New Idea for Diaries
I am not brand new to this blog, but I admit that I haven't been around long enough to tally massive points. I have read a lot of good posts and gained a lot of insight to how the game is really played at the college level since being on this blog.
In my opinion, the "Michigan Nation" is one. We live and die together as the same creature and I had an idea that would help. Our beloved coaches are humans and are prone to errors here and there. On a weekly basis, I would love to see a diary that would lay a precise blueprint on how to beat our opponent each week.
For example, someone could do analysis that would dissect the offense and defense of the team we are about to play(In the same painful detail that is done after a Michigan game). Specific tendencies and certain match-ups that may be exploited. Maybe just one idea that maybe the coaches might not have thought of and maybe read here. I find it very possible this blog could help Michigan win football games. Another example, if the diary notices a running back squats a little differently in their stance on a run play, it could telegraph plays all day long or many other tendencies.
I could not accomplish this because I don't have the expertise nor do I have the time with 3 kids and being locked away in a cancer research lab. Anyway, it was just an idea I thought of.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:45 PM ^
For you anything. Now get your ass back to work and cure cancer for god's sake!
November 18th, 2010 at 5:45 PM ^
I really don't know what has happened to the board today
November 18th, 2010 at 5:48 PM ^
Light moderation.
I blame whatever this "hard edge" thing is. Stupidity breeds stupidity.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:53 PM ^
Denard is ready each and every week. We don't protect him from hits so much as prepare him and let him excute. It's a tough game, he's a tough kid.
HARD EDGE DENARD.
Look familiar?
November 18th, 2010 at 5:54 PM ^
Originally, I was going to parody "hard edge" in the all caps. It was low enough that I decided to do just freep parody.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:56 PM ^
suckers fell for it too.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:58 PM ^
Eh, I'm not one to call people out too often on having some fun on here, even if I find it stupid. Tim, on the other hand...
November 18th, 2010 at 6:03 PM ^
I think it has actually pumped up a lot of people into a confidence that we will win that otherwise wouldn't have cared or even think we could have won. Yea, you get loony toons, but you get that with anything. I don't see the harm in it. I guess the worst is that it annoys people, but i don't think it is detrimental to the quality shit you and the other guys put up. I try to keep it to just the boards. It will end, just like every fad. Until then I don't see the negatives in it except for the curmudgeons out there.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:34 PM ^
With a hard edge. Sorry, but I haven't had enough hard edge today to sleep tonight.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:40 PM ^
on the post above. The Interwebs police are out in force.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:03 PM ^
November 18th, 2010 at 5:46 PM ^
he needs to find another line of work.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:01 PM ^
No, you sir are wrong. Any coach who isn't open to new ideas and always trying to refine and improve his methods needs to find another line of work. Some of those ideas might come from the internet. Just dismissing that internet outright in favor or books, conferences, clinics and other places coaches might get new ideas is as inane as saying the MSM is the only place to get legitimate sports coverage. But you already new that since you're an active user of a four letter word, "blog".
I can say with 100% confidence that baseball and basketball of been greatly influenced over the last 10 years from advanced statistical analysis, much of which came from or was first posted on the internet.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:22 PM ^
Being open to ideas is good. Not noticing tendencies until they're pointed out to you on a blog is bad. If you, your coaching staff, assistants, and team don't notice tendencies that a blogger who does much less film study does, then you're in the wrong line of work.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:34 PM ^
So you're saying that between the entire coaching staff they've watched every down of offense and defense for Wisconsin for the last couple years multiple times? The coaching staff has a lot of responsibilities besides watching film for Wisconsin all year. Is it possible they might have missed something from the past few years? Is it possible that someone else who takes a different approach might draw different conclusions? Is it possible that Michigan doesn't have the best defensive minds in football and that someone with a lot of time on their hands and a lot of talent might have an idea or trend they've noticed that wasn't but the Michigan staff? That idea might even get posted on the internet.
Point being, I find that people that blindly dismiss ideas and suggestions are a little off base. If someone had suggested in week 2 or 3 that QW and BWC switch positions they would have bee laughed off this blog but quite a few people.
November 18th, 2010 at 7:13 PM ^
but as professionals, they shouldn't need to watch Wisconsin's last 3000 snaps multiple times to understand tendency. I mean, after all, they are professionals.
A couple months ago, I had to go see a gastroenterologist because I had blood in my poop. I know, too much information. Bro asked me to drop my trousers and examined my nether parts. Said "I have no doubt in my mind your . . . condition (for which I think he meant bloody butt burps) is secondary to a fissure. But, we gotta scope you."
After the scope, my entire 'chute is clear, save the fissure.
