Two weeks ago, my stomach was in knots over Michigan's offense. Today, I feel 100% better about the offensive possibilities going forward, but now I have the same feelings concerning the D.

With two weeks to get healthy and the staff able to implement the entire offense, I have hope.

Tuttle showed me enough that I believe we can be better on offense. From my recollection, we have thrown three deep passes: two by Warren and one by Alex. There may be one more I'm forgetting. I do know they have all been incomplete or intercepted. In the second half of the season, we have to throw the ball deeper more often. Tuttle gives us the best chance to do that.

On the defense side, the coaching is terrible. We have players out of position, poor tackling, and indecision. The only thing worse is the playcalling. The coaches are not helping these players.

We have two weeks to stop the bleeding and get back to basics. I think we can do it.

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20 days in winter, 10 for spring.

Confirmed with Andrew Olesh that Steve Casula will be at his game this week as Michigan works to keep Olesh on board. Haven’t heard any Bama buzz after the visit and those I speak with say he’s likely to stick RIGHT NOW. I say that because anything can change in recruiting.

M&BR has the latest intel on Jack Tuttle.

He's been arguably the best WR in the NFL so far this season.
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Response by Big Ten: Do nothing!

No expedited action.

Not important enough.

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Winters Grady.

Had an official visit to campus recently to catch a football game and he is particularly high on the Wolverines after the visit. Our Rob Cassidy discussed him today in the recruiting rumor mill.

There's a realistic scenario where Dusty May could land both him and Trey McKenney this cycle, which would be an excellent haul.


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If I was an investigative journalist..... they are still taking funds, not delivering on promised content to those donating and I don't know of a single current team member receiving anything from them. They have not posted on social media since February of 2023. They apparently have this same club at other schools. I alerted the AD some time ago.

One thing that changes from years prior is that Big Ten teams get two bye weeks this year, which is super important for recruiting. Sherrone Moore was asked about this on Inside Michigan Football tonight.

"Yeah, it's huge. We'll be out on the road. The coaches go out on the road, I believe Thursday, Wednesday night, Thursday, and we'll hit it hard."

Best believe that the staff will be out to see the commits/targets over this bye week and the next one, including Andrew Olesh and Ivan Taylor. Andrew Babalola is still out there and everyone I speak to is just waiting for a decision to come down the pipeline. It's been "he's close" to a decision for weeks but it hasn't happened yet. Still think Michigan is right there in it for him. You could probably expect Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng to be visited as well. It's a good way to get some positive momentum back after both (Olesh and Taylor) visited Bama recently. At this time, I am not expecting a flip but you know how recruiting works sometimes.

EDIT: I stand corrected on Taylor and Owusu-Boateng. With another hurricane threatening Florida (thoughts are with all of you potentially impacted), that's not looking likely right now.

Should be the same thing next bye week.

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The hope for continuity is gone, but the Sherrone Moore era is just beginning.
Where does Michigan go next, this season and beyond, and what does Moore need to do now that this program is, and only his.
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Class of 2025 WR Jamar Browder has been committed to NC State since June, but Ron Bellamy and the Wolverines are pushing for a flip.

Browder, who is getting back to Ann Arbor again for the UM-Oregon game on Nov. 2 for an official visit, discusses his recent trip to Ann Arbor and where his recruitment stands:

Checked in with him over the weekend and UM will be in this thing until the final whistle

Trevor, I liked what you said a lot. Regarding the quarterback situation, I wonder what Davis Warren would look like now if we hadn't gone to Alex so quickly. Davis needed to be yanked against Arkansas St., but I firmly believe going to Alex as a starter was a mistake and hurt the offense's development. Based on the stats you cited, I think the continued development of Davis was the best path. You were spot on with the QB issue was only a small part of the offensive issues. They could have called a much more conservative game while allowing him to grow into the position. If he transfers at the end of the season, someone will get a guy with the potential to be a good QB.

I am also in the camp that doesn't believe in the idea of sacrificing this year for a more hopeful next year. That said, I can't help but wonder how much better the QB room would look next year if we had stuck with Davis. I think Tuttle will win a few games for us, but he's leaving, and without some experience behind him, we better get a winner in the portal. The entire premise of this paragraph is that I don't see a cat's whisker difference between Tuttle and Warren, and Warren might actually be the better passer.

Having one coach running the safeties and DBs has come home to roost. These kids are more talented than they are playing, so you have to look at the coaching. Three coaches last year vs one this year speaks volumes.

Again, you are right. This program is now on Moore's shoulders. The decisions he makes from here on out will tell us whether he is or isn't the right guy. This offseason will be the first real litmus test.

Josh, you looked like I felt about this entire season: frustrated! You're right; most of the games are still winnable. Can we get together and do it?

Brock, your stat about teams doubling the score on us in the second half was frightening.

How we win or lose will greatly affect our momentum going into next year. At this point, I'm at 8-4 for the year. Somehow. We beat Oregon but lose to Indiana.

