Quarterly Review: Expecting Improvement
A lot of us Michigan fans started the season riding a wave of optimism with this young Wolverine football team. They started out hot and seemingly got a big monkey off our backs with the team covering the 35 point spread and avenging "the upset" against Appalachian State in week one. Then, we all went into the week two showdown with Notre Dame looking to do what we have done three out of the last four meetings: Beat the Irish! Well, that wave, along with the ship carrying any of our hopes that this team had truly arrived, went crashing into the rocks and sank faster than the Costa Concordia with our first shutout loss since 1984 (FYI, that was and will remain for at least a few more years the longest standing streak in NCAA history). A star is born in Ann Arbor. The week following that humiliating 31-0 defeat in South Bend HC Brady Hoke seemed to very little to take any targets off his head, handling the media and the disgruntled fans about as well as Lenny petting the