Quick warm tummy rub from 11Warriors
I don't recommend following the link, I just include it to add "voracity."
Nice observation from our only rival*:
- What's extremely annoying about Michigan winning these games is that in almost every facet they're just "sort of good", with the exception of probably the best defensive line in college football in the last decade
And here's the link I don't recommend:
Enjoy the quote and carry on with your day.
*yes, that's a slight against moo U
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:15 PM ^
Who's got it worse than they do right now. Nooooobody. F them.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:27 PM ^
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times over the last 20 years I waited for the turnaround. Even in the darkest moments I knew it was going to come. And now that it’s here, it’s like their whole world is falling apart. It’s everything I hoped it would be.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:39 PM ^
They are on pins and needles right now hoping that they will land Will Howard in the transfer portal. Originally a 3 star, one year of eligibility, from Kansas State - and his numbers this season were worse than McCord's. And he would be a substantial upgrade in their quarterback room. How far they have fallen (and they aren't done falling yet).
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:57 PM ^
If I were Howard - (who was a lock to USC apparently at one point ibn the transfer process) - I would at least wait until the Championship is over and JJ makes public his decision to see if M was interested.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:18 PM ^
I'd almost be tempted to throw NIL money at him to keep him from going to OSU. He is their only hope for a serviceable QB room next yr.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:10 PM ^
The universe will never be fully back in order until they hire themselves the next R Rod and have a full meltdown that takes a decade to recover from while we kick the living shit out of them year after year while getting every last marginal/controversial call in the process.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:10 PM ^
I mean, I root against these guys during their bowl games. Why should they be rooting for Michigan?
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:13 PM ^
That's fair, but you see a lot of Sparties whose entire identity revolves around UofM. I'd bet you're more along the lines of cheering against rivals as a side hobby as opposed to the core of your existence.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:04 PM ^
This is a great point. I think I reached a limit of sorts when I saw the people in Pasadena with "Buckeyes for Bama" on their shirts or something like that. That, as my teenager says, was cringe.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:40 PM ^
Pretty based though.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:03 PM ^
true story: I knew a guy who owned a very large collection of College logo baseball hats. USC, Washington, Oklahoma, ASU, WSU, UF…. You get the idea. I asked him where he went to school and he said “MSU; I just buy a cap for every team Michigan plays in their bowl game so I can actively root against them.”
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:58 PM ^
I own 2 MSU hats. One to crap in and the other to cover it up with.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:12 PM ^
Exactly. The only thing that sucked about the Cotton Bowl is that Mizzou let em score 3.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:37 PM ^
Sure, maybe you go so far as to turn the osu bowl game on for a bit, hoping for some casual schadenfreude.
But do you have shirts made that say "Michigan Fans for Missouri" & dump hundreds to thousands of dollars going to their game to cheer for their opponent in person?
If not then you barely qualify as a fan, much less as a true hater!
And as for sparty - what bowl game?!
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:48 PM ^
Michigan State goes to bowl games?
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:11 PM ^
Twitter literally had Sparties making AI images of Sparty waving Bama flags. It's so unfortunate that MSU and OSU lost another game yesterday.
January 3rd, 2024 at 8:39 AM ^
Seeing msu lose everything they do brings me great joy. Fuck msu and its fans.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:18 PM ^
This is pretty good. I was going to modify the Homer Simpson in the bushes meme to have MSU/OSu change to Bama fans then Washington fans.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:34 PM ^
Online Michigan state fans said they are done with college football. I only wish they were
January 2nd, 2024 at 10:03 PM ^
only the Vikings get purple right in american football. this is like looking at rotten eggplants at kroger.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:51 PM ^
I'm just eating up the subtitle: Darkness Looms.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:16 PM ^
I think that's a reasonable take from a certain perspective. But it discounts the team's mental toughness and the fact that the coaches and players aren't looking for style points. Also, having a great defensive line is kind of a big deal. So, test Michigan's Wu-tang style only if you're feeling lucky.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^
Hmmmm. Apparently my OP underemphasized the fact that 11W admitted the M defensive line is amazing. My bad. I enjoyed reading it.
Of course they are going to discount everything they possibly can. It's 11W
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^
There’s nothing wrong with being pretty good at every area with one uber elite unit. I bet most coaches would kill to have a team with no real weak spots and the best D line in the game.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:40 PM ^
Especially at the college level, defense wins championships. Especially the D line.
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:01 PM ^
I might characterize our run game as more than pretty good.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:34 PM ^
2021 Georgia had a fantastic D-line and Stetson Bennett and other skill-position players I can't remember the names of.
So I'm OK with the analysis as far as it goes, which isn't all that far.
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:49 PM ^
I can never forget the name of Ladd McConkey. That’s just a remarkable name.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:07 PM ^
It makes me think of a They Might Be Giants song.
January 2nd, 2024 at 11:53 PM ^
Wasn’t Ladd McConkey the bassist for The Pogues?
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:32 PM ^
I know that the Michigan D-line is elite this year, but I have trouble believing they are better than to 2021 Georgia D-line. That line made the Joe Moore Wolverine O-line look like a JV squad.
They may be on par with that Georgia team. I will take an OSU fan thinking that though.
