Gattis says Harbaugh has been hands-off with the new offense
Baumgardner reports...sounds like Harbaugh really has turned over the keys! Lots of stunning quotes in the article about how Gattis is fully in charge of the offense.
Gattis is not lacking in confidence and self-promotion. I hope he is half as good at this job as he implies, because that would result in great things for the offense. For the record, I do anticipate him living up to his words. I also credit him for the way he speaks about his head coach - this is an intelligent man.
I'm not sure what you would expect from any coach, but OK. If he said, I hope it works, and Jim is taking a big risk with letting me run the offense, would you think more or less of him?
That’s a good question, and I don’t know the answer.
April 19th, 2019 at 10:49 PM ^
It’s all a nuance. I work for a F100 company and our COO (who is in charge of Global IT) hired a new CIO and made him in charge of all of IT.
He still has to run any spend over $500K by the COO, still needs to report on all major projects, any network outages...
the CIO is in charge of IT (and has like 10,000 reports), but the strategy is set from above.
April 19th, 2019 at 11:10 PM ^
F100, COO, Global IT, CIO, IT, COO, CIO, IT.
F100, COO, Global IT, CIO, IT, COO, CIO, IT.
F100, COO, Global IT, CIO, IT, COO, CIO, IT.
F100, COO, Global IT, CIO, IT, COO, CIO, IT.
F100, COO, Global IT, CIO, IT, COO, CIO, IT.
F100, COO, Global IT, CIO, IT, COO, CIO, IT.
Strategy, Strategy, Strategy, Strategy, Strategy
Ah yes... we're all searching for our golden parachute where we can f*ck around in someone's sandbox and not be be held responsible. *eyes rolling*
MBA? Masters in Bullsh*t Artistry...
April 19th, 2019 at 10:18 PM ^
He’s gonna be a head coach sooner rather than later.
i anticipate his stay in A2 lasting 3 years max
Harbaugh is not a bull shitter.
Isn't "bull shitter", one word???
So more like Jackass than Cock Sucker??or???
April 20th, 2019 at 10:14 PM ^
No, East German Judge, in point of fact "bull shitter" is two words, something you missed even while tapping the space bar between the 2 words when you typed, as well as when reading it.
You might need to find a former E. German optometrist or math instructor, or both. Bullshitter, on the other hand, is one word! :)
A necessary and welcome development.
This news is offensive.
I think you are being overly defensive.
I think we should just punt on this debate.
Score those touchdowns, baby. Just score those touchdowns.
Praise the Lord! Speed in Space with some power mixed in.
Did someone say, "space"?
If Gattis is successful in supercharging UM's offense he'll be highly desirable 2 or 3 seasons down the road. I honestly don't expect him to be here long.
I’d say it’s gonna be 1 year if he’s extremely successful this season.
No way dude. If Gattis takes UM from last year's frequent head scratching nonsense to something looking like a top end college offense he's going to be a hot hot hot candidate. He might not get a big time P5 job like Durken did, but Gattis would be a HC the season after next if he wanted to be.
April 20th, 2019 at 10:01 AM ^
Mgousername checks out
Love what I am hearing about Gattis. Hope he hits the ground running as a first time playcaller.
Just not on first down...
April 22nd, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
Yes. We can still run on first down, but it needs to not be a dominant tendency and the passing game has got to be enough of a threat that the stacked box becomes a rare sight, and one that is severely punished when it appears...
Nico, dpj, tarik black, shea, etc...
if the pass game isnt absolutely explosive, this is a major fail.
ballsy move by JH. But the right direction. I wonder how much was also brought on by players clamoring for a more wide open strategy?
I'm excited that Gattis is so excited!
Does a successful offense this year put Gattis in the driver's seat to take over the HC job when Harbaugh retires?
Seriously? No. Gattis won't be here long enough to do that. Like it was said earlier, if he's that successful he'll get a HC job somewhere in a few years. And thats fine - Harbaugh has a pretty good record of finding assistants...
