Harbaugh on Warinner
In the below video, Jim Harbaugh talks about staff changes and upcoming hires, etc. Nothing meaty, other than Warinner. It's very clear that JH is enamored with Ed. Instead of reading the transcript, I watched the video and I'm glad I did. If you read his body language and his facial expressions when talking about Ed, he thinks he found an absolute gem. Not to mention his words. Based on them searching for a 10th assistant still, when he's so taken by Mr. Warinner, is it a fair speculation that maybe Ed will be taking a spot of someone CURRENTLY on staff and then the people they are interviewing will fill the last one? i just can't fathom why Jim is saying Ed will be his future best friend, talk about his amazing coaching ability and them keep him an analyst.
Thoughts from the board?
February 7th, 2018 at 7:22 PM ^
February 8th, 2018 at 9:35 AM ^
Jim at the 1:06 mark:
February 7th, 2018 at 7:17 PM ^
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February 7th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
The problem is people talk too much today. Simply put:
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothing comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And [people in general] act like they forgot about Dre
February 7th, 2018 at 9:53 PM ^
You talk a good one - but you don't do what you supposed to do
February 7th, 2018 at 10:09 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
You need a doctor?
February 8th, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
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February 7th, 2018 at 7:19 PM ^
I posted this as a thread just after, but don't believe it warrants it's own thread and feel it serves better here. Here is a link to the full transcript, though it's always a good idea to see the video to get a clear idea.
What I thought was most interesting:
1. Michael Barrett - Harbaugh only mentioned him for offense. I had thought he was primarily recruited to play the Viper position and occasionally be worked into the offense with special packages (similar to Peppers), but Harbaugh does not mention defense at all with Barrett.
2. Ed Warinner and his role (copied from the article) - “On offense right now, we are going through a self-scout period and looking at the ways to get our offense up to where our defense is. All those assignments are yet to be determined. His title is at offensive analyst. I believe, as good a coach as he is, plan on this being a long, trusting friendship between Ed Warinner and the Michigan football program. I have been very, very, very impressed with Ed.”
It sounds like there are some things still up in the air regarding the offensive staff and each of their roles. Warinner seems to be well-regarded as an OL coach, but not an OC. Could he possibly be moved to coach the OL, moving Drevno to OC exclusively? In my mind, OL needs a dedicated coach that's not splitting his duties coming up with an offensive game plan and calling plays.
Nothing earth-shattering, but thought there were some interesting tidbits none-the-less.
February 7th, 2018 at 9:31 PM ^
One thing that was kind of interesting is Tony Gerdeman's reaction to Warinner being named an analyst rather than the OL coach or something more overtly hands-on with the offense.
I quote: "That would be like buying the best riding mower on the market and then leaving it in the garage while you cut your grass with two dull butter knives."
February 7th, 2018 at 10:46 PM ^
The easiest way to improve is to bring in more players, preferably good ones. Yet this class has ONE true o-lineman. That's embarrassing for a school like Michigan. A major program like Michigan has 2 glaring holes at tackle, and they can't reel in better than a long-term solution, and a potential project. I hope the staff is trying to come up with an answer to that. Honestly, I don't care what the 10th coach does on the field, who can figure out the make-up of Harbaugh's staff? I just want the best suited person to go into the homes of 50 2019 o-linemen and seal the deal on 5 of them (no less). I don't care if you need to raid a pro staff, don't care if you have to pay another million dollar salary, don't care if you have to bring some old guy out of retirement, hell I don't care if he's never coached before, as long as he goes and gets 5 studs for drevno to coach up. What's jimbo covert doing now days? Hell what's Steve Hutchinson doing now? He could use some visibility to boost his standing among HOF voters. Desperate times call for desperate measures, not self scouting
February 8th, 2018 at 8:08 AM ^
We used to be o line U. We need solid o line okay as a prerequisite for everything else. I am an o line zealot. Just IMHO but I hope more effort is spent on them.
February 7th, 2018 at 7:20 PM ^
The shuffling of the staff this offseason is just perplexing.
Meanwhile, Nebraska is ranked one spot lower than Michigan in recruiting in Frost's transition year.
They're not going to be pushovers come next season.
February 7th, 2018 at 7:25 PM ^
Yeah, actually, they'll be pretty bad. They had a horrible team last year, they'll be starting a new QB, they will be installing an entirely new and complicated system, and have no good prospects on defense. They've got problems if they're playing freshman or if they're playing the guys that had them at 4-8.
Frost will get Nebraska above water but implying that we should worry about that game is foolish.
February 7th, 2018 at 7:34 PM ^
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February 7th, 2018 at 8:03 PM ^
Eh, the 2015 team was loaded with upperclassmen from highly rated recruiting classes. Nebraska's best recruiting class of the last five years is still rated worse than our "OMG RUN FOR THE HILLS HARBAUGH SUCKS" class.
February 7th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
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February 7th, 2018 at 10:57 PM ^
He was every bit as bad as JOK vs OSU. Check that. He was worse. What a putrid display.
