Give me a P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C!

The vision for this blog when it first came to fruition was to be about football from a woman's perspective, with an occasional rant and rave.  I never thought my first football season as a blogger would be as tumultuous as it has been. I haven't written in quite some time and I'm not exactly sure why. One day I think it's because there is nothing worthy of writing about, because the team is so bad. Then, the next day I feel like there is so much to write about because there are so many things that need to be fixed, on and off the field

So, in order to focus my thoughts. I guess I'll just stick to writing about the on-field performance, or lack of, for now.

Call me hopelessly optimistic, or maybe I'm just delusional, but I actually thought Michigan had a chance to win the game yesterday.  And to some degree, I was right. Had they put all of the pieces together at the same time, they could have had a chance at the end to make a game of it.  That, however, didn't happen. I should have expected this, given their past performance.  Chris Spielman pegged it when he said, "Michigan is a team of almosts......almost made that tackle, almost broke for a long run, almost made the catch, almost got the sack." Almost, doesn't cut it. Not for me.

The O-line looked as pathetic in the first half as I've ever seen them, but came out in the second half and actually gave Gardner some time.

Gardner looked like, well, Gardner. Scared. He made poor decision after poor decision and turned the ball over like only he can do.  I'm not exactly sure what he saw with that shovel pass that resulted in a Pick 6, because I saw nothing. It's pathetic that I watch a game just waiting for the turnover(s).

The receivers: They just plain didn't show up. Dropped pass after dropped pass. Funchess needs to return the coveted #1 jersey to the equipment manager. He doesn't deserve it. He played yesterday like a half-hearted goat. It was awful. Then Darboh got in on the action too.

The defense played average, they gave up some big plays and missed some key tackles, but when you've been on the field as much and as often as they were yesterday, it wears you down.  I haven't seen a ToP (Time of Possession) stat yet, but it would be scary, I'm sure. If the offense was even close to average, the defense keeps them in the game enough that it could have been a game at the end.

I'm not sure where they go from here. By all accounts, Hoke will be the coach until the end of the season, so I guess my only hope for them is that no one suffers a career ending injury at the hands of a staff that clearly can't prepare them to play.

Ugh! Just plain, Ugh! Never felt so hopeless about a team in all my years as a fan. It's so difficult to watch and root for a team that has so much undeveloped talent. They are just plain bad with a capital B-A-D.

If I were queen of Michigan football here are my Pick 6 things to fix to get them back:
1. The Athletic Director---because the type of head coach we need, won't come with Brandon at the helm
2. The Head coach---Brady is a nice guy, not a good coach
3. The O-Line coach---no comment needed
4. Attitude---everyone's attitude, from the top down, is not focused
5. The Michigan Man mantra----this may be my next blog
6. Strength and Conditioning---these guys get man-handled in the trenches

Go Blue!
~Bekki