Why no comments yet?
uh 2nd? Wow
Urolagnia is awesome.
Well all I care about right now is M hockey. The team is looking strong still, I really dont care what anyone says. I see the team going to the CCHA championship and having a tough time with a good Miami or MSU team. After that I bet they head to Wisconsin and play in that regional, at least I hope (i'm from WI and want to go).
I see Michigan making it to the frozen four...here are my picks
1. Michigan
2. CC
3. ND
4. NH/BC
If Michigan has to play an upper-tier WCHA team such as CC or ND I find them having a very tough time. Those teams are big and physical which I think will be tough for our younger and smaller team to handle. Thats my opinion
Straight cash, homey.
I have to guess that Ferentz saves a lot of cash by putting his son in public housing.
i'm not too worried about hockey. at least, not any more than any other year.
they played lights out against MU a few weeks ago. since then, i think the kolarik injury hurt them, as well as a bit of complacency from a few of the young guys. hence the bad game fri at Munn, and the sat loss in big rapids. i'm not expecting great hockey when they play whomever in the 2nd rd of the CCHAs (probably no kolarik, 2 weeks off, playing a mediocre at best team), but i do expect 1st rate hockey when they get to the joe at the end of the month.
as usual, the wild card is Sauer. he's been shaky the last 2-3 weeks, even in wins. questionable positioning at times, lots of bad rebounds. hopefully, they can start playing D the way they did in Nov-Dec and limit the shots to 22-27 per game, and not 32-37.
Kolarik is essential for the penalty kill and horrible defensive breakdowns (leaving the pass wide open) have led to several goals in the last few games.
and the baseball team sucking since the Nova series is harsh... Trip (ZP) only went 3 inns on the mound (for some reason), and they hit the ball well against the #1 team in the nations top 2 pitchers.
health on the mound is critical for this team, but that is always critical for a northern team. pitching depth DNE in the north compared to the top southern teams.
this weekend they play ECU and few other good teams, and i expect better results. if Trip goes, anyway.
viva Brian's return
I don't know much about college baseball- so I have a question for you fans. How does the early season non-con schedule impact the post season? I can assume that if M were to win a B10 regular season or tournament crown they would automatically qualify, but how many at-large spots are available, if any, for a northern team that doesn't in the conference? If M were to roll up a good record in B10 play but not win the conference, and have a subpar early season, would they be out?
They're not running too much 1-3-1 since Christmas, IIRC.
I think the problem facing the bball team is the lack of quality guards, and the one talented guard they have seems to have an IQ of 75. The guards lose their man so often defensively and that ends up becoming a wide open 3 pointer.
Offensively they need an intelligent ball-handler. Grady is improving but Manny is a turnover machine.
People who care about hockey should be deported to Saskatchewan.
@ dex:
The NCAA baseball tournament is a lot like basketball--there are 30 conferences with automatic bids, and there are 34 at large bids.
For whatever reason, the NCAA baseball committee will always invite a team with 40 wins to the tournament. I don't think there has been an exception to this pattern in the last decade or so.
Michigan is 4-3 with 48 games left, so they will need to go 36-12 to hit the 40-win mark (or they will need to win some games in the conference tournament).
Last year, the Big Ten got 3 teams in the tournament--conference tournament champion Ohio State, plus conference regular season #1 Michigan (39-16) and regular season #2 Minnesota (40-16). Three teams was unusual for the Big Ten, but two teams isn't. I think Minnesota got in because of the 40-win rule, and Michigan got in because they actually deserved it.
Thanks
This is for the earlier post on the smash route:
Smash routes are great in the red zone. You will usually have press coverage from the corner and if you are about at the ten or further out, the corner route is money. A safety will sit at about 5-8 yds off and if you can lean him in and break, there is no help from the corner. It's way easier to throw than a fade route and has the same effect. I still contend that the end zone fade is the hardest ball to throw in football and I yell everytime it gets thrown on 3rd or 4th down in goal line situations. Jackass HS coaches call this route for their 5'8" WR with a QB who has no business even attempting this difficult of a pass. I hope Gsimmons' OC isn't one of these guys. If he is, I apologize, but I'll still say he's a jackass.
who is this dominique douglas?
ditto what alton said...
