Saturday, October 31, 2009

Gameday 2009 - Fighting Illini Open Thread

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
~ General George Armstrong Custer
June 25, 1876

46 comments:

Catie said...

GO BLUE!!!!! BOWL GAME HERE WE COME! (shhhhh, don't jinx it!)

Andy said...

Keys to the game:
1) Run the football.
2) Don't fumble the ball.
3) Run the football.
4) Don't let them covert on 3rd and longs.
5) Run the football.

Go Blue !

Mikoyan said...

Not so sure Custer is the right picture.

Catie said...

Oh MY!!! Iowa vs Indiana, Indiana up 14 to zip!

Come on Iowa!

Although, how fun would it be to see Billy boy toss his gum at the end of the game if Iowa pulled it out again like they did last week against Sparty??? HA!!!

Bigasshammm said...

Have to agree with Mik on this one. Enjoying watching Ohio's best team in action.

Andy said...

I decided to place Custer here today remind everyone what can happen when you are too confident against an opponent.

Jim said...

The over/under is 54...gotta take the under. I have a feeling whoever wins this one today will win ugly.

phil said...

Andy - do you see what's happening in Columbus? They took that poor little girl and yanked her out of her wheelchair and now they're jumping all over her. If I wasn't busy putting all the snacks and beer out on the table in preparation for the Michigan game, I'd go down there and stop those bullies.

Bigasshammm said...

I HATE waiting for these 3:30 games.

grrr

Bigasshammm said...

If Ricki Stanzi wins a National Championship I may proclaim college football dead to me.

Andy said...

7-7.

Why do we even try to field a punt ?
Ever ?

Dodged a bullet with the missed FG.
Defense looked OK on the 2nd/3rd drive. I will stops with no points all day long.

Offense needs to keep the tempo up. Illinois is terrible on defense.

Andy said...

Stanzi won't win a NC. No way.

Andy said...

Buckeyes with another shutout.

Child abusers.

Andy said...

End of the first quarter. Tied 7-7.

ohio_guy said...

lol at that missed FG. at least it split the pylons....

Andy said...

Defense steps up with a sack on 3rd down. Sweet.

Please don't try to catch the punt.

Andy said...

The fact that Hemmingway is even playing after seeing his knew bend backwards last week against Warren's shoulder is a miracle.

Andy said...

Mike Patrick and Craig James are talking about stupid costumes and totally miss an awesome run by Vincent Smith.

Idiots.

Andy said...

I wonder if Mike Patrick even looked at a Michigan roster before he stepped into the pressbox today ?

Ray Roundtree?

Andy said...

10-7 after the FG.

Matthews wanted a PI call in the endzone. It looked like the Illinois DB had list right arm and was pulling it down when he jumped.

No call.

Announcers only comment was "good luck on that"

Andy said...

As long as Illinois does not get the ball to Benn, we will be a lot better off.

punt, missed fg, punt, punt

Andy said...

Tate just ran for 16 yards on a pass play.

We are soooooo much better at QB than we were last year.

Andy said...

Offense stalls again. another FG.

Why do we not roll out Tate on every pass play ? He is soo much better on the run.

Andy said...

Another 3 and out.

I have to admit. Our defense has played very well since the opening drive.

Andy said...

Haltime. Illini fans booing.

Good guys winning 13-7.

We get the ball to start the 3rd quarter. I expect to see their other QB. He will remind you of John Navarre.

Catie said...

Brandon Graham is a STUD! We DO have a better QB than last year, we just have to keep him healthy for the next 3 years!!!


Sorry, I don't agree so much with you all about Stanzi, not him so much, but if WE can't be great this year, it is nice to see a Big Ten team (besides tOSU) do well.

TitleIX said...

when our offense works, it is soooo much fun to watch !!!

TitleIX said...

GO for it on 4th down

TitleIX said...

Fred Jackson's job may be at risk...

Andy said...

UNREAL.

We suck

TitleIX said...

and the wheels have come off the bus...

Andy said...

Nightmare.
Explosion.
Ambush.

28-13.

I don't think I can take it anymore.

616goblue said...

is this really happening?

wv=fullmoonandjuice

TitleIX said...

in theory we could still pull this out.
I am soooo trying to stay positive about these kids...but jeez...we beat ourselves over and over and over

LET'S GO BLUE

TitleIX said...

Never mind

Andy said...

31-13

This game went from us being in complete control to the most depressing michigan football events in my lifetime in a few seconds.

The sad thing is that it was so impractical yet so predictable. I don't even know what to say.

616goblue said...

it is Andy's fault for putting General Custer for the post on the game thread...

TitleIX said...

and to think....at the beginning of the game the announcers were saying that RR might be the coach of the year.....

w
t
f
happened?

Catie said...

HOLD ON TO THE GD BALL! IF we loss it on this drive I am going to lose it.

Andy said...

I have always been a RR supporter, but that was stupid. How many points are we going to turn down ?

We are down by 18. We need 3 scores. Why not kick a FG ? That at least gets this down to a 2 score game.

The wheels are off the cart.
I see the season ending with 5 wins.

Andy said...

The Custer thing was a premonition.

Andy said...

blocked punt... followed by another fumble

I quit.

Catie said...

UnFing Believable!

TitleIX said...

Four on Forcier

Implosion

Andy said...

It is finally over.

38-13

I don't think I have ever seen anything like that.
Incredible.

Mikoyan said...

Okay okay, Custer was the right picture. Gah....

I was out enjoying the southern California sun today, I checked the score as I was standing on the deck of the Midway....GAH!