MGoPodcast 9.10: Footloose and Fancy Free
1 hour and 29 minutes
[Patrick Barron]
This was recorded at the Residence Inn Ann Arbor in one of their TEN conference rooms.
We Couldn’t Have One Without the Other
We can do this because people support us. You should support them too so they’ll want to do it again next year! The show is presented by UGP & The Bo Store, and if it wasn’t for Rishi and Ryan we’d be talking to ourselves.
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1. Weatherfeels and Offense
starts at 1:00
Wetfeels: Brian’s 20-year streak of going to home games ends; Thanks Delany. Shout out to Black Engineer for tracking this: 20 commercial breaks, which is twice an appropriate limit. Did not play even 5 minutes of football between commercial breaks, couldn’t even get to 9 minutes of real time.
Offense: he Indiana split flow counter worked all night—we were actually getting annoyed with the Minnesota linebackers screwing that up. Manball approach took advantage of DBs who couldn’t run support. Running game is now consistently getting to ol’Stanford/Wisconsin levels. JBB is still an awful pass protector. Higdon’s long speed is impressive (>>>). Passing game look extant and functional early, later was just eating sacks, and unnecessary.
2. Defense
starts at 27:38
They completed three passes and gave up five sacks—you really have to work to find complaints here. They kept running the wildcat despite that not working at all. Khaleke Hudson finally got a chance to be hitman. Might have been robbed of the grounding sack; if that’s the case he passes Foote with 3 sacks and 7.5 TFLs in a single game. Some of that was attacking the not-mesh. Like a shark. Hurst was Hurstian.
Metellus ejected for nothing—least equal offsetting penalties ever.
3. Brian’s Wet Gophers: Hoops & Hockey
starts at 44:50
The guys read my joke Lantana read verbatim because they’re deranged. Do you know who else is deranged? Spencer Tillman.
Hoops takes: Mathews (GVSU caveat) might be the real deal. Duncan Robinson is Duncan Robinson. Zavier Simpson started over Simmons; that probably won’t last. Expect Simmons to win that with Z regularly in. Working on transition a lot. Teske rebounds, knows his way around the court, has some passing skills.
Hockey: Michigan doubled up Ferris in shots, earned a win and OT loss. Lack of skill up front came back to bite them. Marody coming into his own at least. At-large conversation. It’s fun to go to Yost again.
4. Around the Big Ten with Jamie Mac
starts at 1:03:00
Chaos reigns in Iowa: JT Barrett made a statement in the Heisman race, which is that J.K. Dobbins was getting 8 ypc and they forgot to give him the ball. Josh Jackson is so good. Wadley finally got loose. Northwestern plays for OT with a 7-point lead because he always wins in OT. Maryland is down to an Air Force quarterback. Did Purdue put it on Lovie Smith? Indiana made it a game with Wisconsin. Penn State and Michigan State both discovered the other doesn’t have a secondary: 103 passing attempts in a rainy game.
MUSIC:
- “I Ran”—Flock of Seagulls
- “Sunglasses at Night”—Corey Hart
- “Source”—Fever the Ghost
- “Across 110th Street”
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Likes vodka. He’s a shark. He’s a Belgian shark. He likes chocolate and cycling.
November 6th, 2017 at 8:26 AM ^
y'all should probably change "Pat Tillman" to "Spencer Tillman"
November 6th, 2017 at 8:33 AM ^
"Hurstian."
This might be my new favorite word.
November 6th, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
November 6th, 2017 at 8:49 AM ^
Disappointed that Brian would stay home because of a late game starting later due to weather. He lives in Ann Arbor, fer crissakes.
November 6th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^
Yeah, I don't get it either. Other than a few students, the place was packed. It began clearing out in the 4th quarter, but for a game versus Minnesota, it was more well-attended than usual. It this was some form of protest, then I don't think it affected anyone other than Brian.
November 6th, 2017 at 9:59 AM ^
I, like many others, drove across the state for this game through torrential rain and multiple highway accidents, only to sit in my car for an extra hour waiting to be able to enter the stadium. And guess what? It lightly rained during the first quarter and that was it. Then, I jumped in my car and headed back at 12:30, arriving home around 2:45 (well, 1:45) in the morning.
EDIT: After listening to the segment, I can understand not wanting to make your wife sit through a game while soaked. I went to the '09 Penn State game with my sister and when it was readily apparent she was miserable and cold I realized we should leave early because making her stay would've been selfish. So, I get it.
November 6th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
you guys must not be married
November 6th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
November 6th, 2017 at 4:28 PM ^
happy wife, happy life
November 6th, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^
After listening to the segment, I too, understand why he stayed home. But it's still sad to lose a 20 year streak. Maybe take the wife home, and head back yourself?
November 6th, 2017 at 9:31 AM ^
Maybe this is well documented, but I always lose track of who is the one talking during the podcast. They sound exactly the same to me.
November 6th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^
Well, there were 16 commercial breaks. The other 4 you are counting are between-quarter breaks (2), halftime, and the end of the game. Perhaps you can argue about counting the between-quarter breaks, so that brings us to 18.
And the problem is no longer the number of breaks. It's the length of them. So, here is what is going on:
* 4 commercial breaks a quarter, of 2:15 each (9 minutes total per quarter, 36 per game).
* 2 further breaks between the 1st and 2nd quarters, and between the 3rd and 4th quarters. Those breaks are 3:30 (7 minutes per game).
So that's 43 minutes of breaks per game. Now, let's grant that this is never going to change. So what do we change to make it more tolerable? The answer is simple: increase the number of commercial breaks.
What do we have in a typical game? About 15 possessions for each team, plus each team calls an average of 4 timeouts. That's 38 commercial break opportunities, plus the 2 at the end of the odd-numbered quarters. So 40 total. The problem is that they are only taking 18 of those breaks, so they are doubling the length of the breaks.
What if we took 1 minute at the end of each possession, and 1.5 minutes for each timeout and 1.5 minute after each odd-numbered quarter? That would be 45 minutes of commercials--even more than necessary. And you would hardly notice the 1-minute breaks on changes of possession; that happens anyway even when there are no commercials.
November 6th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
Eddy Merckx.
Well done, Ace.
November 6th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
S&P rush offense up to 12th.
November 6th, 2017 at 4:52 PM ^
Devours chocolate and cycling for sure.
But also loves comic strips. Most especially Tintin. Also Smurfs; because of the color "blue," obvs.
November 6th, 2017 at 5:51 PM ^
Brian and McElwain both seem to have this thing about sharks.
November 7th, 2017 at 5:45 PM ^
Hudson has no responsibilities? Tillman should be launched into the sun.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^
Every week jamiemac finds a way to work in Oregon and every week he pronounces it weird as fuck.
November 8th, 2017 at 6:53 PM ^
Good to hear that someone else thinks the commercials suck. NCAA is going the way of the NFL. Horrible. I went to a local high school playoff game. Didn't know it was televised. SUCKED!
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