Gerry Dinardo says Michigan can go undefeated

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BTN Cp Tour #Wolverines I wasn't expecting 2 say this but they have enough talent 2 win all games.I thought they were over rated they're not

— Gerry DiNardo (@gerrydinardo) August 15, 2016
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EGD

August 15th, 2016 at 9:47 PM ^

DiNardo wasn't as good a coach as Holtz. But he was still pretty damn good, both as a coordinator and then rebuilding LSU. Don't get me wrong--I'd still rather just see him eat unpeeled fruit than listen to his opinions. But as ex-coach commentators go, he's got pretty strong credentials.

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rob f

August 15th, 2016 at 10:29 PM ^

[Though I'd rather than listen to him than...huh?  watch him eat unpeeled fruit???]      :-)

I don't get the hate I'm reading about DiNardo.  I'm not going to try to claim he's the deepest thinker or best informed or hardest hitter among sports networks commentators, but I find him a lot more listenable and entertaining than 90% of what ESPN throws out there in front of the camera (and it is OK to watch BTN and enjoy being entertained, isn't it?).  

And is the BTN network all that it could and should be?  NO!  But again, what are the alternatives on the tube?   That's why the front page on MGoBlog is so very valuable to me as my primary source of the latest on Michigan Sports, being that I'm someone who lives nearly 2 1/2 hours from Ann Arbor and out of the range of WTKA and other local Ann Arbor sources.  

I view BTN primarily as entertainment and as a supplemental source of info on Michigan Football and the B1G in general and find myself relatively happy when looking at it with that perspective in mind.  Once I started thinking in those terms about the BTN several years ago, I stopped getting angry about their programs (with the exception of throwing ancient history nonsense out there about schools like Nebraska and Rutgers, etc., as if those things were part of Big Ten history.   No, BTN----Tom Osborne-coached Nebraska shit is NOT part of B1G history!!!). 

 

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EGD

August 15th, 2016 at 10:33 PM ^

Several years ago DiNardo was doing some kind of schtick with Howard Griffith where DiNardo would pull out some kind of fruit, like an orange or something that needed to be peeled, and bite right through the rind and chew it on camera. Several friends and I thought it was hilarious so whenever DiNardo comes that's the first thing I think about. I guess I was hoping somebody else remembered that but probably not. Oh well.

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GoBlue519

August 16th, 2016 at 8:10 AM ^

I have to go with Glen Mason.  Last night on BTN Live he said that he would only play Peppers at LB because sometimes when you try to play a guy both ways you take a great player and turn him into just a very good player.  Uh, ok.  Did he watch any football at all last year?  What a dolt.

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wildbackdunesman

August 15th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^

In Dinardo's defense, I remember Dinardo saying that we had big physical bodies and talent so we could compete for the conference title in 2012 and 2013. Was that not true?  Hoke had the talent, Hoke just could not develop it well and put it into a gameplan (especially QB).

So you watch a practice and you see a lot of talent and size and come away impressed like Dinardo did.  What is missing is that they weren't going up against another team with a coach who knew how to use his players.

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Albatross

August 16th, 2016 at 9:22 AM ^

had more talent than anyone in the Big Ten besides OSU and considering where that talent is now ranked, it is hard to argue with that assessment. He just didn't mention that Hoke couldn't coach.

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