Only 19 days left!!

It has been a while since I have posted and I got so pumped up after the USC loss and then tore right the hell back down after Florida won. These few weeks has been a roller coaster of emotions on whether the Wolverines should be playing in the N.C.. I guess that I have the same opinion as everyone else does. Michigan is the 2nd best team and Florida is not! I WANT MICHIGAN TO PLAY FOR THE N.C. AND BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE THERE POINT BLANK....BUT........ I will take what happened to us. If we beat Tosu then we are there and Tosu is bitching and crying to get back there to the N.C.. I also am a Big Ten backer so I will be rooting for Tosu to kill Florida and the rest of the Big Ten to take care of there opponents although I think that there will only be three wins from the Big Ten.

I am very surprised that the point spread right now is only 1.5 points. Obviously USC doesn't show up against non - ranked teams, but they take care of bizness with the formidable teams. There defense is very fast, but not as good as Tosu and their front seven is no where close to Tosu, so we will have a big day on the ground. Their offense is a typical USC offense and will bring everything they have. Our secondary better show up a little more than they did in the last game they played or they will have a few yards in the air.

I predict the score will be 42-(21 to 28). Mike Hart will have 150 yards and 2 tds. Henne will have 300 yards and 2tds. The defense will hold them to under 75 yards rushing and they will hold them to 275 throwing yards, but causing 3 sacks and 3 turnovers.

THE SEA OF RED AND GRAY IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

Living here in Ohio I can't believe how much Tosu gear is out there. Their is no way in hell that they will be able to sell all the T-shirts that are out there and in a couple of years the thrift stores (in other places other than ohio) will be selling these shirts for 2.99 just to get rid of them. Living in Ohio all my life I have never seen so much crap everywhere you look. I went to the mall today looking for some Michigan stuff and there is only a couple of places that you can get Michigan novelties. The one store I went to had pretty cool floor mats and the owner (I presume it was in the middle of the mall and he was Indian...stereotype at its best) comes up to me and says "Michigan stuff cheaper" I replied "how much" he replies "because they SUCK". Needless to say I told him how great that was for his business right there and don't plan on going to buy that piece of shit floor mat made in....wherever!

GO BLUE PROVE YOU ARE #2 OR EVEN #1 BEAT USC

Just a couple of thoughts

I think that the celebration of Bo's life yesterday was terrific and glad that I was home able to watch it. The speeches and memories past that the people brought out were awesome. I know I never met him, but have read a lot about Bo and the biggest thing that comes to me about him is that we was hard on the people that he loved so that they could go higher than they ever thought imaginable. I wish I could have been one of those people to play for him or have a story to tell about Bo.

This team has 9 Big Ten award winners and 3 that are National winners on it. That is terrific!! It only took the changing of two coordinators to bring out the best in them when they had it the whole time. The problem is that 5 of them will be leaving the team next year and hopefully most of them will get a shot at the NFL.

GO BLUE!!

Man was I wrong on what I thought would happen....very wrong. I guess I was do.

What a bad and eventful weekend. We lose Bo and most of us thought that his spirit alone would have something to do with the win we were going to get, but I guess him and Woody had it out up there and Woody kicked Bo's ass.

The team played very well especially not doing all the things that they are good at. One thing they did not do was the playaction pass to the TE and also they only ran one or two screens which the buckeyes are weak and we are strong with. Henne was really good, the line did a decent job, and Hart was strong very strong. The defense obviously had a tough time and did a really good job against the run except for....No need to tell you what two plays they were. The game got taken out of our hand with two penalties one on defense then one on offense. What are you going to do it happens, just have to be a lot smarter. I don't really agree with the helmet to helmet, but we all know QBs are pansies(at least in the leagues eyes). They really hit the Smith hard and a lot, but he obviously is a tough guy and can take the punishment.

It is late Sunday and I am still numb. I hate losing to the Buckeyes nad I hate most of their fans even more. I hate hearing O H I O. This is the first year that I really hear everybody saying it and I bet I have heard it 200 times in two days. One other thing for those people who you don't talk to for a year,because they called you the last game we lost to the Buckeyes suck my @#$%.

I am still up in the air about whether or not we should play against them in the NC game. On one hand I know that we are the 2nd best team in the country and we deserve the right to play for it, but on the other hand they won and it won't solve a thing if we beat them. Split NC. I just don't know!!

