Was looking to see what TV the game on Saturday would be televised. University web site indicates the Peacock network will be broadcasting the tv. But I don't have Peacock!!!!!!!
Where is that game going to be for those of us who are want things simple.
Let's get someone who can run the business. This implies some pretty good people skills with high ego employees. Big ask but big salary.
I think after the 2016 OSU game would have been best to go to Big 10 offices and burned a couple of desks out of public view. Let the public know that you have had 'conversations' with the Big 10 and you support your coach. Don't give OSU bulletin board material.
The other twist is that Jim has an agent. That can be good or bad. I seem to remember a baseball player's agent reading the situation really wrong. The ball club let the player walk. Player got no contract with anyone. End of career.
I wonder how some of these kids will handle things when they find out that they are expected to win games. C.J. Stroud may like having a new high performance car every month but the shine on that may fade quickly when he finds out he is expected to have wins along with that.
First time I've seen this picture of H2 hurdeling an OSU guy. Looks to me as if the OSU is leaning over to avoid hitting H2. Photo caption there could be "Holy crap! I don't want him to hit me! I'll just bend over and he can jump me."
Just a little episode I had a few years ago. Got a letter from IRS that said I owed $150 on my return 3 years ago. Was true;accountant made an honest mistake.
If they can track me down for $150, why can't they find someone who is dodging millions in taxes?
Go get fitted for clubs. Some years I got fitted for a driver. Immediately took 5 - 10 strokes per round. Game get easier when your drives are in center of fairway. Get fitted for a 3 wood also. Unless you hit your irons all over the place they probably o.k. I went from barely breaking 100 to mid to low 80's.
Yes, the defense followed the receiver in motion. But it seemed it wasn't just one guy but two or three others. I'm sure that someone is responsible for the in motion guy but the rest of them should be staying home. I only played football a couple of years in H.S. but was always drilled "STAY HOME; DON'T FOLLOW THE FLOW UNLESS THAT IS YOUR JOB".
Someone points out Harbaugh doesn't give pep talks to the team before games. Can't believe that is too big a jump for coach to do that and if he wants to win tough away games he had better start!
Purdue looks sick. Although it looks as if the officials are giving Auburn the benefit of the doubt. Couple of pass plays there where Auburn defender undressed the receiver.
I am not a grad of UM (son is in engineering). Had an occasion several years ago to do some BCD counting on a project. I set the hardware up so the programmer could do it easily.The programmer (Cornell grad) says "what am I supposed to do with that"? Once I showed him "where did you learn that?" Told him freshman math class. Last time I heard disparaging remarks from him about where I went to school.
Sometimes it isn't the school; the teacher makes a difference also. If your student has been admitted to UM, tell them to forget Ivy League.
My son applied to Michigan and was waiting for a reply. I remember it being in April and hadn't heard anything. Son wanted to visit campus so made a trip to AA. Tour was over by about noon and I said let's go by the admissions office and see where your application stands.
Was one guy in the office who looked up son's status. Answer came back he was wait listed. Lost my cool told the guy they had better have a good story because you have wait listed a national merit scholar and the last I heard even Michigan didn't wait list them.
Guy went into his office to "check on something." Came back out of his office looking as if he had seen a ghost and said we would have an acceptance letter tomorrow. I think I know what the problem was but sometimes it pays to do a little on site visit.
I think it was on this site that someone made an observation that all of OSU's problems as a football team would be fixed in time for this game. Whoever it was gets a "well done". Our team looked totally lost out there and that falls on the coaches. OSU's close call last week against Maryland probably woke them up.
OSU had some real speed burners. As a baseball manager once said "would rather have a fast team rather than good hitting because speed doesn't have slumps'"
Haven't seen it mentioned but SEC also had a big weather advantage. Have those teams come north for all the November games and see what toll that takes on their teams. Its a huge advantage playing in relatively mild weather. The hits really start to sting. One of the color guys mentioned this this last week; he was a former college player.
Yeh, felt really uneasy about the Wisconsin game. But everyone got blocked, tackled, whatever, then Shea tore off 80 yards and uneasiness went away. The MSU game will go the same way.
Telling Scott to run left or right reminds me of high school.