He didn't need to watch me crap 3000 times to know what was up.
November 18th, 2010 at 7:54 PM ^
This post is very disgusting and definitely WAY too much information but "bloody butt burps" had me laughing out loud
November 18th, 2010 at 7:26 PM ^
I think that you'll find what you can glean out of watching a network broadcast of a game is not even close to what you can see in game tape.
The network broadcast is a nice presentation visually. It also has a tight focus on following the ball. In many times, this is detrimental to game tape. You don't see the drops and coverages. You don't get to see that Stonum likes to make a double move on his fly and post patterns. You don't see what Roundtree does to indicate that he's about to make a cut. You don't see Koger release to lurk in the flat.*
What you do see is Robinson booting right, seeing a wide open Koger and Stonum, and reading Top to Bottom, then completing the pass. You don't see why he's reading top to bottom, or if that's his tendency. You don't see how those receivers got open, you just see that they're open. Maybe if you have a good announcer and technical crew you can get the money shots, but even then, you don't know if that happens all the time or just some of the time.
My point is that each coach devotes at least double the time that Brian does on a UFR to film study. Beyond that, each player also sits in the film room to grade their performance and watch for tendencies that their individual assignment has. Taylor Lewan can probably tell you all about how Adrian Clayborn likes to dip his shoulder when he's thinking about making a swim move.
If your 9 coaches, 2 grad assistants, 80 scholarship players, and 40 walk-ons didn't notice it, but a random blogger notices that Nick Toon likes to clap his hands 3 times when he runs a slant route, your football program is well and truly fucked.
*All of these tendencies are completely made up. Or are they? Chances are that nobody on this board knows.
November 18th, 2010 at 7:35 PM ^
This is nothing against Brian and everybody else who UFRs, Run-charts, and Picture Pages. They do a great job of identifying tendencies and developing ways to counter them. The problem is that they are mainly concerned with Michigan's tendencies, and not other teams'.
Plus, its boring and tedious work. It may or may not be applicable to even diehard fans. How much do you really want to learn about Tyler Sash's positioning before the snap, and what kind of coverage and blitz package that may indicate?
November 19th, 2010 at 9:09 AM ^
I don't rule out that there could be a blog, in theory, run by a genius who sees things that even very good and professional coaching has missed. However, I'll argue that it would be a short-lived blog, because said individual would end up working for, I don't know, the New England Patriots or something like that.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:30 PM ^
Are you saying the Mich coaches don't read this blog? oh crap. Now I understand.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:48 PM ^
That's quite a bold statement.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:35 PM ^
Laugh out loud, and I almost lost my hard edge there for a second.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:54 PM ^
Please don't ever say "Michigan Nation" again.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:55 PM ^
Also, this.
November 18th, 2010 at 5:57 PM ^
better
November 18th, 2010 at 6:02 PM ^
"Big Blue Nation"
November 18th, 2010 at 6:16 PM ^
"The dawg pound"
November 18th, 2010 at 6:32 PM ^
Dawg Pound Nation?
November 18th, 2010 at 6:01 PM ^
Its not like we have Brian do a weekly opponent preview or anything..
November 18th, 2010 at 6:04 PM ^
50 points per day would have gotten you over 10,000 by now. You just aren't trying hard enough.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:35 PM ^
I think it's more critical that Brain Cook get the UFRs up earlier in the week so the coaches have more time to study them. Maybe we can help out by chopping up the video and doing some preliminary analysis for him?
November 18th, 2010 at 6:36 PM ^
I'll start.
Step 1: Score more points than Wisconsin.
Step 2: Maintain more points than Wisconsin for the duration of the game.
Step 3: Celebrate with a light salad and a chilled glass of Pinot Grigio. Because what's more HARD EDGE than a light salad and a glass of Pinot Grigio?
November 18th, 2010 at 6:43 PM ^
except one. I would rather have a glass of that Bo wine. That is what the hard edgers drink. This one is Sauvignon Blanc. Do they sell red? I like a good dry red wine.
November 19th, 2010 at 5:38 PM ^
Oh man, I'd kill for a nice glass of Red Sauvignon Blanc.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:44 PM ^
rich rod doesn't come to your work and slap the dick out of your mouth, so how about you let the coaches do their jobs?
November 18th, 2010 at 6:52 PM ^
November 19th, 2010 at 5:39 PM ^
true fact.
November 18th, 2010 at 6:52 PM ^
I got my practice over at the other thread. NEGGED
November 18th, 2010 at 7:19 PM ^
Maybe somebody should break down the play by play of Michigan first to tell us whats going on. Could be diary material
November 18th, 2010 at 9:20 PM ^
It's Maize and Blue nation...