WTKA Roundtable 9/10/2026: It Was Bad

Things Discussed:

• Offensive line: one guy issues. Disappointment high, recalibrating, but not 3-9 bad.
• Bryce had a hand in everything that was wrong. Staring down the receiver isn't just a problem; he shouldn't even be looking there. Making decisions before the snap and not coming off them.
• Why is there a State Street/Main Street discrepancy? Don't know.
• Sam: They didn't have a plan for Bryce to be that bad, which tells you they didn't think he would be?
• Brian: Last year he was very up and down. Look at him like RS Fr Vince Young. He wasn't the Rose Bowl winner until that Rose Bowl. Guys like this don't come fully formed. Not writing him off. You need to do what he can do now and lean on it. Run the Dampier offense.
• Seth: We set up the expectations, Bryce and the program and the system did too, and maybe that's just wrong.
• What to do vs Oklahoma? They're a next-evolution Don Brown defense built to suffocate a QB run game (Cole Sullivan at CHEETAH sometimes). Hit them deep: slot fade, JJ down the sideline.
• Hockey hazing lawsuit: Not surprised because that was widespread in hockey and at Michigan in that era. Seth points out it was a massive historical success that we conquered that culture 25 years ago. It was brutally hard to do that. Open that can of worms. See how ugly things were. People should know we can fix this.
• Not naming Mel and Red in lawsuit: Figure UM will settle, if you add them they'll fight to preserve their reputations.