Let's be at least as optimistic as Joel Klatt (Michigan in Top 3 for next year)

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Skip adding the water and snort that shit. Or you can cook it down and inject it directly into your veins.

Snort it.

What do you mean by adjust to the players they have? Given that they consistently got players open against OSU, seems like they did pretty well, scheme-wise. There is no scheme that can win against a good defense without a functional QB and receivers who can come down with the ball. All they can do is get guys open for reasonably easy throws, which they did. Seems like a success to me. Also, I know the consensus is to blame the QB play last year, but seriously think and try to remember the last time a UM receiver bailed out the QB by making a tough catch the way other teams’ receivers consistently do against UM? Hemingway is the last I can remember. Darboh’s drop against Iowa last year is a great example of that. He catches that ball, game over, Michigan wins. It was certainly a tough catch to make, but teams that make the championship have receivers that make those catches. The hope is that last year’s class of receivers will start to make those catches.

Have always been the optimistic years if u have a pulse and look at returning talent. If their next season isn’t a playoff team Harbaugh is going to get and deserve heavy criticism. We are loaded and a quality tackle away from being top 3 IMO.

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We are talking about next season.  Of course there are going to be ifs and shoulds, etc.  What do you want people to say, "man, M is so good they will go undefeated no matter what happens."  

If you really want to go back 15 years, then we are going all the way back to an era when M was winning Big Ten titles and appearing in Rose Bowls on the regular.  It was reasonable for people to have national title contention hopes back then, just like it was again in 2016 and should be in 2018 and thereafter.  

The era you probably really meant to refer to was Michigan's troubled period between about 2008 and 2014.  That certainly was a long seven years or so.  It wasn't 15 freaking years.

Furthermore, the kinds of ifs and shoulds we are concerned about for 2018 are pretty tractable issues.  Will any of the 4- and 5-star QBs that Harbaugh recruited take the next step to stardom?  Can we find a couple competent OTs from among 6+ viable candidates on the roster? Will a quality third tailback emerge to replace Isaac?  This is a far cry from the questions we were asking around 2010, like "wiil we have any semblace of a defense," or in 2014, like "what about Bob Stitt?" 

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Do we have a quarterback? Peters has been okay but not impressive. Has yet to have a breakout game.

They were a young team with underclassmen all over the field.  Who knows what happens, but it wouldn't be "truly amazing" if they took the next step.  Dantonio has a pretty good track record.  

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