I know people are going to say that Carr needs to go, but it was not his fault. We had some bad mistakes, but they were from being to aggressive and that is better than being preventive. Hart's interview afterwards was great to me. I know some will say it was classless, but I loved his honesty.

GO BLUE!!!

The day has finally arrived.

This day is has emotions of good and bad. I am so sorry that Bo has gone and when I heard of his death I felt more emotions for his passing than I have for family members that have passed. I can not believe the timing in this and being here in Ohio one response to it was "he just did not want to see his team get killed tomorrow"....DICK!!! We Bo we all will miss you and you are the reason Michigan is Michigan and the reason that there are so many fans all around the country. Rest in Peace and tell Woody "Your going down!!!".

Now to the game today and the things that I have been hearing. I bowl on friday nights and hearing the stupid ass chant OH-IO is so annoying. I bet I heard it 100 times last night, but one constellation..I took all their money. I responded with GO BLUE sometimes, but when there are no other Michigan fans it doesn't have the sound as when 5 to 10 people do a saying. I have hasd more than one person say that Michigan is going to lose by 14-21 points and that pisses me off because you know that they could not name 5 people on Tosu's team. A bunch of people tailgate at a certain area so a friend and myself painted a 4x12 sign and hung it 20 feet up this wall so they are going to be reading "wolverines rule Buckeyes sux" all day.

One last thing I played my weekly playstation game of our rival and I kick the crap out of them 31-10 so with Bo passing, wearing my lucky shirt, and winning my playstation game we can't lose today.

GO BLUE BEAT THE BUCKEYES !!!

2 MORE DAYS UNTIL THE BIG GAME!! MY FINAL ANALYSIS OF THE GAME

I find myself getting more and more anxious to find more information out there out all the people, the game, and what the predictions are. One thing that I can say is I don't like being the underdog even when every game that I watch I always want the underdog to prevail. When the line came out this week I was surprised that it was so high, but at the same time I thought that it would go up. Most people told me that it would go down to 4 or 5, but I disagreed and said that there are too many Tosu believers out there. So far I have been correct and the line actually went up to 7 from 6.5.

There are a few thing s that I am disturbed by
1) All the anti-Michigan stuff out there that deals with Tous
2) I can't find very many anti-Tosu pictures or much of anything else

The Michiganzone.blogspot.com is a great website for this type of thing but anywhere else it is hard to find.

Living here in Ohio I obviously have a lot of friends that are Tosu fans and the more ammo that I can get the better off I am, so if you have anything please let me know how to get some anti-Tosu stuff.

This what I believe is going to happen

1)MINDSET: We all know since we are so hyped up that the players are probably calm and acting like nothing is going on, but they know what is at stake and being the underdog will give them even more incentive(like they need it). I believe we will see the most intense team we have seen in a long time. Especially Chad Henne being on his game.

2) RUNNING:The ability to run and stop the run. This is going to look a lot like Wisconsin. We may not get very many yards in the first half, but they will get run down a little and the holes will open up. Mike Hart is an unbelievable back and Jackson showing up lately has made us not miss Grady as much.Tosu will have a couple of 10 yard runs, but for the most part they will not be able to get 100 yards 98 for fact.

3)PASSING:I am so sick and tired of hearing about how great Tosu is in the passing game and that they are the greatest since sliced bread. Okay they are good and fast and will get there yards, but the BIG PLAY will not happen. Our safeties will play far enough back and will not come up until Troy passes the l.o.s. and starts running. Then you have the most underated wide receiving core in america!! Since ManHam went out we have gotten better there at the WR spot. Allowing us to go to the spread offense. We all have since Arrington catch TD's and Breaston catch one, but Matthews and/or Tabb(he is very fast) will be on the field with the other three causing major match up problems. The main factor though is going to be Ecker and sometimes Massey. On normal plays they will be tremendous. I guess all this hindges on Henne being accurate and making good choices. he has thrown 7 int's, but 4 were his fault and the others were the WR fault. I feel the dropsies will happen a little early just because of the emotions going on.

