Tons of talent and experience returning in 2018
Michigan will go from one of the youngest teams in the country to one of the most experienced teams in CF by next year. The returning contributors:
Offense Defense
D. Peoples-Jones T. Kinnel
J. Bushell-Beatty J. Metellus
C. Ruiz R. Gary
B. Peters A. Solomon
T. Black D. Bush
G. Perry K. Hudson
S. McKeon D. Long
Z. Gentry L. Hill
C. Evans N. Furbush
K. Higdon C. Winovich
M. Onwenu B. Mone
B. Bredeson B. Watson
K. Walker A. Thomas
I. Bunting
T. Wheatley
E. McDoom
K. Crawford
The experience and struggles these players endured this year will help them next year. Plus year three for this D. Brown defense that will have everyone back minus McCray and Hurst has a chance to be light years better than what we saw this year. I think Peters has a chance to be a great quarterback, and will get better with experience and timing with all the receivers coming back next year.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:17 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 8:27 AM ^
you got to beat the best and not make excuses.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:36 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
That Wisconsin team couldn't move the ball at all for almost the entire game. Them moving ball was absolutely a result of their defense (which loses 6 to graduation and possibly more to the NFL) shutting down an inexperienced offense with its third-best quarterback on the field, leaving our gassed defense on the field when they knew there was no hope of us scoring again. Regarding OSU, their program is well-established at this point with Meyer now in his sixth year. No need to panic.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 8:22 AM ^
but who is gonna teach them how to win. Their experience is losing.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
Although I will say that returning a shit ton of starters rather than losing them to graduation and / or the pros is much preferred, the 2018 schedule includes MSU and OSU on the road plus a few other gems and I am curious to see what the learnings are on offense, what the identity will be next year.
If we were honest with ourselves, I think many of us predicted back in August that this might be an up and down year for a lot of reasons, but I also think some may have underestimated how much more work there might be to do in some respects (which I think ties back to us not knowing how bad things may have been at the end of 2014). Maybe that's crazy of me to say.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:34 AM ^
..don't forget ND and NW both on the road
probably a 1-1 split at best, possible 0 - 2
if we go 2 - 2 in our MSU, OSU, ND, NW major road tests that would be wonderful.
...looking like another 3 or 4 loss season in 2018 or worse...
plain hard fact is JH has yet to prove he can take a
Mich squad on the road in the B1G and win a big game.
...bring in Mike Leach please !!!
November 19th, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 8:51 AM ^
Mike Leach? Really? Bring in the owner of middling teams everywhere he goes? A guy that runs an offense more unfamiliar to Michigan's current personnel than Rich Rod's was back in 2008? You're an idiot. A pure, fucking idiot.
Go follow WSU...
November 19th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^
.....doesnt turtle in the big games ike JH
and does it all with second rate talent..
November 19th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
We will be seeing several incredibly obnoxious posters with -100,000,000 points soon. Brian, please do your thing.
November 19th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
Mike Leach at OC would be really cool.
November 19th, 2017 at 10:48 AM ^
You are a crazy person.
November 19th, 2017 at 12:23 PM ^
"JH has yet to prove he can take a Mich squad on the road in the B1G and win a big game." — If you define a big game as being against truly good opposition, this is true so far.
".bring in Mike Leach please !!!" — this is complete lunacy.
November 19th, 2017 at 2:15 PM ^
You like that Mike Leach D do you, besides we get enough crazy comments about our coach now can you imagine bringing the Leach crazy train to town
November 19th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 8:28 AM ^
Likely to have good chances to win every game next year.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:33 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 8:30 AM ^
OSU
ND
MSU
can't beat them and they will be much improved as well
add PSU
coaching is subpar - Jay Harbaugh - Pep Hamilton and Drevno need to go
Until then ...
November 19th, 2017 at 8:54 AM ^
What makes you say ND will be better next year? They lose 10 starters, including guys all over their vaunted OL. We’ve performed well in all season openers and bowl games under this staff.
OSU in Columbus will of course be tough and I’ll grant you skepticism there, but quit being such a whiny b****. Returning 20 starters. Next year we’ll have the goods. Just like we thought in 2015 we would in 2016.
November 19th, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
Sparty games are always going to be tight regardless of the situation. Two very inexperienced teams played in awful conditions and one of them had to win. We fumbled three times and they did not. I would love to get another crack at them right now with Peters at QB.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:30 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
feeling here.
November 19th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 9:56 AM ^
It's getting better. Run blocking (power and zone) is doing great. Pass pro.... not so good. Although, when they were not letting a guy run free to the QB, Peters did have decent pass protection on more plays than I thought he would going into the game.
November 19th, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 8:34 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 8:39 AM ^
...and absolutely no denying it...
"The Emperor Has No Clothes"
November 19th, 2017 at 9:07 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 8:35 AM ^
but we will still be a young team. Dylan or Brandon will be our QB but I just hope our OL can improve. The schedule will be tougher than last year, so we may still be 8-4 to 10-2 depending on how some of those road games go.
November 19th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 8:36 AM ^
I agree competely. Plus we will get 5 OL bodies which will help us in depth. Jeter, Vilian and top LB's who are redshirting will give us meaningfulminutes.
There are two improvement michigan has to do this up coming year:
1. Peters/Wr's needs to work on his long pass timing and get stronger phsyically and mentally
2. Our DL needs to get bigger, stronger and quicker.
If we somehow pull the ND victory it will be an interenting year.
Next year team is going to be very talented and athletic as well.
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