Michigan in the Wall Street Journal

I love that picture. It basically sums up how I feel whenever we lose (or if I lose at something, I'm a competitive person). What makes it better is he's holding the "Outstanding Player" plaque. So the guy is considered the best player in his class, yes he hates losing. Sign him up! Oh, we did already. Sweet!

if i was carvin' johnson after every loss...well, I'd probably stop competing.

I loved seeing Tebow cry after the SEC championship game this year.

I love seeing the team sing The Victors after the win more though

Freep, 100% unbiased, and factual.

I'm glad that you've managed to block The Horror and the Oregon curb stomp at the beginning of '07 and the losses to Wisconsin and OSU book-ending it. Any advice on how I can do the same?

Snark aside, I agree with you that the turnover of upper class men was a huge factor regarding the struggles of '08 and '09.

Re: the death of Bo. Coupled with the loss to OSU and the pounding at the hands of USC, then leading into 2007-2009, many have associated that as a time where we "lost our swagger."

2007, when reviewed, will go down as one of the strangest seasons in Michigan history. Ignoring the Horror for a moment, you have a Duck Raid on Ann Arbor, brought about because we moved the return game to a year when we thought we had a better shot of winning, you have an absolute crushing of Notre Dame (Yackety Sacks), a hold on like Hell win over Penn State, night in Champaign (where Michigan wins, in part, on a trick play), the Purdue game (where the seemingly innocuous run to end the first half hurts Mike Hart for the rest of the year), the one in a million cortisone shot that hits a nerve in Henne, which kills his throwing arm, the longest play from scrimmage in Michigan history in a loss to Wisconsin which ended an 8 game winning streak, a soaking, in the wet misery of the rain against Ohio State in Lloyd's farewell at the Big House, and a open up the Playbook and show them everything and even then Adrian Arrington makes some stuff up win over Florida in Florida. It's utterly a maddening and strange season.

Prologue: Bo's death was an immediate plunge to rock bottom. Where we were firmly entrenched for the next 4 games

--Loss to OSU in one of the biggest games of the rivalry
--After refusing to make any halftime adjustments from a first half in which we were barely holding on for a tie, we get decisively out-coached and slaughtered by USC
--The Horror. Need I say more?
--Oregon. Sure, no one could beat them when they had Dixon. Still, it wasn't even close.

After this, some ups and downs. Followed by lots of downs.

Epilogue: We have yet to recover.

Actually, I thought they were pretty clear about the history of Michigan hockey-- the # of years and # of championships, and the aberration of this year after the expectations. Maybe the last line about Michigan "becoming a hockey school, at least until September" left the dissing taste in the mouth. My own sensitivity receptors activated when they said that at least Mr. Hunwick played "well enough" for them to get to the NCAA. I hope they were just going for understatement. But yeah, I'm sensitive too. On Mr. Hunwick's behalf, of course.

it may be in the actual print edition. -- ill check when i get home -- sometimes the online edition omits the grayscale matrix pictures