The QB position screwed over the 2017 season.
February 7th, 2018 at 11:45 PM ^
February 8th, 2018 at 9:03 AM ^
Yup. The board clamoring for him all year, while they were starting O'Korn... as if we (a) knew more about football, or (b) knew more about Peters
It's just difficult to get to know a guy enough on recruiting visits, and Peters turned out to be of a different mental makeup than advertised. It was a miss. It happens.
I highly doubt the same will be true of McCaffrey. It's even conceivable that Shea wins his waiver and loses the QB competition. Knowing what they knew, it must have been hard to keep that RS on him. But I'm encouraged that our staff doesn't panic and mortgage the future.
February 8th, 2018 at 7:27 AM ^
February 8th, 2018 at 10:04 AM ^
This past season the sparties were infinitely more intense then us, wanted it more by orders of magnitude, were much more aggressive, played waaaaayyyyyy harder, hit harder and were dirty and cheaty & bullying as fuck, but got away with it like everyone else does against us in "both" sports (country AND western) (NU bball 4 instance), and we just sat and TOOK IT!
So Frost will bring the same hatred and intensity to Nebraska that the scumbag brought to the shithole in the 517. Now when he says he outhit us, with the guys he'll be able to bring from and to the corn fields it will be visible to everyone.
Harbaugh brings no hate for anyone, nor instills it. Every game is the same, business like. I think when your opponents want to kill you and humiliate you and will fight to the death to do so you have to bring the same level of passion. You have to fight that kind of fire with fire.
During sparty week in Harbaugh's first year I asked a group of players I knew if Harbaugh was any different or especially intense for the rivalry and that sort of thing, and if he had said anything about what sparty had done to him as a player and how it ruined the season, caused Bo his worst year by far, how BYU "earned" it's illegit NC out of it, or anything like that. The answer was no to all, that ne never talks about his own career and nothing special in the sparty preparation, each game the same. NONE of them knew a single thing about his broken arm or anything that happened.
I had a player ask me last year "Why does everyone care so much about Ohio State? I know it's a big game but it's like people would rather see us beat OSU than have a great year. Why is the Buckeye game such a big deal?" He's not from either state, like most of our guys, and hasn't been taught anything about the rivalry or it's import.
Not only that, but we've all seen how unprepared and bereft of new things or wrinkles we've come out with after bye weeks, and in the bowl this year. How was what we came up with for sparty this year, nothing, excusable?
It sure as fuck looked like nothing new, nothing special that had been held back or dreamed up for that game, and my main player friend (plays offense) confirmed that how it looked was how it was. WTF?
There is so much more wrong behind the scenes that is not known or imagined by anyone in the public. If it doesn't change it will be very hard for anything else anyone thinks we can or should change to make enough difference to overcome the fundamental problems I hear about.
Who knows, maybe the coach is ready to listen to other people now? I guess we'll see.
I haven't heard or asked if the the recruits hear the truth about that kind of stuff from them or not, but even if they're not the recruits must at least be getting a sense that things aren't quite right around here.
February 7th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 7:57 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 8:24 PM ^
February 8th, 2018 at 9:09 AM ^
Education? We still talking about Nebraska?
February 7th, 2018 at 9:57 PM ^
Frost is off to a nice start to his career but let's not annoint him just yet. Nebraska is supposed to be an actual football program so I hope he makes it that.
Kudos to the guy for taking on a big challenge he's likely to fail at given Nebraska alum delusional expectations. Not gonna be easy sledding for him.
February 7th, 2018 at 10:37 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 11:02 PM ^
Talking more about the Solich and Pelini firings. Winning 75% of the games isn't enough for them and I can't see Frost exceeding that over any extended stretch of time.
February 7th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 11:35 PM ^
That Scott Frost will get to coach there a while?
February 8th, 2018 at 9:39 AM ^
You mean Jim Harbaugh the man most of you gave 2 years and a couple games before questioning his qualifications involving the coaching staff, in game decision making and recruiting?
February 8th, 2018 at 9:39 AM ^
You mean Jim Harbaugh the man most of you gave 2 years and a couple games before questioning his qualifications involving the coaching staff, in game decision making and recruiting?
February 7th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
O'Leary had turned UCF into one of the better non power 5 programs. I have no idea what caused the implosion in 2015 when UCF to go 0-12 but from 2010-2014 UCF was darn good. Over that 5 year stretch they won 4 division titles, 3 conference titles and won a BCS bowl game.
February 7th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^
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February 7th, 2018 at 7:42 PM ^
You forget the previous progress at other schools. Frost took a no-win team to NATIONAL CHAMPS, in less than 2 years.
Chew on that....
February 7th, 2018 at 7:53 PM ^
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February 7th, 2018 at 7:26 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 7:26 PM ^
Because of his playcalling. He should not be a playcaller. OSU people will still tell you that he's the best OL coach in the country, he just can't call a game.