Michigan didn’t play well in their final game this season, but then to be fair they didn’t play well in most of their games this season! All you need to do is look at their 3-9 record this season and realize that no matter how hard they may have played in each game, and no matter how often and by how many points they may have lead in many of those games-they still lost more games than any Michigan team in the last 40 years!
Michigan played well in the first half and then their energy and enthusiasm seemed to bleed away from them. The second half belonged to the Buck-eyes and they didn’t look back. The announcers made many references to how this would be the OSU seniors 5th straight win over the Wolverines and that OSU had never done that before. This was the season for Michigan firsts. We lost for the first time to a MAC team when Toledo beat us 13-10.We lost to MSU, Notre Dame and OSU in the same season for the first time in 20 years. We lost to OSU 5 straight seasons for the first time ever.
This was a season of firsts…this is the first season I ever just wanted to go to sleep and hope it was really a bad dream! Like the Dallas show back in the 80’s! I don’t think that’s going to happen when I wake up tomorrow morning though.
Michigan 7 OSU 42
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Michigan Looses at home to Northwestern!
Michigan didn’t waste any time to get back to their loosing ways this season. After last week’s impressive win over Minnesota Michigan lost at home to Northwestern-a team they’ve not lost at home to since 1995!
The weather sucked in Ann Arbor last Saturday afternoon-there is no other succinct way to put it-it was cold, windy and a combination of snow/sleet. No one wanted to be in the stadium to watch this game and with Michigan playing poorly there was even less reason to stay. Fans were leaving at half-time and not worrying about returning!
Michigan has now lost 8 games this season for the first time in their history and they have the change to lose to OSU in Columbus this upcoming Saturday. Michigan has played spoiler against OSU in the past, but that was always a better team than what has been playing this year. Michigan could beat MSU at home this year and I see very little hope they will beat OSU at home either.
Let’s hope the Michigan Wolverines don’t start making this a seasonal thing, else we may have to place them in the same category as the Detroit Lions.
Michigan 14 Northwestern 21 in Ann Arbor
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Box Score
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=283200130
Monday, November 17, 2008
The weather sucked in Ann Arbor last Saturday afternoon-there is no other succinct way to put it-it was cold, windy and a combination of snow/sleet. No one wanted to be in the stadium to watch this game and with Michigan playing poorly there was even less reason to stay. Fans were leaving at half-time and not worrying about returning!
Michigan has now lost 8 games this season for the first time in their history and they have the change to lose to OSU in Columbus this upcoming Saturday. Michigan has played spoiler against OSU in the past, but that was always a better team than what has been playing this year. Michigan could beat MSU at home this year and I see very little hope they will beat OSU at home either.
Let’s hope the Michigan Wolverines don’t start making this a seasonal thing, else we may have to place them in the same category as the Detroit Lions.
Michigan 14 Northwestern 21 in Ann Arbor
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=283200130
Box Score
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=283200130
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Michigan Beats Minnesota-Goes 3-7 for Season
More amazing than cheese-whiz was that the U of M Wolverines beat the Minnesota Golden Gophers last Saturday 29-6 improving their record to 3-6 this season and giving them hop that they could end the season with a 3 game winning streak.
I was very surprised that Michigan came prepared for this game. After losing to Utah, Toledo and Michigan State the season was essentially over, and all they had left to play for was pride. Not that a potential 5-7 record is anything to boast over, but if the Wolverines can beat Northwestern this weekend and OSU in the following weekend they will have shown the potential exists to turn around next season, and give hope to the massive following that IS Michigan football that all may not be lost forever. It's just lost for this season!
The additional benefit of Michigan’s win is that the little brown jug stays with us for at least another year. And after the terrible season this team has had they need to enjoy every victory they can!
Michigan v. Minnesota-November 2008
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Thursday 12th November 2008
I was very surprised that Michigan came prepared for this game. After losing to Utah, Toledo and Michigan State the season was essentially over, and all they had left to play for was pride. Not that a potential 5-7 record is anything to boast over, but if the Wolverines can beat Northwestern this weekend and OSU in the following weekend they will have shown the potential exists to turn around next season, and give hope to the massive following that IS Michigan football that all may not be lost forever. It's just lost for this season!
