Michigan Monday is up
https://theozone.net/2019/10/michigan-monday-irish-eyes-cleat-marks/
The weather was terrible as Michigan proved to be inconsiderate hosts to Notre Dame — though to call the Wolverines “hosts” is a bit light. A more apt term would be “captors.”
October 28th, 2019 at 9:41 PM ^
One of his better efforts IMO and it's pretty clear we have their attention now.
Loved "the old Jim Harbaugh is back" as it's what we've all been looking for ourselves and it looks like our actual rivals (sorry Illinois & Rutgers) noticed it too.
Like he said....it's gonna be one hell of a November!
October 28th, 2019 at 9:50 PM ^
Yeah. With that great effort it just makes you wish we had somehow got it a tad earlier and pulled out the PSU game. We would be in the playoff discussion. Still if we could find a way to win out and finally beat OSU, this would be a pretty satisfying season. Last time we beat all 3 rivals in a season was 2003!
October 29th, 2019 at 5:14 AM ^
Obviously when Michigan gives more of an effort, Gerdeman does the same.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
We had their attention last year and they destroyed us in the process.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:44 PM ^
He's overplaying the impact of the rain. It was certainly a factor in the first half, but it wasn't particularly windy or storm-like, and then it dried quite a bit.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:46 PM ^
I agree. In the second half the rain pretty much stopped for a lot of it. Still wet for sure but passing conditions weren’t terrible. First half on the other hand was pretty tough.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:50 PM ^
It stopped... and then would start again.
I'm still feeling the effects
October 28th, 2019 at 10:29 PM ^
It was bad for awhile. When it's raining that much, it's just hard to grip the ball properly. Passing the ball wasn't a very plausible option until late in the 3rd quarter.
October 29th, 2019 at 5:58 AM ^
It's pretty hard to tell that when you're just watching a broadcast instead of sitting in the stadium. IIRC the sideline reporter claimed the wind was swirling.
October 29th, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
I was in the stadium until about 8 minutes to go in the 4th. The were some swirling wind gusts for sure. But I had my hood off for quite a bit of the second half unlike the first half when I had my hood so closed just my eyes showed......
October 29th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
At 8 minutes the game was 100% so that wasn't a bad time to leave if you were waterlogged and feeling ill.
October 29th, 2019 at 7:16 AM ^
I thought it was pretty bad, except a short period of time in the 3rd, but I also didn't agree with this:
Those were not ideal conditions by any means, and yet rather than let the ball bounce time after time like Notre Dame did
I thought their returner caught most of the punts he saw.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:14 AM ^
The rain let up a bit and Michigan exploded for 4 additional touchdowns, so I don't know how you spin the rain as being the reason that ND didn't compete better in this game.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:54 PM ^
Shit narrative. Everyone has now ranked ND as outside the top 20, yeah right. This ND team took Georgia - at home - to task. ND was totally top 10 competitive. Media types are like Shrine Circus lizards that can change colors at whatever whim works for their click need.
Journalism as we know it is integrity challenged.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:58 PM ^
I'm more inclined to believe Georgia isn't all that good. I think Florida crushes them this weekend.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:09 PM ^
Doubtful that Georgia is a pretender but Florida will have a say.
October 29th, 2019 at 9:26 AM ^
I live in GA and most of the fans I know are already of the impression that the "Dawgs" are pretenders.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:03 PM ^
ND went to Athens and couldn't do what USC (NTUSC) did there...the same USC (NTUSC) that got beat up by Tennessee. So...what exactly did ND do that was so special?
All the computer models had ND much lower than the human pollsters did. By ranking ND outside the top 20, the human pollsters finally caught up to where the computer models were already.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:11 PM ^
I guess that we'll find out this Saturday how good Georgia is...
October 28th, 2019 at 10:13 PM ^
Chuck that is just a common shit on Michigan narrative. Georgia has a top 5 ranked team composite recruiting position so these takes are basically garbage.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^
It's not a Michigan narrative, it's the ND narrative. And it's the ND narrative stated by Bill Connelly prior to the ND-Michigan game.
...I get that recruiting rankings are important. But high recruiting rankings doesn't mean that a team gels together to result in everything their recruiting rankings suggest they should be. I think Georgia is really good...but I think they're not as good as I thought they were.
October 29th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
Notre Dame has played a tougher schedule than credited for. @georgia, Usc, @michigan is no joke regardless of how each team performed. ND's recruiting and the top opponents recruiting makes their schedule one of the toughest in the country.
One thing about ND, I didn't think they had an athlete that could take the top off our defense and it showed. Even the few passes they got had to be perfect throws against good coverage, save Gray getting turned around a couple times, but still right there for the tackle. The game then was a matter of our offense being able to run in the monsoon. Flashbacks to the 2017 msu game and would we try to pass in that game.
Blocked punt recovery was a huge play in that game imo. Yes we were definitely better, but imo from that play on we didn't look back. Had nd got the ball in scoring position it would have given them a huge lift on the road. Big play and it was the end of the fight in the irish imo.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:18 PM ^
Go away. You add nothing here and you're obviously attention starved.
Take the boiled down analysis that's probably been parroted for 48 hours by every Buckeye message boarder in existence with you.
I don't get people spending their lives on message boards of teams they don't root for.
It's even more lame than fans trying to find transitive value in what X team did against Y team who played Z team. And Z team sucks so...... It doesn't work in college football. Too many variables in the match ups. Teams and players change too much during the season in most cases.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:46 PM ^
I don't read Buckeye message boards.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:01 AM ^
I had suspected this due to your use of punctuation.
