Michigan looking for more physical play out of its offensive line

Typical wolvies: still whining. And the "dominant team in the state of Michigan" is putting themselves "on lockdown" to play Purdue?

Baw, haw haw haw haw!!!!!!!

Respect? Respect? How many more times can RR play the "no respect" card and have his team buy into it. U-M needs to earn respect first, and then they will have it. What's really funny, though, is that U_M culture demands respect from others first, before they earn it.

That's why Wolvies are such _____. They care so much about what the rest of the world thinks about them that they put the cart before the horse on a regular basis. They need to fix their own massive inferiority complex before they demand that others respect them.

Then again, I guess it isn't a complex if you are really inferior.

Trying to regain respect? Maybe he should try to remove incessant bragging from Wolvie "culture." RR turned MSU into such a big game for the team that he ruined the rest of their year.

It's tough to turn around a losing mentality. RR thought it could be done all at once, but he is finding out that it can't. I can think of maybe four or five coaches in the entire country who could turn around U-M. RR is an OK coach, but not a miracle-worker.

Back to that word: respect. UM got respect before they had truly earned it, and are now paying the consequences. Maybe they need to earn it next time before they buy into it.

But that would go against all things Wolvie.

Well...that about covers it I guess.

This should be a game where slamming the ball down purdue's throat is a must. We need Minor's physical running style to soften them up for Brown, tate, and denard's slicing and dicing runs. But Minor has to be healthy. There is no reason that our o-line shouldn't win the trench war, unless our boys up front have gotten soft on us

Michigan 38
Purdue 17

this is a hard game to predict...Which Purdue team shows up and which Michigan team shows up? Definitely keeping my money in the pocket this week.....

It's too bad that the injuries to Molk and Forcier have diminished UM's season. Purdue is a crappy team, but they have had some flashes of brilliance. I hope they don't have one this Saturday. UM definitely needs to get back to playing decent football this week.

As for those OL combinations, they will work a lot better when the kids are predominantly jrs and srs. In the meantime, just like on defense, a little patience will be needed.

Luckily for the Wolvies Purdue like Michigan cannot win a
road game either.

Without Molk's injury, Forcier never gets hurt and we're 9-0 right now. I give next to no credit to our opposition. We're better than them, all things being equal. PSU was okay, but if we play msu, iowa, and illinois another 10 times each, that's 30 wins.

Patience? Are you kidding? Right now, Michigan is the worst team in the Big 10! Do you mean to say that Michigan has less talent than Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois, etc.? NO WAY that is true. The answer is coaching. A good coach wins with the players he has, not the ones he wished he has, or hopes to have in the future. Isn't this what any half way decent coach would do? Would RR literally tank games because he is incapable of modifying his system to fit his current roster? Time for patience is finished. There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that he will succeed at Michigan, and plenty of evidence that he will fail. Every year he stays with the program buys another two years of ineptitude.

Imaloser
What article are you commenting on. Nowhere in this article is the word respect used. There is nothing indicating that UM either deserves or lacks respect from anybody.

You continue to live up to your name

I couldn't agree with you more.

BUT, they STILL got their butts handed to them... Maybe Richie Rod might try a different TACT...

Ummmm...that's "tack" not "tact" Blue in Ohio. It's a sailing term that means change course.