Had a guy who was a good athlete, played guard but was dumb or lacked a memory function. Play would get called in the huddle and as we were walking up to the line he would ask the center:" ...which way do I shove them."
I think the lack of urgency,etc, is the fact that none of these guys are afraid of Harbaugh. I remember Bo chewing players a new asshole over missed blocks, etc. And while I think he is a coach not to be admired, Saban does the same thing.
If he has apirations of being an NFL QB he had better think about cold weather. It isn't warm in places like Green Bay, Minneapolis, Denver, New York, Boston, etc. NFL QBs that have come from warm weather colleges haven't done consistently well in cold weather.
Being at the game on Saturday, something jumped out at me that I hadn't seen to this extent before. It seemed to me that the team on both sides of the ball was lost. The defense was continually running around trying to get set, no one seemed to know where where they were supposed to be, etc. The offense seemed to be the same way. In the replay at home I saw several of the sacks were the result of a Nebraska player running right by an M player who was looking for someone to block but somehow or other the guy running by him wasn't the one the playbook had him blocking so he didn't even throw an arm at him (offending player was a freshman). Is this coaching? Or is it really inexperience? How many game so you have to play until you get "experienced"? It would seem by now we would be seeing some marginal signs of improvment but if they are there they are hard to see.
It seems the consensus is that there is rampant oversigning in SEC? If so where is the NCAA in all this. It seems if you oversign year after year as well as having differing academic standards that the schools playing by the rules or having higher standards will continue to have difficulties competeting on a consistent basis.
When Saban left MSU he complained bitterly about not being able to compete with Michigan in recruiting. Was this due to his lack of recruiting ability or because he was expected to play by the rules? What has changed; he is in a situation where he can flaunt the rules or is he where players don't have any options because of lack of academic ability.
Just seems to me if rules are being ignored or worked around, the other schools would start raising some questions.
I too believe it was incomptence on the part of the UM administration that set RR up to fail. It seems to me that nothing was done to smooth the transition. The AD is the guy's supervisor and should have been doing some things to make sure everyone was on board. But the President and the Regents were also negligent.
As for Lloyd Carr it seems as if there were some questionable things going on. Why wouldn't you do everything possible to see the program succeed; doesn't that affect your legacy? It is o.k. to have you opinion as to who should follow you but once that decision is made, whether to your liking or not, it behooves you to get on board and make things as successful as possible. After all you are wanting your institution to do well. All of us have had bosses that weren't very good but we still did the best we could in our jobs because we wanted our company to be successful.
In short, the thing I got from the book was how negligent the management of UM was in handling this whole business.
The post that noted that the Michigan job might not be so elite anymore due to the unwarranted media coverage, etc. may be very true. The job is tough enough without having a bunch of incompetent sports writers constantly give public job ratings on a job they know absolutely nothing about.
I know that the flip side of this is that that comes with the job regardless of where you are at.
Still, I wonder about Brandon's management expertise. Usually if you have an employee who is really good at parts of his job but lacking in one area, you work with him to improve his performance in his weakness. Why didn't Brandon tell RR he can keep his job but that he was going to hire a competent defensive staff for the football program since that seemed to be where a lot of the problem lay?
While Illinois scored a ton on Michigan, I thought that at times I saw some defensive plays that would say some of the young guys are starting to "get it". It seemed to me that the 4 man front was effective. Looking forward to Purdue. My son and I will be in West LaFayette at the game.
Don't think it is all RR's fault although he has the final responsibility. The fact the defense was so out of position on many of PSU's plays makes me think that the right schemes aren't being set up so these guys are in a position to make a play. I can't believe that the sheer athletic ability of the defensive guys are that different than the offensive team. That leaves coaching and if the right schemes aren't being run we will look bad.
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Was looking to see what TV the game on Saturday would be televised. University web site indicates the Peacock network will be broadcasting the tv. But I don't have Peacock!!!!!!!
Where is that game going to be for those of us who are want things simple.
Pretty sure that was Gus that made the call.
Let's get someone who can run the business. This implies some pretty good people skills with high ego employees. Big ask but big salary.
