OTish: Miami has canned Josh Gattis

Submitted by Cousin Larry on January 27th, 2023 at 8:55 AM

Linky.

One year removed from winning the Broyles Award and then immediately crapping on the program that helped him reach that achievement.  Mixed feelings to say the least.

WestQuad

January 27th, 2023 at 6:02 PM ^

I sat behind Heather Graham and Mathew Perry at a movie in LA in 1999.  There were some other minor stars with them as well: the Blonde comedian from MADTV and one of the secondary characters from Swingers.  HG was so skinny that her knees were wider than her thighs.  I was checking out her ass (there wasn’t one) and I sort of was making a pity/ooh gross face.  She turned around and busted me. 

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the Glove

January 27th, 2023 at 9:39 AM ^

I honestly didn't feel he deserved the broyles award. I remember being so frustrated with a lot of his game plans that year. He had three great game plans, but throughout the season it was like watching somebody hit their head against a brick wall. He would continuously try to go up the middle on first down and set himself up behind the sticks. 

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DennisFranklinDaMan

January 27th, 2023 at 1:35 PM ^

It's way too late to relitigate this, but come on. We give Harbaugh grief for being conservative and predictable. If the play worked, we'd all be laughing about how fun and unorthodox it was.

Don't bitch about play-calling after it doesn't work. That's lazy.

(I, too, in retrospect wish we hadn't called it. But to suggest that it was obviously a bad call at the time is silly. Was the halfback-pass a stupid call in the Ohio State game? No, because it worked.) 

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gbdub

January 27th, 2023 at 2:17 PM ^

The reason it was dumb was multifold: a) as the favorite, take the points b) from the 2, if you’re going to go for it, do not call a play that can lose 8 yards if it goes bad fergodsakes. You get decent value out of pinning the opponent on the 2 even if you don’t score  

That’s a play to pull out from like the 5 when you 100% need to score a TD. 

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RobM_24

January 27th, 2023 at 10:40 PM ^

Having your converted LB throw a jump pass against OSU was also pretty damn stupid -- but it worked. My biggest gripe is that Michigan continually gets themselves in situations where they need 3rd or 4th down conversions. Be more aggressive on early down, especially with a mobile QB. 

 

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redjugador24

January 28th, 2023 at 12:19 AM ^

On 4th and goal from the 2, on the first drive of the game, there's nothing wrong with kicking a FG or at worst getting stuffed at the goal line. Asking your freshman TE to throw a pass on an end around was absolutely a horrible idea then and now, and nobody is "relitigating" it. Just recalling how remarkably awful that playcall was. It was litigated in real time. 

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lhglrkwg

January 27th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^

Did he regress or was he just never that good? Seemed to me he was gradually losing OC powers as Michigan morphed from 'speed in space' back to Harball over his tenure, plus Gattis leaving in a huff as Moore, Hart, and Weiss were on the rise. Doesn't sound like a guy who was doing well as OC here

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