Drive Chart: O'Korn vs. Peters

As I don’t read other team’s fan blogs I don’t know if other fans do the same, but man o’man can Michigan fans turn positives into negatives. Yes, it’s ok to question Harbaugh, and no he’s not “our god.” But, if you’re going to question someone’s job performance, it might be good to have a) at least some similar/relevant skill; b) some data upon which to base one’s critiques; and to expound upon b) something other than emo fan lamentations. I don’t think anyone would be shocked to find out that Harbaugh has wanted to get Peters into the starting spot as quickly as posisble. He his guy and he’s got the higher ceiling. But, as MM said on the broadcast yesterday, there’s nobody in the business who knows his roster bettter than Harbaugh. Did he make a mistake in not inserting BP into the MSU, was IU, and PSU games? Only based upon hindsight — and even that is far from difinituve. It’s equally plausible to see the opposing view: i.e., the mistake was the decision to put him in, not keep him out. We have to defer to the expert. As he said, nobody thinks about this more than him and his staff. Further, nobody has more experience and first hand data than him. Does that make him infallible? Of course not. But coach’s comment, “it’s time ...” is telling. It points to the fact that there was finally a confluence of factors — BP’s performance in practice, JOK’s performance in both practice and games, and the schedule — that made it time. Before that, one of more those factors being different made it not time.