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What
Did You Want From A 2-Minute Drill?
Okay – I got a text that more or less dinged me for
screaming about wanting a 2-Minute Drill right before the half. A 2-Minute Drill assumes you can actually
throw the ball and move it effectively downfield. But, to counter that argument, Michigan had
good field position and should have been able to at least move it into
Quin Nordin’s range which is like, what, 70 friggin’ yards? Play to win and don’t play not to lose is all
I’m saying. I would have been happy
putting 3 on the board and sending Indiana into the half with a little more air
out of the balloon…
Isn’t
it time for Peters?
O’Korn
is only averaging a little over 2.8 YPA on passes as a starter. Can Peters do better? Valid question. I’m pretty sure any one of a number of you
reading this could suit up and do better. And I’m sure there’ll be a
little practice competition this week as Michigan gets ready for Un-Happy
Valley. I didn’t mention the god-awful
read and then throw into double coverage that O’Korn made on Saturday when he
tried to force a pass to Crawford and Gentry was standing like a scarecrow in a
field all alone. O’Korn has a
vision problem (during the game) and Peters has to be better than that.
Funny thing is, Speight was having the same types of vision problems. It’s like they’re being told to zone in on
the first option and ignore the other receivers. For two QB’s to have the same type of reading
errors is concerning (Especially with Harbaugh) – or are plays getting
seen by opposing coaches and defenses know where O’Korn is trying to throw. Why aren’t they checking down? I’d
love to sit in the QB meeting room reviewing film this week. Gotta’ do a better job with that…Brian’s
Monday Summary at mgoblog is pretty good and worth the read if you
haven’t seen it yet. He’s given up on O’Korn
and decided that Peters is the guy that’s here next year – go with him.
That is the question of the week, isn’t it? I was looking at stats and the teams PSU has
faced have a combined record of 19-18. And only
one (Iowa) has a Power 5 winning record.
See where I’m going here?
Yes, PSU has looked impressive, but against middling (at best) competition. And they should have lost to Iowa. They blasted Indiana pretty bad at home (that
Michigan just struggled with), but, frankly I’m starting to see a way (SIDE NOTE: Barkley had his worst performance – 2.5 YPA -
against Indiana where Michigan just reeled off close to 6 yards per rushing attempt!). Wait till Friday gets here and I’ll be
taking the MONEYLINE (currently at $320!!)
Can
Michigan’s Offense Do Anything Against PSU?
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File Not Found…All right, wait. Let’s take a stab at this… I do think Michigan will be able to rush the
ball. Perhaps quite efficiently, but we’ll
have to see. And the Game Plan will
probably be based on slowing the game down as much as possible. If O’Korn (or Peters) can come out and at
least be serviceable, maybe good things can happen in Un-Happy Valley. Nordin may have a big day…There’s
no shame in winning with Figgies.
Things
Are Getting Ugly In Maryland
I forgot to mention that Durk’s Terps lost to the Purple
Kitties on Saturday. But things
are even stranger in what appears to be an ugly transition at AD.
Current AD Anderson hasn’t been showing up for home games (missed all 3). It appears
some type of buyout, job transition or exit plan has been in the works for
weeks, as Anderson and president Wallace Loh have been at odds. When questioned about Anderson, two different
Maryland athletic spokesmen declined comment on Saturday, pointing to a tweet that
stated Anderson is the Maryland AD. They
also pointed the reporter to a university spokesperson that responded by text:
“Kevin
Anderson is our AD.”
As a hilarious bonus, the internal candidate most likely to
replace Anderson will likely bring up another public-relations headache. Senior
associate athletic director Damon Evans “arrived instead of
Anderson at Durkin’s postgame press conference” on Saturday, according to The
Washington Post. Evans got fired as
the athletic director at Georgia in 2010 after being pulled over for a DUI and
found with a “red pair of lady’s panties between [his] legs.” They belonged to
a woman in the passenger seat who was not his wife. Evans later told the
officer, “I’m not trying to bribe you, but I am the athletic director at
Georgia.”
With
all of the PC Correctness flying around regarding how we can speak about stuff? This is gonna’ get good!!!
For
The Last Time…
If you recall, when UNC first got “caught” in African
American Studies gate in 2010, many believed that this was a
potential “Death Penalty”, or at the minimum a forfeiture of games and
National Titles. (The MMQ
was on record that UNC was in deep doo-doo). UNC was immediately put on Academic probation
in 2011 and as of today is still on Academic Probation with the
Southern Association of Colleges as they haven’t totally cleaned up
their act, which, frankly, I figured was the smoking gun and UNC was going to
be punished heavily for cheating.
Wetzel
covers it here and an excerpt:
Carolina even changed its argument for the NCAA.
When the school was in front of the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools, which accredits it as an actual university, it declared that no-show,
no-professor, no-work classes were wrong.
