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Think we all over estimated Dr Blitz and Harbaugh and all severely under estimated Urban Meyer. Michigan got schooled in the coaching match up. Flat up schooled. Props to Urban. He’s not one of the greatest ever for no reason.

Harbaugh’s Stone Age offense works better in the NFL where many teams still run that sort of offense. At the highest levels in college- just will never cut it. Was listening to Cris Carter on a radio podcast and agree with him 100% when he was just going in on Harbaugh and Michigan. Cris made a great point- he said he watches other teams in college like Oklahoma and he says wow that’s an innovative play- that’d be hard to defend like 25 times during the game. He says he watches Michigan and he never sees even one play like that. Hate to agree with the guy but he’s right. Michigan’s offense sucks.

We said it after week 2 or 3 as well. The only thing that changed is the defense played so well most of the year, it hid the offensive struggles. In the past, Michigan had boring offense with even more boring qbs, so we fooled ourselves this year because the qb is a bit more talented.
What’s most maddening to me has been the refusal to map out plays for DPJ, Nico & Tarik Black, in favor of throwing 12 times to very mediocre tight ends. Jake Butt has been gone for two years.
When your TE and Fullback are the focal point of your offense, you’re in the Stone Age. Sadly, I think Michigan had the edge with experience and talent this year, but Urban was playing chess while Jimmy was learning his abc’s.

We said it after week 2 or 3 as well. The only thing that changed is the defense played so well most of the year, it hid the offensive struggles. In the past, Michigan had boring offense with even more boring qbs, so we fooled ourselves this year because the qb is a bit more talented.
What’s most maddening to me has been the refusal to map out plays for DPJ, Nico & Tarik Black, in favor of throwing 12 times to very mediocre tight ends. Jake Butt has been gone for two years.
When your TE and Fullback are the focal point of your offense, you’re in the Stone Age. Sadly, I think Michigan had the edge with experience and talent this year, but Urban was playing chess while Jimmy was learning his abc’s.

That’s what makes me want to rip my hair out. They constantly take DPJ, Black, and Nico off the field to play 3 TE sets. Makes me fookin itrate. Those 3 kids are Sunday receivers. 
Sean McKeon is trash. Absolute trash. Every single play he’s involved in is a wasted play. Gentry is a stat padder. Big time talent but he feasts on the bad teams and comes up short in the biggest moments and vs the better teams.
Harbaugh and his staff still can’t figure out how to use Chris Evans properly. Kid would be a weapon in space playing for Urban. Here he’s wasted trying to make him a pound it between the tackles I-formation back. It’s asinine. The few times all year they throw passes to him and get him in space- he’s deadly.
Shea needs to be used more in the run game and those successful RPOs they had wrinkled in were completely missing vs Ohio State. Those plays should be a staple in the offense every week. 
Shea and those 3 NFL wide outs and the sophs Ronnie Bell & Oliver Martin and Chris Evans could be INCREDIBLE with a real offensive coach and a wide open, hurry up, creative scheme. 
I’m done with Harboffense and Pep. They flat out suck. 

The longer it goes, the harder it is when it ends. Trust me.

I know you just had a REALLY long one end (14 years, impressive!) but in my experience, I disagree.  I obviously NEVER enjoy my team losing to a rival but when they won in 2011 and 2003 it wasn't all that bad.  As long as my team won the previous game it feels somewhat even and when it gets to a long streak like you had and we have, you can write off a loss as one of those "a broken clock is right twice a day" or "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while" kind of things.  It sucks, but it isn't THAT bad.  What REALLY sucks is losing two or more in a row like the Buckeyes did in 1999-2000, 1995-1997, and 1988-1991 (that one was even worse because after a tie in 1992 the Buckeyes lost again in 1993).  
It has been a LONG time since you have experienced consecutive losses to your rival (1993-1994), IMHO, that is what really sucks.  

We said it after week 2 or 3 as well. The only thing that changed is the defense played so well most of the year, it hid the offensive struggles. In the past, Michigan had boring offense with even more boring qbs, so we fooled ourselves this year because the qb is a bit more talented.
What’s most maddening to me has been the refusal to map out plays for DPJ, Nico & Tarik Black, in favor of throwing 12 times to very mediocre tight ends. Jake Butt has been gone for two years.
When your TE and Fullback are the focal point of your offense, you’re in the Stone Age. Sadly, I think Michigan had the edge with experience and talent this year, but Urban was playing chess while Jimmy was learning his abc’s.

Good Post,I know you weren't sold on Shea/offense earlier in the season.Ya M's wr's have to be utilized better Collins made some nice snags and DPJ is tough.DJP looked good on a sideline catch had to be 8-9 guys in the scrum over there he was pinned down flip-flopped loose and got the xtra 2 yds for the 1st down.And Black has looked good from the get if he can stay out of the infirmary.

Shea Patterson was running for his life all day.  It's amazing Michigan scored what they did.  Hard to execute any offensive play, no matter how brilliantly conceived, if your QB is running to stay alive.  On the other hand it was ridiculous how much time Haskins had to make his throws.  Not really a fair test.  You could have stuck your average Div. III QB in there and they would have looked good.  The Buckeye's OL played extremely well.  Considering the defense they were up against it has to be one of the best Ohio State OL performances of all time.

What's the deal there?  The OL looked horrible against Notre Dame, but improved vastly over the course of the year, with Warriner getting due credit.  I said during the Rutgers game, that I thought that was the best I had seen Patterson all year, because he was throwing perfect passes against a surprising amount of pressure.  Wrote it off to being an off day for the line in a game that was tough to get up for.  They were slightly better, but not great, against Indiana, and then fell off a cliff against Ohio State.  Any speculation out there for the November regression on the line.  I will say, I think Rutgers defensive front was much better later in the year.  After that Michigan game they held Penn State to just 20 points, and then got good pressure on MSU, who lacked a QB who could beat it.

What's the deal there?  The OL looked horrible against Notre Dame, but improved vastly over the course of the year, with Warriner getting due credit.  I said during the Rutgers game, that I thought that was the best I had seen Patterson all year, because he was throwing perfect passes against a surprising amount of pressure.  Wrote it off to being an off day for the line in a game that was tough to get up for.  They were slightly better, but not great, against Indiana, and then fell off a cliff against Ohio State.  Any speculation out there for the November regression on the line.  I will say, I think Rutgers defensive front was much better later in the year.  After that Michigan game they held Penn State to just 20 points, and then got good pressure on MSU, who lacked a QB who could beat it.

The starting RT JBB was out the last two games with some kind of injury.   His replacement, Spanellis, is just not good enough yet.  Saw that on the very first sack of the game.  Other than that the Buckeye's DL played up to their potential.  Michigan's OL showed great improvement but has a long way to go..especially at the tackles.

I can't disagree.  I think they did a better job of rolling Patterson out as the year progressed, compared to the opener, but too many of their runs were jams up the middle.

I wonder how many tendencies were being picked up by the end of the year, that based on what the OL did you could tell it was either a roll out pass, or a run up the middle.  Seems like something as simple as rolling Patterson, than handing a delay counter back the other way, even if it didn't work, may at least help break those tendencies.  That even a play that doesn't appear to work, if it makes the defense pause next time you show your bread and butter, can be a great play.