This is how I watched the final play:
I watched Bryce throw it out of the endzone.
I shut off the TV
Immediately wrote the Disaster post
I hopped in a sad shower
My phone rings as I'm in the shower
My son said, that he can't believe Michigan won
I said, I saw the final play and the game was over, the WMU head coach was walking to shake hands.
He said, they put 1 second on the clock and Bryce hit JJ for a Hail Mary.
I turned my TV on and YouTube TV had saved exactly where I left off and saw the final play.
I know social media lost its mind that 1 second was put back on the clock. I 100% agree, WMU got robbed. The same way Michigan has gotten robbed many times over. There was an extra play against MSU where the clock operator stopped the clock with one second to give Sparty a free play, which they won on. They even nicknamed the fella, like one second Bob or something. Dumb shit happens in football and this time Michigan benefited from it.
Let's also be real about something. Those officials and the video review booth were terrible all game. There were at least 2 bad spots that were reviewed and up held. One I'm pretty sure was a tackle for a loss that they gave a first down to the Broncos.
The other point I've been seeing online is that, the fix was in by the Big Ten to protect next week's game between Michigan and OK. Michigan had trouble all game completing a pass more than 5 yards, they had less than 1% chance of hitting that Hail Mary from 60 yards out. It's not like they were in the red zone or goal line. That gift was buying your broke friend a lottery ticket and saying I hope this hits and you can pay off all your loans.
Update: The Big Ten released the audio and video from the review and it seems like a legit call with the clock synced with #18 from WMU touching the ball. The MAC appreciated the transparency and agrees with the finding.
I don't love rushing the field, but those fans were there all night, with nothing to cheer about. They had 4 hours of cheering to get out of their system. Those plays always happen against Michigan, not for Michigan. So I get it.
This sucks for the Broncos, I know the feeling all too well, but Michigan is nowhere near a good team right now. They can't run, they can't block, they can't stop the run, they have a ton of problems with a top 10 team coming in next Saturday.
Cheers:
- JJ told Sam Webb that 50/50 balls are 90/10 when thrown to him. He is right.
- Our punter was really good
- First drive and last play was good
Jerers:
- New Michigan staff got a hard lesson that this place is different.
- Team was not prepared at all
- The play calling (outside of the first drive) was head scratching
- I love that they want to run Bryce but he has a fumbling problem
- Marsh has shown not to be the best Special Teams player in the past
- Coach Whitt be aggressive in the 2nd half when the team is moving the ball, go for a 4th down
- Turnovers and penalties are not Michigan Football and needs to be cleaned up right away
- Offensive line play was maybe the worst I've seen in 5 years
- Beck, let's at least try to throw to a TE
Outside the final play and the first drive, Michigan had very little to like about the game last night. It was nice to see Michigan has a good punter.
The late Lou Holtz used to say, "the biggest improvement jump teams get all year is between Week 1 and Week 2 of the season". Let's hope that happens here. Lots of long nights for the Michigan staff this week. No Labor day BBQ for them.
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Just a thought > could Michigan football play be one of the adverse effects of paying the players .... they are just fat cats (wolverines) resting on their laurels .... just going thru the motions. Why "bust your ass" if your pockets are full of "change". If some of them are millionaires, the motivation is gone .....they are just a few years from getting 25 dollars a week from Mom and Dad. I hate "Nil" but still love the wolves" .... back to the payments ... know someone that prepaid a lawn-guy $100 dollars a week .... guess what? > he never showed up .... too busy pretending to be a football player that really got beat by Western Michigan.
I agree NIL has made college a mercenary sport.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post after the game. BU stinks. he's not any good. Its what I had heard throughout camp. He can't process the game. He can't read defenses. he locks on the primary and predetermines his targets before the snap.
The OL doesn't look very good either. they got pushed around by a MAC team.
Coaching, I wasn't impressed. Outside the opening drive and lets face it, BU got lucky on the one play with the bad snap. WMU fell asleep on that play, the play calling was vanilla. you want to tell me that they wanted to established the run? Cool, but the didn't. the OL couldn't give them any push. Doesn't help when your QB is no threat! Besides that, too many effing penalties. C'mon man! Thought Whitt was a discipline guy? Wasn't in love with the hire when it happened so yesterday didn't do anything to make me like it any more.
I heard that they are going to make a sequel to the movie "Million-Dollar Baby" .... but name it "Million-Dollar loser" ... starring our 12-million-dollar player .... I heard rumors that a tattoo pallor offers free tattoos to Michigan players ... their specialty is tattooing large L's on foreheads.
The game sucked and we were all disappointed in how it was played. Michigan constantly shot themselves in the foot. WMU wasn't a great team but they played to the best of their abilities looked good enough against a "Top 20 team.".
However, regarding the clock and the last second issue we must keep in mind that although the official game clock and the clock that we see on our tv screen are supposed to be the same, but they are not. They are suppose to be synced together and sometimes things go wrong...obviously. Here is a link that tries to explain how they are suppose to work together.
https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-clock-on-a-TV-broadcast-of-a-sporting-event-synchronized-to-the-actual-clock-at-the-stadium-Is-the-production-crew-literally-plugged-into-the-stadium-clock-Or-is-there-a-camera-pointed-at-the-clock-with
Guys, this is what I come back from …. This was absolutely embarrassment. I don’t think our team will be good. This year guys get used to lots of losses and as we are going to get from OSU, I will say Whittingham will be fired by end of the season.
