Hell if it was, the whistle hadn't even blown before he jumped and the runner wasn't down yet. BS call.
MSU outplayed UM but there had to be 10 calls or
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The two calls easily remembered resulted in 14 points. That's game changing calls.
Why can't he dive on a moving pile. People jump over lineman and land on running backs or dive into them. Why is this different. The whistle clearly hadn't blown and runner wasn't down. If so obvious why only one flag.
Okay there were a enough other lousy calls to get irritated about that I missed this one
Burbridge must have had an amazing final semester his senior year, because even the Harrison coaches were shocked he was accepted
into (any) college.
UM was consistent? Didnt UM go 3 and out 7 or 8 of their offensive possessions?
MSU outplayed UM on defense and offense. Some stupid coaching and special teams keot you clinging to your lead but with Cook and our WRs we ere never remotely close to not being in the game.
UM simply cannot hit big plays on offense, and you arent going to nickel and dime your way down the field vs MSU unless you have a really good offense which UM doesnt have. And you arent going on long sustained drives vs UM either...but MSU was able to hit big plays because we have an elite passing offense.
If this game is played on a neutral field, make no mistake, MSU wins 4 out of 5 times. And tht was with 3 starters out in our secondary and our OL a mash unit.
No offense man, but that play, or plays similar to it, happen several times every season. Just usually not on the last play. Think back to the JLS days. In one season, MSU was up on OSU, and looking to extend the lead on the last play of the 1st half. In a Chinese fire drill fashion, MSU sends out the kick team, the ball is blocked, and OSU takes it to the house. The game went downhill from there. Stuff happens. I guess it's only called a "miracle" or "luck" when it's on the last play.
As for UM being the better team overall, all I can say is they were better in one third of the game. Special teams. I mean, MSU had 383 yards to UM's 230. The rushing game was almost identically bad, but MSU threw for over 300 yards to UM's 160 or so. Also, this game was played in AA. Not sure what you saw to feel UM was the better overall team.
Happened in the Indiana v Rutgers game this past Saturday: "The defense forced three turnovers in the quarter, including a 26-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Kemoko Turay on an errant punt snap."
Which is why you simply don't punt, especially when you can run out the clock in 4 plays.
Which is why you simply don't punt, especially when you can run out the clock in 4 plays.
I agree ... similar to the statements that MSU "dominated"
well if they were "dominating" then why did they have to try so many 4th down conversions
and why didn't they make them?
I mean if you think your team is dominating then you just punt on 4th down since
you will quickly get the ball back anyways.
Credit to MSU for the win - can't spin it any other way.
Extending that miracle sequence of events to conclude that MSU dominated
and that JimH is a bad coach ... well that is the true definition of delusional and arrogance
oh well
Reality is msu has a terrible kicker and terrible special teams. They didn't even want him out there that's why they went for it on fourth down so often. He can't kick worth squat. Second they threw to Lewis side mostly the whole game but I hear Spartans claim peppers is terrible on d. But they never threw his way. I wonder why. Spartans believe their one win away from tieing in the overall series so they say as well. Delusional.
Peppers is a work in progress on pass D, but a beast vs the run. Problem for MSU isolating him is that he's likely covering TEs, RBs and other players that MSU is not looking to use heavily in the game.
I find it kind of amusing that the $partan$ fans are now acting like arrogant asses like they have called us for the past 40 or 50 years. But I heard that some coach once said "Pride comes before the fall."
I saw one objective spartan fan reply in this entire thread. You, my friend, whoever you are, are swimming upstream against a very strong current of delusional thinking.
I saw one objective spartan fan reply in this entire thread. You, my friend, whoever you are, are swimming upstream against a very strong current of delusional thinking.
I just can't stop thinking about it. I would say this, the Spartans did all they could do to make the play. Watching it over and over again, I'm still thinking they would most likely have blocked the kick anyway. But a Hail Mary was what probably should have happened. ANd that had a low chance of being successful...but we'll never know. But the way this came down was just a perfect storm fumble. I'm sure coaches all over the country are rethinking how they handle that situation if it happens to them. I suspect it will never be repeated, anywhere, in our lifetimes.
Michigan absolutely, positively played well enough to win that game. Deserve to win? Nobody deserves to win. You win. You lose. You make plays. You don't. MSU made the play....were ready to make the play if the opportunity presented itself. Unfortunately, UM didn't make the play. MSU tried to make something happen and they did. O'Brien fumbled and MSU pounced. History. I'm not gloating. I'm happy. A little sad for UM...but just a little. Carry on!
