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Rose Bowl - USC 32, Michigan 18 (FINAL)

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Best Buckeye;702523; said:
Maybe they should have just tried to cover Jarrett with someone good, or at least in his league.
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Sorry, but we are not loaning them Malcolm Jenkins. :tongue2:

Here is a succinct and accurate analysis of what befell TSUN yesterday.

It's all about the lack of creative play-calling, particularly in the 2nd half. Detroit Free Press.

I particularly like this part of the linked article:
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I don't have to tell DeBord how to keep throwing the ball against a vicious pass rush.
Carr can do it for me.
"They did a good job," he said of USC. "Kept the tight end in. They moved the pocket very well, with some rollouts and with some boot(legs) ... they moved the launch points, moved the pocket, and then they threw some very quick play-action (passes), got rid of the ball."
Why couldn't Michigan do any of that? For that matter, why didn't U-M put Chad Henne in the shotgun? Carr said in Michigan's offense, "the shotgun is part of the two-minute offense, late in the half, late in the game."
Guess what? That's part of the problem.
Why didn't Michigan have Henne take shorter drops, so he could get rid of the ball before the rush came?
"We did," DeBord said. "The ball got batted down once."
Oh. Well, scrap the whole idea, then.
"In the second half, the fourth quarter, we went to quicker throws and stuff like that," DeBord said.
The Wolverines did. And you know what? It worked. And that only showed that they should have done it earlier.



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sandgk;702542; said:
Sorry, but we are not loaning them Malcolm Jenkins. :tongue2:

Here is a succinct and accurate analysis of what befell TSUN yesterday.

It's all about the lack of creative play-calling, particularly in the 2nd half. Detroit Free Press.

I particularly like this part of the linked article:
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On their third play of the third quarter, the Wolverines sent freshman Greg Mathews in at receiver. Star Mario Manningham was on the sideline. Now, anybody who has watched the Wolverines knew they were not going to pass to their receivers on that play. I think the Wolverines have a spot on their depth chart for Freshman Receiver We Send Out There Once In a While To Let The Opponent Know We're Not Passing, and this season the guy was Mathews.

Of course, U-M handed the ball to Hart, and he was stopped.
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I can't believe this was the same team we played in November. Much better gameplan then.
 
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scUM will not be better than a two loss team as long as Llllloyd is walking the sideline. This was a team that rode a relatively cushy schedule into C-Bus. Yes, they were 11-0, but there really weren't any games that you could watch and go "Wow, that's a dangerous team!". Yes, they played us close, but THE GAME is close nine out of ten games. They were exposed at the end of the year by the two best teams they played. They were exposed as the same old m*ch*g*n. Looks like Llllloyd has cemented himself as the new John Cooper.
 
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Crashcup;702605; said:
Heck looks like the Brownies can get themselves a reciever and get rid of Braylon for Jarret.
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Easy there tiger. Getting rid of one classless receiver for another doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense... even if DJ actually knows how to catch the ball.
 
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Man i know its good to root for the big 10 and all, but i really enjoyed seeing michigan getting torched. all of the whining they and their fans did made it really easy to go against them, and haha not to mention they are scUM.
 
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ant80;702259; said:
I've noticed that as well. IMO it seems that PC just looks at all the highly ranked players, and offers them schollies. I don't know how well he develops his players. JT recruits several players that are ranked very low and coaches them up, Hawk, TS etc. I can't remember any really good players coming out of USC that were ranked low.
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Lofa Tatupu, a transfer from the University of Maine who received no D1 offers
Mike Williams 3 star
Ryan Kalil 3 star
Josh Pinkard 3 star
Terrell Thomas 3 star
Eric Wright 2 star
Kevin Ellison 3 star
 
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USC was fast.... Very Fast!!!!! The scary thing is they are young too.

I wish I could say I am suprised on how bad scUM got outcoached but I am not.

Everyone says LSU is the best 2 loss team, but USC might have something to say about that.
 
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