knapplc
International Man of Mystery
My thoughts on the subject from past threads:
That's what pissed me off so much about the candy-asses in the Big Ten back in the 1990s. Their damned Rose Bowl was SOOOOO important that they couldn't join the Bowl Coalition, so they didn't get the chance to prove on the field they had earned their 1997 National Championship.
Because I will guara-and-GODDAM-tee you that Heisman trophy winner Charles Woodson would have filled once, maybe twice, on the Option before developing an injury or simply being in "the wrong position" the rest of the game.
That skinny runt wouldn't have fared well trying to tackle Ahman Green. Green puts a shoulder into him once and that's the last tackle Howard would have made that game. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he would have tried to tackle Frost twice before giving up.
He gets half a share of a "National Championship" and Michigan gets a nice little High School shop class quality wooden plaque for ducking the Huskers and cowering off to the Rose Bowl. And he and they are welcome to it.
We'll take our Sears trophy and our crystal football.
You know, the REAL trophy.
It's one of these. Sorry, we have so many I forget which one was for 1997.
I think we played some really weak teams that year, and the Big Ten was mediocre, but not bad enough overall to warrant dragging down Michigan's SOS.
Doesn't matter. What matters is, if we'd have played them, we'd have steamrolled them. Ask Peyton Manning. There was more talent on one side of that Tennessee team (either offense or defense, your pick) than there was on that whole Michigan roster. Nothing was going to stop that 1997 team from letting Osborne go out a winner.
Bottom line is this - 1997 Michigan should be kissing Jim Delaney's hind end from here to China, thanking him for failing to jump on board the BCS (or whatever version it was at the time), because that is the ONLY reason they didn't play Nebraska, and that is the ONLY reason they have their little wall plaque right now.
Sagarin's final ranking for 1997 had Nebraska ahead of Michigan. In fact, Michigan finished fourth, behind Nebraska and Florida/FSU, in Sagarin.
Carr can flap his gums all he wants. They'd have been demolished if they'd have faced that 1997 Nebraska team. They should just be damned happy they even got a share of that title and shut up.
That's what pissed me off so much about the candy-asses in the Big Ten back in the 1990s. Their damned Rose Bowl was SOOOOO important that they couldn't join the Bowl Coalition, so they didn't get the chance to prove on the field they had earned their 1997 National Championship.
Because I will guara-and-GODDAM-tee you that Heisman trophy winner Charles Woodson would have filled once, maybe twice, on the Option before developing an injury or simply being in "the wrong position" the rest of the game.
That skinny runt wouldn't have fared well trying to tackle Ahman Green. Green puts a shoulder into him once and that's the last tackle Howard would have made that game. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he would have tried to tackle Frost twice before giving up.
He gets half a share of a "National Championship" and Michigan gets a nice little High School shop class quality wooden plaque for ducking the Huskers and cowering off to the Rose Bowl. And he and they are welcome to it.
We'll take our Sears trophy and our crystal football.
You know, the REAL trophy.
It's one of these. Sorry, we have so many I forget which one was for 1997.
I think we played some really weak teams that year, and the Big Ten was mediocre, but not bad enough overall to warrant dragging down Michigan's SOS.
Doesn't matter. What matters is, if we'd have played them, we'd have steamrolled them. Ask Peyton Manning. There was more talent on one side of that Tennessee team (either offense or defense, your pick) than there was on that whole Michigan roster. Nothing was going to stop that 1997 team from letting Osborne go out a winner.
Bottom line is this - 1997 Michigan should be kissing Jim Delaney's hind end from here to China, thanking him for failing to jump on board the BCS (or whatever version it was at the time), because that is the ONLY reason they didn't play Nebraska, and that is the ONLY reason they have their little wall plaque right now.
Sagarin's final ranking for 1997 had Nebraska ahead of Michigan. In fact, Michigan finished fourth, behind Nebraska and Florida/FSU, in Sagarin.
Carr can flap his gums all he wants. They'd have been demolished if they'd have faced that 1997 Nebraska team. They should just be damned happy they even got a share of that title and shut up.
