If Tate is not hurt/sick, it is an egregious error. There was 1:39 seconds left, we had no TOs. 80% of Denard's strengths are immediately off the table. Put 4 minutes left and RichRod now has a strong case for playing Denard. Nevertheless, in the current situation, a rattled Forcier clearly is the better option than a Denard that really can't run, who has made bad decisions all year in the air. This is not even close. If I find out that Forcier was not injured, I won't just conclude that this was a horrible decision by RichRod. I will seriously wonder if he's bipolar because stupidity alone cannot account for this action.

Exactly.

They looked much better tonight than they did last week and against a better team no less. They turned the ball over five times and still had a chance to beat a 5-0 team on the road. They're still way ahead of where I thought they would be at this point. The sky's the limit.

What a frustrating game.

You went to far here. Make that int play 3rd and 10 and I'm with you. On 2nd and 3, Denard should be aware enough to know that he should just run for the 1st down if no one is open. There is absolutely no reason to force anything in that spot. However, the very fact that he did just that does point to how horrible of a decision it was for RichRod to put him out there to begin with. But we have to put some blame on Dernard for that ******ed decision.

Remember when Beilein benched Manny late in the Iowa game and everyone got pissed?

I was one of those people.

Oh, the parallels continue

Your argument only makes sense if there was 4min to play instead of 1:39min.

Yes this Michigan team is not that good. They are capable of beating themselves every game. I'm officially off the Kool-Aid now.

I just watched some of the presser on BTN. Rod said that there were no words between he and Tate. There is no issue there. They had a plan to use Denard at some point in the game and had a plan for how they were to going to use them. An opportunity just didn't materialize until late. They went ahead with the change late because they had good field position, Tate was struggling, and they thought Denard could give them a spark. He did and so they went with him again.

He also asked the press not to try to create a story where there is no story. He has two outstanding QBs and he put the one in that he thought gave them the best chance to win. That's more or less what he said.

How good did you expect them to be? I see a team that is capable of hanging with every team left on the schedule. No way did I feel that way six weeks ago. The improvement from last year to now is pretty remarkable, imo.

Truthfully, I thought they had a great chance at winning 9 games, and a decent chance at 10.

I agree with everything written here. We can beat anybody on our schedule. Problem is we can lose to anybody too except for Delaware St.

we could be 6-0, we could be 2-4.... 4-2 seems fair.

sigh we are a young, young team with young, young qbs. Have to keep perspective. After next week we'll be 5-2 and hopefully improving.

Ezeh looked good tonight, I was impressed with our cbs as well.

Ricky Stanzi is pretty awful, we can say that much. There's no way Iowa beats Ohio State with the way threw the ball today.

Bump

Can you explain what point you are trying to make mjw? Because it's either alluding me or not a good one.

Well that's it. I no longer believe in RichRod on the decision making front. IOW, I officially think he's a mediocre coach in this area. The fact that he didn't QB sneak last week on 4th and an inch, and now this inexplicable decision to go with a QB, who hasn't done anything all year through the air, to win a very important game is enough to for me to say this.

I still believe in his football philosophy. I hope he'll be a good recruiter. But he's still an idiot in my book.

Michigan coach benches his best player in the late moments of a game against Iowa. Michigan loses the game. Michigan fans get pissed.

Maybe the West Virginia boys know what they're doing.

That benching sent a lesson to Manny Harris. I'm not entirely sure that Tate's head was fully in the game tonight. Maybe he needed a lesson too. Just a possibility

Yes, Beilein made a bad decision too so ****ing what. RichRod's decision is worse if only because college football is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> college basketball.

Results for the win huh.

lol, Beilein made a bad decision... yes, that was the point. I hope you're hammered. If not, you're just dumb.

LOL

I don't agree with the decision, either, but I'll reserve judgment until he makes a call I don't agree with when we're playing in the 2011 MNC game. Then there will be hell to pay.

Tate wasn't being punished for not following a coach. RR went with DR because he was successful the previous drive and asked him to do things DR was not ready to do. This wasn't a discipline issue.

Driving back from the game. Too many mistakes, easy to get down, but tons to be excited about. Were ahead of schedule.

This makes no sense to me. We already have enough information to conclude that RichRod has some screws loose. You don't think Michigan had plenty to play for tonight? We all know that this Michigan team can beat anyone on their schedule. Losing to Iowa virtually eliminates us from a Big Ten race we could have won. There is no excuse for RichRod tonight.

Right, and I will conclude that anyone who is ok with this, with 1:39 to play and no TOs, doesn't know much about football.