Clock rule change data after week zero and week one: games are being significantly shortened

If we want to recruit better receivers, we have to throw more.

It's the same with elite quarterbacks.  If we want more than one generational QB in a generation, we're going to have to throw more.

Broken record...

And the bonus is that when they back the 8th defender out of the box to stop the pass, our RB's will gash them.

Henry is a good returner, but he’s not better than at least 6 WRs on our roster.

Also, if we can have the 2-deep on the OL and a stable of RBs and a real good college QB who can lead us to methodical 4 score wins every game and win the big ones too en route to the B1G championship and CFP, so be it.

2019 we had a 5* QB, a 5* RB, a 5* WR along with two high 4*s at WR, and yet the line that was meh and that season was meh.

You're right.  I mean, Braylon Edwards didn't make any catches like that in his career.  Ronnie Bell never made a tough catch, either.  Colston Loveland dropped that TD in the endzone in the B1G CG last year.  That catch, back shoulder over two defenders, must have been photoshopped.  Tai Streets never caught one over the shoulder and galloped down OSU's sideline for a TD, either.  Anthony Carter was just another guy.  Desmond Howard won the Heisman as a kick returner...

Dude - stop being so dramatic.  You're putting two (basically) unrecruited MSU holdouts above every WR Michigan has ever run onto the field?  C'mon, man...

Admittedly MSU has had good receivers goong as far back as Andre Rison, but your take makes it sound like you started watching UM football post-Carr 

Box score comparison between our game and the Buffs v. TCU:

Edit:  The point is, that Colorado ran 30% more offensive plays (total) and 50% more passing plays than we did.  Granted, playing complementary football and eating clock on offense will keep your defense fresh and help you win games.  But if you're a 5-star QB or WR recruit looking to make it to the league, you want as many game reps as you can get as part of your development.  We're moving in the right direction but I think we still have a ways to go.

I believe our wideouts had comparable targets to Harrison Jr. and Egbuka Saturday.

“Always” must = post-Carr in your mind. But even then, you’re wrong. Since Hoke UM has had 9 WRs drafted and Sparty 7. Coleman had a decent year last year but if he makes a name for himself will do so as a Seminole.

Yeah, you’ll never see a Michigan receiver make a great one-handed catch.

Jason Avant was literally the Comcast Cable commercial for a decade with his one-handed grab (which I saw live) at Northwestern. Marquis Walker beat Iowa with a catch nearly identical to the MSU guy this weekend except it was in the back of the end zone and in the 4th Q of a very close game. Ask MSU about Woodson’s one-handed catch (he played wr too it counts) 

Oh and Desmond on 4th down vs Notre Dame. 
 

Those are just off the top of my head. I’m sure there are many more and remember, it’s not a bad thing to have QBs who throw accurately enough that players don’t need to make one-handed grabs. I think MSU’s catch this weekend was mostly due to a bad pass more than anything. 

Life is busy, there's a lot you can do while Pfizer is trying to sell you prevnar.

That’s funny, because I usually spend commercial time looking at my phone…

He complains about kids on their phones but not kids rubbing their balls on other kids?

I don’t know. I wish so badly they do away with this new running clock rule next year, but that’d require these TV stations giving up new $$ they got for more ads. And that just never happens. May make people less likely to tune into G5 of weak P5 games, but everyone will still tune in for the big ones. Idk, hope it changes back but don’t think it’ll ever happen. Makes me sad

Harbaugh might have if he'd been in the stadium. 

I love Texas,  been here for  most of my life.  I always tell my cousins that gives me grief about the weather, that I can always go somewhere else if I want cooler but it is harder to go to warm locations in the winter and I can avoid the Hurricanes if I really need to.  Tornados you cannot run from easily.

The coaches don't make the decisions, the presidents don't make those decisions, and the fans who actually like the sport sure as hell don't. The conference commissioners, who are in the pocket of the TV execs make these decisions. Follow the moeny and you'll see why decisions are made.

Not exactly. AFAIK, these changes come from the NCAA rules committee. Kirby Smart is a co-chair of the rules committee. Here's what he said:

"This rule change is a small step intended to reduce the overall game time and will give us some time to review the impact of the change," Kirby Smart, co-chair of the committee and Georgia's head coach, said.

It's certainly possible that there was heavy pressure put on him from above, though.

Either way it sucks.

Interesting, because I am a guy who loves to look at numbers and make wages on them with line betting and DFS. The variation in college football is what gives an advantage in the margins. The NFL is tougher to bet because they work so damned hard to reduce variation. 

This change is godawful not only for watching, but for betting as well. And it takes away the advantage that Michigan (and teams like Michigan) have in wearing down others. You basically have to boat-race the other team now - something we don't typically do.