January 2nd, 2024 at 8:58 PM ^
Well, we’re about to play this year’s Joe Moore award winner, so we gonna find out just how good we are in comparison.
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:42 PM ^
It wasn't only the line, the linebackers led by Nakobi Dean were also amazing.
January 3rd, 2024 at 12:12 AM ^
I didn't say, and don't think, they're better than the Georgia D-line, which was historically strong. But that's still a test case that an elite D-line, which we have, has proven able to undo a Moore-award winning O-line. So that will be the test Monday. I don't think the Washington O-line has seen a D like ours, especially in the PAC 12 this year. So I like our chances.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:49 PM ^
James Ccok & Zamir White have led their respective NFL teams in rushing for the past several games.
Adonai Mitchell caught a TD pass in his 3rd straight cfp this year - for Texas rather than Uga this year.
Jermaine Burton came close to scoring a tying TD in OT against Michigan yesterday, were it not for the heroic efforts of Mr. Josh Wallace!
And of course Brock Bower was still there for Uga in their bowl game, but they didn't need him!
Hope this helped?
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:27 PM ^
M's O-line has also been the best in the country for 2 out of the past 3 years.
Win in the trenches, win the game.
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:36 PM ^
So the O-line, JJ, LBs and DBs have been and now are mearly good?
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:18 PM ^
They are also elite at playing as a team.
January 2nd, 2024 at 9:22 PM ^
Undervalued quality here that is difficult to quantify.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:21 PM ^
I agree in concept, but we're more than sort of good. We're not necessarily elite anywhere but we're very good everywhere. And perhaps elite on the DL.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^
This is what I was going to say. We’re very good at a lot of things.
Also, the best defensive lines I’ve seen in the last 10-15 years or so are Georgia 2021 and one or two of those Bama teams from early 2010s (can’t remember what year, I think it was the Marcel Dareus line in 2010), plus one of the Clemson teams from late 2010s.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:38 PM ^
This is what a lot of simpletons don’t get. Michigan’s offense will not break any records or come close in top tier of some meaningless stats. But what they do very well is have an answer for each defense they face.
Solid weapons in the backfield, at Tight End and WR. The O line that mauls in the trenches. Also a quarterback with Elite skills and mindset. He may not have been his sharpest last night but he did get driven into the turf on an amazingly gutsy play. And they all made plays when the game was on the line.
the same can be said of the D. If people nationally don’t know Will Johnson they haven’t paid attention. So much was made of how Bama was gonna run Michigan out of the Rose Bowl.
So many guys made plays and it limited what Milroe could do. He didn’t have time because of the swarming D line. He couldn’t take deep shots because of our secondary. They couldn’t get their RBs loose except for a couple drives. And they got stuffed when it mattered most because their options were taken away over 4 quarters.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:57 PM ^
A reporter once asked Coach Harbaugh:
"Besides points what is the most overrated offensive stat?"
He replied:
"Yes"
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:09 PM ^
“Michigans offense will not break any records” - Blake the Great would like to have a word with you. How dare you forget about him in your offense write up ;)
January 2nd, 2024 at 7:50 PM ^
Elite: a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group
There are 133 division one football teams. Of those teams, how many of them have a position group that one would you take over Michigans if trying to win National Championships and put kids into the NFL?
D-line: zero. RB: zero. Offensive Line: maybe 3 or 4. QB: Probably 2 or 3. Secondary: Probably 2 or 3. LBs: Maybe 3. Special teams: (scared to actually include this after yesterday…but besides that whole thing…)
That’s six/seven position groups that rank in the top 3% of all of college football. I’d say we’re elite in a lot of places, and really fucking great across the board.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:21 PM ^
I normally don't give a shit about what other programs think of us, but just doing a cursory review of some rival sites, many seem to think whatever we accomplish this year will be vacated. I just don't see the precedent for an infraction such as this, so it annoys me to no end that rivals say that shit.
January 2nd, 2024 at 5:32 PM ^
If the NCAA is stupid enough to go that route, I think there will be a legal and/or state fight from Michigan and NCAA knows what happens there (hello Kansas. Miami, North Carolina, and Tennessee)....
They are sore losers and they can't help to see that their own team can't execute like Michigan right now... Even when they have a elite, 5/4+ elite talent rosters and not able to execute like this year team..
This team has overcome almost everything except win the Natty at this point... This will destroy them if we do... A school that tries to go and play by the books (in general except this decoding gate which might really end up being nothing; at best level II infraction that can't result in vacating wins... NCAA will lose on this as long as Michigan and AD does contest and battle it if it does arise) and is able to compete with the top schools we know are not really playing the same way...
This is what is killing the team Ohio State homers... They had all this talent but can't execute but here we are.. Michigan is 3-time Big Ten Champions and on the cusp of winning it all.... Spartans.. Well, what did they have to look forward to when pride before the fall came back to bite D'Antonio and the prior coach was shamed for non-football related issues...
That is all I need to know and state that makes those points more laughable.. Let them hope and hope when it all crashes down again.. The more they stay in denial, the more they won't heal nor get over and move on... Things won't change until the lesson learned and teams actually evolve.. JH had done that 3 years ago and this is building up to all that work at this time... It is glorious...
January 2nd, 2024 at 6:41 PM ^
Was this written by an AI? It sounds almost human, but not quite.