Schiano: "Better...but not good enough to beat THAT team"
Yeah, a bunch of coach speak and all that from the coach of a struggling team, but I enjoy hearing the first impressions after the game from someone well-paid (overpaid?) for knowing football:
November 6th, 2022 at 3:15 PM ^
I'll take it.
THAT>THE
November 6th, 2022 at 3:30 PM ^
Maybe we should trademark "That" since we are THAT TEAM UP NORTH
November 6th, 2022 at 3:32 PM ^
Not a terrible Idea. And if not the university, then MGB. THAT TEAM UP NORTH could be a profitable franchise.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:44 PM ^
It’s the same idea of feeding off of enter sandman and jump around. Take their mojo and monetize it.
I would probably buy a pro “that team up north” shirt.
November 6th, 2022 at 7:38 PM ^
What about THE That Team Up North?
November 6th, 2022 at 7:51 PM ^
Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling TTUN shirts is a good start.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:23 PM ^
As a student of Jim's post game handshakes, last night's shake with Schiano was a bit longer and moderately more sincere than usual.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:29 PM ^
A few have said they're "friends" going back to their NFL days. Maybe not friends, but clearly there is a mutual respect that Harbaugh doesn't have for Frames, Tuck or the Guy Born on Third Base.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:30 PM ^
Quite right. Noticed they had a chat and nice laugh before the game as well. Some mutual respect it seems.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:45 PM ^
The players lingered on the field, exchanging smiles and bro hugs. Good to see. That starts with the head coaches.
November 6th, 2022 at 5:26 PM ^
False. It starts with the tunnel. When the tunnel isn't acting crazy, then the teams will follow suit.
November 6th, 2022 at 5:44 PM ^
It’s time for our tunnel to grow the hell up
November 6th, 2022 at 6:14 PM ^
Our tunnel would be better placed to grow up if the other teams would just take the L and get the fuck out of our tunnel.
November 6th, 2022 at 6:30 PM ^
still waiting for the GTFOMT shirts it can't be long now
November 7th, 2022 at 1:45 AM ^
Get the fuck out of Lloyd's tunnel
November 6th, 2022 at 7:14 PM ^
I noticed both teams used the same tunnel. gAASp!
November 6th, 2022 at 10:39 PM ^
The monster theory of tunnels
November 6th, 2022 at 10:41 PM ^
The monster theory of tunnels
November 6th, 2022 at 10:45 PM ^
We have a nice tunnel. It's very inviting. I don't see what the problem is.
November 6th, 2022 at 11:06 PM ^
Our tunnel is apparently angry and ill-mannered.
Rugter's tunnel appears sensuous and welcoming . .
November 7th, 2022 at 9:00 AM ^
Our Tunnel can kick your tunnel's ass!
or
Our Tunnel use to F@#k tunnels like yours in prison.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:35 PM ^
It was nice to see good sportsmanship both before and also after the game. Many of the players from both sides showed respect right after the game ended with various kudos. It was a good look after a hard fought game. Rutgers laid some lumber down on some of the Michigan players who were a little banged up.
This looked like Corum's most physical game this season. Keegan went into the tent for a while, just to name a few.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:40 PM ^
Respekt. Did I do this right?
November 6th, 2022 at 6:26 PM ^
No, you're referring to one of our other rivals.
November 7th, 2022 at 11:10 AM ^
Former rival
November 6th, 2022 at 3:51 PM ^
From the In The Trenches post-game show/pod
JH: "They ran a nice game. Greg Schiano is a heck of a coach. That team over there, they tackle. They had a nice schemed up twist game that got through that blocked our punt ... we knew we were going to be in for a real fight here. Rutgers always plays us tough. It was a 7 point ball game last year and last time we were here it took us 3 overtimes."
He doesn't usually go out of his way to compliment guys he doesn't think deserve it. So, I dont think there's any hard feelings here.
November 7th, 2022 at 9:22 AM ^
Rutgers spent the entire day trying to murder our QB and Harbaugh complements their tackling.
This is probably one of many reasons our team has toughness and other teams are soft. I feel like a team that invites this kind of physicality wouldn't give up 418 yards on the ground and throw sandwiches in protest. Or concede a TD on 5 running plays in a row at the end of a 42-27 game.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:42 PM ^
I didn't like Schiano's kneel down antics when he was in the NFL, but I think Harbaugh likes hard nosed, no nonsense coaches.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:32 PM ^
So... *not* taking the Chris Ash approach.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:32 PM ^
More videos?