October 29th, 2019 at 8:52 AM ^
eh, it's fun to have a few reasonable opposing fans on here. too many would be bad, but zero might be bad, too. this guy seems ok.
October 29th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
Yeah he's legit... regardless of fandom, this Board likes to castrate anyone that doesn't have the same opinion; the greatest definition of "Entitlement".
October 29th, 2019 at 5:46 PM ^
What a shit take. BuckeyeChuck seems to always posts pretty reasonable and sensible takes, especially from someone from the enemy's fanbase.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:05 PM ^
Notre Dame was undoubtedly overrated. However, Michigan is clearly finding its footing.
Basically it's the Benjamin Button of college football. We are meeting them on their way down as we are on our way up.
October 29th, 2019 at 1:16 AM ^
Can we not pass on banging the hot love of our life when she is of age!
October 28th, 2019 at 10:09 PM ^
UGA has not looked as good as their ranking all season long. I think they beat Florida on Saturday, but they're going to get a second conference loss before the regular season ends.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:56 PM ^
My favorite quote:
People were ready to send Michigan off into the cold wilderness to fall asleep under a large tree and never wake up again.
Instead, Michigan went out, chopped that tree down, and beat the hell out of Notre Dame with it.
and this was a close second:
Notre Dame ran the ball for 47 yards on 31 attempts (1.5 ypc) and it never looked like they had any confidence in their ability to move the line of scrimmage.
They didn’t think they could run it on Michigan and Michigan proved them right.
So they just threw the ball up for grabs like they were Middle Tennessee and not a Power 5 team with a national recruiting reach. Maybe we should refer to them as the Northwest Indiana Fighting Irish from here on out.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:50 PM ^
Or, have you tried to throw a football underwater? Notre Dame tried too...
fucking clever and hilarious...
October 28th, 2019 at 9:56 PM ^
Come get some.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
Well this was super interesting. Last year it was all compliments, compliments until the end of the season, prior to The Game, and then he was all we are coming for you bitch.
This season, win, lose, lose unfairly, win convincingly, win not so convincingly... his tone has been consistently different than last year's effusive praise of the Don Brown computer.
If we lose he doesn't even try to sound like what Michigan fans think he is, someone who wants to be fair to a rival, a secret Michigan fan. This guy hates us as much as any mouth breather in Ohio. This year he sounds like something is bugging the hell out of him, and when Michigan records a win, he has been condescending. When he feels forced to be complimentary, he stuffs every compliment with insults, backhanded compliments, and just outright gratuitous insults.
I think what is bugging him is a positive trend for our program.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:23 PM ^
Is there a freeze on points?
October 28th, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
apparently so
October 28th, 2019 at 10:29 PM ^
Yes. For me and others at least.
October 29th, 2019 at 9:18 AM ^
You need to subscribe to the premium membership, MGoPlus, to get working points. You get a 100 point bonus upon signup and also 5 additional points for every friend referral that signs up.
October 28th, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
“This was “What’s your deal” era Jim Harbaugh. I was waiting for him to go for two on the last touchdown.
The nation has been calling for the old Jim Harbaugh to come back. We may have gotten our wish.”
October 28th, 2019 at 11:26 PM ^
This is the best quote! ^^
We have all been waiting for the old and classic Jim Harbaugh! Haven’t we?
It brings out the best in him and the best in his teams. Run it up Jim and then go for two!
October 29th, 2019 at 12:07 AM ^
Pissed off and "what's your deal version" Jim Harbaugh would be the most concerning outcome for t(tm)OSU at the end of November. He's proven he can scheme that game.
I have no idea if the team will be successful vs. t(tm)OSU but given recent results and trending (looking at you Stephen Spanellis, for example) it certainly appears that they will be angry, violent and relentless. Be nice to find out how that opponent looks when they are not the bully.
Gerdeman sees it and it scares him. It should scare all of them.
October 29th, 2019 at 9:01 AM ^
it doesnt "scare " anyone related to Ohio State football.. Why would it ?
October 29th, 2019 at 10:13 AM ^
Osu is a team without any holes at any position groups. I’m worried they exploit Vincent Gray as well as 1:1 matchups with the safety.
I also don’t think we’ll be able to pressure fields with how good their o line is combined with his ability to escape.
if fields has time to throw it to receivers not covered by ambry or Lavert it could be our undoing. Time to get Dax on the field and give him as much experience as we can before the game because he has the speed and skills necessary to make life a little harder for fields and their wide outs.
October 30th, 2019 at 12:02 AM ^
What is Fields passer rating when he is pressured?
I'll leave it at that.
October 29th, 2019 at 1:28 PM ^
lol dude
October 29th, 2019 at 11:55 PM ^
I've missed you Jon.
Pride something something Dantomirinoios
October 29th, 2019 at 9:06 AM ^
I think it's silly to attribute the team's success to the enthusiasm of the coach. We've seen Michigan get pummeled by Ohio State in a year that he was very animated and we've seen them get pummeled in a year where he was subdued.
The on-field product is what matters and while Michigan seems like they're maybe getting a grip on their offense they don't look near the level that Ohio State does.
October 29th, 2019 at 8:34 AM ^
I imagine the transactional calculus in the Buckeye mind has to be that if they were going to lose to Michigan, this would be the best season for it. All signs point to the Buckeyes showing up in Ann Arbor with the East locked up, a cinch to win the B1G and their playoff spot pretty much sealed up. Losing to what will probably be a Top 10 Michigan team won't do much to their season.
They never want to lose this game, but if they did this year, it would probably be the softest of blows.