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Spielman, on this week's
Spielman & (Bruce) Hooley podcast, said Michigan wasn’t anything close to being Michigan last Saturday.
“I’m not being facetious or I’m not speaking in hyperbole, take the helmets off, and I might as well turn on Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Ferris State, Wayne State, any other state up there, Grand Valley State, because that‘s not a Michigan team,” Spielman said on the podcast. “When you go to a place like Michigan, there’s a certain standard to be upheld. When it’s not upheld, there are going to be consequences.
“Are they going to come together? Are they going to have pride?”
Hooley and Spielman spoke of Michigan in context with Ohio State, which has rolled through the early part of its schedule with new coach Ryan Day and first-year quarterback Justin Fields. Spielman has been an avid supporter of Harbaugh since he was hired and has always spoken of a desire to have the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry return its luster. The Buckeyes have won 14 of the last 15, including the last seven.
“Watched the whole Michigan game. I can’t recognize what I’m seeing on the field,” Spielman said. “It comes down to this, people can say what they want about Jim Harbaugh and maybe he’s lost it a little bit, I don’t know, as far as being in touch. It seems like he’s out of touch, that’s what they say, but it’s there’s such a discrepancy in talent when you compare Ohio State’s talent to Michigan’s talent. It’s not even close, and I have no idea how it got that way.
“Michigan should never be in a position for wanting for talent. (Defensive coordinator) Don Brown’s a good football coach, Ed Warinner’s a good offensive line coach. The other thing people weren’t talking about, if you want to run that offense, you have to recruit to that offense. They haven’t been recruiting to that offense. It’s a mess right now. It’s a big mess now. It’s one loss in the Big Ten so they certainly can turn it around, but I don’t see any signs of them turning it around. People are complaining about the offense? I mean, you look at it, (Wisconsin running back) Jonathan Taylor had to get IVs after the first quarter because he ran so much. I thought he was on the cross country team.”
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