I can say athletics now since basketball might be a contender...

(No matter how bad their football has been for 3 years the football thread would have been made.)

Brady Hoke is here, and Michigan Football is back. Might still be 6 or 7 wins but... at least it's Michigan again. He is recruiting really well too, starting in the trenches.

Now...

The Michigan throwback uniforms to be worn for the first ever BIG HOUSE night game against Notre Dame...

I'm surprised Michigan stooped to doing something like this. It's fun yes, but Michigan I thought would have more class and pride about their standard Maize n Blue and winged helmet.



http://www.freep.com/article/20110520/SPORTS06/105200430/A-model-Michigan-s-jersey-Notre-Dame-game

5/23/2011 2:24:47 PM

Leave it to the fine folks in Ann Arbor to fuck with the best uniforms in college football.

Those look like some Russell or Champion knock off that they'd sell in the campus bookstore, not something they'd actually wear in a game.

5/23/2011 2:48:07 PM

are they going to wear the same helmets?

i mean while they're at it, why not just go with leather

5/23/2011 2:49:31 PM

nice! I was considering making this thread the other day. I'll have to come back later and make some predictions...

I think I might be going to the ND game this year...

5/23/2011 3:08:26 PM

Quote :

"Brady Hoke is here, and Michigan Football is back. Might still be 6 or 7 wins but... at least it's Michigan again."

6 or 7 wins /= Michigan is back

5/23/2011 3:38:34 PM

oh shut it,,, let me rephrase for you then...

Michigan Football STYLE is back, not level of SUCCESS you suckeye

5/23/2011 5:25:04 PM

I will poast here

5/23/2011 5:28:58 PM

Whoo I'm going to UM for grad school so I guess I can now post in this thread. (I know nothing about michigan athletics )

5/23/2011 5:48:55 PM

iop1?

5/23/2011 5:53:29 PM

I think we all know this is a Tennessee Volunteers message board... get this shit out of here

[Edited on May 23, 2011 at 6:40 PM. Reason : d]

5/23/2011 6:40:03 PM

Little known fact: Michigan got their trademark uniforms from Princeton.

5/23/2011 6:44:52 PM

Quote :

"oh shut it,,, let me rephrase for you then... Michigan Football STYLE is back, not level of SUCCESS you suckeye"

I wasn't talking shit. I was implying that the level of success that Michigan fans should expect is NOT 6-7 wins, but more like 9-10. As I've said before, I hope UM does well and gets back to winning 9-10 games every year.

5/24/2011 9:18:07 AM

yea i hear ya... well if rich rod stayed it still would have been 6-7 wins with that ... well i guess he called it defense...

so... Hoke will get 6 or 7 this year himself and since it basically had to be a 6-7 win ceiling with either coach/scheme... im glad its gonna be MICHIGAN FOOTBALL

5/24/2011 5:46:42 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6600299

UM fans should be happy this pussbag isn't taking snaps anymore

5/27/2011 4:51:20 PM

haha beyond glad he is gone

and...

Quote :

"Little known fact: Michigan got their trademark uniforms from Princeton. "

but they were designed by Fritz Crisler (when he was at Princeton)... and he is the 2nd most legendary name in U of M sports so it's all ok.....

5/27/2011 4:59:39 PM

UM is owning recruiting.

I'd say downside is 8 wins

5/28/2011 8:18:40 PM

Quote :

"Little known fact: Michigan got their trademark uniforms from Princeton."

lesser known fact: michigan state wore it before michigan did.

^ what? do i understand you correctly that you think michigan will win 8 games this upcoming season?

[Edited on May 28, 2011 at 8:24 PM. Reason : b/c there's no way that's going to happen]

5/28/2011 8:23:35 PM

if denard robinson could win 7 by himself last season, I think 8 is attainable by having a diciplined coach

5/28/2011 9:52:37 PM

slow down boobs... denard did it himself in a system built for him... now he has to learn this new one from scratch

5/29/2011 9:40:36 AM

i like PackGuitar. he keeps it real.

5/29/2011 9:55:57 AM

not to mention our schedule is pretty weak this year


Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result

Sat., Sep. 3 vs. Western Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Sep. 10 vs. Notre Dame Ann Arbor, Mich. 8:00 p.m. ET W
Sat., Sep. 17 vs. Eastern Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Sep. 24 vs. San Diego State Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Oct. 1 vs. Minnesota * Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Oct. 8 at Northwestern * Evanston, Ill. 6:00 p.m. CT W
Sat., Oct. 15 at Michigan State * East Lansing, Mich. TBA L
Sat., Oct. 29 vs. Purdue (Homecoming) * Ann Arbor, Mich. 12:00 p.m. ET W
Sat., Nov. 5 at Iowa * Iowa City, Iowa TBA L
Sat., Nov. 12 at Illinois * Champaign, Ill. TBA W
Sat., Nov. 19 vs. Nebraska * Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA L
Sat., Nov. 26 vs. Ohio State * Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA L

5/30/2011 3:23:33 AM

that is your downside? are you nuts? that is the best possible outcome.

