I’m still blown away by the team’s performance on Tuesday. Looking over the highlights and the media coverage it is just amazing. When things fell like they did, with Penn State and Wisconsin locking into their bowls prior to the BCS pairings and Michigan just hanging there and then finally drawing Florida of all teams….I thought it was a good break for Michigan to get a New Year’s Day bowl but a bad one given they’d have to play the likely Heisman winner and the defending national champion. The Gators seemed to be a perfect poison for the struggling Wolverines. You had to be thinking bad thoughts or at least braced for a spanking like fellow blogger CC at Autumn Thunder. The one hope I had coming in was that we’d have a healthy Henne and Hart, and you know good things can happen when those guys are clicking. But still…it was Florida with Tebow and Harvin. Not mention they were playing essentially a home game. The way those guys played despite the mistakes – it was just incredible. Watch the highlights again and watch how hard Arrington is going and how hard the defensive line comes off the ball. Even when Tebow made a play he ended up on his arse. Finally for MVP Henne, talk about putting it…

Thanks to MLive, the post game press conference from Lloyd Carr: – “Proud of our players, to deal with some of the things they’ve had happen this season…” – “The way things started this sesaon they could have folded. Never did.” – [After the game] “Told the players I loved them. Most importantly, I thanked them.” – [After down 35-31, any doubts?] “I told our kids only we could stop ourselves, which we did a number of times…we got all the time in the world we needed.” – On Arrington’s punishment this summer. Great stuff (midway through the audio, check it out)…Talks about this summer, the punishment of running the steps….says his mother called him every morning to wake him up at 5:30am to make sure he was at the stadium to walk the steps…Carr adds he only asked him to walk steps; Arrington used it as an opportunity to get in better shape. – “There were some sensational catches and Adrian made some of those.” – “I never woke up not wanting to be there” [coaching at Michigan]. – [On his wish for the program] “I hope they win every game…Every time.”