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It did take a while to break free, and Mercer keeping the ball for more than nine minutes to open the second half was not encouraging. I personally don't like the "bend but don't break" mindset since it seems to flow from passivity, but at least it is some kind of philosophy. But a friend, a...

I had never heard about that. What a way to game the system. Served Michigan right, too.

Mercer agreeing to this game proves ADs will do anything to their athletes for money.

Oh, yes. We live in the helicopter parent age, when even your Little Darlin's grades that cost you $30,000 a year are none of your business. That in turn makes it difficult to call the offending prof who actually graded the papers and demand an A, just kind of for showing up.

For some reason, and I don't know why, I really like this more than a like because it seems to fit in with my initial reaction, which was "That didn't last long, did it?" (I do have to snarkily observe though that if this had been Nick Saban and Alabama vs. Mercer the board would have gone off...

This board will never amount to diddly with guys like you throwing logic around like that.

I think we did, on a second viewing. And in that viewing, I have to walk back part of my criticism of Thomas's quickness. he absolutely froze some Dbacks on that 10-yard run down to the 12 or so. (And maybe made the best play of the game on the first play of that drive when he somehow got out of...

There is that, and the apparent repeated failure to realize that "home teams" -- BC this time -- will prepare the field to their advantage. Or to our disadvantage. Short grass, fast turf we will not get. Kind of like wetting the field directly in front of home plate for ground-ball heating teams.

I think he averaged 37, not really good but not really bad, either. And a couple of those yardage counts came when the ball hit that turf and bounced backwards.

I promise you that by the time that team finished packing, all the gear was loaded and the film managers had already started breaking down to DVDs for every position coach. By the time that plane left the runway they were all huddled around their iPads and critiquing everything. The organization...

Anybody notice that Thomas played two years at 185 but seems to have dropped four pounds this season? I am guessing that one of the stat guys looked at last year's weights wrong and just guessed. But they are all guesses anyway. All of them enthusiastically so.

Even given BC's offensive problems, I really thought the defense played pretty well. Even that interference penalty early i applauded since it indicated the guys came to hit people.

I'm struggling with your grading "blocking up the middle." We got almost nothing up the middle, save for one Mills run I think it was. the rest of the day was spent clogged up, gang tackling, no-gain type stuff that resulted in never getting the option game untracked. I don't know whether their...

Winning is good, but either BC is very, very fast or we are very slow. They beat us to the edge all day and the option had no chance between that and another very athletic MLB. Mills showed something with the ball on occasion, particularly at the end, but he can't block and did the unpardonable...

So far the turnovers are in our favor this season, and the blockers and ball toters are heading in the same direction, mostly. The confusion on a couple of occasions I can understand this early and with freshmen. But yep, let's see if we can return to the days of yesteryear -- 2014 -- and...

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Paul Johnson does a TV appearance, even a canned PR spot, with all the impatient enthusiasm of the star pitcher ordered to walk a hitter when what he really wants to do is stick it in his earhole.

As Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy said, we got the element of surprise on our side.

I want to win, and any score will do. What I want more than a win if that is possible is for this team to actually play like a football team, and look like one doing it. I just want that taste of 2015 out of my mouth. We're a long way from being "in the discussion" again, and getting it...

I dispute the allegation. I am a very positive guy. What can go wrong will go wrong.