5/30/2011 8:18:19 AM

5/30/2011 8:56:36 AM

boobs you cant be serious? we will beat sparty and ohio state this year. but lose some shitty games, probably notre dame

5/30/2011 9:14:24 AM

if we beat sparty and osu....2 teams that I have us losing to....then what does your breakdown look like? that would then leave us with 9 wins

we lose multiple crappy games at the big house? to indiana at the? western mich? SD ST? Minnesota?

ssly its more of a statement about how easy our sched will be this year

5/31/2011 9:49:37 PM

I'll go with

Sat., Sep. 3 vs. Western Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Sep. 10 vs. Notre Dame Ann Arbor, Mich. 8:00 p.m. ET L
Sat., Sep. 17 vs. Eastern Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Sep. 24 vs. San Diego State Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Oct. 1 vs. Minnesota * Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W
Sat., Oct. 8 at Northwestern * Evanston, Ill. 6:00 p.m. L
Sat., Oct. 15 at Michigan State * East Lansing, Mich. TBA L
Sat., Oct. 29 vs. Purdue (Homecoming) * Ann Arbor, Mich. 12:00 p.m. ET W
Sat., Nov. 5 at Iowa * Iowa City, Iowa TBA L
Sat., Nov. 12 at Illinois * Champaign, Ill. TBA W
Sat., Nov. 19 vs. Nebraska * Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA L
Sat., Nov. 26 vs. Ohio State * Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA W

UM will probably lose to either Illinois or Northwestern this year... but hard to choose between them.

Can't see Big Blue winning in East Lansing, but who knows?

Hopefully I'll get up there for the ND & OSU games.

GO BLUE

5/31/2011 10:18:04 PM

awfully confident about the OSU game, eh?

6/1/2011 10:11:20 AM

not since tressel got canned...

now that THE Obviously Scandel-prone University has distractions and humps to climb they will end up the underdog somehow and come in and destroy the Wolverine faithful's hearts

6/1/2011 1:28:00 PM

oh come on, you gotta come up with a better nickname than that

and if they played each other earlier in the season, then it might be a bigger problem dealing with distractions. Hopefully they wont linger until the last game of the season

6/1/2011 1:37:08 PM

runner up and now cover up university???

6/1/2011 1:38:24 PM

^^^^
I wouldn't say AWFULLY confident... perhaps we'll see who ends up getting suspended for the entire season. Do you guys have a good backup QB?

6/1/2011 1:47:16 PM

it'll either be the senior Joe Bauserman or super-recruit freshman Braxton Miller

6/1/2011 2:00:57 PM

I'm interested to see how Hoke will do with his (from my understanding) desire to play a more conventional power game while using the lollipop guild that DickRod recruited.

6/1/2011 2:03:03 PM

Quote :

"runner up and now cover up university???"

you are aware that UM was twice the national runner up in basketball and then had to take both banners down, yes?

maybe a different nickname is due here.

6/1/2011 2:12:25 PM

^^lolz at the lollipop guild... that would have been a good nickname had dickrod stuck around...

simonn...... really? ok? really guy?

i like it, so there! if you want to call michigan that too. that's fine... but you would be stealing my nicknames sir

see you on the ICE!

6/1/2011 2:59:54 PM

motherfucker i'm sure that you haven't played in a year+.

BUT, i'll be playing at the iceplex early morning on friday if you want to join.

6/1/2011 3:03:41 PM

dawg... im there EVERY friday morning at 1015 at the cary ice house. ill throw you through the glass

6/1/2011 3:05:55 PM

that lunchtime skate takes up so much of the day though. come play 4:30 - 6:45.

6/1/2011 3:15:30 PM

haha 4:30 a.m.? i love hockey but i love sleep more...

back on track now...

how many games you have the maize n blue winning?

6/1/2011 3:48:11 PM

tough question. IMO, any big10 game is a potential loss. i would say that directional michigans are sure wins, but this is michigan, who loses to app state at home, so it's all up for grabs. i can't imagine they'll win more than 6 games though.

i could be wrong, but i can say w/ absolute certainty that 8 wins is not a worst case scenario, as has been previously been stated.