The additional benefit of Michigan’s win is that the little brown jug stays with us for at least another year. And after the terrible season this team has had they need to enjoy every victory they can!
Michigan v. Minnesota-November 2008
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Thursday 12th November 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Michigan Losses to Purdue
Michigan has become the team I never thought they would become. When I was young and would watch the Michigan v. OSU game it seemed like it was always the game that decided who would be big ten champions, who would go to the rose bowl. Bo Schembechler ALWAYS told us the we were playing for the big ten championship. When I was younger-before entering college-I hoped we'd go for the national title someday, and in 1998 I saw my dreams cone true on a late January evening in Chicago. I watched alone from my dorm room in grad school as Michigan beat Washington State and took the national championship.
Since that day it feels like Michigan has died a little bit more with each game they've played and this season has been the final chapter to the long slow death we've been experiencing!
So many of us did complain the last couple of seasons with the outcomes of the games and the losses and how coach Carr seemed to have lost the fire that he had when he first took over as head coach so many years ago. But with coach Carr we had a link to the past-a tie to coach Schembechler-and with that tie we had a reminder of the past and we were stronger for it, because we could run the ball, we could pass the ball and we won the games by playing hard and remembering we were playing to win-to win for Michigan.
With coach Carr gone we've lost that tie to the past. We've forgotten how to play football and lost the Michigan way. We've forgotten why were out there-not simply to win, but to win for Michigan, to play for Michigan and to represent Michigan!
With those thoughts going through my mind Michigan found a way to loose to Purdue last Saturday-42 to 48.
Michigan 42 Purdue 48 November 2008
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Wednesday November 5th, 2008
Since that day it feels like Michigan has died a little bit more with each game they've played and this season has been the final chapter to the long slow death we've been experiencing!
So many of us did complain the last couple of seasons with the outcomes of the games and the losses and how coach Carr seemed to have lost the fire that he had when he first took over as head coach so many years ago. But with coach Carr we had a link to the past-a tie to coach Schembechler-and with that tie we had a reminder of the past and we were stronger for it, because we could run the ball, we could pass the ball and we won the games by playing hard and remembering we were playing to win-to win for Michigan.
With coach Carr gone we've lost that tie to the past. We've forgotten how to play football and lost the Michigan way. We've forgotten why were out there-not simply to win, but to win for Michigan, to play for Michigan and to represent Michigan!
With those thoughts going through my mind Michigan found a way to loose to Purdue last Saturday-42 to 48.
Michigan 42 Purdue 48 November 2008
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Wednesday November 5th, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Michigan/MSU Game-October 25th, 2008
Michigan lost its 6th game this season and is quickly losing its chance to have a .500 season, and has already lost its chance now of having a winning season.
I cannot remember Michigan ever having a losing season.But while Michigan played well for the first 50 minutes of the game they forgot that it's a 60 minute game. With the game tied 21-21 Michigan gave up a touchdown and then on their next possession they threw an interception. State scored and took a 35-21 lead with just a few minutes left and beat Michigan at the Big House for the first time since 1990.
This is by far the worst Michigan team I’ve ever seen play.
Let's hope Coach Rodriguez has it together next year.
Michigan Looses at Big House
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=282990130
Espn-Michigan Home site
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=130
Saturday October 25th, 2008
I cannot remember Michigan ever having a losing season.But while Michigan played well for the first 50 minutes of the game they forgot that it's a 60 minute game. With the game tied 21-21 Michigan gave up a touchdown and then on their next possession they threw an interception. State scored and took a 35-21 lead with just a few minutes left and beat Michigan at the Big House for the first time since 1990.
This is by far the worst Michigan team I’ve ever seen play.
Let's hope Coach Rodriguez has it together next year.
