What started as a one-liner in a high school commencement speech in June has since turned into a mantra for Michigan football entering its second season under the direction of Jim Harbaugh.
"You should set your dreams so big that everybody laughs at them," the Wolverines head coach said at Big Ten media days, two weeks before repeating himself on the eve of Michigan's training camp. "And if nobody's laughing at them, then you didn't set your goals high enough."
Only there seems to be a small problem with Harbaugh's "us against the world" mentality.