Saturday, November 01, 2008

Purdue Game Day Open Thread

"More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much"
~ P. T. Barnum

63 comments:

Catie said...

I love your quotes each game day T9!!


I am hoping that I can get the game today, I am way on the West side of the state visiting my kids and they don't have the overflow BTN and often don't get the games on TV......crossing my fingers!

HAIL to the Victors! GO BLUE!!!

Catie said...

No BTN here! Their pappa pulled the plug on their sports package! ACK! I am stuck watching MSU, cheering on Whisky of course!

Andy said...

45 yeard TD run Minor !!!!!

Who are these guys ?

Andy said...

Oh MY goodness.

Odoms punt return for TD.
Football can be fun again ?

TitleIX said...

catie---
you gotta go to Buffalo Wild Wings or something!!!!
although now Purdue is starting to shred us....

Catie said...

I am in Bum F*** , not a sports bar in sight! I have game cast from BTN up and couldn't believe my eyes! Now Purdue is having a good run......and a TD.....oh puuullleasseee keep on keeping on boys!!!!

Catie said...

Whisky scores first! Yeah baby!

Jim said...

I honestly thought our special teams nightmares would be over with a new staff. This year has been bad as ever...probably worse.

Why isn't there more emphasis on this? It's killin me.

Catie said...

Ouch! ;o( Who the hell fumbled it?

TitleIX said...

soul crushers.....

Bigasshammm said...

Don't get too excited. It's still the same team out there. Purdue is just that bad.

Jim said...

Nice throw.

surrounded in columbus said...

Yeah, watching this so far has really confirmed for me that D, despite the talented line, is not very good. Looking at our back 7, I'm not sure there is a guy here who would play for psu or tosu. Certainly none the LBs or safeties.

Fortunately, Purude's doesn't look very good today, either.

Catie said...

How ironic is it that Whisky featured their band in their BTN commercial? (Given the suspension of the entire band this year!)

Kids these days, who needs a radio? They have iPods and such.......a radio would work, at least I could hear the game! I have been looking on line for a radio station that carries it, but also trying to write a paper....talk about multi tasking......also hoping Whisky holds it together to beat sparty.

Bigasshammm said...

Threet is apparently on one of his "good days." The D is still pretty lackluster. I don't see how Brandon Graham comes back next season. He looks like an easy late first rounder second round draft pick. he's a beast out there. I don't understand why the coverage is playing off the receivers so much. That's a coaching decision and I just don't see why they're doing that unless they have no confidence in the players. Which I can understand to a point.

Catie said...

Holy crap, did we just pass on first down for a TD?

Catie said...

Time of possession is significantly more for Purdue, the D can't be that tired yet, after all they have chocolate milk on their side right? The majority of incomplete passes by Purdue are undefended.......

Jim said...

Brutal defensive mistakes. That interference call may have been technically correct, but there's no way he would have made a play there. Ugh, I guess that makes it even worse.

Catie said...

I really thought this would be a low scoring game (given that both team's offense sucks) it really speaks to both team's defense! Good grief, this is a game of who sucks more, us or them.

Catie said...

3 lost fumbles in the first half? *sigh*

TitleIX said...

it's gonna be a 'whoever gets it last' kinda game, I think.

catie--try bigtennetwork.com

much to Andy's wife chagrin, I am down in Texas and we have commendeered the couches and the remote. All Football All Weekend

TitleIX said...

yeah--Andy says it's a pillow fight

surrounded in columbus said...

I'm sorry. Did I say our D was bad?

I meant to say our D was bad in ways that Webster can't define.

Catie said...

I have the BTN for live stats, similar to Game Cast on ESPN. They aren't streaming it though. I checked out Goblue.com and can't find the link for the live stream either.

I am enjoying the Wisconsin/Sparty game, Sparty can't get their offense going yet......here is hoping that they don't get it going for the rest of the game!

Catie said...

Sic, I think that is one of the things that is disappointing about this season, I really thought that our D would be what got us to a bowl game.

Andy and T9, have fun!!......I am dying to talk to someone, "the boy" is in Chicago for a wedding (who gets married on a foot ball Saturday??? And yes, he is a Michigan Alumni!) I didn't go for a variety of reasons, one of which was it was a game day! Thankfully he didn't force me to attend!

Bigasshammm said...

Why not get married during a gameday this season?

That was one of the most pathetic three play calls I've ever seen. Sure ok you're on the 1 yard line but wtf you don't run up the middle three times in a row when you can't run up the middle in the first place. That shows that they have no confidence in Threet not throwing an interception from his endzone. Sad.

