Only upset about two games this year - Purdue & Illinois

I was disappointed at how fractured our fan base became. You know people say a lot of things about R Rod, but what I find fascinating about him is that his assessment of the team is extremely accurate. He actually never sugar coats anything. He stated the offense would be better. Check. He said that the problem with freshman quarterbacks is they play like freshman. Check. He stated immediately, that David Molk was BY FAR, the most important player on the TEAM. Yeah, check. And he also stated that the defensive depth would be a problem. Check and check. Wins and losses happen, we had more than last year when we had better defensive personnel. We go LMFAO at pounding MAC teams this year - last year we couldn't beat Toledo. Objectively the team is improving, and R Rod has said as much (as in I see the light at the end of the tunnel). I believe him, because honestly he hasn't really lied about anything - including self assessment (I'm sure the bitter board members will point some out but I find them mostly as aggrandizements). Why the negative fan base is coming out and unloading right now is beyond me. Michigan had been in decline since it's zenith in 2006 and we were toxic to begin with - what with the losing to App State and all. If you are going to a whole sale change and you have maybe 8 contributors total in your junior and senior class then maybe depth and capacity is a problem. I wish the fan base would criticize his coaching when we had ACTUAL TALENT. That has been the disappointment of this year. 5-7 was very realistic for this program when we started the year. Calling for his head after YEARS of mediocrity that he has to single handedly change is ludicrous honestly. I have no idea how much time is enough time, but whatever we have given I can tell you is not enough. More OSU than Michigan fans at the big house - if that isn't generated by the fracture I don't know what is - and the worst is there is no scarlet letter we can put on these people to say, "hey you're the jerk who had zero patience with a young team - learning new systems, trying to get better. We will throw things at you now that we are good". People can hurt these kids, sell their tickets, not support them at games and when the team becomes exceptional (and it will) they will be right back when the team starts winning again. And they will win again - because R Rod has not consistently lost anywhere. So that won't happen here either. I just hope he gets enough time to do it.

I was disappointed by Illinois - a team playing very poorly with a horrible defense and a quarterback who was having a horrible year. The same game plan from OSU would have won us the game. And it has been a long time since a Michigan team couldn't punch it in from the one yard line. I expected Purdue to beat us mostly because they were a pass oriented team which we have just not been able to stop all year. I was surprised we had a chance to win that game or that we were ahead in the beginning. But we played like a young team all year - giving up leads, making mistakes, a ton of turnovers. It will get better - I am sure of it.