Joe Milton: Antjuan Simmons "wasn't on my radar"
1. How is their starting LB "not on your radar"?
2. What a backhanded compliment. Just sheds more light on the total lack of respect we seem to have for opponents around here.
November 1st, 2020 at 7:22 AM ^
Just more proof that this team is not prepared which all leads back to coaching.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:51 AM ^
Right there in Sun Tzu's The Art of War:
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
We're sitting at 1-1. Seems about right.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:52 AM ^
That’s half true; we definitely don’t know our enemies.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:33 AM ^
Many of us have suspected it for years and this is a smoking gun
November 1st, 2020 at 6:01 PM ^
It has been interesting to watch the program progress from one under Brady Hoke that did not understand the humility and hard work required to win a championship to one under Jim Harbaugh that does not understand the humility and hard work required to win a championship
November 1st, 2020 at 7:24 AM ^
Did we recruit that guy? He was everywhere all day long making plays!
November 1st, 2020 at 7:59 AM ^
Sort of. Slow played him for other recruits. With him going to Pioneer the coaches had to know he was dying to stick it to us today.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:41 AM ^
It sounds like just wasn't a lot of mutual interest for whatever reason. It wasn't due to lack of talent Simmons was a 4 star recruit.
November 1st, 2020 at 10:08 AM ^
If I remember right, he committed to Ohio State early and they got higher rates commits at his position so they rescinded the offer.
Based on mutual agreement, he didn't go to Michigan. I always wondered if the coaches were salty he went with Ohio despite growing up in Ann Arbor or if they had filled out on linebackers by the time he decommitted or it was just a recruiting mess up.
Edit: fixed it for Ohio State, not Alabama
November 1st, 2020 at 7:25 AM ^
This is a dumb thread and is just what the media does by grabbing just a part of a quote to elicit some response. They failed to leave out that Milton said Simmons was "a heck of a player" and just chose to use he wasn't on my radar. Leave it to the stupid press to try and make a mountain out of a mole hill. This is the least of our problems.
November 1st, 2020 at 7:44 AM ^
1. They didn't leave that part out, it's right there in the article.
2. Saying "he's a heck of a player" does not at all make up for the rest of the quote. And if you think it does you are part of the problem.
November 1st, 2020 at 7:46 AM ^
I was just going to say the same thing. Media had nothing to do with how arrogant Milton made himself look. Typical Michigan fan shifting blame somewhere else when the QB says something dumb!
November 1st, 2020 at 8:07 AM ^
"you are part of the problem"
I get all the criticism of Harbaugh and I have 0 faith in him getting us a conference championship (without OSU imploding anyway), but I feel like that statement has come up more recently and I just want to mention how fucking stupid it is. You make it sound like he's enabling someone's drug addiction or dividing the country when it's just someone defending players or coaches. It's just football. Grow up.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:13 AM ^
You don't think things like this plus "revenge tour", Higdon guaranteeing a win, little brother, and Don Brown saying OSU "better watch out" last year are a symptom of overall program arrogance?
It seems pretty obvious to me we don't respect the opponent. This is the same shit we used to laugh at guys like David Boston and Terry Glenn for saying.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:17 AM ^
lol
OSU imploding would just open the door for PSU or Wisconsin. We just lost to a team that got rocked by Rutgers, and not in typical upset-fashion (there was no craziness or unlucky turnovers. They beat us straight up). We'd need half of the conference to implode st the same time to even have a shot!
I couldn't care less what Milton said. He's at the bottom of our long, long list of problems, and Shea wasn't all that bad either in hindsight. This coaching staff is a disaster and it starts with the head guy.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:18 AM ^
*I could care less
November 1st, 2020 at 9:28 AM ^
Wrong...
November 1st, 2020 at 10:04 AM ^
Pro tip - if you don’t know what you’re talking about (and you clearly don’t), shut the fuck up and let the adults talk.
November 1st, 2020 at 10:45 AM ^
You realize this means you care, or maybe you don't.
November 1st, 2020 at 7:32 PM ^
The expression is ‘I couldn’t care less’ - meaning I don’t give a shit and don’t care at all. ‘i could care less’ means ‘I do actually care’ and doesn’t make sense in the context it was used. Trying to correct someone while being 100% wrong is a dead giveaway that a the person saying it doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:17 AM ^
I’m actually defending the media because someone above thinks he is defending a player by blaming someone else for the players mouth. Media has nothing to do with the stupidity that was spewed.
Yes that’s a problem with Michigan fans they want to defend defend defend instead of looking at the truth that is right in front of them.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:19 AM ^
Well, you’re wrong, my wife works at an inpatient treatment center for addiction and 99% of her patients blame Jim Harbaugh and “enabling fans” for their meth habit.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:36 AM ^
Youre the one cropping the quote to make it sound a lot more sensational than it was. People overreact way to much to various half-sentences
November 1st, 2020 at 8:51 AM ^
yes, dingbats on a message board are "part of the problem."
