ational championship season of 1948. Before all that we lead off with a quick look at two of Bo's more dominating performances over UCLA on this day in 1971 and Navy in 1976.
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Big Ed Muransky: What Has Changed, What Has Not
"Big Ed" Muransky talks about the changes in football from the early 1980s to today, including the common use of "negative reinforcement" in the Bo/Woody era. Big Ed, an All-American mind you, admits that he actually feared losing his job each week. And of course Muransky discusses something that hasn't changed - his Lawry's Beef Bowl prime rib eating triumph. As a freshman out of immediate sight from Bo, he downed 8 (eight!) 2-lb prime rib meals prior to the 1979 Rose Bowl. And washed those down with a pizza later that night.
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“Close Enough” – Memories of Rob Lytle
I shot out a tweet yesterday acknowledging the birthday of the great, late Michigan back Rob Lytle. A few folks shared memories of Lytle, including this absolute beauty from all-conference flanker John Kolesar and it is priceless:
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A Seventy Burger | This Week in Michigan Football History
This Week In Michigan Football History, as played during the WTKA 1050AM 'Countdown to Kickoff' held November 7, 2020 before the Michigan-Indiana game. Topics: Bob Ufer's passing and the onfield tributes, Bo's disdain for both Illinois (after firing Gary Moeller) and for Illinois's head coach Mike White. For all these reasons and more, Bo and crew dropped 70 on White and the Illini:
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Courting Joe Paterno
Did you know in 1968 Don Canham’s first choice to replace Bump Elliott as head coach, ahead of Bo Schembechler, was actually Joe Paterno? JoePa was just in his third season at Penn State. Here's the story including an interview with Canham discussing the job search:
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Bo is Still Bo (1985) | This Week in Michigan Football History
For this Saturday's edition of TWIMFbH we stroll over to 1985 when the Michigan fanbase was pretty down, and uncertain of the future coming off a very nn-Bo-like .500 season in 1984. That changed after this one:
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Bo on Harbaugh’s Guarantee (1986)
Bumped from Twitter because I know many of you don't partake in the social media snakepit. Via Dr. Sap's archives, here's Bo following Michigan's 26-24 win over Ohio State in Columbus when asked about Harbaugh's pregame guarantee:
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Messner vs. Mandarich
I always think about this interview during MSU-Michigan week. Here’s U-M great Mark Messner talking about his great battles with MSU’s superfreak lineman Tony Mandarich, along with a bit about Bo’s drug policy and how the team self-regulated bad behavior. Read on:
