Tear down Michigan to Build up Michigan

i agree with you on the 'now we'll be excited to win rather than being scared to lose' part.

Now the Team must DESERVE to win.

I agree losses to teams like Ap. State were proof positive that the world of NCAA Football had changed but we had not changed with it. We were a big enough and strong enough team that we were able to get away with not keeping up with the changes but eventually it caught up to us in a bad way. Now we are on a path that will get us caught up with the rest of the world but what will help us is that we are Michigan and we still have that huge name and the ability to recruit anywhere we want as would be evidenced by our class this year.

if we go 5-7 this year. Welcome to MGoBlog, too.

Our "Big House" was being remodeled BEFORE the 3-9 season and was in the planning stages of getting a facelift YEARS ago. We have no idea if these recruits are better than the ones that Lloyd and CO. brought in. For the record, Lloyd Carr was an excellent recruiter and brought in alot of talent. Oh, and I'm sure that Nebraska fans would probably like to argue with you about the merits of tearing down a program in the hopes of building it back up stronger. There is no guarantee whatsoever that we will be better than we were under the Bo/Moeller/Carr regimes.

RR has won with much less talent than he ever had access to at Michigan....and the Big Ten is a very average conference. We'll be fine.

sdl wrote: " While it worked in the Big East (which is generally weaker than the Big Ten to begin with), it will not necessarily work against bigger, more physical defenses." Florida has won two NC's in three years with the spread offense. The first year, they won it with a pro-set QB running a spread without a lot of running plays and still did fine. And anyone who truly thinks the spread won't work in the Big Ten needs to look at PSU's season last year and remember how pathetic Carr's defense looked agianst Oregon and Appy State in 2007. UM had a "bigger, more physical defense" that epitomized the Big Ten stereotype and it got utterly destroyed by Oregon. THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SPREAD IS THAT IT NEGATES BULK AND REWARDS SPEED. Texas Tech, Florida, Mississippi, Utah, and Penn State won some pretty big games with the spread last year. Also, look at the Super Bowl and even the Pro Bowl. It is no accident that most of the scoring happened in the last few minutes when teams were running their pro offenses out of spread formations. The NFL has been running the spread for years; they call it the two-minute offense. It is no accident that it works so well. Go back to the Lions and the run and shoot. Barry Sanders made tons of yards because all he had to do was get through one hole and found himself isolated one on one with a linebacker. When Booby (I spelled it that way on purpose) Ross came in and crammed the field together, Sanders had a bad year, got the crap beaten out of him on a regular basis, and quit because he knew his health would be in jeopardy. Whether it is the pro set or the option, HS, college, or NFL, teams that spread the field score more points.