It would be cool if Jim did us a solid with all that new NFL $$ and hired of cadre of LA PI's, just to really twist the knife into Ryan Day's doughy chest
I guess I think about hires very differently. I want the best coach. I don't really care who has "earned" it or "deserves" it but who is the best person to achieve success moving forward. After all, Jim arguably "deserved" to be fired in 2020, but no other coach gave us a better chance for success in 2021, 2022, etc. So it's irrelevant.
Michigan has a history of being sentimental in their coaching hires -- see Juwan, Hoke, etc -- but I accepted the argument that Sherrone was the best person moving forward primarily to preserve continuity of a uniquely magnificent culture, and many argued the same. I'm pretty far from panicking but I think it's reasonable to have concerns that if we continue to lose existing staff we might not get the continuity we were promised.
There's no reason that Sherrone can't find competent -- or better -- replacements as he shapes his own culture.
Sure, but the primary reason many of us were good with the Sherrone hire was a promised continuity of culture, and now I worry we aren't even going to get that continuity
I think keeping Sherrone probably makes the most sense in this unique situation where continuity of culture is of foremost importance. I worry that Michigan too often makes the sentimental hire (see: Hoke, Juwan) but if they can see he has the goods to be an elite head coach then I'm fine with it. First-time head coaches have indeed had a lot of recent success.
I do think Leipold is a home run hire for whoever gets him long-term (which may be Kansas). He's done an A++ job at every stop, and while he hasn't made the playoff or anything, getting Kansas to the point where they are beating Texas and Oklahoma and easily getting to bowls verges on miraculous.
BTW Leipold is 59 right now (younger than Jim, actually), not 62.
The NFL doesn't move me and its corporate aesthetics are awful, but yeah, passively rooting for Jim to win the Super Bowl in his first season -- which I wouldn't be shocked if he did -- then return as head coach
Nothing against Sherrone but Jim is the best football coach of the last 25 years, maybe longer. Saban is great but always relied on a gazillion five-stars. So did Pete Carroll in his USC days. Belichick had the greatest QB ever. I don't know who else you would consider. Jim repeatedly takes quasi-hopeless situations and turns them around almost instantly. What he did at Stanford and the 49ers was almost unthinkable, and he just won a national title in a way no one previously thought possible.
There isn't even an "us." You're not a real team. No one cares about you, no matter what city you're in and what ugly-ass corporate monstrosity you play in
Yes I'm bitter but in part it's for the simple aesthetics of the best coach in football leaving the best football program to ever exist for ... what? A total non entity franchise interchangeable with all the others. Fucking vomit
Maybe he can do both. NCAA suspends Jim, he officially stays on as coach but Sherrone is interim in 2024, Jim goes and wins a Super Bowl next year -- I wouldn't bet against it -- so he's allowed at the family dinner table or whatever, then he comes back here in 2025 to win more titles without the NCAA breathing down his neck.
If you have some straws I will gladly grasp at them
Shaw had 8 good years (great years, by Stanford standards) before the inevitability set in, given Stanford's very tough position in the NIL/portal era. I think he was a very good coach who probably just stayed there too long.
I can also see nervous comparisons to Coker or Helfrich or Solich or Bill Stewart, beloved assistants who couldn't maintain an elite program despite some early success.
But keep in mind that several recent CFP appearances have been made by coaches who had no previous head coaching experience: Smart and Swinney actually elevated their programs from good to elite, and Riley at the very least maintained his, Jimbo had (big) early success, even Helfrich made a CFP title game before the bottom fell out.
(I won't mention the other CFP coach who had no previous experience, but uh, he has a really good winning percentage in games that don't mean much.)
Swilling was incredible in New Orleans. (The Saints' four linebackers -- Swilling, Rickey Jackson, Sam Mills, and Vaughan Johnson -- were a wrecking crew and all four made the Pro Bowl in 1991 and 1992.).
The Lions traded their 1st round pick -- who turned out to be Hall of Famer Willie Roaf -- for Swilling who was pretty good but not all-Pro level in Detroit. (They even un-retired Joe Schmidt's #56 for Swilling.)
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Buckeyes now act like Spartans: obsessed with the idea of some third party coming in and beating us when they cannot do it themselves.
This team has evolved. They no longer wait until the second half to completely stop playing defense.
Tom "Ugly Ass Halo" Goss
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...or to be a double agent
"yeah Coach Day, this is a good play to throw right at Will Johnson on a slant"
Go Fisch
Hard to see Ohio State ever hiring a HC who apparently doesn't like recruiting
Can't even get that much value. Vegas caught on a while ago. Wisconsin was still favored down 31-22
Another halftime win! Gunning for the 1-seed in the 1H-NCAA tourney
Maybe Moore just got a bit of grapefruit in his eye and Warde took it the wrong way
My retirement points are worthless?
Maybe Hart will be promoted to co-Run Game Coordinator
He also had a role in sending RichRod this way ... going 0/2 on FG attempts in a 13-9 loss to Pitt that knocked WV out of the BCS title game
Jaylen Harrell?
BTW I just took a look at the CBS Sports top 250: had 12 Michigan players. (And zero for MSU)
Ah come on, the planet is doomed ... Michigan athletics can be fixed!
Can we hire ChatGPT as our new Athletic Director?
Honestly, any of the candidates from the last go-around would be an upgrade from Juwan
"Forget it, Jim, it's Buckeyetown"
Yet somehow we pulled off the upset
It would be cool if Jim did us a solid with all that new NFL $$ and hired of cadre of LA PI's, just to really twist the knife into Ryan Day's doughy chest
I guess now is the time to say unpopular things
"97.1 FM is my go-to for trenchant UM football analysis, particularly that afternoon show, they tell it like it is!"