4)SPECIAL TEAM: I hope that Carr learned last year to not kick to Ginn unless you have to. If this happens we by far are the better ST, but even without that our comparisions this year show we are way better than them in this category. I don't believe that either team will allow the other team to have a big play off a punt. Kick Off we have the clear advantage and could have a TD.

5)OVERALL: The two responses that I hear this year is one they are going to beat us bad(only because I am in C-bus) and the other we are going to lose by a little bit, and the game is going to be very close. I am in the belief that we are going to do the same thing to Tosu as we did against Wisconsin. I am going to go against my better judgement of a close game and say that we beat them. I mean they said that last year we was going to get trampled on because of there D-fense, but it did not happen and that is another reason why I am going to pick this score!

MICHIGAN 28- Tosu 14

GO BLUE BEAT THE BUCKS!!!!

BIG BAD COLUMBUS!!!

This has been a great week down here so far! I have been wearing my Maize and Blue everywhere I go(I am staying away from Downtown) and have even gotten a few GO BLUES out there. The news consists of "there was a murder on the east side...blah blah blah there was a murder on the westside...blah blah blah and now to the Ohio State Michigan game". I am very sure it is like that in Ann Arbor also, but man is it getting me pumped up for this game. The worst part is hearing all the predictions and analysis coming from Tosu fans and how they are going to roll the Wolverines. I have not heard very many say they are going to blow us out, but still hearing so many people saying they are going to win gets disturbing. The funniest thing is where I live in Akron it is 10 times worse and the fans(radio personalities) are just really classless and idiots. Down here it seems that most are pretty classy saying the normal stuff like"what are you doing with that crap on" or "that is the wrong colors let me give you something red". In northern Ohio you here all the great fun songs like "We don't give a crap for the whole state of Michigan" or repeated "Michigan Sucks" chants. The best of all the other day was when I got serenaded by two Tosu fans. The song went as follows ....

Hail to the Motherfuckers
Hail to the Cocksuckers
Hail hail to Michigan the cestpool of the world.

Hell I requested them to sing it one more time I liked it so much plus the looked stupid as hell singing it together and again classy!! They were mad that I was the only M-fan at the bar and I got one of the 3 best TV's and they were right in front of it.

I realized a little while ago the significance of this game with being one and two, but it really did not sink until this week. We may never see this again in our lifetimes! I hope that this lives up to the hype or we just blow them away. The other thing is the football team and the basketball team are both undefeated how has that been.

GO BLUE!!!! BEAT THE BUCKEYES

I HAD A DREAM A DREAM OF ONE DAY MICHIGAN AND OHIO STATE WOULD BE #1 AND # 2 AND PLAYING FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

HALLALUAH!!! My dream came true. "They are who I thought they were and if you want to crown there ass then go ahead and crown there ass" They played very inspired football and I loved every bit of it.

DEFENSE

They realy showed what they were made of and just punished everyone that came around them. They had a few decent drives, but the running back could get nothing going and the QB other than designed sneaks and draws had a really rough time. Chris Graham had a pretty good game. He did much better than last week and showed a lot of hart. That d-line and LB crew are UNBELEIVABLE!! There was a few times that I thought "oh shit this could be a big play" then came someone from somewhere and wham smack boom they go down. The Wr looked very distressed when the ball was coming to them, because they knew they were going to get smacked hard when they caught it. Trent, Adams, and especially Hall did a tremendous job and not letting the receivers get behind them.

OFFENSE

They did what they always do and that is run left run right play action pass. I will say though Steve B. I criticized you last year on not being able to catch a ball over the shoulder, but you redeemed yourself with just one catch. Now please do it again and again come Nov. 18th. They actually showed a spread offense this week and that is a super spread. I will give the best hit to Tyler Ecker. Chad did a decent job managing the game, but that one interception in the end zone he has to know where the corner is and don't stare your receivers down. Overall very good job!!

Next week comparision

I got to watch both games at the same time and for the first time all year I am optimistic. NW was able to move the ball pretty easily down the field and then just give it to Tosu players. It was not like they were hit so hard that the ball staying in the arms was not a choice. No matter what the numbers are not as good as they were last year. They have a very good offense and it will be a great match-up. Our offense will expose the Tosu defense this week especially in the secondary. The O-Line has gotten much better through out the year, and are firing on all cylinders. I will put something out later in the week with my score prediction.

GO BLUE BEAT TOSU