We got a ninja one with 2 big “drawers” on the front. It has earned its counter space and I’d bet gets used multiple times a day on most days. Great little investment IMHO. BTW, my Mrs just confirmed that it will be instantly replaced if it fails.
We look like an NFL team. Our precision with alignments, substitutions, adjustments etc. is FAR beyond what I see watching ANY other team in CFB. Those 2 teams that played in Columbus yesterday looked like typical CFB teams. Guys moving around pre snap, looking to the sidelines for approval of their alignment, scrambling to get personnel groups right etc. Harbaugh has this team functioning on a level ABOVE college football. Oklahoma, Washington, even Alabama look like amateur hour in comparison. Watch the happenings BETWEEN plays. We look a world apart
He should make a public statement that the ass kickings his team has been doling out are 100% authentic ass kickings and that these will continue into the foreseeable future
Old school guy here so forgive me. I recall being coached that the DT, once double team engages, drops his inside knee to the ground and gets his shoulder pads into the inside gap, hopefully creating a pile as you cross the hips of the inside man on the double team. Thereby eliminating, as quickly as possible, one of the 2 gaps, leaving only one choice for the free LB. We learned and taught this technique for defending the T formations and their single wing variants but as far as gap control don’t the same sort of rules apply? With the counter being crash the DE’s down on the Tackles trying to squeeze the gaps closed while the OLBs (4-3) take edge responsibility. Reading your great explanation just had me recalling what we did “back in the day” when faced with ultimately very similar issues.
I’d LOVE to see Iowa play USC at Kinnick. Belittle them all we want but they execute that weird ass game plan and more teams than not are victims. I’m waiting for a 3rd down punt to completely blow everyone’s minds:) it’s like they’re fighting WW1 against desert storm armies and if the 1st quarter is stalemate there’s a good chance you’re in trouble.
The machine we dreamed of is fully weaponized. We’re Stanford with speed. Brutal but agile. 1 penalty in 2 games?! This IS Michigan. We walk in as victors before the kick off. Let these dogs HUNT and let’s continue to win with character and cruelty. Go Blue!!
Watch Maryland go tempo, choosing to give OSU another possession in the half, and a chance for the lead. Why are highly paid coaches so stupid about this simple concept?
Why the FUCK is Maryland snapping with 17seconds on the play clock!! Jesus H has Gattis not learned anything from Harbaugh? The clock is ALWAYS either your friend or enemy. It is NEVER neutral. Every single second you take from OSU robs them of opportunity. They only SURVIVE by opportunity. They need the higher # of opportunities to hit their home runs. Use your HEAD!! Every second counts, even in the 1st quarter. If Maryland loses on a last drive by OSU I’ll laugh at fools who attach their offense to tempo.
And how exactly would UofM be diminished by getting this kid in? Certainly the kid is in no way diminished and his desire to EE shows an academic regard that starts him on the right foot. What entity or element within the school is bettered by the result? Name it? I can only come up with ass in the air administration and their enabling alums who’s ego must rank this kids future? A future that certainly has a very strong chance to be a net positive for all those aforementioned “stakeholders” that will enjoy the fruits of success on the field either directly $$ or by the common glory brought on.
JJs mechanics have made a very noticeable improvement IMO. His posture is tall when it should be and his foot placements on throws look very textbook. The kids been doing his work to my eye and deserves praise. The D front looks like a serious unit with good depth. That’s HUGE for a seasons potential. When guys inevitably get dinged up we can weather it. Curious to see the secondary tested by a quality passing game. Not sure where we see that first? WRs need to block better and NOW. That’s a commitment thing IMO and I’m sure film will correct that to some degree.
Possession teams like Michigan can turn this to advantage quickly fi they fully commit to doing so. For instance, as soon as your team has a 2 score lead of any kind, your offense should enter creeper mode, using at least 25 seconds of game clock on EVERY SINGLE PLAY. If you watch the past 2yrs of OSU games Harbaugh & Co. were doing just that. Robbing the organism of its oxygen. For me, watching a "spread/tempo" team like OSU get a 2 score lead against a team and then proceed to snap the ball with 15-20 seconds on the play clock just absolutely KILLS me. How fucking stupid are you? The clock is the mortal enemy of the trailing team. This is 100% always true, and it should be the friend of the team in the lead. This ain't baseball or tennis. Every possession you can rob them of is worth basically 7pts to YOUR team. There is ZERO explainable reason for a tempo team to continue running tempo once they have a 2 score lead
Who gives a fuck what your "review" said? I hope not you. A review is the biggest joke in the world. It should be called the "I haven't fired you so here's the bare minimum that I think I can give you and retain you" meeting. Fuck or walk, there is no human being's "review" that I could EVER give a fuck about. Its just business man, why do they hate it so? I'm going to do the absolute minimum that I can get away with for the maximum pay that I can extract. How is this not just basic business? What business is going to do MORE than they are required? What business is going to tell a customer "here's some of your money back, we overcharged you for those parts" So why in the ever loving shit would we expect people to act any differently? Baffles me.
