On November 8, 1975, over 102 thousand Wolverine fans rolled into the Michigan Stadium to watch Bo’s crew roll up Purdue 28-0.   It’s a safe assumption that 100,000 will enter the gates Saturday and that’ll extend the streak of 100K+ crowds to over 35 years.

“Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.  But first, more donuts and cider.”  Melanie Maxwell – A2.com As you might expect, callers to the morning shows on WTKA were hammering away at Rich Rod and Greg Robinson.  Even omnipresent caller and ardent Rich Rod supporter Linda from Grand Blanc effectively called for a coaching change. I hate going through this game of classifying Michigan fans, but I think there’s a good portion of us that have been out there notsomuch defending Rodriguez, but instead defending him against critics of his offensive philosophy, the unfair treatment of countless incidents in the media and the circumstances that have led to the depleted talent on defense. Last night twitter was blazing with folks pinning this mess on Greg Robinson, asking for his head with even a few folks wishing Ron English could return, haha.  Sorry, at this point there are no thirdsies for Rich Rod with respect to the defense and the coordinator.   Maybe Gerg has no idea what he’s doing, but it doesn’t matter, it’s on Rodriguez. As far as the talent, yep, they are young and inexperienced but we’re nearly three years in and we can’t stop (or beat) marginal Big Ten opponents.  Rodriguez didn’t give the defense the same emphasis when he came in and yes, caught several…

I’ll be doing my weekly ‘This Week…‘ segment live in WTKA 1050AM studios tonight with Ira and crew, tune into the pregame show in the six o’clock hour for that segment.   We’ll be looking back to one of the greatest ever—triple overtime thriller against Michigan State held six years ago to the day, October 30, 2004: The sponsor of This Week…is Wolverine Beer so here’s where you can find it, or check out the Beer Wench’s Blog.  I’m still waiting to have my first Wolverine beer, perhaps some day soon. You can hear all of the  This Week… clips here.

Duty calls.  Per Brian’s post last night on mgoblog, Rich Rod (via various Angel tweets) apparently announced some pretty major moves in personnel.  After parsing through the tweets Brian made this request: I looked for podcasts on WTKA‘s site but couldn’t find them; maybe MVictors will  be able to dig out exactly what was said so we can parse that into molecules. He’s clutch like that. Here’s the first segment of the show thanks to Ira at WTKA: [display_podcast] . I ain’t got time to bleed, I mean, I don’t got time to transcribe.  If anyone wants to take a run, have at ‘er. [Update:  mgo-transcription and analysis here.]   Relevant transcription only via Brian: On Will Campbell and Quinton Washington: “We made a couple moves with some big guys, some backup linemen. Quinton Washington was a backup lineman; we moved him to nose guard. We kinda traded Will Campbell over to offense, where I think he’s going to be a natural offensive guard. After a week and a half I think both of those moves will probably stick for now. I think Will’s got a future at guard, I think Quinton Washington’s got a future on the D-line.” On the secondary: “We moved around Cam Gordon. We wanted him to learn—well, he played the deep safety, we wanted him…

Mike Rothstein’s Penn State preview included a Q&A with David Jones of the Harrisburg Patroit-News.  It included this: Q: Will the night-time/Halloween atmosphere help Penn State? Why or why not? DJ: "No. This team is slow on D. I don’t see how drunken 19-year-olds in masks are going to affect that."