"starter" was kind of hard to quantify this year, and has been under Harbaugh. Take a look at RB for example. We lose DeVeon Smith but we have 3 guys behind him who split snaps at the RB position all year. It also depends on who stays. Mo Hurst has a year of eligibility left and Peppers has a year left. We return Gary, Winovich and Mone on the D-line. So if Mo Hurst stays, that's 4 out of 4 positions with significant playing time between them. They're trying to get a 6th year for Jeremy Clark who was injured after a couple games, and they have a good case for it. Lavert hill played a bunch of time at CB this year. And there's a ton more who were rotated in during garbage time or played all year on special teams, like Devin Bush who played in all 12 games. At minimum, we return a pretty decent D-line and can potentially have a few of the secondary positions locked up with solid starters.
When the game comes down to OT, you're good enough to beat a team.Still?
So OSU's team wasn't good enough to beat Penn State this year? Penn State was the better, more talented, team?
It's funny how you guys get all riled up at the mere mention that Michigan should be good enough to beat OSU any year moving forward. Michigan was good enough to beat OSU this year, unfortunately that didn't happen. Rather than re-hash the reasons why, it should be obvious that a game that comes down to OT and two plays means that both teams were good enough to win that game but one had to lose it.
Even there, Harbaugh managed to rotate guys in. At TE we had two other TE's outside of Butt to score TD's and both played in 10+ games this year. Wheatley & Asiasi. At WR we return McDoom and Perry, both playing in 10+ games and have some young talent behind them. Hard to replace guys like Darboh and Chesson but the hope is that the talented guys behind them can either replicate their success or do something else that those two couldn't do well, better.
