Restoring Sanity

Submitted by rbgoblue on

Like most Michigan fans, I was really upset following our loss yesterday.  Losing to your little brother sucks.  And what sucks worse is we have to wait another year to play again.  However, in reading some posts on this board and others related to Michigan sports, some of you guys are completely losing it!  Lets bring it back.  The season is far from over!

We are through the first 6 games of our schedule at 5-1, something that most fans would have taken in a heartbeat prior to the season.  Our defense has been exposed in a horrible way, but our offense, despite their lack of execution today, still is going to put up a lot of points.   We turned our our worse performance today.  Thats the case with any offense.  Sometimes you just don't click.  It sucks it came today, but in all honesty we stopped ourselves.

Looking at the remaining schedule, Illinois, Purdue, and Penn State look like very win-able games.  Thats 8 wins!  And who wouldn't have taken 8-4 before the season began.  If we take care of business, Iowa and Wisconsin will be tough, but both teams are beatable and both games are at home.  Our ceiling is still 9-3.

Far too many people are jumping off the band wagon.  Fine.  Just leave.  You probably weren't on board to start the season anyways.  Its easy to be a fan when your QB goes for 200 and 200, but I highly doubt that this team has thrown the towel in, so why are we?  It's a little harder to be a Michigan fan today, but at the end of the day, I'd rather be a disappointed Michigan fan than a Sparty any day.  The season is not over, fellow Wolverines.  This team will not implode like last year, so as fans, lets hold it together as well.  Show your true colors.  Mine are going to be maize and blue.

gobluebilly

October 10th, 2010 at 11:31 AM ^

If Michigan loses 10 games every year, I will continue to be a huge Michigan fan. I remain a big Lions despite one playoff win in my forty-eight year lifetime. While I bitch and moan constantly about them, I still love the Leos.

I agree that every game from here on out except OSU appears winnable. But each of those games is a potential loss as well. Denying that reality is a personal choice; but the reality remains. There are no automatic wins left on our schedule -- over a 95% chance we win even if we don't play well. We have not proven that we are good enough to just show up, fail to execute, and win. 

No one should give up on the season. I am still predicting 8 regular season wins. Let's hope the defense and special teams improve and the offense executes.

SFBayAreaBlue

October 10th, 2010 at 11:35 AM ^

they're better than last year, tossup at best, but most likely a loss. Indiana has the worst defense in the bigten (aside from ours) and we barely beat them.  we'll be lucky to win more than 2 games the rest of the way.

blueblueblue

October 10th, 2010 at 11:46 AM ^

Am I the only one who finds it very troubling that, in year 3 of the RR era, we are just hoping to be able to beat the worst of the Big Ten? Yes, its reality. Yes we should just face it. Yes there is nothing to do about it. But we should not be here. Not in year 3. 

blueblueblue

October 10th, 2010 at 12:06 PM ^

I wish I had the mental strength to put 2008 out of my mind, it is a sound strategy to deal with the emotions of all this. Having said that, I think many of us who invest a lot of emotional energy into this team (and can't compartmentalize so well) are just tired of losing. We are tired of being "exposed", of being laughed at, of others feeling sorry for us. Its an emotional thing - we can sit here and try to rationalize it, but you can't rationalize the emotional, and thus we just come off sounding, well, irrational. We are just tired of this shit. 

arod

October 10th, 2010 at 12:42 PM ^

year nine, so none of the past two seasons, nor the current season, nor the next five seasons have happen/are happening/or will happen.  But in year nine we'll all have flying cars and compete for a national title.  It will be the most successful first year in coaching history.  Then the critics will be silenced, although most of them will have died from natural cases during the non-existant seasons (I like to call them "Seasons in the Abyss").

joeyb

October 10th, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^

I don't think it's unreasonable to say that his first recruiting class was basically LC's. He spent his time trying to keep that in tact. He also didn't have enough time to find a decent QB for his system. I mean, if he had a Junior Denard this year, do you think he throws 3 picks yesterday? So, now he's left with a team that was decimated by the NFL Draft the previous two years and about 10 players that he recruited himself, most of which were players like JT Floyd and Justin Feagin. That year was gone before it even started, but by being spoiled over the previous 40 years, none of us could see it. Even LC probably would have had a losing record that season.

FoundersFella

October 10th, 2010 at 12:43 PM ^

we still have 6 games to go. ( 7 because we are going to a bowl game) I still think that this team has the ability to go 9-3 to finish the season. I think that this game next week is HUGE for Michigan to restore confidence. They have the ability to beat Iowa. In the game yesterday you could just see Michigan State's confidence and they had more determination. Because this game on saturday is HC I have a feeling we can pull it out. This year will be different from last year and i refuse to hit the panic button yet. 

UMMAN83

October 10th, 2010 at 1:23 PM ^

We are a young team and a loss a some point was inevitable.  Just need turn this around next week.  Iowa can be had.  Go Blue.