OT: Will Nebraska have any coaches by season end? DC gone
I guess you can't blame the interim for firing the DC since he has been doing a terrible job, but it sorts of seems like the the wheels literally flying off the car at this point. On the plus side, they made their ST coach the new DC so look for more ST yakety sax.
Nebraska defensive coordinator Erik Chinander fired after 35-point loss to Oklahoma (espn.com)
September 18th, 2022 at 7:40 PM ^
Yes, they will
September 18th, 2022 at 8:44 PM ^
Did they have any coaches at the start of the season?
September 18th, 2022 at 9:20 PM ^
Touché 💀
September 18th, 2022 at 7:47 PM ^
Will Nebraska have any coaches by season end?
Nebraska Cornhuskers? Probably no.
But Carmen (edited: Cayman) Nebraska?
Yes
(Oops, "Cayman". Thanks and +1 Jibbroni!)
September 18th, 2022 at 7:48 PM ^
Where (who) in the world is Carmen Nebraska?
September 18th, 2022 at 7:50 PM ^
Wasnt it Cayman or Came in?
September 18th, 2022 at 7:51 PM ^
Yes he did!
September 18th, 2022 at 7:51 PM ^
Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina.
She's a sticky-fingered pilcher from Berlin down to Belize.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:08 PM ^
I thought it was an erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?
September 18th, 2022 at 8:39 PM ^
Well, not in the version I watched on PBS. Was that from the squeaky door section of the video store?
September 18th, 2022 at 11:21 PM ^
Urban was sniffing around the Nebraska opening. But not much came from it.
September 19th, 2022 at 10:08 AM ^
Yeah. Smelled fishy.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:47 PM ^
Posts about our future opponents are not off-topic. The answer to your question is: yes.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:47 PM ^
I gotta think they're going to lose a number of players to the transfer portal at the end of the season... what a change from the optimism surrounding campus when Frost was hired.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:50 PM ^
Tuck Comin!
September 19th, 2022 at 10:38 AM ^
That always sounds like tranny porn to me. NTTIAWWT, but probably not the best slogan.
September 19th, 2022 at 11:40 AM ^
When is he comin'? Will he ever arrive?
Honestly, getting pretty tired of waiting so long.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:51 PM ^
There's a couple of players I'd take in a second for Michigan!!
September 18th, 2022 at 8:04 PM ^
Are they linebackers?
September 18th, 2022 at 8:09 PM ^
Hell, half their starters just arrived in the portal.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:45 PM ^
Beam them up, Scotty--there's no intelligent life down there.
September 19th, 2022 at 7:08 AM ^
Crazy how bad the Frost era went. He didn't have Jim's track record, but he had the same vibe coming in- the former player turned great coach has come home to make our program nationally relevant again! Imagine if Jim got here and went 16-31. I think I would be accepting that my team was never going to be nationally relevant again
September 18th, 2022 at 7:48 PM ^
Will be interesting to the portal activity, too. Both departures and arrivals.
What a hot mess.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:49 PM ^
Urban Meyer said he's not taking the Nebraska job.
Ed Orgeon is still a possibility. At least last I saw.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:51 PM ^
Farmer Frans available too
September 18th, 2022 at 8:24 PM ^
Hopefully he doesn't take Joe Brady as his OC, who then finds the next Joe Burrow.
September 19th, 2022 at 9:17 AM ^
Franz Ferdinand is not working right now either...
September 18th, 2022 at 7:58 PM ^
Brady Hoke? Nebraska is a lot closer to California, so he can definitely walk there.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:10 PM ^
That would be awesome. I’d love for Michigan to beat the shit out of Brady Hoke team. Hoke deserves some retribution against him.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:18 PM ^
How dare he win the Sugar Bowl!
September 18th, 2022 at 8:19 PM ^
I’d suggest just letting it go with Hoke. He genuinely felt he had achieved his dream job, and unfortunately, it just didn’t work out.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:23 PM ^
Can we at least hold a grudge for utterly wasting Denard and Devin?
September 18th, 2022 at 8:38 PM ^
Go ahead, if you need to. I won’t be joining in.
