Gattis and Locksley rift. I wonder if UM will try to make a statement against Maryland to prove a point?

Yep win the game is a statement enough for me. 

Exactly!  Win the game and look efficient doing so.  One big win does not a juggernaut make where we can talk about who we want to beat down and by how much.

I have a feeling that this team will suffer no let downs from here on out.  Not sure what will happen vs OSU; but, I expect they will come out for all games ready to play.  Hope and pray I am right.

I was about to say the same thing. This is the kind of thing that pisses me off about sports media..this article is reaching so hard to try to play up the "drama" between Gattis and Locksley and its totally baseless and irresponsible. 

Not taking this out on OP but I have never seen a fan base so concerned with who is technically calling the plays. No where in that article does it say anything about play calling duties changing hands, it just slides in a Warinner quote to add to the fabricated drama surrounding Gattis. Usually I would just overlook this kind of thing but this is a grade A example how the media adds to the toxic attitudes around Michigan football. Throw some open ended comments in a garbage article, and let the rabid MI fans wildly speculate and call it a day. It's the kind of thing that adds logs to the fire for the MI crowd who believes if things aren't going right immediately, heads should roll. 

Now that my rant is over, I will join Marvin in getting more coffee. 

The descriptor word you are looking for here is "Freep".

“It's thin on substantive information, speculates in ways that are clearly intended to appeal to Michigan haters, ridicules Gattis's "speed in space" concept, and comes to no useful conclusions.”

What is The Freep, Alex.     

Correct.  Choose again

I hate to break this to you, but you just described almost all sports media, which appeals to the lowest common denominator type of reader. MGoBlog is one of the exceptions.

The Gattis/Locksley rivalry seems overblown to me, like the media is trying to craft a WWE-style storyline out of a normal college football coaching situation. 

You could have just said "It's a Freep article" and saved yourself a lot of time, but I largely agree.

Also, the insinuation that Warriner is calling the plays is laughable, but if there's one thing I've picked up around here is that a subset of fans desperately want to believe incompetence was the cause of the offense's issues and not, you know, people learning new things and it taking some time to click.

Dude I was thinking the exact same thing. What lines are you reading between? Coke lines? 

Agreed. The article puts the quote in a place where one seems guided to infer some sort of change, but there is no evidence to or mention of a change in duties/influence. Most OCs refine their ways based on personnel and what works in previous weeks from what worked in camp. The others get fired or keep their job in East Lansing.

Did you really mean no offense, or were you just putting in the classic "I don't mean this negative thing, but here's this negative thing" disclaimer? 

By the way, I agree with your perspective in whole. 

Maryland has QB issues, can’t protect the QB, and is terrible on defense.

It's big only from the perspective of fans wanting reassurance that Michigan's recent resurgence is a real trend and not a fluke.  We avoid shooting ourselves in the foot and this game will not be much of a problem.  Hold onto the goddamn ball.

The day may come when Mike Locksley builds this team into a contender, but it's not this season.  Michigan wins by 21.

What is the media gonna ask him? The same stupid shit...... Are comfortable with Shea? Where do you think the turnaround came from? How did you fix the turnovers? Are you still calling the plays? 

Harbaugh has cards and talks into his headset every down too. I don’t remember that early in the season. 

Agreed, I am a big believer in not burdening someone with pointless media and PR distraction when they have a more important task to consume all their energy. Distraction is a leading enemy of focus. i'm glad Brown skipped media appearances and it's good for Gattis if he did the same.

As for the article like so much of sports reporting, it's basically a nonstory.  I wish people paid half as much attention to what's going on in their local, state and national governments, at what is happening in the world etc.

Also let's say for arguments sake that  Harbaugh and Warinner are more involved when they were at the beginning of the season, which we don't know for sure, but let's start with that assumption for a thought experiment. 

Isn't that what you want a "CEO" coach to do? And his assistants? You have a guy who is brand new to the OC role, brand new to this team and it's players, and with a background more oriented around WRs and the passing game from his coaching experience. Don't you want them to step in and help?  Don't you want them to help him adapt his system to these players and this team?  What else were they gonna do? Just stand there and laugh and point while he struggled through the season? 

They hired an unproven guy, gave him the leeway to do his thing, and since things didnt click effortlessly, they're helping him and its now getting good results.  Not sure why it has to be them "taking control back" or any of the stories people concoct in their head. Simplest explanation is usually the right one. What's more likely? Harbaugh hates Gattis and is handcuffing him so he can run his Harbaugh offense and Gattis is the dog house?  Or that the head coach is coaching up his assistant coach to make him and the team better? No one said when Gattis was hired that he wouldn't be speaking to the other coaches and not taking their input. Come on, people.

Gattis coming down to the sidelines has helped.  More direct communication between him, the offense, and the coaching staff.  It's also pretty clear that some discussion occurred between Harbaugh, Warriner, and Gattis with the outcome being "let's build on what we know how to do, because we aren't built to just out-talent people " which seemed to be the plan for the Army game.  We've never been the world's greatest zone blocking team.  Greg Frey took a hike after one year of trying to zone block our way into greatness.

I doubt Harbaugh is micro-managing his offensive coordinator.

As for talking to the press, I assume that's his choice.  Why face the same questions over and over?

Did you watch the rutgers game after the paramus satellite camp deal?  Not backing off of the gas pedal is not beyond harbaugh, i think its his mantra.  

It will probably be similar to last week in that the backups will be in but they will run the full offense.  If thats embarassing someone or running up the score, so be it. Get better.

Are we talking a pile of loose dry marshmallows or can they be sort of stuck together and gooey after they have been sitting in the hot sun for a while? 

This would make for a fun mythbusters episode. Maybe one of the spinoff shows could conquer this for us...

It is a crappy team. They need to win games. He isn’t saving people for thus game costing themselves games in the process.