Michigan Looses at Big House
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=282990130
Espn-Michigan Home site
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=130
Saturday October 25th, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Penn State Defeats Michigan at State College, PA
Last Saturday-October 18th, 2008-The Wolverines from the University of Michigan came to State College, PA to play the undefeated Nittany Lions. The Wolverines are under new management-as they say-with a new coach and everyone had thought that any difficulties the Wolverines would have in adjusting to the new coaching staff and new plays and attitude would not take long. The tradition at Michigan is a winning one, and no one I knew could think of when Michigan last had a losing season, let alone were simply a bad team.
I grew up watching both Michigan and Penn State play. I had an uncle who loved watching Michigan play and my grandfather who I was close to when I was growing up loved Penn State-probably due to the fact that he grew up in the backyard of State College and went to PSU. I always heard from both sides-uncle and grandfather-that if they ever were to play each other, it would be like worlds colliding, titans battling! Neither side would admit that they could lose. Fortunate for them when I was growing up they played in different divisions-Michigan in the Big Ten and Penn State in the Independent division.
Some 15 years ago though Penn State joined the Big Ten division and Michigan and Penn State have played nearly every year and I’ve seen some very good ball games when they’ve played each other. This year Michigan is simply not playing well-and this is not said to take away anything from the Nittany Lions win last weekend. The Penn State Nittany Lions are playing top ball and are the ones to beat in the Big Ten conference. I believe the Big ten Title is the Nittany Lions to lose. In fact they play OSU this upcoming weekend in Columbus and it should be a very good game. ESPN is making the case that this game will decide who will win the Big ten championship. If Penn State wins then they control their destiny in reference to the Big-ten title. They have three games remaining after playing OSU and all of them are conference games. It’s in the Lions hands.
I’ve watched the Wolverines and the Lions play my entire life and have gotten used to seeing both of them in a bowl game and fighting for the Big ten title or for a National championship. This year though I may find I only have to look for the Nittany Lions playing over the New Year Holiday as Michigan-with a 2-5 record-doesn’t look like they know how to win, or want to win at times. Perhaps this really is a rebuilding year for the Michigan Wolverines. At least I’ll be able to feel confident and secure as long as Joe continues to coach the Lions at State College!
Penn State-espn page
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=213
Michigan-espn web page
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=130
Penn State 46 Michigan 17
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=282920213
Thursday, October 23, 2008
I grew up watching both Michigan and Penn State play. I had an uncle who loved watching Michigan play and my grandfather who I was close to when I was growing up loved Penn State-probably due to the fact that he grew up in the backyard of State College and went to PSU. I always heard from both sides-uncle and grandfather-that if they ever were to play each other, it would be like worlds colliding, titans battling! Neither side would admit that they could lose. Fortunate for them when I was growing up they played in different divisions-Michigan in the Big Ten and Penn State in the Independent division.
Some 15 years ago though Penn State joined the Big Ten division and Michigan and Penn State have played nearly every year and I’ve seen some very good ball games when they’ve played each other. This year Michigan is simply not playing well-and this is not said to take away anything from the Nittany Lions win last weekend. The Penn State Nittany Lions are playing top ball and are the ones to beat in the Big Ten conference. I believe the Big ten Title is the Nittany Lions to lose. In fact they play OSU this upcoming weekend in Columbus and it should be a very good game. ESPN is making the case that this game will decide who will win the Big ten championship. If Penn State wins then they control their destiny in reference to the Big-ten title. They have three games remaining after playing OSU and all of them are conference games. It’s in the Lions hands.
I’ve watched the Wolverines and the Lions play my entire life and have gotten used to seeing both of them in a bowl game and fighting for the Big ten title or for a National championship. This year though I may find I only have to look for the Nittany Lions playing over the New Year Holiday as Michigan-with a 2-5 record-doesn’t look like they know how to win, or want to win at times. Perhaps this really is a rebuilding year for the Michigan Wolverines. At least I’ll be able to feel confident and secure as long as Joe continues to coach the Lions at State College!
Penn State-espn page
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=213
Michigan-espn web page
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=130
Penn State 46 Michigan 17
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=282920213
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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