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Game Thread THE GAME: tOSU at TSUN, Nov 30 @ 12p ET, ABC

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I was a Junior at OSU in 1969 and will never forget The anti-Game. As a result I still brace myself every year no matter how much we are favored. But still....

UM appears soft.
They are not well coached.
They have regressed game by game and in the second half within game.
They are really, really bad. Really.

I don't know what the attitude of their players is, but the fan base is at an all time low. Even if the players found a way to come out fired up how do you maintain that when the visiting crowd in your stadium is as loud as your own?

On the other hand, I watched the post game interviews with numerous OSU players following the IU game. Every one spoke that it was time to focus on the rivalry game (must be Urban's term). They didn't want to talk abut MSU or the B1G CCG. It was time for a brief celebration and then get to work. You could read in their tone of voice that their attention to next Saturday was deep and sincere.

They are a well coached, conditioned, motivated and focused football team that will go to Ann Arbor prepared to play.

I keep telling myself that anything can happen - but I don't believe it.
 
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It's hate week and we don't give a damn.

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..... Michigan signed three receivers last week, none of whom ranks better than a three star.
They seem to be big on size, but lack elite speed. That doesn't concern receivers coach Jeff Hecklinski. "Speed is overrated," he said. "When he walks through that door, he should look like a Michigan wide receiver," Hecklinski said of Michigan's philosophy on recruiting receivers. "That thought, when a kid walks in and you say, 'Does he look like a Michigan Man?' That's important to us. That's very important to us because he represents us."
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
..... Michigan signed three receivers last week, none of whom ranks better than a three star.
They seem to be big on size, but lack elite speed. That doesn't concern receivers coach Jeff Hecklinski. "Speed is overrated," he said. "When he walks through that door, he should look like a Michigan wide receiver," Hecklinski said of Michigan's philosophy on recruiting receivers. "That thought, when a kid walks in and you say, 'Does he look like a Michigan Man?' That's important to us. That's very important to us because he represents us."
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So Jeremy Gallon, Desmond Howard, Manningham... clearly not Michigan Men.

Problem is they're not even signing Jason Avant or Adrian Arrington level talent, let alone Braylon Edwards.
 
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Merih said:
So Jeremy Gallon, Desmond Howard, Manningham... clearly not Michigan Men.

Problem is they're not even signing Jason Avant or Adrian Arrington level talent, let alone Braylon Edwards.
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So when Billy Frieder told his boss, Bo, on the eve of the ’89 tournament that an offer had been made for him to coach at Arizona State, and that he’d be taking the job as soon as he got done coaching the Wolverines, Schembechler blew a gasket.

Bo fired Frieder, on the spot.

“A Michigan man will coach Michigan!” Bo famously declared. And in his eyes, Bill Frieder was only partly a Michigan man, now that he’d accepted another job, effective at the end of the season.

Assistant Steve Fisher was named interim coach, for as long as U-M would last in the tourney.

The “Michigan man” quote is legendary, and followed Schembechler to his death in 2006. It was practically used as part of his epitaph.

Now here’s the funny part: Frieder was a U-M grad. Fisher was not.

That’s OK; why should the facts get in the way of a good rah-rah speech?

So Steve Fisher, who few people had ever heard of even though he was in his seventh year as a Michigan assistant, was, in an instant, the U-M coach for the tournament.

A—ahem—“Michigan man.” Kinda, sorta.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/150612-bo-schembechlers-michigan-man-steve-fisher-really-wasnt
 
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