Return Of The Bulaga
by Oops Pow Surprise on Sep 29, 2009 2:29 PM CDT
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(Bulagas are very territorial animals, so don't move. If you stand still he won't attack.)
Iowa's nasty line play just got even nastier. With all due respect to Riley Reiff, who was admirable in his relief duty (and, in all likelihood, the prohibitive favorite for Next Man In Award), it's time to welcome Bryan Bulaga back to the lineup.
From Morehouse's presser notes on Twitter:
Bulaga cleared, back this week. Prudent and smart with [Tony Moeaki].
Thyroid condition with Bulaga. Cleared, no further problems, not on medication the rest of his life.
Illness that hit and has now passed, Ferentz said of Bulaga.
Obviously, this is outstanding news for the young man and the Iowa line. Bulaga wasn't out with an injury, so the only thing that's going to keep him back from his dominant self is rust; this full week of practice and an Arkansas State game should be all he needs to shake that loose, and he should be back up to 100% for the week of practice for Michigan. On that note, we express our deepest sympathies to the family of Michigan DE Brandon Graham, because Brandon is about to die.
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WOOOOO!
This brings more joy than a sad penn state furry.
by HawkeyePapyrus on Sep 29, 2009 3:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
You saw that too, huh?
Yeah, the bar I was at in Cedar Rapids was packed to the gills with a couple hundred hawk fans, and simultaneously the entire bar (and I’m NOT exadgerating on this) let out a collective, and highly sarcastic, “Awwwwwwwwww” when they showed that rain soaked girl in the Winnie-the-Pooh wannabe outfit.
That was cathartic. [cathartic- – definition: An agent for purging the bowels PSU jitters.]
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 29, 2009 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Aha...
…just saw the post below the good BB news. I’m so glad you put that image on here, it was great to see her again. I will revisit the thought of the first time I saw her, over and over like a happy memory of a Christmas past.
She truely is the gift that keeps on giving.
“Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!”
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 29, 2009 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah those images are great, but 2008 is way better...
2009 looks severely bummed. She bought the fncking costume, she bought the fncking costume, she waited 2 hours in the sun to get the location, she spent 2 hours in the rain sitting in the seat before the game, the had spent another 3 hours watching her team get raped by our D line…
2008 had her soul destroyed. She hasn’t been to a game since… She only started speaking again in April…
by HawkeyeRecon on Sep 29, 2009 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great.
This is made by “Brandon is about to die.” priceless.
by Pain in the Sash on Sep 29, 2009 3:40 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
"Every bone shattered . . .
. . . organs leaking vital fluids . . . slight headache . . . loss of appetite . . . Smithers, I’m going to die".
by DowntownmplsHAWK on Sep 29, 2009 4:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it'll be a fair fight...
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Sep 29, 2009 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
May be
one of the best photoshops ever.
by Pain in the Sash on Sep 29, 2009 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.
It’s never good to look past an opponent, even in the land of photoshop.
Arkansas State will also be a fair fight…..
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Sep 29, 2009 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
What's really impressive is...
This is AFTER Bulaga picked #55 out of his feces after digesting him.
by HawkeyeRecon on Sep 29, 2009 11:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Where's he going with him, anyway?
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
by Oops Pow Surprise on Sep 30, 2009 7:13 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
He's about to make the goalpost wear him as a hat
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Sep 30, 2009 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
This
plus the fact that, as far as we’ve heard, nobody was injured in the PSU game, is amazing news.
And how lucky are we to come away from PSU with no injuries? Sloppy field, high emotions, and in Musburger’s words a “real slobberknocker.” Very lucky.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Sep 29, 2009 3:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
ugh
I bet ABC has a guy whose job it is to wipe up the puddle of spittle after Mushbooger says words like “slobberknocker” or “Austin, Texas.”
Brunettes not fighter jets
by rockyh on Sep 29, 2009 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nah, they just have Kirk Herbstreit use the bar rag....
…that wipes up BMs spilled drinks.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 29, 2009 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wizard-hatted overlord says
You will doubleteam Graham like everyone else or suffer the STANZIBALL consequences.
Do you really think he’ll get about a month’s worth of missed conditioning and lifting back in just 10 days, not to mention with a thyroid condition his weight is probably off of where it was too?
by Yinka Double Dare on Sep 29, 2009 4:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
It's our understanding
that he was doing some conditioning and lifting, but wasn’t cleared for football. It’s not like he spent the month in bed.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
by Oops Pow Surprise on Sep 29, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I had the flu a week ago, and my lifting yesterday was for shit compared to normal and I got tired a lot faster. There’s no way he was going full-out for conditioning and lifting if he couldn’t play football unless this illness was less serious than the flu, and I’m pretty damned sure that’s not the case if he was out for three weeks of games. Especially considering thyroid disorders mess with your energy consumption/metabolism.
