November 17th, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^
I want to see 300 yards plus rushing as we jam it down their cheesehead throats!
November 17th, 2017 at 2:13 PM ^
It's time, in year 3, for this team to rise up and win a game they shouldn't win. Let's do it for BO and return Wisconsin to their rightful place. Go Blue.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:22 PM ^
November 17th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
Not supposed to win is a better description.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
November 17th, 2017 at 8:07 PM ^
I take issue with your screen name. No politics on this board, and you happily bring iit in here like a boil on the tip of your nose.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
Chiming in on the Bo thread
November 17th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
Such a fantastic photo.
November 17th, 2017 at 4:32 PM ^
it feels like this should be in black and white.
November 17th, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
Who are the other 2 coaches?
November 17th, 2017 at 3:02 PM ^
If Cam Cameron's ginger ass was photoshopped outta there.
November 17th, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
I thought that was Dave Brandon offering advice.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
Why is this attributed to Bo lol
November 17th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
When was his lone loss? When we were ranked #1 in the country, naturally.
Not criticizing, just sayin'. As Bo himself stated, "the good Lord looked down on me and said, if you won those, too, you'd be impossible to live with."
November 17th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
It's not a coincidence that the three losses Bo had while ranked #1 all occurred on the road.
What's ironic about that loss up in Madison in 1981 is that the very next week Michigan played the new #1 team in the country, Notre Dame, led by first-year coach Gerry Faust. Michigan beat them 25-7 and the game wasn't that close.
It's also not a coincidence that Bo's own most famous victory over a #1 team occured at home, along with the other home victory against a #1 team, Miami FL in 1984.
November 17th, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
"Sports Illustrated Cover Curse" or just continue it? I know we were on the pre-season college football issue cover as the #1 team that year. And I know it happened again after that; just can't remember what years.
November 17th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
I distinctly remember the 1981 loss. It was the opening game away on a Saturday afternoon (of course). Back then, most games were not televised. It was not unusual back then for us not to be following the game live. Besides, it was against Wisconsin.
Instead, I was in the upper deck bleachers of Tiger Stadium with two friends from UM watching a sun-drenched doubleheader.
When the final score of Michigan's loss to Wisconsin was announced by the public address announcer, it was a total shock. As you said, Michigan was number 1 in the country, but more to the point we were playing Wisconsin. To put it another way, we were playing a Big Ten team that was not Ohio State. Wins were not always guaranteed, but they were assumed.
Great points about the difficulty playing on the road.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:22 PM ^
“He passed 11 years ago today, but not a day goes by where Bo isn’t with me, our Team & everyone who knew him,”
https://www.landof10.com/michigan/jim-harbaugh-bo-schembechler-tribute-michigan-football
November 17th, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
Bo, please look down favorably on your Wolverines this weekend!
November 17th, 2017 at 10:41 PM ^
but Wisconsin was pretty much sh*t during most of Bo's tenure. it wasn't unti Alvarez took over in the early 90's that Wisconsin became the Wisconsin we know today.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
loved the 18, but the 1 i still remember to this day. ranked number one to start the season with AC. Ouch. Did hamblast Gary Moeller and ND the next week. Went with my dad. Cool story.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:32 PM ^
Gerry Faust, not Gary Moeller. LOL
November 17th, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
November 17th, 2017 at 6:28 PM ^
I think the astroturf field really helped magnify the crowd noise in the 80's
Yes it did. That astroturf was also at surface level (the field had not been lowered yet).
Sound reflects back up off of a hard flat surface . . . such as our field-level astroturf at the time.
You never heard any of that stuff about Michigan Stadium being a quiet place to play before they lowered the field and put in the soft grass.
When Harbaugh hit Kolesar in '85 for the touchdown to beat Ohio State, it was the loudest I have ever heard it, before or since. There was nothing quiet about the place.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
Strap on the iron jock straps and go toe to toe with these guys...smash mouth football tomorrow for Bo
Hail, Hail to Michigan
November 17th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
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November 17th, 2017 at 6:31 PM ^
It especially hurt us in the poll-driven era. The Big Ten would be done playing and long forgotten while everyone else was still playing and making a current impression.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:39 PM ^
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
On Michigan, Beat Wisconsin!
November 17th, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
November 17th, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
Invictus. Perhaps the greatest poem ever written.
November 17th, 2017 at 2:39 PM ^
Our team will play their asses off and beat these reds!
GO BLUE
November 17th, 2017 at 2:52 PM ^
THE TEAM THE TEAM THE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooo!!!!!
November 17th, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
I KNEW something felt inevitable about tomorrow's upcoming win. This is it.
November 17th, 2017 at 5:09 PM ^
November 17th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
Sad, sad, sad.
Let's Go Blue!!! Beat the cheese!
November 17th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
On Twitter, there was some reminscing about where everyone was when Bo passed, and at least for this fanbase, it is remarkable how many of us remember the day well, proof that he held a very special place in our collective Michigan heart.
November 17th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
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November 17th, 2017 at 4:57 PM ^
I went to Tom Slade's funeral and saw Bo there. Next day he was gone, too, and Michigan hasn't been the same since.
November 17th, 2017 at 4:58 PM ^
One of my high school/U of M buddies sent several of us an e-mail that morning, saying that he had heard from a friend at Providence that Bo had been brought there and it didn't look good. Talk about changing the mood from rabid anticipation for The Game of The Century the next day to one which was much more crestfallen.
I was lucky enough to attend one of his high school football camps in the late '70s, and he was the real deal, as a person and as a leader. M football hasn't felt the same since...time to change that!
November 17th, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
November 18th, 2017 at 5:54 AM ^
Needless to say, I didn't leave work til well after 2am. That place was never the same after that.
November 17th, 2017 at 4:20 PM ^
Greatest Michigan coach ever.