WATCH: How Oregon game, Indiana matchup show a path forward for Michigan
The Michigan Wolverines are 5-4 after a loss to Oregon on Saturday, and the road ahead does not get any easier for the Maize and Blue. A trip to No. 8 Indiana looms on Saturday in addition to playing the No. 3 team in the country in Ohio State to end the year.
At this point, the season is what it is, but last week’s game and next week’s matchup illustrated what is needed to get the program back on track.
TheWolverine.com’s Anthony Broome, Chris Balas and Clayton Sayfie wrap up their thoughts on the Oregon game and what it means for the rest of the season, in addition to a chat about Michigan basketball and fan questions.
“You don’t have to have patience anymore in the era of portal and NIL,” Balas said on the show. “And you just point to what the next opponent did, Indiana and bringing in a coach with some players and went from worst to first or close to it. And maybe they will, maybe they’ll get an upset at Ohio State. But I think it’s almost a foregone conclusion they’re going to beat Michigan. But I don’t see any way Michigan goes down there and gets a victory. But you can fix it quickly now and there’s no reason that a place like Indiana should be able to and Michigan should not.
“You have to do it right though. And you have to have a plan and that’s something that they’ve been lacking in and we’ve been saying it forever. But if they want Sherrone Moore to succeed here then they really need to go all in on portal and we’re starting to see, they’re starting to go all in guys with the recruiting and the NIL, which is good as long as you do it right. As long as you don’t do it like some of those teams that have imploded by buying talent and then locker room issues and everything else, which was one of the excuses [for not doing it]. ‘We don’t want to be that team and we want to be transformational, not transactional, so on and so forth.’
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“What that gets you is this football team that you have here, which is kind of schizophrenic and just not talented enough, not well enough coached at this point. It’s been tough to watch, especially after the last three years when you see good sound, fundamental football, and now you see guys missing tackles and you see guys, an offensive line that should be better than it is not playing very well. You’re 5-4 headed towards 5-5 and need to beat Northwestern probably to go 6-6.
“We knew there was going to be a step back guys. We just didn’t expect it to be this big of a step back. And to me, that’s the biggest disappointment. They’re just not playing good, sound, fundamental football.”
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