like nothing more than a damn figurehead during the games.
Yes, the team is 5-1. But do you really think the team is as good as its record shows?
They were 5-1 to start 2010. Bet you weren't willing to say then that it was "one bad loss."
Give me one signature win this team has under Hoke. C'mon, the biggest win. Ohio State in 2011? Yeah, the team that finished 6-7 and scored as many points on us as they had on anyone (not named Akron) that season. The Sugar Bowl against VaTech? You mean the team that had been absolutely demolished by Clemson? Which was a team that backed into the ACC title game after two stompings to NC State and South Carolina.
I'm sorry if my showing up now distresses you. The complete ineptness with which this offense is called has finally pushed me over the edge. I wanted to be wrong about Hoke (in regards to his bringing Borges), but so far? Yeah, seen nothing to suggest I am. At least, not over the last two years.
October 13th, 2013 at 8:16 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 8:24 PM ^
Boo-fuckin-hoo.
And I'm a coward because I wasn't absolutely fed up with it to the point that I couldn't keep quiet about it any longer? Like I already pointed out, there have been several instances the last 2 1/2 seasons that I could've after a loss, but didn't. Was that cowardice too?
"You didn't come back to bitch after previous losses, but here you are bitching after the worst loss yet! Such a coward!!!"
Whatever.
October 14th, 2013 at 12:25 AM ^
October 14th, 2013 at 3:18 AM ^
Again, I have been calling for Borges's head since Akron (and earlier than that actually, but when talking this season it started there). Just because it wasn't here doesn't mean it didn't happen. You seem to be operating under that assumption that I give a rat's ass what your opinion of me is. Yep, I'm back after the worst loss they've suffered under Hoke. Yep, it's been three years. Nearly, anyway. If it was simply because the team was still winning, why didn't I come back after the Alabama mudstomping last year? Why didn't I come back as soon as it was impossible for Michigan to even play for the B1G title? Seeing as, in Hoke's own words, that it's pretty much Big Ten title or bust. Maybe it's because no other loss had me so pissed off as this loss to Penn State? I knew Alabama was gonna kick the shit out of us. I knew we would blow it late aginst South Carolina. I literally laughed as they ran the game winning TD in. I knew on Monday of the Ohio State game last year how that game would turn out. But with this game? I figured maybe, just maybe, these coaches would figure out how to not fuck up on a monumental level with playcalling and game management. That maybe they had learned some lessons from the Akron and UConn games. Guess not.
You can throw all the ad hominem's at me you want. Doesn't change the fact that Borges is a terrible OC, and needs to be fired.
You have a problem with me coming back now to vent my frustrations that have been building for two and a half seasons? Again, boo-fuckin-hoo.
So, continue with the "chicken shit" and "coward" rhetoric all you want. Attack me, and not my argument. (pst, that's the definition of "ad hominem" in case you were wondering) I frankly don't give a shit.
October 14th, 2013 at 2:55 PM ^
We know that because you posted it right before...oh wait, no you didn't.
Thus my point.
And what argument is there to attack? You haven't made any arguments. You've just crawled out from under a rock to be all "Whaaaaaaa, Rich Rod got fired, I like me some Rich Rod...I said Hoke sucked and still say Hoke sucked...and all his staff does too, Nyah!" If you're laughing at us losing you stopped becoming a fan of the team a long time ago and are still a fan of a man who isn't here anymore.
But hey, we've got a whole season left to play, so you can now predict how every game will turn out AND how we're going to lose all those games too. Since you saw it coming in every other one. At least now you can use your clairoyance to englighten us all before the fact rather than after. But I'm guessing if we win any of those games, you'll be nowhere to be seen.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:39 PM ^
running into a brick has been happening for a year and a half and the coaches either don't know how to fix it or refuse to make something else the core of their offense. I'm dreading the OSU game. Tressel at least would have gone into shell mode when they get up a couple scores. Meyer is just going to keep twisting the knife deeper and deeper.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:31 PM ^
I feel stupid for drinking the kool-aid about this staff being so great at "coaching" up the players.
October 13th, 2013 at 12:54 AM ^
East Lansing.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:35 PM ^
October 12th, 2013 at 11:38 PM ^
I think it's fair to second guess some of the coaching gaffes tonight but some of you should be ashamed of the way you talk about these kids. There is not once I saw a player half-ass it out there.
Maybe I'm just getting old.
October 12th, 2013 at 11:50 PM ^
the half assedness is by design. But with elevated seat license fees, $50 to park at Pioneer, $95 tickets for Notre dame and the constant "branding", you expect a better product. Knock the kids? absolutely not. Knock the program that is pulling in millions on a gameday saturday and be told to like the product we're seeing? Absolutely not.
October 13th, 2013 at 1:12 AM ^
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