Your unpopular Michigan opinions?
This can be any sport.
-I think we should keep the all-Maize as a permanent alternate in Football and wear them for big non-rivalry games (PSU, UW etc.)
-The endzones being green is stupid. Make it Blue and step into the 21st century. Almost everyone has colored endzones and they look great.
-The renovations have made The Big House feel smaller and boxed in. Not a fan. They look great don't get me wrong, but I miss the stadium I first walked into as a 9 year old kid.
-The holier-than-thou degree waver fans are obnoxious, thinking because they went to the school they're higher than non-grad fans on the totem pole.
Nah. The ran pro-style under John Blake, and probably under Schnellenberger. Not sure about Gibbs. The program was so forgettable between Switzer and Stoops.
Simply put, the program as a whole does not know how to win big games.
Totally agree. Michigan is often good enough to get close to a national title or to get close enough to finally knock off a great OSU team, but it always seems like we flinch. Often times the coaching is great, or individual players will play great, but when it comes to it, some facet of every team always seem to flinch in the biggest moments
Who says that? And I'm being serious! This IS an elite program, and will continue to be an elite program. This is Michigan, fergodsakes!
*In case anyone wanted an early case of Throwback Thursday.
Drew Henson should have started ahead of Tom Brady. Even I know I'm an idiot, but I can't get this one out of my head.
I don't know if I would necessarily disagree, depending on the discussion being had with regard to "the right choice at the time" versus "the right choice in hindsight." Tom Brady wasn't the player in college that he became in the professional ranks, and Drew Henson was the apparent future at that point. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but based on what we saw of Tom Brady, he wasn't so far ahead of Henson that it wasn't worth trying to keep Henson happy and develop him for the future.
In an alternate universe in which we stuck with Brady through the entirety of the season, Henson went to the MLB, and Brady never turned into the NFL superstar that he did for whatever reason, Carr would have gotten an immense deal of flack for not going with Henson. I think that Carr made the right decision given the information that he had, though it ultimately ended up being the wrong decision with the benefit of hindsight.
Was a phyrric a victory as Michigan has ever had.
He's the #1 reason Tressel was able to flip the script on the rivalry.
You may be right, but I don't know what you're talking about. Please explain that one.
plus 1 for the explaination. I don't think I knew all of that (or perhaps forgot it.) Between that and Shane Morris it seems like it is dumb not to recruit a QB every year. You want kids who are willing to compete.
I think Michigan would have played in the national title game if Henson played his senior year. Lost 3 very winnable games and defense was better than expected
It was painful to see Henson play and share time with Brady. I love upper classman leadership.
Syracuse - Henson's two biggest plays are pass hitting the Syracuse DB in the hands but ball gets tipped to Wolverine for a 1st down and a 5 yard toss on a screen play for 40+ yards.
MSU - Henson sack -7, sack -7, sack -7 while Brady dump to RB as 3rd choice for +1, +2, and +1. After a Henson sack, an MSU fan yells out - "Welcome to the Big 10, Drew."
Yep, unpopular idea.
Right there with bring back the halo.
Most Ohioans I know are kind, thoughtful people and not rabid scarlet and grey lunatics. Mostly because they did not go to, well, you know...
"Most Ohioans I know are kind, thoughtful people..."
You LIE!!!
Me 3, especially for basketball.
Yeah. This is sweet:
Hockey is more important than basketball.
YES! YES! YES!
You win the thread.
Love basketball, but hockey is the second sport. Maybe basketball is more "important", but hockey is just simply better.
Sidenote:
Michigan Softball is more important than Michigan Baseball.
Love basketball, but hockey is the second sport. Maybe basketball is more "important", but hockey is just simply better.
Lol, no.
Black Panther had a cool and different aesthetic, so it had a freshness to it, but was otherwise a middling Marvel movie.
Ragnarok was way better (but then I've always been a bigger fan of the "goofy fun" Marvel movies like Guardians so, grain of salt with my unpopular opinion).
I had a hard time following BP because everyone was talking in a super low gritty voice (like Batman) and then they threw in accents that I couldn't track. The only ones I could understand consistently were the female characters. I also felt like the lighting was off....needed to be brighter - same complaint I have with all the DC movies.
Why so dark, I can't see shit anymore now that I'm old!! Get off my lawn!
I spent an hour discussing how you would edit BP to make it a better movie. There were about 45 minutes you could have cut out at the near beginning and it would have been a much better movie. I liked it, but it was more culturally significant than it was good.
I just upvoted all the commentary on this nerdy thread-tangent beacuse only at MGoBlog could a college football post go off on a serious, measured critique of superhero movies.
Either cut 45 minutes or split it into two movies....felt like they were jamming too much in there to try to get it all in before the Infinity Wars movie came out. Would have benefited from more time to get the full story done right or, like you said, take out 45 minutes and tell a different story alltogether. .
While I'm not happy with last season's outcome, none of our fans or the national media understand what it takes to actually build a program.
Everyone should remember that we lost to Rutgers (!!!) less than 4 years ago and rebuilding takes time.
Can't just snap your fingers, either. Dabo Swinney took over for Tommy Bowden mid-season in 2008. In 9, 10, and 11 he went 9-5, 6-6, and 10-3, never netting a top recruiting class. That promising 10-3 season isn't as good as it sounds; it ended with an all-time humiliation in the Orange Bowl, a 70-33 loss to West Virginia that had Clemson fans looking for bridges to jump off of.
But he made steady progress, and he develops his players really well (again, his national title team was build on recruiting classes that were never ranked higher than #9). His fourth full year saw an 11-2 record, and in his fifth he beat OSU. Harbaugh can easily do both of those things this year.
"Harbaught can easily do both of those things this year"
Yes he can. But it's far from a guarantee and could legitamitely not happen. I think the main point of OP is that JH so far isn't as great as everyone made him out to be and won't be considered to be a great coach until the results start showing on the field. If/When that happens, then sure he'll be a great coach. Until then, he's just a bit above average.
But heck, we COULD have beaten OSU back in 2016 and according to the logic of a lot of posters we should have because we were loaded with seniors. We also COULD have been them last year. Neither games were blowouts and we were in them for the majority of the game. But it's the monkey we can't get off our backs. It's these sort of failings that start to wear down your confidence because we always seem to choke at the last minute rather than finding ways to win.
This is what Harbaugh needs to prove he can overcome.
Yep. The 2016 offense was so horrible that it scored more points over the season than any Michigan team since the early 1900s.
Come on, Don. That is such an apples to oranges comparison. College football is so massively different than even 20 years ago, let alone 100 years ago.
You should be castrated and shamed for life
February was a long time ago. I mean, it's the same football offseason, but at the time Michigan basketball hadn't even won the B1G conference tournament, much less carved through the NCAA tournament to the final. No 16 seed had ever beaten a 1. Michigan hockey was on the tournament bubble. etc.
It's the offseason. Talking Cars Tuesday and two Reddit Risk posts are still on the front page. I think this is ok.
we get down, lose momentum, go to half time like we did against molestor state last year...i can't watch it. i'll listen if the family starts hootin' and hollerin', but otherwise no can do.
but I'm always hoping for the best/a glutton for punishment. If good 2nd half teams are the product of good coaching with appropriate adjustments, where does that leave us?
But would have won a Heisman, or at least been invited to NY, if he'd gone to OSU.
Unpopular opinion: he should have gone to OSU. But I'm torn on that one because he seems to be a genuinely good human and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Behind the worst line Michigan had had in like 50 years. We're complaining about the line last year, but they were still a lot better than some of those years. At least last year's line could run block.