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2020 ttun Shenanigans, Arguments, and Surrender Cobras (Confirmed COWARDS!)

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Michigan Monday: The All-Consuming Darkness of Despair

What if there is no rock bottom?

What if there is only a constant state of falling and thudding, falling and thudding? Michigan lands on branches and ledges that give way week to week. Perpetual plummeting into a blackness that no light can escape from. You can’t even begin to climb your way out because you don’t even know which way is up.
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In all of the talk about Michigan’s pass defense being the team’s biggest weakness, the run defense must have gotten jealous because they showed everybody that they are more like the defense that gave up 341 yards rushing to Wisconsin than they are the defense that held Minnesota to 129 yards and Indiana to 118.
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Obviously the injury to McNamara impacted the game but I don’t know if it would have changed the outcome. Let’s not forget that Michigan needed three overtimes the week before to get past Rutgers.
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What Michigan’s defense lacks in speed, talent, and depth, it makes up for in its inability to tackle, defend the pass, or stay healthy.
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Pass defense was Michigan’s Achilles heel early on, but now they’ve got two bad heels because the run defense gets worse by the week.
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I have talked many times about Michigan’s recruiting issues and the settling that they have done over the years for guys who probably shouldn’t get Michigan offers. Recruiting isn’t the only issue, however, because sometimes it’s really damn hard to tell the difference between Top 100 guys and the guys who should be playing at Temple.
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It means that Michigan is now 2-4 on the season. The last two times they had a record of 2-4, the head coaches were fired at the end of the year. Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke both started 2-4 in their respective final seasons at Michigan. Would they have been permitted to stay if they were coaching during a pandemic? Perhaps.
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Judging Jim Harbaugh by what this team does in the most difficult set of circumstances for a football program since World War II isn’t fair, but then I’m not sure how many people are actually doing that. These are not new problems, after all. They have some wear and tear on them. These are problems that come up because things weren’t great before.
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Lack of depth, lack of development, lack of recruiting, lack of interest, desire, juice. Whatever you want to call it. There is so much lacking right now that even pointing it out feels like victim blaming.
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Thanks to LJB for this:
"Judging Jim Harbaugh by what this team does in the most difficult set of circumstances for a football program since World War II isn’t fair,"

Just for the record, Michigan hardly suffered due to WWII. The school was chosen for an elite program of officer training quite literally getting many of the best and brightest from the draft pool. The team finished no worse than ninth and twice broke in to the top five in the national rankings during a five year stretch from 1941 to 1945. When the war was over Elroy Hirsch went back to school in Ann Arbor after palying two years at Wisconsin before being drafted. I seem to recall that they also picked up an All American lineman from Ohio State after the war.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
You forgot to mention the granite-like hands of the receivers.
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Holy shit.... I think you might have inadvertently stumbled upon their offensive recruiting strategy...

QB Board:
Recruit a QB who has no touch whatever, instead throwing the ball at 600mph in every situation. Accuracy not important. High premium on douchiness.... err.. "leadership"

WR Board:
Recruit WRs who have hands that won't be obliterated by said QB. Don't forget to look at obscure basketball prospects.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Holy shit.... I think you might have inadvertently stumbled upon their offensive recruiting strategy...

QB Board:
Recruit a QB who has no touch whatever, instead throwing the ball at 600mph in every situation. Accuracy not important. High premium on douchiness.... err.. "leadership"

WR Board:
Recruit WRs who have hands that won't be obliterated by said QB. Don't forget to look at obscure basketball prospects.
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Geographical Recruiting Target Area: Prep schools in New England, eastern Canadian Provinces, Europe
 
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