Give me some oxygen baby. I need it after watching this game. It was as exciting of a football game as one could want. Maybe too exciting. This is what College, Michigan, and Big Ten Football is all about.
You got to love a come from behind victory at Notre Dame when Michigan scores on it's last series, after the Irish embarassed our offense and defense for almost the entire second half. Especially after the Irish scored on a 98 yard pass play to take the lead with two minutes remaining.
Michigan stepped up and played to win and did against incredible odds. What a character building experience.
Denard Robinson is an incredible football player. A genius with speed and game face. Setting records for total yards that are out of this world. He'll be a Heisman candidate before long if he keeps it up and Michigan keeps winning. And he's only started two games so far. What will happen when he gets more experience like this under his belt. Watch out.
At the same time in spite of this incredible victory, I'm not changing my predictions much for the season. I don't really see us going better than 6-6. Call me pessimistic if you want.
Just before the game I was giving a speech to students of the University of Memphis, on Leadership and the book, Good to Great, by Jim Collins. In my talk I reviewed one of the key characteristics of great leaders that Collins studied in his book. The willingness of the leaders to "Confront the Brutal Facts." I can't help myself. So lets confront the brutal facts of this game.
We missed three(?) field goals.
The Irish Defense stopped us cold for almost the entire second half.
Our offense is one dimensional, Denard Robinson, albeit one helluva dimension.
The Irish ran roughshod over our defense the entire second half. Imagine if their starting quarterback hadn't sat out the first half with an injury.
The Irish were able to make second half adjustments to stop us and to move on us. We didn't do the same. RichRod has failed to prove that his staff is capable of this for two years now. This is a coaching problem. This used to be a characteristic of Michigan Football, that scared other teams. No longer true.
We can't throw the long ball.
Our running backs are average at best. After a team adjusts to Denard and our offense we don't have another real running threat. Yet. They are getting better.
We can't run up the middle or with power.
Any good team watching the film of this game will be able to duplicate Notre Dame's efforts in the second half. We have to improve to keep winning.
I'll admit the offense improved since last week. Not the defense. We could win a lot of games and we can lose a lot of games. We have to keep learning and improving. Not Denard, mind you, the rest of the offense has to, and the defense has to and the coaching staff has to.
Still after a barn burner like this one, you can't help saying....
It's good, to be, a Michigan Wolverine!
Go Michigan, Beat the Minutemen(UMASS)!
Aside to the Ohio State Club of the Mid-South: It's pretty rude to walk into our football gathering and cheer against us at our own party. Bad Form. If the goal of the three fans of yours who did this today was to make enemies with us, Mission Accomplished. Oh How I Hate Ohio State!
Go Blue! Hail to the Victors!
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