Newsstand: ESPN writer claims Michigan one of 'Bottom 10' teams
The Michigan Wolverines are considered a top-10 team in the country ahead of this season by many, but not one of the voices over at ESPN. Ryan McGee put U-M in his “Bottom 10” schools ahead of the upcoming season, citing their resistance toward the NCAA and attempted public humiliation as reason.
Here’s what he had to say about the defending College Football Playoff National Champions, likely for clicks:
Apparently, it wasn’t enough for the Wolverines to win the national title or even to dominate the box office alongside “Deadpool.” Instead, Go Blue has decided to go all-in on a public thumbing of their collective Big House noses at the NCAA, whether it be departed head coach Jim Harbaugh at the news conference podium in Los Angeles or the decision to defiantly invite him back for the season opener after he’d been handed a show-cause by the folks in Indianapolis. I’m no expert on thumbing one’s nose, but I am a bit of an expert on the Wolverine, and no one should ever thumb their nose using adamantium claws.
McGee has also publicly called former head coach Jim Harbaugh’s legacy “complicated,” as he wrote in a column in January:
If you rise and fall each day humming “Hail to the Victors,” then the Jim Harbaugh legacy might very well be simple to you. He came home pledging to return his alma mater to college football’s top rung, and he did just that. There’s a big ol’ silver and gold trophy that was just put in Schembechler Hall to prove it. But the reality is there won’t be a period at the end of his block-M chapter until the investigators are done and their final reports are read aloud. When that will happen, no one knows. When it does happen, it might all prove to be much ado about nothing. But it also could go in a very different, very destructive direction.
Then, and only then, will we truly know what the Jim Harbaugh legacy will be. All we know for certain right now is that he will not be in Ann Arbor when that happens.
See? Complicated.
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“It was kind of a theme with LaMar Morgan where he just kept coming back to this sentiment that it’s really hard to get up to speed if you’re a transfer with this Michigan defense with the way Michigan plays and practices and meetings and the schedule they have, the demands of being a Michigan football player. So it’s not that the four transfers they brought in the defensive backfield won’t play a lot, but it seems like the edge in nearly every situation goes to the guys who are coming back. Hill at corner, Quinten Johnson, Makari Paige at safety, and the other guys will have a role. I do feel like they have some pretty good depth here.”
– TheWolverine.com’s Clayton Sayfie on depth at safety for Michigan
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