I think this is good for us

Submitted by FauxMo on October 20th, 2018 at 12:34 PM

Much of the crowd won't return, everyone will settle down, and the superior team and athletes will win.

I'm right, right? RIGHT? 

I hope... 

B1G Winning

October 20th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^

The idiocy is thinking that these conditions are going to disproportionately benefit Michigan.

As if Harbaugh and Brown are the only ones scheming right now and Warner and Dantonio are going around snarling in their lockeroom and telling the team how much they should hate all things Michigan.

News flash; both staffs are taking the information they gained in the brief amount of football we have witnessed so far and are scheming around it. Dantonio’s earned the benefit of the doubt that he can use these conditions and circumstances to his gain as much as anyone else.

Perkis-Size Me

October 20th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^

Don’t think it definitively helps one team or the other. Still 0-0. If either team was up 14-0, I think the down team would be at a severe disadvantage, but everyone’s back at square one more or less.

What I do think it’ll do is take some of the emotion out of the game. Things will settle down on both sides, some fans won’t come back to the game depending on how long the delay is, and that makes for a less raucous environment for UM to have to play in.

Again, not a definitive benefit for Michigan. But it doesn’t hurt them either.

Ghost of Fritz…

October 20th, 2018 at 1:01 PM ^

Not sure who the delay helps, but rain helps Sparty. 

M is really superior in most facets.  MSU is the equal of M in just one facet:  run D. 

Rain makes this a game that will depend more on running the ball.  Long passes will be ruled out if it is raining. 

IOW rain makes for a slimmer M offensive playbook, which favors Sparty BC M has advantages in all areas except stopping the run. 

If M has to win by running on Sparty it becomes a more equal match up

Ghost of Fritz…

October 20th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^

Won't be easy for MSU to run on Michigan either. 

But rain when play resumes minimizes M's advantages in other areas and makes the entire game turn on an area where both teams are moe of less equals--run D. 

For example, if there won't be much passing (by either team), then M being better at pass D than MSU's pass D is not much of an advantage. 

The Denarding

October 20th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^

Bummed as everyone else was that a perfect arc block was there and Shea didn’t pull.   The zone read is more of an art than people think but that one was designed to go to the house and I hope they come back to it.   

Otherwise I’m actually fairly positive on what I’ve seen so far.   I saw some doubles inside that actually moved their DTs - that got me excited.   Running inside will open up the outside - if we can run some IZ ...the complexion of the game completely changes. 

1 percent

October 20th, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^

When we hit a slanting DPJ or TE on that read option over the middle of the field you heard it here first. 

The safeties are WAAYYYY too aggressive on that and are sprinting at Shea nearly at the snap. It’s going to be wide open and hopefully this break helps us adjust to that 

turtleboy

October 20th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^

I agree, a super long time out should help take some of the enthusiasm out of their team and crowd. They always play out of their minds and cover the spread against us. A break should help things settle back down and return to the mean a little.

Durham Blue

October 20th, 2018 at 1:20 PM ^

The good thing with a delay is it gives Michigan's coaches time to adjust to the looks Sparty gave.  Michigan has been very good at in-game adjustments this season on both sides of the ball but especially on defense.

freelion

October 20th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^

Lightning delays helps us. Play is suspended while the worst of the rain falls. Weather will be much better when they resume compared to if they played through it