Ohio State Snowflakes: The Coaching

PAY Minter

Jim Harbaugh should win every Coach of the Year award this year.

The coordinators should win all the coordinator awards this year as well.

What an incredible season.

28-3 in 2nd half.  Our coaches are the best in college football.

How about the discipline of this M team! Zero unsportsmanlike conduct penalties against MSU or OSU if I recall correctly. Meanwhile OSU's unsportsmanlike conduct + holding penalties erased a 20+ yard play and killed one of their key drives. Kudos to the players and coaches for not beating themselves. 

I love everything about Corum, but I think him being out made the play callers be more aggressive passing it downfield and that ultimately was exactly what we needed to do against the defense OSU was playing.  

After that last touchdown, we should have gone for two.

Alright, maybe this is obnoxious, but I kind of feel like I nailed it in the prediction thread, so I'm going to repost here, because they are who we thought they were:

So, nobody likes to look stupid. And for years, we all believed, and it made us look stupid. We predicted wins and we got close losses. Then we got a couple years of blowout losses and it felt hopeless.

Somewhere in there, OSU convinced itself it cared more about this game than we did, so we also had to deal with that.

All that emotional baggage, all the pain and suffering of the last two decades, every post-Carr disaster, it's all there, it lives in our head rent free.

Vegas thinks what it thinks, that line is a lot. Maybe they think we're seriously injured, if we don't have many of our best players this becomes a big ask.

But, if we're relatively healthy, and I think that we are, this team is built fundamentally the same as the one last year, and it's not built to win a national championship, it's built to beat OSU in November. Everything that worked last year will work here, every strength of last year's team is a strength of this team, we lose a little organic passing rush, but that's about it.

Meanwhile, OSU's much vaunted 3 safety defense is not built to beat Michigan, it is frankly the wrong scheme to beat Michigan, and OSU would have been better served by its old 1 high safety scheme. Is the OSU defense bad? No, it's pretty good. But again, one team is built to win this game, one team is not.

JJ has to be competent. He doesn't have to be amazing, but you can't just let them put 8 guys in the box because they trust you to fail to complete passes to open receivers. Last week was a scare, but I think he's good enough.

This is last year's game. There's been much talk of change from the OSU side, but you know what they fundamentally believe: it was a fluke, it was the flu, it was a 1/10 bet that only works in light snow. You've heard them fake respect and pretend they fear Michigan, pretend they reckoned with how we beat them and made changes and fundamentally altered their approach. They did not.

42-27 Michigan.

Shame on everyone who doubted the coaches.  Weiss took what the defense gave him and Minter slowed every opponent down as best a we could and now we're 12-0 boys.

I’m liking the way that Harbaugh is too happy for post game on field interviews

In the long storied history of Michigan football, this was an absolute all timer performance from everyone. 

I really appreciate coaches full commitment to owning the clock. Something a large chunk of the brain trust here spent years convincing us did not matter. The past 2 games, victories, against OSU shows different. Once you decide you are a low variance offense built to drive not explode, you commit 100%. We have done that and it absolutely KILLS teams like OSU. They are like Alan Iverson. Dude would have 48pts in the box score but he took 33 shots. Ohio’s explosive offense relies on having enough rolls of the dice to get the pay out. We absolutely robbed them of that both games. We started on the first damn drive. Religiously using the play clock down to 5-6 seconds. Then once a lead was established in the 3rd we stayed inbounds with intention and snapped at under 05 every single play. Fuck tempo football. It’s a cheese dick trick to cover over poor execution by hoping the Ds confusion is worse than your shit execution. It’s saying Iverson’s way is the way. I personally love perfect execution of designed plays and controlling the game better than relying on volume and waiting to catch their fuck up. 

How about Harbaugh going for it on fourth and short early in the second half while we were still down three and deep in our own territory? Stark contrast to Ryan Day.

Feels so good after defending Harbaugh to the death against so many haters two years ago !!  GO BLUE!!

After a few incredibly happy hours of ruminating, I think the thing I loved best about the coaching today was how they played to WIN.

So many times I've been concerned that JH tended to play it close then pull it out. Today he just went balls out - chucked the deep ball, mixed plays brilliantly - attacked.

Just a fantastic game plan, beautifully executed.

Just watching the post game reaction from the bucknuts, the bewilderment is hilarious. Like in the aftermath of a storm, they have no words to describe the destruction they just experienced.

They have no excuses this year and they make no attempt to fabricate one.

Go Blue baby !!

The last demon of BPONE has finally been exorcised. Time for the team to climb to new heights from here, GO BLUE!