We still had a great season
10-2, with losses to 2 NY6/CFP teams. Yes, the last loss was bad, but we still beat PSU/MSU/Wisconsin and also had a top5 defense otherwise. Today was a total anomaly.
But go ahead, keep being upset at the program and where things are at. Today was a bad day, but the sun will rise tomorrow.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:43 PM ^
Getting the shit kicked out of us by OSU = bad season. Not beating OSU since 2011 = bad season. Anyone who is pissed with todays outcome is not an entitled bitch. Anyone who is accustomed to and accepts todays loss is a a bitch.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:58 PM ^
Northwestern is going to the Big Ten title game. We’ve not been to one. Iowa has been there. Nebraska has been there. Michigan Staye has been three times. We’re sooo entitled for expecting our team to be somewhat successful.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:56 PM ^
Sigh....I hate driving up from Columbus
November 24th, 2018 at 4:56 PM ^
I agree. If someone had asked back in August if we’d take a 10-2 season I would have taken it in a heartbeat. Go Blue. Always.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
Don't bring logic into this board full of mouth-breathers. Today was a horrible afternoon and they played like crap, but this team accomplished a lot this year. Honestly, only the 1st half of ND was really bad.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:02 PM ^
Well, 1st half of ND and all of the OSU game
November 24th, 2018 at 5:19 PM ^
I'd rather go 1-11 with a win over OSU than 10-2 with an embarrassing loss to them.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:26 PM ^
No you would not and you know that. The loss was disappointing and we should all be upset about it but a 10-2 season in which we clearly separated ourselves from the upper middle class of the conference with several dominant wins >>>>>>> a 2013-esque season that gets the GW 2 point conversion against OSU.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:35 PM ^
That's fucking stupid, sparty mentality.
November 25th, 2018 at 10:01 AM ^
well yeah
November 24th, 2018 at 5:22 PM ^
If someone asked in August if you would take a 10-2 season, with a loss to ND and a beatdown by OSU, would you have said , hey, great, do it? Or let’s play the season and take our chances?
November 24th, 2018 at 8:05 PM ^
Take my chances.
It's clear what the 18 years has done to expectations.
And I suspect there's a generational divide. Those of us that remember the 70s to 90s feel differently than the younger crowd which automatically labels a 10 win regular season as "a great season."
I like to think Fielding Yost and Schembechler would've smacked the latter fan in the face.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
You won the race to be the first with a rational board post. Pat yourself on the back. Do you feel good about yourself? This is the sports equivalent of virtue signaling.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
did u kno that Michigan's entire football season is actually only one game long
November 24th, 2018 at 5:23 PM ^
Ohio State considers their season to be one game long.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:36 PM ^
Well, yes, many think so, and there's a book about it. Ironically it's priced at 62 fucking dollars for some reason, of all fucking numbers!
November 24th, 2018 at 5:05 PM ^
Being rational on this board might as well be a crime
November 24th, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
''If we beat Ohio State, then it's a successful season. If we don't beat Ohio State then it's not a successful season.''
November 24th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
November 24th, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
...I haven't forgotten...but evidently, the man who said that did forget.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:18 PM ^
The BS weaklings around here settling for wins over programs we should beat is astonishing. We evaluate the state of our program by beating the best! We don't claim success by beating the teams we should. This program is still mediocre.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:09 PM ^
Exactly! We beat 10 scrubs. Nothing more. Michigan is still in mediocrity, albeit the upper end of mediocrity. Still....irrelevant thanks to another beating at the hands of vermin
November 24th, 2018 at 5:16 PM ^
We're going to finish the season as a top 10 team. Since when is that irrelevant?