DEMAND EXCELLENCE (TM)
November 1st, 2020 at 9:23 AM ^
Give me a break. This is exactly our problem. This coaching staff has been an abject failure in terms of motivating and preparing our players to play.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:58 AM ^
So you’re saying they’re part of the problem?
November 1st, 2020 at 8:10 AM ^
He answered, “who?” That’s arrogance after a loss. He knows darned we’ll who Simmons was.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:49 AM ^
I'd rather your interpretation is true. But I suspect he really didn't know who Simmons was. Which is totally inexcusable-- and on both Milton and the coaching staff.
November 1st, 2020 at 1:04 PM ^
Does he? I’d love the have the confidence to believe that.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:14 AM ^
Simmons seemed like he wanted to go to Michigan. I always thought it would be a mistake to pass on him.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:25 AM ^
Did he? He was committed to Ohio State for a while.
November 2nd, 2020 at 9:33 AM ^
He publicly complained Michigan was not recruiting him.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:15 AM ^
If you listen to the whole thing, he praises Simmons. This is the media making a story out of nothing. But because we're mad at the world over yesterday's game, we're cool with trashing our own player, especially when it's the starting quarterback.
November 1st, 2020 at 1:05 PM ^
The starting QB should know the name of the opposing LB.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:17 AM ^
Very telling
November 1st, 2020 at 8:33 AM ^
This team is ass, my dude.
November 1st, 2020 at 8:57 AM ^
And not the good kind!
November 1st, 2020 at 8:34 AM ^
This is typical media digging for a headline by using half of the quote and MSU looking for some way to feel disrespekted
November 1st, 2020 at 8:46 AM ^
It worked for them. Again.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:07 AM ^
I see neither shade nor lack of respect. I see a coaching staff that failed to prepare their players with actionable information on the opponent.
Something similar to the MGoBlog pregame analysis with all the circles, stars, and Dangerman call outs should be briefed at a minimum. Is it though?
November 1st, 2020 at 9:31 AM ^
Oh bs. Lay off milton, or remember the crap they spewed for years.
November 1st, 2020 at 9:46 AM ^
Michigan fans are so miserable. I am going to be back in front of my TV next Saturday cheering Michigan over Indiana. Join me or don't. But goddamn, trashing everything, as if any one of you know what you're doing running or coaching a major college football program, is just pathetic. Including trashing a young quarterback after his 2nd start when he's actually done quite well. Get your lives together.
November 1st, 2020 at 10:01 AM ^
I wouldn’t say we’re trashing milton. It’s more of the offensive gameplan. It was horrendous. You have small speedy guys and yet you do nothin with them in space. The first play of the game last week was a screen to corum That went 25 yards. We saw not one of those yesterday. It was pure garbage. Running into the teeth of the defense every fckin play.
November 1st, 2020 at 10:24 AM ^
Who's trashing Milton's play? Milton played just fine yesterday considering the coaches did absolutely nothing to create a gameplan for his strengths.
It's his arrogant answer I'm trashing.
November 1st, 2020 at 10:29 AM ^
You have proven to be the most miserable of the miserable. Nobody said you were trashing Joe's play. But he was being trashed for something he said when interviewed after the game. Not like this young guy has a ton of experience with the media.
Get a life, dude. Do something else with your fall Saturdays if a college football team makes you so miserable. Rake some fucking leaves.
November 1st, 2020 at 11:20 AM ^
Sorry that I've been trying to point out things that have been wrong with this program for the last 3 years that everybody is starting to finally realize.
I'm not miserable, I just really cannot stand people who don't want to see the truth when it's staring them right in the face.
Michigan plays football, Michigan should be trying to win at football, Michigan frequently fails to win at football for the same reasons over and over and we discuss that here. What are you doing here if you don't want to discuss the problems?
November 1st, 2020 at 10:33 AM ^
So the QB is not aware of the other team best defensive player, and the top defensive back was only prepared for the run game.
FIRE THE COACH!!!! FIRE THE COACH!!!!!
November 1st, 2020 at 11:26 AM ^
So you're burning Milton for saying this (which isn't all he said about the guy but you failed to highlight this) but any fan can say "we didn't expect to lose to Michigan St" and that is okay???
Among many problems, posts like this are one of them.
November 1st, 2020 at 5:22 PM ^
Also, can we address that this box of rocks will be probably be named an all-academic player.
November 2nd, 2020 at 6:53 PM ^
Bad on two counts:
1. Wasn't prepared at all if he doesn't know the name of the opponents defense leader
2. Can't be too bright to say this after a defeat because it proves he wasn't focused and prepared.