I have two fears
1. Rich Rod is fired and brings his team back to AA and waxes Michigans ass.
2. Michigans quest to hurry up and right it's ship ends up being a protracted version of the past two years.
not my wish or an opinion just I fear more than anything. sorry gotta run Notre Dame just called
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:17 PM ^
and get his ass kicked like MSU, OSU, Mississipi State, and Penn State have done to Michigan.
Got to be honest, these type of posts are incredibly irritating. I know you guys are in the thrall of the spread, but a well prepared team can slow down the spread. Bama showed this vs UF as did Cal vs Oregon. This offense is not unstoppable--no offense is.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:40 PM ^
Fake injuries.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:43 PM ^
have a defense so awful that your spread offense has to press to score every time.This is a proven tactic to stop the spread.
January 3rd, 2011 at 1:00 AM ^
I totally disagree with you mr sal quattro.. I would've put coach rods wvu teams against any michigan team from the last 10 years.. I really doubt any mich st team would've beat any of his wvu teams and I really would've like to see them played ohio state with some of those teams he had at wvu... If i remember right I'm pretty sure rrod spanked mississippi st twice in his coaching career.. I know you hate the man sal but please dont try to make it like he's the worst coach ever... I dont think anyone including coach rod himself would've thought the defensive talent at michigan would ever be worst than he had at wvu.. I know I'm one person who is surprised at the lack of defensive talent at michigan. I know his recruiting on the defensive side of the ball is to blame for some of the shitty defense but coach carr has some of the blame too if you want to be fair.
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:38 AM ^
January 3rd, 2011 at 2:02 PM ^
9 of the 10 teams with mobile QBs (and/or spread teams) thrash us.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:14 PM ^
1. Naked fat chicks
2. More moronic predictions of future humiliations at the hands of UM's current C as HC of a unnamed team in order to defend keeping said HC.
January 3rd, 2011 at 1:40 AM ^
well done sir! beat me to it!
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:21 PM ^
defense for keeping him. There is no fan anywhere that has that type of "pull". No Alumni , no trusted inner circle according to DB. It's my fear not an opinion that pretty much makes it a personal thing that I shared here. Delusional I may be but my thoughts are surely not moronic
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:40 PM ^
I was a bit harsh, but your fear is applicable to a great multitude of teams considering that UM has lost to Appy State and Toledo. As those games show, any team can get their ass kicked by any team on any day.
It is just as likely--if not moreso--that UM will napalm his team. Just look at the historical record. The odds are in Michigan's favor.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:15 PM ^
needs to get HIS guy, and set him up for success. I honestly don't give a rip who the next coach is, as long as he steps in and wins the right way and sets our program back up for long-term success with the correct assistant hires.
If it's Harbaugh, fine. If it's someone else not on the radar, I'd be surprised but equally supportive.
My personal preference would be Harbaugh and a couple of his trusted assistants, and a healthy mix of younger, dynamic assistants from other programs, possibly a retain or two from the current staff (Jackson and maybe Tall), and a couple familiar names from the Michigan family who've gone elsewhere.
Think stability.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:20 PM ^
1) Oprah Winfrey
2) Bees
The two fears are, fortunately, unrelated. Unless... oh, mother of God...
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:27 PM ^
BEST. GIF. EVAR.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:51 PM ^
I had to hide under my desk for five minutes until I realized it wasn't real.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:58 PM ^
I can come out now...?
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:19 AM ^
internets. One of the others was a non-nuclear jhackney post and the third involved claymation.
January 3rd, 2011 at 3:03 AM ^
I love Conan.
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:58 AM ^
THEY'RE RIPPING MY FLESH OFF!!
YOU'RE WEAPONS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!!
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:20 PM ^
Would RR agree to stay under the condition that he fires the entire defensive staff?
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:42 AM ^
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:23 PM ^
that we would scheudule a Rodriguez coached team, assuming he doesn't join a team in the current or future Big Ten would have a limit approaching 0%.
Meeting them in a Bowl game is more probable, but it can't be worse than losing by 38.
2. Bears!!
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:27 PM ^
couldnt have brummed it brummer myself.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:23 PM ^
absolutely! but the question is who would want to come into this mess.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:27 PM ^
a lot of people would.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:24 PM ^
look at it this way:
had you asked me what my greatest fears were in 2007, i would have said:
back to back losing seasons
getting humiliated by a MAC team at home
losing superiority over msu
becoming uncompetitive with osu
major ncaa violations for football
michigan as the new doormat for the big ten
i explained to my wife that years ago i would have been distraught over getting destroyed in a bowl game like we did yesterday, but im becoming numb to it all. frankly, after the last three years, i fear nothing.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:47 PM ^
nope i was wrong
brummer is right
i still fear bears. BEARS.
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:11 AM ^
Hey, at least Minny and Indy still suck worse then we do.
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:53 AM ^
the incoming scholly smack for APR
That's a guarantee at this point
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:28 PM ^
I see what you did there...and it's regrettably accurate.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^
Feels the same way.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:32 PM ^
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:36 PM ^
So fresh off a home loss to App St., your greatest fear was losing at home to a MAC team?
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:00 AM ^
Was far worse.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:24 PM ^
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:26 PM ^
Anybody have a list of coaches who were canned at destination college jobs, and then took another team to the mountaintop? I'm not talking some guy who failed in the pros, and came back, or lost his job at division III or something, and still went on to be a good coach...but someone who coached Florida...ND...Texas....USC...etc, was FIRED, and then got another shot somewhere else, and kicked ass and took names? Because I'm guessing it's a pretty short list. Even guys who leave of their own violation rarely do it (Saban). Far more often is Holtz or Spurrier, guys who never really match what they did before. And these are the successful guys.
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<br>I guess I'm saying, it could happen, but that's not my biggest worry for Michigan Football right now.
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:28 PM ^
I'd pay to watch that game. It'd be fun to see the brilliant defensive counter-punches RR would cook up to try to stop Denard.
Oh, wait...
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:30 PM ^
1. Accidentally dropping my car keys down a sewer grate
2. Accidentally dropping my car keys down an elevator shaft
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:34 PM ^
Well atleast you don't part in the swimming pool.
edit: I conveniently forgot to see the keys the first time around.
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:41 AM ^
Actually happened to me, beleive it or not. Walking into the elevator with a big bag of groceries i dropped my keys.
Of course they fell into the gap between the door and the lift without any key touching either side. Amazing, like NASA programmed the trajectory, I tell you what. Then I had to wait like 3 hours in the lobby fo the maintenance guy to get the keys.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:46 AM ^
...a cell phone down an elevator shaft. It was recovered by the building maintenance folks and miraculously, despite dropping 10 flights, after I put the pieces together, it worked.
/csb
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:34 PM ^
1.causing the transfer of both denard and mallet in 3 yrs because they dont fit a new system
2. mike martin
3.heights
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:35 PM ^
1) My house exploding
2) Michigan football being too awesome to fathom
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:37 PM ^
January 3rd, 2011 at 2:10 PM ^
Not that crazy
January 2nd, 2011 at 11:39 PM ^
1. Harbaugh doesn't come here.
2. Urban Meyer goes to OSU
3. We lose to MSU AGAIN next year
Caveat: Harbaugh says yes and two and three don't bother me.
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:01 AM ^
If Harbaugh says yes, two doesn't bother me so much since Urban couldn't really do much better against us or anyone else than the Tressel. Three would sure as hell bother me a lot regardless of who the coach is. The negative feeling of losing to MSU is 10x more than the positive feeling of beating them.