George Helow hired by Alabama

This is EXCELLENT sign for Michigan. If Saban thought he was gonna walk over them he wouldn't do it. Saban's legitimately worried.

Then Michigan will do it next year and Harbaugh will get suspended

The fine gentlemen writing football book at BetMGM think this hire is worth...

*checks phone*

...somewhat less than one-quarter of a point and not necessarily more than zero.

You can do this?! Before a playoff game ?!

wow 

will anyone see the hypocrisy here? No 

Signs, signs, signs!!!

People do know that there isn’t anything stopping Michigan from doing the same thing right?

Why was Helow let go?

But they'll know all our plays! They'll taint their national title run! Think of the players' safety! Tony, save us all!

Well, this could be interesting.  Now we know that Alabama knows what to expect from Minter's defense.  It might be fun to find ways to use that knowledge against them. Can we throw a few curveballs to Coach Helow?

We've got pretty decent coaches.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I expect we’ll imminently see Tony Petitti busting through the walls of SEC headquarters like the KoolAid man, swearing up and down about competitive integrity and player safety.

This is bullshit. This is the biggest clown show of a sport ever.  So many rules yet so much inconsistency.  This is a display of how to circumvent that corny, harmless sign stealing shit.  AL. will most certainly win as they will have the most potent form of saboteur ever known to the sport.  Makes me not even want to watch.  This means that AL will appear gimped most of the game as they navigate our entire cfb program. Just for them to emerge like a mega dominant force as they casually revert to their original brand of football and catch the warriors of UoM off guard. I pray that I am wrong and we grind them up through sheer expertise of our own concept.

Hit up Ross. See if he can hire their OC as an assistant 

Just quickly hire someone who was on Bama's staff recently and if that's not possible Auburn's. If anyone knows Bama inside out it's Auburn.

Saban is a master manipulator.  This creates a stir in the UM lockerroom and doesn't break any technical rules. Maybe some made up BS "sportsmanship" rule. So, he basically sticks a finger in the eye of both UM and the NCAA. 

It's the kind of advantage I'd imagine Harbaugh taking if the program wasn't under so much scrutiny. Should still do it though..Saban must have like a billion ex coaches floating around out there.

This is going to test the coaching staff’s ability to get creative.

Clearly they can only change things up or try to misdirect from the plays they’ve been perfecting all year long, and for many, multiple years.

So let me make 2 silly ideas:

Silly Idea #1: At this level of football and with Saban’s level of Saban-ness as a coach and with a young QB…is it reasonably possible that in order to simulate the opposition as much as possible, Saban would put jersey numbers on the defense in practice to help give his QB every possible way to recognize the opposition? 

If so…what if you changed everyone’s jersey number to throw any possible monkey wrench into the works?

And changing everyone’s number for the game wouldn’t matter much for the good guys. That’s pretty silly.

Silly Idea #2: Going into a good ol’ defensive huddle a la JV ball. QB will still get a look at the defense, but with a huddle and a quick run up to the LOS, the QB would have much less time to survey the defensive alignment.

Yes, the defense will still need to be evaluate on the fly as the offense comes to the line…but it is the offense which is under any sort of time constraint, not the D. Add to that, offenses can often take more time to set up and properly align than what the D needs.

The counter to that would be up-tempo, which potentially is prone to errors unless a team is well-practiced in it.

Like I said, silly ideas. But also like I said, the staff is going to have to get creative.

HAIL.

Yeah where is everyone with player safety and sportsmanship issues now? I still say Michigan needs to leave the Big Ten. That toilet bug Petitie won’t have any comment as he probably encouraged Bama to do this. 

Doug Marrone was Saban’s OL coach in 2021. Perhaps Harbaugh should give him a call…

So this just to learn about our Amoeba defense?  Or as a real position coach ?

Ask Iowa how much it helped them when Cade "told them everything."

Nick Saban is a POS. Fuck him and the NCAA.

Is it viable for Michigan to turn this to its advantage by playing with Alabama's anticipations of Michigan's defensive reads?