Jim Harbaugh responded to my friend's email
My friend earlier this week respectfully e-mailed coach and told him to take a look at this article (https://sports.yahoo.com/open-scoring-nick-sabans-evolution-changed-alabama-025126292.html ) , and Coach responded this morning.
Very nice of him to reply.
That is all.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:06 PM ^
Its blank....
January 9th, 2019 at 1:13 PM ^
Double fail
January 9th, 2019 at 1:13 PM ^
Still blank (at least it is for me)
January 9th, 2019 at 1:19 PM ^
Should work now. Sorry
January 9th, 2019 at 1:23 PM ^
The one in the comment section works. I can see the reply.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
One can still not edit the original post on mgoblog :/. I made the mistake initially on just copying and pasting the picture , but I had to do the file upload of a jpg file instead
January 9th, 2019 at 3:08 PM ^
Personally, I love the cover for Smell the Glove.
January 9th, 2019 at 7:12 PM ^
None more black.
January 9th, 2019 at 7:55 PM ^
I should have waited until I got home to read this. I'm at my daughters track practice. With all the wood in my pants, I probably look like R Kelly at the junior prom.
January 9th, 2019 at 8:16 PM ^
It is visible now.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:20 PM ^
Yes. There is definitely something weird because I can see when I hit reply to your post.
Lets see if this works. I took a screenshot and attached here
January 9th, 2019 at 1:25 PM ^
So Harbaugh thinks they took a stride in ‘18 to revolutionizing their offense. Weird. I saw a team huddle up and run it up the middle down multiple scores in the 2nd half, all while bleeding the play clock down to about 5 seconds numerous times.
Cant wait for 2019’s offense. Maybe they will snap the ball with 10 seconds left instead of 5. ??♂️
January 9th, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
The offense did take a huge step forward in 2018. Revolutionizing might be the wrong word for it, but it was worlds better than 2017.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
This is exactly right. I'd venture to say that anyone that says we didn't evolve doesn't actually know what they're looking at.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:39 PM ^
I will give you that we evolved in '18 if you give me that we devolved so badly in '17 that we are still below where we were in '16.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
Sure, but to be fair, 2017 was an extremely young, rebuilding team running multiple, opposing blocking schemes.
January 9th, 2019 at 6:55 PM ^
I am tired of the "young" team excuse or we are changing our scheme excuse. Other schools pull it off with aplomb and we seem to use it as a crutch. Witness QBs and WRs in the sec, THEEEE ohio drastically changed their offensive scheme this year. Not buying it anymore.
January 9th, 2019 at 10:53 PM ^
Just because all the skill players in the Natty were Freshman and Sophomores is nonreason not tontake 3 years to develop them and have them throw 5 yard outs( sarcasm)
January 9th, 2019 at 1:54 PM ^
The game plans for the last 2 games were poor, and designed for a defense that was expected to carry the load.
They definitely need more downfield passing, but Shea and the o-line kind of struggled with that too.
The o-line should get better with experience/coaching, they'll hopefully have 3 healthy downfield threats, explosiveness from the RB position (Turner and Charbonnet), and (cross your fingers) a slot demon in Giles Jackson or George Johnson III or maybe even Evans.
All those things will help allow the play-calling to be more open and aggressive.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:55 PM ^
Year A:
Passing - 17.5 completions, 28.5 attempts, 212 ypg, 1.5 TDs / game
Rushing - 43.9 attempts, 213.3 ypg, 4.9 ypc
Total - 425.3 ypg, 5.9 yards/play
Year B:
Passing - 17.2 completions, 26.8 attempts, 215.7 ypg, 1.8 TDs / game
Rushing - 42.2 attempts, 203.8 ypg, 4.8 ypc
Total - 419.5 ypg, 6.1 yards/play
Guess which year is which?
Year A is 2016, Year B is 2018.
Michigan was not significantly below the 2016 team on offense this year.
January 9th, 2019 at 2:13 PM ^
That's unexpected. The 2016 offense felt like it had more flow to it. The 2018 offense, felt clunky and disjointed.
I'm astonished that the numbers are nearly identical.
January 9th, 2019 at 2:55 PM ^
I seem to recall a lot of people complaining about Speight and the offense in 2016.