April 19th, 2019 at 11:02 PM ^
I believe he means Gattis would get a head coaching job in the meantime, but not at a school so large that Michigan wouldn't be able to steal him.
Did someone think Harbaugh was lying. Weird post
April 19th, 2019 at 11:05 PM ^
Harbaugh has had Offensive Coordinators before including at Stanford so the hiring of one at UM is not really a big deal. Jim has always been involved in the offense though and the head scratch for me is why he didn't do it immediately when taking the UM job? Of course Drevno had the title BUT I think what people in Ann Arbor never could understand (at least initially) is just how bad Pep Hamilton is as a play caller. He really really sucks folks and Harbaugh HAD to get rid of him after this year. I hope Harbaugh gets more involved in the defense though because I get really tired of hearing how Don Brown has had some great defenses at Michigan. Michigan's defense since Brown's arrival has been really good against offenses that are not elite level offenses. In fact, they have given up a ton of points against the good offenses Brown has faced just like he did at BC. Get involved Jim on defense this year.
April 19th, 2019 at 11:59 PM ^
Again, this crap about Don Brown defenses isn't true. It's just something people like to say to have something to complain about.
April 20th, 2019 at 12:24 AM ^
Your wrong. Look at Michigan’s losses since Brown’s arrival and add up how many points were given up. I can’t believe you would say that after the OSU and Florida losses this year. What game were you watching? How about PSU the year before?
There have been 3 games in the 3 years Don Brown has been here where the defense can be blamed for the loss. Are you claiming we've only played 3 elite offenses in that time? Because that's just not true. OSU last year, absolutely. The previous 2 years the defense was great. The offense should have won both games in my opinion but just couldn't. PSU in 2017? Yes. FSU last year? Sure, but there were a lot of other circumstances playing into that one.
Again, this take is false and honestly, just plain stupid.
We didn't beat a team with a winning record in 2017, so....
Well, when and if we lost to them that day they had a winning record....
April 20th, 2019 at 10:49 AM ^
Stupid? What is stupid is someone like you posting things about football here where it's obvious you never played or know little about. Watching on TV doesn't qualify you. When Michigan plays a good offense, they give up a ton of points. Period!! and the facts back that up.
Again, not true.
It's actually 100% true.
I imagine you probably thought "26 seconds" Mattison was an elite DC, too.
April 20th, 2019 at 12:20 AM ^
The performance against Ohio State was really bad, but there aren't really any defenses that can shut down an elite offense in the current CFB landscape. That's why Gattis was so necessary.
April 20th, 2019 at 12:26 AM ^
Clemson shut down everybody last year including Alabama.
Clemson’s defense was also aided by an elite offense led by an elite QB. Does Michigan’s defense give up so many points if Michigan’s offense held serve a little better against elite teams? I don’t know. But, there were several games last season, against good teams who many in here predicted losses, that Michigan barely needed an offense at all the defense was so dominating.
Harbaugh made staff changes to BOTH sides of the ball because Michigan needs to be better so it can beat OSU. Don Brown isn’t a problem, and as he himself stated, the issues are being addressed so the program can keep improving.
April 20th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
Of course the primary goal of Gattis is to increase our ability to score, but people shouldn't discount the impact on our ability to simply sustain drives.
If we'd been able to just get one more first down late in the game when it mattered, we don't lose to Sparty in 2015 or to Iowa in 2016.
In both the 2016 and 2017 games against OSU, we had seven drives that were 6 plays or less and ended in punts, and a bunch of those were pathetic 3-and-outs. How would those games have gone with a more consistent offensive attack that didn't put our defense back on the field so quickly? Early in the game last year, we had three 3-and-outs and one 4-and-out while OSU was starting to pull away. I'm not saying that we would have won that game with a more potent offense, but it wouldn't have been the blowout that it was.