Dull and Duller: the Lloyd Carr Playbook

[Coach 3]

..okay, like yogi berra said, its deja vu all over again for this LOADED michigan offense..much like 2000 with that powderkeg scoring potential....heisman contenders at rb and qb, a fine 0-line, at least 2 if not 3 eventual nfl wideouts, spearheaded by deep threat supreme mario manningham...plenty of depth at rb...and...lloyd carr and his 0-coordinator mike deBorings' 1965 playbook featuring 20-25 delayed trap rugby scrums to mike hart, tight end screens, passes to the tight end running out of bounds 3 yards downfield on 3rd and 10 and of course lloyd's maddeining philosophy of ..."we dont use our best assets, we paly bo-ball--period."..now, i woke today with memory of the debacle loss to purdue in 2000 with that loaded henson-lead offense...henson was 17-21 with 4 td passes and 220 yards int he first half..michigan lead 28-10...yet lost...32-21...when asked why carr refused to use the devastatignly effective vertical passing attack throughout the second half after scoring on 4 td passes on 4 first half drives with it, he actually said, 'well , we were scoring too fast"...lord, please let this be a new era at michigan where the elite skill position talent is actually put to full, creative use rather than compromised and underutilized by an out of date, utterly predictbale 1965 philosophy of offensive football!!!!...am i to have any hope that lloyd actually uses his talent this year???? or will that 3 yard sideline pass to the tight end on 3rd and 10 yet again define michigan's offensive...ahem....imagination???...

[Blue Hen]

That's funny, 3. I'm not even a Michigan fan (except for their Delaware uniforms) but those 3 yd sideline passes on 3rd & 10 drive me absolutely nuts !....all 10,000 of 'em in the Carr years.

[Coach 3]

..Please get your uniform history correct sir...the reason why delaware adopted michigan's uniform design is due to a little known story from 1947...while travelling from phila. to washington d.c. by train during xmas break to visit relatives, the Michigan student who was at that time the waterboy for the mighty Michigan football team's train broke down in the vicinity of newark , delaware...at the train site, a friendly cop asked the boy his background and as soon as the lad replied he was waterboy for the mighty michigan wolverine football team the cop called the former head of campus janitorial services who was by then president of U of Delaware and the Michigan waterboy was immediately hailed with a key to the city of Newark, Delaware and appointed by the University president on the spot as the U. of delaware head foootball coach!...the young new coach's first move, to bring some semblance of respectability and class to the lowly U of Delaware football program, was to adopt the fabled Michigan uniform...THIS IS THE HISTORY OF DEAWARE'S "THEFT" OF THE Magnificent Michigan uniform...