It came down to lack of depth. We don’t have the depth to replace the key injuries and just didn’t have the talent on defense to hang with the big boys. We were exposed. But we’ll be back with more guys. Harbaugh and crew have done a remarkable job this season with what we have. At kickoff today of the final game of the regular season we were in the B1G and even playoff discussion. Sights and sounds: Honoring Legends: Talking with those involved, sounds like #1000SSS did a great job taking care of the families of the Legends this morning and for the game. Here’s the Oosterbaan crew including my man Ben McCready (47), godson of the great Bennie O.: Again, the Legends program did a great thing by putting these great players in the forefront. The other bonus was building new relationships with the current families and in certain cases, with the student-athletes who got to wear the coveted jerseys. McCready shared this note he received recently from Capt. Jake Ryan: “Ben – I just wanted to write and tell you it was an honor to wear the #47 jersey at Michigan. I was excited when Coach Hoke asked me and I wanted to represent Bennie in the best way on and off the field. Thank…
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It’s On!
Remember, we re- retire all these jerseys next Saturday and officially retire Desmond’s #21: Refresher course. My spies tell me the families were invited to come next week, too. https://t.co/O1bWuweh4d — MVictors (@MVictors) November 22, 2015
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Deserving Better (Ohio 26, Michigan 21)
I left Columbus with more questions. Like many of you I’m puzzled why Denard wasn’t used in the second half especially down the stretch. If he was hurt and out of commission he sure didn’t look it in the postgame and Hoke didn’t say as much in the postgame. While Hoke never really talks about injuries, it’s not like there’s some gamesmanship required here—the bowl game is five weeks away. And let’s say he was dinged up and couldn’t run the ball for some reason–toss him in the backfield as a decoy, no? Other than the lack of Denard down the stretch, the other frustration was how he was used in short yardage. He showed no indication that he was ever going to pass it and really didn’t throw in warm-ups. So if you aren’t going to have him throw it–at any point–then on short yardage put him in the backfield with Gardner and hand it or toss it to Denard, or fake it to #16 and have Gardner run it, or toss it to Gallon or ARGH. After the 2001 Michigan State Spartan Bob game Lloyd Carr summed up how he felt about his team, when he said, “They deserve better.” Kovacs was on the brink of tears in the postgame. The defense made huge players to keep Michigan…