Where does honesty factor into this whatsoever? Please create a list of 3 businesses that you believe did not tell a minimum of 10 lies TODAY. Remember, Citizens United ruled that corporations are people. Therefore, people are corporations and should behave to the same standards that corporations do. I'll cite my first example. Healthcare. Do they send back the money that get when the knowingly overbill or double bill people? Second, Car Dealerships. Do they sell the exact same car to everyone at the same price? For fucks sake can we stop expecting people to behave with some kind of "moral conscience" when business demonstrates EVERY DAY that it has exactly ZERO concerns for such concepts?
I’ll just say this. Having watched “phat daddy” aka “Phat Phat” for a long time in a lot of events over the years. He’s stronger than he looks, quicker than you think, faster than whoever’s chasing him and plays his best when the competition pushes him. I think he’ll become a memorable Wolverine with a great career. Having seen this young man’s family over the years I think he is a well grounded dude with a great attitude. Was always fun to watch and looked like he was having a blast playing.
Just call all the instances of blocking downfield and WR's holding and I'd be happy. To go with it add a standard 5 or 10 second count from the time the FJ places the ball to allow proper evaluation of substitutions and create a consistency in pace or play.
Interesting article for sure. I’ll stand by my point(except the 99.9.%, but I’d bet my IRA it would be over 75%) that removing booze from the equation would be the single biggest impact on campus rape. And it’s easy at an advanced age to forget just how fucking stupid blasted some of us got in those years. I know the only threesome I had in my life I have exactly zero memory of. And one of the girls I had no attraction to. Was I raped? I know sober I wouldn’t have touched one of them. We were all drinking together. Ugly Sue remembered something cuz I heard about it the next day from guys who knew her. I had to wear that like a dunce hat for years. Shame on all 3 of us but I know who I blame even all these years later. Ron Bacardi and ignorant youthfulness. It’s the one thing that if removed from the equation stops it from ever occurring I know that. Sober me never lets it start and I believe sober Sue would say the same. Especially since some weeks later I got the “I don’t really know what happened entirely but I’m so sorry” talk and although still angry I had to admit that I remembered none of it beyond falling onto a couch at their house. Good news. I have not drank to excess now 32 years later. 4 beer limit I’ve yet to break and no hard stuff. Based on the DUI’s, divorce’s and early deaths I’ve witnessed by people in my life it was a negative that I turned into a positive for sure. Shared the story with my daughter & son when they were college bound and they seemed to adopt a pretty damn cautious attitude toward alcohol. I just wish more young adults would see all the destruction alcohol unleashes in their world and treat it accordingly so we wouldn’t have to re live these stories again and again.
If we want to eliminate 99.9% of all campus rape it actually very simple. Remove all alcohol from college campus's. I'm sorry but a DRUG that is capable of rendering human beings completely unaware and not in control of their physical or mental self should not be openly encouraged for use by young people living away from home for the first time. Every fucking time I hear about another one of these incidents the first detail I read is alcohol was involved. Like NO SHIT it was!! Its the fucking straw the stirs the date rape drink so to speak. Its the necessary catalyst that, if not present, this doesn't happen. Rapes will still happen, but they will be committed by rapists. People who are predisposed to violence and domination and get their fix by raping. People who would commit this act SOBER. In other words. Psychopaths.
Sadly he watched a President of the USA do this on the daily. Acting like truth is what HE thinks or says it is. While Trump was president my golf handicap dropped from 16 to 6. I simply played by the Presidents rules.
Don’t underestimate the provincialism of these young men. Saban knows it’s a hardship for a player and his family to be 20+ driving hours or expensive flights from him. IMO it’s so different for lower income families to provide support from long distance that it’s rare to see a kid make the risky leap into a far away world. Saban never built anything. His greatest coaching accomplishment was what he did at MSU and that was nothing compared to what Harbaugh did at Stanford or San Fran. Winning championships when your team has 8 better players than your opponent on both sides of the ball is easy. Kirby & Brian Kelly will eat Nicks lunch till he quits. His days of stacking 5*’s on the bench to keep them away from his opponents are over.