Bigasshammm said...

And now we're more fucked if Graham is hurt bad.

Catie said...

Hope Hamm, simple hope that by some miracle we could actually win. Aside from Michigan Football, there are all the other games today as well, particularly the Texas game. I thought it was the unwritten rule.....no weddings during CFB season.....unless of course you are "whipped" :o) I didn't count on not being able to watch the game though!

TitleIX said...

TACKLE !!!!!!
W
T
F

JEEZ

Bigasshammm said...

2008 Wolverines - Making shitty teams look good all year long.

Catie said...

Please update me if Graham is hurt.....live stats doesn't give info on that!

Bigasshammm said...

I gave up on hope a few weeks ago. Now just riding it out. Although I will be at the Northwestern game and I haven't seen a loss yet.

Catie said...

UGH! Implosion forth coming.....


wv=gagiesti (the gagi-est season ever!)

TitleIX said...

Graham is playing catie

Jim said...

Can that be right? We're the least penalized team in the Big Ten?

Just goes to show you, it's not quantity, it's "quality."

TitleIX said...

it's official.
we suck

Catie said...

Thanks T9.

Agreed. We. Suck.

Catie said...

Whisky is up 24-13 over Sparty.....9 minutes left in the 4th.

Jim said...

I don't think we should be allowed to refer to our transitional units as "special" teams anymore. Unless it's in the same context as Special Education.

Bigasshammm said...

F the Mgoblog live chat thing. Unless you are a "special" member you never see your comment on there. What a waste.

Catie said...

Sparty just scored a TD and went for the 2 point conversion......incomplete pass.....ha!


(LOL Jim!)

Jim said...

Well there's the secret to solving our 3rd down woes...skip it. Go straight to 4th.

Jim said...

Anybody else just catch the fat guy in the Purdue rash guard and the bike helmet? First time I've cracked a smile in the second half.

Catie said...

tell me that they are going for it on 4th at the 16.....

TitleIX said...

ahhhhhhhhh
I can't take it!!!

Bigasshammm said...

They went for it and it was an easy pass interference. They can replay it all they want and in slow mo it doesn't look bad but what the ignorant BTN announcers don't realize is that he nailed him with his body not his hand which is clearly still pass interference. Tied game with a minute 30 left. Who sees a classic disaster of missed tackles setting up a game winning field goal for Purdue?

Catie said...

Northwestern is going to beat Minnesota!

Catie said...

Hamm, if this game is indicative of the season to date, my money is on your guess.....

Bigasshammm said...

I give up

TitleIX said...

we've just been schooled

Bigasshammm said...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

What a farce this season has been.

Catie said...

wow, rushing for whisky is over 200 yards and they held sparty to something like 35 yards! 3 min left and whisky is up by 2 and whisky has the ball

Jim said...

We totally deserved that.

Catie said...

purdue td in 27 seconds? UGH!

Bigasshammm said...

Final score::

2-10

I mean season score.

Catie said...

Spot on Hamm. :o(

TitleIX said...

can't standit.....
Shafer has GOT to go.

and, I will continue to hope and I will try not to pick on the kids.
this one isn't their fault

TitleIX said...

ON WISCONSIN

TitleIX said...

should have NEVER called those timeouts

Andy said...

Sparty FG attempt....good.

Catie said...

Sparty stole it. Ugh, maybe I should have gone to Chicago afterall........

Andy said...

Lions win tomorrow. Book it.

surrounded in columbus said...

T9,
i gotta disagree w/ you.

i actually thought this was one of their better schemed games. we had players in position all day- they just missed the tackles.

for example- before Purdue tied it @ 28, Purdue had a 4th & short. we had Siller cornered in the backfield- two guys whiffed the tackle- & Siller made the 1st down.

same w/ the last TD! we're in man coverage & rushing agressively. i'm pretty sure the coaches did NOT tell the DBs to abandon their coverage like that. the players blew it. again.

we missed tackles all day. i suppose we can blame the coaching for not being able to tackle. but i doubt that it's a lack of practice or instruction.

it's execution. and talent. and we don't seem to have much of either.

of our 22 starters, there aren't more than one or two (and i'm being generous here) that would start for psu or tosu. or maybe even purdue.

maybe Shaffer sucks- but i don't see how you can tell watching these guys play.

the one thing that may still be interesting- w/ no hope of a bowl, maybe we'll see more of Cissoko & Fitzgerald, and less of some of the under performing seniors (i'm talking to you morgan trent).