Back in 2022, the last time Denver played the Wolverines in the Frozen Four (Denver won, 3-2, in overtime before winning their 9th title to tie Michigan), we gave our readers 10 Reasons to Dislike the University of Michigan. With just under a week to go before the next DU-Michigan showdown, here are ten more:

10. Michigan Athletics are so corrupt that there are perpetual investigations into the broken culture and corrupt practices of the athletic department. The current investigation, led by Chicago legal firm Jenner & Block, is examining its systemic dysfunction and has interim University President Domenico Grasso on speed dial. Before that, a WilmerHale law firm investigation found former hockey head coach Coach Mel Pearson encouraged players to lie about COVID-19.

9. The former Wolverine’s head football coach, Sherrone Moore, had a front seat to Michigan’s ‘worst kept secret.’ His carnal urges with a personal ‘assistant’ lost him $16 million, his coaching job, and more.

8. Michigan is a football school. Their hockey team committed the second-highest number of penalty minutes (611) in the NCAA this season. They can hit and tackle, but can they skate?

7. The Michigan nickname is  ‘Wolverines.’ A wolverine is the largest member of the weasel family. Weasels? That explains everything.

6. Michigan fans believe their teams have a God-given right to win. When they don’t, they cry.

5. Michigan hockey has an incestuous relationship with hockey’s elite U.S. National Team Development Program (NTDP), located 20 minutes from Ann Arbor in Plymouth, Michigan. Michigan hockey head coach Brian Naurato coincidentally runs summer hockey camps at the same facility, and Big Blue insiders are inextricably intertwined in the politics of invited players. As a result, the ‘U’ places undue influence on potential recruits.

4. Notable grads include: Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian, the Thrill-kill duo of Leopold and Loeb, US gymnastics physician Larry Nassar, and Haitian dictator ‘Pappa Doc’ Duvalier, to name a few. Time for some serious self-reflection: “Do we have a culture problem here?”

3. With hockey roster first-names like Hunter, Drew, and Dakoda, Michigan hockey may be the most Gen-Z-centric team in the tournament. Expect the trio to marry Emma, Olivia, and Hannah and complain about their future work-life balance.

2. And pretentious – How about Michigan’s so-called school color of ‘maize’,  assigning an obscure name for corn to their yellow color. What would you think if DU’s colors were crimson and aureate*? You get the point.

1…and the oversized ‘M’ on EVERYTHING. If pasting an oversized letter on your chest looked good, wouldn’t everyone be doing it?

* Editor’s Note: Aureate refers to a brilliant, golden, or gilded appearance. This is the first and last time this term will be used to describe Denver gold by LetsGoDU.