We’re not getting better coaches to replace Drevno or Pep, are we?
January 27th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
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January 27th, 2018 at 11:52 AM ^
There should be at least a little more shuffling in the NFL. For example, Patricia hasn't been announced as the Lions head coach yet, when he is, he will likely replace many of the coaches in Detroit, which could precipitate other moves from other teams.
January 27th, 2018 at 9:28 PM ^
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January 27th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
It's getting really old man.
There was never any evidence or reason to believe Drevno or Pep were headed anywhere else sometime soon, this was all entirely wishful thinking.
And to be quite honest, I'm not sure the wish is even justified. We went from having an offense which was both 1) the oldest Michigan offense in the modern era, and 2) the most prolific and efficient Michigan offense ever.
To this year having 1) the youngest Michigan offense in the modern era, with extreme inexperience at WR and OT.
These same assholes are the ones who don't want Wilton Speight back, even though he Quarterbacked the most prolific offense in the Michigan era (so he gets no credit, coaches get all the credit for that year) but based on a 4 game sample size this season before he broke his back they're ready to kick him to the curve and they're even gleeful about it. Meanwhile the coaches get all the blame for this year's woes.
I don't get it, man. If all these people are such experts on football and coaching, and so much smarter than our coaching staff, go coach. Oh wait you're not. You should try not to forget it.
January 27th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
Ah the old "if you're going to criticize the coaches then YOU go coach". Whatever helps you sleep at night. Same deal with "youth". Plenty of fresman QBs looked far better than any of our QBs.
The offense was PUTRID this past year. Hoke-ian levels of ineptitude. Who calls the plays?... Sets the scheme (was there one)? ... Recruits and develops players and QBs?
If anything this makes me way less optimistic about Harbaugh himself, but Drevno is clearly not good at his job. The Oline and offense are straight up bad. The passing game was non-existant, and Pep was only around one year, but it looked bad with healthy Speight and it looked bad with OKorn, and it looked bad with healthy Peters. So what does that say? The Browns didn't want Pep. THE FREAKING CLEVELAND BROWNS.
The brain trust also thought Speight and Okorn were neck and neck to start the year and also thought OKorn was better than Peters for the middle part of the year. Unbelievable. But as a fan, I'll shutup or quit my job and become a college coach after putting in 10-15 years as a high school coach. Makes total sense. Coaches always know best, so the answer for me is clearly to quit being a fan and become a college FB coach.
January 27th, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
My interpretation of the original response is us as fans are results oriented. Despite our claims that with a glance we can tell if a scheme is putrid or ingenius, we really do not know nor can compare to people that spend ten hours a day doing. If the team wins they are our God's and if they lose we throw them under the bus. The team was incredibly young in too many places and suffered injuries at all of the locations that they could not. Young players like Henne can appear to prosper if someone else is carrying the load, like example Braylon Edwards or in the case of Georgia the most run heavy offense in college football. Or perhaps you are the 4th string running back on Bama any you have to practice just one play.
Here is my problem with Monday morning coaching. Next year if UM offense is great we will ALL jump on the Harbaugh and hated assistant coaches bandwagon. We might even cluck about how they much have "listened" to us. It won't matter that it is older players with more depth knowing a system.
If you truly believe that the UM football staff sucks you should root against them. If they win they are lucky and we know luck runs out. False wins will perpetuate an illusion of success and the bad coaching will continue. Yet all to often the results change and we forget our anger, as long as the result is a win.
My enjoyment of mgoblog comes from the attempt by the people who run the site to look beyond the wins and losses. What I said in the paragraph above was somewhat saracastic and unrealistic. We are all Michigan fans and want to root for UM to win. At the least, what you should do is put out an article on why you believe the offensive staff including Harbaugh are failing by showing failures of scheme, development, and managment. This is where the owners of this site thrive. Instead of lamenting on why Michigans defense sucking in 2010, they pointed out that the middle linebacker was beging miss positioned for what they thought he was intended to do. That kind of stuff is way more productive, than "Pep stinks"
January 27th, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
The Browns didn't want Belichick either.
