M Football Since Bo’s 1st Season ...
... 3 coaches from 1969 thru 2007
39 seasons.
Countless BIG titles, 1 national championship.
What we are looking at after this asterisk season ...
... 3 coaches from 2008 thru 2020
13 seasons.
Zero BIG titles, 0 national championships and zero appearances in the BCS and CFP.
Unfortunately, numbers don’t lie.
I hope someway, somehow, as Maize & Blue faithful, the numbers swing back in our favor for the next 39 years.
Stay healthy, safe ! M Go Blue !
November 15th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
Well, technically the Sugar Bowl was a bcs appearance.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:03 PM ^
Who knew that rushing the field in 2011 after beating OSU, beating ND in a classic and winning the Sugar Bowl that season would remain the top 3 highlights of my Michigan football fandom.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:16 PM ^
Sadly, they won’t. For whatever reason, some programs just stop being good. Go back 50-60 years. Programs like Minnesota, Army, and Georgia Tech were still considered to be football powers. No reason to think the same can’t happen here.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:25 PM ^
Yeah but so many on here said "things are cyclical we'll be good again eventually" as if it just happens which it doesn't. Illinois and Minnesota are proof that they are indeed not cyclical. Wisconsin is proof in the other direction, they were terrible for 30 years and have now been maybe one of the most consistent programs for the last 30 years. Kansas State was probably the worst program in division 1 and they've had more 11 win seasons by far than Michigan in the last 25 years.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:17 PM ^
I will FOREVER be MAIZE & BLUE!!!!!!!!!!
However, I will be passing my torch on my season tickets.
35 years of ENJOYMENT cannot be explained. My love for the university goes beyond the athletic department.
Covid has kept me out of work since April, and it becomes more difficult every year to justify $2,000 per season for tickets (tickets, seat license, parking, eats & drinks, travel, health, etc...)
I can only hope that someone will have the financial backing as well as enthusiasm to continue the TRADITION that is U of M Football.
GO BLUE!!!!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2020 at 12:36 PM ^
Michigan won 21 Big Ten titles between 1969 and 2007. Bo(13), Mo(3), Carr(5).
Michigan is trying to recapture which I think is the problem. This isn’t the college football those men knew. It is a far more competitive era we live in. That requires a different approach.
November 15th, 2020 at 1:03 PM ^
I think there is some validity to this. How many of those 21 titles were shared? There is a false sense of greatness that is impossible to achieve in today’s college football. This still doesn’t explain how MSU or Penn State have been able to win Big Ten championships while Michigan has not.
November 15th, 2020 at 2:04 PM ^
12 by my count. He also got persistently lost on the big stage/bowl games.
November 15th, 2020 at 1:03 PM ^
Bo died over a decade ago. We are now in the theological era of Schembechler. Not only do we make decisions based on a guy who hasn't been a part of the day to day team for 30 years, but one who is not even alive.
It's time to let him go. He wasn't even a top 2 coach at Michigan (Yost and Crisler were better for sure and you can make the argument for Lloyd).
November 15th, 2020 at 1:32 PM ^
This. He was a solid, pretty damn good coach, but the canonization of him and the near cult-like following that still exists within the AD (and the fan base to an increasingly lesser extent) is a serious problem.
Even the one time they went out of “the family” to get Rich Rodriguez, the old guard of Bo was still all over.
I just hope the next coach is an outsider as well and that the school isn’t PTSD’d from the one time they tried an outside coach and he failed.
November 15th, 2020 at 1:27 PM ^
Been a fan most of those 39 seasons and people still bitched
November 15th, 2020 at 1:28 PM ^
Been a fan most of those 39 seasons and people still bitched
November 15th, 2020 at 1:29 PM ^
The days of long tenured HC is gone. Look at all the Power 5 schools. Dantonio at MSU had to give it up after 12 or 13 years. Urban at OH State didn't even go 10 years and look at the success he had. You might see a handful of coaches go 10 or more years at one stop. There are always a few who go 15-20 years but that is very rare. Needless to say, times have changed.
November 15th, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
straws
they are for grabbing at
November 15th, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
This isn’t Bo’s a Big Ten. For one there are no more shares titles. Two, there are now several programs more than just two who have the resources to field competitive football teams year in and year out.
November 15th, 2020 at 2:34 PM ^
What a minute. Are you trying to say that times have changed and the game of football is much different in 2020 than it was in the 70s-80s?!
November 15th, 2020 at 6:45 PM ^
It’s a shite state of affairs.