Chris Patridge’s Thoughts Regarding Mattison
Doesn't make it ok.
I had looked at what Mattison had done by leaving as a business deal. Perhaps he had expected to be the DC, perhaps he thought he was very underpaid. I could have lived with these things, although I wasn't happy about it. Football is after all a business.
But when Mattison started with his cutesy shit TTUN, that's when I said I'm done with him. That was anything but accidental and it achieved the thing Mattison hoped for, it pissed off the Michigan fan base. That was his intent and it was uncalled for. He never had anything but respect from the fans. Until now...
Fuck him.
Let's roll (and win one for once). This is what we need.
To be honest, this whole situation is making me wonder wtf Ryan Day was thinking?
He buried a potential landmine in his tenure for someone who's already eating dinner by 3pm.
Kinda makes sense GMatt would try to prove Harbaugh wrong for choosing Don Brown but this is really a strange move *(edit) for a first year HC.
From what I hear, Mattison is hanging out in the men's room a lot reading girlie magazines and they can barely get him to come out and coach a little. It was all part of a deal he and Jimmy cooked up to undermine OSU. He'll be back next year after they fall apart is the secret plan. Day already senses that something is terribly wrong, but given the big buyout Mattison's lawyer insisted on he's stuck with him for at least a year.
If we want an edge back to the program, then THIS is exactly whats needed... it worked well for MSU.... let the two coaches going to rivals in a weasel way, be the motivation to bring everyone together....
bless coach Partridge.... am glad finally someone stepped up and spoke the truth. its gonna suck when he leaves, and it'll be soon.
How could he leave soon after this? He would be a raging hypocrite!
I don't think he leaves, I think he's here until DB retires and takes over as DC. Then when JH retires he takes over as HC.
Fact is, I'm surprised he is still here coaching a position...and hasn't been offered DC somewhere...His star has risen in a big way...
Him leaving isn't hypocritical at all, unless he went to OSU
April 11th, 2019 at 11:01 PM ^
He will either leave to prove himself as a DC or get promoted to some assistant DC role here.
If he continues being as good as he has been, he will end up as Michigan’s DC and possibly the HC after Harbaugh. He would be perfect for it. He just needs to prove himself.
got a crazy idea for chris partridge................................... uhhhhhhhh maybe beat them on the field for once? i know it's thinking outside of the box but might work better than just talking crap sorry not sorry
Is this the first time you've posted here in like 5 years? I feel like I haven't seen your name in quite a while.
yeah checkin' in to lob a bomb. 1 win in 400 years has given me PTSD. how bout that bball team what is football
April 11th, 2019 at 11:45 PM ^
Chrisgoaway, if you were hired by the head of this blog then It will take me about 1 second to think about what to do next. Did Brian really approve this guy?
No answering media questions till they beat them?
Ok, bold move but I'm willing to try it!
See you guys 11/31 at @ 4:10pm.
April 11th, 2019 at 11:19 PM ^
A blue star next to your name is a disgrace, go work in a call center
I will reiterate my thoughts on GM. He's a baby back bitch.
My kids made me listen to "The Duck Song" the other day and it made me think of GM. "Waddle..waddle...then he waddle away."
April 11th, 2019 at 11:24 PM ^
Seriously, go enjoy your kids and grandkids...if he can’t do that then he’s s mess internally
No Michigan fan who's old enough to have been around during the Ten Year War can just wave off what Mattison did with "Eh, what's the big deal, he got a promotion etc etc."
Going directly from Michigan to OSU would have been literally unthinkable back then, and that mindset will never leave me. If all Greg Mattison wanted was a chance to be DC again with a nice salary bump, he could have gotten that at plenty of schools other than our most hated rival.
In anticipation of somebody saying "but but but Bo coached at OSU and then came to Michigan"—Schembechler spent six years as HC at Miami of Ohio before he came to Ann Arbor. If you don't think there's a difference between that and moving directly from Michigan to OSU, we live in different worlds.
If someone introduces him to me at the Washtenaw Dairy years from now there ain't gonna be a handshake, I can tell you that much.
Proud of Partridge. Glad he’s here.
I'm glad someone around the program is mad about this. The whole reaction was just so fucking muted from everyone but the fans. Hell, Sam Webb was defending him to the absolute hilt(and it was a bit over the top as far as how much he was trying to get people to calm down about it).. It really does feel like no-one in Ann Arbor takes the rivalry seriously at all, and frankly, it's absolutely the reason Michigan gets their asses whipped by them every single year.