January 9th, 2019 at 2:17 PM ^
Essentially proves my point. The perceived "evolving" in '18 was simply a return to the norm of '16. I hope neither are examples of where we want our offense to be.
January 9th, 2019 at 2:22 PM ^
While you are correct in your point, let’s not let this argument give too much credit to the 2016 offense was in the bottom half (69th) of total offense.
January 9th, 2019 at 4:26 PM ^
Bruh don't make me explain to you the difference between total offense and offensive efficiency cumong man this is Mgoblog you're supposed to understand this
January 9th, 2019 at 5:49 PM ^
But I was told that this is all Pep Hamilton’s fault...
January 9th, 2019 at 1:45 PM ^
A bunch of us obviously frustrated some of the players with their stupidity in not recognizing the various new concepts that were being incorporated. I was surprised to hear them addressing fan-base misconceptions late in the year. But student-athletes can't be expected to tune everything out. They're human.
When I first joined this blog community (maybe 2 years ago?), one of its unique features was that it involved mostly people who understood X's and O's much better than many. It was embarrassing that the level of ignorance has been--to use a program buzzword--ascending to such an extent that we were among the guilty parties.
January 9th, 2019 at 3:53 PM ^
There’s a huge difference between the offense “evolving” and the offense improving because a better QB was brought in, and the OL, RB, WR, and TE corps all had returning starters who had another year in the system.
Just because we were terrible in 2017 doesn’t mean that 2018 represented some kind of evolution.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
Hey man. That's progress!
January 9th, 2019 at 1:32 PM ^
You can paint that car any color you'd like. I wouldn't expect different horsepower from the same engine.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:34 PM ^
They went from an offense ranked in the 90s (S&P) to a top 25 offense.
January 9th, 2019 at 2:12 PM ^
Seems you only watched the bowl game.
January 9th, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
Wow. I guess you weren't watching. The run game was drastically overhauled and the use of a QB as a threat was expanded. We saw much more spread than we saw in 2017 as well.
It wasn't perfect, but there's a reason we moved into the top quartile of college offenses after being closer to the bottom.
January 10th, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^
It was not evolution at all. Painful to watch. Zero playmakers. Half of the time trip and fall down so the opposing defense didn’t have to do anything. Receivers can’t even run routes let alone catch. Re tread qbs. He cannot recruit. It’s an awful feeling knowing your team can’t score.
January 10th, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^
It was not evolution at all. Painful to watch. Zero playmakers. Half of the time trip and fall down so the opposing defense didn’t have to do anything. Receivers can’t even run routes let alone catch. Re tread qbs. He cannot recruit. It’s an awful feeling knowing your team can’t score.
January 10th, 2019 at 12:23 AM ^
It was not evolution at all. Painful to watch. Zero playmakers. Half of the time trip and fall down so the opposing defense didn’t have to do anything. Receivers can’t even run routes let alone catch. Re tread qbs. He cannot recruit. It’s an awful feeling knowing your team can’t score.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:39 PM ^
Good stuff, and reassuring. Thanks for sharing this.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:22 PM ^
No Subject? At least give the fake email a title my guy.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:36 PM ^
Yeah, what are the chances that whomever reads JH's email opens one from an unknown sender without a subject line?
Seems fishy.
January 9th, 2019 at 4:22 PM ^
Maybe he was running tests on his new anti-virus software.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:37 PM ^
I just asked my friend that who is next to me and he isn't sure why it showed up like that as he sent it with a title "Please Read" ... Weird. I just saw the original email.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
Please Read? That's actually even less believable than No Subject.
January 9th, 2019 at 1:59 PM ^
Jim is actually friends with the majority of the Princes of Nigeria. True story.
January 9th, 2019 at 2:09 PM ^
I completely agree.
We need a raid on Entebbe-type offense!
January 9th, 2019 at 2:59 PM ^
Lining up multiple limousines in the backfield filled with several skill position players who could jump out and run in any direction; certainly a revolutionary offensive concept!
January 9th, 2019 at 5:00 PM ^
Is that TC? Theodore Calvin?
January 9th, 2019 at 1:07 PM ^
Can’t see pic on mobile. Pls help
January 9th, 2019 at 1:08 PM ^
No email
January 9th, 2019 at 1:11 PM ^
I think his "that is all" statement means that he won't say what was in Harbaugh's response.
We should be happy knowing that Harbaugh responds to email. Novel concept!