  Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22 Post Number: 306 Registered: 02-2005 |
I thought if the Wolverines did 2/3 things today, they'd narrowly escape with a victory Blitz Quinn from everywhere Throw the deep ball Healthy doses of Hart and Grady They did all 3 and ND gave up the most points at home in 46 years. Brady Quinn was crying and we don't have to hear about the Tub of Lard for awhile. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2102 Registered: 02-2005 |
Meeeeeeeeeeechigan....was f***ing amazing today. The national championship hopes are alive and well now. | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 1128 Registered: 11-2003 |
That game should move them into the top five! Still got lots of games to go! | ||
Hagglerock Member Username: Hagglerock Post Number: 319 Registered: 03-2005 |
What bothered me the most was what Jerome Bettis had said about the U of M during a ND pep rally. That he is from Detroit, but he 'hates' the U of M. Anyone else see that? Hate is such a strong word, especially to hear it from a man I respect, both on and off the field. Funny thing he sure disappeared from the announcer's booth after big blue started racking up the TDs. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2991 Registered: 10-2003 |
Only two things I ask of Michigan. Beat Notre Dame and Ohio State. If they go 2-10 for the season and those are the only two they win, I am satisfied. If they open a can of whoop ass on them, especially on the road like yesterday, I am ecstatic. One down, one to go. Tigs win was frosting, a great double header win for the D. | ||
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026 Post Number: 1314 Registered: 10-2005 |
and STATE WON!!  | ||
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess Post Number: 27 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hagglerock: I think Bettis means it with the usual sports-rivalry sense, e.g., "OhowIhateOhioState," not Serbia-Croatia | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 1345 Registered: 02-2006 |
I live about 10 minutes from ND stadium and was at the game yesterday. Meeeeeeeeeechigan totally kicked ass. Here's some local coverage: Weis Gets Taste of Own Medicine JASON KELLY SOUTH BEND -- Lloyd Carr's getaway from Notre Dame Stadium began with a police escort. A state trooper accompanied him as he trotted off the field through the ranks of the Notre Dame marching band that formed around him during his postgame television interview. He committed his crime in broad daylight in front of 80,795 witnesses, but he left the scene with law enforcement clearing a path. Carr slipped out of town with a bus full of accomplices and crossed state lines under cover of darkness, as untouchable as Mario Manningham in the Irish secondary. There were three felony arrests Saturday on charges of stealing and counterfeiting tickets to Michigan's 47-21 throttling of Notre Dame. The most blatant transgression went unpunished -- identity theft, the wanton act of assuming the coaching personality of Charlie Weis, who put up all the resistance of a mall cop in stopping Carr's aggression.Michigan swarmed on defense, dictated on offense and dug its cleats into Notre Dame's chest to prevent its supine opponent from recovering. Carr, notorious for the conservative way he has shackled his athletes in losses here, commandeered the Weis approach Saturday with power running and crisp, explosive passing. Running back Mike Hart softened the interior of the Notre Dame defense and Manningham blistered the edges of a secondary exposed as porous again with four long receptions -- three for touchdowns. "Mario Manningham is a guy that we feel is going to be awfully difficult for anybody to single cover," Carr said, sounding a little like Weis in the understated, but satisfying description of a tactical situation used to his advantage. It had a deflating effect on a defense that had showed renewed strength early in the season only to revert to last season's most debilitating problems at the worst time. "We took a beating today," Irish safety Chinedum Ndukwe said. That extended to the other side of the ball, where Carr cut loose what he called the best defensive line he has coached to harass Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn.An interception returned for a touchdown on the first drive established a theme. Turnovers stifled drives when general ineffectiveness didn't and as Michigan's avalanche of a lead increased to 34-7 in the first half, hope all but evaporated. "You try not to think like that, but I think the entire game kind of showed that," running back Darius Walker said after staggering forward for 25 yards on 10 carries. "We got down early and they kept us down." Michigan's complete performance punished Notre Dame like no opponent -- not even Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl zhas since Weis arrived. Thoughts of a national championship or a Heisman Trophy for the battered and erratic Quinn disappeared and Weis became the leader of a recovery operation instead. Rescuing a season from one early loss should not be too difficult, but the goals must be adjusted, if not the one-at-a-time approach. Carr took schematic and psychological pages from the Weis playbook, throwing the ball rather than nursing the clock, going for the throat instead of taking a knee.Left standing for the first time as a head coach after a trip to South Bend, he made a quick change from his coaching attire into his mild-mannered accountant style, the better to disguise his escape. Showered and refreshed in a crisp blue shirt and tie, he stood at the podium looking nothing like the embattled coach who entered this season hearing the complaints of agitated fans. "We've had to deal with all the negative things that surround the football team and a program when things aren't going your way," Carr said, showing no inclination to forget any perceived slights. Someone wondered how much it meant to him to win at Notre Dame Stadium, how much personal satisfaction he felt to leave this place with a smile instead of his more familiar sour-lemon expression. "Me?" Carr said, all innocent like, smiling like he just got away with something. In a way he did.Channeling Charlie Weis, Carr slipped out of South Bend with a win. He may have been an identity thief for one day in Indiana, but because of those brazen actions, he can show his face in Michigan again. http://www.southbendtribune.co m/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2 0060917/NDSports15/609170374 _ _ _ I'm anxious to see how the Irish do next week in East Lansing. | ||
Umstucoach Member Username: Umstucoach Post Number: 83 Registered: 04-2006 |
The ND/MSU game will be very good. Remember, this is September, and the Spartans are worldbeaters in Sept. Stanton has that offense working well right now. If ND can't stop the run (with Stanton included) then the pre-season national champs with the all-god quarterback and head coach will be 2-2. | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 1514 Registered: 12-2003 |
Of course is MSU defeats ND, then ND will be looked at as overranked as many have believed and this victory then becomes not as shocking. | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 1363 Registered: 02-2006 |
State has a pretty good record recently versus the Irish. The game doesn't start until 8:00pm which, IMO, gives MSU a slight advantage since the game is being played there. |