Mac Jones, Cardale Jones, CJ Stroud. Mobility is a bonus for sure but innate timing, accuracy, arm strength and leadership under pressure are the pre requisites you look for first.
That domination over OSU paid off today. Favorable match up for us along with making Kirby potentially have to scheme for OSUs air raid then immediately face the road graters of Michigan
At some point the DBs have to feel this dudes timing and go hunting. He’s getting it out at 3 seconds every time. Either blitz his ass or pic him but fuck up his timing or he’s screen passing his way to FGs all night long.
I really appreciate coaches full commitment to owning the clock. Something a large chunk of the brain trust here spent years convincing us did not matter. The past 2 games, victories, against OSU shows different. Once you decide you are a low variance offense built to drive not explode, you commit 100%. We have done that and it absolutely KILLS teams like OSU. They are like Alan Iverson. Dude would have 48pts in the box score but he took 33 shots. Ohio’s explosive offense relies on having enough rolls of the dice to get the pay out. We absolutely robbed them of that both games. We started on the first damn drive. Religiously using the play clock down to 5-6 seconds. Then once a lead was established in the 3rd we stayed inbounds with intention and snapped at under 05 every single play. Fuck tempo football. It’s a cheese dick trick to cover over poor execution by hoping the Ds confusion is worse than your shit execution. It’s saying Iverson’s way is the way. I personally love perfect execution of designed plays and controlling the game better than relying on volume and waiting to catch their fuck up.
Rain favors the O line. They know where they are going and the D has to react. Slippery footing is harder on the D in all aspects EXCEPT pass rush. Which is the only time it’s reversed. D player knows where he’s going and the O lineman must react.
Amen. This is the identity of a Jim Harbaugh team. Make no mistake, he’s daring opponents to stuff 7-8 guys in the box to stop Corum. At which point the separation that makes even a pedestrian passing O highly dangerous will be there. Nobody is loading the box on us. I have my suspicions that 15yrs of the CFB spread and shred has left teams without the personal(LBs) with the size & toughness to stand up to pulling guards and 240lb TEs coming with bad intent and Mr. Harbaugh has recognized and is exploiting this to our benefit. The comparison to service academies is very fitting. They dictate your D strategy no matter what you might want to do. Only with better, bigger athletes at M and a capable passing attack your stuck. You don’t have Urlacher, Sam Sword, Dahani Jones type LBs to keep the safeties clean so pick your poison. Leave them in the field and give up 6ypc or drop em down and watch that TE catch it at 12 yds and go 40.
Why do we always want to change our teams identity? We are a dominant power running team with a complimentary play action passing game. We play smart and aggressive brand of defense and have excellent special teams. We are Stanford with higher level athletes. We are Jim Harbaugh (finally) and we will go as far as that will take us. I accept that. Hell after a decade and a half in the desert I embrace that. Asking Jim Harbaugh to make his team look like some Mike Leech hybrid is asking for more time in the desert. He’ll fail trying to be something he is not. We cajoled a faction of M fans that they had to embrace RRs identity and style. Even when it was unwatchable. I’ll watch us go 10-0 by methodically mauling opponents and roll the dice on a snowstorm every damn year.
Thank you. I want a team with an identity and that absolutely knows who they are. Might our power game run into an NFL D line vs. UGA or Bama and lose yet again? Yup. But don’t change a thing. Pretending like some particular “system” is going to overcome that is an exercise in futility that sends you chasing . Ruins your continuity and ultimately your execution.
I’m going to accept and ultimately encourage the now clear fact that Harbaugh wants his team to be built to mash faces. It’s the right strategy IMO. Trying to out OSU the buckeyes with a too similar strategy plays into their hands. We need to be built for maximizing our opponents discomfort by making them do things THEY don’t like to do. That means making ever smaller and faster LBs deal with 6’6” TEs by the bushel getting their faces mashed repeatedly until they just can’t anymore. God bless Jim Harbaugh for deciding that when everyone else is sporting Uzi’s he’s bringing a sawed off 12 gage.
Agree. Nothing turns somebody’s lights out faster than a clean hook to the jaw. The rotational forces seem amplified if your only trans axial joint is snapping loosely with the hit. I know a dislocated jaw can severely effect balance and equilibrium so it would seem logical to me. Unless you can get knocked out and not suffer a concussion?
