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Notre Dame 0, Michigan 38 (Final)

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Doesn't this scenario always happen with Michigan? A 4th year "embattled" senior QB gets hurt at the beginning of his senior year. So, in comes the freshman QB that looks sweet and makes you wonder how good Michigan will be in the coming years, but then they just end up being a Chad Henne in the end? :lol:
 
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Dryden;926395; said:
The hell with 'em.

I'm all for the strength of the conference, cheering for the Big Ten teams in bowl, the conference "rah rah," or whatever ... but, honestly, I want Michigan fans to suffer. I want them to endure the most unbearable season imaginable. I want to see Michigan go 2-10 with a senior heavy squad, while Ohio State goes 10-2 with a host of first year starters at every skill position. I want 2007 to be the final nail in the coffin, the last fence-pole in the fence JT has put up around Ohio.

Michigan, and the Big Ten, will be fine in a year or two.

So, just once, in my lifetime, I want to see the bastards squirm and suffer something so miserable that all those smug, arrogant, jerks in Central Ohio - that have ZERO affiliation with Michigan other than taking the pleasure at being the asshole at the party - well, I want to see Michigan flame out so spectacularly that we don't ever have to see those fans in and around Columbus again.

Nothing has given me more pleasure these past two weeks than hearing about how humiliated and embarrassed these assholes have been all over C-Bus when they're heckled and laughed out of all the BW3s. I want them to have no choice but to burn all their Michigan gear and crawl back under their rocks.

A win doesn't do anything for Notre Dame with their schedule, they're going to have a miserable season regardless. I see it as the lesser of two evils this year.
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I couldn't possdibly disagree more. And no, I didn't give you any red chiclets because I don't agree.
 
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Dryden;925864; said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Please not a season ending knee injury.

Henne must start The Game, so he can go 0-4. He's not getting off the hook that easily and merely going 0-3.
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I'm not too worried. I think that Freeman or Jenkins will run over to the Michigan sidelines before the first play and throw Henne on the field. Carr will curl up in a ball and think of a happy place, as Henne attempts to launch ball after ball downfield, only to get knocked on his ass, anyway. Unfortunately, losing his fourth game to Ohio State solidifies that he can't lose a fourth bowl game, as Michigan will not be eligible for any bowl games.
 
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When evaluating conference strength, we really just want Michigan out of the conversation. Other than their game with ND, this week might just be an OOC sweep, although quite a bit of that is due to weak scheduling:

Illinois at 'Cuse
Akron at Indiana
Iowa at Iowa State
Notre Dame at Michigan
Pittsburgh at MSU
Minnesota "at" Florida International
Duke at Northwestern
Ohio State at Washington
Buffalo at Penn State
Central Michigan at Purdue
Citadel at Wisconsin

Unfortunately, after this weekend, the B10 has no more OOC games against non-MAC opponents except for MSU-ND.

(Is the B10 getting fat on the MAC underbelly or what? This season has seventeen total B10-MAC games, only one of which involves 2006 MAC Champs CMU and none involving MAC East Champs Ohio U.)

The main perception problem we're having right now (other than soft OOC schedule) is the media's love affair with Michigan as the symbolic Big Ten team. Other than Michigan's losses, the conference as a whole has not looked bad, save for Bucky Badger's struggles this past week.

Now, as far as conferences that truly look weak, the ACC, for example, has trouble across the board after VT's loss to LSU and FSU scraping past a UAB team that MSU hammered. Last year's champs Wake Forest are off to an 0-2 start, Virginia was beaten soundly by Wyoming, Oklahoma wiped Miami off of the field in a laugher -- the main OOC win you can put up on the scoreboard for them is GT's 33-3 trouncing of ND, and I'd say that PSU did pretty much the same number to the Domers.

Other than Michigan, I think that most Big Ten schools are on an upward glide path this season. Wisconsin, PSU, MSU, Purdue and Illinois are probably improved over last year. Michigan is obviously in a downward spiral, and the Bucks are reloading. :wink: Minny is in a fight to win the MAC East, Northwestern has a fighting chance at bowl eligibility, and Indiana has already beating a D1A opponent. What's not to love?

Sarcasm aside, I have to reluctantly conclude that we need ANY OCC win against any theoretically "BCS conference-grade" school, even ND and even by Michigan. I really do think that the conference is very good this year, but no one is ever going to know with this cherry-filled scheduling that's happened.

I'm still pulling for the meteor, but if it doesn't come through again this year, I guess I have to do the "root for the conference" thing. Besides, we're all going to hammer the weasels once conference play starts, anyway.
 
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BrutusBobcat;926751; said:
Other than Michigan's losses, the conference as a whole has not looked bad, save for Bucky Badger's struggles this past week.
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as someone entering his ninth football season living in Las Vegas, i can assure you that Bucky Badger didn't underperform against UNLV. the Rebels played the best game they've played since i've lived out here, and they did go to a bowl game five years ago. i mean, they played WAAAAAYYY over their heads... at the beginning of the game i was just hoping that the Rebels would keep it within 20. i was shocked to see how well their D was performing...

but anyway. great post.
 
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Geez, Dryden touched a raw nerve in us all, eh? I am surrounded by TSUN fans in the apartment complex in which I live. My wife introduced me to some of them on Sunday. They said, "your daughter told our son that she is a Buckeye and that they are #1." Then, they just seemed to cringe.

I was amazed that they looked at me with such resentment and then it began to grow inside me and I could not contain it. I felt genuine compassion and admiration.

Of course, not for them, screw them. For a 9-year old daughter who was born on another continent yet had the courage to stand up for the Buckeyes in the face of adults and peers for a team she knows her father and grandfather loved.

As many of you know, my Dad went into a coma fifteen minutes before those planes hit the World Trade Center and died later that day. I'll bet he got a real kick out of watching the youngest one in her generation of the family "represent"!

:oh::osu::io:
 
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lvbuckeye;926859; said:
all i can say is now those arrogant pricks know how the rest of the world lives. not having a losing season for 40 years breeds a kind of "you're beneath me" contempt that most folks really resent, myself included...
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Here's hoping you can beat the arrogance out of scUM fans, b/c lord knows you can't do it to the domers. The last 10+ years have proven that.
 
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