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Niyo: After being embarrassed, it's sink or swim time for Wolverines

Ann Arbor — When you start taking on water, you’ve generally got two choices. You can bail water. Or you can simply bail.

For Michigan’s football team, after Saturday’s hull-smashing at Wisconsin, that’s now the question at hand. Which way are they going to go? That was to be addressed at a team meeting Monday afternoon, and then soon after that on the practice field.

The Wolverines’ next opponent is Rutgers, yes. But the more dangerous foe right now might be themselves, whether it’s self-doubt that sets in after a sloppy start to the season or the kind of splintering that often follows a crack like the one Jim Harbaugh & Co.