How did we get here? Enter Hamlet.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

11/9: Michigan 100, Slippery Rock 62. 1-0

11/12: Michigan 91, IUPUI 54. 2-0

11/13: Michigan 77, Cleveland St 47. 3-0

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

11/21: Michigan 67, Pitt 62. 4-0

11/23: Michigan 71, K-State 57. 5-0

11/27: Michigan 79, NC State 72. 6-0

12/1: Michigan 74, Bradley 66. 7-0

12/4: Michigan 73, WMU 41. 8-0

12/8: Michigan 80, Arkansas 67. 9-0

12/11: Michigan 67, Binghamton 39. 10-0

12/15: Michigan 81, West Virginia 66. 11-0

12/20: Michigan 93, EMU 54. 12-0

12/29: Michigan 88, CMU 73. 13-0

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.

1/3: Michigan 94, Northwestern 66. 14-0, 1-0

1/6: Michigan 95, Iowa 67. 15-0, 2-0

1/9: Michigan 62, Nebraska 47. 16-0, 3-0

To die; to sleep; no more;

1/13: Ohio State 56, Michigan 53. 16-1, 3-1

And by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.

1/17: Michigan 83, Minnesota 75. 17-1, 4-1

1/24: Michigan 68, Purdue 53. 18-1, 5-1

1/27: Michigan 74, Illinois 60. 19-1, 6-1

1/30: Michigan 68, Northwestern 46. 20-1, 7-1

’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die. To sleep; To sleep? Perchance to dream! Ay, there’s the rub.

2/2: Indiana 81, Michigan 73. 20-2, 7-2

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.

2/5: Michigan 76, Ohio State 74 (OT). 21-2, 8-2

There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay,

2/9: Wisconsin 65, Michigan 62 (OT). 21-3, 8-3

2/12: Michigan State 75, Michigan 52. 21-4, 8-4

2/17: Michigan 79, Penn State 71. 22-4, 9-4

2/24: Michigan 71, Illinois 58. 23-4, 10-4

2/27: Penn State 84, Michigan 78. 23-5, 10-5

The insolence of office and the spurns, that patient merit of the unworthy takes,

3/3: Michigan 58, Michigan State 57. 24-5, 11-5

3/6: Michigan 80, Purdue 75. 25-5, 12-5

When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?

3/10: Indiana 72, Michigan 71. 25-6, 12-6 EORS.

Who would fardels 12 bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life but that the dread of something after death,

3/14: Michigan 83, Penn State 66. 26-6

3/15: Wisconsin 68, Michigan 59. 26-7

The undiscovered country from whose boundary no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?

3/21: Michigan 71, South Dakota State 56. 27-7

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought,

3/23: Michigan 78, Virginia Commonwealth 53. 28-7

And enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

3/29: Michigan 87, Kansas 85. 29-7

Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons.

3/31: Michigan 79, Florida 59. 30-7

4/6: Michigan 61, Syracuse 56. 31-7

Be all my sins remembered.

Two photos by Upchurch made into one.

I've been spending much of the last week going through last year's photos by Eric Upchuch (ChewerD on the site) to find the good stuff for this year's HTTV. Ninety-five percent just gets deleted, several hundred make it to folders I can access for various players and stuff. Then there's the shots and sequences that I can't, for whatever reason, use in the book but can't in good conscious throw out. So here you go.

NOTRE DAME:

You know those guys who stick their heads in lions' mouths? We've got a cameraman who'll stick his lens inches from Jake Ryan. Peer into the soul of the Viking.

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Here's the pics I could assemble from 2013 signing day, because the most exciting thing that happened today was 18-year-olds signing pieces of paper and standing by fax machines. If you've got others post 'em below with attribution and I'll add.

To begin, here's ESPN's lead photo with Shane Morris and Wyatt Shallman in a DeLorean, because if you're going to take the Michigan program Back to the Future why not do it with some style. Also the stainless steel construction… stand back.

The rest via the jump.

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Bourbon Street

The French Quarter was flooded with Michigan and Virginia Tech fans for most of game day. I walked down Bourbon Street to take some photos of the fanfare.

"Sugar Bowl Headquarters" on the corner of Bourbon and Canal. If true, would explain a lot.

These street musicians didn’t play jazz, but bluegrass is basically the blues. Right? No? The guy in the middle hails from Grand Rapids.

Michigan fans enjoying the view. Pretty sure that woman is/was a dude.

And for something completely familiar, Michigan sorority girls on their way to …

Rick’s (American) Cabaret.

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