What Mattison did was unthinkable, Washington should never have taken the Michigan job in the first place if Columbus was his ultimate goal, and it't time for Michigan to take this as the mushroom stamping it was meant to be, get pissed off and finally figure out how to beat Ohio State.
Glad you brought up Sam and his general comments on TOADS..
Love Sam, the insider or insiders IMO...but his defending of this shit bag drives me crazy. Call a spade a spade and say its bullshit and a direct jab at JH and the program.
CP is east coast hard nosed dude...love that he is saying something. TOADS
Like...
Good. I'm glad to see someone publicly mention it. Fuck Xattison (can't use "M" now that he's a toothless cooler shitter).
I refuse to believe that Mattison's departure was about money or status, not at his age. I'm pretty sure it was to stick it to Harbaugh and/or UM. To hell with him.
Harbaugh demoted him, and then passed over him again. Gee, with that kind of loyalty being displayed by Harbaugh it really is hard to understand why Mattison left for a better paying job with more responsibility.
Well, then, how about some loyalties to the players. If you resent being demoted, don't stay on and coach to young men and then ditch them to coach their arch-rivals. Breaks the man rules plain and simple.
April 11th, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
Since Mattison sucked @ss as a DC, thank goodness JH demoted him to his level of competence.
Gave up 42 to TUOs in consecutive years, and one of those he held them to only 400 rushing yards.
Never understood the adulation over a guy who sucked as a DC here.
April 11th, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
To be fair, Brown wasn’t too hot against osu either.
April 12th, 2019 at 12:17 AM ^
I am all too aware of the clown show displayed by Pony in the TUOS game.
Like seeing it. Take it personal and In november let’s kick their asses
Right on, Chris!
Go Blue!
Damn Straight!
CP is a boss
Love the fire out of Partridge.
Like how Chris makes clear he is only speaking for himself, but is refreshingly candid. Everyone has the right to their own feelings. My feeling is it would be mighty sweet to beat OSU and Matty a few years in a row, right through Matty's retirement, but of course we just need to win the next one at this point.
Kinda looks like Mattison saw a challenge and ran. He is not someone you use as an example to raise your kids. Hope his parents are proud of his carpet bagging. Not a good look.
This is very refreshing. There seemed to be a little outrage when this all went down, but I couldn’t believe that overall it seemed to just be no big deal. It was a huge deal and whether it was towards Harbaugh or truthfully because he wanted to be a defensive coordinator, it was still one of the biggest “fuck you” moves I’ve ever seen from a coach.
To think he did this before when he went to Notre Dame is even worse. Add in all the wonderful things he said about Michigan and the rivalry and you have a guy that just dug his grave for ever being welcome by any M fan anywhere let alone Ann Arbor. Yes, he’s going to make a few million dollars yet he just tarnished his reputation forever. When he sucks at OSU and they fire him, two fan bases will despise him and karma will hit hard.
Can't wait for Mattison to enter town this year. I guess he defines this age of no loyalty. Even if you work for a company for decades, the company sees you as a number. Aka our Detroit "heros". Buy " Chinese.
At first, when he left to be DC somewhere, I understood that... sucks to be a line coach when you've been a DC so long.… BUT... the ONE place he shouldn't go to, is their yin-yang rival.... just seems wrong, despite his history with Meyer.... Benedict Mattison deserves all the grief that's coming....
Love Patridge.
I would love to sit down with Chris and have a beer with him and actually hear what he REALLY wants to say.
About damn time. Hoke really seemed to have the hate for OSU and it showed in how his teams played in The Game.
Fuck Mattison. That is all
I've said it before and I'll say it again, fuck Mattison.
Know what else isn't okay? Losing on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. I don't know what motivates Mattison, but you got to think that perhaps he'd like to cap off his professional career on the winning side of the ledger. As for Washington, again only speculating, but maybe he has decided that working with a program that can compete with and beat the best is a way to move his professional life forward.
One can wonder if perhaps Partridge would think differently if he was offered a position, with a commensurate pay raise, at a top tier program.
April 11th, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
Stupid comment. Partridge was offered a raise and status increase by Alabama. Can’t get any higher on the winning scale than that.
The man turned it down he because he has class and appreciation for the man who gave him a huge opportunity. His words on this subject are more valuable than any.
April 11th, 2019 at 11:07 PM ^
Partridge was offered a raises to go to Alabama and stayed.
I like Partridge. Very happy he didn’t bolt for Alabama when Saban courted him. He will be a defensive coordinator somewhere soon, I suspect.
April 11th, 2019 at 11:11 PM ^
He could be a D coordinator right now, somewhere, if he wanted to dip stick