I think after the 2016 OSU game would have been best to go to Big 10 offices and burned a couple of desks out of public view. Let the public know that you have had 'conversations' with the Big 10 and you support your coach. Don't give OSU bulletin board material.
The other twist is that Jim has an agent. That can be good or bad. I seem to remember a baseball player's agent reading the situation really wrong. The ball club let the player walk. Player got no contract with anyone. End of career.
Oh the tragedy of it all ...... and just think of the children!!!
I wonder how some of these kids will handle things when they find out that they are expected to win games. C.J. Stroud may like having a new high performance car every month but the shine on that may fade quickly when he finds out he is expected to have wins along with that.
First time I've seen this picture of H2 hurdeling an OSU guy. Looks to me as if the OSU is leaning over to avoid hitting H2. Photo caption there could be "Holy crap! I don't want him to hit me! I'll just bend over and he can jump me."
Gus Johnson an Fox are big Ohio fans. This last TD has almost salted the game away.
Would like 3 more points.
Just a little episode I had a few years ago. Got a letter from IRS that said I owed $150 on my return 3 years ago. Was true;accountant made an honest mistake.
If they can track me down for $150, why can't they find someone who is dodging millions in taxes?
Go get fitted for clubs. Some years I got fitted for a driver. Immediately took 5 - 10 strokes per round. Game get easier when your drives are in center of fairway. Get fitted for a 3 wood also. Unless you hit your irons all over the place they probably o.k. I went from barely breaking 100 to mid to low 80's.
I usually say "no but my son and my money did!"
Eldo
Yes, the defense followed the receiver in motion. But it seemed it wasn't just one guy but two or three others. I'm sure that someone is responsible for the in motion guy but the rest of them should be staying home. I only played football a couple of years in H.S. but was always drilled "STAY HOME; DON'T FOLLOW THE FLOW UNLESS THAT IS YOUR JOB".
Someone points out Harbaugh doesn't give pep talks to the team before games. Can't believe that is too big a jump for coach to do that and if he wants to win tough away games he had better start!
Or much better bag men???
Purdue looks sick. Although it looks as if the officials are giving Auburn the benefit of the doubt. Couple of pass plays there where Auburn defender undressed the receiver.
I am not a grad of UM (son is in engineering). Had an occasion several years ago to do some BCD counting on a project. I set the hardware up so the programmer could do it easily.The programmer (Cornell grad) says "what am I supposed to do with that"? Once I showed him "where did you learn that?" Told him freshman math class. Last time I heard disparaging remarks from him about where I went to school.
Sometimes it isn't the school; the teacher makes a difference also. If your student has been admitted to UM, tell them to forget Ivy League.
My son applied to Michigan and was waiting for a reply. I remember it being in April and hadn't heard anything. Son wanted to visit campus so made a trip to AA. Tour was over by about noon and I said let's go by the admissions office and see where your application stands.
Was one guy in the office who looked up son's status. Answer came back he was wait listed. Lost my cool told the guy they had better have a good story because you have wait listed a national merit scholar and the last I heard even Michigan didn't wait list them.
Guy went into his office to "check on something." Came back out of his office looking as if he had seen a ghost and said we would have an acceptance letter tomorrow. I think I know what the problem was but sometimes it pays to do a little on site visit.
I think it was on this site that someone made an observation that all of OSU's problems as a football team would be fixed in time for this game. Whoever it was gets a "well done". Our team looked totally lost out there and that falls on the coaches. OSU's close call last week against Maryland probably woke them up.
OSU had some real speed burners. As a baseball manager once said "would rather have a fast team rather than good hitting because speed doesn't have slumps'"
Haven't seen it mentioned but SEC also had a big weather advantage. Have those teams come north for all the November games and see what toll that takes on their teams. Its a huge advantage playing in relatively mild weather. The hits really start to sting. One of the color guys mentioned this this last week; he was a former college player.
If player is hurt, we as fans don't have a right to any information.
Also, remember don't mess with Mama Bear. It won't turn out well for you.
Yeh, felt really uneasy about the Wisconsin game. But everyone got blocked, tackled, whatever, then Shea tore off 80 yards and uneasiness went away. The MSU game will go the same way.