Crazy but I was happy when JJ threw the pic. I feel like it was his opportunity to show moxie. And he did. Being able to bounce back strong after when things aren’t going your way is the trademark of a championship QB. Awesome to see him prove that to himself. Should be a big confidence boost for him. Now throw DEEP young man!! You can overcome.
Don’t know if he might be diabetic or pre but I know the only seizure I’ve seen in person looked similar and was my cousins discovery that he was diabetic. Real rare for something like epilepsy to not reveal until mid adulthood from what I read. Here’s hoping he was just dehydrated or something minor like that.
I feel like at some point the Death Star has to have an unlucky season. That nasty combination of untimely injuries and turnovers that leave THEM 9-3 and the GOOD GUYS 12-0!!!
I know NIL is the present and the future. But more than any other season I’d put my $$ on whatever team has the most experienced returning roster to win it all. I keep asking the question. How do you coach an 18yr old that shows up to practice in a Bentley with an entourage? The lever that gave CFB head coaches the ability and authority to push these kids to become great is gone. It used to be “follow my leadership and buy in, I’ll get you to the next level $$” Now these kids are arriving having, by their definition, already made it. Watch and see. There will be more than 1 team chucked full of high $$ 5*s that will suck ass this year. Army will beat them because their coach, now managing a roster of divas, won’t be able to get the time & practice commitment to learn the option. This season could be full of unexpected surprises. I’ll be extra conscious of penalties, sloppy/lost play, discipline issues on the field etc. to see if coaching staffs struggle like I think many will.
Shea was as good at Michigan as you could expect a 3 star QB who paid his dues and learned his craft to be. Unfortunately Shea was a 5 star that was handed the job the day he arrived, allowed to keep the job regardless of his repeated failure to improve his weaknesses and from all reports gave minimal offseason effort. So we have to judge his career by those criteria. In which case. Shea was a disappointment.
I like auto bench in college. Like Jon B was always using it. I think younger players benefit from the mental “cool off” period after a foul to avoid the tendency to over compensate or make a mental error i:e turnover, bad shot choice etc. I guess with upperclassman with the experience to not fall victim to that stuff and where the game stands at the time it should be flexible.
Jones is just a bad PG IMO. Guy could probably be a great 2 but he’s so lost as a PG at this level. In the 2 games I saw live the difference between him and Smith or Simpson is instantly visible. He doesn’t communicate and his eyes are on his dribble. Simpson was amazing when you watched his eyes. His physical communication with his teammates. Everyone on the court has to learn the body language of the PG and he has to be consistent and emphatic with his cues. There is ZERO of that with Jones. IMHO
For me. 2021 OSU was about as good as it gets. They were favored, they were cocky, we were strong but everyone was afraid to believe. Until they weren't, and when that happened it was football heaven. When you could FEEL the thing happening, combined with the snow, the LOUDEST I've ever heard the big house. Chills typing this.
My #2 is 1995 OSU. Watching the Biakabatuka just WILL his way to 300yds. Running the ball with a reckless abandon that reminded me of OJ in the snow. All while the favored buckeyes with their Heisman RB just had no answer. It was one of those "the next play is gonna be #21 off tackle so good luck" kind of dominations that really stuck with me.
100% spot on. The other thing IMHO is that while fans can reason with getting experience for the young stud at the expense of the moment. Those fans don’t have to look the seniors for whom this is their last hurrah in the eye and know you’re robbing them of their glory to serve next year. I think Harbaugh, and most coaches, automatically default to doing everything to win THIS GAME. Too much work has been done by the men standing with you to allow for any other way.
Such an evenly matched game is going to come down to which team has greater resilience. Who can be down 10 points or just had a tipped ball picked off and still play with the belief and confidence that “we shall overcome”. This is why I like Michigan this Friday. We have been tested and faced adversity many times this season. Georgia faced it once against Alabama and fell short. Go Blue!!
I think this is a Harbaugh classic. Use all sorts of formations and window dressing to cost their LBs & Safety an extra 1/2 step in doubt and run on them. Their athletes are way better than Iowa’s but I’m betting their easier to fool.
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The journey was long and the obstacles difficult. But the view from the summit is devine. Go Blue!!
We got a ninja one with 2 big “drawers” on the front. It has earned its counter space and I’d bet gets used multiple times a day on most days. Great little investment IMHO. BTW, my Mrs just confirmed that it will be instantly replaced if it fails.
Who the fuck is USintegrity and why do I know this name now?
