How many OSU fans do you think did the same thing after last year and their ridiculous draft class? I don't see any reason why with our recruiting and this coaching staff why we couldn't do the same thing next year...this team will definitely look different personnel wise but we'll have a lot of youth who have had a chance to dip their feet in this year to get ready for next year. Depth will be scary at a few spots but hey, we were so worried about LB this year and it turned out okay.
39-9 seems quite reasonable...5 TDs and a fg, with the final td coming with a 2 point conversion for '94. Or maybe for the trolling this week. Either works.
I was definitely a little concerned about our run defense today but for what's worth if you take out their one long TD run their YPC goes from 6 to 4.2, and taking their 2nd longest out as well that drops it to about 3.5. Still would have liked to see better from our defensive front mainly on keeping contain, but at least it was this game and hopefully they will be able to fix some of the issues by the time The Game rolls around.
If this ends up anything similar to Tennessee's showing last night, I think most of us will still cackle. Although App State apparently won 11 games as a Sun Belt team last year, whereas Furman won 4 in the FCS...
I think it might be this post that causes me to finally realize football is back. It feels like football games are actually going to be played soon, not just in my dreams.
I imagine more than anything the additional aggression will mostly just put some pressure on the back end to win one on one matchups. I'd like to think we are pretty confident that our DBs can handle that this year.
It's hard not to have sky high expectations for this defense this year, but I think only half of it in my mind is because of Don Brown. The other half is the dudes we have. If he sticks around long enough though this could be a perennial powerhouse unit, at which I salivate uncontrollably.
I'm curious to see how long it takes one of them to notice that it now says "2016 Rutgers Scarlett Nights Football". Or how quickly someone will ask the question, "Who is Scarlett Nights?"
I like how there seems to be a random contingent of Marshall fandom near Marshall, MI. Also, anyone know what that one is between UVA and Miami in Virginia? It's in a couple random places. I'm on my phone so I can't really tell what it is.
Dang, I used to live just a few minutes from Bob Jones. Would have probably gone to watch that if I hadn't moved to Utah. Would be curious to see if there were any SEC hecklers.
Beat me to the punch on this one. That was my exact initial reaction to this. It's as if the coach thinks these players don't have the freedom to go wherever they want.
Would like to see the Packers get one of those big DTs (Billings, Reed, or Robinson) on the board at 27. Ragland would be great too but probably a bit of a pipe dream. Or you know, if they want to save a d line pick for a little later, I wouldn't mind seeing them take Henry. I was pumped when they drafted Jake Ryan, so this would be kinda like that.
Don't really like the ones in the instagram photo much. The shoulder stripes just seem a bit frilly to me. I tend to stand with the crowd that is asking what need there is to revamp something that is already beautiful.
If there is one alternate thing of late that I have liked at all it might be the matte helmets from the Outback bowl a few years ago. Those weren't bad.
From what I have seen so far they seem to be improving their times, but some of the others are churning out some really fast splits. I don't know that they are swimming slow so much as everyone else is just fast this week.
This takes me back to my swimming days in high school. I used to think 21 seconds in the 50 was fast but good grief 18 is ridiculous. And they make it look so easy.
I'd love to see us push for a title but I haven't followed NCAA swimming for a while so I have no idea where the usual giants are. Sounds like Cal and Florida are being their normal selves though. Go blue!
I know I am nowhere near the first person to say this, but I am so optimistic about this game I am scared. I think I might be excited most about seeing playcalls from Harbaugh that just utterly mess with the heads of every MSU defender on the field and by the time they figure out what happened someone is in the endzone for 6. Yet somehow I can't help worrying that MSU pulls out all the stops and somehow plays out of their minds. And then every other one of their remaining 5 games afterward they look just as overrated as they have through the first 6. Am I completely irrational?
One might also point out that Michigan is injured too. Maybe not as much, but I am sure none of us can say we wouldn't like to have Ojemudia and Mone in there. It's looking like Smith might be a bit dinged, and who knows who else is a little banged up at this point. Obvious point being that no team is 100% healthy and that their mentality ought to just be "next man up". I remember when MSU was in the Rose Bowl and Bullough I think got knocked out. The backup came in and did just fine.
No...there is something else in the air...and it smells like sparty fear. And I can smell it from Alabama.
Douchebaggery driven by fear, perhaps?... Or just bitterness towards JH maybe. If I were Jim I'd want to tell them to take it out on the people who made the rules not someone who happens to be exploiting a loophole.
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How many OSU fans do you think did the same thing after last year and their ridiculous draft class? I don't see any reason why with our recruiting and this coaching staff why we couldn't do the same thing next year...this team will definitely look different personnel wise but we'll have a lot of youth who have had a chance to dip their feet in this year to get ready for next year. Depth will be scary at a few spots but hey, we were so worried about LB this year and it turned out okay.
Oregon is not who they have been recently but they do at least still have a pulse so i think this still beefs up Michigan's resume at least a little.
I was definitely a little concerned about our run defense today but for what's worth if you take out their one long TD run their YPC goes from 6 to 4.2, and taking their 2nd longest out as well that drops it to about 3.5. Still would have liked to see better from our defensive front mainly on keeping contain, but at least it was this game and hopefully they will be able to fix some of the issues by the time The Game rolls around.
40-9 Good Guys. No Michigan opponent sees the endzone for at least another week.
If this ends up anything similar to Tennessee's showing last night, I think most of us will still cackle. Although App State apparently won 11 games as a Sun Belt team last year, whereas Furman won 4 in the FCS...
61-6 MICHIGAN
30-22 Paramus
61-6 MICHIGAN
I take it they will be handing out binoculars as fans enter the stadium. This whole idea just seems strange and ridiculous to me.
How about a sack fumble scoop and score brought to you courtesy of Rashan Gary and Jabrill Peppers?
I can't decide which one I like more, that one or this one:
I'm curious to see how long it takes one of them to notice that it now says "2016 Rutgers Scarlett Nights Football". Or how quickly someone will ask the question, "Who is Scarlett Nights?"
It would appear to be "0.01 humanoid objects" according to the wiki page.
I know I am nowhere near the first person to say this, but I am so optimistic about this game I am scared. I think I might be excited most about seeing playcalls from Harbaugh that just utterly mess with the heads of every MSU defender on the field and by the time they figure out what happened someone is in the endzone for 6. Yet somehow I can't help worrying that MSU pulls out all the stops and somehow plays out of their minds. And then every other one of their remaining 5 games afterward they look just as overrated as they have through the first 6. Am I completely irrational?
19-9 Michigan. 2 TDs, FG, Safety. MSU doesn't get into the endzone, and all 3 FGs are outside the redzone. Hoping for shutout #4 though.
One might also point out that Michigan is injured too. Maybe not as much, but I am sure none of us can say we wouldn't like to have Ojemudia and Mone in there. It's looking like Smith might be a bit dinged, and who knows who else is a little banged up at this point. Obvious point being that no team is 100% healthy and that their mentality ought to just be "next man up". I remember when MSU was in the Rose Bowl and Bullough I think got knocked out. The backup came in and did just fine.
No...there is something else in the air...and it smells like sparty fear. And I can smell it from Alabama.
16-9 Michigan. 3 FGs and 1 TD, probably because Peppers finally breaks one.
Michigan 34-6
would have upvoted this if i could. Love me some IT crowd.
Douchebaggery driven by fear, perhaps?... Or just bitterness towards JH maybe. If I were Jim I'd want to tell them to take it out on the people who made the rules not someone who happens to be exploiting a loophole.