this is a really stupid thing to say, we're not happy with 7-3, we're happy with 7-3 this year because we're smart enough to realize that RR has had a lot of problems dealt to him and will continue to get better in the future....

the good ol' days.

What did you expect?

Thankfully DB is a more analytical thinker than you are.  This team is moving forward.  Whatever happens the next two games, we get the bowl practices, hopefully we win the bowl game, and then it is a completely different team that takes the spring practice field in '11. 

I loved Lloyd and will always honor him.  But the program was not moving forward with him.  RR is moving forward.

LC took the #5 team in the country who had the following individuals on offense:

Chad Henne - 4 year starter at QB
Mike Hart - holder of all sorts of records as RB
Jake Long - #1 draft pick at LT
Mario Maningham - starting WR for NYG
Adrian Arrington

and a JR/SR laden defense that was ranked in the top 5 the previous year and lost to APP STATE at HOME!!!!

Does our situation today compare at all to that list?  Hell no.  FR/SO all over the place including QB.

Did you really expect our team to be awesome this year starting 9 FR/SO on D and with a 1st year starter at QB (only a SO)?  If so, you really need help setting your expectations.

but in 2007, Michigan did not play as good as teams that Iowa, MSU, and PSU are....well yeah probably 1 of 3so I duuno.....but we are a decent team go blue!

• 1996: 8-4 overall; 5-3 Big Ten (T-5th)

• 1997: 12-0 overall; 8-0 Big Ten (1st)

• 1998: 10-3 overall; 7-1 Big Ten (T-1st)

• 1999: 10-2 overall; 6-2 Big Ten (T-2nd)

• 2000: 9-3 overall; 6-2 Big Ten (T-1st)

• 2001: 8-4 overall; 6-2 Big Ten (2nd)

• 2002: 10-3 overall; 6-2 Big Ten (2nd)

• 2003: 10-3 overall; 7-1 Big Ten (1st)

• 2004: 9-3 overall; 7-1 Big Ten (T-1st)

• 2005: 7-5 overall; 5-3 Big Ten (T-3rd)

• 2006: 11-2 overall; 7-1 Big Ten (T-2nd)

They are on the way back up. I expect ten wins next season and for the first time in a while that is a realistic expectation.

you had more than 300 points.

If we fired our coach every time we went 8-4, all of our coaches would be 1-and-outs.  Whenever you have a new coach, you have to have some growing pains (not to mention if the system is changed).  If there were no growing pains, you'd have no reason to fire the previous coach!

you could say that from two years ago, and last year that our expectations are CLEARLY on the rise!  Go Blue beat wiscy!

Right... Because we were also on top previously with Llyod, we won a national championship 13 years ago and in between those a bunch of 2-3 loss seasons. I love Llyod and respect him so much for the way he represented Michigan, but there is no way you can say we were on top. You do realize Tressel owned him right.

Two months ago was mid-September.  We'd already lost Woolfolk and beaten UConn and Notre Dame.

I know, I don't get it either but it's already November 13.

You mean 10-3 is possible.

McFarlin's back!?! Sweet ... -1.

I think we misunderestimated PSU, especially at night in Happy Valley. They are currently smoking OSU in the 'Shoe. I don't expect that to continue, but they just aren't a bad team any more. I don't know what happened to Royster, but he's his old self, and they just look good.

They may not win, but they are looking very good.  Understudy walk-on is playing very nicely [again] against a defense ranked a bit higher than ours, and it's in that red-and-gray place.

EDIT:  Hmmm.  It didn't take me 13 mins to write this, but apparently someone got here first.

isn't the team we were expecting to play.  I think we would have beat PSU if Bolden would have played. 

Dude, spot on.

Things are getting better, not worse:  the first sign of an improving ball club is securing/pulling out close victories.  The offense had a bad day, but the defense stepped it up and held Purdue to under 300 yards.  

The important thing from here is to finish up strong, win at least one more game (bowl or reg season) and get momentum rolling for next season.  Go Blue and Hold the Rope!

Let me say this---you are a troll and a dick.

Wait -- "a good mix" of Carr and Rodriguez's players on offense? I suppose you could count Molk, Hemingway, Webb and Stonum as Lloyd's recruits, but Schilling and Dorrestein are the only offensive players who actually played under Carr.

I stopped reading after that, but I'm pretty sure the rest of your post is just rabble rabble UNACCEPTABLE rabble.

Considering that we lost to those teams with losing records over the last two years, that IS progress. Are we elite? No. Are we decent? Yes. Have we improved? Yes. Will we continue to improve? Yes.

7-5 is acceptable for this year given that we have a horrible defense and special teams and most of our team are freshmen and sophomores. If we go 7-5 in 2012 when most of our team are juniors and seniors, then we can talk.

You can only win the games you play.  So what if we beat Indiana, Illinois, and Purdue.  We played Indiana, Illinois, and Purdue.  We can't help that they don't have the best resumes.