So since it's so close to the season, we'll just deal with the reality that most in-depth analysis has begun to morph into platitudes, and offer our own: I don't think it's particularly unreasonable to assert that this haphazard team with the worst defense OF ALL TIME (statistically) would've been no worse than 7-5 last season had they simply managed to do one thing: take care of the football. Just how bad has it been the past two years? Well let's compare them against the other 8 seasons of the past decade...
Yeesh those last three years... How about 85 turnovers lost against 65 gained? Down a cool twenty spot since that run in 2006... double arg. So listen, I understand this isn't earth shattering, but in all of the worry and over-analysis regarding the depth chart and the secondary, one of the major problems this team has had over the past several seasons has faded to the background: turnovers. If Michigan can right the ship in this category alone, then that alone would certainly go a long way towards getting this team over the hump record-wise. So for everyone's sake, including inanimate objects everywhere, let's hope that they've really focused on holding on to the football.