Mr. Ross needs to donate 50MM a year, please. 1 Billion gives us 50MM a year in interest.
We need to buy players “with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind”!

I can remember the days Michigan brought in high school bands to fill the stadium. The product Moore is putting on the field Warde may have resort to that by the end of the year.

Yes, he is a top 3 football coach right now in all levels of footbal. If/when he wins a Super Bowl, one can make a strong argument Harbaugh is the best football coach of his era. We lost this coach. He no longer runs the program. He no longer commands the sidelines.
I have found that great people make the hardest things look easy. Coaching the UM football team is one of sports most difficult tasks. Harbaugh made it look easy. Especially last season, when he could not even be present for several games, some against the nation's best.
So when our AD, and administration doesn't fight for this guy, and defend him at all costs, but rather punishes him, and stands in agreement with the "pathetic", morally-defunct NCAA, UM nation then gets what it deserves.

Let’s talk about something else today.

Big opening game for the Lions on Sunday night prime time vs Ram

I say Lions 28-17

What you say?

ESPN was interviewing Sark on the field during warmups and he seemed to be very confident and was joking around with the GameDay crew. That was a bad sign.

This is gonna continue to get uglier too.

I think Denard carves up this defense. 2012 was a sneaky good team that gets no respect thanks to bad scheduling.

2017 win? I think that defense was better.

I thought he looked okay in his moments.

He's a big boy too.

Is he not developing well? He's a junior so he's been here awhile.

I didn't see this coming. I had major concerns that Warren was the best option at QB coming out of camp. Today we saw a top NFL QB against one that is not. Moore needs to make the change there. Whether it's Orji or let Davis take some snaps next week. The defense just appears to be not well coached. Wink looked outmatched and that sucks. It only counts as one but the CS BS will get louder. Come out next week and dominate a bad team and get ready for league play.

First: Our offensive play calling is pedestrian and remedial. Campbell seems like he’s in way over his head. Second: we have no difference maker at QB, RB or WR. Third: we have a vicious schedule that will expose these truths to the max this year. This team, if a miracle occurs, will be 8-4, with 7-5 much more likely, or even 6-6. Fourth: we damn well better pony up some legit NIL and get a good QB in the portal this year. That’s all. Go Blue.

Fir all you fair weather bandwagonning fans.

Was that more because texas was in prevent and stopped playing?

Where was that all game?

It’s been proven time and time again, at every level of football. If you dont have an elite QB, there is no way you are going to win. Period.
Amazing to me with our QB room that we didnt go to the portal and get someone. Another fail.

That win is looking tight!

It's a sad state of affairs that MSU already has a better offense + QB after losing at home 49-0 last season.

It's time for Sherrone to trim the fat in the off season..

But then Moore looked like Hoke without the hand clapping.

We don't get better. What we saw today is what we will see for the rest of the season.

The biggest concern for me is not the butt-whooping we took today. They were better in every facet. The biggest concern is the unforced errors we committed. We just haven't seen that in the last three years. It was remarkable that we saw mistake after mistake all day long.

So far, Moore has proclaimed that these things are fixable. I honestly believe this team was unprepared for the stress they were under today. That is on the staff. They had no plan B. That is on the staff. The play calling on both sides of the ball was abysmal. That is on the staff.

The next two games will set the tone for the rest of the season. Today was not a conference loss. Today is not the end unless we continue to be who we have seen this year.

We MUST establish a run game. To me, that means Mullings has to start at RB. We can't depend on the pass-first option with an inexperienced Davis at the helm.
We MUST find cohesiveness in our D backfield. Today, they looked like Keystone cops back there.
We MUST stop the turnovers. Unforced errors, like we saw today, are game-changers.
We MUST clean up the penalties. Zero tolerance for penalties.

Will Moore be the disciplinarian this team needs? We'll find out in the next two weeks.

Going to be a crazy season… Between NIL, the transfer portal conference shifts early big games… I think we’re gonna have a rough season not having a solid QB and running game. Our new coaching staff is stumbling out of the gate with this less talented team.

I think we would’ve benefited from four non-conference games one of the worst years possible for Texas and USC to come in game two and four this year.

Spartys QB through some interceptions today and he was rough on his first start, but he’s mobile and he was very accurate on his long ball today. He’s the kind of mobile QB that gives us trouble.

LSU struggling at home against Nicholas State. Just saying.

Run Mullings until his feet fall off. Just tell the offensive line to road-grade the hell out of whoever is in front of you.

The game would have been much closer if they had done this today.

Early take on Moore & Co. is not good.

Yes it's very early on but this team is not playing fundamentally sound football.

The coaching staff grossly misread our QB room. It's inexcusable to not take a swing at the transfer portal coming off a National Championship with such a lousy QB room.

We could've certainly landed someone better than Warren/Orji.

It's a fatal error for this season. It's inexcusable.

There needs to be a lot of learning and iterating in Ann Arbor across the board, very fast!

Before you say it was only Maryland when was the last time a UM offense accomplished that?...Not to mention it was 2 freshman that led the charge..m

Michigan’s national title this year bought me five years of goodwill towards the program. In other words, I am not going to get upset over the next five years, irrespective of perfirmance.

Today’s performance, or lack thereof, has tested that goodwill, but I’ll hold strong. No expectations on my part, let alone great expectations.

So I’m not gonna get mad, but I can still make some critical analysis. So here goes:

1. My first thought was that things will get worse before they get better, but on second thought I don’t see how they can get worse than what we have thus far seen today.

2. Michigan’s defense is not what we thought it would be. Probably caught the coaching staff off guard as well as they thought the defense would be dominating based on how it performed in practice against what we now know is a putrid offense.

3. Michigan will lose most of their top talent after this season, and there is not a pipeline of elite young talent waiting in the pipeline. No young Will Johnsons, Lovelands, Mason Grahams and Kenneth Grants out there. The days of reloading are over. We will be in the midst of a major rebuild.

4. Why no young talent pipeline, especially after an historic three year run? First, because Harbaugh’s yearly NFL dalliance impacted recruiting. Second, Michigan’s NIL was slow out of the gate and still in catch up mode. Third, the transition to a new staff put us way behind for the 25 class. So we have recruited at about a top 15 level instead of a top 5 level. And that is catching up to us now because……

5. Harbaugh is gone. And so is Herbert. The keys to our player development and team culture in recent years. Or, henceforth known as the “irreplaceables”. Some guys just can’t be replaced. At the end of the day Harbaugh’s enemies got their way and he is no longer at Michigan. Whether that is primarily due to the NCAA, Warde, Jim wanting to win a Super Bowl, or some combination of the above will be subject to debate for many years. Irrespective, the mere fact that he is gone is what now matters.

Based on today, it looks like this team is trending towards somewhere between 6-6 and 8-4. 9-3 would be a pleasant surprise.

I would not be surprised if we hit the portal hard this off-season, especially at QB. I see no answers on the current roster at QB for next season. But the transfer portal won’t get us over the hump. This will be a rebuild, not a retooling.

So for the next five years I will sit back, still root hard for my team, be sad when we lose, and post on what I think Michigan needs to do to be successful. But I won’t expect much. At least not for the next five years. Perhaps by then we will have figured out NIL, revenue sharing and the like. And perhaps by then we will have effective athletic department leadership in place. If not, in five years I will be pissed. Very pissed.

Colston Loveland led the way for Michigan again Saturday, but the mistakes that ultimately cost them against Texas stand out.
According to the star tight end, he and his team must now focus on what's next, starting tomorrow.
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