Hawaii Coach Talks Michigan

Colorado probably didn't ask that 1997. 

That was the last time we played a team to open the season who had already played a game.

This seems to be the appropriate response... think Jimmy said the same thing?

Nope. In 1999, Bob Davie pulled a Lou Holtz and scheduled a last minute game against Kansas the week before we opened against ND at the big house. Still pulling the same old shit. Edit: This was in response to WD.

You want what?? sorry i cant hear you must have a bad connection.

Most teams share tape of the all 22 view with opponents because it's mutually beneficial to get tape on the other team where you can see the whole field and not just the narrow TV angles. 

Hawaii has this from game 1(0) and is willing to share. I'm guessing they're asking in return to get the scrimmage video. 

The request is fine, as is Harbaugh's decline. 

It ain't gonna matter either way.

The Hawaii coach said it was no big deal that Harbaugh didn't send scrimmage tape. He knew that Harbaugh did not want to tip his hand regarding the starting QB.

He sounded like he was already kind of walking back the offer a bit when the reporter told him Harbaugh accepted. It was like he was thinking, "crazy asshole, I wasn't actually expecting you to take my offer seriously."

Yeah that's the weird thing about the request.

I think the ask is fine; scrimmage tape would probably amount to early practice position battles where players are working out weaknesses they expect to fix, many guys getting reps won't start, and squads are running vanilla formations to work on fundamentals.  The game prep stuff won't be in there.

But as others have pointed out, experience is a particular characteristic of this Michigan team.  There are veterans all over the defense and along the O-line.  If they want to know what Michigan's gonna look like, they can just look at last season, with some BC footage to get a read on Doc Brown's tendencies.

Long story short, I don't expect anything compromising to be in a scrimmage tape, but hasn't the coach heard of YouTube??

There's no precedent for this, and besides, Hawaii had an advantage as well: the game they've played gives their coaches a chance to fix problems and coach issues of weakness that have been revealed by live game action. They're sharper. Isn't there an old trope that the biggest improvement comes between games one and two? Not that it matters, but if this were someone like UCLA, it would be a big deal.

Nope

glaring ones!

Sometimes Deveon Smith's left sock is a quarter inch lower than his right (might affect his balance).

Sometimes  Ryan Glasgow blinks before mecilessly sacking the QB

Jehu Chesson tends to take deep breaths before outracing everyone to the endzone.

Mason Cole can only block 2-3 defensive lineman at a time.

If Harbaugh's left elbow bends a certain way, you know he's going for 2.
 

We are an open book of shortcomings.

 

 

LT, LG, LB, FB, backup WDE and backup safety are question marks.  Not all will be weaknesses since this is as of the Spring Game (pre-submarine), but odds are at least one of them will be.  None of this is a surprise, though, and honestly this doesn't give an opponent much to work with.  Harbaugh won't even have to use a FB if they're not ready -- we can do just fine with a single-back look, with our D-line the linebackers may not even be relevant, and backups won't play more than 30% of snaps IF they are serious liabilities.  That leaves the left side of our O-line but surely every opponent has decided by now they're going to attack that and see what they get.

And that's the best-case scenario for Hawaii.