January 27th, 2018 at 2:20 PM ^
I think you mean the Ravens
January 27th, 2018 at 6:07 PM ^
The Browns didn't want Pep, either.
January 27th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^
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January 28th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
I still don't think the OL was nearly as bad as many want to believe. A lot of times we saw something on a TV broadcast, only to see later on a highlight show or even the UFR's here that there were receivers open who the QB didn't see, or the QB held on to the ball too damn long because no one was open, or a RB (ESPECIALLY) earlier on when the coaching staff was trying like hell to be successful behind a primarily zone blocking scheme missed the hole.
Speight early in the season (due in large part to the inexperience at WR and then after Black's injury) and then the inept O'Korn and inconsistent Peters late made the OL look a lot worse than I think it really was. And a lot of armchair and Monday morning QB's on this site are correct in their conclusions that QB mobility is MUCH more important in the college game and statues in the pocket hurt a lot more than in the NFL. It would be wise of Harbaugh's predominantly NFL coaches working the college game to realize that and stop trying to pound the square pegs into the round holes.
January 27th, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
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January 29th, 2018 at 11:24 AM ^
Soph Speight was better than junior Speight. Assuming senior Speight becomes the best Speight has little to no merit. Especially after he seems to end each year with injury.
January 27th, 2018 at 12:47 PM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
LMAO. The truth hurts.
January 27th, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
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January 27th, 2018 at 1:31 PM ^
If all these people are such experts on football and coaching, and so much smarter than our coaching staff, go coach. Oh wait you're not. You should try not to forget it.I trust you have no opinions about the food you eat or the cars you drive, then.
January 27th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
The argument wasn't about choosing something else, but rather that one cannot critique without having the appropriate chops to replace those in charge. Like saying, this steak isn't cooked right - and the response being: oh, you can do a better job managing Ruth's Chris? Sometimes, people can't acknowledge ineptitude. I think the parallel works.
January 27th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
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January 27th, 2018 at 7:07 PM ^
They were ranked 41st in offensive S&P. Speight finished with 7.7 ypa. They were average at best. They had some good games. They had some bad games. Michigan has probably never had an offense that could hold a candle to the modern powerhouses except perhaps in 2010. And that offense laid an egg in every meaningful game it played as well. Wake me up when we return to the glory days of Biakabutuka for 313 or Henson for 303 against an opponent we care about.
January 27th, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 2:21 PM ^
under Fisch in 2016? Jedd went to UCLA and coached a QB who was already considered a very likely 1st round pick.
Look, obviously our offense suffered last year, but I don't see making Jedd Fisch out to be some miracle worker. Wasn't Harbaugh given most of the credit for Rudock's development? Maybe that was all a lie, but if we're being honest, we don't know exactly who does what on this staff, either last season or the previous ones. Hamilton is a convenient scapegoat. Maybe that's justified, maybe not.
Bottom line is that Harbaugh deserves most of the blame for last season and he knows he has to change how he did some things. Just replacing assistants is the easy way out. It doesn't do much to explain why a staff with good track records overall performed poorly.
January 27th, 2018 at 1:54 PM ^
If it wasn't for wanting Michigan to succeed, I'd almost want to see Pep & Drev leave just to compare their posts about how good their riddance is to their success elsewhere. It's not like these guys got where they are because they can't coach. It's much more likely they were doing too much with too little to work with.
Now what do we have to do for an actual WR coach...
January 27th, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
There is information out there that Pep's agent was pushing him hard for NFL vacancies. He was interviewed for a Raiders position coach job, looks like he came up with nothing.
January 27th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
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January 27th, 2018 at 3:23 PM ^
And the same people who bitch about Jay saying he's never played RB conveniently forget Fisch NEVER PLAYED A DOWN OF FOOTBALL IN HIS LIFE. This fanbase gives me cancer.
January 27th, 2018 at 11:59 AM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
"let Pep focus more on the QBs/WRs"
LOL, NO THANKS!!! I've seen enough
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