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I, for one, expected Michigan football to be much, much better in the COVID-19 shortened season than it ended up being. My expectations seemed so much more founded at the outset, with an emphatic season-opening win at Minnesota. The scheme was incredible, the players executed, the talent had shone, the coaches exploited weaknesses. But, after that, the team seemed overconfident in Week 2, and the snowball started rolling downhill from there.
The Wolverines have more talent than anyone in the Big Ten not named Ohio State — that much is still true. The vast majority of the problems in Ann Arbor are fixable. But the problem is there are a lot of problems in Ann Arbor at the time being.
However, here’s what I see as the major, grand-scale issues plaguing the maize and blue as of current. If the program can fix them, not only will it be much, much better, it could be back to the precipice — as it was in 2016 and 2018 — to contending for more.