I have to say
that I’m never quite sure what will come out on Monday Morning, even after I’ve
attended a game or watched it on the tube. I usually take Sunday to reflect and think
about things in order to not simply be a RANTING, RAVING LUNATIC on Monday
morning, so people will actually see that I have some intelligence and can put
together a logical, cohesive review of the events that transpired on Saturday. However, on Saturday afternoon in a NOT PACKED
(Sections of the Big House were completely empty – no WAY there was 102K in attendance)
stadium with approximately a minute left in the 2nd quarter, the
logical side of my brain combined with the emotion filled Maize and Blue side
of my brain and came to a point of acute clarity: With exactly
1:17 left in the 2nd Quarter, I realized this-
Brady Hoke
needs to be fired.
Again, I’m
not saying today. That accomplishes
nothing. But, I think we need to review
the end of the 2nd quarter in detail. I’m putting the play-by-play in here so you
can re-live the gut wrenching, excruciating agony we were all going through as
fans at that particular moment in time.
Michigan gets
the ball on their own 47 yard line with 3 and change on the game clock, up 7
points. There had been turnovers earlier
in the 2nd quarter and that was building up all the fan’s frustration,
but I said out loud to the crowd around me:
“OK. This is good. Put together some sort of scoring drive and
take some momentum into the locker room for halftime.” Folks, Miami has not won a game in their last
18 tries. A hurry-hurry, up tempo
offense with Michigan’s athletes should be able to shred the Miami defense for
an easy score. Plain and simple.
But no….Michigan,
on first and 10, with three time-outs remaining, huddled. The ball was snapped on that first down with
less than 10 seconds on the play clock.
Meaning: Michigan wasted
approximately 30 seconds of valuable game clock in the huddle and coming up to
the line of scrimmage. Then, on 2nd
down….Michigan huddled. And
snapped the ball AGAIN with less than 10 seconds on the play clock!!!! Finally, Michigan huddled, RAN
AGAIN and, mercifully got a first down which stopped the clock with
under 1:40 left in the half. That’s
nearly a 2:00 waste of game time….
WTF ARE YOU DOING????
With each
second that ticked off the game clock, my brain began to emotionally lose
control. The logical side of my mind
initially looked at the time left and said, “Yeah, OK, don’t score too quickly
and leave them time to score. Get down into scoring position and then kill some
clock…” Now, Michigan had squandered
away nearly a minute and 40 seconds of precious clock, and still had all 3 TO’s on
the board. I believe this is when I
snapped, and my moment of clarity arrived.
Brady
Hoke needs to be fired. This is a FIRE-ABLE
offense.
YOU DO NOT
OPENLY WASTE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS!
THIS IS WHY YOU PLAY A “MACRIFICE” GAME EACH SEASON IN THE FIRST PLACE. TO PRACTICE IN THESE SITUATIONS THE HURRY-HURRY
OFFENSE, SCORE AND HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE IN YOUR BACK POCKET TO REFER BACK TO
WHEN YOU NEED TO DO IT AGAIN IN A GAME THAT TRULY MATTERS!!!!
Not only was
the opportunity wasted, it gets worse. Devin
throws an incomplete on 1st down and Michigan RUNS ON 2ND
DOWN and uses a TO with 1:17 left. Now,
I was really irked, but at least someone was thinking about the clock. After another pass where Canteen couldn’t
stretch for the 1st down, Michigan tried to hurry to the line for a
quick 4th down snap, but instead Miami calls a 0:30 TO to insure
they were ready for what was coming. And
what does Michigan do instead of using that TO to plan an Elvis Grbac to
Desmond Howard 4th down type play, they try to FOOL MIAMI into jumping
off-sides! If that wasn’t the most “CHICKEN-EXCREMENT”
plan and play-call I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is…You have the athletes –
USE THEM! Take a SHOT, fergodsakes and
build some confidence in your OFFENSE!
Even if you miss, YOU’VE SEEN TO IT THAT THERE’S less than a minute of
game time left and the Miami offense isn’t that great…I’ll take my chances with
my Defense…
After that 4th
down “trickery” fails and Michigan gets penalized, I figured, “OK. Settle down.
This isn’t so bad. Now its 4th
and 6 and I guess everyone on Michigan’s Elite Offensive Minded Coaching Staff
was figuring, “Hey, we’re passing for the whole enchilada, anyway, so we tried
to trick them and it didn’t work. Let’s
go run this play now and get into scoring position.”
BUT NOOOOOOOOOOO…..The Gutless Wonder (that would be
Hoke), sends out the punt team with ball inside the 40 and a minute left on the
clock!!!!
AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (The screams were in my head, but they were
soooo loud!!! At least, I hope they were
in my head….)
And Michigan
takes another delay of game and Hagerup ends up punting it into the end
zone. A complete waste of 3:27 to end
the half. The offense learned
NOTHING! The team achieved NOTHING
except 11 total yards of offense.
And Hoke has
proven to this fan that he’s completely incompetent and in over his head as the
head coach of a major program – which I’m beginning to see Michigan is not – A major
program. They are just another college
football team that is not exceptional…and not very good.
Brady Hoke
needs to be fired. I don’t care what
happened for the rest of the game. The
point is, Michigan should have beaten Miami easily. They did in the 2nd half. But the time that TRULY COUNTED was that
3:27 in the 2nd quarter.
That, in this fan’s mind, is a microcosm, a snapshot in time, of what’s
wrong with this team.
Does the
Michigan staff watch college football today?
Do they even professs to have a clue as to what everyone else is
doing? Even the “Power Teams” that
Michigan is trying to be like and emulate have more or less abandoned “the
huddle”. Bama, Stanford, all of them….It’s
a dinosaur whose time has come and gone.
It’s a throwback to a time when 40-50 offensive plays a game were
enough.
College
Football is about numbers. And the
simple way to look at it: If I’m running
70-85 offensive plays to your 50 plays, I’ve got 50% again more chances that my
offense is going to make something good happen because your defense is getting
tired and CANNOT ONLY NOT KEEP PACE with my offense, BUT YOUR DEFENSE CAN’T PLAY
PERFECTLY ALL THE TIME! Advantage: Up tempo, 70-85 play offenses over an offense
trying to play perfectly and limit the number of plays they run on offense.
Please watch
and if Hoke continues to huddle, you will know that the MMQ is slowly, steadily
going down into the abyss of realizing that Michigan Football is never going to
matter again. Not as long as this guy is
in charge. Along with Brandone….always
include Brandone in any firing discussion from now until eternity.
I hope
Brandone was in the Box and I hope he saw the empty stands (how couldn’t he?)
and he heard the boos. Fans paid good
money to boo that series and this coaching staff…Be glad they were there to
boo. Next season, they might not be. There won't be anyone to boo....
I miss Bill
Martin and Rich Rod….
The Rest of the Mess
Va Tech did what you’re not supposed to do
after slaying the dragon…They themselves got slayed… East Carolina had the reputation and pulled
off the upset. Where to from here,
Hokies?
Boston College ripped through the
Rubbers easily with a
strong, penetrating offensive line that took advantage of an in-experienced
defensive line of USC….
Perdon’t did much better than Michigan and at
least scored on the domers…But I’m still trying to figure out if that’s a good
or a bad team…the domers, I mean…
Iowa crapped the bed again against ISU and the dumpster fire
known as the B1G conference is still ablaze….Ferentz has to be feeling some
heat…
Penn State is the only undefeated team (after
Nebraska) left in the B1G and it’s hard to fathom that a team that should still
be digging itself out of a NCAA penalty hole could be vying for the whole
enchilada come November…
Georgia looked so impressive against Clemson
and then so anemic against the Ole Ball Coach’s Cocks…Mark Richt web-sites have
gotten a re-surgence in internet hits and will start making the owners of those
sites money again very soon…
The Hogs saved Beliema’s Bacon and cruised to
an easy victory in Lubbock….
Muschamp will probably move back into the 1
spot after barely beating Kentucky and Stoops (not that one) in double OT. Gator fans are growing restless….And Gatorland hasn’t mattered in a VERY
LONG TIME in the SEC…
And last but
not least, ohio treated their
Macrifice exactly as you should treat them: Like a baby treats a diaper. They hung 66 on Kent State and held them to 0
on the other side of the ball. Where’s
that kind of utter destruction mind set in the Michigan “Goals and Objectives”??? Anyone?
The 5 Stages
of Slappy Fan Grief
- Denial and Isolation: I’m going to put Penn State here. Yes, they are undefeated. But its been UGLY. Disappointment and anger will follow…Add
UCLA to this list.
- ANGER: Sorry USC Fans, Va-Tech fans can also step aside,
not to mention Georgia Dawgs…The MMQ and the Michigan Faithful that had to
witness that 2nd Quarter debacle in Ann Arbor on Saturday own
this one. You can have s spot here
next week….
- Bargaining: I’m sure there’s some Dawg fans here thinking that
they’re not out of the SEC East race just yet, but it doesn’t look good
for the National Title…even though they still believe there’s a chance…
- Depression: Michigan fans…and probably some Va-Tech Hokies…Oh, and
Iowa. Can’t forget Iowa.