6/1/2011 4:04:27 PM

Quote :

"but this is michigan, who loseslost once to app state at home under a different coach with different players"

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 12:03 PM. Reason : fixed for simonn]

6/2/2011 12:03:19 PM

Quote :

"expect at least 8 wins"

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/blog?name=feldman_bruce&id=6622086

Here's this week's mailbag:



From @JohnTCpsu: What happens to the Big Ten race now? It appears wide open.



You're right. It has gotten more wide open in the fallout of the Ohio State scandal, where you have a bunch of key starters suspended for five games and significant questions about whether one of those guys, QB Terrelle Pryor, will play at all for the Buckeyes this year. Not to mention the fact that Jim Tressel is gone, and the impact his departure will have on the team's overall management and preparation, not just on Saturdays but on a day-to-day basis.



Still, I'm not counting out the Ohio State Buckeyes just yet. This is a very talented collection of players and the program has won six Big Ten titles in a row. However, the door is certainly open.





I'm going to stick with my pick from a few months ago: the Nebraska Cornhuskers. They have some studs to lead the D, and Bo Pelini has one of the sharpest defensive systems in college football. Dangerous quarterback Taylor Martinez is healthy again. They have a good stable of backs led by Rex Burkhead, and I like the move of making Tim Beck offensive coordinator as a replacement for Shawn Watson. That should perk up the offense. Better still, the Huskers face most of their toughest opponents in Lincoln: Ohio State, Michigan State, Northwestern and Iowa. There are three sizable road games: against the Wisconsin Badgers (the week before playing the Buckeyes), at Penn State and at Michigan.



I give Nebraska the edge in the Legends Division, in which everyone except Minnesota should be at least a borderline Top 25 team this fall:



Michigan will be much improved with more seasoning and the addition of new defensive coordinator Greg Mattison. Expect at least eight wins.



Northwestern, which returns the vastly underrated Dan Persa at QB, could crack the Top 25 if it can find a little more juice in the running game.



Iowa, which lost probably as many key guys as anyone in the league, should get out to a 4-0 start before visiting Penn State. I doubt it will open any worse than 6-2 before closing with the two Michigan schools, Purdue and Nebraska, but I am skeptical that it'll have enough to overtake the Huskers. The next-best team in Legends will be Michigan State, led by QB Kirk Cousins, RB Edwin Baker and an imposing defensive line. However, I don't see MSU surviving a schedule that includes road games at OSU, Nebraska, Iowa and Northwestern.



As for the Leaders side, which isn't as deep, I had previously expected OSU to win it. But this is where things have gotten interesting. Penn State should surprise some people. Insiders expect them to be more physical, but as I wrote weeks ago, they must have one quarterback establish himself to unite the team. And it needs to happen by early October when they get a visit from the Iowa Hawkeyes. Their final five games are rough: at Northwestern, Illinois, Nebraska and then at OSU and at Wisconsin. That's too brutal a stretch for me to go with Penn State.



Wisconsin -- which, like Iowa, lost a ton of key players, including a very good QB -- has some terrific running backs and some good players on D, but I suspect it might drop off from last year to something like an 8-4 season.



The dark horse to come out of the Leaders: the Illinois Fighting Illini. They have an impressive young front man (I initially wrote "leader" until I realized the pun) in Nathan Scheelhaase, who made big strides as his freshman season wore on in 2010. Ron Zook is very high on the maturation of running back Jason Ford to make up for the loss of Mikel Leshoure.



Zook also couldn't ask for a better league schedule, as his team will only play four road games. Three (Indiana, Purdue and Minnesota) are against the three worst teams in the conference. The other is at Penn State. The Illini also avoid Nebraska and Iowa, two of the most physical teams in the Big Ten. If there is a team that can sneak past OSU in the Leaders division, it's Illinois. But I'll stick with the Buckeyes to face Nebraska again, and stay with the Huskers emerging as the Big Ten champs.

6/3/2011 5:59:24 PM

want to put a wager on it? i mean that in a totally friendly way, just a fun bet?

[Edited on June 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM. Reason : b/c i'll throw down]

6/3/2011 6:38:02 PM

loser gets suspended from TWW for a month!!!

WHOA BIG STAKES!

6/4/2011 10:33:20 PM

i wouldn't feel very victorious if i were to win that bet.

6/4/2011 11:57:55 PM

i just dont want russell to hit up wiscy and tear michigan another new a hole

6/5/2011 7:55:00 PM

done, i'll bet a 1 month suspension for 8 wins or more

6/6/2011 12:43:34 AM

no, i don't want to bet a month suspension. you barely post, there's no value in that bet.

6/6/2011 12:55:00 AM

ok, you suspended for a month, me for a year

6/6/2011 1:44:17 AM

no, i want something that i can touch.

6/6/2011 5:54:50 PM