True Blue in CO

July 8th, 2011 at 8:13 PM ^

Nice breakdown by all positions and previews of all the games. Loved the feature on the 1981 team and their inability to meet lofty expectations. That was my Junior year in A2 and it is easier to understand what happened 30 years later. Suggest you all grab a copy and enjoy some great content from some writers we have all come to know.

alanmfrench

July 8th, 2011 at 8:30 PM ^

and received mine at some point this week but officially today. I don't check my mail very often. Just started reading but I've got a 100+ pages more to look forward too!

Magga Saraivah

July 8th, 2011 at 8:48 PM ^

Sorry if someone already covered this, I have had the whole week off and my brain is starting to slow down.  Why the name change from "Hail to the Victors" to mass produced/generic sounding title ?

UM Fan NY

July 8th, 2011 at 8:59 PM ^

but i was turned off right away with brians letter to the editor. one line in particular...

'there were many factors in michigans implosion the last 3 years-many of them directly traceable to carr...'

more excuses from brian for his man-crush rich. time to move on. you sound like a high school girl that got dumped at the prom x-pac.

 

other things i didn't like. no mention of the freshman rb's in that section. a picture of jake long where will campbell should be (does anyone review this before it hits the press).

 

 

 

UM Fan NY

July 9th, 2011 at 9:04 AM ^

when lloyd left was very thin offensively....mostly due to graduation. it's lloyd's fault that players graduate??? it's not lloyds fault that manningham and arrington saw the writing on the wall and bolted. blame lloyd for mallett, that's reasonable but it's normal to have a young qb leave after a coaching change. boren bolted because of the new staff, unless you think lloyd told him to go to o$u (i'm sure x-pac does). defensively, the team was pretty good but the new staff destroyed it with idiotic schemes instead of just letting them play and some players just packed it in....again, not lloyds fault.

 

the previous staff did leave hoke with some very good weapons offensively, but they left hoke with gaping holes to fill on defense and special teams. offensively, we have zero depth on the oline. whose fault is that?

x-pac still has a man crush on rich. he'll take every opportunity to destroy hoke every chance he gets. he wasn't objective the last 3 years, blatantly making excuse after excuse for the failures of rodriguez (he is the one that hired robinson and forced the 3-3-5 down his throat). and he won't be objective with hoke. he hated the hire from the beginning.

jtmc33

July 8th, 2011 at 9:01 PM ^

I noticed that Big Will looked thinner, whiter, and changed his number to 77. Other than that I give it a straight A.