Telling Scott to run left or right reminds me of high school.
Had a guy who was a good athlete, played guard but was dumb or lacked a memory function. Play would get called in the huddle and as we were walking up to the line he would ask the center:" ...which way do I shove them."
I think the lack of urgency,etc, is the fact that none of these guys are afraid of Harbaugh. I remember Bo chewing players a new asshole over missed blocks, etc. And while I think he is a coach not to be admired, Saban does the same thing.
If he has apirations of being an NFL QB he had better think about cold weather. It isn't warm in places like Green Bay, Minneapolis, Denver, New York, Boston, etc. NFL QBs that have come from warm weather colleges haven't done consistently well in cold weather.
Being at the game on Saturday, something jumped out at me that I hadn't seen to this extent before. It seemed to me that the team on both sides of the ball was lost. The defense was continually running around trying to get set, no one seemed to know where where they were supposed to be, etc. The offense seemed to be the same way. In the replay at home I saw several of the sacks were the result of a Nebraska player running right by an M player who was looking for someone to block but somehow or other the guy running by him wasn't the one the playbook had him blocking so he didn't even throw an arm at him (offending player was a freshman). Is this coaching? Or is it really inexperience? How many game so you have to play until you get "experienced"? It would seem by now we would be seeing some marginal signs of improvment but if they are there they are hard to see.
Saw too many times at least one Michigan player standing still when the ball was in their end; you got to keep moving!
Not making the freethrows killed them. I do not understand how players of this caliber can miss freethrows like they do.
Burke needs to come back and show the pros he can win a championship.
It seems the consensus is that there is rampant oversigning in SEC? If so where is the NCAA in all this. It seems if you oversign year after year as well as having differing academic standards that the schools playing by the rules or having higher standards will continue to have difficulties competeting on a consistent basis.
When Saban left MSU he complained bitterly about not being able to compete with Michigan in recruiting. Was this due to his lack of recruiting ability or because he was expected to play by the rules? What has changed; he is in a situation where he can flaunt the rules or is he where players don't have any options because of lack of academic ability.
Just seems to me if rules are being ignored or worked around, the other schools would start raising some questions.
Like to hear from others.
I too believe it was incomptence on the part of the UM administration that set RR up to fail. It seems to me that nothing was done to smooth the transition. The AD is the guy's supervisor and should have been doing some things to make sure everyone was on board. But the President and the Regents were also negligent.
As for Lloyd Carr it seems as if there were some questionable things going on. Why wouldn't you do everything possible to see the program succeed; doesn't that affect your legacy? It is o.k. to have you opinion as to who should follow you but once that decision is made, whether to your liking or not, it behooves you to get on board and make things as successful as possible. After all you are wanting your institution to do well. All of us have had bosses that weren't very good but we still did the best we could in our jobs because we wanted our company to be successful.
In short, the thing I got from the book was how negligent the management of UM was in handling this whole business.
Maybe Gruden is in Baton Rouge and Brandon isn't talking with Les Miles. ;-)
The post that noted that the Michigan job might not be so elite anymore due to the unwarranted media coverage, etc. may be very true. The job is tough enough without having a bunch of incompetent sports writers constantly give public job ratings on a job they know absolutely nothing about.
I know that the flip side of this is that that comes with the job regardless of where you are at.
Still, I wonder about Brandon's management expertise. Usually if you have an employee who is really good at parts of his job but lacking in one area, you work with him to improve his performance in his weakness. Why didn't Brandon tell RR he can keep his job but that he was going to hire a competent defensive staff for the football program since that seemed to be where a lot of the problem lay?
While Illinois scored a ton on Michigan, I thought that at times I saw some defensive plays that would say some of the young guys are starting to "get it". It seemed to me that the 4 man front was effective. Looking forward to Purdue. My son and I will be in West LaFayette at the game.
Don't think it is all RR's fault although he has the final responsibility. The fact the defense was so out of position on many of PSU's plays makes me think that the right schemes aren't being set up so these guys are in a position to make a play. I can't believe that the sheer athletic ability of the defensive guys are that different than the offensive team. That leaves coaching and if the right schemes aren't being run we will look bad.