Bluelane!

Shea wasn’t going to start for the 5th or 6th best team in the SEC West, and the rest of that roster just lost to South Carolina. May want to pump the brakes on that Big 10 Championship.

ouch! That leg on the Tulane DB.

Rhett lashlee left uconn? Had no idea

bing blang blough

And Tulane surrenders the lead...

Just as the announcers can't quit slobbering over WF's true freshman qb ...

Ho ho ho ho ho, Wake qb with the idiotist play of the day.

They showed it. He didn’t seem to go all the way down and was super slow throughout the lift. But **** it, it was still impressive

Jesus Christ Tulane. You've managed to embarass yourself.

Found it. Can't see his legs but can see the spotter's and maybe a foot of vertical travels. No lift.

It was also one of the five youngest teams in the NCAA with zero offense and they still were out of exactly 1 game last year. Their problem last year was almost 90% that their offensive line couldn't block anybody. They were historically bad at pass blocking with statues at QB. Whether or not the o-line will be better is debatable. They had different guys coaching the tackles and the interior. It was a god damn tire fire. They regularly let unblocked guys up the gut, injured two qbs, and left all three that played with PTSD. I generally think M could not do better than Harbaugh for the HC job but this was the biggest major strike against his tenure so far imo.

The positive signs: Ed Warinner is generally considered to be a great OL coach and an awesome guy to have on staff as long as he isn't allowed to get anywhere near play-calling. He replaces last year's... situation. There IS talent on the interior. Cesar Ruiz is going to be a star. Ben Bredeson is above average when he knows what he's doing. Whoever wins the RG battle which is actually a battle between serviceable players should be league average or better. If these three guys can just form some semblance of a pocket the offense WILL be better. The entire OL that's played can almost assuredly run block. They were very good last year even blocking against 8 and 9 man fronts and their two RBs, Higdon and Evans, are both good-great. Patterson is more elusive than anybody they had back there last year. Brandon Peters looked league average until he was injured. The WR corps has immense talent in their second year. Their TEs may be the best group of TEs in the country. The offense only needs to be average to win ten games and be a top 10 team in the country.

The negative signs: Can you be league average if you don't have a serviceable offensive tackle? Michigan probably doesn't have a serviceable offensive tackle. For sure they don't have one that can reliably pass block. Michigan has 4QBs. They may need all of them if they can't keep the QB clean. Last year's tire fire interior didn't improve a ton on recognition skills. Until Warinner improves it I'm in wait-and-see mode. Tarik Black just got hurt again and he's their best WR most likely. Peoples-Jones runs a great straight line but he isn't Braylon Edwards if he doesn't get the ball. There is not a lot of depth on the offense and they can't survive an injury anywhere on the line or another at WR. The schedule is brutal. Mork and Urban seem to get breaks against M even when they don't need them. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern are the B1G West teams on the schedule and they have the most competent coaching staffs in the B1G West minus Purdue.

Also, next year could be ugly in Ann Arbor. I disagree that there's any heat on Harbaugh but if they only win 8 this year and don't beat MSU and OSU, and then win 7 next year after a mess of early defections to the NFL (Gary, Bush, Hudson) THEN there might be some heat.

I think Michigan wins 9 games, which is a legitimately great season with that schedule. Morons will still complain about Harbaugh, because of course.

Nobody wants to hear about it but CFB is a huge variance fest and Michigan has run absolutely awful for basically the duration of Harbaugh tenure.

In his second year he was literally one inch from making the playoffs. Last year the QB injuries just wrecked everything and they were still in every game. Turnover variance has been mega terribad.

Now, recent recruiting has not been good. But **** if Wisconsin doesn’t win 10 games a year (admittedly in the JV division) with MAC replacement level recruits.

This reads like it was written by a graduate of Michigan's honors program.

Can any of you guys recommend a decent place to stay near LA memorial coliseum? Friend is going for CAL vs USC. Wants to avoid a bad part of town.

Thanks!

UGA and Clemson playing in Chick-fil-A kickoff in 2024

This has to be a joke right? It's LA, it is all bad. I'm in the thick of the insanity myself for another week. To enhance the joke, stay in Bakersfield and just commute from there. Safer and cheaper. Good luck.

I don't lift so I don't really get the terminology but you should youtube it. Pretty impressive.

Checking in from vegas. TOday's sweats:

Colorado -8
Syracuse -200

Also Serena Williams -300 because why not

Wow goofball going against my model

Cautiously optimistic to read rumors that M is still working out their starting 5 OL in the last practice week. Pretty sure ours hasn't changed since the spring game. Although losing two high 1st rounders and the #1 USA position coach is not something that anyone can just be reloaded.

My model says recent first time mothers playing vs older sister on a Friday night is a lock. Bet the house GB!

barebones blog update is up

needless to say the kickoff games are huge for all involved.

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Short handed 4/8 is my favorite drug of all