We look like an NFL team. Our precision with alignments, substitutions, adjustments etc. is FAR beyond what I see watching ANY other team in CFB. Those 2 teams that played in Columbus yesterday looked like typical CFB teams. Guys moving around pre snap, looking to the sidelines for approval of their alignment, scrambling to get personnel groups right etc. Harbaugh has this team functioning on a level ABOVE college football. Oklahoma, Washington, even Alabama look like amateur hour in comparison. Watch the happenings BETWEEN plays. We look a world apart
He should make a public statement that the ass kickings his team has been doling out are 100% authentic ass kickings and that these will continue into the foreseeable future
Old school guy here so forgive me. I recall being coached that the DT, once double team engages, drops his inside knee to the ground and gets his shoulder pads into the inside gap, hopefully creating a pile as you cross the hips of the inside man on the double team. Thereby eliminating, as quickly as possible, one of the 2 gaps, leaving only one choice for the free LB. We learned and taught this technique for defending the T formations and their single wing variants but as far as gap control don’t the same sort of rules apply? With the counter being crash the DE’s down on the Tackles trying to squeeze the gaps closed while the OLBs (4-3) take edge responsibility. Reading your great explanation just had me recalling what we did “back in the day” when faced with ultimately very similar issues.
I’d LOVE to see Iowa play USC at Kinnick. Belittle them all we want but they execute that weird ass game plan and more teams than not are victims. I’m waiting for a 3rd down punt to completely blow everyone’s minds:) it’s like they’re fighting WW1 against desert storm armies and if the 1st quarter is stalemate there’s a good chance you’re in trouble.
Smaller faster version of another in state 3* named Des that started 4yrs at M.
The machine we dreamed of is fully weaponized. We’re Stanford with speed. Brutal but agile. 1 penalty in 2 games?! This IS Michigan. We walk in as victors before the kick off. Let these dogs HUNT and let’s continue to win with character and cruelty. Go Blue!!
Watch Maryland go tempo, choosing to give OSU another possession in the half, and a chance for the lead. Why are highly paid coaches so stupid about this simple concept?
Why the FUCK is Maryland snapping with 17seconds on the play clock!! Jesus H has Gattis not learned anything from Harbaugh? The clock is ALWAYS either your friend or enemy. It is NEVER neutral. Every single second you take from OSU robs them of opportunity. They only SURVIVE by opportunity. They need the higher # of opportunities to hit their home runs. Use your HEAD!! Every second counts, even in the 1st quarter. If Maryland loses on a last drive by OSU I’ll laugh at fools who attach their offense to tempo.
Sounds like he’s done. And he’d really like to say thank you. For his now miserable life as a fan. That’s what I got from it.
And how exactly would UofM be diminished by getting this kid in? Certainly the kid is in no way diminished and his desire to EE shows an academic regard that starts him on the right foot. What entity or element within the school is bettered by the result? Name it? I can only come up with ass in the air administration and their enabling alums who’s ego must rank this kids future? A future that certainly has a very strong chance to be a net positive for all those aforementioned “stakeholders” that will enjoy the fruits of success on the field either directly $$ or by the common glory brought on.
JJs mechanics have made a very noticeable improvement IMO. His posture is tall when it should be and his foot placements on throws look very textbook. The kids been doing his work to my eye and deserves praise. The D front looks like a serious unit with good depth. That’s HUGE for a seasons potential. When guys inevitably get dinged up we can weather it. Curious to see the secondary tested by a quality passing game. Not sure where we see that first? WRs need to block better and NOW. That’s a commitment thing IMO and I’m sure film will correct that to some degree.
19?? you think our 4th string walk ons are THAT bad?? I say they hold them to 10 pts in the 4th quarter. Go Blue!!
Possession teams like Michigan can turn this to advantage quickly fi they fully commit to doing so. For instance, as soon as your team has a 2 score lead of any kind, your offense should enter creeper mode, using at least 25 seconds of game clock on EVERY SINGLE PLAY. If you watch the past 2yrs of OSU games Harbaugh & Co. were doing just that. Robbing the organism of its oxygen. For me, watching a "spread/tempo" team like OSU get a 2 score lead against a team and then proceed to snap the ball with 15-20 seconds on the play clock just absolutely KILLS me. How fucking stupid are you? The clock is the mortal enemy of the trailing team. This is 100% always true, and it should be the friend of the team in the lead. This ain't baseball or tennis. Every possession you can rob them of is worth basically 7pts to YOUR team. There is ZERO explainable reason for a tempo team to continue running tempo once they have a 2 score lead
So, to summarize. Managers are the real hero's and nothing would ever get done without them.
