Key upcoming dates for Michigan Football
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Big Ten Media Day (Michigan) : Friday, July 31st, 2015
- Before the luncheon will be an autograph session at 10am, photo session at 11am.
- I believe we get to start speaking @2pm that day.
- Chesson, Bolden, and Ross joins Coach Jim Harbaugh to represent Michigan football.
- Session will be carried live on BTN and ESPNU
- B1G link is here
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Michigan Fall Roster release : ???? (Close)
- Usually this thing comes out the last week in July or first week in August. Keep an eye out for this one.
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BBQ at the Big House : Sunday August 2nd, 2015
- Big time uncomitted recruits in atttendance will be Rashan Gary, Ahmir Mitchell, Donovan Peoples-Jones, and Josh Ross.
- TTB link is here describing more visitors. (You are Awesome, Thunder)
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Youth Day at Michigan Stadium: Thursday, August 6th, 2015 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm
- Youth will get a chance to interact with the Football team. Not sure if there is an autograph session at this event
- Link is here at Mgoblue
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The start of Michigan Fall Camp: Friday, August 7th
- It Begins!!!!
- Keep an eye at mgovideo.com for the countdown to kickoff series that should startup that day with practice footage
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Michigan at Utah : Thursday, September 3rd @ 8:30pm
- Opening game of the 2015 football season
- Will be televised on FS1 (Fox Sports channel)
- hopefull we exact revenge on them, i hated when one of their players ran back a punt and did the Desmond Howard heisman pose in our house. He should have been layed out like Teague did to Terrell owens in Dallas. link here. End of rant.
Bonehead.
This schedule highlights how short the time actually is that Harbaugh and staff get with the players from the start of fall camp until the first game. Less than a month, and of course the hours within that month are limited.
The staff can only do so much within that timeframe. We should not be expecting the full "Harbaugh effect" the first game. It will take some time. No freak outs in Spetember please.
In his first season at Alabama, Saban went 7-6 and lost to Louisiana-Monroe late in the season. These rebuilding things can take some time.
What you will be looking at on Sep 3rd is essentially the same team you saw in the Spring Game + Rudock, Peppers, and a handful of other new or returning-from-injury-faces + less than one month of Harbaugh coaching.
I expect improvement, but I don't expect a miracle right away.
We've been "rebuilding" since 2008. This team has had enough uncompromised support. No excuses. Just perform. Nearly a decade of mediocrity does not warrant patience. Play and stay or leave. The easiest schedule in decades and you want us to be patient? All that matters is winning at this point. I'm sick of this team being a national laughing stock and the players should be too.
While it's obviously unrealistic to expect Harbaugh to fix everything immediately, it's odd how U-M fans are always bracing for disappointment. It is possible to win without a 5th-year 5-star at every position, to actually get players to perform. Other teams do.
The past eight years appear to have convinced us that unless everything is in your favor—player experience, recruiting ratings, game location—you should prepare to be let down. Hopefully this year will put an end to that.
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I think people underestimate how big of an impact Rudock will have, and right away. Huge fan of Gardner as a person, but his QB play was poor for the most part and his biggest issue was turning the ball over. Rudock is excellent at limiting that, and that alone will improve our offense by a healthy margin.
Sweet!
He's not starting out of a nuclear crater like he did at Stanford. I was going to say that I figured that Saban had started out in a crater as well, but apparently they were recruiting in the top 20 for a few years before he was hired. Saban took over the Red Elephants in Jan 2007 and according to rivals their recruiting rankings were
2003 49th
2004 24th
2005 18th
2006 11th
2007 10th (hybrid recruiting class)
so he was maybe thin on RSseniors, but should have had solid seniors and RSjuniors.
Saban was 7-6, 12-2, 14-0 his first 3 seasons.
Stanford, prior to Harbaugh in 2007 was
2003 24th
2004 149th
2005 41st
2006 54th
2007 51st
Harbaugh was 4-8, 5-7, 8-5. 12-1
Michigan's recruiting prior to Harbaugh was
2012 7th
2013 5th
2014 31st
2015 50th
So... What does this tell us about expectations vis-a-vis Satan with the Red Elephants? Harbaugh should have a better team than Bama had their first year with Saban, but it still looks like there might be a couple rough years under Harbaugh.
Damn you and your apparently appropriate tempering of expectations.
The rankings of our classes the past 2 years have more to do with the size of the class and less with the quality of the players. That's why there's gonna be 25+ in this current class.
Ok, my point is that class rankings can be misleading, and using that to assume that it will be a rough couple of years under Harbaugh is silly, IMO. And I can't imagine that Stanford was recruiting 6-8 4 star+ caliber players a cycle prior to Harbaugh's arrival.
What about Sept 12th Oregon State vs Michigan
- Home opener Harbaugh first time running underneath the banner as coach. I can't wait to see it.
- First tailgate with friends, family, etc
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August 8th: Upshur announcement day
I think 2015 was a pretty terrible recruiting class on par with 2011 but 2014 was a relatively good class that just had only 16 players bringing it down.
The first episode of Inside Michigan Football is on August 30th (10:30am on Channel 7).
Will never be the same as Michigan Replay...
I hope we do well, but the players are young. By that I mean under 25.
Uh-oh. That means we're in trouble against BYU.
Has there been any word about another open scrimmage/practice at the stadium this year?
Sept. 12. First of 2 losses to OSU. Ugh.
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