Despite a winning record losing to Ohio State today in embarrassing fashion feels like the nadir of my Michigan fandom. In many ways today wasn’t necessarily about winning. Let’s face it, in every conceivable category Ohio State is a better football team than Michigan and everyone expected them to win. Seven wins and a bowl [...]
Trying to get pumped up for Ohio State Michigan isn’t easy these days. I offer the video below to help out [language warning]:
Michael Zuidema of The Grand Rapids Press about sums it up: Against Wisconsin, Michigan essentially followed the same script that’s resulted in its current 1-6 stretch. A couple of sparkling defensive plays, followed by a second half filled with miscues and missed assignments. When the spread offense looks like it’s starting to click, it stalls [...]
In a post echoing Peter Bigelow’s argument that Michigan needed polish and poise I had this to say: Illinois is the next yardstick. If we can’t beat up on the worst team in the league like everyone else then 1) the hole from last years “the horror” is deeper than I had thought and 2) [...]
Is there such a thing as off season bulletin board material? If so this ought to motivate the University of Michigan football players and coaches as they work at rebuilding the program. Bob Hunter in the Columbus Dispatch: Put it this way: Ohio State-Michigan has suddenly begun masquerading as an OSU-Toledo game, a switch not [...]
After the expected beatdown today that is the only question left. Has the Michigan Wolverines football program reached the low point? – First time ever to lose to a MAC school. _ First losing season in four decades. – Not going to a bowl game for the first time in over thirty years. – First [...]
Pat Forde notes yet another potential streak that could end in this Saturday’s Michigan Ohio State game: In the illustrious history of Michigan football, 12 coaches have played against Ohio State. Their record in their first game in this rivalry: 10-1-1. Only Harry Kipke (24) failed to get it done, in 1929. The rundown: (Note: [...]
Interesting article in the Columbus Dispatch on Rich Rodriguez and the trials of taking over a storied program like Michigan – and struggling mightily your first year. A couple of things stood out to me. One was the discipline he is trying to install: It wasn’t just the playbook that changed. “From practices to meetings [...]
I am not sure why this game got to me. It has been a long time since I have been so frustrated with a team and a game. Maybe I was in denial. Maybe I just didn’t want to admit that an era in the University of Michigan‘s football program has come to and end. [...]
Getty Images via Daylife Well, that was an incredibly frustrating game. I was prepared to see an offense that continued to struggle and a defense that gave up points after getting tired. I was prepared to admit that Michigan just wasn’t that good; that the change in coaching and system, when combined with a large [...]