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SimPLLLLLLLe Jim "6-13" Harbaugh (B1G Suspenders McKhakiPants, Cheater Cheater Booger Eater)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
They actually invented the concept of Lack Of Institutional Control. The Big Ten demanded that all schools' football programs be put under the control of the university President. Fielding Yost and Michigan refused to do so, and that's why they were kicked out. Kind of interesting to wonder how things would have played out had we taken Sparty then and never let them back in. I don't think they could have gone the Notre Dame route without the national Catholic angle.
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While they wouldn't have had the national Catholic angle, they would have had vast appeal to douchebags. Then as now, I'm sure.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
First guy not from the family tree, as it were, in 50 some odd years and the host rejected the transplant from day 1.

Couple things Meyer does need to do considering the tsun QB can't get any worse in the coming years; get LB's that can cover and find a way to beat that damn FB dive for 1 guaranteed yard.
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I do think Dylan Mccaffrey will be quite a bit better than any of the last few QBs Harbaugh has been starting, if he’s given the opportunity next year. Hope I’m wrong.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I missed most of the heartache. I left for grad school after his first couple years, then was out of the country for the 90s and then came back to start my first business his last year. I can't imagine what it must have been like to have been witness to it up close and personal. Especially towards the end when you literally knew what was coming those last two games.

I will always blame him for the way some of our fanbase went off the rails. The gameday environments in 2000 were just so different (dark and angry and hostile) than I remembered them being when I was in college.
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It got so bad in the 90s that I came close to not watching The Game. The Bucks found so many ways to self destruct, the most painful being the one time in his entire career at Ohio State when Shawn Springs slipped and gave up a 70 yard TD on a third and short hook route.

I can't accept that Cooper "didn't get" The Game. His hiring was based on his ability to beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl. He had to understand very quickly how important it was. In his first outing, he took an outmanned team to the lead with something like 5 minutes to go - all on the special spirit that is a trademark of the series. You could see the pain in his face each year, even as the Bucks were crushing Michigan in 98. Coop "got" the game. He just couldn't win it.

What he did understand, and succeed at, was addressing the talent discrepency between the two teams. That difference began to deminish immediately as he patched up old wounds in Cincinnati and SW Ohio. I posit that his lack of wins in The Game came from lack of a QB, the same source that has been frustrating Michigan. Since Henne left, Ohio State has always had the better QB. I don't see that changing in the next few years.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'm going to repost this here, so that it might outlive the game thread because it is really mind bottling when you delve into it. They started coasting five minutes into the 2nd quarter. You would think that every single member of that team, particularly the seniors and juniors, would be foaming at the mouth like a serial killer to humiliate the team that has owned and humiliated them for so long. You'd think they would want to sweep that team's leg and deliver a beating so bad that JT Barrett would wake up in a pool of his own urine and sweat 40 years from now thinking about it.

But no, they decided it was time to coast. What a poorly coached and poorly motivated bunch of nutless prima donnas, and that starts with a poor coaching staff. If that is how that program and those players approach The Game, there is no amount of rap videos, sleepovers, trips to Katmandu, and shirtless tree climbs that will save it. They are doomed, and you know what?

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http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2017/11/michigan_players_we_coasted_le.html
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More proof that Michigan is to The Game as France is to war - it's always we lost because - a spy, a traitor, a trick, the generals, the government, the refs, the fans, the noise, the Big Ten, we lost interest, they got lucky... and as LJB put it: irrelevant since the end of WWI.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
They actually invented the concept of Lack Of Institutional Control. The Big Ten demanded that all schools' football programs be put under the control of the university President. Fielding Yost and Michigan refused to do so, and that's why they were kicked out. Kind of interesting to wonder how things would have played out had we taken Sparty then and never let them back in. I don't think they could have gone the Notre Dame route without the national Catholic angle.
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Michigan still would've have the national entitled arrogant asshole angle, so they'd be right about where they are now: 100-year old national championships, academic smack, attendance records, Tom Brady, tin foil hat conspiracies, wait until next year....
 
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