Nuss Press Conference
January 10th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
Odds that Nussmeier was shown a video of the Hoke press conference last night? 98%. Odds that Nussmeier was shown the Hoke and Rodriguez videos together? 55%.
I doubt it on both counts. The man's held a lot of jobs before. I don't think he needed to be coached on how to give a press conference.
How long are you going to view all events through the filter of the Rodriguez years? Are you ever going to let it go? It's been three years.
January 10th, 2014 at 2:36 PM ^
Maybe not shown the press conferences, but he clearly had talking points prepared. Especially this one -- "Michigan was 11 pts away from 11 wins." Nuss says that in the presser and then again in the interview with Eli.
I am not criticizing this. In fact I think it is great. The fanbase as a whole needs a uniform, positive message to hold onto in this transition in order to cleanse from this awful last season and build towards next season. Need to stay positive for 2014!
January 10th, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
I agree with you that he had some talking points. Its a good thing. Remember how great we all felt about Hoke's introductory presser?
That said, the talking point is correct, and I suspect that it had something to do with his willingness to take the job. He's taking over a really talented offense with a poor line. Shore up the line and this could be a damn impressive turnaround. I had Borges winning 9 games next season. Nuss gets us to 10, we'll all be ecstatic.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
Matt Dery on 105.1 is ripping the press conference. Might as well be listening to Mike Valenti.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^
Matt dery? Here's local sports radio in a nutshell. Rip on Michigan, say stupid things to fire up the Michigan crowd because otherwise nobody calls in. Sparty's couldn't give two shits about their teams, and the screeners just look for the dumbest Michigan fans in the world to put on the air. I quit listening to local sports talk around a year ago and it has been GREAT!
January 10th, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
Only don't assume those are actually Michigan fans or aren't station staffers who are told to call in to fill air and generate material.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:46 PM ^
Matt Dery also just said that they should fire Greg Mattison after last year. He also complimented Nick Baumgardner. Ridiculous.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:59 PM ^
He also patted himself on the back yesterday for claiming to be the only person that was calling for Borges to be fired. The guy is a douche and always approaches Michigan topics with an agenda to rip the program.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:49 PM ^
The critical mistake here is listening to local sports talk radio.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
Can't say I am all that enthused about everyone on the staff being retained for another year. If Al Borges lost his job due to the offensive performance then several coaches should've been right there with him walking out of schem.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^
Hell, I am not enthused that the HEAD coach is keeping his job...I see that it may be BETTER, but I see no indications that it will get good enough.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the assistants find other situations. He's not going to walk into this press conference and say he's letting everyone go. Wasn't it Hoke who said, after the Ohio State game, that he anticipated everyone would stay?
January 10th, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
good enough.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
changing coaches every three years is a really good idea.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:20 PM ^
Not saying he should be fired now that he made or was forced to make a significant change to the staff, but the comments about making a change after 3 years being bad is dumb. If a change needs to be made you make it.
If you buy a stock and it just keeps going down, do you just say "oh well, it might go back up someday"?
January 10th, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^
The transition costs from buying or selling stock are a lot less than the transition costs of a coaching change.
If they aren't, you need a new broker.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:33 PM ^
I get that and it may not have been the best analogy, but my point stands. If you think a change needs to be made and in my opinion had Hoke not made a big change (fire Borges) they should have at least put out feelers for a replacement. This is big boy football. Is it ideal to cut bait after 3 years? No, but is it better to wait 1 or 2 more years?
Anyway, this is all mute at this point. I love the hire and now couldn't care less that hoke doesn't where a headset now that we have an OC that I trust.
Excited for 2014. Go Blue
January 10th, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
Yes it is mute - now please mute yourself. You would think that us Michigan fans would understand better than anyone the damage a transition can do to a program. If you want to see it again, just watch what is going to happen in Texas over the next few years.
January 10th, 2014 at 3:28 PM ^
"I see that it may be BETTER, but I see no indications that it will get good enough."
I'm feeling the same about your future MGoComments.
