The Shawn Crable Memorial Bad Personal Foul Award goes to ....

It was a bad play, but what can you do when you're going to a formation that requires you to put every walk-on and true freshman defensive back on the field, and hope none of them screws up?

I thought it was an iffy call, probably a no call if it happens on the other sideline.  I thought the refs were very pro ND today, I can think of at least 2 instances where I saw blatant holding and no call on ND's offensive line.

Bad Form. No need to hate on either Cullen or Crable by posting like that. I'll give you a break though, since you had the aneursym.

I understand Crable's hit is infamous, but that was when we were trying to get the ball back when we were behind.

When I saw the flag on Cullen, I had major Michigan-MSU flashbacks to the 2001 "clock" game, when a previous CB, LeSueur, kept their last drive alive and they proceeded to go down the field to get their ill-begotten win.  Luckily, Dayne Crist doesn't know how to throw a last-second pass in the field of play.

I'm not down on Cullen, as he's a freshman, but man, that play hurt.

Awful decision, but it did not hurt us and Buck will learn as he gains more experience.  Great win boys. GO BLUE

Yea man dont worry, Cullen is a few months removed from high school. I like the guy and Michigan still won the game.

He dove well before the receiver was out of bounds. It should have been a no call.

i really thought it was a marginal call. 

It's nothing new... it's the sort of mistake made by rookies since 1901. Get used to it.

...but I think it actually helped Michigan.  Why on earth would I say anything so ludicrous?  Because it turned a "hail mary" throw into a "tweener throw."  It was too far to throw on a line, but not far enough that he could just throw it in the air. 

 Consequently, instead of being able to throw the ball with authority, he had to try and use some "touch" on it.  Since it was his second start at ND, the pressure got to him and there was nothing resembling touch or finesse on that last pass.

I thought Cullen did little if anything wrong. Maybe they thought he was going low, but the ND player was so close to the sidelines, and he was already in motion to make the play, I can't fault him. 

I was rooting for Boise State earlier this week, and I hated to see the ref call the late hit on the VT player. Late in the game, when its barely out of bounds, lets let the kids decide the game, not the refs.

I've always thought Crable got screwed, but I think they called the late hit more because he went up high and "lead" with the helmet more than anything. 

As for LeSueur, we were so bad on offense that day, and made so many mistakes on defense, it's hard to pinpoint one play. And on top of it all, the damn time clock operator. 

I resent your post Dude! Crable's hit was a clean hit. It was a horrible call and It's the one play I will never (ever) forget as a Michigan alumn...Christian's hit today was  out of bounds but it was a bang bang play (a very borderline call)> The type of call that you'd expect would go against us @ South Bend...

bad mistake, but he's just trying to play hard. he's a true freshman and he'll learn

tackling is obviously not a strength of cullen. he was probably just worried about getting beat that he was overly anxious to lay out a hit.

that call has always annoyed me. as far as im concerned no harm no foul. the more often they make that cheap call, the more likely there will be a play analogous to the one involving Vince Young and i believe Osi Umenyiora where osi rapped up young but let him go as to avoid the late hit call, and then young got the first down. at some point a ball carrieris gonna fake like he is running out of bounds, and the defense will slow up so as not to get a late hit, and then the ball carrier will run right by him.