2018 Michigan Season thread

[Anonymous Coward]

Rumors are popping that Tarik Black, Rashan Gary, Karan Higdon and Sean McKeon are all injured. All in one practice or recently? That seems like news too ludicrously bad to be true. No mention of severity or confirmation that they are real. But maybe. Eff. Time will tell.

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, we have captains. That they settled on four(!) and neither is Rashan or Winovich tells me there were unusually many great options this year.

[MrNubbz]

Rumors are popping that Tarik Black, Rashan Gary, Karan Higdon and Sean McKeon are all injured

Poster on 11 Warriors said Black had broke his foot.last season Black IMO played better than DPJ & Nico Collins in limited opportunities.Nico I don't think played a whole lot.Regardless Black looked good.Hope it's not season ending - I was looking forward to watching him play

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Michigan has a *lot* of receiving options with high end Big Ten potential:
Black, DPJ, Nico Collins, Oliver Martin, Perry, Zach Gentry, Nick Eubanks and Sean McKeon (this last one, Mdot may scoff at but I thought he played well and the fact that nearly by himself he pushed Ian Bunting to transfer was very meaningful to me)
Unfortunately, on that list, I think only DPJ and Tarik Black can be elite blow-the-top-off-the-defense types like Breaston/Manningham. The rest are built - if they can get there - would only max out in the Jason Avant or Jake Butt mode (or maybe more Travis Beckum in the case of Gentry).
If Michigan loses Black, even just against ND, it's a massive deal. Having two guys to take the top off is **way** more than twice as good as having one.

[MrNubbz]

Hopefully he's back in pads,barring this kind of crap he could be playing on Sundays.Looked sharp last season

[ELA]

Sounds like Michigan will have an open practice Sunday night. That's very unusual for Harbaugh. What's the interpretation for giving the fans/media/opponent those kinds of kitchen scraps? I guess that he's feeling very good about things(?).

I guess we'll get some answers on the injuries tonight.  Not the severity, but at least their existence

[Cincydawg]

Michigan could end up being the best 9-3 team in the country, or best 10-2 team in the country, or even 8-4.

That is a tough schedule indeed.  I don't know who has a tougher one, maybe USC or ND.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ela: yup. We'll at least see who's dressed

Cincy: no doubt. Still, expectations are what they are. 9 wins is what we need for basement levels of satisfaction. 10 for pride. 11 for bliss.

[Anonymous Coward]

Michigan just gave out three one year scholarships to walk-ons. Congrats to them:

WR - Nate Schoenle
OL - Andrew Vastardis
LS - Camaron Cheeseman

[HailHailMSP]

It’s weird to say this, because expectations should be high for this team, but I would take 10-2 in a heartbeat. That would mean 3-2 against the big 5 (ND, Wisc, PSU, MSU, OSU), plus no missteps on the rest of the schedule. Unfortunately, unless one of those losses is to ND, that would likely mean no chance at a B1G championship appearance. 

[Anonymous Coward]

If a team in the East were to lose to, let's say, UW and PSU and only those two, finishing 10-2, they might be best positioned for the tiebreakers. Not guaranteed to tie but I am all but excluding the odds of a 12-0 east. And think that 10-2 is roughly as likely as (if not more likely than) 11-1.

[Anonymous Coward]

Schembechler Hall confirms Tarik's injury. Severity remains unknown. Sounds like an MRI is scheduled today. Lots of discussion of a break. I think the odds that an MRI would even be ordered (or be important in deciding recovery timeline) if it were a true break is low. At least partly increments the odds of soft tissue injury or hairline fracture. Not that those can't be just as pestersome. Though the least among those will heal faster than most true breaks.
My point: lots of ifs. He could be back soon, mid season, next season, never, but mid season now looks most likely.

No word on Rashan, Karan or Sean. Will they be on the field tonight?

[SuperMario]

Schembechler Hall confirms Tarik's injury. Severity remains unknown. Sounds like an MRI is scheduled today. Lots of discussion of a break. I think the odds that an MRI would even be ordered (or be important in deciding recovery timeline) if it were a true break is low. At least partly increments the odds of soft tissue injury or hairline fracture. Not that those can't be just as pestersome. Though the least among those will heal faster than most true breaks.
My point: lots of ifs. He could be back soon, mid season, next season, never, but mid season now looks most likely.

No word on Rashan, Karan or Sean. Will they be on the field tonight?

Bummer news. Have to feel bad for the kid.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like the rumors about Sean, Karan, and Rashan (I just like the rhyme) were empty as they all dressed.

Who didn't dress? Tarik Black, Casey Hughes, Benjamin St. Juste, Mustapha Muhammad, Brad Robbins, and Luiju Vilain. And except for Black, Muhammad and St. Juste, I think we knew about all of those before today.