TCU Snowflakes: The Coaching

Was horrendous and honestly arrogant 

The first what should have ended in a TD had bad play calling near the End Zone. Defense really didn't make good adjustments in the 2nd half, they gave up 30 points. Credit TCU, but I had higher expectations to adjust and limit TCU more.

Harbaugh should have called a TO with 1:30 to go on TCU's first play.

Is one of the many reasons we lost this game 

I give them an F. Bad decision on the goal like after the official screw job, bad decision prior to that on the first drive for an ignorant play call from the 2, Minter’s blitzing got burned all night, clock management down two scores even had Jack Harbaugh asking what the fuck, got gashed in the interior all night with no adjustments, etc etc etc 

Michigan offensive line was outclassed today by TCU up front. Shocked tbh 

I'm not wildly angry or anything. However, the coaches absolutely shit the bed. Just outsmarting themselves in the way they made every other staff do this year. That BS inside the 2 both times was stunningly dumb.

The team didn't really appear to be ready or they bought their own hype about muscling them with ease. 

TCU clearly scouted UM. Both pick 6s were due to purely scouting JJ specifically and the limited routes UM runs.

UM had a month off and just did what they've always done. Nothing felt specially prepared or unique and they kept running into a team blitzing the gaps like a high school team would.

The team fought late and a lot are upset with the refs but it was so much more on the team than refs. Sure, some trash calls but this team beat themselves. They are better than TCU but absolutely weren't today. TCU is a very good squad so nothing taken away from them! UM just played probably their second worst game of the year today and did it in the playoff.

The first two trips inside the 2 yard line + Jesse Minter going for broke early in the 4th = a loss 

hogwash

This has been said elsewhere. The story of this game was 14 points for TCU on two pick-sixes and 14 points lost by Michigan while failing to score likely touchdowns TWICE when the Wolverines had the ball with first and goal. Take 14 points from TCU, add 14 points to Michigan and Michigan wins 59-37.

When you have CO-offensive coordinators, you have NO offensive coordinator.

Holy shit everyone here has lost their mind. The coaching was fine. We had bad luck throughout the entire game, we had 2 pick sixes, and we were still in position to go on a game winning drive.

We have one of the best coaching staffs in the country. When you get into the playoffs anything can happen. We have a coaching staff that can get us to the playoffs, which is better than what we've had since Lloyd Carr war our coach.

From top to bottom the coaching was nothing short of appalling.  With 4 weeks to prepare, the players deserved better.  Getting manhandled by TCU was almost laughable.  Georgia will stomp TCU, making U-M's loss look even worse.

Also, where was the fucking jet motion that Vance fucking Bedford announced to the whole damn world earlier this week? It's kryptonite to TCU linebackers, and even I fucking knew.  They finally came around with 15 minutes left in the damn game.  Coaching malpractice.  And yet, we can't expect to ever have better coaching than this.

Terrible clock management,terrible play calls in first qtr at goal line.Left 14 pts on field.Never tried to big boy them with heavy package.They are making big money for that crap.

Imagine JJ running in the first half like he did in the 2nd

No worries - we were saving him for the title game

Imagine doing a battering ram 4x in a row 2 yards off the end zone like v Rutgers.  No, let's have a freshman TE throw shit. 

Imagine... oh nevermind it never changes,  At least we can beat OSU.

As everyone says it takes YEARS to learn how to win the playoffs.  Like TCU.

I think the too cute stuff on O is Weiss. Went away from what’s worked all year way too soon. Minter did not have a great game, but he’s been money all season, plus D just missed a lot of assignments/coverages. It didn’t seem like they schemed anything for Johnson—why?

Jesse Minter = shit the bed

Harbaugh gonna want out again just like last year I bet. 
 

The “we’re not going to change anything about our gameplan regardless of the opponent and run this 1970s offense” sure does get old when they run up against a team who’s equally athletic but runs a more modern offense to fit their players better. 

Imagine what kind of numbers JJ would have at say USC running and throwing the ball. 

Jesse Minter = shit the bed

Leaving this game feels so much worse than leaving Miami last year.

TCU reminded me of those awful Dantonio teams that would get insanely lucky and think it was skill. Dugan was awful. If they play this game 100 times, Michigan wins 95. It just sucks that today was one of the other 5. (Last year, if Michigan played Georgia 100 times, Michigan might have won 5. Or 1).

The playcalling and clock management was atrocious. 3 drives inside the 5 and only 3 points. That was the difference.

Offense taking using like 3 minutes in plus territory on the second to last drive was a killer.

on the other hand they coached these boys up. The resolve was insane.

This is not on the players. 

1st half: horrible ply calls inside the 5. 

2nd half: horrible blitzing on D. We are not a blitzing team and we are doing what OSU did against us. Changed our identity. We are a base D that keeps everything in front of us. 

NOT ON THE PLAYERS. 

Minter was Don Brown today. Over sold and over blitzed all day long. Basically what OSU did against us. He was absolutely awful.

Lots of bad playcalls but at the same time they weren't the ones who threw two pick-6s on bad reads or overturned a clear TD and then subsequently fumble the ball.  I don't blame players (I will blame the refs) because they're human but this was a holistic ball dropping by the UM program. 

I am interested to see how this staff looks next year when they aren't (outside of Moore) first-time lead coordinators.  This game felt like one where they might have out-smarted themselves a bit.