Comments on: MattNYC: The Spread Offense Is Awesome (Comment Of The Week) http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2008/09/25/mattnyc-the-spread-offense-is-awesome-comment-of-the-week/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:10:32 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: awolk http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2008/09/25/mattnyc-the-spread-offense-is-awesome-comment-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-817 awolk Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:21:00 +0000 http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2008/09/25/mattnyc-the-spread-offense-is-awesome-comment-of-the-week/#comment-817 Well Litty Hoops, it looks as if you have met your match. Look on the bright side, if you ever cant get to the blog you can have MattNYC jump on and write for you. Or even better maybe he can "guest blog" kind of like Letterman used to do for Carson when he got older and less enthusiastic. As for my comments on the words themselves: I am what I consider a huge UM fan and truly live and die with the Maize and Blue. I will also say that I am a big time pessimist, and usually see the UM glass as half empty so while I stare down a 3-9 season, it will be tough to defend Dick Rod in season 1. That said I will also say in the all years I have watched and loved Michigan football there is one constant; nothing less than winning a National Title and beating OSU will ever be good enough. Under Llyod we bitched and complained and yawned our way through year after year of "good enough" but not "great football". With the exception of '97 and then the close, but not quite '06, we watched us run up the middle more times than I care to count, we had some terrible clock and time management losses, and seemed to be slipping in the ever tough recruiting battle with OSU. Losing to Ohio State became an annual Thanksgiving tradition and while he seems to be a great guy, a fabulous teacher and mentor, people had been calling for Carr's job for a while now (anyone recall that Alamo Bowl??). I do like Llyod, I do not like Dick Rod. I actually currently cant stand Dick Rod, but I will give him this; he has won everywhere he has gone. He has a system and it has worked so I am going to give him a few years before I drop the hammer on him. It took 2 bad losses to App St. and Oregon at the big house for the people at UM to realize what many of us already knew: That we will never be able to defend the spread offense with a Big10 D. Speed and the Big10 are not synonymous, but Speed and Dick Rod are. We will see where this journey takes us and who knows maybe we will be shocked, but I dont think so. I will say this, if he drives us into the abyss that currently holds once storied programs like Nebraska and FSU, I will hunt him down myself. Call me old fashioned but I think I could have gotten used to 9-3 and 10-2 seasons for the rest of my life, not USC greatness, but good enough to turn on the TV every Saturday and know my team can always win and maybe just maybe we put a sick '97 D on the field and win a Natty Champ ever 10 years or so. At least I could watch Sportscenter. I will cheer because I am a Michigan fan, but I will tell you that my heart is just not in it like it used to be, but as MattNYC said, all it takes to get us back is WINNING and everything will be okay again. Well Litty Hoops, it looks as if you have met your match. Look on the bright side, if you ever cant get to the blog you can have MattNYC jump on and write for you. Or even better maybe he can “guest blog” kind of like Letterman used to do for Carson when he got older and less enthusiastic.

As for my comments on the words themselves: I am what I consider a huge UM fan and truly live and die with the Maize and Blue. I will also say that I am a big time pessimist, and usually see the UM glass as half empty so while I stare down a 3-9 season, it will be tough to defend Dick Rod in season 1. That said I will also say in the all years I have watched and loved Michigan football there is one constant; nothing less than winning a National Title and beating OSU will ever be good enough. Under Llyod we bitched and complained and yawned our way through year after year of “good enough” but not “great football”. With the exception of ‘97 and then the close, but not quite ‘06, we watched us run up the middle more times than I care to count, we had some terrible clock and time management losses, and seemed to be slipping in the ever tough recruiting battle with OSU. Losing to Ohio State became an annual Thanksgiving tradition and while he seems to be a great guy, a fabulous teacher and mentor, people had been calling for Carr’s job for a while now (anyone recall that Alamo Bowl??). I do like Llyod, I do not like Dick Rod. I actually currently cant stand Dick Rod, but I will give him this; he has won everywhere he has gone. He has a system and it has worked so I am going to give him a few years before I drop the hammer on him. It took 2 bad losses to App St. and Oregon at the big house for the people at UM to realize what many of us already knew: That we will never be able to defend the spread offense with a Big10 D. Speed and the Big10 are not synonymous, but Speed and Dick Rod are. We will see where this journey takes us and who knows maybe we will be shocked, but I dont think so. I will say this, if he drives us into the abyss that currently holds once storied programs like Nebraska and FSU, I will hunt him down myself. Call me old fashioned but I think I could have gotten used to 9-3 and 10-2 seasons for the rest of my life, not USC greatness, but good enough to turn on the TV every Saturday and know my team can always win and maybe just maybe we put a sick ‘97 D on the field and win a Natty Champ ever 10 years or so. At least I could watch Sportscenter. I will cheer because I am a Michigan fan, but I will tell you that my heart is just not in it like it used to be, but as MattNYC said, all it takes to get us back is WINNING and everything will be okay again.

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