2023 Michigan Season Thread

[slugsrbad]

https://twitter.com/nickbaumgardner/status/1723297966256013634?s=20

In all the hot takes in this saga, this might be the craziest. 

[MrNubbz]

michigan's only viable option is the SEC

Where they'd become Miss ST

[FearlessF]

like UT and OU??

[Mdot21]

Where they'd become Miss ST

Yeah, idk.

There are only two really good teams in the SEC right now. UGA and Bama. The rest of that league is pretty much garbage. Just not quite as garbage as the B1G. LSU can’t stop a cold on defense and Ole Miss is a sieve. Fools gold. Mizzou might be kinda good though…

[Mdot21]

In all the hot takes in this saga, this might be the craziest.

Idk. Before the B1G added Oregon, Washington, USC, & UCLA….I’d say he was kinda right. 

Michigan & Ohio State are without question the big dogs and bring in all the tv audience for football- hence all the money for everyone else in the league. Penn State is almost at their level but not quite- they are like their kid brother. Highly important to the league for sure in terms of tv dollars. But after Penn State, the the rest of the league is pretty much meh. 

Nebraska would’ve been a big dog 30 years ago, but I think they might be dead on arrival and never to be back to what they once were. Landscape has changed so much and they are at maybe the most extreme disadvantage for recruiting base of any major helmet there is.

[Cincydawg]

Missouri is pretty good, I think, no real obvious weaknesses.  The Vols are decent as well.  Good running game, not so much on passing.  I don't think either Bama or UGA are massively good though.  Bama seems to be coming around a bit.

[Mdot21]

Missouri is pretty good, I think, no real obvious weaknesses.  The Vols are decent as well.  Good running game, not so much on passing.  I don't think either Bama or UGA are massively good though.  Bama seems to be coming around a bit.

I think UGA is massively good….

Bama’s defense is LEGIT and as long as Milroe is running his ass off and throwing less and not turning it over- Bama could be a problem come SeCCG/playoff time. Just run the damn kid 30 times a game and throw it 15 and they’re gonna be tough to beat bc the defense seems to have hit its stride and turned the corner and looks for real now.

[FearlessF]

I'm hopin the Huskers run the QB 20 times and have him toss it 8 times today vs the Terps

[847badgerfan]

Idk. Before the B1G added Oregon, Washington, USC, & UCLA….I’d say he was kinda right.

Michigan & Ohio State are without question the big dogs and bring in all the tv audience for football- hence all the money for everyone else in the league. Penn State is almost at their level but not quite- they are like their kid brother. Highly important to the league for sure in terms of tv dollars. But after Penn State, the the rest of the league is pretty much meh.

Nebraska would’ve been a big dog 30 years ago, but I think they might be dead on arrival and never to be back to what they once were. Landscape has changed so much and they are at maybe the most extreme disadvantage for recruiting base of any major helmet there is.

UW, MSU and UNL attract a lot of eyeballs.

Nobody watches UCLA - not even in person. They got a gift in that USC wanted them.

The peaches from the PAC for TV are Oregon and USC. Washington is a level below and UCLA is Northwestern. LA's Big Ten team....

[ELA]

michigan's only viable option is the SEC

I don't think, "well take our ball and go where they don't care about cheating" reads the way they think it does

[FearlessF]

it's redickerous 

[847badgerfan]

[slugsrbad]

Idk. Before the B1G added Oregon, Washington, USC, & UCLA….I’d say he was kinda right.

Michigan & Ohio State are without question the big dogs and bring in all the tv audience for football- hence all the money for everyone else in the league. Penn State is almost at their level but not quite- they are like their kid brother. Highly important to the league for sure in terms of tv dollars. But after Penn State, the the rest of the league is pretty much meh.

Nebraska would’ve been a big dog 30 years ago, but I think they might be dead on arrival and never to be back to what they once were. Landscape has changed so much and they are at maybe the most extreme disadvantage for recruiting base of any major helmet there is.

The statement that Ohio State/Michigan have more clout/resources than the other schools combined stretches the outer limits of hyperbole.

In 2022 the gap between average viewers for Ohio State and Michigan (1.43 million) was larger than the gap between Michigan and Penn State (1.32 million). Source: https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-were-the-most-watched-in-2022-94eca4f6acbd

As far as resources go, based on 2022 revenue Ohio State/Michigan was $462,267,632. The next three schools - Penn State, Michigan State, Indiana - had a combined revenue of $520,788,432. And again, the gap between Ohio State and Michigan ($40,963,058) was larger than the gap between Michigan and Penn State ($29,424,839). 
Source: https://www.on3.com/news/usa-today-releases-top-25-total-revenue-college-athletics-programs/

If anything, I would say Ohio State is a tier of its own. Followed by Michigan in a tier of its own with Penn State near that tier, but leading the tier of others.

Disclaimer: Sources should be taken for a grain of salt, and I am an attorney so my math is probably wrong. 

[Cincydawg]

Has any team thread EVER been this long?