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Greg Robinson

Now that the season is over, let's not overlook his total epic fail and endless coaching incompetence.

No stuffed animal can save him now.

I look forward to the day that he's running someone else's program into the ground.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:49 PM | Can we retain his hair? (Score:1)
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Can we retain his hair?

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:22 PM | Too bad we'd have to keep the life-support system (Score:1)
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for it

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:12 PM | They make... (Score:1)
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... tools for that.

Where's Charlie Bauman when you need him?

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:17 PM | Sigh (Score:1)
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I am so angry and the smoking crater of a defense he has left in his wake, this normally funny quip doesn't seem funny to me right now :(

I am normally pretty reserved with my words and opinions but he is a complete and total failure as a coach. Years from now I'm sure I will still be pissed off that he ever had the honor of getting to coach for Michigan.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:37 PM | Its a trifecta of blame (Score:1)
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Carr for a complete and utter fail on recruiting his last two years.  RR for his total disregard of defensive recruiting his first year, and fail at defensive recruiting the next two years.  GERG for his complete and total lack of coaching/scheming ability.  This=FML

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:49 PM | Too bad his defense wasnt as (Score:1)
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Too bad his defense wasnt as good as his hair, we'd have the top D in the nation.

THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:49 PM | .......... (Score:1)
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Stay classy.........he just did not succeed here, it happens. But to try to tell me he did not put his heart into it, well thats bullshit.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:51 PM | I would put all of my heart (Score:1)
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I would put all of my heart into it too, but that doesn't mean I should ever be hired to coach in major college football.

Syracuse '03, Michigan G'05

Space bitches, space.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:28 PM | Look at it from the other perspective (Score:1)
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Robinson has two superbowl rings, and had shown he could coach a great defense in the past... it didn't work out as Syracuse's HC, but then again Shannon didn't do a great job as UM (NTUM)'s HC, but he had some great D's as a coordinator.

Bottom line, just because you're not cut out to be a head coach doesn't mean you're a bad coordinator. In that situation it looked like a great hire, but hindsight is 20/20. I would've made the exact same mistake. Good luck GERG wherever you end up, sorry it didn't work out.

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Brilliant!

"There will be blood on the field and it won't be mine" - K

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:27 PM | Agreed.  And it will be (Score:1)
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Agreed.  And it will be interesting to hear from him what defense HE wanted to run this year cause it sure as hell wasn't the 3-3-5 he'd never run before in his life.

Gerg reminds me of a chef who trains in Italian cooking but after he's hired at the resturant the owner says we're going to feature Chinese.  And people wonder why the food sucks.

 

 

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January 1st, 2011 at 10:32 PM | It also doesn't mean you have (Score:1)
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It also doesn't mean you have to start a thread to trash the guy.  Stay classy.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:52 PM | Agreed. When you have to (Score:1)
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Agreed. When you have to resort to stuffed animal, you clearly have already deployed the kitchen sink.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:10 PM | (No subject) (Score:1)
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all the dude wanted was his rug back...

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:58 PM | Sure, he put his heart into (Score:1)
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Sure, he put his heart into it.  But he hasn't had success in about a decade, and really shouldn't have been hired in the first place.  Rod should've known he wanted to go 3-3-5, and that Gerg had no experience running that.  He failed here, he failed at Syracuse (although his Little Engine That Could speech was riveting), failed with the Chiefs, and was a beneficiary of having Vince young at QB for his lone year at Texas.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:51 PM | I blame RR (Score:1)
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RR forced GERG to run a defense he wasn't familiar with. While GERG does deserve some blame, I put most of the blame on RR for "running our program into the ground" with this 3-3-5.

'Cats comin' for y'all

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:05 PM | RR didn't force him to be (Score:1)
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RR didn't force him to be incompetent enough to not be able to teach his defensive players basic fundamentals.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:42 PM | I blame RR for a different reason... (Score:1)
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... he hired GERG on what seemed to be a whim, despite epic failure at Syracuse and spotty positives over the last 10 years of coaching.  It seemed like a bad choice and most of this board thought so from the beginning, but we hoped we would be wrong. 

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:52 PM | Went to the M-den at Twelve (Score:1)
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Went to the M-den at Twelve Oaks yesterday. I swear the guy who bagged the book i bought was gerg's twin. I almost said something to him about it, but then I got scurred.

How 'bout I punchisize your face, for free.

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January 1st, 2011 at 10:22 PM | thats... (Score:1)
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some real Shenanigans Farva....real shenanigans.

sweet ass sweet is bad ass bad.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:09 PM | Unfortunately (Score:1)
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Unfortunately, last I checked GERG still coaches at UM. Hopefully that doesn't last long. He should have already tendered his resignation for the good of the program.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:53 PM | I agree, need to stay classy. (Score:1)
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I agree, need to stay classy. The blame for the past couple years can be put on many shoulders.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:04 PM | The blame for my drinking the (Score:1)
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The blame for my drinking the last six years can be placed squarely on one man's shoulders.

Syracuse '03, Michigan G'05

Space bitches, space.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:53 PM | We share an ID name (Score:1)
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But surely you can't be serious

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:04 PM | I am, and don't call me (Score:1)
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I am, and don't call me Shirley.

Syracuse '03, Michigan G'05

Space bitches, space.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:53 PM | I don't understand why GERG (Score:1)
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I don't understand why GERG is the scapegoat for having a 3-3-5 defense shoved down his throat that he has never ran before?  Who knows what would have happened if RR would have let him run a different scheme.

cheat, cheat, and cheat some more, and when you get caught, do the right thing, lie!

