Times have changed since 1969 when Bo came to UM. His first couple of games weren't all that easy. I remember sitting with Bo's son at the Missouri game when we got beat by about 30 points and people were shouting for Bo's head... we also lost to MSU that year...still by the end of the season we knew that that man could motivate players and had real fire. There may not be another Bo but the big problem I have is that I just don't see that fire in Hoke. That worries me for the future. The question is "Will Brady be a top 10 coach". Right now that answer is no. Sure, let him stay for 5 years...but after 2015 I see us with another coach.

How long do we have for the presser on mgoblue or mgovideo?  I am really anxious to hear reactions/responses.

Time to vent (but not angrily)

The offensive game plan was not totally horrible as they moved the ball decently on multiple occasions. What pisses me off is how you can have a glaringly obvious weakness (interior line) and an equally obvious strength for your opponent and answer that issue with "Block with Toussaint". There couldn't have been a delusion that keeping Fitz in the backfield would make their defense adjust to our amazing run game. Gardner's the best runner anyway so the run is not completely abandoned if Fitz isn't in. When Gardner could get the ball off (except the interception obviously) the offense moved the ball well. Then Narduzzi said, "Fuck this shit, blitz up the middle!" and the drive ended with multiple sacks.

Why the hell did Borges continue using the Pistol formation? Why not full shotgun. Fitz had to go around Gardner to find blitzers and Gardner is closer to the line of scrimmage.

The defense allowed us to hang around for awhile, even with the horrible field position in the 1st half. Mattison was too predictable with blitzes and man coverage. How do you allow a horrible QB to become comfortable? Don't disguise your coverages and blitzes. Man coverage is easy as shit to beat unless you have lock down corners. MSU gameplan: whenever UM runs man coverage lob it over the top or run a crossing route.

Good coaches are supposed to maximize a teams talents while minimizing its weaknesses while also exploiting your opponents weaknesses and minimizing their strengths. How about using our mobile QB and moving the pocket more often? No? A little hurry up to throw them slightly off balance? Please? No? Our staff doesn't do that at all. There seems to be an arrogant belief that UM is a team that it clearly is not. So proper adjustments are not made. Boo. Bad coaching.

edit: Also I can't say for sure how bad the preparation is regarding players being coached well b/c I'm never at a UofM football practice. I know we'd like to think that kids at this level will absorb what a coach instructs them to do with proper drills, prep etc. But, it's not that simple. There are some schemes some players can't execute. Recruiting? Most of this staffs players are still pretty young. Not an excuse though as there's plenty enough talent to have won every game they have lost (except Alabama).

The team is regressing badly.  Funk must go now and Borges should go at the end of the year (but probably won't).  As we've discussed too many times - he is "loyal" to his guys no matter how badly they perfom and it looks to me like it's about to sink this program.

We will probably lose to both Iowa & Northwestern (road games) and Ohio State is going to beat us by 40 points or more. Then a who-gives-a-shit bowl game in December for a chance to win our 8th game and not go 7-6.  Woop de fucking do.

Then next year all the hard games are on the road which means even more disaster. This isn't much fun anymore.