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Utah 25 Michigan 23 (Final)

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While I can't say that I am unhappy with the outcome, I don't really feel the joy I was expecting to feel. I have to say, I expected tsun to be bad this year, but today was a level of bad that was just unexpected. In the beginning, I was like "ok, they are moving the ball" then it just stalled, and Utah finished off the first half doing what they wanted. The second half, well, that's where shit got really hazey for me. Utah seemed like they stopped doing what had let them get in control of the game, then they made just bad decision after bad decision. I mean in Michigans last touchdown, how many yards did they get that weren't penalty assisted? Was just disturbing, I realize the QB's they have are young and need to learn, but if Utah actually plays football like any decent team, that's a fucking blowout.

Good luck tsun fans, your school should have taken the blue pill.
 
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SNIPER26;1244008; said:
Prior experience from the Cooper years? :biggrin:
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Rich Rod has a long way to go before he can be compared to John Cooper. There is no indication yet that he is really that good, in my opinion. True, Cooper couldn't beat TSUN but he put together a winning percentage against a quality slate of opponents that most coaches would give body parts, if it would let them achieve the same success.

I am not sure that TSUN fans should give up hope yet. With experience the team will play his offensive system better and the TSUN team that suits up against the Buckeyes will be a much better team than we saw today.

Everything is under control...

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Dispatch

Big House downer for Wolverines

Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:17 AM
By Larry Lage


ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan's new era opened in a painfully familiar way for the 108,000-plus fans at the Big House: With an ugly loss.
Rich Rodriguez's debut as Wolverines coach was spoiled when Brian Johnson threw for 305 yards and a touchdown and Louie Sakoda kicked four field goals to lead Utah to a 25-23 win yesterday.
"We got a chance to put our names on the map," Johnson said.
A year ago, Appalachian State stunned the Wolverines. But this was more businesslike than shocking. The Utes were just a three-point underdog and received more votes than Michigan in the Associated Press preseason poll.
"They deserved to win," Rodriguez said.

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Steve19;1244132; said:
I am not sure that TSUN fans should give up hope yet. With experience the team will play his offensive system better and the TSUN team that suits up against the Buckeyes will be a much better team than we saw today.
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I don't think anyone was giving up hope, but thanks! Haha. It's one game. I said from the beginning this was going to be a rough season. I just want to go to a bowl this year and I'll consider it a success. Low expectations, yes. But when you lose everything Michigan lost and you bring in a whole new system, growing pains are to be had.

And man, ESPN loves to see Michigan fail more than Buckeye fans do.
 
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I was calling for a Utah win by 10, I'll take the win. Utah almost shot themselves in the foot at the end but hung on. :tongue2: So much for that awesome scUM defense that scUmers were putting their hopes on. They were nothing more than decent.
They were who we thought they were. This is a .500 team.
 
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Admirers of new U-M regime get a reality check early on



August 31, 2008
Rich Rodriguez's spread offense is supposed to score all sorts of points, and after one game of the Rich Rod Regime, I must ask: for which team?

For the longest time Saturday, every time Michigan's offense took the field, Utah fans got excited.
Very strange.
Michigan's defense, meanwhile, gave up an astounding 7.5 yards per play in the first half and fell behind, 25-10, early in the second half. But that's weird, too, because I've been told that Lloyd Carr's teams were poorly coached, and Rodriguez would finally (FINALLY!) get the Wolverines to play to their talent level from the opening kickoff.
Hey, what happened to all that?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/COL22/808310502
 
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SNIPER26;1243918; said:
- Blitz. Oh for the love of God, blitz! Pussy ass soft zone doesn't do shit.
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Yes, a thousand times yes. It took me until only about the third Utah offensive series to ask, shit, isn't this Shafer guy supposed to be an aggressive blitzing sackmaster? The D-line did a fantastic job getting pressure in the second half, and the later in the game, the better they did. (yay Barwis?) But they could have used some help in the first half.

Sniper, Chris and Hail. Just wondering, what would you guys see as a successful first season under Rich Rod?
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I'm still saying 8 wins would be successful, and I still expect a bowl game. No way the defense is as pathetic all year as they were in the first half. And even in the first half they gave up a lot of yards but managed to keep it close by stopping Utah in field goal range instead of letting them score the TD. The defense alone is good enough for four wins - Miami, Toledo, Minny, and Northwestern. And I have a hard time believing they'd all the other seven games.
 
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HailToMichigan;1244206; said:
Yes, a thousand times yes. It took me until only about the third Utah offensive series to ask, [censored], isn't this Shafer guy supposed to be an aggressive blitzing sackmaster? The D-line did a fantastic job getting pressure in the second half, and the later in the game, the better they did. (yay Barwis?) But they could have used some help in the first half.
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Yeah, I was expecting blitzes all the time from every angle. We could have kept Ron English if we were going to run a 4-3 soft zone all day.
 
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