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Even if you exempt them from…

Even if you exempt them from the need for 30 Big Ten titles because of their late membership, they still only have 2 major poll national titles

I really have an affinity…

I really have an affinity for the Rose Bowl Game Trophy and its design ever since MSU gobbled up the 100th one in 2013-14. I wish we could see that one too on tour but I understand given they're not the program we strive to be expectations wise 

*Grabs Popcorn*

*Grabs Popcorn*

Santa delivers gifts as late…

Santa delivers gifts as late as January now? Who knew! 

On a side note, that was quite a timely move by the Board of Regents to oust that pervert president predecessor he had before him

I think also if we just…

I think also if we just beat Illinois this year and Purdue next year in Ann Arbor, our Senior Class that year will have beaten every Big Ten opponent at least once

I'm not one to say Nebraska…

I'm not one to say Nebraska is a program that does things the "right way", especially with the accusations that followed Osborne regarding his players maybe using PED's, but if they hire Meyer, I would consider that a "new low" and put them in the same category of being in the mud with OSU and PSU 

Could we be looking at…

Could we be looking at McCarthy, Corum and Wilson going for 3,000/1,000/1,000 respectively on the year? I think the last offense we had with a "Big Three" to do that was Navarre, Perry and Edwards in 2003. Would be an amazing stat to achieve and something to keep an eye on

I understand the speed…

I understand the speed concerns. That said, the last 3* we got out of Missouri worked out quite well for us last I checked

https://twitter.com…

https://twitter.com/BigGameBoomer/status/1532743888250843137

*I don't know how often this…

*I don't know how often this happens in this sport for both squads in the past

Blah, can't believe I chopped that up so badly

Apparently in college…

Apparently in college coaching you die a hero and THEN you see yourself become the villain, contrary to the The Dark Knight

Just out of curiosity, how…

Just out of curiosity, how many of these championships are with coaches that are the result of Manuel hires? I count one in Juwan Howard and men's basketball. Any others I'm missing?

Please oh please tell me…

Please oh please tell me they did the "Just Like Football" chant after that empty netter. We have to cash in on that one every chance we get this winter and spring in athletics against them!

Football is transactional

Football is transactional

If he continues racking up seasons like this this past one I won't think any less of him. I'll just assume he was undecided heading into the interview. Plausible deniability

And fuck that underachieving sexual assault enabler Glenn (I don't call him by his nickname anymore)

While it's hard to know for…

While it's hard to know for certain after this saga just how much commitment we'll get from Jim from here on out, this late in the coaching cycle it would be a colossal problem imo to lose him now in this instance. We're not even sure what Warde's contingency plans are.

If they involve just elevating a former player here in Mike Hart who's just a position coach, as much as I love him, I'd probably have to throw in the towel as a fan

Bears fired their GM too so…

Bears fired their GM too so I don't know how that would make them more appealing as a landing spot

Hutch already guaranteed…

Hutch already guaranteed consensus All-American status. Moody needs one more first team selection of the remaining two from either AFCA or Sporting News to join him which would make them our 84th and 85th consensus All-Americans overall

Hutch already guaranteed…

Hutch already guaranteed consensus All-American status. Moody needs one more first team selection of the remaining two from either AFCA or Sporting News to join him which would make them our 84th and 85th consensus All-Americans overall

With Penny Hardaway and…

This was a double post. Please ignore it

Penny Hardaway as our first…

Penny Hardaway and Memphis as our first round opponent there, please

Not done with their legacies…

Not done with their legacies yet, but the whole Class of 2018, when they've been healthy (2020 a lot of them were not), has flat out dynamite! Even if the few 5th year seniors just merely finish next year with 10 wins and maybe get revenge against Sparty, but accomplish little else, The Wolverine Magazine has to give at least an A- to that recruiting class when it's all said and done

Wasn't really trying to…

Wasn't really trying to excuse him or say he was a good person. Just was looking for a cutoff point where most of the older fans started to watch Michigan football in modern era

The proof is in the pudding…

The proof is in the pudding now for me with this program in this rivalry so to borrow a line from Tiger fans in Missouri "Show Me"

Ohio State 42

Michigan 35

According to the ESPN…

According to the ESPN Football Power Index that is our superior side of the ball efficiency wise (ranked #8 vs #12 for defense)

2021 College Football Power Index | ESPN

I must say Gattis has in ways won me over. His new style of offense ain't as flashy or explosive as we were expecting from him when we hired him but he's now playing to his team's strengths, and given how much physical defenses have made a comeback (Wisconsin and Penn State are top 10 in defensive efficiency) this year in college football, he's definitely held his own. I hope he can finally break that curse that seems to follow former Bama assistants

This is where finally…

This is where finally winning big bowl games would really help to neutralize some of that OSU dominance. Ending the season like clockwork every year with two losses (at least) is a big momentum killer going into the offseason. I don't like to call out players from the recent past, but it really comes off as quite selfish once they know as an NFL-caliber prospect they can't compete for a championship anymore to just give up on the postseason altogether, and we've had to deal with that a lot in the Harbaugh era, more maybe than any other program in years like 2018

FBS Schedules has 2024 vs…

FBS Schedules has 2024 vs. Arkansas State as third non-con opponent. Any idea when that will be formally announced?

