photo credit – Me
I’m finally home from an amazing 48 hours in Columbus. Yes, I had a laptop, but no I didn’t have the energy to write. By the time I got to the hotel last night, I was way too tired to post my post-game thoughts.
I’ve gotta say, Michigan may be the dumbest team I have seen in a LONG time. They did things that intentionally pissed off the Buckeyes, and it woke us up in a vicious mood.
Seriously, you decided to start a turf war during pre-game? You can’t do that without the talent to back it up…and watching that turf war live was VERY telling. Michigan started to taunt the Bucks players, and within 30-40 seconds, the Bucks were literally intimidating Michigan to retreat to their locker room. And if you’re going to start shit at midfield, do it when you AREN’T on your way to the locker room…because when it ends, it won’t look like you’re running away.
Then, the cheap shot on Pryor after the interception….come on, guys, there were 108,000 people who saw that, even if the refs didn’t. It fired us (the crowd and the team) up, it got the defense juiced, and it got you three plays for negative-5 yards and a crushed spirit after a missed FG.
UPDATE – I’m watching the game on DVR right now, and Bob Griese was talking early about Ohio State players getting dirty in the first UM series after the INT…he singled out Malcolm Jenkins in particular. What he failed to mention, and what ABC didn’t show is that after Pryor knocked the Michigan player out of bounds on the interception, another UM player came in and gave a cheap shot to Pryor a good 5 or 6 seconds after the play, and nothing was called. Jenkins, and the rest of the Buckeyes, were fired up over the no-call. Griese, being the not-so-closeted UM fan that he is, completely neglected to mention that.
Fact is, there wasn’t a single facet of the game that wasn’t dominated by Ohio State. Even the Michigan MVP, Zoltan Mesko (yes, their punter is their MVP) got outplayed. Ray Small made sure of that by taking one of his low line-drives back 80 yards.
I’ll have a full day review up later, but first I have to go watch the film and see just how badly the refs blew that safety non-call…..
Oh, and by the way…it’s been 1,828 days since Michigan beat us.
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