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Originally Posted by ILOVEPOKER929
Die hard Michigan fan my whole sports life since 1988. The ND confusion is understandable. I'm what you would call a mercenary ND fan this year. I bet $500 before the season on ND over 9, and I made another bet with a 2+2er on ND over 8 (after ND started 0-2). So yeah I've been in there cheering for ND quite a bit this season (I still have a chance to break even on my big bet if ND runs the table and lol beats Stanford). Even without the money, I'm definitely not an ND hater or anything. I do think college football is better when they're good, but that's probably just nostalgia speaking since in my formative years as a sports fan ND was awesome.
About Borges: Yeah I'm in agreement with others that his play calling in the MSU and Iowa game was not good, to put it lightly. There was a few times Denard clearly had a running lane vs Iowa and he didn't take it and passed instead, so you know Borges is getting inside his head. I can only hope that's corrected because we can't beat NEB or Ohio St unless Denard is very aggressive and doing what he does best. IOW we better run a lot more ZR in those games or it's over. And denard better be coached up to run more on passing plays. Also, like others have mentioned, not rolling Denard out on the goal line vs Iowa was downright criminal. And of course the biggest play this season where Borges clearly didn't play to Denard's strengths was that 4th and inches (or perhaps a half a yard) call vs MSU, which IMO is the worst call EVER in the history of Michigan football.
Ok haha sry for the mix-up, I grew up in PSU but moved to Michigan awhile back and my mom has liked UM since i was born basically and I started liking them to support her( even thou I found out last year she didn't know what "downs" were lol moms)
Yea I think there afraid of what happened last year when RR ran Denard into the ground and he was constantly getting hurt. like against IOWA I think it was denard completed like b2b passes and then they bring in Gardner??? wtf lets break up his rhythm lol. I mean Denard runs a 4.2 40 ffs let him run, I remember a few games ago they showed that he had like 80+ runs of 10 yds or more since the start of last season, it was like 15 more then ORE's James so obv. UM should focus more on him getting his runs in, even thou every team always has a spy or 2 on him it seems to prevent against the big plays.
I think Borges is in denards head a bit trying to get him to constantly throw it when he has 7-10 yd lanes. I mean I've been a UM fan for along time but really got behind them when Shoelace came onto the scene haha. hopefully they end strong really like Hoke wnat to see him do good.