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Why is that the standard for acceptable behavior after a loss? He's assessing his own part in the effort, and not being smug about it -- just owning up to the fact that he didn't play nearly as well as he had hoped. This isn't Matt Leinart saying "oh, we're still the better team".

Kids execute on the gameplan; coaches (and we armchair QBs) assess the strengths and weaknesses of each team. They see far more of the advantages and disadvantages than the kids do. The adrenaline crash after a game is enough to wipe your mind clean; it's why I listen more to coaches and players on the Monday after a game to understand what they're truly taking away.

Er...okay. So what you REALLY want Denard to say is:

"I made a lot of mistakes, and I didn't play the type of game I really wanted to. But even if I did, we still would have lost because Alabama is a better team."

I see. I understand your frustration now.

No. Listen to Boise's QB talk about State's D and then you will understand. You can say you played bad while giving the other team credit

"They had a great team. I give them credit, but we didn't come to play ball today. You guys could see that we didn't come to play ball today, and we've got to bounce back from it." -- Denard post-game

"I don't think there was any distraction. We just didn't come out here and execute. They played well. They had a great game plan. They pounded the ball. Like I said, we just had too many missed tackles." -- Kovacs post-game

"They're a good team. We just didn't play Michigan football. We didn't start fast or finish fast." -- Gallon post-game

Am I missing something here? Seems like they're all tipping their hat to 'Bama. I can understand why someone could infer that they're blaming the loss primarily on their lack of execution, but...

Let's compare it to something more tangible: does the guy that places last in the 100m final need to say "Usain Bolt is stronger, faster, and better than me." No, because that guy could go and edge out Bolt in the next race -- it all comes down to execution at the time of competition. Every athlete has enough fight to know that they're always in the game, but the mistakes pile up.

Yeah, you're missing that they're arrogant, UofM jackasses!!! Didn't you see the part where Kovacs said "We"??

We didn't play Michigan State football...but we still won. Suck it walvie!

I called it.

i.e. "They're a good team, but we lost because we didn't execute."

That's the closest they'll ever come to admitting they were outworked or just not good enough. Michigan is the only program in CFB that refuses at all costs to admit that they were not the better team in a loss. ever. You hear coaches and players say "we got our butts kicked" after games like the ass handing Michigan got tonight ALL THE TIME. but Michigan? Hell no. They just didn't play Michigan football...and if you don't play Michigan football against a good team you can end up losing like tonight...but it's not because they are better, it's because they didn't play Michigan football.

It's like a fucking cult.

Those quotes perfectly illustrate um's problem : it still thinks it's an elite, natl championship level football program. They just got bitch slapped all over the field but they refuse to accept reality ...

Seems anytime umaa loses its because they don't come to play and/or they don't play "Michigan football". With few exceptions they can't bring themselves to say the opponent played better.

Kovacs is an exception. When they get their butts kicked he just says it. Robinson believes his own hype and will never admit another team was better.

It took awhile for ND fans to accept they just weren't special anymore. UM fans will get it eventually. UM showed Hoke and Borges just aren't elite (we knew that already), and the entire landscape of college football is different after Bo left. Those days are just never coming back.

And just LOVE how Bama got the gameplan from Dantonio on how to punish UM. Sweet tasting wolverine tears.

Holy shit! Steroids, that's the title to a thread on the Detroit Sports Forums to explain why they lost. The most classless fan base in all of sports!