What's your biggest fear for this upcoming season
For me, it's a loss of momentum. Essentially we become the Spartans. They got absolutely soul stomped in their lone playoff experience and then went on to recruit horrible, struggle with winning games, and deal with locker room problems. My biggest fear is that we have moved the bar up, and now we want to see it continued and we won't. Whether you want to argue the affect of Harbaugh's NFL dance this offseason on recruiting etc..., it absolutely detracted from the season we just had. I am an amateur fan. I love Michigan and everything it does in sports, but I don't follow recruiting, don't analyze every published article, don't put all my effort into it, so my perspective is more of an outside view, but the recruiting stuff is worrisome. The amount of talent we have to replace is massive. A ton of unknowns.
I’d rather think about all the things I’m excited about for the upcoming season – Corum and Edwards in the backfield, a QB battle between two solid options, and a stacked receiver group.
Chin up Poseidon! Maybe spend tomorrow outside and clear your head. All is well, Michigan will have a pretty good team this fall, and they will probably avoid a mountain of personal issues that will befall other teams who bought players that end up sucking.
We fear no man, or team.
Getting trucked by Ohio State.
Close second, validating MSU's momentum by not burying the son of a bitches when we had the chance.
My worse fears is that the injury bug hits us hard. We lose a game we should win by a bad call. OSU destroys us in Columbus.
I hope none of these happen. I think we have a chance to go 12-0 or 11-1. But there will be a gaem we should have won but did not play well and lost. Last year that was MSU. This year it could be PSU or Iowa. I worry if we beat MSU the team may be a bit drained beating a rival and PSU will come in and beat us at home.
That the HTTV magazine will not be out before the season begins.
Overtaking ass load of concern trolls on MGoBlog.
Spiders. Definitely spiders
Heading from the UGLI to Ross.
OSU wins 66-30
I think Iowa, msu, and psu are the targets. osu is always a target. so if i had to pick wins next year they would be:
1. osu
2. msu
3. psu
4. iowa
I cannot understand how psu continues to recruit amazing talent that perpetually underachieves, from out of state, simply because their coach is making $100M? just imagine the carousel changes if franklin takes the USC job, and then rejoins the B10 just to get curb stomped by the same teams!!! :D Where does Riley end up? All those USC recruits - where do they go?
All that said, i feel like Michigan should at least be in the same category as psu in recruiting and we are not. And a loss to them would show that they've leapfrogged us a bit... last year was a gritty win.
How do they recruit back from that illinois nailbiter loss where they couldnt score from the 2 so many times???
So, my biggest fear, is that we lose 3/4 of the above and show most that "we are who they thought we were"... 9-4
We must beat sparky this year. I cannot stand listening to those weasels for another year
The wrong QB is picked to start. I'm not even saying which one should start, just praying they make the right decision.
Im a little concerned about the pass rush, really no proven rushers on the roster heading into the season. Also just a tad concerned we won't open up the passing game a bit more. Yes we have good backs but man this team really has the ability to hurt people in the air. I'd rather not run 35+ times a game.
Iowa. If the game was played in Ann Arbor or in a neutral field, I’d take Michigan by two TDs, maybe more. But Kinnick is where dreams go to die. Iowa has knocked off three top five teams there (UM, OSU, PSU) in the last five seasons. Iowa somehow always becomes the best version of itself against top opponents at Kinnick, and it’s opponents are always seemingly playing a half step behind, are emotionally drained from the week before, injured, etc. some weird voodoo shit always happens there.
Michigan should win that game, but it also won’t shock me if that game goes into the fourth quarter tied 14-14 and someone has to kick a late field goal to win it.
Also, obligatory OSU answer.
Overall complacency and a lackluster 9-4 year. This team has the talent to where the floor should be 10-2. They have a few "warm up" games to get the train going and besides a night game at kinnick and playing at osu the schedule sets up nicely.
Winning makes us all complacent and the impact of extreme urgency from harbaugh and everyone to win that osu game as well as the leadership from guys like hutch cannot be overstated.