Does Michigan have a disproportionate number of "miracle plays" against them?
Last night totally got me thinking, our beloved Maize and Blue seems to be the team on the losing end of the "miracle play" far more than any other (Edit) HIGH PROFILE UNIVERSITY I can think of. For Example, Colorado's Hail Mary, Appalachian State, Michigan State Punt Debacle, Northwestern last night, etc.
So any other Schools you can think of that rival us? LOL. I can think of schools with a singular massive play against them, such as Auburn running the missed FG back on Bama, but not a school with multiple such plays in the last 20 years or so. I just choose to see it that we are GREAT at lots of things. Ha!
Far too many to count and don't care enough to research painful memories.
Me just corrected the grammar error. I usually have a lot of amount of errors in grammar.
+1 to you both. It's a pet peeve of mine, too - but I always appreciate a funny response.
Now I'm in desperate need of an IHOP.
It's grammer, ya moran
If you really want to get into linguistic roots here, amount is something that is immeasurable. Since technically we can measure sand, water, and energy, the proper word for these examples would be "quantity." However, the amnosity generated by this comment will likely be unending, and the amount can surely not be measured
True, and I hate "amnosity". ;)
amnosity is what happens when you take an angry NH₃ atom and smash it up with the old web hosting service, neocities.
it's when you free angry people.
That's a molecule.
Yep -- common usage vs root. Best example of this I know of is:
please send me the following amount of money: $122.13
Clearly we are very much measuring the amount of cents/dollars to give a countable number to the noun "money"
The orgins of the word are "Ad Montem," Which is latin for "(up) to a mountain," or "to come to" a mountain (the same way a teller might say, "That comes to $35.14.") . It's basically ALWAYS meant "up to the quantity of.'
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I don't think that it's a matter of there being so many, but that the ones we have being memorable. If Loyola Marymount loses on a spectacular buzzer-beater, who remembers a month later? A year later? And for how many people does it sting?
A Michigan loss, however, matters to a great many people. The fanbase, the media, and all the haters. That makes it seem like we get more than our fair share.
(Wholly anecdotal, BTW, but that's my impression.)
Great point! So just "edited" my original post. So do you think Michigan has more of "these plays" against them than any other HIGH PROFILE University?
I don't understand why this program struggles to inbound the ball so much when the coach is regarded as an offensive genius specifically regarding ball screens.
I actually missed the game because my DVR apparently knew what was going to happen and refused to record the game.
Obviously we get more recognition than most when we lose. But it's how we lose. OSU doesn't have a bunch of these famous losses like we do. Not even close. Chris Webber timeout, Colorado Hail Mary, App State blocked field goal, MSU punt return. That's way more than any other team I can think of.
But the question isn't about close games but "miracle" ones - like the Hail Mary, the punt disaster against MSU, etc.
For every miracle play we have against us, I can probably name one that went for us. Ask Indiana fans last year how they felt about Kam Chatman in the BTT. Ask Kansas fans how they feel about Trey Burke a few years back.
One man's miracle failure is another man's individual effort clutch play.
The Manningham play was a 10-yard slant. Clutch throw and catch but not an out-of-this-world play.
That pass yesterday was nuts. The vast majority (maybe 99%) of the time a throw that long gets picked off, knocked away or sails out of bounds. They threw it right on the money, with Donnal guarding the inbounder.
The bomb to Roundtree would be comparable.
Those aren't miracle plays except for maybe the Northwestern game in 2012.
Yeah, I think this is one of those selective memory things sports fans in general have. With emotional attachment comes the idea that if our team loses, it was a freak/miracle play, but when it goes our way it was because our player came up big and we had the better team anyway. In reality, these things all average out, for all of the ones we feel like Michigan should have won if not for a miracle play there are the ones like you mention with Burke that were basically miracle plays in our favor.
Here is where I beleive my argument is flawed....Michigan is almost never the "underdog". Thus, any "miracle play" against us is usually by a team "not supposed to beat us". Similarly, the "miracle plays" in our favor don't stand out, because we were supposed to beat the team it happened to, or we at least weren't some massive underdog.
Once is forgiveable but twice!
Purdue last night¿Que?
Many here feel last second losses happen more often to M because we don't play as close attention to other teams. Also due to M's high profile, these are well publicized. Should the same outcomes happen to Random State University, it wouldn't be covered as much in the media due to the David vs. Goliath factor being diminished.
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Ok, so let me rephrase the question...."Does Michigan have more "miracle plays" against them than any other HIGH PROFILE UNIV.?"
It's very difficult to complete a 90-foot pass and score in that timeframe. It's not the shot itself that's miraculous but the entire play.
but that was one hell of a full court inbounds pass to make the play possible. Fugk.