40 Ws is a good bench mark. even for northern schools.
the only reason OSU got in last year was that they won the auto bid. they had a good year, but i'm not sure the committee would have let them in at-large. M & Minn were legit NCAA teams.
i don't see any way the B10 would get more than 3 teams in the tourney.
One more thing on the "smash route article" before. The TE can sometimes be a great option if you work the smash combo, over and over, the safety will cheat to the corner and the TE runs a skinny post, bam TD. If you ever see a TE catch a TD in the red zone, odds are there was a corner route that the safety bit on. It's hard for the MLB to get that deep to cover the middle if the TE is going full speed.
keegan,
you are right, hard cover, in tamp two, for a mlb to run that middle seam....
however, a te should never get a free release... there in lies the problem.... keeping a te on the line, has become a lost art, in this new era of de's only wanting to make plays in the back field..
as far as my oc, it is the head coach, so i wont say anything negative, he does a good job, we are not really a passing team, but he tries to become one for me, becasue of what we see night in and night out... i guess the smash is one of their default calls against a four accross look, the problem is that we are alwyas in a 4 deep shell, but rarely do we stay in it..... disguise everything, out technique people, and put your best athletes in a position to make the majority of plays, that is my secret...
When I'm a coach, I'm sticking a steel plate in the armpad of my DE and telling him to crack the TEs knee every time at the line.
on a side note, i think i would like to blog a little bit, about football of course, and other things...
should i do it? are there too many already? do i really want to put that much time into it?
if so
what should i call it?
@ DanK:
I should have added that exactly 4 of the 34 at large teams could be considered "Northern" schools. The Big Ten had their 2 at large teams, and the Big East had 2 at large teams--Louisville (40-20) and St John's (40-17) were selected at large in addition to conference champion Rutgers (41-19). I don't know for certain that Louisville is "northern," but they are in a semi-northern conference. Oregon State also had an at large bid, but I don't really count them as "northern."
"This is my blog and I'm not using %^&*( haloscan, MFers"
"Thoughts on football and WS6s"
"Offense is for pu$$ies"
"capital letters optional x slant z go 43 split double right"
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@gsimmons85:
I vote MaizeHeartBluePants.
lol, thats some great stuff....
how about "everything i Know"
then not ever posting anything....
But Michigan wears Maize Pants!
by the way. this week i am looking through some old dvd's from a defensive coordinator from CMU, getting some other ideas on coverage posibilities, against the spread... even though the guy says he is a 4-3 guy, he says he uses the 3-4 against the spread..... that guys name? Mr. Schafer of course.... let me know if anyone is interested in tech. lingo etc. i should have it all watched by this weekend... i have to put next years defensive playbook togewther in the next couple of weeks...
Every Band Should Be Night Ranger?
MRG, that is just awesome....
BTW, I would totally read a blog devoted to defensive schemes, targa tops and Ratt.
I long for the 25 ppm (posts per minute) days of "who's our next coach," "will Mallett stay or will he go," and "why TP isn't worthy of being UM's QB."
MRG,
dont forget the lyrics...... last two weeks night ranger and ratt....
both times the band sucked it up, but the contestents rocked it out....
sister christian and round and round..
How 'bout a little love for Dokken's "Dream Warriors" . . .
True blue, rockin with dokken...
but dream warriors? come on man, bring some never unchain the night, or Alone Again.... Its Not Love...
Dream Warriors is my least favorite... cool and all, but not classic...
maybe that will be my first post, ranking Dokken records...
How bad do i feel? while my students are writing an intense DBQ on the Populist movement, im writing about dokken...
Yeah, they have a lot in common though. I'm pretty sure Dokken is against the gold standard as well.
