Blue Texan

December 6th, 2022 at 6:11 PM ^

Our defense has out performed our offense overall. TCU is the opposite, heavily relying on offense because their defense sucks (QED - Big12).
Without TCU’s Offense humming, they don’t get to the playoffs. we are more balanced. 
That said, I fully expect our Offense to vastly outperform TCU because our defense will crush them. This is the best defense, and perhaps the best offense as well, that TCU has seen this year. And it will be their last. 

outsidethebox

December 6th, 2022 at 5:25 PM ^

Minter is fine. People who are good at their jobs could not care less what people who have no authority over them and don't know much about the matter say or think. Both are likely deserving...it should be interesting to see this play out.

How is that genius, Ryan Day, doing in the Coach of the Year voting???. 

Blue Vet

December 6th, 2022 at 4:17 PM ^

Damn. Has no one outside UM's fan base watched both halves of Michigan games, and seen the impressive adjustments?

Beat TCU so bad that its OC will relinquish the award to Minter in shame.

huntmich

December 6th, 2022 at 5:34 PM ^

I've got my own little conspiracy theory that michigan has some super smart football nerd genius who sits in the sky booth all half watching the game, noticing all the tells of the opposing team, and then at halftime he pushes his gigantic coke bottle glasses up his nose and takes the elevator down to the locker room, where Harbaugh and minter hurry him into an office so he can download everything that's happening in the game to them in 8 minutes. They thank him, give him, like, a super rare Topps card from 1989 or something, pat him on the head, and tell him to scurry off as they pull out a book that the nerd wrote in advance to counter all of the tells he informed them of.

 

Honestly though, if it's just minter, Harbaugh, Weiss, etc., why aren't they making adjustments mid game? I'm not criticizing, just confused why 15 minutes in the locker room would be any greater of an opportunity to make game changing adjustments to strategy than would the 90 minutes of commercials in the first half.

 

What's the magic that happens at halftime?

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

December 6th, 2022 at 6:57 PM ^

Halftime is when you can tell all your players about the smart shit you figured out in the first half.  Instead of calling plays, spot-correcting mistakes, communicating to your other coaches, mini-gameplanning the next drive, and the myriad other stuff a coach has to do, you have no more distractions and you have all your players together with nothing for any of you to do but chat.

MRunner73

December 6th, 2022 at 4:20 PM ^

Jesse Minter did more and with less personal after the big departures from 2021. From a statistical view, Minter should have won this award. Plus Big-10 plays much better defense than the Big-12 so it's harder to succeed in our conference. Expectations were so much lower for the Michigan defense at the start of the season knowing this was his first year as DC.

1VaBlue1

December 6th, 2022 at 4:30 PM ^

I'll say it again - you don't have a good offense unless you throw for 300 yds/game.  Should probably add scoring 40 points/gm.

Oh, wait - Michigan does that.

Wow, people really don't like Michigan this year, do they?

WeimyWoodson

December 6th, 2022 at 4:36 PM ^

Makes sense TCU would win it. They’re similar to Michigan last year since they started the season unranked to make the playoff and the guy who wasn’t supposed to be the starter is a Heisman finalist. 

bronxblue

December 6th, 2022 at 4:43 PM ^

Honestly, I thought TCU had a really nice season on offense so no anger here.  Certainly more deserving than Gattis last year in my opinion.  My guess is Minter will get this award in due time.

lilpenny1316

December 6th, 2022 at 4:44 PM ^

Totally good with any extra motivation. I'm hoping Stetson wins the Heisman so we can beat TCU and have an entire team ready to show Blake should've won over him.