We got the “Old Harbaugh” back last night

Everything, top to bottom, was better at the core of its substance. A couple costly lapses. Several more costly middle fingers from the officials. But the patient is alive, strengthening, and ready for the final triumphant scene at the end of the film.

We finally got up off the mat, and we are about to hurt some people.

Especially the 2nd half.  

I'm sorry, I was as thrilled as anyone about JH coming here, it was at that time a miracle.  However, we are in year 5 and now happy about moral victories?

It is too much to win a B1G title every year and make the CFP, but we keep stubbing our toe(s) constantly especially on the road.  Something has to change, as we are not Illinois or Indiana where they would celebrate close losses.

During the early and middle part of Llyod's tenure, we routinely challenged and even won a few B1G titles and a National Championship, not seeing it yet and am very sad!

Catchafire, people were saying the same thing when we didn't get "the stop" against OSU.  Saying the same thing with the punt of death against MSU.  

A "vision" is usually a 5-year plan, we're in year 5.

That was a good TO by Harbaugh. That almost delay of game was on Shea.

Got the DP there.  I only needed to say it once.  

An improvement, yes but we do t know how good PSU is. Buffalo? Pitt? We were #7 in the country this year. Saying PSU has. Top 5 defense ignores the fact they could be artificially inflated. Like our defense has been for the past few years. Kick ass on crappy teams, can't stop good ones. We really don't know anything other than they play harder as the game wore on.

You really nailed it there with your comment about hoping we can get the team to rally behind that performance. I was just telling my buddy that the first half against ND might be the most important half of football we have this season. If they come out hungover from the close loss to PSU, pack the season in. If we come out fired up and ready to take on the world, it could be a fun last few weeks of the season. 

Actually, I can understand why they'd take the TO. It's the opening drive of a nationally televised game on the road in front of the screaming white masses. Your QB has been shaky, and your offense has been inconsistent as hell. Ideally you want a TD to shut up the crowd. Realistically, you'd take a couple of first downs to let your QB & offense get the butterflies out of their system, then punt them deep and let your defense take over.

So with the clock running out, take the TO. Having to get 10 yards for a first down is easier than having to get 15. 

Bunch of grown ass adults acting like children. This place has become more and more toxic, literally all anyone does anymore is complain. Hell, not even the Snowflake threads can contain all of the "super special snowflakes" who want to make sure everyone reads their shitty hOt TaEk opinions.

This will continue until roughly Friday of ND week, as is tradition. There will be a rallying cry of people getting behind the team, and then win or lose next Saturday the cycle will repeat itself, voracity dependent on game outcome lol.

I think you can definitely blame Brown for asking Hawkins and Metellus to cover Hamler.  I just don’t see a team like OSU doing something like that.  

I blame the coaches mostly.

-Trying to kick a 58 yard FG instead of going for it when you are more likely to get a first down and field position is a wash if you don't make either.  A FG wouldn't have made that big of a difference even made down 14.

-Play calling when they had the momentum was terrible at times.  I appreciated the passing game adjustments, but inside zone with no reads attached (or reads missed) was playing into the strength of the PSU defense, especially when being aggressive on early downs was successful.

-Don Brown countering masterpiece calls with absolute dipshit ones.  There is absolutely no reason on a team with Lavert Hill, Ambry Thomas and Daxton Hill for Don Brown to scheme a defense that relies on a safety or Josh Uche to be in coverage on Hamler.  Fucking inexcusable.

The team showed a tremendous amount of heart and the coaches messed up some of the little things that could have led to victory IMO.  I'm not "crying," and actually I'm a little more optimistic for the rest of the year, but this staff still has core issues they haven't fixed.

the constant “blame the refs” mantra is exhausting. Nobody is out to get us. Refs make good calls and bad calls. Never heard anyone complain when calls go our way.

I didn't see any non calls vs Michigan and neither did the announcers. They actually started to bite their lip it was so bad (on the non call targeting vs Shea after he slid forward). That play by the way is one that they can buzz down afterward even if there wasn't a call, to see if it was targeting, and Harbaugh was yelling at them on the sideline to do so. You are welcome to throw out these unsupported statements, but you would have more credibility if you pointed out at least one missed call vs Michigan. Instead they called Black's push off but not the push off that gave PSU a TD, missed an obvious mugging on a 4th down pass in PSU territory that likely would have given Michigan new life and 7 points, and called an offensive PI against Michigan when it appeared there was equal contact by both players, (but only the Michigan guy was looking at the ball). 

Ignoring the potential conflict of interest that these non-professional refs have due to the billions in sports betting is just putting your head in the sand.