Another thought > Bob and others have a policy as to not denigrate the players (in the most part). I think that now they are "paid professionals" we can take off the powdered puff gloves and say want we want > even if it hurts. If you do not like it pay back your "bucks" and go home to Momma!!!!!
The first paragraph of this post says it all, spot on, confirmed by the TV QB analysts and his play we all watched last year. He is overmatched out there. The question is when will the coaches gather up the courage to sit him down.
If Under-whelming" is a 'bust.... can he be benched (yes) but can his pay (allowance) be reduced .... or in accounting terms is that 12 million a "sunk cost" ..... payable regardless of performance? Me would really like to know ... I digress to Chowman and "voice of Reason"
The shit show of yesterdays performance may very well be a godsend needed to clean up the garbage before the Oklahoma game. Sadly, Bryce Underperform clearly lacks between the ears what it takes as a quarterback to lead this team to the promise land, and certainly could see this week's rep's being split evenly with #2, with a quick yank of Bryce if the Oklahoma game starts going south early.
Believing Whitt can quickly turn this ship around, knowing how competitive he is, where losing is not an option, especially through self-inflective wounds, I'll be very disappointed not to see a much better performance come this Saturday.
I'm not sure how many other video views there are with the "Official's" input so to speak but this is a facebook copy of one in which they are reviewing the last play. As difficult as it is to swallow, if this is legitimate, the WMU was not "Robbed" of their win, I'm just hoping that we're not dealing with Rich Rod 2.0 in other words, the coaches that are good with smaller or younger programs but can't transition to the larger program.
Facebook copy:
https://www.facebook.com/JoeyD.WDTN/videos/new-the-big-ten-also-released-this-video-showing-an-entirely-separate-clock-that/2373570750049841/
I would think that he could be benched but most likely he won't because someone is paying him millions upon millions of dollars to "play" for Michigan and not sit on the bench.
I would also think that because he's under contract with someone, that reducing his money would depend upon the details of the contract. More than likely that a reduction clause is a non-starter. He wouldn't likely have signed a performance clause but he "may" have signed "Character clause" i.e., bad behavior, such as getting arrested for something that he did that would give their corporation and the university a bad name.
Nevertheless, these corporations aren't looking to get their money back for poor performance, there are financial advantages for them doing what they did in the first place. IMHO!!!
Not going to wade into the debate on whether WMU got jobbed. Anytime you have a decision like that one side is going to feel screwed. Last night it was Western.
Oh straight up. these guys are not college kids anymore, but paid pros. Especially BU! If its some kids getting the equivalent of lunch money, ok I'll be nicer, but BU getting $12M. nah, he's fair game.
It's mostly Larry Ellison's money, and its not like he's a big time booster. I think that was a one time deal. Whitt and the staff have no loyalty to BU and even if he plays every game this year, he's most likely headed to the TP anyway. It's just not working.
In middle school and high school, he was always bigger than most of the other players, but not in major college not so much. Don't think he ever learned how to play the game, from a cerebral standpoint. I never watched a down of Belleville football, but was told there wasn't much nuance to the offense. Just him throwing the ball deep to his WRs.
Okay, the argument is over the one second ruling > but everyone is ignoring the play like it was a certainty.
All 6 defenders were in the end zone (behind receiver) .... the Michigan player was in the act of catching the ball while entering the end zone in front of them. The "circus catch", was one on the most athletic catches I had ever witnessed, and the throw was like a laser to the receiver. Michigan executed that play to perfection .... Western Michigan did not .... if Western Michigan deserved to win > they should have stopped that play. it was six to one odds ..... (com'on people) Western Michigan blinked at the wrong time. Michigan executed. This is my "Final Verdict" in honor of Lou Holtz ... who was not a bad guy,. but a touch racist.
Chowman I do hear you. Of course WMU is going to feel screwed. The nation as a whole is saying that they were screwed. Give everyone a cookie and a glass of warm milk and send them to bed...they have to get over it.
No one cried over Michigan when they lost the last second call controversy at MSU years ago, and it was still a loss BUT Michigan should have stopped MSU again, and again and again if necessary, even with that extra play BUT they DIDN'T...so in spite of the questionable extra time, Michigan "should have" just stepped up and did what they were supposed to do if they were the better team... but they DIDN'T!
My point here with this game is simply, that IF the "official clock" legitimately had one second left then despite of how people FEEL about it, then the win was legitimate...and it means that both teams (and that includes WMU) have to play for a full 60 minutes. They don't get special dispensation because they're a MAC team.
Olympic swimmers can win or lose a meet by as little as a hundredth of a second, because they have to touch the wall FIRST. They don't get a break because they looked better swimming than their opponents. A boxer can be winning a fight for 15 rounds and lose by getting knocked out in the last round. In other words, you have to play the full game.IMHO!!!
It would appear that performance based signing contracts are not permitted.
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-bans-performance-based-nil-205541938.html
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