Who gives a fuck what your "review" said? I hope not you. A review is the biggest joke in the world. It should be called the "I haven't fired you so here's the bare minimum that I think I can give you and retain you" meeting. Fuck or walk, there is no human being's "review" that I could EVER give a fuck about. Its just business man, why do they hate it so? I'm going to do the absolute minimum that I can get away with for the maximum pay that I can extract. How is this not just basic business? What business is going to do MORE than they are required? What business is going to tell a customer "here's some of your money back, we overcharged you for those parts" So why in the ever loving shit would we expect people to act any differently? Baffles me.
Where does honesty factor into this whatsoever? Please create a list of 3 businesses that you believe did not tell a minimum of 10 lies TODAY. Remember, Citizens United ruled that corporations are people. Therefore, people are corporations and should behave to the same standards that corporations do. I'll cite my first example. Healthcare. Do they send back the money that get when the knowingly overbill or double bill people? Second, Car Dealerships. Do they sell the exact same car to everyone at the same price? For fucks sake can we stop expecting people to behave with some kind of "moral conscience" when business demonstrates EVERY DAY that it has exactly ZERO concerns for such concepts?
I’ll just say this. Having watched “phat daddy” aka “Phat Phat” for a long time in a lot of events over the years. He’s stronger than he looks, quicker than you think, faster than whoever’s chasing him and plays his best when the competition pushes him. I think he’ll become a memorable Wolverine with a great career. Having seen this young man’s family over the years I think he is a well grounded dude with a great attitude. Was always fun to watch and looked like he was having a blast playing.
Just call all the instances of blocking downfield and WR's holding and I'd be happy. To go with it add a standard 5 or 10 second count from the time the FJ places the ball to allow proper evaluation of substitutions and create a consistency in pace or play.
Interesting article for sure. I’ll stand by my point(except the 99.9.%, but I’d bet my IRA it would be over 75%) that removing booze from the equation would be the single biggest impact on campus rape. And it’s easy at an advanced age to forget just how fucking stupid blasted some of us got in those years. I know the only threesome I had in my life I have exactly zero memory of. And one of the girls I had no attraction to. Was I raped? I know sober I wouldn’t have touched one of them. We were all drinking together. Ugly Sue remembered something cuz I heard about it the next day from guys who knew her. I had to wear that like a dunce hat for years. Shame on all 3 of us but I know who I blame even all these years later. Ron Bacardi and ignorant youthfulness. It’s the one thing that if removed from the equation stops it from ever occurring I know that. Sober me never lets it start and I believe sober Sue would say the same. Especially since some weeks later I got the “I don’t really know what happened entirely but I’m so sorry” talk and although still angry I had to admit that I remembered none of it beyond falling onto a couch at their house. Good news. I have not drank to excess now 32 years later. 4 beer limit I’ve yet to break and no hard stuff. Based on the DUI’s, divorce’s and early deaths I’ve witnessed by people in my life it was a negative that I turned into a positive for sure. Shared the story with my daughter & son when they were college bound and they seemed to adopt a pretty damn cautious attitude toward alcohol. I just wish more young adults would see all the destruction alcohol unleashes in their world and treat it accordingly so we wouldn’t have to re live these stories again and again.
If we want to eliminate 99.9% of all campus rape it actually very simple. Remove all alcohol from college campus's. I'm sorry but a DRUG that is capable of rendering human beings completely unaware and not in control of their physical or mental self should not be openly encouraged for use by young people living away from home for the first time. Every fucking time I hear about another one of these incidents the first detail I read is alcohol was involved. Like NO SHIT it was!! Its the fucking straw the stirs the date rape drink so to speak. Its the necessary catalyst that, if not present, this doesn't happen. Rapes will still happen, but they will be committed by rapists. People who are predisposed to violence and domination and get their fix by raping. People who would commit this act SOBER. In other words. Psychopaths.
Sadly he watched a President of the USA do this on the daily. Acting like truth is what HE thinks or says it is. While Trump was president my golf handicap dropped from 16 to 6. I simply played by the Presidents rules.
Don’t underestimate the provincialism of these young men. Saban knows it’s a hardship for a player and his family to be 20+ driving hours or expensive flights from him. IMO it’s so different for lower income families to provide support from long distance that it’s rare to see a kid make the risky leap into a far away world. Saban never built anything. His greatest coaching accomplishment was what he did at MSU and that was nothing compared to what Harbaugh did at Stanford or San Fran. Winning championships when your team has 8 better players than your opponent on both sides of the ball is easy. Kirby & Brian Kelly will eat Nicks lunch till he quits. His days of stacking 5*’s on the bench to keep them away from his opponents are over.