November 6th, 2022 at 6:09 PM ^
All Chris Ash mentions require a GIF of him about the cry on the sidelines.
November 6th, 2022 at 9:06 PM ^
Well...if it was your wife...
November 6th, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^
Schiano seems a likeable, solid guy.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:23 PM ^
Good coach, yes. Likeable? Well yes, if you like hard asses because Schiano is a hard asses hard ass.
And besides that, he is just an ass.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
Hard pass on Schiano. He’s just not as whiny as Franklin and others.
November 6th, 2022 at 6:18 PM ^
Agree. He also has the patience needed to build a program and not just a team.
I would not, however, invite him over for dinner. Too tightly wound.
November 6th, 2022 at 8:08 PM ^
Wasn't there at least one point during the post-Lloyd or post-RichRod coaching searches where Schiano was a serious candidate to become Michigan's next head coach?
November 6th, 2022 at 8:57 PM ^
My recollection of early December 2007 is that Greg was offered the job after some interviews with Bill Martin, first at an awards banquet that most coaches attended and apparently another interview that may have been video only.
I remember going to bed on a Thursday evening and hearing the 11 PM Sportscaster saying that Michigan was going to name Schiano the HC the next day at a yet to be scheduled press conference.
Waking up that Friday and finding out he had backed out and we had been rejected by a Rutgers coach was distressing. I called a fellow UM grad who had some good connections inside the athletic department. At first, I thought Greg had been lobbied to stay and that Rutgers would ante up big time for the stadium and facility improvements (which didn't happen until YEARS later after the Great Recession and long after he left for TB). That was a smoke screen. What I heard happen (and makes a lot of sense) is that either Greg talked to someone in PSU (either JoePa or someone high up in the staff) OR PSU contacted him - either way, he was an assistant there from 1990-95 and reportedly revered JoePa. While he may not have been "promised" the PSU job when JoePa would retire, he may have decided to keep his options open.
It's been a good 10 years since I read John Bacon's Three and Out book, but I recall from the book that Greg did turn down the job only to try to reach out a week or two later to "re-accept" the job but Martin wasn't returning calls.
If he had become our HC for 2008, I think a few positives would have happened: (1) Ryan Mallett stays and develops into a pretty good QB, (2) we don't lose at home to Sparty in 2008 (and probably wins there in 2009) - Dicktonio would have been 0-4 vs. UM with another loss at UM in 2010 and would never have been elevated to saint status at MSU (and we wouldn't have had the 60 minutes of unnecessary roughness game), (3) we would have won one or two B1G titles but never reached the status we've come to appreciate in 2021-22 (21-2 and counting).
November 6th, 2022 at 3:35 PM ^
This title is a bit misleading. At least to me. I thought he was comparing Michigan to OSU but he is comparing Rutgers to Michigan...
Rutgers has improved but isn't good enough to beat Michigan.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:01 PM ^
I saw Schiano and better in the title. I immediately thought he is talking about his team playing better and not good enough to beat UM. I guess OSU is on many people's mind since it is November.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:41 PM ^
I was definitely not mislead by the title. Made perfect sense to me.
November 6th, 2022 at 5:33 PM ^
His team just played Michigan, why would he be talking about OSU?
November 6th, 2022 at 3:36 PM ^
Schiano was sincere. He is an excellent coach with a good track record. He showed respect for Michigan. Harbaugh respects him. No need for the OP to disrespect him.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:50 PM ^
Of course he did know about the whole sexual abuse deal at PSU and didn’t do anything about it, so there’s that and…but then again user name checks out
November 6th, 2022 at 3:52 PM ^
Seriously! He helped a pedophile rape kids, but he seems like a nice guy.
November 6th, 2022 at 4:15 PM ^
I didn’t know about that.
And you resort to Juvenile comments.
And with respect to Bo, I wasn’t there 40 years ago. I do know parents and adults back then, and even more recently, put way too much trust in someone with an MD.
Apparently, you were there. I think we can all tell what side you would be on in another historical event. John 8:7.
November 7th, 2022 at 8:28 AM ^
So you're saying Bo did not know?
November 6th, 2022 at 3:36 PM ^
I think we can all agree that Rutgers would probably win the Big Ten West.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:41 PM ^
Rutgers and Maryland are going to be the biggest beneficiaries of eschewing these divisions.
November 6th, 2022 at 3:45 PM ^