Edited Title: Player development over next three games

I was not nearly has negative about Borges as most people were after Penn St but the last few weeks especially the Nebraska game has sold me that there might have to be a change. A win like last nights can galvanize a team though, an us against the world type mentality. They could win the next two I don't really care about the bowl but if they beat Iowa and Ohio I think people will have to reconsider their thoughts on the staff.

My thing is that we do not know with complete metaphysical certitude that Borges OR Funk will be canned if we lose the next 3.

IME, the most likely scenario is that we lose all 3 remaining games, Jackson retires, and Borges & Funk are retained. We'll be better next year, but this staff isn't capable of beating OSU. It's not a big enough deal for Hoke, so with 3 more losses in a row to OSU (does this team seem spirited enough to beat Meyer?), Hoke & co get canned after 6 years at M.

IA is a team we can beat! Then the team will finish at 8-4 for the season and meet my prediction and several others.

Play hard against OSU. I hope we can pull of the major upset but as long as it withing 10 points I will be happy. If OSU comes and blows us out then it will lead to a sour note on the season.

I'll let Hoke evaluate his coaches.

3-0 would be pretty cool

Regardless of the number of wins, I want no coaching changes this year. Of course, I think to win out, or win two out of three, will only help Borges and Funk. But I believe they are staying, and I'm thrilled with that.

I also believe coaching instability is terrible for the program, and the best possible thing is for them to stay. I really want to see what the OL can do next year.

Yeah, so the best possible outcome is for Michigan to win out, but regardless of wins, I want the entire coaching staff to stay intact.

That a large % of the blogbase wants to fire our OC, with no clear successor, no suggestions of a successor, flush a lot of QB recruiting, and leave esteemed Davey B holding the bag and making him ultimately responsible for turning it around. Hoke, instead of recruiting, should be out combing the streets for people who want to interview for OC. I don't know what to call that, a torch and pitchfork mob, a clear naivety of organizational dynamics, intellectual meltdown. Somehow we want Wisconsin under Bielema with a revolving door of coordinators. Michigan has frustrated forever on offense as far as I'm concerned. Bo wouldn't pass until AC came to town. Moeller I kinda forget how it applies to this theory. Carr was conservative to the point where the game was about to go into the abyss and he had to open it up, then we came roaring back. Rod abandoned everything. And now we are in transition after the era of Denard. It seems everyone forgot about the last 30 years save for the last 3. There's so much fruit about to ripen here...Funchess, green, smith, butt, chesson, and there are more on the way...gardner's not afraid of anyone wanting to knock his head off sideways...get the OL meshing instead of melting and there will be a lot of people eating their shorts.

Hoke's benched senior starters who played better and more consistently than our offensive coaches have performed. It's even worse given the fact that they're not scholarship kids, but paid professionals instead. No performance in the next few games will change how erratic, or even bipolar our offense is. Even if we win out it's a given that the coaches will get in the way with questionable decisions again soon and we'll have more games like Nebraska regularly in our future. Other coaches across the country have shown they can get much much more out of kids with less talent in less time. We should fire the inconsistent, underperforming, overpaid ones we have and hire ones with the money instead.

That's not how things work. From what we can see from the outside, the current coaching staff seems to work very well together. We don't hear about power struggles or politics between the coaches. Now that might just be Fort Schembechler, but it certainly seems like the coaching staff comliments each other in style and orientation. 

So say you ranters get your way and Borges gets nucked at season's end. Do you really think that the offensive coaching shake up stops with the OC? That additional staff changes on the offensive side of the balll aren't likely? If I'm a top OC and I'm being pursued by Michigan, I'm going to have a list of people I want working with me. Those staffing changes are going to be part of the hiring conversation. Especially if I'm expected to turn around a tire fire in a single season. I won't get them all but I'll get some, and that has a huge danger of creating factions within the staff. Now if I'm not a top OC or OC candidate, why would Michigan want me? 

If you think that Hoke should stay, then whether you like a particular coach or not, you are saying that Hoke should get the staff he wants. 

In case you haven't noticed, all evidence suggests that means Borges will be here at least through the end of 2014 and probably longer. 

I don't want to start a huge fight and I will freely admit that there are many others on this site that know A LOT more about football than I do. Having said that, I don't think there is a lot of hope that we'll see much development in the next three games simply because we have seen so little over the past three years. If this staff can't point to even one position group and saw marked improvement over the course of their three year tenure (which I believe they can't) then I can't bring myself to hold out hope that this team will dveelop over the course of three games. 

In my humble opinion, I believe at a minimum every position coach on the offensive side of the ball should be fired in the offseason. If there could be an argument made for one I believe it would be the WR coach becuase I do think they have shown some development, but other than that I can't think of a single position that has progressed in the last three years (in fact some seem to be going backward).

I am still not sure AB is the answer at OC either, but I don't really know enough about the finer points of football strategy to pass judgement on him in that area. What I will say though, is if even a relative novice can predict more than 50% of his playcalls with accuracy (which I have been able to do since startiing to try it 3 weeks ago) than I think there is some truth to the fact that he is far too predictable. 

Couple that with the fact that he is the QB coach (none of our QB's have progressed since he came here) and responsible for the offense as a whole and I don't see a very good reason for keeping him around either, except for the fact that he seems like a genuinely nice guy. 

So I guess in closing for me, anything short of a complete coaching overhaul on the offensive side of the ball during the offseason will be a disappointment.