Fancy that, a top Wolverine…

A top Wolverine WR and a QB who planted his college's flag in midfield at the Horseshoe after a win are becoming folk heroes in the state of Ohio. Shows anyone can achieve anything in life

Really think the better…

Really think the better nickname is the "Cajun Chizik" since the parallels are even closer there than with him and Hoke

I always the secondary, even…

I always felt the secondary, even outside of Woodson was our bread and butter unit on defense that year

I think MSU was #6 in the AP…

I think MSU was #6 in the AP Poll still for that game. That's the default rankings I'm using

This is in reference to the…

This is in reference to the PSU-Iowa game this week

Oh and apparently he meant regular season matchups, so excluding the B1G championship games

*Near as good at the unit

*Near as good at the unit

I have no clue how we're…

I have no clue how we're even gonna enjoy the games this fall, lose or even win, with as unsettling as this has become. I may just have to mute the TV without sound because it's gonna be brutal the commentary from the announcers at certain points, not to mention the boos from away crowds, and if we're getting blown out, like I suspect we could at places like PSU and Wisconsin, the chants will just be unbelievably callous and somewhat deserved

Warde needs to pull the plug NOW on defending Bo and just give the survivors a blank check

Do it! I'd chop off my left…

Do it! I'd chop off my left arm to get Title #10...and I'm left handed!

Is this a part of bigger…

Is this a part of bigger effort to preserve the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, etc. as part of the Playoff by any chance? I think that would be amazing if that's the case and I'll absolutely be for it then because the Championship Bowls and their traditions need to not end!

And just like that, Woj…

And just like that, Woj resurrects my enthusiasm as a fan like a Phoenix! Let's see JH build this MBB program the way Bo should've but didn't!

Won't fix a damn thing. More…

Won't fix a damn thing. More teams will get in but the results will be the same. All three of Bama, Clemson and Ohio State will secure auto-berths to the semis along with one of Georgia/Notre Dame/Oklahoma. The monopoly on talent and elite coaching is too strong with their programs now, and the rest of the pack is too incompetent to catch up. LSU was really the only break in that pattern

Oh hey my bad. Sorry about…

Oh hey my bad. Sorry about that. I knew there were two other possible schools who could've done that, but I couldn't remember which ones I was researching for. I was checking Ohio State, Tennessee, Alabama and LSU because I knew they had at least 20-20-20. I'll own up this mistake this time around

1948 and 1997 being our only…

1948 and 1997 being our only "legitimate" national title years according to the unofficial NCAA record books (they only consider AP and Coaches' Poll titles) is still kinda surreal to me. 1947 team was way more elite offensively according to the statistics than 1948 and probably better coached considering how much Oosterbaan underperformed as a coach once Crisler's players all graduated and Woody at OSU sucked up his recruiting base. Kinda hope one day the AFCA can retroactively declared 1947 the "real" champions one day like they did with Oklahoma State with 1945 recently

Also think 1964 has a good argument for being on this list of greatest non-champions

Yeah, but if Ohio State does…

Yeah, but if Ohio State does not lose a Big Ten game this season with Fields and Dobbins gone and their secondary a complete mess, when *are* they going to lose one?

How sure are you of that?…

How sure are you of that? Given what we saw with the Big Ten in softball after playing an all-conference regular season without even a conference tournament? Not to mention we're currently 93th in RPI...

Does he even really count to…

Does he even really count to our total though given he's being inducted I believe as a coach, and he was only a player here?

If you can't beat 'em join …

If you can't beat 'em join 'em, amirite? Maybe now the OSU fans will have some perspective on how we felt after Boren went to them and then later on with Mattison

What's our record in an…

What's our record in an athletic year for Big Ten titles won across the department? If Softball and Baseball both end up at the top of the final regular season standings I have to think this year would come awfully close!

What separates basketball…

What separates basketball from football right now is not how much of a clip each wins at, but the value of those wins. Beating Gonzaga in Atlantis and getting revenge finally against Cassius and MSU last season despite a shortened season made it worthwhile. The only time I felt a "deeply" satisfying win under Harbaugh since his second year was knocking ND outta the Playoff hunt in 2019 in our final scheduled matchup for over a decade

Certainly that's a fair…

Certainly that's a fair point to consider IU still a blueblood given their 5 national titles and 22 regular season conference titles. But Duke, UNC, Kansas, Kentucky, even UCLA all have something IU doesn't and that's any number of conference tourney titles (all have at least 4). I'd say if IU gets to stay a bona fide blueblood the group needs to expand to at least 9 with UConn, Nova and Louisville

Even Draymond giving his…

Even Draymond giving his praise, so he must be doing something right

For perspective, we haven't…

For perspective, we haven't beaten them since 2001 in this sport

Wow, where have I heard this…

Wow, where have I heard this before...sounds like an "Orange Mirage" proclamation, if you know what I mean

Wisconsin in 2015 and MSU in…

Wisconsin in 2015 and MSU in 2018 got to only lose two games I think