Patterson wants to make a statement vs Wisconsin.
A lot of talk. Now do it on the field.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:04 PM ^
My soul can’t take this.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:15 PM ^
Just tell your soul we're going to lose. It's therapeutic.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:21 PM ^
BPONE is real.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:38 AM ^
I don't have BPONE for the team, I have it for the fanbase.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:12 PM ^
I think the thing I am most embarrassed of, in my Michigan fandom, is the level to which I have gone to "emotionally protect" myself. Been a LONG 15 years.
Not gonna lie...I am not gonna watch this game and expect us to come out well prepared and executing efficiently. That is equal parts "emotional protection"...and equal parts I haven't seen anything from last year's OSU game, Bowl game, and our first two games to believe differently.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:20 PM ^
Can we get a revenge tour for the rest of the season? I mean, to make up for the last 15 years?
September 17th, 2019 at 9:21 PM ^
That was last year...until it wasn't.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
Years ago, many years ago, Michigan lost a bowl game, barely beat a weak Northwestern team in the opener the next season, then lost to Norte Dame and South Carolina.
They went on to will all their remaining games, including the Rose Bowl.
Just sayin’ it can happen. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Shea is just cocky and talented enough to make it happen.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:33 AM ^
Sure, anything can happen. Shea may be cocky and talented but he hasn't proven a damn thing so far. Lots of quarterbacks are cocky and talented but they still have to DO IT.
September 18th, 2019 at 1:58 AM ^
Poor Man's Trace McSorely in my book...who was a poor man's Baker Mayfield. That makes Shea a homeless Baker Mayfield.
At least Shea Patterson can claim to be a rich man's Tate Martell.
My hunch is that this is Dylan McCaffery's team by the 3rd quarter.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:35 PM ^
Yikes! I couldn't imagine being a fan for less than 20. That really must be brutal. At least then you'd have gotten to see the things some dream about now.
There was the Crable hit and all that, but you still had Woodson's heroics to hold you over.
Shoelace mania is probably all you have.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:48 PM ^
I watched games before then, but the first game I truly can say I watched as a "Michigan fan" was the 2006 Ohio State game.
Little did I know that first game was the peak of my fandom arghhhhh
September 17th, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
I think that game was when my numbness started; when team sports ceased to make the same sense anymore.
That was the game that was gonna make up for the deeply buried Fab Five pain.
Now I just try to enjoy the journeys, like the recent basketball and baseball teams, and believe it or not, the Revenge Tour.
I just realized long ago that I'll never want to win more or be more disappointed than the people actually playing in the game. It's much more enjoyable to me looking at it from that perspective.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:46 PM ^
The 1997 national championship should have replaced any of your fab five emotions, not the 2006 game.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
Should've but it didn't. I kind of expected that one. That's the power of Woodson.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:09 AM ^
Let’s go Shea!! Light them up
September 17th, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
It was too good to be true--glorious, but when you think you're going to win and you do, it doesn't feel the same as achieving over overwhelming doubt.
September 18th, 2019 at 7:47 AM ^
I guess I was lucky. I came out here in 1968 as a HS senior for an interview and to tour campus. Decided to stay for Saturday's game. It rained like crazy, but Ron Johnson ran for 347 yards (then a single game NCAA record) and 5 TDs against Wiscy. The stadium was pretty empty, but I was hooked.
My first game as a freshman was Bo's first game as coach. None of us could pronounce his name. But what a ride it was. I was there for the 24-12 upset of OSU; watched Woody tear up the sideline marker; agonized during the 10-10 tie and it's aftermath.
It was heaven and hell all at once. Just what college football should be.
September 18th, 2019 at 1:50 PM ^
You're getting dangerously close to getting yelled at by glass half-full fans.
I am SO with you...
September 17th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
Just as long as that statement isn’t “gee whiz, that damn ball is fucking slippery”
September 17th, 2019 at 8:33 PM ^
Or as he attempts a pass, "Golly! My oblique hurts like a motherfucker!"
