What Were You Wrong About?

beat Michigan State :(

I thought Jim Tomsula would last more than one year, lol I kid
I really thought Shane Morris would be the starting QB and we would be 8-4

I thought I was wrong once but then it turned out I was wrong about that.

I actually was completely correct on the record. I thought we'd go 9-3 and win the bowl game.

 

However, I was not correct in how exactly that 9-3 would happen. I figured we'd lose to Utah and then one of our rivals, as well as a game we weren't supposed to lose. 

 

Instead, we won all the games we were "supposed" to win, but lost to both rivals. While I certainly would trade the close Indiana win for a loss if it mean flipping the close MSU loss, it is pretty encouraging that it firmly seems as though we are no longer in a stage where we will be losing often to teams much worse than us. 

 

Harbaugh still has to prove he can win the really big games, but step 1 was proving we can handle the bulk of our mediocre to decent opponents easliy and often with dominant authority (BYU, Maryland, Northwestern, Florida). Nice to return to that. 

 

Have a feeling the wins over good rivals will start coming real soon. 

We would win 10 in season, and beat either MSU or OSU.

I thought that the running game, if not perfect, would at least be the go-to workhorse of the team, with Rudock game-managing and the receivers doing nothing remarkable. I also didn't think the defense would be as good as it was.

Rudock's ceiling would be a competent game manager who would commonly need to be bailed out by the defense.

I really thought we would beat OSU. In fact, I knew we were going to beat OSU. I figured that after what happened on 10/17, we would be rewarded with a good ole fashion, John Cooper era, ass whooping.

That people would miss me when I left my job.

Oh, different thread.

I thought we'd win, at best 8 games, and we'd lose all three rivalry games. I said Morris would beat out Rudock, and Green would start over Smith. This all in July would've been my Prediction. Disregard any predictions I make moving forward, because I was completely wrong.

Really thought we were going to force a ton of turnovers this year.

our RB's would be better, for most of the year they simply weren't very good.

 

I also thought our receiving core was going to be bad, but they turned out to be good, even very good and reliable. 

 

2 games better than I thought in the win column, wish we had beaten State, thought we could but they turned out better than I thought too.

I thought the running game would be much better.

If I ever was wrong about something I would just delete it .... so nothing. 

 

Oh wow. I completely forgot Wayne Lyons was even on the team.  At least he was able to get his masters. 

I also thought we'd beat State, which, yeah. I would have been wrong about more stuff, but I prefer to just let things play out instead of prognosticating. I was pleasantly surprised with the extent of the team's improvement in all 3 phases.

I thought I saw a puddy tat.

I thought Florida had a good defense

I was certain we'd beat state. I too thought Drake Johnson and Ty Isaac would be our 1&2. I thought we would go 8-4. I figured post season would be a toss up.

Our Linebacker play would be much better than it was. The defense as a whole still had a great year.

I thought Rudock was the worst Michigan QB's to put on the uniform. Turns out through the last half of the season he was one of the best to ever do it.

I thought Drake Harris and Ian Bunting would have breakout years. Hopefully just a year early on that thought.

1. Drake Harris would have a breakout year.
2. Ty Isaac would be the lead rusher.
3. UM would end with 9 wins.
Bonus; the OSU score would be closer.

Before the season I predicted 7-5. I thought that the team would lose some games that they should have won, but win against MSU and OSU. Instead, they took care of business - although they did win some games with much larger margins than predicted (3 game shutout streak, Florida). We were pretty close to losing against Minnesota and Indiana though: losing would have resulted in a 7-5 regular season as predicted with a much weaker narrative. Thankfully we didn't and reached 10 wins.

I thought we would win 7 games, lose a few in embarassing fashion, and that our QB play would be average at best.  Instead, my cheeks are flush with giddiness for the coming years.

I expected more from the glimpses I saw of him at USC.

How to spell Ruddddddock

which, of course, speaks to Jim's complete mastery of the head coaching position and his ability to recognize and hire many of the best teachers of the game.

I was aware we had recruited some of the highest rated OLmen but the fact that a freshman was able to step in last season and be recognized as our best speaks volumes to how poorly the rest of that unit had been instructed. Drevno was able to get the pass protection drastically improved prior to the start of the season. Due to a couple of our RBs seeming lack of motivation and injuries to a couple of others, the rushing attack was not what I expected. However, the execution the unit showed in the final game of the season vs. probably the second best defense we faced all year proved just how effective Drevno is at his craft and what he accomplished from time he set down in AA through season's end was simply magnificent.

Same is true of every other member of this staff. Producing three AAs where there were none was impressive. The odds of having at least three receivers that will be playing on Sunday were so preposterous such a thought never entered my mind.

I did know Jim was a great get for us, but given the above, together with completing a first season that can only be regarded as exceptional while putting together a freakishly good recruiting class, all at the same time, exceeded any expectations I had and my expectations were very high.

I thought Mike Dentonia would get more respekt