OK enough about SDSU, it's on to Meechigan! 1. I do expect to win this game, but I don't expect a big win. 2. I think our defense will be better next week, remember that this was their first week with the new system, so I expect we'll be better in executing. The UM offense has not looked very good so far, and with an inexperienced QB who has struggled some at home his first start on the road is always a little rocky and our defense will make that even worse. I think that we win this game because of the defense and the turnovers that they will create. In fact if somehow UM doesn't turn it over we might not win. 3. Our offense will have to rely on the pass, UM still has a pretty good defense and if we can't run against SDSU, we won't be able to run against UM very well either. So we are going to have to pass to set up the run. If we can do that and not cough up the ball then we'll win. If we cough up the ball 4 or 5 times then we won't win or if we do it will because UM has played even worse. 4. TE: we are going to miss Carlson this year. I'm not sure that even if Ragone had not been injured that we would be good at TE as Ragone was more of a reciever type than a blocker. Kyle Rudolph might develope into that but right now he's struggling with the blocking and that hurts our running game. We are going to have to play Yeatman and/or maybe even a OT as TE this year. 5. God help us if the game comes down to a FG, our guy looks like there will be no distance that isn't an adventure.
20-17 would be just fine with me as well. It would me our FG kicker actually hit 2 FG's...a big improvement!!
ND um <t>Terry,<br/> <br/> Sorry but I just don't see any reason to be optimistic about this game. ND will lose this one, our O-Line won't hold up against their front 4 long enough for JC to make any kind of pass and we sure know we ain't gonna run against them. <br/> <br/> Maybe we can bring in Skip Holtz for our next coach.</t>
There is just something missing with this team and I can't put my finger on it. They seem to lack raw emotion, almost playing "afraid". Early prediction: ND 20 Mich: 16 We win on a defensive TD. Sloppy game... both sides.
my thoughts are/were the same as gip's about 2 of 3 PATs. IDGAF how we win this game, just so long as we win.
Should be an interesting contest and one that I will be watching with a great deal of interest on both sides of the ball. Don
I just hope my Wolves can keep it respectable. The Great Charlie has a bushel basket of 5* prospects on both sides of the line while poor RichRod is forced to go to war with a walk on QB who cannot throw the ball farther than 15 yards and Yellow Jacket reject who makes John Navarre look like Troy Smith. Our best running backs are one, Grady, who is hindered by the fact that he has to take a breathalyzer before any running play and two, McGuffie, a Caucasian lad from Texas. Running the risk of violating present standards of moral decorum when talking about race and sports, I thought that that playing opportunities for Caucasian running backs were limited to Division II schools like Hillsdale which decline federal funding. And it is clear that the Domer SB contingent no longer fear us. How I yearn for the good old days when when the boards prior to a M game would be filled with topics concerning Lloyd's villainy in negative recruiting, Yost's anti Catholicism, a three page critique about past libelous and inflammatory comments made by Bo about ND, the miserable graduation rates of black players at Michigan, Harry Oliver's field goal, the loutish nature of Michigan fans, our ugly helmets and second-rate fight song. Now, the threads discussion about Michigan reflects boredom and apathy as the SB Irish patiently wait for time to pass until the Irish hit the red- meat portion of their schedule. O' how we have fallen. A state with an economy in complete collapse and its oldest university's football team ignored and forgotten. Rather than watch the carnage live on TV maybe I will do something constructive Saturday like watch a DVD of our Capitol One Bowl victory against Florida or the 1989 and 1948 Rose Bowl victories against USC. The time is now to live in the past....
Bobda...I often say it's so much better to be villified and despised than just plain ignored because of irrelevance.
So true, MCG, so true. If there are any Michigan lurkers on the BB who also wish to live in the past, here is a You Tube link to the 48 Rose Bowl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbTIDYhibzQ
No matter what the situation it's still Meechigan. I still want to beat them, but as our esteemed colleague, Bobda, has pointed out some temporary hardtimes have descended on Ann Arbor. I wish I could say we were in a position to extend them or deepen them, but at the moment I'm merely glad that they are not a particularily good team, so we'll have a chance! 8)
simply not true. In our last meeting, we were beaten 38-0. This year, I am praying that we aren't down that at half-time... Michigan will stroll into South Bend with that regal air that only the immortals of the nation's 8th most populous state dare ride on. Nay, this is not the blue collar Spartys of the East Lansing Cow College. These are the blue bloods of the lower peninsula. The pride of Weshtenaw County. DickRod's penetrating attack is the sleekest thing in town since the Michigan City Railroad rolled into this sleepy cottage back in 1839. They will not just bring the behemoth OLs of Wolverine's past, but the new Cadillac of American sports.. the spread option. WRs that not only run, catch and block but will read poetry to the unwashed papal worshiping masses of Indiana's northern plain. RBs that will hurdle, dash and run over all those uneducated lackeys of the Dome by the lake and who will also bring proxy tutors from nearby Concordia to pass along the lessons of Martin Luther's enlightenment .. LBers that will not only hand out beatings, but math lessons in order to bring the conference-challenged Irish up-to-par with their geographic cousins of the big10.. We stand little chance against the mighty Big Blue.
When I think of this years Michigan Team led by a coach so great that UM broke it's rule about buying out contracts for him, I think of the proverbial Michigan Bank Roll!!
The Irish are not going to get any respect from the press or the bookies until they earn it. The win Saturday, while a win, left more questions than it provided answers. We'll know all we need to know this week because the Irish have everything going for it.