Harbaugh clock management
I get not wanting to give Alabama the ball back but you still have to go down the field and try to get a touchdown when you have over 2 minutes left. Way too many runs and staning around watching the clock bleed. We are lucky that Nordin hit a very long field goal.
January 1st, 2020 at 2:47 PM ^
Moar charbonnet!!!
January 1st, 2020 at 2:48 PM ^
His clock management stinks
January 1st, 2020 at 2:51 PM ^
It worked. We bitch about everything! IF he took the TO and then Shea was sacked, everyone would bitch!
UM is more physical at this point ! We've outcoached and outplayed them? Never happy!
January 1st, 2020 at 3:00 PM ^
I think the point is that we shouldnt have been in that situation in the first place. Whether you take a timeout with 19 seconds left or not is a moot point. We got lucky that a player made a play in a low probability event with a nearly 60 yard field goal. If we throw downfield on 1st and 2nd down, then we wouldve had a better chance at a td and a shorter field goal.
January 1st, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
I get it and you make a fair point, yet it too comes with hypotheticals. We scored. I am happy. Momentum, etc.
January 1st, 2020 at 3:11 PM ^
"It worked"
I love this logic based entirely on results, not risk/reward.
Do you arrive safely at home after driving drunk and say "it worked!"
January 1st, 2020 at 4:05 PM ^
Michigan had that ball at midfield with 2 minutes+ left. Had to settle for a 57-yard field goal. His clock management did not work.
January 1st, 2020 at 2:52 PM ^
Shea honestly stalled that drive running backwards and leaving 19 on the clock.
January 1st, 2020 at 2:53 PM ^
Harbaugh wanted to give the fans something to bitch about to deflect away from blaming refs
January 1st, 2020 at 2:54 PM ^
Harbs wrote the book on clock management.
James Franklin is the only one who read it.
January 1st, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
Seriously, shut the fuck up. I am being nice saying that. He knows what the team is. You, you can go and shut the fuck up. Be a coach one day or better yet, go back to your inbred blog you come from. Then, shut the fuck up. Go Blue baby! This has been a great first half.
January 1st, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
What's next? Jay Harbaugh sucks?
January 1st, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^
He also needs some teeth whiteners
January 1st, 2020 at 3:01 PM ^
Awful...he got LUCKY with that record FG
January 1st, 2020 at 3:04 PM ^
Additionally, we have stopped on all of their drives besides 2 and one of them was ref aided. Im not really concerned with giving bama the ball back with 40 seconds left when the reward of getting a td is there instead of settling for a long fg.
January 1st, 2020 at 3:04 PM ^
TBH, the way Bama scored on the previous drive, I would've taken a 14-13 deficit as opposed to going 3 and out and giving them a shot to extend the lead before half + Bama getting the ball to start the second half.
January 1st, 2020 at 3:09 PM ^
You got to play to win the game when you are an underdog in a neutral site bowl game. If you get got, you get got.
January 1st, 2020 at 3:10 PM ^
Needs to attend a seminar on clock management and retain the information
January 1st, 2020 at 3:20 PM ^
What he did made sense. You don't want to give Bama time.
This place bitches about everything...
January 1st, 2020 at 3:31 PM ^
At least he learned from the PSU game and used a kicker who can kick the ball more than 45 yards.
January 1st, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
Shea puts his clown shoes back on just in time to kill another drive.
January 1st, 2020 at 4:34 PM ^
Close but no fucking cigar... Michigan Football since ‘97.
January 1st, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
Jim Harbaugh has always sucked at clock management. This goes back to his days at Stanford and SF. Just watch that Super Bowl for more evidence of this. I've followed him all the way through his career and Clock Management and Game Management is average to poor at best.
His strength is in pre game prep but he loses it during the game.
He also has been apparently neutered. Watching 67 year old Saban go Crazy on his guys and his guys respond by playing harder...then seeing passive Jim over on the sidelines silent behind his shades makes me wonder if his fire is gone.