November 24th, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
Did you watch the game today? When it comes to the national title conversation, we are irrelevant. Urban Meyer made damn sure of that today.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:28 PM ^
That's little brother shit right there. It would be a successful season if we won the east (& not be embarrassed by OSU). Mainly because that is THE NEXT LOGICAL FUCKING STEP.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:36 PM ^
The OP is here talking like this game never happened. Pathetic showing on offense, defense, ST, and coaching. In year 4 of Harbaugh. Michigan is about to draw a phenomenal team in the bowl game and if you think were winning that game, may god have mercy on your soul
November 24th, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
Sorry, no
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November 24th, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
no we didn’t, we lost to two of our biggest rivals and we end up with a meaningless bowl game again.. no big ten title, lose to OSU again in embarrassing fashion... we suck
November 24th, 2018 at 5:00 PM ^
We'll still be able to get to a NY6 bowl (I don't see OSU getting into the CFP unless they beat the hell out of NW and OU looks unimpressive vs Texas).
You should see what's going up in East Lansing, where they're having issues with Rutgers.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:30 PM ^
do you think I honestly care about what is going on in east Lansing??? I work for a company and I’m designing a job for MSU but I don’t give two fucks about them.. to me MSU has always been 1 game on the schedule.. ND and OSU are a different animal and we lost to both of them OSU we were embarrassed.. you don’t give up 62 points in the last game of the year I’d youre good.. we suck again and it’s getting very hard to watch “THE GAME” on thanksgiving weekend.. I’m in my basement while the rest of the family is upstairs happy..
we suck and we we are only two or three more years away from this being the norm. If it isn’t already
November 24th, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
Please find a stick and fuck yourself with it.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
Take your own advice....
November 24th, 2018 at 5:00 PM ^
Find a new team to cheer for, please.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
Lol stop it.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
Just throwing this out here... between 1969 and 2006, Michigan only lost fewer than 2 games in 8 seasons.
That is nearly four decades where two losses were the norm.
November 24th, 2018 at 10:05 PM ^
But how many of those seasons ended with wins vs. OSU?
If we had multiple 10-2 seasons that ended in NY6 bowls but wins vs. OSU, the situation would be much different.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
Honestly I'd have taken this before the season. Well, not losing quite this badly to Ohio.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
I really don’t know why people get shit for wanting the program to strive for greatness. Yeah 10-2 is a good season. But who cares, at the end of the day we will have won nothing. Again, good season, But I’d much rather be great.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
Because this board is full of a bunch of losers who have so whole-heartedly based their identities around their status as Michigan Alumni and Michigan Football fans that they are incapable of reconciling their own arrogance with the reality that Michigan itself is nothing but a giant moral victory. Meanwhile non-Michigan people still get good educations, hot wives, good incomes, make positive world contributions, and win "The Game".
November 24th, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
R/TheRedPill
November 24th, 2018 at 5:15 PM ^
Aren't you the same asshole who got caved earlier for starting a ridiculous thread with a homophobic slur?
November 24th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
Not me Idk who that was
November 24th, 2018 at 5:20 PM ^
No, no, not you.
November 24th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
I would rather an 8 win season hell a 7 win season with a win against osu than this season
November 24th, 2018 at 5:02 PM ^
fun fact, no you wouldn't. You'd be a whiny petulant little bitch for the entire season and when we beat OSU you would say "who cares one win doesn't change the fact that it's a shitty season." You know why? Because you're a bad fan.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:35 PM ^
Oh that's my favorite homer's lament, the old "You're a bad fan" accusation. Because you're the judge and jury of what makes someone else a good fan or a bad fan?
The UM athletic department loves fans like you. Keep filling the stands so they can keep their overpaid, underachieving head coach and make money. Let's not hold this program to the standards they used to be held to. You know, like winning a conference title now and then. We haven't won a Big Ten Championship since 2004, that's okay, it was still a good season. Stop it.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:47 PM ^
The standards they used to be held to? Like blowing some midseason game to Iowa or whatever, winning the Big Ten but then losing to literally anyone from the Pac-10 before finishing the season ranked 9th in the country?
Woo boy, yes those years were INFINITELY BETTER than this one.
and yes, I think fans who get no joy whatsoever from the teams they follow are fucking losers who are doing it wrong.
November 24th, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
So bring back Lloyd Carr?!
November 24th, 2018 at 5:46 PM ^
Right now it feels like he never left