2018: I'll leave the board (not that anyone cares) if Michigan doesn't go at least 10-2 RS
I've had my time to vent. Now I want to bring some perspective back to the board.
Regardless of what happened today (which was an abysmal loss), Michigan will be a more talented team next year than they were this year.
On offense they return:
Bredeson, Onwenu, Ruiz, JBB, Gentry, McKeon, DPJ, Evans, Higdon, Black and numerous other contributors. They have three legitimate options at QB. Peters was not good today, but the offense was missing a number of players and he is only a RS Freshman. Patterson was a 5-star QB. McCaffery was also highly rated.
On defense:
Gary, Bush, Hudson, Long, Hill, Metellus, Kinnel, Hudson, Furbush, Watson and possibly WInovich. While I think the defense was overhyped, they were certainly a very good and very young unit. They should improve despite losing Hurst and even if they lose Winovich.
I will gladly take returning nearly the entire team + Jim Harbaugh's entire body of work and predict that this team wins at least ten regular season games. I have said I was not surprised when Michigan won 10 games in 2015 while many of you were shocked. I will make the same prediction today and to be frank, it doesn't even feel bold.
The real question will be whether or not Michigan can take that 10 win baseline and turn it into a special season. If one of the QBs actually wins the job (and not just by default like the last couple of years) and if the offensive line can produce above average tackles among their half dozen bullets, I think its well within the realm of possibility.
What say you?
January 1st, 2018 at 7:02 PM ^
Cause of one season?
Throw away that dude from San Diego, beating USC with Tavita Pritchard, Luck (who by the way, has never looked as good in the NFL as he did at Stanford. Tons of interceptions and low completion % being the norm), Smith, Kaepernick, Rudock? Turning a Borges recruit into a starter (even if it was by default)?
January 1st, 2018 at 7:22 PM ^
Yes.
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January 1st, 2018 at 6:51 PM ^
Who are you?
January 1st, 2018 at 6:56 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 6:51 PM ^
I agree that 10 wins next year isnt' all that bold.
MSU and OSU away games, but even those two might be up in the air. The rest seems quite possible. Lets hope Shea gets the okay, the team takes this loss as a learning experience, and 2-3 recruits still decide to sign by February.
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January 1st, 2018 at 7:01 PM ^
I think we are the Gimp in the basement in this story.
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January 1st, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
I'm promise you, it won't be our salty dicks that are kicked next year. No, it is the salty dicks of our enemies that will be kicked.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:26 PM ^
I dunno, if the offense doesn't do a drastic 180 they are looking at seven losses, maybe more, it certainly won't be the relative cake walk they had this season.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:29 PM ^
Promises, promises. Blah, blah, fucking blah.
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January 1st, 2018 at 7:00 PM ^
and returned 87% of last year's yardage. Michigan has 6 seniors in the two deep and returned 64% of yardage (the majority of which was Speight). Georgia's right in the middle of their window of opportunity; Michigan is in a classic rebuilding year.
We are not a QB away from that..but we might be two years away from that.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:07 PM ^
Puke! I'd rather not. I'm already salty enough from watching UCF. That offense was a thing of beauty, and from a team that went 0-12 in 2015! Our team went 10-3 in 2015, and here we are two years later, holding our breath every time the QB drops back and hoping each posession isn't a complete, unmitigated disaster.
Our problems go beyond personnel. There's lots of talent there, raw as some of it may be. The offensive coaching is abysmal.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
Desperately in need of a Don Brown on offense. No more committees just one voice. Can whatever is passing for a WR coach and OL coach and get some new fresh faces on board. Start with that at a minimum.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:08 PM ^
We were a QB away from 10-2 this year with a flawed team.
We can wager on it in August. Post our betting slips and see who was correct.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:52 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 8:20 PM ^
Hell, there were times when an ice cream cone would have been an improvement.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:52 PM ^
I'd like an explanation of why my account, "Orlando" was banned. Some guy made a post calling the entire blog bad fans, and I defended the blog. I used foul language (shit, dick) but nothing that I haven't seen on the blog before, let alone today. My post had ~15 likes, 1 dislike before I was banned. The post I was replying to had twenty-something dislikes and zero likes.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
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1. Mark Helfrich
2. Tony Annesse
3. Pete Stuursma
4. The hillbilly coach from Last Chance U
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Are they legitimate options? I was impressed with Gundy's approaching to finding his OC, looking for success in the lower ranks.
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