Brady Hoke by de-fault!!!
And sure enough, UM fans are flight tracking his plane to John Wayne. hahahahahaha.
This is sorta embarassing for UM. A top public university, a tradition-laden and extremely respected football program, and they easily pack the third largest stadium in the world each home game. What do they gotta do to get a coach???
Embarrassment is already in the books: when you (reportedly) approach the coach of another Big 1G school (Northwestern) and he tells you he’s not interested, you’ve already got enough egg on your face for an omelet.
Big 1G?
The programmer in me could see Big 0x0B but I’m not getting Big 1G.
Ah, a reference to the logo.
Well, its Brady Hoke then.
a “Michigan Man” and a defensive guy, so hopefully they’ve both gotten what they need, and gotten somebody the fans will allow to do his job. I wish him luck, he’s going to need it.
Is there any chance the SEC makes it 6 in a row next year? I don’t see a lot of title contenders. You’d think Auburn will return to merely above average. The East is a wasteland. Alabama might get better as a team. LSU can always back into it.
I guess you never know.
JeffL
1948
Gotta have a playoff.
If the NCAA Basketball was run the way Div 1 football was, at the end of the season you’d pick two teams and say OK, no March Madness, you two just play a game and the winner is national champion.
If the NFL was run the way Div 1 football was, at the end of the season you’d just use some stats to select the top two teams, and declare these are the two teams playing in the Superbowl, and we’ll have some meaningless exhibition games between the other teams for a month while we wait.
Same for baseball, same for every other sport. World Cup football (soccer?) Just pick two teams, based on some stats that year, and have them play a single match for the World Cup championship.
One of the problems with instant replay, I think, is often the officials in the booth get so fixated on one detail, like “was his knee down” that they completely miss something else, like the runner having like his whole forearm on the ground at one point.
But I’m more upset about the second interception Cam Newton threw that they took away from Cliff Harris. He made a great catch, has possession when he gets a foot down in bounds and maintains possession all the way to the ground. Should have been a turnover, but instead Auburn scores a TD on that drive.
ckessel
1950
First off, I understand both calls and I’m not really bitter. Them’s the breaks.
The tackle though seems like a loophole. If, especially on a solo tackle like that, the only reason the runner isn’t down is he’s laying on his back on the opponent, then it seems to me he’s tackled. The tackler should count as part of the field in that case, so the runner would be down. I get if a runner’s on his belly, using hands and feet and still moving then that’s a different thing.
I also understand that trying to close those loopholes may be more trouble than it’s worth.
I fast-forwarded through that part. Did anyone talk about how his wrist looked like it hit the ground? I think there was an NFL play like that recently.
I think you’d be hard pressed to say that there was definitive proof that his wrist hit the ground. Just like you can’t say that Harris had possession all the way through landing out of bounds.
As bad as B1G officials were at points in the bowl season, they did a good job when it really mattered.
I did a quick Google search. People are saying it was his palm that hit the ground. I think in the recent NFL play, it was the back of the hand/wrist that touched the ground.
The broadcasters were also too fixated on the runner’s knee to ever mention that his wrist looked down. There was just an instance in the NFL where someone was rule down by his wrist after a replay, but I can’t recall which game.
See, that’s another problem. There a lot of fixation over the “maintains possession all the way to the ground” rule these days, but I’m not sure most refs even have a clear understanding of when it applies. From the NFL’s rulebook:
N.F.L. Rule 8, Section 1, Article 3, Item 1: Going to the ground. If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball after he touches the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete.
Cliff Harris has possession of the ball when he gets his foot down (one hand, clutching the ball to his stomach) and never lets the ball touch the ground when he falls on his back out of bounds. But that’s not really relevant since College doesn’t even have an equivalent “going to the ground” rule like the NFL. The only thing relevant is if he demonstrates control at the moment he touches inbounds. That’s the standard in the College Rulebook. Cliff Harris very clearly does this in the replay. The application of NFL rules to the college game in replay situations is simply out of control at this point.
Tyjenks
1955
Pretty sure it was a Texans games and Arian Foster as it cost me a touchdown in my FFB league.
I know everyone in this thread is keen on getting some sweet, sweet Auburn national championship gear. Here’s the hookup:
www.tigerrags.com
Never ordered from them online, but their store in Auburn is AU-some.
(tee hee)
Tyjenks
1957
No baby doll tee for me, no sale.
Just get a men’s tee and cut off the bottom of it for some hot halter-top action. Sleeves could be cut off too.
Tyjenks
1959
Or I could just tie the bottom portion in a knot a couple inches above my navel. I wonder if they have some cut-off jean shorts with a tiger on the ass.
I know it happened in the Sugar Bowl; the Arkansas TE had his wrist, but nothing else down. They called the ensuing touchdown back on replay.
