500+ yds of offense, including almost 200yds rushing. You usually don't lose that type of game, unless you turn the ball over which we did tonight. I have to give it to Robinson the guy is just amazing. I have to say I'm really disappointed with the play of our defense, last week they were ok but tonight at critical times our CB (Gary Gray I'm talking about you) couldn't find the ball. I really thought our defense would be a strength of this team this year. They played well in the first half tonight but in the 2nd half they just fell apart in pass defense, couldn't get a handle on Robinson or maybe they were too focused on him. I don't know but this is the 3rd straight last second loss to UM. They are already calling it an Instant Classic!! I won't want to watch this one again. :cry: :cry: :cry:
Thanks Terry, Cannot claim by any stretch of the imagination that the better team won. By the middle of the third quarter, I was ready to turn off the TV and swear off watching college football for the rest of the year. Not sure how many more games Michigan will win this year as I am sure we used up our quota of luck for this year and even next year in this one game. A Fumble by our FB bouncing back into Denard's hand who then scampers into the end zone. The ball slipping out of Rees hands just as your team looks ready to put the kill shot on us, And what was it- 4 or 5 times that Denard chucked the ball into coverage or double teams and the M receiver came up with the ball. Brady must have lit a lot of candles before this game or borrowed Les Miles rabbit foot.
I'm still so pissed off that I can't sleep, so I might as well grade papers and check in here. First I would like to congratulate Bobda and Michigan fans everywhere for a great comeback win. Hopefully they will now realize what a great coaching staff they have hired there. I'm envious. As for the Irish... There's good news and bad news. The good news is that our recruiting has been every bit as fantastic as we thought it was. Very few schools have the depth of fine athletes that Notre Dame has. The bad news is, it may not matter if our coaches keep getting their pockets picked as badly as they have the last two games. Last week it was You-know-who's son. This week it was a fellow named Al Borges, whom both Corey and I have mentioned here many times. On paper he looks like nothing. Chico State? Where the hell is that? But he created the offense at Boise State when they were still a D-II school. He turned lowly Oregon into a point scoring machine. He made UCLA an offensive powerhouse after they had lagged for years, and he was the guy at Auburn when they went 13-0. Now he has Michigan scoring TDs with smoke and mirrors. I've seen it all before with that guy. Say what you want about Brady Hoke, but he hired Borges to run the offense and Mattison to run the defense and that will work even if he falls sound asleep on the sidelines. As for our coaches...let's just say that I'm glad they're great recruiters. They're going to need every player they can get...
One of the most entertaining college football games ever played. Certainly has to rank as one of the most memorable Michigan wins ever. My niece who just spent two weeks visiting with us prior to the start of school is a nursing student there and I am sure that attending last night's game in that sea of yellow tee-shirts in the student section has made her a very avid Michigan fan for her lifetime. What a game......
I agree this was an incredible game, holy crap... As a college football fan this game was an instant classic and I would not mind watching it over again. I know the Irish fans are dying at the moment but what a fun game to watch...NCAA-record crowd of 114,804
Our defense is big but very slow. But we do have the trademark of all Irish teams of the last 15 years. We can't cover anybody. Congrats Bobda.
1. Bobda,. congrats. 2. This one stings a lot because for the first time in my life, there is not a player on Michigan's roster that I would swap for one of our starting 22. We are better than them at all 11 positions on both side of the field (maybe I'd take their punter and long snapper). 3. You'd know this if you followed me on twitter but we had a chance to put a stake right in their vampire hearts and could not do it... again... that seems to be the case with Michigan always. Just as you think we're about to blow it open, we f*ck it up.. 4. I am tired of creating 'legends' on the other sidelines. Robinson isn't ****. If he brought that 'same game' against Alabama's defense, he'd have thrown 4 picks and left the game on the back of a John Deer by halftime. That's a fact. Our DC sucks. I've tried to give this guy time, but there's something that keeps me from drinking the Kool-Aid (cough, Navy...cough). We've looked good at times this year but when we NEED it (and that is what defense is really about), we don't have it. 5. I hope the 'Rees is the answer' folks are happy. What we saw unfold on the field is precisely why I don't want Rees on the field unless it's out of the bullpen. As a starter (thank God he is no longer undefeated so people will stop mentioning that ****), he is not the reason we are winning...ever, our supporting cast is.. but he is almost always the reason that the other team is in the game. Crist was flogged and had his manhood called out for redzone turnovers. Nary a word on Rees' package..and make no mistake, he was the reason. He made terrible reads all night long. Even on TD plays or plays in which we got the PI.. he missed a MORE wide open WR. 6. Our offense is a hot stack of nancy boy ********. We can't get a 3rd and one to save our life. As complex as our passing game is allegedly (it's not), our running game is even more simplistic. Our short yardage package is just a joke. My sister could draw up a better red zone/short yardage offense. 7. Yes, we can recruit... for now.
Me either, but I know it'll be on the Big Ten Network soon. It'll be almost as bad as watching Anthony Davis score all those TD's against the Irish.
... or as bad as watching Lou grab the kicker by the face mask before he went out to miss the field goal against Tennessee in "The miracle in South Bend"
I can take away a couple of positives. Cierre Wood and Jonas Gray, both of those guys ran the ball pretty darn well. We didn't in our 4 ( I think) 3rd and 1 or 2, but according to Kelly a couple of times Rees was supposed to check out of the run when he saw the 9 man front and 1 time they just beat our OL. If we can develope a decent short yardage running game that will help a lot.