Gerry Dinardo: "Jim Harbaugh is all over the map"
Comments originated from an interview with a Nebraksa radio station:
“I think Jim’s kind of all over the map,” DiNardo says.
When pressed on his “all over the map” description of Harbaugh, DiNardo makes valid points.
“Well, what offense is he going to run? Who’s calling the plays?” DiNardo asks. “Is (Ole Miss transfer quarterback) Shea Patterson, who’s a spread guy — are they going to put Shea into the pro formation or are they going to take the pro formation and make it a spread formation for Shea?”
Michigan often has been a mess at quarterback since 2015, Harbaugh’s first season there.
What’s more, “They’ve had how many different co-offensive coordinators?” DiNardo says. “Who’s doing what? I mean, it’s a pretty simple question: Who’s calling the plays? Except that’s not a simple question in Ann Arbor. The answer is convoluted. …
“I was on the sideline and watched the Outback Bowl,” he adds, referring to Michigan’s 26-19 loss to an 8-4 South Carolina team. “It doesn’t look like a well-oiled machine to me."
I mean, just take it from a guy with a 59-76 head coaching record
that he needed a map!
But his comments were spot on.
Hopefully Warriner putting together a functioning O line will help. He never seemd to have down years in that regard at OSU.
Yeah, it's Gerry DiNardo and I don't typically give him a listen either, but to say that the offense may have been overcomplicated both in style and in the number of people involved in directing it seems like a fairly reasonable observation. I won't go as far as some above who want to toss out the word "clueless" - Harbaugh definitely is not that. Indeed, it seems like he's learned something here, and I guess we'll see what precisely starting with fall camp.
He says that QB has been a mess since 2015.
Actually, wasn't QB a mess under Hoke, as they were not getting developed properly?
Rudock got off to a alightly rough start, but I could easily argue that 2015 was our best QB year since at least 2011 and perhaps much further back.
Rudock was a stud against Florida and played pretty damn good I thought down the stretch in the last games. In the Ohio State game, the defense got piss pounded and were outmatched big time. Not to mention Durkin fucking everything up and Peppers acting like a whiny little girl on national television because he didn't want to play too much offense. Wasn't an elite athlete after all. Who knows what Rudock might have done had that game been closer down the stretch.
Oh yeah and fuck Dinardo. That's why he's on tv and Jim's on the sidelines making bank at one of the best universities in the world. If there ten offensesive minded coaches in all of the game of football who are not clueless, Jim fucking Harbaugh is one of them. This guy has been around the game since he was in diapers. Just try and fathom the people he has learned from. The guy was an NFL qb and a pretty damn good one at that. Un-fucking believable.
Crow all around. Clear your plates naysayers, and ready your forks. You shall feast come the fall.
I hope we start kicking all the asses
But, it's not a prerequisite for anyone to have an opinion.
Does Dinardo's W-L record uniquely disqualify him from stating the obvious or anything about football?
He did get to one of the highest levels of coaching football. It's a weak and lazy argument to use to dismiss his comments.
I'll dare to guess Dinardo has a ton more ability to comment on such things vs the OP or anyone on here, including me.
"Does Dinardo's W-L record uniquely disqualify him from stating the obvious or anything about football?"
It's relevant although not determinative. That's not too hard to understand
A W-L doesn't speak to Dinardo's ability to analyze game plan and coaching.
What is the OP's experience to dispute what Dinardo' is saying? Let's see the OPs breakdown of where Dinardo is wrong.
wrong post
Must be the same "you think you know more than Harbaugh" people.
Of completely missing the point! Here's a pooper scooper to clean up the crap of a just left.
He works as a B10 analyst and he was being interviewed on the radio about what I'm guessing is B10 coaches. He's certainly more qualified than me.
Dinardo's job is to come up with some sort of compelling story line- for now, and going into the season. Harbaugh gives away very little, so that doesn't make it easy.
And to be fair, it's the some questions and doubt we have here: it's Harbaugh's 4th year, against all expectations, offense has proven thus far to be Michigan's weak point. What direction is the offense going?
I'm still skeptical of complaints about the consistent quarterback problem considering:
- Rudock was lighting the world on fire at the end of 2015
- Wilton Speight was a middling recruit who didn't have any meaningful offers other than Michigan as a recruit. He basically started by default in 2016 because the previous staff didn't recruit good QBs, yet he was a VERY efficient starting B1G quarterback until he was injured, even though the line was kind of bad.
We had one bad year with our backup quarterbacks playing behind a dreadful line. We still haven't seen a Harbaugh team with an ideal quarterback situation. We've had a season with Iowa's backup, a season with a middling 3*, and a season with three different starting QBs.
We'd have still had issues on the line and the growing pains at receiver/TE, but we'd have been at least two wins better, no doubt.
There's a lot that we won't know until we actually see it, so I understand the amount of clickbait in the offseason. However, the amount of negative press Michigan gets is absurd. Dantonio goes 3-9 and it's "the future looks bright for the young, talented Spartans!"
I get that we struggled mightily on offense last year, but what reason is there to believe it isn't going to improve? I'm all for being real, but I fail to see how the offense is going to be as big of a shitshow with all the receivers coming back (and under a dedicated coach now), the OL coaching being simplified, Patterson being eligible, the other QBs returning with a year more of additional experience, and with two very solid running backs returning.
That if we hadn't gotten another transfer QB, and if he hadn't been declared eligible immediately (which is a rare exception with non-grad transfers), we would STILL be looking at a non-ideal situation at quarterback, in Harbaugh's 4th year.
What’s the Over/Under on the number of links to negative comments about Michigan Wolverines football that will be posted here between now and September 1? Beat the Irish! Go Blue!
I mean, is he wrong? Last year was a complete shitshow on offense, no? It's on Jim to prove the media wrong, not the other way around