Fired Michigan coach disagreed with play call

“The Michigan football team all rallied around me and said ‘look, mate, one play doesn’t define a game and we’ll come back stronger from this and, as coach said, put steel in our spine'”.

Former Michigan punter Zoltan Mesko broke down the play to defend O’Neill. The West figured to be a bit more unpredictable, but not many prognosticators would have thought Iowa would be undefeated and on top of the division heading into late October. “And if it’s a Hail Mary – because that’s all it would have been – so you open your playbook”.

Instead, the Wolverines handed the ball off to De’Veon Smith three times and he gained 8 yards. After tying the game at 52 on a touchdown, the Scarlet Knights had their extra point blocked, thereby forcing themselves to convert a game-winning field goal in the final seconds to pull off what I guess would be considered an upset. But, like with me, it’ll live with you for the rest of your life, and you’ll think about it over and over through your head how it could be different, what else could’ve happened.

Are the stars aligning for Jim Harbaugh’s season to mirror Bo Schembechler’s first year in Ann Arbor? “I feel like we did what we said we were going to do”. We should all have enough perspective to sit back and say if I’m depressed this week, it doesn’t hurt anyone, and that’s the beauty of fandom. “I’ve been on the sideline and had to make decisions”. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and go again. The ball then flew into the air as defenders converged upon him and Jalen Watts-Jackson ended up in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown (and suffered a dislocated hip on the play).

“I just wanted to draw the eerie similarities back to a time when I was coming out of high school in Michigan”. Hoke stated that he wouldn’t have punted, but rather gone for it on fourth down because the Wolverines defense is the strength of the team.

Then came the moment punter Blake O’Neil was immortalized in a way most of us would find hard to carry with us. “Guys up front, go pressure during the whole game, play to your strength and that’s your defense”.

Credit O’Neill, whose background is in Australian Rules Football, for facing reporters.

“We were saying all week that mental is to physical as four is to one – that you had to be four times mentally tough than you were physically tough”, Dantonio said.

Games like Saturday’s are a reminder that no matter how loud you cheer, no matter how far you travel to see the game, no matter how much team gear you’ve accrued, being a fan still means you have no control over what’s happening on the field, even though you’ve invested so much emotional energy into it. These are college kids from 18- to 22-year-old, and he didn’t go out there not to get the punt off. At the same time, however, you comment on game and it’s easy to play armchair quarterback and second guess. Adams missed Bralon Addison on fourth down giving the Spartans the ball and a victory.