re: What do you see happening at Michigan?

Tons = impact of those players.

Those are all key players that will be tough to replace.

Once Hurst went out, you saw a significant dropoff in line play to end the season. While I think Hurst will be back and better next year, but losing Barksdale will be a huge loss.

Ridley would be an unexpected one and our defense will not be as good next season losing our 3 best defenders from this year.

We have a lot of talent, but much of it is young. LSU will be a good team next year again, but given our schedule it will be much tougher than this season.

Tennessee, Bama, WVU, Oregon, and MSU will all be road games. With WVU being better offensively next year, Tennessee being better overall, and Oregon being both better than UNC at full strength and likely not having 13 players suspended, it's going to be tough.

That's my point.