November 28th, 2020 at 9:06 AM ^
Covid bowl?
November 28th, 2020 at 9:10 AM ^
Herbstreit: "Ohio State is a team that is going to miss two, possibly three, games."
Heh.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:13 AM ^
I honestly hope we don't play them this year it could possibly be the most humiliating loss we've had in our history.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:42 AM ^
Don’t you think we need that game if Harbaugh isn’t sticking around? At this point, if it takes a 77-21 sort of loss for Harbaugh and staff to go, sign me up. Hard for me to say, but see a 1% chance of winning. If we lose, might as well bring future change.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:19 AM ^
I don’t think he was hinting the Michigan game is in jeopardy because of this. They already missed Maryland, this week makes two, and MSU next weekend would be the third.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:21 AM ^
I can still dream.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:50 AM ^
It's sort of silly because of course the conference is going to change the requirements so that OSU can still play in the conference title game, but only after getting 3 weeks off to "prepare" for Michigan.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:20 AM ^
This season has become a total joke. The ultimate asterisk. Everybody is going to put it in the rear view mirror the second it is done, and never think about it again.
If you are going to lay an egg and have a crap season, this is the season to do it. Harbaugh (and most other coaches) are NOT going to get fired for what happens this year. It's time to recognize that and just let the games play out (at least the ones that actually get played).
November 28th, 2020 at 9:32 AM ^
This...I think you have to take each game as a one game season if your team is playing and that’s it. It doesn’t really matter and you are right with the world likely getting “more normal” in the coming months when these guys can have spring ball and start to move on from this season it will just be a bad dream, an afterthought.
What that means for harbaugh and some of these coaches will be very interesting. If Harbaugh received a two year extension it wouldn’t shock me (you absolutely can’t be a lame duck coach in cfb). Makeover the staff and go into next year with a great recruiting class, optimism at qb and a fresh start.
I’m NOT saying I agree with that...I don’t know diddly about coaching cfb. And hell harbaugh may be so burnt out he may be saying “peace out” after this year lol.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:36 AM ^
This is true.
Unfortunately, we are still living the Harbaugh Loop - something I've now defined to be what we've seen for the last several years. Early in the season the team is sloppy and unprepared. The offense is tinkered with, changed around, and finally ends up with something decently decent later in the season. The defense is solid, unspectacular, and also improves some during the season. Neither unit plays consistently good. Mind-boggling losses are surrounded by uninspired performances, and some decent wins. Overall, the team improves enough through the season to give us hope for next year. The we lose to OSU, and another bowl game is lost to a ranked opponent. Wash, rinse, repeat.
With Harbaugh, this is our future - thoroughly mediocre. It will never get better, but it will also never get worse. Our season this year is the same season we've had since 2017.
November 28th, 2020 at 10:29 AM ^
You summed it up. This year is stupid and that's why I'm not overly upset. Today will be a good nap day, however.
November 28th, 2020 at 10:35 AM ^
*Correction:
"Because Michigan sucks a lot worse than I would like I'm not going to count this season and will get back to talking about the offseason and next year which is the high point of pretty much every Michigan season even though the rest of the country is still clearly trying and cares about THIS season".
November 28th, 2020 at 11:10 AM ^
This season totally counts. Michigan lost to Michigan state and there is no excuse for that.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:24 AM ^
Yeah the tone around osu was a little more pessimistic than I thought it would be but this season is so short I didn’t really think about the last game only two weeks away so it’s easy to see how there could be a lot of challenges if you have an outbreak at this point.
and we really have no idea what their outbreak looks like. Are they all looking at each other thinking “ugh...guys...we will be playing with all walk on lineman” or is it barely the % needed to cancel with guys that won’t really impact games. Who knows.
I definitely want “the game” to happen if it can be done safely. If that means 2010 richrod let’s take our medicine and move on. I’m apathetic at this point so let’s either see something that makes us optimistic or drill in the death nail.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:43 AM ^
You know, for many years, people would say, "Just take it one game at a time...." and little did I realize that they were preparing me for 2020 when there was no choice but to do so.
November 28th, 2020 at 9:56 AM ^
I'm treating this season as the ultimate Spring Game with 9 quarters. Only even better because we get a new scout team each quarter and we keep real scores. None of this punt drill stuff.
Get the young guys some reps and see what they can do.
November 28th, 2020 at 10:40 AM ^
Bama is a 25 point favourite. They are expecting a close one!
Over/under will OSU be a bigger favourite against us?
November 28th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
Lol, they’re sitting here talking about OSU and that the Big Ten has shown they’re willing to change them. Also saying that it’d be justified to change them just for this Ohio State situation. That would be utter horseshit.
November 28th, 2020 at 11:10 AM ^
Woodson and Meyer looked at Michigan on Fox pregame. Meyer said 2-5 in last 7 games means blow things up, but doesn’t mean new HC. In off season, look at culture, recruiting, and player development. Then make necessary changes. He said questions are easy, answers are more difficult.
November 28th, 2020 at 11:58 AM ^
The culture here is no different than 3 years ago, we just have more holes in the roster and less talented players.