Ole Miss v Tennessee- crazy stuff
Vols fans threw debris on the field, including golf balls and bottles of mustard, after disagreeing with a spot given on a 4th down, causing a 20 min delay with 55 seconds to go. Classless Vols fans. Despite this, Tennessee gets the ball back and had a chance to win.
Their starting qb gets hurt so they have to put in Joe Milton for the last 2 plays. With 3 sec left and only about 20 yards away from a touchdown, Milton scrambles around and with no time left, runs out of bounds for 5 yards instead of throwing it up to give his guys a chance to win. Wow.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:24 AM ^
Not a great look for Tennessee fans - not only do they look like fucking creamsicles, but just a bunch of classless pos! Their own band, cheerleaders, and dance team left the field and stands out of fear for their safety.
October 17th, 2021 at 5:37 AM ^
Eh, glass houses and all that after our fans throwing towels during 2019 Notre Dame. That spot on the long 4th down was so close, but again why do we not have better angles in 2021? I cannot believe Milton ran out of bounds on the last play...unreal.
October 17th, 2021 at 6:28 AM ^
Ah yes. I fear getting hit with a golf ball, dip bottle, or mustard just as much as getting hit with a balled up towel.
October 17th, 2021 at 7:39 AM ^
Ok but what brand of mustard?
October 17th, 2021 at 8:00 AM ^
Grey Poop On?
October 17th, 2021 at 11:02 AM ^
I believe that's the favored type of mustard for Buckeye fans. Conveniently fits in their coolers.
October 17th, 2021 at 6:33 AM ^
lol, towels. YOU don’t even believe that’s remotely the same. how about the marshmallows, were those a player safety issue?
try harder, you’re not going to get the reaction you obviously desperately want with that weak sauce.
October 17th, 2021 at 7:10 AM ^
Yes, I don't see a difference between throwing a Molotov Cocktail at a house or teens teepeeing a friend's house.
October 17th, 2021 at 7:55 AM ^
Your complaint about the towels during that notre dame game is a total joke..
But it goes along with literally all of your posts which just find a way to bitch about michigan in some form..
Yet you post more than 99 percent of the people on this blog.
Maybe just step away from sports completely.
October 17th, 2021 at 9:16 AM ^
No one hates Michigan more than UMxWolverines.
October 17th, 2021 at 10:29 AM ^
It's not our fault he didn't get in.
October 17th, 2021 at 8:36 AM ^
your posts are terrible and have been for at least the past year. you should maybe find a hobby or something that doesn't make you miserable and bitter.
October 17th, 2021 at 11:01 AM ^
The past year? This man has taken crap posting to a whole ‘nother level in the last 5+ years not just this year.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ^
I don’t really follow him that closely. If it’s been that long…what a sad and pathetic existence she/they/he must have
October 17th, 2021 at 9:32 AM ^
I'm positive we bad fans didn't delay the game for 20+ fucking minutes. Once, that is like comparing apples to donkey testicles, try again.
October 17th, 2021 at 10:41 AM ^
Really
October 17th, 2021 at 8:15 AM ^
Not surprised that they're a bunch of criminals, but I doubt any consequences will come of it.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:25 AM ^
Yikes, So maybe it wasn’t our coaching staff holding him back after all.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:33 AM ^
No it was not. However, it was our coaching staff that recruited and signed him despite a bad completion percentage in HS, that was a head scratcher for sure.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:47 AM ^
Probably thought they could coach him up. Clearly not...
October 17th, 2021 at 9:35 AM ^
Former Big Ten baseball player here, I saw lots of coaches in the conference recruit kids who were incredible athletes because they believed they were such good coaches, they could make them star baseball players. Several coaches, including mine, believed that they could take a Big Ten linebacker or running back and make them a Major League all-star outfielder with just a couple seasons of their expert college-level coaching.
I don’t know of an example of this ever working. As it turns out, the coordination and mental skills needed to hit a baseball are way too difficult, even for dominant athletes. I suspect quarterbacking is the same or more difficult.
