From: gtao@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg )
Subject: Re: Michigan: The Great Paper Tiger
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:34:47 GMT

billms@eecs.umich.edu (William Mangione-Smith) writes:

[my stuff deleted]

>I guess you didn't see the tipped interceptions.  Wasn't from Elvis, guy.
>Furthermore, unless I'm mistaken, Elvis was the Big 10's leading passer last
>year.  I *know* that he was the nations leading passer, but perhaps Jason
>snuck up after excluding the out of conference games.  Q: wanna bet on who
>gets drafted higher?


As far as pro-potential goes, Verduzco is not very tall.  In fact I believe
he is 5'10".  This may hurt his chances at a job in the NFL at a time
when the pros are looking for bigger quarterbacks, but at least he has
an arm and can throw a nice-looking long pass.  

As far as your boy Elvis, he is by no means the "God's gift to football"
that you obnoxious Michigan fans make him out to be.  Take a look at 
the way he throws long passes.  They look like punts.  Florida State and
Washington paid attention to the fact that Grebac NEVER hits receivers
in stride on long passes (he relies on players such as the undeserving
Hiesman Trophy winner of last year, Desmond Howard, and undeserving
Hiesman candidate Alexander of this year to COME BACK to the passes),
and he was SHUT DOWN against them.


>The stats don't bear this out.  The michigan O walked the Illini D.  The no
>huddle worked flawlessly, except for the last drive where the Illini D blitz
>was called.  Most of the Michigan skill players dropped the ball, but the
>offense was moving a ton on your D.

The most important STAT that i noticed was the SCORE: 22-22.

Besides, we are an UNRANKED team.  Let me say that again:  YOU
could ONLY score 22 points against an UNRANKED team.  By virtue of
the fact that your killer-D allowed us to score 22 points, we TIED.
Your juggernaut of an offense also fumbled the ball 11 TIMES.  Hardly
the mark of the greatest team in college football, which is what you
Michgan fans claim to have a chance of being this year.  

My apologies, it was probably the REVERSE-DIMPLED football that Michigan
chose to use.  


>Ouch.  Not a little bitter about the past, are you?  You tied.  Just how
>overbearing would you be if your team had won?  Was it Erickson who told one
>of the Miami recievers, after celebrating a TD, "next time act like you've
>been there before"?  You might want to take some advice from the wise coach
>of our defending national champions.

WRONG again.  If you want to talk about tying, I believe it was your jerk
of a coach, Moeller, who played for 2 ties this season.  The pathetic 
thing about the Woverines performance this weekend was that they tied an
UNRANKED opponent IN MICHIGAN.  Sounds like you are the one who is bitter
about the past because you can't erase that humiliating performance.

All I ask of my teams is that they play with pride.  Win, lose, or 
TIE, I still love them. 

Hey GUY, I hope your future responses are a tad more polite.


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