if you could change one Michigan event in the past what would it be?

2008 Frozen Four outcome versus the Irish.  We were ranked #1 all year, my junior year, only to lose in gut-wrenching fashion.  Hockey should've won at least 3 National Championships this past decade.

Honorable mention is 1973 versus Ohio State.  We all know what did--or didn't--happen there.  I'll ammend this to most of the early seventies against the Buckeyes.

App State or Toledo maybe.  Both were down right embarrassing...

I still think Florida would've won in 06 if we played them.  I believe we were #2 going into that game though so OSU would've had a good chance of a rematch.

It's really late so I'm not exactly thinking but I'll take the easy route and say anytime we choked for a national championship...

2006 game for me as well. I was the only one in an entire room of people going for michigan and we would've still been in it if it wasn't for that late hit

Also, from the same game, any of the two runs where the linebackers could not wrap up wells.... such a painful loss

keep Moeller

For me it would definitely have to be the loss to App State. Although our team was not good, they still should not have lost this game. Immediately following, there was a crisis of confidence that permeated through the entire team. Everyone began to second guess what they were doing. A good football team is like the military. They rely on instinct and training. When all else is going crazy, the instinct and training take over. Unfortunately, this never happened in 08 and we suffered badly for it in many ways.

App State for sure, but Herbstreit opening his mouth about Les Miles comes in a close second.

App State was a symptom. Some of the OSU losses were expected.

Really, any Ohio State result from 2006 to 2009 would have been ideal. 2006 and we go to the Nat. Championship, and probably win. 2008 and RR's on the Bo path. 2009 and RR's vindicated a bit, we go to a bowl game, and this whole offseason goes much easier.

2007 though. Hart and Henne and Long and Arrington and Manningham and Lloyd....these men deserved to go out with a win against Ohio. It was a crime against humanity that they didn't.

Next would be 2006 -- but at least when we lost that game, we lost it with the kind of honor that people still thought we were the 2nd best team in the country. But more than that, it was for Bo.

Stewart.  Knock it DOWN!!

The Fab Five getting a title or two (or four if they all stayed).  Two heartbreaking trips to the finals and nothing to show for it.  And yes, I don't care at all that their records "don't count."

It was the first game i ever took my dad to.  Needless to say it was a quite car ride home.  A close second is 2006 OSU, at the time i lived with my best friend who happened to be an OSU fan.  He bragged about that game for three damn weeks.

For me, it would be LC choosing to retire after the 2003 tOSU game.  Maybe the team would have been inspired to beat USC in that Rose Bowl (catch the bomb, Braylon), and we just may have been spared the drama of the last few years.

Another would be to change the timing of Bo's death by about 15 weeks, either way.  It must have had some detrimental effect on our team in a very big game.

If I had to choose an on-field event, I'd have Brad Cochran catch the interception that was basically thrown right to him in our 12-10 loss to Iowa in 1985 on their winning FG drive.  That may have been enough to win the National Championship for Bo that year.

the 2005 Rose Bowl vs. Texas...that damn last second field goal!!

Amen to that, brother. The losses in '70, '72, '74, and the tie in '73 meant that we stayed home for the holidays. No bowl games for teams that went 39-3-1 over those years. There's no way that Bo would have had to wait until 1980 for his first bowl victory if we had been allowed by the criminally-stupid Big Ten bigshots to go to bowl games other than the Rose Bowl. Those teams would have gone to Sugar Bowls or Cotton Bowls or Orange Bowls and we would have beaten the crap out of Alabama or Texas or Arkansas or whoever was playing in those games back then.

Seems like we have not rebounded from that game minus a few bright spots in the last 3 years.

Since all the other good ones are taken: Evan Bleeping Turner.

Improper time-keeping and tackling Desmond Howard in the end zone with the ball in the air heading towards him.

The Horror.

but it would have affected Michigan.  How about the refs getting the call right in the Nebraska-Missouri game with the kicked ball in the end zone?

If Desmond gets that pass ... the roll of the season might have gone differently.  Lots of talent on that team.

on one particular night in 1997. The next morning was pretty uncomfortable and it is a memory that I could do without.

No late hit out of bounds, and we play for the 2006 NC.

Blocking Rod Garcia's FG in the 1972 Rose Bowl, then move to Stan Edwards catching Rick Leach's pass to tie or beat Washington in the 1978 Rose Bowl and Charles White's fumble in the 1979 Rose Bowl being called as such.

Just from 2009

Hawhtorne tracking down Roundtree.

I'd go with App State but that wouldn't have changed much in respect to the season as a whole. I have to go with the late hit in 06. We would have played Florida and I think we would have won. Which obviously gives us another NC and the Big Ten isn't a joke to SEC fans.

Jim Tressel was never to be conceived.

I would have had Chris Webber tell Ed Martin in no uncertain terms that he wanted no part of his sleazy scheme, and then Steve Fisher tell Martin to stay the hell away from his players.

2007: Cortisone shot administered to Chad Henne fucks up his shoulder by hiting a vein (1 in 100 odds) making him sit against Wisky and still suffer lingering effects against Ohio State the next week.

I wish that Jim Herrmann was replaced before theturn of the century. We had several teams that weren't great but good enough. Jim's inability to evolve as a coach hampered us more than you know. We have spent too much time in a nickel trying to defend the spread, it just doesn't work without freaks for LBs. Unfortunately we haven't had any of those for a while!

Not to be that guy, but I don't really think I'd change anything. I enjoy the ups and downs as a fan....it keeps me on my toes as far as my allegiance is concerned and as Michigan fans we've been relatively spoiled for the last 50 years or so. Imagine if you were a State fan. 

Two words: Ed Martin.

botching the Les Miles deal