I've been trying to decide whether this or the Colorado Hail Mary was a worse moment for Michigan football. I'm from Boulder, CO and had a lot of friends at CU when that Colorado game happened, so for me personally, that may have been a darker moment. But there is little doubt that this is the low point for the program. I was with you, Nonplus, on ( Read more... )

Oh, snap!


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As of about 10:00 this morning, I was quite down about Michigan's football recruiting class. With the decommit of top safety Jeremy Finch and rumors that Muskegon 5-star WR/CB Ronald Johnson was headed to Florida (a school for which I'm starting to develop a lot of animosity), it appeared that we were well on our to landing one of the least ( Read more... )

Rumors are rampant that this coming year will be Carr's last.

Introducing Dame's new quarterback (just ignore the stuff on the bottom):


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Michigan appears to be on the brink of losing two recruits from whom it had received verbal commitments, one of them a 4-star safety (oddly, he's snubbing Michigan so that he can go to Indiana). I'm not sure what to make of this as far as the overall direction of our recruiting efforts. It's not uncommon to lose people who had verbally committed to ( Read more... )

Take a look at Michigan's new quarterback...

I never thought I'd say it, but watching the Ohio State University get its ass handed to it on a silver platter last night in what may have been the biggest beat down in a beat-down-filled postseason was pretty depressing. I couldn't help but think back to all of the attention that had been lavished on the Michigan-tOSU game, a game that, only a ( Read more... )

Of note:

I think the most interesting development to come out of Saturday’s U.S. Army All-America Game is the cloud of skepticism that’s starting to surround all-everything Notre Dame QB recruit Jimmy Clausen. From what I was told by people who were there, Clausen didn’t look nearly as good as Michigan recruit Ryan Mallet. And a New York Times ( Read more... )

"For those hoping Alan Branch stays at Michigan, don't hold your breath. As of Wednesday afternoon, a person in the U-M registrar's office said Branch was not enrolled for this semester's classes, which begin today."

-- Detroit Free Press

(Hat tip: Sports Illustrated)