September 1st

Submitted by Honest Abe on
We have to pick eachother up. Today sucked and all of our rivals winning bowl games make it worse. As hard as it is after that performance, we have to trust Harbaugh to get this shit figured out, he is not going anywhere and no one is rescuing us. He came here to make us elite again and i still believe he will. Let everyone celebrate and shit on us because thats all we can do as fans. On September 1st there is a reckoning coming. Go Blue!
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Pretty toney

January 1st, 2018 at 6:00 PM ^

When coach d got to msu rich rod wasn't recruiting michigan the big 10 penn state was on sanctions and osu had tressel gate.....he got the top players out of michigan PA ohio and New Jersey the 2013 team was sick the best team he will ever field.....there wasn't a lack of talent in east Lansing he had studs up and down the roster and still never delivered a national title not sure if harbaugh will but I'm positive coach d won't so you can't put him in the convo with dabo urban or saban....

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Pretty toney

January 1st, 2018 at 5:25 PM ^

Idc about pre season picks penn state came out of nowhere 2 years ago and were clearly the best team in the big 10 this season....who gets better in the offseason and who doesn't is what matters msu had a great offseason and you saw the results every year is different in college unless you're Bama or clemson

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Pretty toney

January 1st, 2018 at 5:44 PM ^

Campbell? Why not back up the brinks truck and get dabo texas a and m style he owns urban and makes the playoffs every year despite not getting top 10 recruiting classes....assuming next year harbaugh can't turn it around

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MichiganMan_24_

January 1st, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^

As matter of fact, lets change it right here right now.. We say this every single year.. we say next year we will be better..Lets try to confuse the AMHG ...lets switch it up

Michigan is going to be trash next season, nothing will change..losses to rivals and no playoffs

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Coldwater

January 1st, 2018 at 4:46 PM ^

The Michigan football program is an embarrassment that deserves every bit of criticism it gets. OSU fans and MSU fans have every right to make fun of us now and we have no response. We can’t fight back. We just have to sit there and take it because they are right. The program is lost. It’s soft, weak, and passionless.

You can’t keep relying on slow, unathletic fullbacks and tight ends to be the base of your passing attack.
Peters has a full bowl prep season to prepare and he liked absolutely horrible. He has no “it” factor.

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uofmfan_13

January 1st, 2018 at 5:02 PM ^

What is innovative about having fullbacks in the year 2018?  Why are we literally holding 4 scholarships for 4 fullback type players?  I love Ben Mason as he's a tough dude who plays well when called upon but 4 fullbacks?  Seriously?  Why are we recruiting this position?   

We need more innovation on offense.  It is like the place that time forgot... we are like stone age man-ball lite with 5 step drop backs while everyone else plays in tempo and incorporates RPOs and spread concepts and plays mismatches consistently.  

Unbelievable!

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Pretty toney

January 1st, 2018 at 4:51 PM ^

The notre dame game will tell us all we need to know.....if we can't beat a team replacing 4 o line starters the entire front 7 and possible a qb making his first start in week 1 it will be a long long season

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JMEISTER

January 1st, 2018 at 4:52 PM ^

or trying to be negative. Just realistic. We will be lucky to be 7-5 next year. Something wrong inside the program. Harbaugh was entirely different on the sidelines this year. Much less fire and emotion. Players on offense seemed to reflect the same personality. I don't see anything that gives me hope for a big turnaround next year.

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uofmfan_13

January 1st, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^

And it will be justified.  I am not getting hyped for Michigan football ever again, until I see consistent results on the field and in big games, especially away games. 

Will always root for Blue, but the bloom is off. This is a middling program, on par with Kansas State (who destroyed us in bowl a few years ago).  We have flash-in-the-pan seasons but those end in disappointment as well.  

Got to see it to believe it.  I don't know what 2018 has in store.  Based on prior results, probably 8-4 or 9-3 at best and 3rd or 4th place per usual. 

