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even romad might have to admit theyre no good this year. 😉 this game wasnt as close as the final score, but still, its arkansas state. theyre going to be in real trouble in the big ten this year. 6-6? maybe if theyre lucky.

davenport hurt after one game???? the fact that he didnt miss any time to injury DURING the first game is the only real surprise.

why do you think michigan beat osu 3 years in a row? i think michigan was a better team two years ago. their oline was just better than osu's dline. i think the second year in columbus michigan got lucky and osu's secondary was garbage. i think last year they were basically equal and mccord made a bad throw at the end of the game or osu might have won it. jj was better than mccord and that's it. osu was equal or superior at almost every other position. and that's the best michigan will do against osu for a long time.

so the network of grad assistants who are spending all game decoding signs and then passing those signs to other assistants is inferior to a kid with an iphone? come on man. its the same thing.

theyre blitzing more and trying to use more complex, nfl concepts and it isnt working. their secondary is very flawed with moore at safety. they have one very talented corner and one corner playing in his first year. their other guys are just depth. the safeties arent great. if there is a disappointment its that the dline isnt good enough to make up for it. and lets put it in a little perspective: they got worked by a very good offensive team in texas with a great oline and a really good college qb. i have mlre faith that the defense can bounce back than the offense. the offense has almost no shot. none.

by doing what everyone else does. they lost their dline depth, their best cornerback, they're starting #2 cornerback, their best linebacker, and their best safety. and half their coaching staff, including their d coordinator. look man, youre gonna beat michigan by 40 this year. be happy! everybody steals signs, osu had michigan's signs. they have them all the time, ask greg schiano. to say that's why michigan beat osu 3 years in a row is just osu cope.

so in addition to 'crootin podcasts, i see you listen to buckeye podcasts too. lol.

his career is going to be over soon.

very underrated because he played for the lions. great player.

they should be getting their true freshman qb some snaps like they did with jj when he was a freshman. and one of the biggest issues is at receiver. he's playing walkons over decently rated recruits. i dont know why. either youre not coaching guys up or youre missing on recruits. even the mgoblog homers are over this season. harbaugh didnt leave a talent crater on defense, but the offense got cleared out. and moore hired martindale, which hasnt seem like a good fit yet. still time to turn it around.

those transfer decisions on qbs were made while michigan was still in the playoff. thats on harbaugh and past qb recruiting more than moore, imo. they whiffed on dante moore. they whiffed on bryce underwood. i know those guys took huge nil deals, but you have to pay to play. and moore ended up at ucla and i doubt ucla is paying more than michigan for recruits. the oline is four or five new starters, but they are almost all upper classmen with lots of experience. again, theyre playing walkon level recruits instead of solid program 4 stars. i dont get it. thats on moore, imo.

i dont think the manager makes that much of a difference game to game, but i do think the organization makes a difference over the long haul. hinch and harris are finally leading this organization out of the dark ages. its nice to see. but...but....trash cans!!!!!

proud michigan wolverine.

**** donald trump

i would argue ottawa too. they have two top players in stutzel and tkachuk but i think the wings are deeper. maybe i'm being homertastic but i really think danielson is a year away from being a stud player. i know we all wanted edvinnson up sooner but he really looked like he worked on the weaknesses in his game. he was much more physical in the ahl this year and when he came up. hopefully that works for kasper and mazur too. my worry is stevie signs too many forwards to block them all.

on a list of teams "rebuilding teams most likely to be contenders" the wings are listed as 12th. "12. Detroit Red Wings Detroit has a quality NHL team. The Red Wings were top 10 in the league in goals last season. They also have a solid farm system with some excellent high picks on the way who will be pushing for NHL time soon. So why 12th? If this was about becoming a playoff team, I could rank Detroit higher, but I’m looking at the path to winning it all, and other than Dylan Larkin and Moritz Seider, I don’t see the true premium pieces in this organization to carry them the distance." below chicago, ottawa, anaheim, san jose, etc. all teams that have drafted higher recently. i dont trust pronman if he doesnt list raymond as a premium piece after the end of last year. i think raymond is about to break out into a star winger (provided they ever sign him to a contract) and i'd probably rank him ahead of seider. guys like pronman watch EVERYTHING which gives them a good general knowledge of the league but misses some of the things going on that you might miss if you dont closely follow a club.

how do you know that and how is it working out so far on the field and on the recruiting trail? i would say that all the pro-moore information coming from sam and mgoblog should be taken with a large grain of salt. remember, they were also telling us how the oline was jelling and alex orji was amazing in practice. the news that gets out of the fort benefits certain folks politically inside the fort. but the ball dont lie, and the ball told you things arent that wonderful. look man, i hope youre right and were all just chicken littles, but i dont share your optimism.

