From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: Michigan: The Great Paper Tiger
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:46:45 GMT

gtao@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg ) writes:

>22-22 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>At last it is official:  Michigan has an entirely overrated football program!!!
>As if the most recent Rose Bowl wasn't proof enough, the Wolverweenies got a
>dose of reality on their HOME FIELD...besides that, the whole world got to
>see "Superman" (master of illegal playcalling) play for an impressive(NOT) tie.

Not all Illini fans feel this way... I for one, am reasonably happy
with the tie;  Michigan has an awesome offense as the first half
showed, and the game would have been a blowout -- BUT, they suffered
from some fublitis -- in the seconf half though it was a different
story, as the Illini dominated on both sides of the ball, and Michigan
was very lucky to pull out the tie...

I still think that THIS Michigan team will hammer Washington in the
Rose Bowl though -- if they get rolling, they are very hard to stop....

>I'd like to address some things that have become obvious at this point:

>* Grbac --- For the day, he was 21 of 29 for 278 yards.  He also had a 
>  	    touchdown, BUT he threw 2 interceptions to an UNRANKED opponent.

Come on, the Illini defense is VERY good -- and one of those
interceptions was an incredibly athletic play.  yes, I agree that
Verduzco is a better college QB, but Grbac is pretty good himself --
and he actually had a pretty decent day...

>	    For all the ranting and raving about the kid, he is nowhere as
>	    good a quarterback as Illinois' Verduzco, who was the Big 10's
>	    leading passer last season, but has only recently been given the go-
>	    ahead to pass by the often dimwitted Illinois Offensive Coorinator, 
>	    Beck. Oh well, Elvis is just like any other QB that ever came out of
>	    Michigan:  his passes have the trajectory of SCUD missiles.

>* Michigan's   --- Great teams do NOT fumble 11 times against an UNRANKED foe
>  "error-free"     this late into the season...especially NOT at
q		home! [awesome 
>  juggernaut       segue omitted to save space]  I'd like to highlight the
>  offense          differences between Michigan and Florida State.  First of

Agreed -- Michigan just played badly.. I don;t think anyone (even the
most diehard Michigan fan) thought they were MNC material after they
struggled versus Purdue -- but they are a vey good team, and still in
the top 10 --- jeez, if a 51 yard kick had gobe straight Miami would
NOT be number 1 and they would still be just as good --- 
>		   #1 RANKED Miami.  What the hell is Florida State doing
>		   behind Michigan (who tied their only ~tough game of the year)
>		   in the rankings?    

I am sure the pundits will agree with you now and drop Michigan to
number 6 or 7...

>History WILL repeat itself!  Expect Michigan to be embarrased AGAIN in the
>Rose Bowl. Thank God that Michigan has no UNdeserving Hiesman candidate this
>year. 


Disagree on the first -- I think Michigan will beat an over-confident
Washington team.  Agree 100% on the second, although Howard was
nowhere near as bad a selection as Tim "they coined `all-purpose yards'
for my Heisman" Brown...

>* Gregory Tao                      | E-mail to:  gt38091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     * 

A comment, if you could cut your line length back to 72-75 instead of
80, those of us with smaller terminals (reading at hime:-) would be
grateful... 

Go Illini -- smash MSU...

Bharat


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