How avoidable was Michigan's woeful 2020 season?
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
In this episode, we look back on the Michigan football team’s 2-4 start to the season, what led to it and how preventable each factor was for the Wolverines.
We begin with another look at Michigan’s defense, one that is in line to be the worst in the Wolverines’ history. We discuss how the defense has become predictable, with teams who play Michigan annually having particular success against the Wolverines. We look at how things could have been different for Michigan.
Next, we take a look at the Wolverines’ preparation. We compare it to the first few seasons of Jim Harbaugh’s tenure, how it has changed and how badly it hurt Michigan this season when it fell behind and had to make adjustments mid-game.
We then assess the Wolverines’ attrition, as we concluded that Michigan lost 20 of 44 2019 two-deep players. We discuss how the Wolverines could have been more proactive about their losses, how big of a deal it is and more. We close by also looking at Michigan’s quarterback decision, potential overconfidence and a lack of self-reflection in the offseason.
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| 0:03.0 | With the UA for Champions League kicking off |
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| 0:25.1 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan |
| 0:29.1 | football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw, Steve Lorenz, here with me. |
| 0:32.8 | If you missed our basketball podcast, just a couple days ago, we broke down five things we've learned learned or five kind of, well, I guess it's not just five. |
| 0:41.3 | Our first impressions of the Michigan basketball team's three and oh start to the season. |
| 0:46.1 | And as we mentioned then, we actually recorded this one at the same time, but we ended up talking for so long and they were two drastically different episodes. |
| 0:54.0 | So this is a football episode. |
| 0:56.9 | This is 2020 hindsight taking a look at what could have been avoided for the Michigan |
| 1:04.2 | football team. |
| 1:05.1 | Some parts of it couldn't be. |
| 1:06.4 | And we assessed those. |
| 1:08.4 | We also assessed what seemed to be painfully obvious decisions. So we kind of |
| 1:14.0 | cover the whole base looking at how Michigan season fell by the wayside and then assessing just how |
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