Indiana Snowflakes: The Coaching

Too many penalties...to state the obvious.

Speight and O'Korn are a replica of Threet/Sheridan this year.

How Peters is not even in the conversation is quite concerning. 

Lackluster at best.

the run game improved a lot.

let’s get the passing in order!

Time management
Punt strategy

Would've liked to see Peters get a shot when we were up ten just to see what he could do.

You have to start OKorn next week at PSU now, but if he gets hurt or plays terrible Peters could've used the reps.

Thats worth 10M a year.

if you are going to play to protect yout 10 point lead and, therefore, not allow O'Korn to throw, then why on Earth would you allow your punter to kick it to their dangerous return man?  Kick it out of bounds.

That mistake gave IU a short field and also a momentum shift. 

 

A win. That’s all I care about. Indiana always acts like this is one of their biggest games on the schedule. (Because I’m sure it is) You had to know it was going to be close. JOK is terrible. I agree, but if Peters isn’t playing it’s for a reason. He’s young, you think he knows the offense? You think he handles his first start on the road? Nope. I bet that 99% of the JOK haters were Speight haters 3 weeks ago. You called for JOK, you got him. How’s that working out? Oh, not well you say, then let’s put in a freshman who will get killed. I don’t know about most of you. Must be drinking or smoking too much.
Bottom line: Michigan isn’t good. Non delusional fans recognized they would have growing pains this year. This win gets us closer to the predictable result of 8-4.

As far as coaching. One complaint. Off sides formation seemed far too thin on the one side. Other than that, what’s to complain about. Harbaugh managed the game like it was an nfl game where the clock makes all the difference. His team couldn’t get a first down to seal the game. What would you rather he call? A pass??? Didn’t think so. If we want to complain, it’s not the coaches fault at all today. Penalties? Players commit those and the refs were touchy on PI calls.

141 penalty yards...not good, Bob.

hot garbage is more like it...but I'll take the W

1.8 points per possession!! improvement!

he's RB & TE, iirc: they're the only half-decent unit on the field. Problem seemed mostly in O-Coord lap, today at least. But: take the road win, against a much-improved Indy squad: Go Blue!

Also hope none of those injuries are more than a day or two of soreness

Defense is  really fun to watch.  When the offence takes the field i go watch my grass grow!

Let’s not forget punting straight to their best weapon when their offense had been doing nothing all game and Michigan was a series or two away from winning. Complete coaching implosion from everyone whose name doesn’t rhyme with Bon Drown. Did everything they needed to to lose.

Hate to say it, but: Tressel Ball -- conservative as hell power football on O, and let your D win it with bare minimum of O support being all you can expect

Coached that game basically appropriately except not giving Peters a shot.  Which they obviously should have done because O'Korn was terrible.  Missed wide open dudes consistently.  Had a good game plan, ran the ball effectively, had open receivers most of the time we tried to throw, and the QB either missed the read or the throw or didn't get the snap off on time.

..you should have play action all day. The fact we don't is an indictment of just about everyone on offense including the coaches.

The issue with the criticism of Hamilton/Drevno - which is fair - is that you can't make Harbaugh switch coordinators. It never works. He needs to realize himself that he can do better. My only concern with Harbaugh when he was hired was that he'd be too conservative and we'd be back to the issues under Hoke. Well the first two years it seemed like Harbaugh had enough tricks up his sleeve to make even a pro-style offense be a bit unpredictable and dangerous, but this year that's all gone and we're at a point where running a dozen times consecutively up the middle is our best option on offense.

When has running 3 straight times trying to seal a Game or come from behind EVER worked out for Harbaugh. Iowa last year. Loss. MSU last year loss. Ohio state. Loss. MSU this year resulted in punt more times than not. Florida state got the ball back and ended up coming from behind to win. Penalties or special teams errors do happen but it seems like that’s not accounted for. Such dumb football.

which are borderline penalites but work like a charm and we do not?!

Extremely conservative playcalling in the last 6 mins.  Would like see Harbaugh playing to win instead of not to lose. 

Positives:
- less turnovers
- less QB pressure/sacks
- running back w/ over 200 yards + 3 tds.

This felt like OSU 2002, where they won close games their offense should not have won. Play conservative, try to win field position. Win by defense & special teams. Remove the late punt return, and Michigan wins in regulation.

When you come off a performance with 5 turnovers and a bunch of sacks.... with young WRs and a questionable oline/pass protection... what kind of offensive game plan did you expect? Also, there were open people that were either overthrown or not looked at.

At least 2 delay of game penalties partially caused by the play call coming in late. Too many cooks in the fucking kitchen.