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Time To Be Nervous

I am getting nervous about Saturday. Hardly feels like Michigan week around here. Folks and the media are getting way too confident on this one. Hopefully Tressel is successful in keeping the team from that thinking. This reminds me of when I was a young freshman living in Park Hall. It was 1969. You know what that means. Woody Hayes took the defending National Champions up to Ann Arbor and Bo Schembechler kicked our butts. I can still remember the shock and emptiness of those gathered in the dorm room as we watched that play out on a little black and white TV.

At least one person has it right. Jim Lachey's thoughts on Michigan were quoted in the Detroit Free Press....."All it takes though for it to turn around is one game, and I have played enough football to know that," he said. "I was 11-0 with the Washington Redskins, and I played against the 0-11 Dallas Cowboys, but at the end of the fourth quarter, we were 11-1, and they were 1-11. You never think it is going to happen when you look at it on paper, but somehow, some way, they manage to pull it off. You need to respect everyone you play. Michigan will turn it around, but hopefully not this week."

Hopefully not this week. Go Bucks.