Mac Jones, Cardale Jones, CJ Stroud. Mobility is a bonus for sure but innate timing, accuracy, arm strength and leadership under pressure are the pre requisites you look for first.
That domination over OSU paid off today. Favorable match up for us along with making Kirby potentially have to scheme for OSUs air raid then immediately face the road graters of Michigan
At some point the DBs have to feel this dudes timing and go hunting. He’s getting it out at 3 seconds every time. Either blitz his ass or pic him but fuck up his timing or he’s screen passing his way to FGs all night long.
I really appreciate coaches full commitment to owning the clock. Something a large chunk of the brain trust here spent years convincing us did not matter. The past 2 games, victories, against OSU shows different. Once you decide you are a low variance offense built to drive not explode, you commit 100%. We have done that and it absolutely KILLS teams like OSU. They are like Alan Iverson. Dude would have 48pts in the box score but he took 33 shots. Ohio’s explosive offense relies on having enough rolls of the dice to get the pay out. We absolutely robbed them of that both games. We started on the first damn drive. Religiously using the play clock down to 5-6 seconds. Then once a lead was established in the 3rd we stayed inbounds with intention and snapped at under 05 every single play. Fuck tempo football. It’s a cheese dick trick to cover over poor execution by hoping the Ds confusion is worse than your shit execution. It’s saying Iverson’s way is the way. I personally love perfect execution of designed plays and controlling the game better than relying on volume and waiting to catch their fuck up.
Rain favors the O line. They know where they are going and the D has to react. Slippery footing is harder on the D in all aspects EXCEPT pass rush. Which is the only time it’s reversed. D player knows where he’s going and the O lineman must react.
There was not conclusive evidence that he lost control on the way down IMO.
I was a kid at the game in 81. Remember it very well as my favorite player was Anthony Carter and he was unstoppable that day.
Amen. This is the identity of a Jim Harbaugh team. Make no mistake, he’s daring opponents to stuff 7-8 guys in the box to stop Corum. At which point the separation that makes even a pedestrian passing O highly dangerous will be there. Nobody is loading the box on us. I have my suspicions that 15yrs of the CFB spread and shred has left teams without the personal(LBs) with the size & toughness to stand up to pulling guards and 240lb TEs coming with bad intent and Mr. Harbaugh has recognized and is exploiting this to our benefit. The comparison to service academies is very fitting. They dictate your D strategy no matter what you might want to do. Only with better, bigger athletes at M and a capable passing attack your stuck. You don’t have Urlacher, Sam Sword, Dahani Jones type LBs to keep the safeties clean so pick your poison. Leave them in the field and give up 6ypc or drop em down and watch that TE catch it at 12 yds and go 40.
Why do we always want to change our teams identity? We are a dominant power running team with a complimentary play action passing game. We play smart and aggressive brand of defense and have excellent special teams. We are Stanford with higher level athletes. We are Jim Harbaugh (finally) and we will go as far as that will take us. I accept that. Hell after a decade and a half in the desert I embrace that. Asking Jim Harbaugh to make his team look like some Mike Leech hybrid is asking for more time in the desert. He’ll fail trying to be something he is not. We cajoled a faction of M fans that they had to embrace RRs identity and style. Even when it was unwatchable. I’ll watch us go 10-0 by methodically mauling opponents and roll the dice on a snowstorm every damn year.
Thank you. I want a team with an identity and that absolutely knows who they are. Might our power game run into an NFL D line vs. UGA or Bama and lose yet again? Yup. But don’t change a thing. Pretending like some particular “system” is going to overcome that is an exercise in futility that sends you chasing . Ruins your continuity and ultimately your execution.
I’m going to accept and ultimately encourage the now clear fact that Harbaugh wants his team to be built to mash faces. It’s the right strategy IMO. Trying to out OSU the buckeyes with a too similar strategy plays into their hands. We need to be built for maximizing our opponents discomfort by making them do things THEY don’t like to do. That means making ever smaller and faster LBs deal with 6’6” TEs by the bushel getting their faces mashed repeatedly until they just can’t anymore. God bless Jim Harbaugh for deciding that when everyone else is sporting Uzi’s he’s bringing a sawed off 12 gage.
