Bacon said something interesting on 105.1

I tried to put this in an edit, but the fact that Shane wasn't pulled despite having a bad game/half/whatever (I've tried to eliminate my memory of that game) just reeks of "My boss told me to do it this way, so I'm doing it this way."

The plan was to play Shane. So Shane was going to play.

that we had no idea what Brady was dealing with.

The idea of an AD dictating HOW HE COACHES to a coach is so noxious to me that I have trouble agreeing with this, even after the revelation of everything we know. But I have to apply Occam's Razor here and it's pretty clear that SOMETHING made Hoke decide that the only way to coach Michigan was a "certain style." DB is as likely as anything. That would explain the chaos and the systemic failure that infected a number of experienced and capable coaches and appeared to turn them into complete incompetents. It explains why the offense continued to regress after Borges, allegedly the problem, was fired. And it also explains much of Hoke's decision making, and many of his errors. Of course, the Gibbons situation looks pretty obvious, too. One might ask, "why are you acting like what you're saying is significant? A lot of this is old news." Because I was a DB supporter for a long time. Argued in his favor here, or at least argued against uncharitable interpretations of his actions. Even after I stopped, I scoffed at ideas like the ones forwarded by Alton. But the evidence is impossible to ignore. I was wrong.

Hopefully he's smart enough to bring that up at his next job interview. I think he might get another shot at a lower end P5 school. Maybe one of the ones that care more about academics than winning.

 

"Brady Hoke didn't play football like that at Ball State or San Diego State, why did his team suddenly become the slowest offense in FBS? Do you think Hoke suddenly got less creative at Michigan, or did something else happen that constrained Hoke? I think the answer is obvious."

I didn't know Hoke was more creative at earlier stops.

If you watched the Game last year, they started out with the usual 1 yard and a cloud of dust style and then at some point around the middle of the quarter the camera showed Nuss kneeling on the sideline with Hoke standing next to him bent over and in his ear and they had a very intense conversation that the camera focused on and after that the playbook opened up. They became unpredictable by down and distance, they threw to the FB, the TE's, backs, threw deep, left, right, medium, short, on the rollout, running and passing to all parts of the field. It totally worked! They got conservative again at the end of the half and gave them the ball back and let them score :(, then attacked again, but Drake went down and it was all she wrote. But for about half the game there they played offense like they could have and were kind of dominating!

That could've been Hoke laying down the law and telling Nuss to go for it, or it could've been what Nuss wanted and Hoke was giving in but reading him a riot act about how this better work or whatever.

After the game at some point I was talking about that with someone very close to Nuss and wondering why they hadn't been playing that style of offense all along? They didn't answer who's idea the temporary  switch was, but they said they tried it in a scrimmage during the week and that Devin threw 7 picks! I said what about Morris then? They said he was just as bad :(

That doesn't address what DB's influence was or not over time or at certain times, but it puts things in a different light in terms of what they felt was doable with what they had. Which also doesn't tell if what they had was as bad as it was because it was or because they couldn't teach.

So maybe give Shane a quarter, a half even. Give me one FOOTBALL reason that Shane started the 2nd half?

I can't find the first half box, but 2.6 YPA with 0 TDs and a pick? It  was absolutely clear that Shane was not better than Devin.

 

for your last paragraph.  That's some good comedy right there.

If that were the case if be even more pissed at Hoke. You have an iron clad contract, for Pete's sake! Do what YOU know to be right and ignore your boss......because if you win, he can't fire you. And if you lose, he'd fire you whether you were listening to him or not.