As a member of one of six universities who care about collegiate hockey, it has been a disappointment of monumental proportions to witness the defeat Michigan at the hands of Notre Dame, in what may go down as one of the greatest choke jobs in college hockey. In spite of having the best regular season record in the CCHA at 33-5-4 and a number one overall seed, Michigan has managed to perform the feat of underachievement, an aggravating new trend in Michigan athletics.

For those unfamiliar with the game of hockey, here is a crash course. You live and die with the man you’ve got between the posts, and you don’t win with defensemen who play like fat, womanly oafs. Both the latter and the former were the reasons for an embarrassing 20-minute stretch of bad hockey from a team whom dismembered opponents by scores of 10-1 earlier in the postseason. Things got off to a bad start with normally reliable Goaltender Billy Sauer, gifting the Irish three goals by the middle of the second period. After being replaced by the untested Brian Hogan, Michigan fought back from three goals down to tie the game at four apiece at the end of regulation. After looking like garbage for 5 minutes and 44 seconds in OT, Michigan finally succumbed to the Achilles’ Heel of hockey: atrocious defending. Notre Dame drove a partially rusted crowbar through the hearts of the Michigan faithful, as they punched their tickets for the CCHA finals.

Also, Charlie Weis should probably eat less.
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Matt Anderson is the official Big 10 correspondent for Big Diction and also writes a weekly column for Guns & Ammo. He is angry.