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GomezBlue

January 1st, 2018 at 7:37 PM ^

However, we'll get picked 2nd, behind OSU, again.  The players will think all they need to do is beat OSU, and they're in the playoffs.  Then, a couple of other teams will sneak in and snipe us (looking at you, MSU), and everything goes to hell.

Our team is entitled.  Look at the bowl game we got.  We didn't deserve a Jan. 1st day bowl, but we got it anyway...because we're Michigan.  The best thing that could have happened is get the Pinstripe Bowl and have our guys realize you get what you earned. 

Mark my words, next preseason we'll be ranked in the top 15.  Our fans will forget this year and think we're in the running for the National Championship.  As soon as we lose a game or two, everyone will be shocked and pissed, and 2017 will happen all over again.  Don't get me wrong, having high expectations is good...unless it becomes destructive. 

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PaulWall

January 1st, 2018 at 5:03 PM ^

love your optimism. the only questions I have mostly revolve around play calling, and hopefully that gets addressed. they won 10 10 and 8 games in his first 3 years. This isn't hoke, so I feel much better today than during that regime. this year didn't go as hoped, but at end of day, it's not going to get any worse than it is right now. on to the off season.

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San Diego Mick

January 1st, 2018 at 5:09 PM ^

this season is our losses came to teams with a combined record of 55-12, kinda like the 2012 8-5 season, but 2018 better not be like 2014!!!

That season ended with a loss to SCar too, oof.

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Blue Warrior

January 1st, 2018 at 5:27 PM ^

Shows his buddies the door then there is a glimmer of hope. How can he keep this shit staff around and think things will be fine. If he is going to stubborn then he can be shown the door too.....no more god damn excuses

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Rodriguesqe

January 1st, 2018 at 5:39 PM ^

On the surface this recruiting class looks pretty crappy.

This year was crappy to the core.

On the surface it looks like Harbaugh did not attack the year with an enthusiasm unkown to mankind.

Harbaugh's second third year looks a lot like Hoke's second, right down to struggling vs cupcakes to losing to South Carolina in the outback bow to fall to 8-5.

I've never called for Harbaugh's firing or anyone on his staff. I'm still not. But this game was the end of the honeymoon for me. 

This was a young team and we could make all sorts of excuses (5 turnoves in a half?). Bottom line was this was unacceptable in the literal meaning and Harbaugh's paycheck leave alone reputation should not result in going 0-5 against teams with a pulse.

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Jimmyisgod

January 1st, 2018 at 6:05 PM ^

ND, MSU, PSU, Wisky. OSU, and Northwestern. What will they all have in common next season? They will all be better than Purdue was this season. If things don't improve 6-6 is possible. I think 8-4 is our baseline for 2018, anyone picking 10-2 or better is being a homer.

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dougr188

January 1st, 2018 at 7:22 PM ^

"A reckoning", give me a break. There are so many holes in this team that need to be worked out before there can be any kind of #reckoning.  This is a ceiling 9-3 team next year.

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chatster

January 1st, 2018 at 9:14 PM ^

After this season, ending with three straight losses, it’s hard to be too optimistic about the Michigan football program in 2018, especially with a very challenging schedule, no clearly established starting quarterback for the fourth straight season and an underwhelming recruiting class, all of whom might be red-shirted.
 
Things might have been different and better this season IF (a) Grant Newsome hadn’t missed the season with what might be a career-ending injury, (b) Tarik Black, Wilton Speight and Nick Eubanks hadn’t been injured early in the season, causing each of them to miss most of the season, (c) Ty Isaac hadn’t suffered an injury that caused him to miss the last five games, and (d) for whatever reasons, Ben Bredeson, Juwann Bushell-Beatty, Grant Perry, Eddie McDoom and Kareem Walker missed the Outback Bowl game, but people say that injuries are part of the game.
 
Unfortunately for Michigan this year, the “next men up” in some of those cases weren’t as good as the people they’d replaced.

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