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:11 PM | 2009 (Score:1)
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Was it really any better in 2009 when they ran a conventional 4-3 defense? Not really.

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January 1st, 2011 at 7:58 PM | Its too bad robinson never (Score:1)
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Its too bad robinson never got the chance to hire his own staff

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:11 PM | RR didn't force him to be (Score:1)
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RR didn't force him to be incompetent enough to not be able to teach his defensive players basic fundamentals as I said above.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:42 PM | You're arguement (Score:1)
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would also define RR as incompetent for hiring a coach who could not teach basic fundamentals.  So there's that.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:39 PM | RR may be incompetent as a (Score:1)
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RR may be incompetent as a head coach from what we've seen....

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:15 PM | Screw Greg Robinson (Score:1)
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Now for some Greg Jennings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0yfq2wDvU

'Cats comin' for y'all

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:16 PM | Dude (Score:1)
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Vid is hilarious.

 
 

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:28 PM | +1 (Score:1)
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first time for everything.

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January 1st, 2011 at 10:21 PM | Go Pack (Score:1)
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Go Pack Go, Kill the pretender bears tomorrow!

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:12 PM | GERG and the 3-3-5 (Score:1)
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The argument that GERG has never run the 3-3-5 therefore should be not held solely responsible is on shaky ground.

GERG has been coaching for 30+ yrs. Been to untold numbers of coaching clinics, sat down with great minds and shared thoughts. Seen any and every alignment, both offensively and defensively.

GERG may not prefer the 3-3-5 as an alignment, but once an alignment is in place, football is the same. Gaps, Techniques, Coverages, Blitzes have universals. Alignments have particulars, football has universals. There is no excuse I can think of for a guy of his knowledge base to absolutely suck like he has. (Except his actual record, which then explains the suck)

Alignments are different looks, giving different players responsibilities held by a different player in a different alignment. Do you think GERG just forgot that the B gaps have to be taken care of by LB's in this alignment? "Oh, the B gap is Demens and not the 3 tech? I must review this with RR! Here all this time I was under the distinct impression Kovacs had both B's"

In the 4-3, you have a 1 tech and a 3 tech. Sometimes, you might put both tackles in a 2 tech. Does that mean a defensive coach can't teach gap responsibility because they are in a different alignment?

Our HS DC gives a new game plan EVERY WEEK with different techs and responsibilities for the ends and tackles. We might come out in a 50 w/ tackles in 2 tech one week; the next week we go to a 44. It's not hard.


GERG should be a master of any alignment with his history in the game. Zones, blitzes, disguising coverages should be things he can do in his sleep. He should own most OC's just by his history.

Unless he's been regurgitating information he 'picked' up and can't break down offenses. But, I can't buy that or the fact that RR 'forced' GERG to run the 3-3-5.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:34 PM | well known (Score:1)
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that RR (and his WVU cronies) wanted to run a 3-3-5 starting w/ Shafer in 2007 (another failure apparently) and subsequently GR.  Don't know what there is for you to buy.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:45 PM | Don't take out the gnat (Score:1)
G.W. Mclintock
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and swallow the camel.

So, the 3-3-5 is too difficult for GERG? Better yet, RR (and his cronies) cannot teach it himself, since he appears to be so enamored with it?

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:59 PM | Not too familiar w/ camel metaphors (Score:1)
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Let the defensive coords do their thing.  Shafer wasn't a bad DC and I'm betting GR isn't as bad as this situation paints him. Ultimately RR is responsible for the product.  After year 3, I think we have a pretty accurate picture of a train wreck.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:08 PM | Yes (Score:1)
G.W. Mclintock
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My main contention is blaming RR for forcing GERG to run something "he didn't know" is erroneous.

RR is responsbible for everything in the program, agreed.

(The camel and gnat is referring to picking out a small point while leaving the bigger point alone. In the gospels)

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:18 PM | have to disagree (Score:1)
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"My main contention is blaming RR for forcing GERG to run something "he didn't know" is erroneous."

That is absolutely RR's fault.  If he wanted a DC to be successful, he has to allow him to bring in his own folks and coach what he knows.  Forcing the 3-3-5, which many don't believe will work in the B10, and coaching buddies on a DC is a recipe for failure. 

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:25 PM | Let me try again (Score:1)
G.W. Mclintock
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RR deserves blame for the program's failures.

He deserves blame for the scheme of the 3-3-5 in the BIG.

However, absolving GERG of responsibility because he 'doesn't know the scheme' is erroneous. GERG should be able to coach any scheme that comes across his desk. He may not prefer it, but he should be able to coach it.

Your points are well taken.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:31 PM | we'll go with that (Score:1)
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Happy New Year and let's both hope UM is better next year, however it happens.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:14 PM | If he can't coach the 3-3-5, (Score:1)
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If he can't coach the 3-3-5, he should have never been hired.

Syracuse '03, Michigan G'05

Space bitches, space.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:46 PM | Word (Score:1)
G.W. Mclintock
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Good word.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:17 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
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Fighting about Gerg is like fighting about the vice-president.

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January 1st, 2011 at 10:12 PM | except (Score:1)
umchicago
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VPs really have no responsiblilites.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:21 PM | Some things were just never (Score:1)
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Some things were just never meant to be.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:23 PM | No need (Score:1)
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to be nasty.

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January 1st, 2011 at 8:27 PM | He did have a sweet haircut (Score:1)
KMJ
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And "GERG" was fun to say.  So there's that.

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January 1st, 2011 at 9:39 PM | The silver lining (Score:1)
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"If life is the road, then Ohio is simply a place to stop for gas." -- Scott Burgess, Detroit News, 9/16/2010
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