Jack worked very hard on that game to his credit.

Jack worked very hard on that game to his credit.
by domer4 (2021-02-19 12:51:52)
Edited on 2021-02-19 12:58:41

In reply to: Occasional flop vs. repeat failures in big games posted by Flanner89

I am not one to ever defend Jack - but I will this time. This wasn't a "flop" game situation - those are games you didn't know could be a loss, or you were coming a big win (like 1996 and Washington or 1993 and Florida State) or a really bad defeat (Tennessee 1991 and we just mailed it in against PSU the next week).

Jack did everything to telegraph this game was big:

1) Jack moved the USC game back a week (Oct 12) to give us two weeks to prepare for the Michigan game (that was the earliest date for that game in decades, it probably should have been Oct 19).

2) Michigan played PSU on the road on Oct 19 (a tough game that they ended up losing).

3) Michigan had never played an out of conference game that late in a season since.... well, at least 50 years? 70 years?. They were always opposed to any game in October (Delaware State a few years ago as an exception) since it took away their focus from the conference games.

And yet still BK shows up totally unprepared... in year 10 of his "program"