“UNC
reported to its accreditor that what occurred for nearly 18 years on its campus
was academic fraud,” the NCAA report stated. ” … Specifically, UNC admitted
[it] demonstrated that, ‘the academic fraud was long-standing.'”
Jesus-Tap-Dancing-Christ-on-a-Cracker!
I’m still pissed from Friday’s announcement of what was clearly
academic fraud at UNC for university athletes to take a two page, 3 credit “Paper
Class” without a professor where the grades given out were not even on a curve
and usually resulted in at least a B.
And UNC obviously had an un-fair advantage in all sports as a result.
Read that last sentence again:
AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE AS A
RESULT!
Some of you chimed in that all schools have these “Types of
Classes” where student athletes or whoever could take and get a decent grade to
up their GPA. Sure, I get it. It
doesn’t make it right.
If the NCAA cannot find a way to somehow enforce
and punish a school for something this blatant, than it really should just get
out of enforcement of any rules and go run it’s billion-dollar hoops
tournament.
Stop policing schools, let them self-police and be done
with the hypocritical stances and policies that never catch and punish anyone
that’s blatantly cheated.
But wait – you can get busted and put on probation for over-stretching…That’s
covered.
And you better not have Football Summer Camps In SEC COUNTRY, cause that creates
and unfair advantage!
NCAA
– Go “F” yourself…
Casual
Slappy Fans Are Not Very Good At Math
I happened to get into a casual conversation with a fan
that made the comment that “No one is going to beat Bama. They will roll over everyone on their
schedule.” I started to make my
standard argument as to how hard it truly is to “Win them all” and this
guy was having none of it. And
the sad part is he’s a poker player that’s actually pretty good. Meaning, I figured he could do basic math. Never assume anything…
Here’s a table for the mathematically impaired that will
(hopefully) demonstrate why, probabilistically, it’s always a
safe bet to say that nobody is going undefeated. It’s simple to make in Excel (15 games, enter
probabilities, multiply them out) and you can see for yourself. Even the slappiest of slappies that assume their team
is 95% to win most of the games on their schedule and then 80% to win the Conf.
Championship and the CFP games only has less than a 25% chance to go undefeated. As you read across the columns, you can see
that a more reasonable look drives the final probabilities into the single
digit and less areas. I’ll agree that Bama
has the best chance, but I’d gladly bet even money that they lose one
somewhere along the way.
(I also used Michigan’s schedule with what I thought
reasonable probabilities were for Michigan to win their games. Notice I even have the “less than 50% chance games” in
there, driving the overall probability down to under, well, let’s not talk
about that.)
Notice I didn’t say that Bama wouldn’t win title. I just think they might lose to either LSU or
Auburn because the math supports it. And
they lost the most important one last season.
Clemson
lost to Pitt last year and still won the Big One. It happens.
What’s even more amazing is when you get a college
basketball team that somehow manages to go 29-30 games without losing. That probability is incredibly low! But it just goes to show that basketball is a
little more predictable (I know, I can’t believe I typed that)
when you have a dominant team.
Hoops
Pre-Season B1G Poll IS Out
For those that
are into suck things….Surprise!
Sparty #1 and Michigan tied for 5th.
Preseason poll
1.
Michigan State (28 – unanimous)
2. Purdue (80)
3. Minnesota
(90)
4. Northwestern
(115)
T-5. Maryland
(155)
T-5.
Michigan (155)
7. Wisconsin
(168)
8. Iowa (204)
9. Indiana
(270)
10. Penn State
(280)
FIVE
TOTALLY REAL AND IRRATIONAL MESSAGE BOARD THREADS
“How
would we fare against the #1 HS team? (IMG Academy)” - phog.net (Kansas)
“The
Muschamp O was better than this!” - gatorcountry.com
“I
thought these players liked this coach.” - vandymania.com
“Its
obvious that the Charlie Strong recruits have left the building” -
cardinalsports.com
“We’re
only two plays from being 5-1!” - volnation.com
Etc.
The PC Police have been out en-force
this past week!!
Al Michaels goes off and compares the hapless NY Giants to
Harvey Weinstein and later apologizes – But I thought it was hilarious! No apology necessary Al!
And I thought Golden Knights tweet referencing
the movie TED the talking bear was kind of funny, also, but apparently
we are all 100% PC when it comes to comedy.
(With the exception that you’re free to bash the president whenever for
whatever).
Another bunny from 1993 scored in the Michigan –
Purdue game!
You know, I
think I might actually like Urban Legend’s wife a little more…She more
or less tweeted Tebow over Kapernick and had no sympathy for Gonzalez…But she
also apologized.
This is Cool…And you
have to watch it a couple of times as it goes through the weeks. I’ve been watching from the beginning and
losing to Sparty really sucked as all the M’s went away. But beat PSU and there’s a huge land
acquisition in the making.
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