And William Jennings Bryan once had a blonde mullet and played in a Tin Pan Alley band with his twin brother.
Actually, my favorite Dokken tune of all time was Mr. Scary. But I'm probably in the minority on that one.
But Cinderella was my favorite from that era.
ok im setting up the blog now.... any last ideas for a name?
how about "jimmies and joes and x's and o's"
i cant wait for the gsimm blog
If you're still keeping a UM connection -- The Amaizin' Blueprint
"I actually coach football..."
wow dave
that is awesome... i couldnt steal something that cool though.... everyone that knows me would see right through that title and know i didnt think of it...
OGB, thanks bud!
you would problaby be the only one that would read it, that is, if i ever was able to figure out how to put cool stuff on there anyway...
"I actually coach football..."
DC Joe | 03.03.08 - 3:27 pm | #
and if i got fired?
"I actually coach(ed) football..." Just dont get fired.
id definitely read it..it would be classic
you gotta find time to do it...i mean you're not busy right?
"spell check optional"
"a place for ignorant football coaches that cant write to write about ignorant writers that cant coach"
"thoughts from a michigan man 700 miles away"
"a place for ignorant football coaches that cant write to write about ignorant writers that cant coach"
wow, perfect
GSimmons
How bout 3 & Out?
this is kinda of weird having the old gang back
bean,
it almost has a football season smell to it doesnt it?
GR,
you win, Three and Out it is...
@gsimmons85,
Since you're a defense guy, how about:
"Big Sacks"?
Also says something about the jackhammer of doom.
gsims,
Yeah, getting a shot on the TE is huge and completely lost. Our coaches stressed to the DE's to not allow a free release and it helped a lot. TE were not a threat when we played because of that. Disguising coverage is fairly easy to teach and hard for HS qb's to read coverage that quickly.
gsims,
You should definitely start a blog. One thing you could cover are a lot of the intricacies of michigan's offense and defense. You know, the technical stuff. I'd be willing to help if you needed material to fill in.
Heres a vid a latest prospect for UM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O...h?
v=OgvVSKuexLo
Marlon Brown already committed to Ramsey College.
It was a package deal w/ Jessica Kailo.
Kailo was a huge recruiting loss for M.... she was a legacy.
keegan
i think i will, and yes you can help out....
i suggest a barwis segment for your blog..maybe like barwis fridays where you just photoshop a ridiculous picture like my alex mitchell one in the facebook group..
unless of course its going to be a serious blog..then nevermind
There should be a law against serious blogs.
What a way for the Michigan athletic department to thank Maize Rage seniors for paying close to 500 bucks for 4 seasons of shitty basketball... By giving away free tickets to the Purdue game for non-season ticket holders.
Thanks, guys. : That's, what, the 4th time this season they've given away free student tickets?
hey ok, i got it up please be easy on me, i realized i am venturing into many of your domains, and i am a scared little girl for doing so...
and there we def will be barwis moments...
I left you a well thought out, completely constructive comment.
dex, maybe you cant help me, is there anyway to ban "first" posts
lol.....
With blogger, you can just click the trash can and delete the comment.
Three and Out now added to my favorites
what is the web address for 3 & out? All that turns up for me is some weird ass poetry blog
Three and out is now my homepage.
@seattle
just scroll up and click on "homepage" for gsims
Thanks. I am a little slow. Found the blog and left a deep comment
dude... josh moore? really? a blog.... ??? what a head scratcher.
and to whom is the UM AD pandering to?
According to Rivals, Marlon Brown doesn't have Michigan on his list, pretty much just SEC teams. I like him though, he makes people miss with the ball in his hands.
I love the labels for Gsims blog. "What am I a geek now?"
I think you should name your blog:
"Some Things You Don't Know and Other Things You Don't, Either"
Or:
"Wolverine Tracks in the Blood"
New Thread.
That Wagner comment is such crap. If we HADN'T played to win in a rare chance to compete against a MLB team, I would have been pissed off.
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