I guess he's still smarting from losing to Faust! Bo takes shot at ND Oh Yeah he also tosses a pebble at Ohio State!
A review of Bo's illustrious career. Where he was 2-8 in the Rose Bowl 5-12 in bowl games overall 0 national titles But he did go 11-9-1 against Ohio State. _________________________________________________________ From Omahadomer on NDNation: Michigan has a fine program that is noted, in particular, for coughing up hairballs in big games. Let's review the record of their greatest coach, Bo Schembechler -- 1969: Michigan wins the Big 10 but then loses the Rose Bowl to USC 10-3 1970: Michigan is 9-0 heading into Ohio State but comes up short 20-9 1971: Michigan is 11-0 and facing heavy underdog Stanford in the Rose Bowl: 13-12 Stanford 1972: 10-0 heading into OSU: 14-11 Buckeyes 1973: 10-0 and Michigan has Ohio State at home: 10-10 tie and the conference athletic directors vote to send the Buckeyes to the Rose Bowl 1974: 10-0 heading into Columbus: 12-10 Buckeyes 1975: 8-0-2 and have OSU at home: 21-14 OSU. But good news, the Big 10 now allows other Big 10 teams to go to a bowl. 14-6 Oklahoma over Michigan in the Orange Bowl 1976: Inexplicable 16-14 loss to Purdue, but Michigan finally gets by Ohio State and goes to the Rose Bowl. Oh goody: 14-6 USC 1977: Another dumb conference loss, this one 16-0 to Minnesota. But they beat the Buckeyes and they're back in the Rose Bowl and a huge favorite over 7-4 Washington, so finally Michigan's going to win the Rose Bowl. Oops: 27-20 Washington 1978: This time the conference gag is against MSU but the Wolves beat the Bucks again and are back in the Rose Bowl. Same song, 18th verse: 17-10 USC 1979: Michigan has Devine's worst team in Ann Arbor and the Wolves have already tuned up on Northwestern and it's ND's opener. No matter, Bob Crable blocks a game-winning FG attempt and ND wins 12-10. 8-3 Michigan finally gets an easy bowl opponent, UNC in the Gator Bowl. Thanks for playing Bo: 17-15 UNC. 1980: Finally Michigan wins a Rose Bowl (over Washington). But a 51-yard FG by Harry Oliver beats UM in ND stadium. The next week the stunned Wolves also lose to South Carolina, removing them from NC consideration. 1981: Bo finally beats ND (Faust's 5-6 team) and beats UCLA in a bowl game. The bad news? It's the Bluebonnet Bowl. 1982: Bo gets beat by Faust but still makes it to the Rose Bowl at 8-3 and plays UCLA. UCLA wins of course, 24-14. 1983: Good news: ND's off the schedule for Bo. Bad news, they have to play Washington again and lose 27-25. 9-2 Michigan gets invited to the Sugar Bowl where they lose to Auburn 9-7. Bo has now managed to lose 3 of the then-Big 4 bowls. 1984: Michigan flops around to a 6-5 record and then makes history as the weakest opponent ever in a bowl game for a national championship team as BYU gets by them 24-17 to claim the NC even though BYU would've been a 2-touchdown underdog to either Oklahoma or Nebraska. 1985: A conference loss to Iowa and a tie with Illinois keeps UM out of the Rose Bowl and NC consideration. UM does beat Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl. 1986: Familiar scene. ND is jobbed by a bad call as the game-winning TD is ruled out of bounds. UM somehow loses to Minnesota in Ann Arbor but still makes it to the Rose Bowl where the Wolves lose 22-15 to ASU. ASU is now the 5th Pac 8 or 10 team to beat Bo's teams in the Rose Bowl. 1987: Lou drills UM 26-7 in Ann Arbor. Michigan suffers 3 more losses to go 8-4. 1988: Gillette's miss allows ND to win 19-17 setting up ND's 12-0 season. UM does finally manage to win the Rose Bowl over USC. ND defeats both participants in the Rose Bowl during the regular season. 1989: Rocket runs back two kickoffs and Michigan loses 24-19. Michigan plays well and wins the next 10 before losing the Rose Bowl to USC. ND beats both participants in the Rose Bowl, again. And thus concludes Bo's career.
From Bo: "On Ohio State being ranked No. 1 to start the season: "I find that hard to understand. What it tells you is the Big Ten is not as strong this year as it usually is because how can a team lose nine out of 11 starters on defense and be picked to win the national championship? I find that hard to believe." Didn't I just say that?
"We don't need Notre Dame. They need us more than we need them. Hey, that's right up there with "sure, kick it to that Rocket guy, he'll NEVER do that again!"
Terry, This is hillarious! In other words, we can't beat them on a regular basis so let's get them off our schedule! Riiiiiight Bo! Better take osu off the scheduel too, um ain't had much luck against them either!! He just gets more stupid with age. :lol:
Hey Angry Lads, You missed the second page of the article where he praised British policy over the potato famine, called the Pope the Antichrist on Earth, said we should change our nickname to the Black& Tans when we visit South Bend, and said his favorite historical figure was Oliver Cromwell.
If I'm not mistaken Bo was hired by Monahan to run the Tigers. One of his first "improvements" was to fire Ernie Harwell. Thank God Bob Ufer wasn't alive to replace Ernie.
Picture from last years tailgate maneuvers, we were getting ready for the Hun from the North. Top L-R Krebs, Me, JO'Co, Corey, Joel Bottom L-R Malloy, Sid, El Paso Tim. We're ready!
8) How many times will Michigan feed the monster that it created? The lads and I will send this book as a gift to Bo...
You guys didn't get the memo? JIF was promoted this year from concessions chairman to my trusted consigliere...
Looks like some of the Irish like Bo. Of course, great coaches tend to be a fraternity of sorts. http://und.cstv.com/genrel/041801aaa.html Trivia quiz for Krebs. Bo coached under Ara when Ara was head coach at Northwestern. Ara replaced Lou Saban? Can you name Saban's most famous assistant coach?