A Thought on Shea

I’m seeing a lot of people bash Shea on social media for yesterday. I’m sure most of you understand how ridiculous that is. So to follow on that I had I thought which I wasn’t sure where to put:

I think Michigan may have hurt Shea’s future more than Shea has affected Michigan. It doesn’t matter what quarterback we had, we would still be in an equally bad position we are now. Shea’s had 6 losses in his UM career. There little to no chance even a Joe Burrow type player would’ve beaten OSU with the defense allowing 62 and 56 points, or Wisconsin when they had 300+ yards rushing, or Florida scoring 40+. Considering he played well vs ND last year and PSU this year, I wouldn’t shoulder those two on him either. Now from Shea’s perspective, he had to go through two new offenses in two years with no consistency, and we all saw what he could do in Gattis’ offense when things are clicking as he’s had 3 straight 300 yard+ passing performances. And then you have the perception that our receivers were elite and NFL bound (which I thought so too), when clearly we’ve seen that they disappear in big games like vs OSU and PSU.

I might be more biased because I’ve always liked Shea more than most, and granted he’s had a couple of really bad games here (vs Army is the most striking), but I’d feel bad for him that he didn’t transfer to a more competent program that gave him more of a chance to succeed and beat rivals.

Hopefully that next year, Joe and/or Dylan are given much better opportunities to win big games and show out. At the end of the day, Shea has definitely been an above average QB for UM, but won’t be remembered for anything really as a result of these things.