Besides, why would they even chance him one-on-one with Graham? The end on the other side is a 230 pound true freshman. Our most effective linebacker this year (no joke) has been The Artist Formerly Known As The Stevie Brown Free Touchdown Machine. We have one cornerback. About the only way I can think of that you can guarantee giving Michigan’s defense a chance is trying to block Graham with one guy. He and Warren are the whole show on defense. Ignore whoever Warren is covering, doubleteam Graham, and watch the points pile up.
by Yinka Double Dare on Sep 29, 2009 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bulaga is the best tackle in the conference.
Bulaga’s freshman caddy filled in and shut down the All Pac-10 end for Arizona.
We only double team at the point of attack, briefly, until all of those guys start tap-tap-tapping in the direction requested. Then the guy helping with the double team departs and crushes a linebacker.
Mr. Boh Knows ...
by Bellanca on Sep 29, 2009 4:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Calling him All Pac-10 slightly overstates it
I mean, it’s kinda true, but it was honorable mention. Adam Shada, who, as you may recall, was the worst football player in the history of DI football, was a two time honorable mention all-conference selection.
Which isn’t to say that Reiff shutting him down wasn’t very impressive, because it was, especially considering how limited his experience at the position is. He’s going to be a great one. I’ve just seen this claim that he shut down an All Pac-10 end in a lot of other places, and thought I’d clarify.
by NorseHawk on Sep 29, 2009 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Graham is a bit of a different bird than an honorable mention all Pac 10 guy.
They won’t even double him on pass plays? On runs what you say makes sense. Especially since like everyone else you’re probably going to run primarily at the undersized other side of the line whenever possible, so you should ideally only need one guy to seal Graham just long enough to get the play past the point of attack and beyond the line, where our linebackers will probably have taken themselves out of the play by not recognizing the proper gap or just accepting a block and getting blown downfield or pancaked.
by Yinka Double Dare on Sep 29, 2009 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Come back after you guys have finaly played a road game, Yinka.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Sep 29, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Right, because where the game is played has a really big effect on a defensive end.
Come back when you actually read. If you read what I said, you might actually figure out that I think our defense fucking sucks for the most part, so giving one of the only really good players a better chance to make plays isn’t particularly smart, especially when you guys are all well aware of Stanzi’s tendencies.
by Yinka Double Dare on Sep 29, 2009 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're taunting by dismissing your own team.
That is new.
Mr. Boh Knows ...
by Bellanca on Sep 29, 2009 6:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm realistic
And I leave taunting for after a game actually happens, lest I look like a retard, especially since this Michigan team is totally unpredictable (good luck to Vegas figuring out what the lines should be). The hell if I know what the Michigan offense will do in a road game, though I suspect it won’t affect them all that much, Forcier will make some freshman mistakes regardless of venue, I don’t think he’ll care about the road crowd. He’ll try too hard to make plays and make a dumb throw instead of taking a sack or throwing it away because he’s a freshman, not because he’s on the road.
I think the Indiana game was just a bad game for the D, but the underlying problems were there in other games and are a repeating pattern. They’re not going to suddenly get depth midseason. Ezeh is making the same mistakes. Cissoko isn’t going to grow a few inches.
But it does surprise me that anyone would look at Michigan’s D, see the lack of depth and the inexperience and size of the other guys on the line and go “hey, let’s single block that guy who’s probably a first round draft pick and see what happens”. I mean, Graham getting pressure and forcing turnovers and sacks is their best shot at actually holding a team down (well, the red zone defense hasn’t been too bad, but bend-but-don’t-break is really asking for it one of these days).
