I will say that my opinion of Brady Hoke changed A LOT after reading Bacon’s “Endzone”.  He definitely loved his players; sucks that they couldn’t get the results he needed to stay on.

Imagine having Najee Harris on your ballclub and NO ONE considers him to be your best player.

Jesus.

“I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly. I ask you, to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now, it's here.”

Shit, I did, too...the M Den had a sale on wolverbear logo shirts and I had lost a bunch of weight so I splurged just after the lockdown started.

Was that the Herbstreit game?

I started dating the chick I’m married to the first week of November 2001.

The entire “we suck against Ohio State” thing is her fault.

For all of you younglings out there who have to put a ring on it (and, I suppose, for those that only recently have), what we’ve had on display here since the end of the 2019 season is a failing marriage in which neither partner either wants to or has the guts to be the one to break it off.

So they engage in brinkmanship with each other, each doing little things to try to force the other’s hand so that it’s the OTHER partner that pulls the trigger.  One person spends too much time out with their friends, the other might stop keeping or maintaining the home; one person drinks a little more than they should, the other decides to cut off sexual intimacy.  One person spends all their  time binging Netflix programs, the other might spend all their time on TikTok.  One person offers a dramatically lowball contract with a significantly reduced buyout clause, the other person thinks that other partners in the NFL might be a more attractive fit.

Don’t let this happen to you.

...and were the only B1G ten to lose a bowl game that year.

It’s cool, they’re  planning to announce his contract extension this past Monday.

“Lloyd Carr didn’t run off players who would’ve started for Michigan and fill up important roster gaps.”

Unless you believe that he waited until his final year was complete and counseled Ryan Mallett that he would be better utilized elsewhere rather than in RichRod’s offense.

A 20 minute penalty kill, it felt like.

Awesome result for USA Hockey!

Go (Red, White, and) Blue!

Are the Canadian Junior leagues not playing due to lockdown?

Scheduling for this sucks; our semifinal was 24 hours ago.  It was Finland, so it wasn’t a rough game, but you know they were skated into the ground.

Not a good power play effort and you know we’re not going to get many of those...

He didn’t win a goddamn thing with Bobby Orr; by the time he made it to the Cup finals (losing to Montreal each time) Orr had left Boston.

Think I saw somewhere that today is York’s birthday, too.

Gold is always a good present to get.

What if I told you that prior to his current post at Ann Arbor, Coach Jim had never held a head coaching gig for more than five years before moving on to his next job, seemingly to the mutual relief of his former employers and himself?

We just ended year SIX at Ann Arbor (badly), with indications subtle and otherwise that he isn’t particularly anxious to continue on, and this with year SEVEN under contract yet to begin.

I don’t think keeping him around is in anyone’s best interest, Harbaugh included.  Long term relationships just don’t seem to be his thing.

This probably should be emphasized a lot more; Jim’s previous head coaching gigs have never been for as long as his stay in Ann Arbor has been.

This is uncharted territory for him, career-wise...there may be a good reason for that.

I’m amazed every time I see that Frank Gore is still in the League; he was on the last Miami team that won the national championship, fergodsake.

Beating Ohio State and winning a bowl game go a long way toward salvaging an otherwise disappointing season.

Apologies to the tadpoles on this blog too young to remember what that was like.

Be glad you don’t live in Georgia; you’d be dealing with this as well as the Senate run-off election.

Wednesday can’t get here soon enough.

And have to wear that ugly-assed burnt orange?

Fuck, no.

Bless him...he was the first quarterback in the rivalry to go 0-4 against his opponent.  Probably didn’t deserve that.

This reminds me of a joke.

After a Beer Festival in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer. Corona's president sits down and says, "Señor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona." The bartender takes a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him. Then Budweiser's president says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, give me 'The King Of Beers', a Budweiser." The bartender gives him one. Coors' president says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, the only one made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors." He gets it. The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke." The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask, "Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?" and the Guinness president replies, "Well if you guys aren't drinking beer, I won’t either.”

I mean, if the Athletic Department doesn’t care about results on the field, why should the fans?  I’ll still pull for Michigan to win every game they play, but the days of expecting anything positive to come of this program are over.

Well, you’re not wrong.

That is the first goal allowed by the USA in three-plus games; this is a very well-rounded team.

I’m somewhat sure Hernandez isn’t suspected of merking anyone while he was at UF, so props to Urbz for that.

I was driving to Chattanooga this morning and then back to Atlanta this evening, so “living under a rock” is close enough to the fact.

 I was going to edit this after finding out about Sarkisian (if that doesn’t reek of a placeholder until they sign someone they actually want I don’t know what does), but I guess I’ll leave it and take my lumps.

Not unless Texas gets him first.  They let Herman go earlier today.

So, this aged well.

Alabama look unfocused, bored.

RichRod upset a Top 10 Wisconsin team in 2008.  What did that prove, exactly?
 

I don’t have to hold onto that one season; I’ve got the Peach Bowl today, too.  There’s no way UGA wins without Cincinnati handing the game to them.  Kirby Smart is about as bad a big game coach as there is, but Fickell made him look like Dabo Swinney today.

Familiarity (with Harbaugh) breeds contempt.

Fitz’s players would run through a brick wall for him.

Don’t forget about those momentum-killing penalties that kept this game close enough to blow late in the 4th.

California bans public gatherings; game moved to Texas.

Southern cooking is awesome, but it’s not the healthiest for you.  Visiting all those 5-star kids’ homes down here for family dinners will put it on you.

That or he just lives at Zaxby’s.

Urban went undefeated with basically the same team the following year...what are YOU talking about?

The only Ohio State coach to lose to Michigan in the last 17 years shows that it was no accident.

The penalties kept Georgia in the game in the 3rd quarter.  Georgia’s defense is doing it in the 4th.

I’m not sure this Bearcats team doesn’t at least make the B1G championship game this year.  Hell, I’d give ‘em a puncher’s chance to win it.

Pat Fitzgerald wins Bobby Dodd Award.

Who’s got it better than us?

The Fighting Rece Davises of Northwestern.

Bo quipped after the Bluebonnet Bowl that after all the bowl losses earlier in his career he’d managed to win two within one calendar year and was clearly “on a roll”.

Mike Tomczak.

Signed with Chicago as an undrafted free agent and got a Super Bowl ring his first year.  Had some good years with the Steelers but most of his career was wearing the ballcap and toting the clipboard.  Finished with the Loins in 2000.

16 years in the league as an undrafted free agent.  At the QB position.  Gotta respect that.

Todd Collins:  the “OG” UM NE recruit (Walpole, MA)

The record is held, I believe, by Shane “Footsteps” Falco of Ohio State on the way to a 52-7 loss to Florida State in the 1996 Sugar Bowl.

That Najee Harris fella...he’s pretty good.

...in a BAAAAAD conference.

Thank you for Roddy White!

-an Atlanta Falcons fan

“...there is no way in hell a competent coach ever goes to the Lions.”

Well, it would appear that Mr. Harbaugh’s experience over the past few years has him well positioned for that opportunity.

Or they could have scheduled them earlier in the year, as they had ORIGINALLY done with The Game.

What difference at this point does it make, I guess.