October 17th, 2021 at 10:44 AM ^
You can fail 7 out of 10 times trying to hit a baseball and still make it to the Hall of Fame.
October 17th, 2021 at 11:31 AM ^
Milton's not really analogous to that, though, is he? We're not talking about a switch in sports. He was already playing QB and had obvious physical gifts, but was doing so at a relatively underfunded high school and without the extensive private QB coaching that a lot of elite players are currently getting. Not unreasonable to think that three years of high level coaching (and insert all the jokes about whether that applies here) could result in some significant improvement. For a variety of reasons, some that can be clearly laid at the feet of Milton himself, that didn't happen, but I don't think it was doomed from the start.
October 17th, 2021 at 11:38 AM ^
Why you nuance-inserting douchebag! get out of here with that.
October 17th, 2021 at 5:21 PM ^
I mean Michigan's baseball team was made up of a few kids that didn't play baseball much previously and they did pretty well.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:50 AM ^
Though after catching some Northern Colorado action today, it's less head-scratching that McCaffery lost the job.
October 17th, 2021 at 1:12 AM ^
I went to the Montana State - N Colorado game two weeks ago. Saw McCaffrey and Tru Wilson. Wilson played OK but McCaffrey was awful. I can see why the coaches decided to go with Milton over him.
October 17th, 2021 at 2:05 AM ^
DCaff is a really weird case. Looked ready to go, almost ready to steal Shea's job here...
And, while it doesn't exactly shock people that players transfer away from Harbaugh, the way the McCaffrey family (save for Christian) has transfered away from good situations for them and just kind of disappeared has been bizarre. Luke is a cipher at Rice, and the bar for being a good QB in 1-AA is just not that high, and apparently Dylan isn't clearing it.
I mean, I take second place to no one in holding Harbaugh responsible for the roster he has. But the collapse of what looked like a full QB room behind Shea has been pretty spectacular, and neither of those guys have made Michigan regret their departure. Now, Milton, who was a "project," is not really a stunner. But DCaff was... surprising.
October 17th, 2021 at 2:16 AM ^
I don't know, it seems kind of straightforward in hindsight. The oldest brother is athletic as all hell so everyone assumed the next two were also legitimate. And Colorado high school football was never going to reveal anything about either's future success.
October 17th, 2021 at 11:30 AM ^
Rarely does he miss an opportunity to toss some shade at Harbaugh.
October 17th, 2021 at 7:17 AM ^
I would have loved to see Dylan as a WR.
October 17th, 2021 at 11:39 AM ^
Wonder if that would have worked better than the Tebow at tight end?
October 17th, 2021 at 9:25 AM ^
Milton and McCaffrey are both terrible quarterbacks….how they both were fighting for the starter spot is a head scratcher
October 17th, 2021 at 7:04 AM ^
Wait, what? The coaches lost a gem when Dylan left. I know you are wrong because all the McCaffrey apologists said he was the best QB in that room before he left. Shut your whore mouth.
October 17th, 2021 at 1:14 AM ^
To be fair he was signed as a project qb, with McCaffrey, Patterson on the squad and Cade, (at the time) JD Johnson and JJ McCarthy in future classes, it was assumed depth would be fine, and if he developed then he would start. McCaffrey of course didn’t pan out, Johnson unfortunately had to retire medically, and Cade and JJ look to be the guys we had hoped
October 17th, 2021 at 2:04 AM ^
This 247 article sums up pretty nicely. Milton is the exact type of QB that gets a coach fired: has all of the physical tools and has an arm that can make all the throws in a practice setting, but when the lights are on, he just can't make the right decision.
Obviously he didn't perform for Michigan, so the question becomes why was he the 2020 starter in the first place? It's because coaches see the cannon arm during scrimmages and envision ripping into defenses. When it's actually game time though, the flawed accuracy and bad game awareness looks horrendous, leaving fans scratching their heads wondering why he's playing at all.
