Very helpful.

This may be a dumb question, but why is height such an important attribute for a SAM? I get that strength is big because a SAM needs to keep contain and take on blockers. If Wangler adds 20 lbs., he would be within 5 lbs of Jake Ryan on a shorter frame so he could actually be stronger than Ryan. If it's a matter of reach to help keep blockers away from the SAM's pads, then why not describe it in terms of reach? What is is about height? 

The correct expression is "tough ROW to hoe." All roads would be tough to hoe. 

I grew up not too far from Blue Earth, Minnesota and Blue Earth was in the same sports conference as my high school. It is not a big place, but it also happens to be the hometown of two Division I wrestlers, Ty and Luke Eustice, who were both All Americans at Iowa. 

If ND had won yesterday, would it then be legitimate for M fans to say that ND dodged a bullet because our best corner dislocated his ankle before the season or our starting safety/LB hybrid got hurt last week or the referees missed the fact that your receiver did not possess the ball when he crossed the goal line on one of your touchdowns?  There are a lot of what-ifs that we can point to as well.  

I think we are 1 win away from a 5-0 start.  If we beat ND on Saturday and then take care of business the next three weeks, I think we should beat MSU, but I don't think it's a gimme.  With respect to the question posed by the OP, I think we need it more. 

I hate the Buckeyes as much as the next guy, but when a reasonable fan comes on here and posts reasonable comments--I don't get it.  He even went so far as to say that you could put up to three others in front of Pryor. 

Interesting that one of the photos had Huyge lined up at LT.  I obviously want the best guy at the position to  protect our QB's blind side, but I was hoping that Lewan would seize that position and never let it go.  Not that one photo from the first day in full pads means much. 

Which Robinson was Woolfolk referring to there?  Jerald? Denard? 

There's been a lot of speculation that he will play one of the two box safety positions: spur or bandit.  

Schism and dissent plagues the program top to bottom, and you, as a fan, have a choice. You can loudly voice your anger at the program, you can disconnect and give up and regard Rich Rodriguez as an interloper and regard the players as weak or lazy or whatever. No one will remember this if and when the program turns around. You'll switch hats and no one will know. Except you. My advice: do the things now that will allow you to fully bask in the glow of victory later. Let's say Mike Rosenberg was actually a big Michigan fan. Now he's spent a full year publicly hating Rich Rodriguez, and anything positive Rodriguez does will be poisoned to him. He'll be rooting for him to fail a little bit so he can be right. Being right isn't that great. My brother and I spent a large portion of the 2005 Penn State game—the New Math game—making sarcastic comments to each other about the state of the team and the game. As it turns out, we were basically right about the team. But as we were jumping up and down at the end of the game someone who had clearly been annoyed by us earlier turned around and said something like "what can you say now, jerks?" He was 100% right, and I was shamed, and it took something away from that moment. That moment does not come along except once in a very long while, and what a shame to have done something to spoil it.