So, neither Clinkscale nor Elston going to the Chargers? Please let us keep some of our best coaches...
Wonder what that guy has for breakfast
Hurtt's in Philly now with Hurts?
Are you saying we shouldn't be surprised that Warde doesn't seem to value strength and conditioning?
I guess I think about hires very differently. I want the best coach. I don't really care who has "earned" it or "deserves" it but who is the best person to achieve success moving forward. After all, Jim arguably "deserved" to be fired in 2020, but no other coach gave us a better chance for success in 2021, 2022, etc. So it's irrelevant.
Michigan has a history of being sentimental in their coaching hires -- see Juwan, Hoke, etc -- but I accepted the argument that Sherrone was the best person moving forward primarily to preserve continuity of a uniquely magnificent culture, and many argued the same. I'm pretty far from panicking but I think it's reasonable to have concerns that if we continue to lose existing staff we might not get the continuity we were promised.
Sure, but the primary reason many of us were good with the Sherrone hire was a promised continuity of culture, and now I worry we aren't even going to get that continuity
Starting to worry that we hired primarily for continuity, then aren't even going to get that continuity
Man that Harbaugh comment was so true, and it hurts every Buckeye deep into their core
Some light reading on a Friday night
https://mgoblog.com/content/wisconsin-49-michigan-11
https://mgoblog.com/content/indiana-38-michigan-21
https://mgoblog.com/content/penn-state-27-michigan-17
Dang. And I wrote a really nice cover letter.
And their request to have the 14-day waiting period waived will be processed in 6-8 weeks
The teammate who recovered the fumble for a TD later found his tires slashed...
Seriously though, dropping a ball at the 1 would be the absolute dumbest way to point-shave so I can't quite believe that.
Then again, dropping a ball at the 1 for any reason is pretty unbelievably stupid... even though it's happened several times now.
And even when it wasn't, Derrick Green found a way to trip over the line of scrimmage graphic
I mean I'd love to have Courtney Morgan back, has anyone called him?
I think keeping Sherrone probably makes the most sense in this unique situation where continuity of culture is of foremost importance. I worry that Michigan too often makes the sentimental hire (see: Hoke, Juwan) but if they can see he has the goods to be an elite head coach then I'm fine with it. First-time head coaches have indeed had a lot of recent success.
I do think Leipold is a home run hire for whoever gets him long-term (which may be Kansas). He's done an A++ job at every stop, and while he hasn't made the playoff or anything, getting Kansas to the point where they are beating Texas and Oklahoma and easily getting to bowls verges on miraculous.
BTW Leipold is 59 right now (younger than Jim, actually), not 62.
The NFL doesn't move me and its corporate aesthetics are awful, but yeah, passively rooting for Jim to win the Super Bowl in his first season -- which I wouldn't be shocked if he did -- then return as head coach
Nothing against Sherrone but Jim is the best football coach of the last 25 years, maybe longer. Saban is great but always relied on a gazillion five-stars. So did Pete Carroll in his USC days. Belichick had the greatest QB ever. I don't know who else you would consider. Jim repeatedly takes quasi-hopeless situations and turns them around almost instantly. What he did at Stanford and the 49ers was almost unthinkable, and he just won a national title in a way no one previously thought possible.
His major credential for being AD seems to be "those things weren't totally my fault"
Only one way to improve on the King:
Hire an Ace as head coach
If this is even 1% true then everyone involved needs to be launched into outer space
The NCAA will check with Ryan Day and get back to you
I'd rather have Avery Queen
There isn't even an "us." You're not a real team. No one cares about you, no matter what city you're in and what ugly-ass corporate monstrosity you play in
Yes I'm bitter but in part it's for the simple aesthetics of the best coach in football leaving the best football program to ever exist for ... what? A total non entity franchise interchangeable with all the others. Fucking vomit
Worst loss since December 23, 2006 (92-55 @ #1 UCLA in Amaker's final season)
Maybe he can do both. NCAA suspends Jim, he officially stays on as coach but Sherrone is interim in 2024, Jim goes and wins a Super Bowl next year -- I wouldn't bet against it -- so he's allowed at the family dinner table or whatever, then he comes back here in 2025 to win more titles without the NCAA breathing down his neck.
If you have some straws I will gladly grasp at them
Shaw had 8 good years (great years, by Stanford standards) before the inevitability set in, given Stanford's very tough position in the NIL/portal era. I think he was a very good coach who probably just stayed there too long.
I can also see nervous comparisons to Coker or Helfrich or Solich or Bill Stewart, beloved assistants who couldn't maintain an elite program despite some early success.
But keep in mind that several recent CFP appearances have been made by coaches who had no previous head coaching experience: Smart and Swinney actually elevated their programs from good to elite, and Riley at the very least maintained his, Jimbo had (big) early success, even Helfrich made a CFP title game before the bottom fell out.
(I won't mention the other CFP coach who had no previous experience, but uh, he has a really good winning percentage in games that don't mean much.)
Don't know how underrated they are, but another nod to:
Tyler Morris accelerating by all that SEC speed (and stay inbounds over the pylon) to guarantee a go-ahead TD
Corum breaking the Alabama tackles inside the 5 in OT to avoid any potential goalline stand
Harrell's hit on McCord that led to the game-sealing INT
Swilling was incredible in New Orleans. (The Saints' four linebackers -- Swilling, Rickey Jackson, Sam Mills, and Vaughan Johnson -- were a wrecking crew and all four made the Pro Bowl in 1991 and 1992.).
The Lions traded their 1st round pick -- who turned out to be Hall of Famer Willie Roaf -- for Swilling who was pretty good but not all-Pro level in Detroit. (They even un-retired Joe Schmidt's #56 for Swilling.)
Never touched a cigarette because of Vendela's "turn-offs"