Agree. Nothing turns somebody’s lights out faster than a clean hook to the jaw. The rotational forces seem amplified if your only trans axial joint is snapping loosely with the hit. I know a dislocated jaw can severely effect balance and equilibrium so it would seem logical to me. Unless you can get knocked out and not suffer a concussion?
Crazy but I was happy when JJ threw the pic. I feel like it was his opportunity to show moxie. And he did. Being able to bounce back strong after when things aren’t going your way is the trademark of a championship QB. Awesome to see him prove that to himself. Should be a big confidence boost for him. Now throw DEEP young man!! You can overcome.
Don’t know if he might be diabetic or pre but I know the only seizure I’ve seen in person looked similar and was my cousins discovery that he was diabetic. Real rare for something like epilepsy to not reveal until mid adulthood from what I read. Here’s hoping he was just dehydrated or something minor like that.
I feel like at some point the Death Star has to have an unlucky season. That nasty combination of untimely injuries and turnovers that leave THEM 9-3 and the GOOD GUYS 12-0!!!
I know NIL is the present and the future. But more than any other season I’d put my $$ on whatever team has the most experienced returning roster to win it all. I keep asking the question. How do you coach an 18yr old that shows up to practice in a Bentley with an entourage? The lever that gave CFB head coaches the ability and authority to push these kids to become great is gone. It used to be “follow my leadership and buy in, I’ll get you to the next level $$” Now these kids are arriving having, by their definition, already made it. Watch and see. There will be more than 1 team chucked full of high $$ 5*s that will suck ass this year. Army will beat them because their coach, now managing a roster of divas, won’t be able to get the time & practice commitment to learn the option. This season could be full of unexpected surprises. I’ll be extra conscious of penalties, sloppy/lost play, discipline issues on the field etc. to see if coaching staffs struggle like I think many will.
Shea was as good at Michigan as you could expect a 3 star QB who paid his dues and learned his craft to be. Unfortunately Shea was a 5 star that was handed the job the day he arrived, allowed to keep the job regardless of his repeated failure to improve his weaknesses and from all reports gave minimal offseason effort. So we have to judge his career by those criteria. In which case. Shea was a disappointment.
I like auto bench in college. Like Jon B was always using it. I think younger players benefit from the mental “cool off” period after a foul to avoid the tendency to over compensate or make a mental error i:e turnover, bad shot choice etc. I guess with upperclassman with the experience to not fall victim to that stuff and where the game stands at the time it should be flexible.
Jones is just a bad PG IMO. Guy could probably be a great 2 but he’s so lost as a PG at this level. In the 2 games I saw live the difference between him and Smith or Simpson is instantly visible. He doesn’t communicate and his eyes are on his dribble. Simpson was amazing when you watched his eyes. His physical communication with his teammates. Everyone on the court has to learn the body language of the PG and he has to be consistent and emphatic with his cues. There is ZERO of that with Jones. IMHO
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That was my first game at the big house. I was a kid and it was awesome. Anthony Carter & Butch Woolfolk became my first favorite players that day.
For me. 2021 OSU was about as good as it gets. They were favored, they were cocky, we were strong but everyone was afraid to believe. Until they weren't, and when that happened it was football heaven. When you could FEEL the thing happening, combined with the snow, the LOUDEST I've ever heard the big house. Chills typing this.
My #2 is 1995 OSU. Watching the Biakabatuka just WILL his way to 300yds. Running the ball with a reckless abandon that reminded me of OJ in the snow. All while the favored buckeyes with their Heisman RB just had no answer. It was one of those "the next play is gonna be #21 off tackle so good luck" kind of dominations that really stuck with me.
100% spot on. The other thing IMHO is that while fans can reason with getting experience for the young stud at the expense of the moment. Those fans don’t have to look the seniors for whom this is their last hurrah in the eye and know you’re robbing them of their glory to serve next year. I think Harbaugh, and most coaches, automatically default to doing everything to win THIS GAME. Too much work has been done by the men standing with you to allow for any other way.
Such an evenly matched game is going to come down to which team has greater resilience. Who can be down 10 points or just had a tipped ball picked off and still play with the belief and confidence that “we shall overcome”. This is why I like Michigan this Friday. We have been tested and faced adversity many times this season. Georgia faced it once against Alabama and fell short. Go Blue!!
I think this is a Harbaugh classic. Use all sorts of formations and window dressing to cost their LBs & Safety an extra 1/2 step in doubt and run on them. Their athletes are way better than Iowa’s but I’m betting their easier to fool.