September 18th, 2022 at 11:12 PM ^
I mean we don’t need to go hunt him down for revenge or anything, I agree. But we don’t need to feel too bad for him either, guy was paid VERY handsomely to be not very good at a job he clearly wasn’t ready for - especially when that obliviousness could have gotten a player very badly hurt.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:48 PM ^
Didn't he botch the concussion protocol and put someone at risk? I'm going with agnostic for forty, not 'enough time has passed that I've grown sloppy-sentimental and forgotten half of his crimes because he loved Michigan.' But--hey--I try to keep my resentment rigorous.
September 18th, 2022 at 9:30 PM ^
He did - but per John U. Bacon's Endzone, Hoke believed at the time that he had only a lower-body injury. Bacon makes the case in the book that the ultimate responsibly lay more at Brandon's feet: the people whose job was to keep Hoke informed of things like a head injury (since the hit occurred on the other side of the field) weren't working that day, because Brandon had them doing other things. The referee also made things worse by incorrectly telling Hoke that he couldn't leave Gardner in the game even if he called a timeout, for which the Big Ten apologized the next day.
(Bacon also argues that Hoke was left hanging to dry in front of the media by Brandon.)
September 18th, 2022 at 11:09 PM ^
I mean, everybody in the stadium except Hoke seemed to know that Shane Morris had no business going back on the field after he took that hit. I don’t think it was malicious, but it was like sign one million and one that Hoke was in way over his head. Buck stops here and all that. Next time don’t be too “tough” to wear a headset.
September 19th, 2022 at 12:37 AM ^
The head coach is juggling a lot of things on the sidelines and depends on someone competent to tell him when someone needs to go into concussion protocol. This is the case with all kinds of shit and decisions they deal with.
I have absolutely no respect for any arm chair coaches and quarterbacks with 3-6 beers in them who get to watch multiple replays while listening to commentators jaw on endlessly.
September 19th, 2022 at 10:26 AM ^
Thanks. All good to know.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:23 PM ^
We already fired the guy. What other “retribution” do you want?
Don't forget that he was also our DL coach for a long time, including 1997. Iirc he was our lead West Coast recruiter. By all accounts he was a good assistant. He just didn’t work out as HC.
September 18th, 2022 at 9:55 PM ^
Retribution should be focused on the dude that hired Brady. You can't blame Hoke for taking his dream job -- despite clearly being in over his head. We'll always have the Sugar Bowl and those sweet Sparty tears.
September 19th, 2022 at 12:45 AM ^
This is stupid take number 57 by another armchair manager who probably never had to actually manage anything.
He was a good candidate given his track record. It was a good hire given the options and he was close to pulling it off.
But this turn around job would be over everyone’s head except Harbaugh, Urban, and a couple others never available.
Even Harbaugh, one of the only candidates that could pull it off, needed extra runway to get where he is today and he may need more. But given your comment, I assume you were one of the ones that wanted to fire Jim during COVID.
September 19th, 2022 at 1:34 PM ^
I have to admit, it's been interesting watching from afar how the narrative has changed with Harbaugh amongst the UM fanbase. Probably half of the poster's on this board would've voted to fire him after 2020, and speaking from my perspective, half the OSU fan base believes Harbaugh purposely ducked out of The Game that season because he knew he couldn't withstand another loss to OSU (Covid outbreak was just an excuse). He seems to have turned it around and got a win vs OSU last year, just curious what a trip up to MSU or OSU would do to the UM fan base this year? I assume he's bought himself plenty of slack with the 2021 season.
September 18th, 2022 at 10:41 PM ^
Hoke's all right. He's got a national championship ring from coaching on the 97 team and recruited almost all of the players Harbaugh started here with. He didn't work out here for several reasons, some his fault and some not. I'll root for him wherever he goes.
September 19th, 2022 at 12:13 PM ^
Huh? Hoke did the best he could, it just wasn't enough.
September 18th, 2022 at 9:15 PM ^
Urban Meyer says a lot of untrue things
September 18th, 2022 at 11:54 PM ^
Urban is also a big fat fucking liar who said he wasn't taking the OSU job so there's that.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:08 PM ^
Hey, how about the Broyles Award winner, Josh Gattis. They say he's been ready to be a head coach for a long time. That's all I got for a hot take.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:10 PM ^
Jay Harbaugh is ready to be a head coach.
September 18th, 2022 at 8:19 PM ^
The red hair would be triggering for the fans.