Michigan adds a beat OSU graphic to weight room

I don't think UM has post-Bo (minus maybe Hoke) put in the sort of focus to beating OSU that OSU has put into beating UM since Tressel/Meyer/Day arrived.  This is a good start, but a LOT needs to be done to make up ground.

Tetanus shots????

It's nice to see them putting something up, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a permanent graphic. Rather it's a slide they play on the TV. A couple photos from when I was in the facility a few years ago. 

Too depressed to even give a comment about this. 

The graphic need only say "Are you tired of losing to Ohio State?" "DO something about it!"

I'd suggest putting a large reproduction of this on the wall to let them know that they can never rely on the officials to help beat OSU. Don't ever let the game come down to a ref's "judgement call" on where to spot the ball.

Yeah maybe they should prioritize that a bit. Maybe constantly reminding them how they've been consistently embarassed by those punks year after year will light a fire under their ass.  Actually, I'm a bit surprised it's not already all over that lockerroom. If you're the  Michigan program and you're not trying to beat Ohio State with your every breath, what are you doing?

Is the hommage to Russell Crowe still up?  "Strength and Honour?"

Now add another reminding Harbaugh to throw the damn ball vertical down the middle 

Beat Michigan State.

If this kind of stuff upsets you, I can only assume that you wear the most constricting pair of tighty whities.

How sophomoric. This team is so far from beating OSU, this news is more embarrassing than anything else.

Answer: Not enough.

When I heard Fields in his first year at OSU give his post game interview after beating the brakes off MI on the road say that they just take it more serious, and they will start preparing for next years game tomorrow that told me everything I needed to know about the rivalry. Here they are beating their arch rival on the road, going on to play in the B10 Championship game, and potentially CFB playoff and they are already going to start preparing for The Game next year. If Fields can come in and adapt that mindset in one year it shows you how strong their culture of the rivalry is. They can beat MI every year and still not become complacent enough to let MI back in the rivalry. Until MI takes time every single day to prepare for OSU in some way, this will never be a competitive rivalry again. We will never be their blip game like when they've lost to MSU, Purdue, Iowa, or almost dropping one to Maryland. They are just too prepared, and too laser focused on beating MI every year. 

I don't know how Bo handled The Game, but I know for a fact that under coach Carr it was stressed everyday (even during the off season), and repped everyday. Even during game weeks for other opponents there was time to run drills, or prep in other ways for what OSU was going to throw at them. It never distracted from the weeks opponent, but instead elevated the intensity, focus, and level of play. MSU, and OSU both do that to prepare for us now, and until MI treats their rivalries like its life or death like our rivals do, things will never change. Any change Harbaugh tries is good, but maybe too little too late. In my opinion this program needs a paradigm shift. 

Side note, but Harbaugh sounds more upbeat in that interview in the linked article than I've seen in years. 

Maybe the guy's loose, excited, and ready to fight like hell. I'm hopeful.

Fine by me, but it needs to be more than a sign or a wall graphic. This question needs to be ingrained into literally everything the program does. Everything it is and what it stands for. How you practice, run team meetings, prepare for games, it all needs to tie back to answering that one question: what are you doing today to beat OSU? 

Everything Michigan does as a football program needs to somehow tie back to being part of the goal to beat OSU. Its exactly the culture Tressel brought in and look what its yielded OSU since then. He, Meyer and Day have made it so in your face, so pervasive, and so essential to who they were that I'm sure it got to a point where the players have seen and talked about Michigan so much it makes them sick to their stomachs. Which was probably the point, and probably the only thing that made that go away was beating Michigan. 

Besides, its not like what Michigan has been doing for the last twenty years has worked anyway. Might as well try something new. What do they have to lose? Its not like losing by 40 is much worse than losing by 30. 

Only took 20 years. 

Until the main admins give a sh*t about football, no signage is going to change anything.

I was in the locker room maybe ten or so years ago and there was at least one 'Beat Ohio State' sign -- not those words but definitely called out the rivalry. I think there was also a countdown clock. 

Bewbs

They should have an answer sheet below it to highlight all the past years' failures.  Examples:

1. Broke 40 two days in a row with no double bogies.

2.  Drank 5 Mike's Hard Lemonades and skipped study group.

3.  Pointed a pellet gun at the pizza dude.

Pretty please, with sugar on top…beat the Fuckeyes 

Looks like that graphic was colored in with the same crayons Jim uses in his playbook. 

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