UMFan83

I knew as soon as people started questioning the crappy lineup we'd come out and score a bunch of runs.

Oh so that's how you operate at the goal line? I thought this was the play where they run play action but no one blocks so Romo has to throw it away.

Stupid challenge. As usual Lovie.

Exposing our secondary now.

3rd and long

Yay our coaches can make adjustments when they have absolutely no other choice.

lol quick passes every play!!

I honestly didnt know a oline could look this bad. The havent successfully blocked on any passing attempt today. It is completely unbelievable to think that they are completely unable to block. Dusty Dvorch- i mean Major Wright is hurt.

Dave Toub everyone!

lol looks like Urlacher wants to fire Lovie.

I'm trying to decide if I should be happy or sad.

The funny thing is that I still don't think Angelo will get the hint that the O-line needs to completely be turned over for next season. This is embarrassing.

Bowling Green will make it 4. I think they'll be able to win at least two out of IU, Illinois and Purdue. I just watched Purdue half-ass their way to a 24-13 win over Ball State, and Michigan is better than them easily. Robert Marve can't throw a deep ball without firing it 10 yards past his intended receiver, making him a perfect matchup for Michigan's secondary. And IU is IU. So Michigan will be fine as far as a bowl game goes. I'm sure Robinson will single-handedly win at least one other game for them too. Guess what? Michigan was 4-0 last year and all they had to do was beat 1 of Illinois or Purdue (they had a gimme against Delaware St. in between) to get into a bowl. They lost every game the rest of the way save Delaware State. And guess what? Illinois and Purdue don't look any worse than last year, and Michigan doesn't at all look better than last year's team either. I'm telling you it's not unlikely that Michigan doesn't qualify for a bowl this year. I know I'm super pessimist, but the way I look at it, MSU, Iowa, PSU, Wisconsin and OSU are losses. Illinois and Purdue are both probably 55-45 in favor of Michigan, as they were last year.

Looking through the teams receiving votes Michigan has as good of case as any right now...there haven't been very many impressive teams so far. Really? How many of those teams have given up 450 yards to an FBS team?

LOL UMass about to make it a 5 point game with 2-3 mins left.

This is like watching the Bears with all these 3rd and 4th down conversions by UMass

I agree....Big Ten teams are going to demolish UM. After seeing a performance like this, you have to wonder if UM can even make a bowl game. The key will be whether we can beat either Purdue or Illinois (assuming we beat Indiana). Last year we were unable to because our defense couldnt stop them for long stretches of the game.

Was it you that last week said that you were starting to worry about Michigan? It was you or another Iowa fan. When you said that, UM was up 21-7 over ND. From that moment until your comment above, Michigan got outscored 34-14. Luckily UM has scored 28 unanswered since that point but UMass is carving up UM's D yet again and about to score. This season is starting to look like a mirror image of last year.

Hey Fred, what's the Cubs longest winning streak this season?

He should be benched until the end of the year!!!!! :D Redeemed himself to end the game. I was just going to say that. Would have scored 1 and gotten the 2nd run to 3rd.

2 more errors by Castro tonight....

I don't feel like the season has crept up on me, but it's going to take some getting used to watching with the vast majority of the pressure off. Sure, I want the team to repeat. But I just feel a little more complacent, or I guess content. I hope the team isn't of the same mind though, of course. And I'm sure Q isn't. There is a lot that is going to push the returning Hawks to complacency no doubt. We'll get a good grasp on how mentally tough this team is. When you are under 25 years old and you've already achieved the ultimate team goal, it's very possible that even if their intentions are good, they can't mentally give the same bit of extra effort to win. Combine that with a fact that they have a ready made excuse if things start to go wrong (all the turnover), and I wouldn't be surprised if they had a really down year (really down meaning 5-6 seed in West). That said, there is a lot to look optimistically about this season too. The core players are all back. The defense is mostly back. The key returning players have limitless confidence that they can be a top team in the league, they've been through these battles before, they know what it takes. Bolland is hopefully back for the entire season instead of only 1/3rd of it, we'll likely have a lot of young hungry players working hard to earn PT. With no Huet, our goaltending should be reasonable stable throughout the year. The key is really depth. They could realistically compete for a repeat if they stay focused and get lucky with injuries. If they do have considerable injuries, it's gonna be a struggle to even make the playoffs because there is a huge dropoff of proven talent at a certain point. But I just can't see a team with Kane, Toews, Bolland, Sharp, Brouwer, Hossa, Keith, Hammer, Seabrook and Campbell being anything but a dangerous team.

It still boggles my mind that the season is starting up again tomorrow (preseason at least). It feels like a week ago I was watching the victory parade. Doesn't seem possible that we're ready to compete for a Cup again. I havent gotten my fix of enjoying it yet. Guess we'll have to try to win it again.

Interesting. I wonder if Torre thinks he's coming here.