Makes me really appreciate McNamara and game manager QBs in general. He's not perfect and hasn't wowed me, but he's done a great job managing the game and is accurate enough to keep the offense on schedule. Even though there's a small JJ contingent (and I do think JJ is going to be fantastic one day), Michigan is 6-0 with McNamera at the helm and to put it bluntly, we're not undefeated if Milton is still the starter.
October 17th, 2021 at 8:12 AM ^
Honestly, I think people really are underestimating the situation around 2020 - look at this year and how many teams have looked demonstrably different than last year and it's easy to see how a weird off-season with limited practice time, then a shortened camp when teams were told they'd play, to disjointed seasons with games cancelled. All we heard last offseason was Milton was on campus practicing with the guys and McCaffrey was back in Colorado with his family. Chances are Milton did look better than McCaffrey and while the staff probably still saw flaws they at least knew what they had with him plus McCaffrey clearly wasn't as good as expected upon his return.
Milton's a guy you take a swing at but you set expectations and hope you can use when you want; I think their hand was pushed last year and so he was out there despite not being ready.
October 17th, 2021 at 8:55 AM ^
I'm pretty convinced that McCaffrey's head injury as the target of Wisconsin LBs and DBs ended more than just his season. I mean, he wasn't replacing Shea mid-game because he wasn't good enough to play in FCS. I really think that head injury affected him mentally more than anyone would ever think. He is clearly a different player now than he was before. The few plays he had before the injury were every bit as good, fun, and broadly enjoyed by fans as JJ's plays are now. He even had Michigan moving the ball against UW before the two targets (only the second was called).
Joe was a flyer on a late pickup after the top QB in the class had to medically retire early. Dylan was a 3-year crootin' effort as a #1 ranked QB. (Remember he was stride for stride with Hunter Johnson, Jake Fromm, David Mills, etc for #1 until he stopped going to camps as a HS senior. And actually, looking at that class...)
October 17th, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
McCaffrey was already onboard, so the coaches apparently thought they could take a flyer on someone with Milton's upside. It doesn't seem like all that much of a head scratcher.
October 17th, 2021 at 1:17 AM ^
Also head scratching that they started him multiple games over Cade.
October 17th, 2021 at 1:44 AM ^
It had been a head scratcher to me too. But when you see what kind of a coach Gattis is, things begin to make more sense how Milton was chosen to be starter over McNamara.
Harbaugh put an end to the Milton experiment by pulling him and putting McNamara in. You'd think Heupel at Tenn would have learned from what happened with Milton at Michigan, and not have wanted him to transfer to Tenn. But nope. Heupel had to learn the hard way. That is also a head scratcher.
October 17th, 2021 at 7:31 AM ^
Huepel had to take him. Tenn had no QBs. Hooker and Milton both transferred in. He was hoping one would work our. Hooker has for the most part.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:26 AM ^
That was a hell of a decision by Joe Milton to run out of bounds with no time left.
October 17th, 2021 at 1:13 AM ^
Obligatory:
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him.
October 17th, 2021 at 1:13 AM ^
Damn it. I hate it when my browser is slow.
October 17th, 2021 at 7:56 AM ^
To be fair - and please don't throw any mustard bottles at me for pointing this out - but we had a tight end do that like 15 years ago. Could have pitched it back to Steve Breaston as time ran out but instead ran out of bounds.
Granted that's nowhere near the same as a QB scrambling on the last play.
October 17th, 2021 at 11:25 AM ^
Same dude who refused to run OOB then next year against OSU, I think.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:19 PM ^
Tyler Ecker in the Alamo Bowl vs Nebraska. It’s burned into my memory.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:26 AM ^
Please please please ..... let the person who threw the golf ball call-in to Paul's show this week.
October 17th, 2021 at 12:28 AM ^
....or the mustard bottle.
"But Pawl, we wuz robded"