September 17th, 2019 at 9:37 PM ^
I don't care what anyone says as long as HARD EDGE doesn't make a triumphant return.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
Hard Edge was bad. So was "Barwin porn" and that stuffed animal Greg Robinson jiggled in Kenny Demens' face. The worst, though, was when Rich Rodriguez, about to be fired, quoted Bo's "the team, the team, the team," speech to show that he was indeed a Michigan man. Then we lost to Mississippi State in the bowl game, our first in three years. When we lost to Toledo in RR's first year I didn't even watch the game. I listened to it on the radio as I refinished a door. There are so many awful memories from that time. Even the "good" memories, like the comeback against Wisconsin or the amazing Notre Dame comeback, have a garish quality to them, like we didn't earn those wins but lucked into them somehow. So much weirdness. Martavious Odoms shouldn't have been that wide open, Sam McGuffie's high school highlight tape shouldn't have been that crazy, we shouldn't have been excited about "landing" Demar Dorsey. On and on.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:52 AM ^
Thanks for this. I'm going to go walk into the ocean now.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:26 PM ^
HARD EDGE WEEK! THAT'S THIS WEEK!!
September 17th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^
Or, "handing it to Charbonnet is the only 'option'."
September 17th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
Hope he and the offense shows up otherwise I’m probably not going to expect anything of this season which is insane in year 5 of Harbaugh
September 17th, 2019 at 8:17 PM ^
they don't even need to outperform. The goal should be no turnovers. . .
Just simple competence. . . .that's all I want.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:50 PM ^
120 yards, 3 pts and no turnovers. Actually sounds plausible.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:44 PM ^
I would be perfectly fine with 3 interceptions if that meant 30+ targets to Collins, DPJ, and Black.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:02 AM ^
No you wouldn't.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
I would.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:24 PM ^
Just throw the damn ball down field to DPJ, TB or NC a whole lotta times!
Just start there. See what happens and adjust.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:16 PM ^
Except dpj might not play
September 17th, 2019 at 9:29 PM ^
Throw it to him anyway. It's gotta be better than putting it on the ground.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:11 PM ^
Yes, stop being obsessed with establishing the run and establish some 30-yard chunk plays.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:04 PM ^
It’s not your fault the holder can’t count to twelve.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:10 PM ^
Its interesting how important this game is. If Michigan loses, I think a large part of the fan base will be done with Harbaugh, and I can't necessarily blame them.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:31 PM ^
A loss to UW in Madison and we are done with Harbaugh? Yeesh.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:41 PM ^
Depends how it plays out. What if it's a 35-7 loss. Where would your head be after the game?
September 17th, 2019 at 10:03 PM ^
Year 5, 1 win against a ranked opponent. Senior qb, best oline in a decade, best wr Corp in years. Yeah I can see why people would be done. Sorry I guess I just expect more
September 17th, 2019 at 10:20 PM ^
1 win against a ranked opponent? This is not true. Not close. Do better.
September 18th, 2019 at 5:59 AM ^
Just make sure you count the final poll, not their ranking when you play them. The final poll is the one that counts, that’s the grade for the year. In 97 I believe, Colorado was ranked when they payed UM, by the end of the year they had a losing record.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
But by all means explain why people shouldn't be getting to the end of their rope with where things are? If you are fine with how things are that's great, but stop acting like it's crazy for people to have been expecting more in year 5.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
A lot have been expecting since Year 2, based off of Year 1.
This year is pivotal for every team in the conference besides OSU and Rutger.
We're fighting for 1st place but 3rd place is on our heels. When we beat MSU and PSU this year, those teams will have bigger questions than us.
That MSU-PSU game this year is gonna be huge for the direction of both of those programs. They're both basically fighting for 3rd in the conference.
Wisconsin is just the first step that gives us some breathing room and keeps the fans from flipping out.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:35 PM ^
You're at the end of your rope at 2-0? That's a pretty short rope, no?
September 18th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Why are you at the end of your rope? Michigan is 2-0 so far. Harbaugh is 2-1 against Wisconsin. A loss in Madison isn't the end of the world for this team or Harbaugh. In the immortal words of Aaron Rodgers R-E-L-A-X. Just enjoy the football. You're supposed to enjoy it.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:57 PM ^
A large part of the fan base is already done with Harbaugh.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:44 AM ^
I doubt that! Harbaugh has rebuilt the program to where it is competitive in the east division. He just has to figure out how to beat OSU but it may take a while to narrow the talent gap. I'd stick with Harbaugh instead of having another Hoke type coach.