Dave Wannstedt Just Put Michigan on "Upset Alert" vs. MSU; Michigan now Virtually Guaranteed to Win
On "BIG Football and Beyond" on BTN, Wannstedt first said we are on "upset alert," then flat-out predicted MSU will win. Based on Wannstedt's coaching resume, this guarantees that Michigan will win in a blowout. FYI Dave, Don Brown also has a better "Salty Retired Police Captain Who's Seen Too Much in His Life" mustache than you do...
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
That wasn't a trick play, it was a simple wheel route to a player that never saw the ball. I think it was Morgan that just let him go...
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
We had better not struggle against the double a gap twist that MSU runs. They don't even hide that blitz.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
RB may be the only position category that MSU has an edge in.
As long as the team doesn't come out flat and our offense doesn't look like a monkey fu#$*ng a football, then I'm predicting a controlled win.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:40 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 5:10 PM ^
but he's far from horrid when it comes to running with it.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
SHIT
It's only Monday afternoon and I'm dying for this game to be here. It's going to be a long week.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
And Saturday will be a long day leading up to it. At least there will be other football games to fill the void. During the week it's just me and my thoughts... my twisted, evil thoughts.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
I'm just preparing myself for the frustrating Lewerke scramble(s) for a first down on third and long. I've accepted it will happen a few times. And I'm okay with it becuase it likely means he's under durress most of the day.
Still nervous. Shouldn't be, but I am.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
While you are preparing for that, I am already prepared. It will annoyingly happen and I'm gonna want to grab him through the TV and rip his legs off for doing it, even though I knew it would happen in the first place.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
I feel better about Saturday already. Thanks Dave. We in Chicago don't miss you at all. Now if only we could eliminate the McCaskey influence ... hopefully the McCaskey's have MSU up by 1000 points.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^
Bottom line if the offense can be servicable and JOK can hit the passes that will be there given how sparty likes to play D we win period. Barring the D just having a melt down which I doubt I don't see how Sparty scores points. And BL can do all that running around if he wants to, won't make it to the 4th
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
see florida, purdue... point it all our way. spartans are back, competing with PSU for the east. Mark Danontio coach of the year so far.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
The disrespect card is the only thing he has to play and they are 3-1 so not sure how far that one is going to go lol
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:44 PM ^
Unless and until the offense starts rolling over people, some media chucklehead or other is going to have UM on upset alert in every game they're favored.
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
yea probably so, but I think if we can get the second half O from the Purdue game against sparty we blow it open and win by 2 scores
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
Mone, Hurst and maybe Mccrae. That is how many players Lewerke can out run on Michigan's defense. I really do not understand all the nervous nellies on this blog. Michigan is going to dominate this game as they should. Name me one starting player on msu you would take over the Michigan starter at the same position
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
The game is not played on paper. Especially not this game. We have better talent than MSU at just about every position, but this is what Dantonio's teams relish: the "us against the world" mentality. He's going to play that disrespekt card in his player's heads all week, and it seems to have worked well for them in the past.
They wouldn't have beaten immensely more talented OSU teams if it didn't.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 6:31 PM ^
Don't you dare use facts. Have you been reading the blog this week? MSU's "will", "want", "chip on their shoulder" and "sparty superbowl" will magically make the MSU guards able to pulll, make their safeties not a liability, and make Brian Lewerke accurate.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 2:54 PM ^
I also think people arent keeping in mind this staff has had two weeks to prepare for this game which I think is HUGE
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:04 PM ^
Hey, Dave, remember when Pitt won the Meineke Car Care Bowl?
That's fine, no one else does either outside of Pittsburgh.
I can't do B1G Football And Beyond much anymore, and he's one of the reasons.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:10 PM ^
Is 10-0 against the spread vs Michigan. I don't see that changing this year with how wide the spread is, but I still think Michigan wins comfortably. Probably keeps MSU at bay and Sparty scores a garbage tuddy late to make it seem closer just like last year. Dantonio teams never seem to get blown out by us or Ohio State, no matter how good or bad they are.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
He may not have been a good coach, but he's a fine troll.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
the man that graced Chicago with horrible coaching...and Michigan with RichRod...fuck him.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
Talking head gonna talking head
If it were last year I would have agreed that he should be tarred and feathered, but there are some question marks around our O and Lewerke can make things happen with his legs
This is not a guaranteed win.
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:23 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:43 PM ^
After losing to an atrocious Iowa team with a team stock full of NFL talent there is no such thing as a gimme game
October 2nd, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
after a bye week, rested and hungry...ya good luck with that. Our offense is the offense, its just bla to meh...our D and special teams are top tier. Thats what wins games.
flip the field, give Okorn a short field, let him do his ting with the TEs.....win
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
*HOT TAKE*
Sparty will beat Pedo State.
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:43 PM ^
John O'Korn knows something
Otherwise winter is here
F this. M by 20
yeah baby
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:45 PM ^
2012 reference
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 5:52 PM ^
Agreed -- it's really amazing.
October 2nd, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
set so many crazy dominos falling all over the country.
October 2nd, 2017 at 5:46 PM ^
that "sports car stuck on a muddy dirt road" moment has come more than once for RR since then at both UofM and Arizona. To be fair, I've seen it happen to other spread teams too. It often seems to be feast or famine for those offenses (more often feast though).
October 2nd, 2017 at 5:44 PM ^
A "nice guy" post coaching career but always struck me as not the sharpest tool in the shed. It's now confirmed. My guess is he probably picks a lot of upsets in big rivalry games. Sometimes it happens. Not this year.
GO BLUE!!
October 2nd, 2017 at 5:58 PM ^
At this point in time you've got every reason to believe MSU has a solid D so you'd think that with our offense being not exactly explosive, it's gonna be a low-scoring game. In a low-scoring game the 'underdog' always has a shot. And this 'underdog' is a Big Ten team and not some bad FCS team. It's not exactly Wannstedt going out on a limb here.
October 2nd, 2017 at 6:36 PM ^
From a joke of a coach with zero credibility! Nothing to see here...move along.
October 2nd, 2017 at 7:22 PM ^
October 2nd, 2017 at 7:42 PM ^
Northwestern over Penn State would be the one to pick...chiefly because it's always what NW seems to do once a year.
October 2nd, 2017 at 7:43 PM ^
Wqnnstedt and Harbaugh do have a history. They are supposed to have mended fences now, but at one time Harbaugh said that Wannstedt was the one coach he would never play for again.
http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Harbaugh-Bills-Wannstedt-have-a-past-3925792.php
I suspect this has more to do with a lazy hot take than anything else, though.
Before the Purdue game, quite a few talking heads had Michigan on upset alert as well.