The guy Bo actually wanted- Mo, what if he had not resigned back in 1995?

I've posted a couple of times about what might have happened had Mo not been railroaded out of town. Could Bo's legacy been extended even farther than it was under Coach Carr? I think the answer would have been yes. We could have had several years of Mo and then maybe Lloyd or someone else would have tacked on another 10 years or so. We would probably have had at least one more NC in there as well.

Bo once told me that Lloyd Carr was the best coach Michigan ever had. That comment, to me, epitomizes Bo better than anything I can think of.

Mo would have never been fired (per Bo himself).

I think if events had transpired differently, then history would not have been the same.

And you know what?  It actually isn't very different from today.

 

Moeller's teams started going 8-4, basically after Bo's kids started graduating.  Mo was getting flak from the faithful that maybe he couldn't succeed with his own kids.  On that fateful day in Southfield, things were bad enough with the reports of what happened.  But the final nail was that the actual call to Southfield police was released to the media.  Local news and radio were playing the actual audio of Mo, and once that hit, there was no going back.  I remember that the rumor was that some alumni somewhere were in a position to release that audio.  After that hit, the University felt that they had to let him go.

 

I recall that when Lloyd was initially named interim, he was *pissed off.*  He railed against the people that treated Mo like a criminal for his one bad night, and rightfully so.

Or, perhaps, something not unlike the record he actually compiled from 1990-1994: a .758 winning percentage.

For comparison's sake, Lloyd Carr's winning percentage from 1995-2007 was: .753

I always thought Mo was the best game coach among the three (Bo, Mo, Lloyd).  I also think if that incident happened today he would probably survive it.  The Mo-Lloyd combination could have dome some great things, though Lloyd probably would have gotten a HC offer after a few more years.

What if I was a pencil instead of a Q-tip?

1997 wouldn't have happened and Hoke would have stayed longer. He also would have kept Mattisons sorry ass, who currently knows he is giving plays away, but doesn't care because, "times have changed but he won't." Mattison plays our guys off so far we are back pedaling like hell. Mattison wouldn't have left in 96, so our D wouldn't have improved like it did in 97 when he left. We would have missed out on that championship if Herman didn't take over from Mattison.

to be a student on a Saturday night. He should have never been fired. His punishment should have been Mo running the stadium stairs at 5 am for a month.

Instead of Lloyd? What if Lloyd had hired Harbaugh as OC in 2003. Lots of what ifs and most of them are painful Meanwhile back in reality Gary was the only coach to leave the Lions with a winning record.

The most interesting part was where he talks about Bo and Texas A&M...

Schembechler, of course, did turn the job down. I figure he never seriously considered it. The thing that bothered me more was to take place that evening. At the press conference, Tom Monaghan, founder and owner of Domino's Pizza based in Ann Arbor, presented Shembechler with a pizza store in, of all places, Columbus, Ohio. It really was a bush gesture. The store never made money, but Monaghan made it clear to the public that his gift was an effort to keep Schembechler at Michigan. Why Bo let Monaghan be part of that evening I'll never know, nor forget. 

In retrospect, however, over a 20-year period my relationship with Bo was good. He always supported me publicly and privately, as far as I know. And I always did everything I could to help him and the football program because without a healthy football program an athletic department doesn't have a chance to succeed. Appointing Bo was obviously my most important selection.

I realized early that coaches often leave suddenly. For that reason I always had a list of people I would consider as replacements for any of the head coaches. At one point, for instance, had Schembechler left I might have appointed Bill McCartney, who subsequently left for the University of Colorado. At another point I would have called on Don Nehlen, who wound up at the University of West Virginia.

If Bo had left, I wonder how successful McCartney or Nehlen would've been.

Bo says he was "traveling and unavailable?" I guess he was in Namibia or some other place without phone service. What a load of crap.

before his incident after 2 straight 4 loss seasons.  but he was a more aggressive and better coach then carr, imo.  that's why bo picked him. 

His drinking binges weren't made public. It happened many times in Saline.