The Snowflake Thread: Coaching

I think it was a great game for recruiting. There were a lot if positives and some improvement in that game. Very proud of the players, and the coaches to a lesser degree.

Still think Al has to go based on the entire season.

So that's Borges third or fourth good game in three years.  Kudos.

Glad we got the return of aggressive, gambler Brady Hoke.  That makes me feel better about things.

If they get that fucking review right...

Considering that our main field goal kicker was out, and that we couldn't stop OSU's offense toward the end of the game, on balance I have to think that the 2 point conversion was the right call.

Might as well go for the win in regulation.

I get the feeling that most of this season was Borges just experimenting with his different ideas. Today, it seemed like he had a solid plan and stuck with it, and it looked like the staff did a good job getting these kids ready to play this week. I was impressed. I vote to keep the whole staff for another year, I guess.

Great game by the coaches.  While the youthfulness on offense has been exposed all year, this game it was on defense.  It's not just starters,. but a lack of experienced depth, too.  The future looks bright for Michigan football.

On the 2 pt conversion - Perry is not a good linebacker, especially so on coverage.  Devin has struggled with that sort of route all year long.  I think OSU had a pretty good idea where that was going, and wouldn't have made that play otherwise.  Liked the playcalling on the whole, but didn't like that one.

Draining the clock when your QB is playing one of his best games of the year - probably the best - was a terrible decision.  Turned out to mean a lot in this game.

On Al Borges - No one has ever really questioned that Al could call a good game if everything goes his way.  Understanding what he has and building a coherent offense that maintains competency.  Now we probably have to suffer through a half decade of missing the B1G Championship.

7-5

Wish we had played like this all year on offense. It'll be interesting to see what he has to say as to why we haven't been running plays like this all year.

to Ohio 12 of 14yrs...I dont care about the rest of you this is UNACCETABLE and Hoke is not the man to change this....next year...next year..next year....its always the same TIRE thing..LOSING

Also, can somebody please explain to me why you'd clock the ball on first down @ the 3 with plenty of time left?

F Jackson needs to retire.  The team played well today, like this one mattered.  It begs the question, what the hell were they doing against Akron, UConn, PSU, Nebraska, NW and Iowa? 

This game proves OSU isn't as good as everyone thinks and that BOrges can't be very good because it only called three good games all season.

Credit to the kids!  They played hard and executed very well.  They played toe to toe with a senior laden team that the media thinks is a top 5 team.

On evaluating Borges until the UFR.  I want to know if he really broke through or if it was our players making incredible plays.  It's a little bit of both.

I love the fact that he used many more screens and hitches.  Clearly did his homework on OSU.  FInally using bubble screens was a good sign. 

I don't know what to think.  Borges has called some good games, and then he has called some atrocious games.  Even in this one, he wasn't perfect.  Smarter football people than myself say that his offense is more grab bag than conceptually linked.  If that's the case I guess he should go. 

I want to see some more intelligent football people evaluate this game and tell me if it was an anomaly or a sign of progress from Borges.

Brady, can I talk to you? Sure Al, what's up Well, I know that this is 'The Game' and everything that comes with it, but if the Offense looks poor, it will effectively end my coaching career... You've still got a few years of goodwill, I'm on the hot seat. Yea, probably... So what do you want to do? I'm going to pull out all the stops, misdirection, throw-backs... The conversative bias is out the window, young o line or no young o line. Hmmmmm, what the hell, nothing else has worked against teams which actually field a defense. Seriously, if thus is what a fully functioning Borges Offense looks like, sign me up for another year. If we make half the jump from year one to year two of 'pro-style' as we did with spread we should be fun to watch next year.

Going for 2 was the right call. The play call to get 2, not so much. 

Execution was an issue this game, and all season. But that buck stops at Borges. He is the coach of the offense. 

I think Borges still has to go. Michigan should be winning some of these games. The program needs to make a change for that to happen. 

cool down and what not, the dumbest coaching decision today by far that should be talked about is the decision to not go for a field goal at the end of the first half.  We had a minute, a time-out and a first down at what the 30 or something?  40 yards gets you a field goal and they really screwed that up, and it's happened a lot that Hoke makes terrible time decisions before the first half.  

Borges called a great game if you consider how bad the o-line has played in the past 4 weeks and how well the offense did against ohio.  Mattison looked bad, but I'm sure  a lot of that was talent/scheme from ohio.  

The go for 2 decision was a great call in my opinion, but how big would a field goal been before the half?

Not going for field goal on 4 and 2 probably cost us the win.

Coaches did good - except that last playcall.

 

On a side note - the announcers & refs were f-en horrible.