- Acceptance: Perdon’t, Iowa, Northwestern, and
Tennessee….
The MMQ’s Top 10
Definitely a
couple of stunners over the weekend. And
one impacting the top 4:
- FSU- this probably won’t change much until the
Louisville game…
- Oregon – Mariota for Heismann…Just cause…
- Texas A&M – is the team with the lowest
percentage to hang in the top 4
- Satan’s Warriors – I don’t believe they will be
here at the end, but for now, I’ve got to put an SEC team in here…
- Oklahoma – cruised over the Cremesicles…
- Baylor – It’ll be one of these two coming out of the
BigXI
- UCLA – It’s been ugly…I’m not sure how good the
Pac12 is now..
- Sparty – we have to keep them in the
Top 10 or there’s no shot at the FF.
- Auburn
- LSU – Back in because of attrition…
- This hurts…domers…
Idle Thoughts From Saturday
-So, Maryland
loses…
-Another
black eye on the B1G.
-Going to be
a chilly one in the Big House.
-Weird
temperature swings.
-Tailgate
felt hot.
-Stadium is
15 degrees cooler…
-I hate
screwy fall weather.
-Be warm or
cold
-One or the
other.
-Here we
go. Miami should be easier than App
State.
-At least, I
think they should be easier.
-What are we
doing on offense?
-Defense
playing well.
-No yards in
1st quarter for Miami…none to speak of, anyway.
-Michigan
needs to learn how to score.
-Stop turning
the ball over!!!
-HANG ON TO
THE DAMN BALL!
-Sloppy,
sloppy, sloppy…
-Okay, up 7
with 3 and change on the 50.
-Let’s drive
this down and punch it in.
-Mo-mo at
half-time is a good thing.
-What are
they doing?
-Get UP TO
THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE!
-COME
ON! HURRY UP!
-NOW WHAT ARE
YOU DOING?
-OH MY GOD….NO,
WTF!!!!
-This is
pathetic…
-Are you
kidding me? We are trying to FAKE MIAMI
into jumping offsides?
-Jesus, RUN A
PLAY AND TAKE CONTROL OF THIS GAME!
-Brady Hoke…needs
to be fired.
-I’ve been
blind too long…not anymore.
-I hate where
this has to go before it can get better.
-I’m getting
too old to go through it all over again..
The Hot Seat
The last Hot
Seat Poll was pre-maturely pulled (accidentally) by the MMQ but Emily was the
only Mascot who received any votes. So,
by default, she’s in the finals….This week’s beauty is just that: A Beauty from Sports Illustrated swimsuit
fame with rather large…er…Tracks of Land, Genevieve Morton!
Hot Seat Rank
- Will Muschamp:
You must DESTROY KENTUCKY…not just beat them
- Brady Hoke: He
will be in the 1 spot when he loses to Sparty….
- Hazell: At
least Purdue scored against the domers….
- Beckman: He’s
got problems….
- Charlie Weis:
Why are they keeping Wuzzles around? Just cause?
- Pelini: Just
beating McNeese State makes for a hard week…
- Norm Chow:
Hawaii. The Rainbows haven’t
mattered in a while.and that’s a fan base that cares.
- Mike London:
Needs wins…
- Sonny Dykes:
California was pretty good for a while….Wha’ happened?
- Brett Bielema:
Got a nice one in Lubbock…
FMQ
UCLA (-7.5) @
Texas: Take UCLA and lay the 7.5 for $30
LOSE…..
USC @ BC (+17.5): Take BC and the 17.5 for $30
WIN! Bank $57 and why didn’t I bet more?
Syracuse @ Central
(+7): Take the Chips and the 7 for $40
LOST….Why did I bet
so MUCH?
Louisville (-7) @
Virginia: Take Louisville and lay the 7 for $20
LOSE…This is not
going well…
Wyoming @ the Ducks
(-43): Take the Ducks and lay the 43 for $30
LOSE…Oh Jeez…what
have I done? I need to slap myself again…
PSU @ Rutgers (+3):
Take Rutgers and the 3 for $20.
LOSE…See where this
is going? If I take points next week, I
will get killed
Tennessee (+21) @
Oklahoma: Take Cremesicles and the 21 for $20
LOSE…OMG!!! This is BAD….
Miami (not that
one) @ Michigan (-31): Take
Michigan and lay the points for $30
LOSE….Fire Hoke
PARLAY!!!
3-way pays 6 to 1.
Take Central – BC – Ducks for $20 - LOSE
Starting Bank: $778
Total Win: $57
Bank: $823
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