i like the dusty may hire. that's been the best thing warde has done. moore is like hiring juwan: he was the only viable option at the time, everyone loved him for sentimental reasons, and he was cheap (for a top head coach). he started out great when he had the last coach's players and then collapsed because he'd never really run anything before. sounds a lot like sherrone moore, actually.

he's hired, so now they have to support him and give him the resources to do his job. my worry at michigan - well, one of many - is that he will divide the administration if he starts losing and eventually he will be undercut. internal politics will take away his resources so he will fail. his early returns arent great but its only been two games without harbaugh. give him some time to get his team in there and see if the nil is working. i just think this is classic peter principle in action. you appointed a guy with zero track record to take on one of the biggest jobs in college football because he won 4 games with the best team youve had since the 1970s (maybe even the 1940s). sherrone moore is a young offensive line coach with no head coaching experience, this is a MASSIVE gamble and people are treating like "he'll be fine, look at last year!"

based on what?

they couldnt get to the qb because he got rid of the ball so quickly to open short routes. take away the shoer routes and they would have gotten to stafford because he would have nowhere to throw quickly. again, that's the theory.

**** the bears.

he didnt have time to throw deep. so take away the short stuff. that's the theory, at least. i dont know what that would entail in practice.

sherrone moore was the easy thing to do. it took no effort. NOT hiring moore would have been a radical move that - if it failed - would have cost the AD his job. but hiring moore will have no consequences because that was "the only thing we could do and hey he was coming off a natty." hands washed. pension secured. i dont know if it would have been possible to convince someone like deboer or jedd fisch to wait until harbaugh left. i doubt it. but i hope conversations were had. i also doubt that. regardless, they are stuck with moore now and we'll see how he does. so far he's hired a DC from the nfl who is failing already, he's taken an oline stock full of 4*s who are redshirt juniors and seniors and instead played 3* sophomores at the key positions of right tackle and center. the right tackle was so bad against texas it was comical. the oline has been poor. yet no changes have been made. his "best player" is a wide receiver masquerading as a running back. his actual best player is a running back who he never plays, instead he insists on watching donovan edwards miss holes and run into the back of lineman or just bust everything outside. he has a few low 4* receivers but he doesnt play them. instead he plays walkons. in fact, he uses multiple bad receivers instead of playing mullings or multiple tight ends. why? i dont know. but its a disaster so far. at qb he has a walk on to start, and a three star running back pretending to be a qb as backup. who is apparently so bad at throwing the ball they refuse to let him do it (after telling us all spring how great he is at it). something tells me if harbaugh were still coaching this team it would 80% run formations and MAN BALL with some major action to multiple tight ends (the only group on offense where michigan is loaded). instead we get edwards. still running right into his blockers. now is a bad time to ask about michigan. they just got obliterated by a very talented team. outcoached significantly. this year looks very very bad right now. lets see if moore has the creativity and the talent and the leadership to pull them out of it, or if this is the beginning of michigan sliding back into post lloyd carr irrelevance. after moore was hired that's the trajectory i thought they were headed in. only this time there isnt an obvious harbaugh candidate to bail them out.

you get the good and the bad with harbaugh. he created a program - the ONLY PROGRAM - to win three big ten championships and one national title without consistent top recruiting classes. no one else has come close. that was all harbaugh. even before the last run he brought michigan back from the dead and made them relevant again. he returned them to their usual spot as a team that could be anyone other than ohio state or in a bowl game. he's one of the best coaches in football. he's a hall of fame coach. but. you also get the bad. he's a crazy person. he's not that bright. he's easily distracted by shiny objects and needs someone (like his brother) to focus him. to bonghit's point, he turned a molehill of an ncaa violation and turned it into a show cause mountain. only because he wouldnt play the game and act like he was sorry. yes, its a cheeseburger and ncaa rules are stupid and they wanted to get him really bad. but why? because he cant handle dealing with authority and for as annoying as the ncaa can be, that was part of his job. he also let the program drift. there were lots of disciplinary issues and the stallions fiasco. again, as stupid and meaningless as that rule is, and as ridiculously self serving and stupid as the reaction was in the media, its still a rule and someone on his staff broke it and embarassed the program. he wasnt paying attention. i dont put some nefarious plot on him as to recruiting. harbaugh was, by all accounts, always up front with recruits that if the nfl came to him he was going to leave. the roster this year was always going to be a challenge, but to refute G2's usual harbaugh bashing, he was trying to leave after the previous year when the team that came back was his best. he didnt leave this year because he knew he couldnt win at the same level, he left because the nfl offered him a job. but this team is 75% his fault. he left and michigan had no backup plan other than sherrone moore. i know it looked like some great hire when he won 4 games with the best team in college football, but sustaining a program is a lot different when you arent better than 98% of the teams on the planet. were seeing that this year.