He doesn't call guys out by name because that's not his style. But the message is loud and clear. Just about all the major points here are different ways of saying the same thing; the coaching sucks. Whether you talk about structure of the offense/defense, attention to detail or anything else he touches on, the message of what he sees is clear. UM's coaching sucks. Fast forward to 30:00

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I want to brag about Kerry Carpenter. His dad was one of my closest friends in the world. Ken was a great father, and both Kerry and his sister Haley were sports kids from the jump. Ken loved baseball, and Kerry has been in cleats his whole life. If he wasn't playing, they were watching Haley play softball. Ken was a fantastic baseball coach. He had a great baseball mind and did a great job of passing a lot of that on to Kerry. When Kerry was at V Tech. I went to FSU to watch him play, and Ken seemed to know what was happening before it happened.

Ken was a big, good-looking dude, and when he got sick, we all thought he would get better because he was Ken. Liver cancer had other ideas. When he passed, it was hard on all of us. Haley was utterly destroyed. It happened right before Kerry's first year as a pro. I remember going to Harrisburg to watch him play AA ball with Tork and Riley. We had lunch before the first of two games we would see, and my buddy Jimmy asked him if Tork and Green were worth their high draft picks. He looked at us and said both were the real deal. (He was right) In the second game of the two, we were there for Kerry hit one out. Deep to right field. We got so excited we had the Harrisburg fans cheering for Kerry. (Minor League Baseball is so much fun).

The next year, late in the season, he got the call, and we dropped everything to go to Detroit. It was so much fun!

Now, in the biggest moment in his young career, he gets the HR of a lifetime. Top of the ninth, two outs, two on, and he jacks one deep. Wow! What a moment.
His sister and I were texting, and we each admitted we cried. Some tears were tears of joy for Kerry, and some were tears of Sadness that her dad is not here to witness all this.

I gotta believe somehow, he is watching and loves it. Yesterday was Ken's birthday. Happy Birthday, Kenny. Go, Kerry! Go Tigers!

Has been a massive issue for this defense for the past six games.

Paige has been playing some of the worst football of his career here at UM, and it's confusing to see unfold. Plays he has made time and time again, he's just flat-out not making now. Add to that the mental mistakes with busts in coverage (I've counted what I think are at least 1-2 per game) plus the missed tackles, and you get a guy who you need to consider benching.

I understand he's a team captain and a leader on this team, but he's starting to become a liability. With McBurrows injured, it appears he rotated to nickel when Berry needed a blow, with Hillman coming in to replace him at safety.

Don't be surprised if we start to see him get more and more phased out of the starting lineup.

He's doing his show today.

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We are what we are.

That, I think sums up my feelings of Michigan football following the 27-17 loss to Washington. Am I disappointed? Sure. But, it isn’t as if we didn’t see some struggles coming based on the first 5 games.

Let me be completely clear. I am proud of this team. They fought like crazy against Washington. They were given up for dead after falling behind and yet, they found the fight and the resolve to come from behind and take a lead. In an extremely difficult place to play, they took the game into the fourth quarter and had the ball with the score tied and a chance to take the lead and put themselves in a great position. But then, the thing you can’t have happen,…happened. Michigan turned it over twice. Those turnovers resulted in 10 Washington points, and that was the difference in the final score.

I don’t want to hear complaints about quarterbacks. In 6 games head coach Sherrone Moore has used three different guys. He’s done everything possible to recharge the offense. Going forward, I suspect every position will be re-evaluated and the guys who give Michigan the best chance to win will be the ones that take the field. That’s all a coach can do, and he’ll do it.

The players, I know, will bust their tails to improve and get better. This upcoming bye week will be very important to every player on the roster. There isn’t a new group of five star players hanging around Ann Arbor waiting for a call. The players that will improve the performance of this team already have lockers at Schembechler Hall. If you complain or look for answers other than in the mirror, you are part of the problem not the solution. That goes for the faithful fans too.

We’ve had unprecedented success over the last three years. Three Big Ten Titles, Three trips to the Final four playoffs. A win loss record of 40-3 and a national championship. Given where college football is today, that may never happen again to any team out there. From that group we’ve lost our head coach, both co-ordinators and other assistant coach’s, the entire offensive line, two key wide receivers, a first round NFL draft pick quarterback, key secondary players on defense and high draft choice linebackers. It ain’t 2023 anymore, and if you thought it was, you were kidding yourself. Complaining and criticizing doesn’t help this team, rather it hurts. So, let’s help and not hurt the cause. You learn more about someone’s character during adversity rather than during band wagon success. Encouragement, and support are the keys to improvement and growth…that’s my assignment going forward.

To me, it’s not worth it to analyze and say this position has to play better and that area has to improve. We all know that. And so does everybody on the Michigan football team. I choose to trust and support, not criticize and complain. Especially after what I’ve experienced with this program over the last 3 years. Rip me all you want, I’m still pulling for this team. Like I said at the beginning of this piece, we are what we are, and that’s who I’m rolling with the rest of the season.

I’m wondering because I can’t remember the last time we had a dominant receiver or core ?? I believe this needs to be addressed!!