There is not a single non-Delaware State game left on Michigan’s schedule where the result will surprise me. I think they can win or lose any of them. It’s actually kinda fun, even if it’s probably going to destroy my liver.
by Yinka Double Dare on Sep 29, 2009 6:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're right
I just threw in a one-off post meant only to get a cheap dig. That wasn’t in keeping with the general tone of your posts. But the fact remains that Michigan’s players haven’t dealt with much hostility yet (atmosphere-wise). I’m curious to see how they handle the Spartans.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Sep 29, 2009 6:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The returning players have
No crowd was more hostile than Michigan was to its own team last season.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Hawkeye State on Sep 30, 2009 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll be in Vegas the weekend of the 10th
and I’m looking forward to making some money off of an Iowa win
"If Ron Zook were an ice cream flavor, it would be praline and retard"
-Garth Algar
by Tree Meister on Sep 29, 2009 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Probably not, no
That’s not really how our line operates, and if Bulaga is well enough along that they’re comfortable playing him, I don’t think he’ll have problems handling anyone one on one. If he’s really lost a lot of strength and isn’t ready, I’ll doubt he’ll be out there.
by NorseHawk on Sep 29, 2009 5:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
As much as we would like to believe that it's up to us.
We, the commentors at BHGP, don’t have much say in our offensive blocking schemes.
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Sep 29, 2009 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not a doctor, but at least I realize it.
Outside of you observation that the thyroid regulates metabolism and the flu makes one tired your suppositions could not be more off base. I am venturing to guess BB had a hyperthyroid, which would explain the night in cardiac unit. When I was Dx, my resting heart was over 100. Of course, having a body not worth millions of dollars, I was told to take a beta-blocker and wear a heart rate monitor when I worked out. And even before my HR was regulated, lifting wasn’t the problem, the only thing really affected was endurance work more than 2 miles. BB was likely held out the past three weeks eliminating the more serious potential diagnosis (i.e. thyroid cancer) and figuring out what caused him to go off the charts in the first place. If I were to venture I guess, “they” (which may well include his insurance carrier) weren’t going to clear him to enter the uncontrolled/unmonitored setting of game until all serious (career/life threatening) possible causes were ruled out. However, under the controlled and monitored environment of a practice, I am willing venture it was all systems go (or close to it) for the past week. So while he wasn’t going full speed hitting till maybe the last couple of days, he was definitely working from a strength, technique, power perspective. This would also jib with KF’s reaction. He kept expecting BB to come back b/c he saw him lifting, jogging etc and assumed he was ok, but the MD’s weren’t signing off, b/c they hadn’t determined the initial cause.
Iowa Basketball: We don't rebuild, we implode.
by three and out the kok story on Sep 29, 2009 6:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Defenitely jives with what KF has said
I believe Ferentz said that during last week’s practice, he glanced over to another field and saw Bulaga in one-on-one drills, and thought to himself how badly he wished he could have Bulaga working with the rest of the team, because he was dominating in the drill.
In other words, it sounds like Bulaga was getting his work in, (drills, weight room), but not in the same way as the rest of the team. Remember, this is a kid that we believe had intentions of leaving for the NFL at the end of the year. You think he wasn’t doing EVERYTHING allowed by his doctors to stay in game shape?
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Sep 29, 2009 6:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
No that's fine...
….make the same mistake as the rest of the nation. Go ahead and keep on underestimating the Hawks. I prefer it that way actually.
By the way, Yinka F-ing Dare? Seriously? Why not Tim Biakabutuka? At least he was from Michigan (if you’re going with the Afrika connection that is).
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 29, 2009 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
So I have to have a Michigan-related name on college football blogs? Should I come up with something related to the White Sox when talking about baseball (Zombie Ivan the Terrible Calderon? The Dick Clark of DH? Buehrle Northern European?)
I used this name on Deadspin, and it’s followed me when I post on other blogs.
by Yinka Double Dare on Sep 29, 2009 4:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe, but I doubt it.
Iowa doesn’t do anything fancy like “double team” guys. Iowa will play Michigan straight, send Tate Forcier across the street, and head home with a double-digit win.
Michigan gave up 476 to, and was dominated physically by, Indiana. Indi-fucking-Ana.
by TarHeelHawk on Sep 29, 2009 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who is the sacrificial lamb
from Arkansas State that he gets to feast on? Also, we we need a cage for him as well as Clayborn?
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Sep 29, 2009 4:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Klug is the one who needs the cage
No cage could hold Adrian Clayborn.
by NorseHawk on Sep 29, 2009 5:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Crap, you're right
We have too many guys who are monsters
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Sep 29, 2009 7:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bulaga makes me think of Billy Madison
Now you’re all in Big, BIG, trouble…
Link: 
by hawknerd on Sep 30, 2009 7:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Are we still looking for nicknames...?
New guy here. I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s stuff. After reading the transcript of Coach Ferentz’s press conference, I was hoping we could start using the nickname for Clayborn that Ferentz himself suggested: “Special Teams Enthusiast.” (It kind of makes me giggle.)
by NHguy on Sep 30, 2009 8:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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