"The 2011 season was simultaneously a revival of what is classically thought to be Michigan football, a vindication of the oft-questioned Brady Hoke hire from a year before, and a proclamation to the rest of the Big Ten that Michigan "is back" from wherever not being there is -- likely a galaxy far away where defense is a poorly defined concept and quarterbacks are made of dilithium and not just high powered, immobile rocket launchers." My first guest spot over at the Detroit Free Press writing a regular online Michigan column for the website. Check it out and leave your thoughts in the comment section.