Michigan Football 2025: Rebuilding an offense, hoping our defense remains solid

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Third and long and they check it underneath again. Moore needs to get better WR recruits and a creative OC next season or he's done.

[romad1]

That sucked.  We need more talent at WR.  

[Sports_Freak]

Disappointed but not surprised. Beating Ohio isnt easy, I'm just glad we beat them the last few years. This was their first win against us since 2019.

[MichiganCardinal]

Offense looked identical to last year. Rushing wasn’t good but got a few plays. Took advantage of one turnover, compared to two last year. Passing was nonexistent.

Defense was worse than last year, in part due to Ohio State having an actual game plan.

But ultimately nobody paid $10MM for this performance. Underwood has to be so much better.

 

[TP_Fan]

It’s hard to put it on the QB when the coaches set him up to fail. 

[buddha]

michigan played three good teams all year and got dominated by each of them.  they were extremely lucky to play such an easy schedule or they would have seen a repeat of last year.  or worse.

next year they wont be so lucky.  and they are likely to lose a lot of their best players on defense, a defense that was poor against any offense with a pulse.

ive never been a fan of sherrone moore.  he was too inexperienced to get this job and lucked into it by being able to hang around jim harbaugh for a few years and be in the right place at a time when michigan had no viable alternatives.  but he's shown nothing to indicate he can be the leader of an elite program.

next year is likely going to be another 3-4 loss season.  it will be the year after that when moore coaches for his job.  if they arent in the playoff mix in 2 years, he'll likely be fired.  a below .500 record next year (and with their schedule, its possible: osu, oregon, oklahoma, penn state, and indiana all on the sked) is on the table.

i know there was going to be some rebuilding after harbaugh left town, but they'll need to show some progress next year for me to believe he can build a real program and not just a mediocre one.

step one: fire wink and hire a good college defensive coordinator.

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, buddha said:

next year they wont be so luck

and it looks like they are going to waste Underwood . Either they don't have the coaching to develop what is there or they over recruited a bust. Bad look either way.

[buddha]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

and it looks like they are going to waste Underwood . Either they don't have the coaching to develop what is there or they over recruited a bust. Bad look either way.

i'm willing to give him a pass because he's a true freshman.  next year will be whether you can tell.  he's been up and down all year, and was god awful today.

[Deleterious]

They have to get a QB in the portal.  You can't close your eyes and hope Underwood improves.  The competition will be good for him, and it will be nice to have options if he falters.  

Of course, getting anyone worth a damn will be almost impossible, since Underwood will get more than his fair share of chances to keep his job.  

[buddha]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

They have to get a QB in the portal.  You can't close your eyes and hope Underwood improves.  The competition will be good for him, and it will be nice to have options if he falters.  

Of course, getting anyone worth a damn will be almost impossible, since Underwood will get more than his fair share of chances to keep his job.  

they're going to need a lot in the portal.

one of harbaugh's biggest strengths was finding 3 and 4 star kids and turning them into first round and secind round nfl defensive linemen.  i dont see too many of those in the pipeline.