January 10th, 2014 at 4:52 PM ^
Battle won.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:50 PM ^
It could be argued that our constant mixing up of scheme and personnel made it hard for the position coaches, particularly Funk, to carry out their jobs. Offensive lines need time to develop cohesion. We constantly shuffled them around and asked them to digest and run a ton of different blocking schemes. That's not generally a recipe for success.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:39 PM ^
Anybody else worries about the seemingly keeping all offensive assistants? Not that it's particularly bad, but I worry about it being a situation where the coordinator is told who his assistants are. I would much prefer an OC to work with those he is familiar with and knows will do a great job with his system.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:46 PM ^
I think we may see a few moves after signing day, but that's just my own gut feeling. It would be odd to hire an OC (or DC) and say, work with all of these coaches, and you don't have a say in any of them. I'm sure in the interview process this was brought up.
January 10th, 2014 at 2:30 PM ^
He didn't hire anyone when Saban brought him to Alabama. Same with Scot Shafer hire and Gerg as DC. They all equally work for the headcoach. Hoke would have replaced Funk if that was the problem.
January 10th, 2014 at 2:38 PM ^
Certainly he and Hoke discussed the offensive staff during the discussions preceeding his hire, but Hoke hires and fires and all of the assistants report to him. I'm sure that the offensive position coaches take direction from the OC but Hoke is their boss.
It may have been coach speak but Nussmeier spoke repeatedly about integrating INTO the existing staff. He also stated that he looked forward to working with the offensive staff and mentioned all of them by name.
Did Nussmeier make deal with Hoke to bring someone in? We'll have to wait and see, but at this point that is purely speculative.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
I'm not an expert or an insider, but for someone as high profile as Nussmeier, I have to imagine he has the final say in his assistants, or at the very least, some input.
I doubt he would've come here otherwise, unless all he cares about is a bigger paycheck.
January 10th, 2014 at 12:55 PM ^
He has been OC for 24 hours. I wouldn't expect him to start firing people before the presser. The looking forward to working with you comment is pretty meaningless.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:11 PM ^
idea that new coordinators bring all their own guys in with them. Does that actually ever happen? I don't think so.
January 10th, 2014 at 3:22 PM ^
This does not happen. The head coach is the head coach. Mattison came from the Baltimore football Ravens and did not hire a single coach.
Ideally, the coordinator and the head coach have a meeting of the minds and hire a suitable staff. That could happen here. But in no normal circumstance does the coordinator hire his staff. Or else what the hell is a head coach?
January 10th, 2014 at 3:37 PM ^
Has anyone suggested that?
What seemed plausible to me was that the new coordinator might arrive, sit down with the head coach, and say "I don't know what your plans are for the staff but there's a guy I've been working with that's really, really good at teaching exactly the blocking schemes we're going to use in this system."
And, regardless, I've assumed that nothing would be officially done until the coordinator was in place. How do you know what your staff needs are until you know what you're going to run?
January 10th, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^
It is a safe bet that Hoke and Nussmeier came to a pretty full understanding of what offense they were going to run before Nussmeier got the offer. Both of them said as much in the press conference.
Anything can happen but the odds are that the offensive staff is safe. You also don't want to destabilze recruiting anymore than is absolutely necessary. How many key recruits are Funks?
January 10th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
Someone embed the new audio of this yet? Is it up yet?
January 10th, 2014 at 1:49 PM ^
mgovideo may have something up later
January 10th, 2014 at 1:03 PM ^
Filling Assistant Coach positions is something that can probably wait until February -- after NSD. The last thing you want to do is fire an Assistant who's got great rapport with a prospect and then lose the prospect.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^
...the assistant you're hiring has great rapport with a prospect you really want, and bringing him on before NSD lands you his recruit as well.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:06 PM ^
Brady mentions QBs coached by Nuss...doesn't mention Spartys. I love it!
January 10th, 2014 at 1:23 PM ^
Atta boy.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:45 PM ^
They sucked.
January 10th, 2014 at 2:05 PM ^
Drew Stanton did not suck.
January 10th, 2014 at 3:24 PM ^
Neither did Smoker. He did blow, though.
January 10th, 2014 at 4:58 PM ^
Zing!
January 10th, 2014 at 2:03 PM ^
Yeah Drew was not good. I don't care what anyone try's to spin.
January 10th, 2014 at 2:10 PM ^
Some Realtor in the Ann Arbor area is about to get a real big commission check!
My hunch is his kids will go to Saline or Greenhills schools...
January 10th, 2014 at 2:33 PM ^
Everyone that's worried about Nuss not bring his own guys to be positional coaches are worrying about the wrong thing. A OC doesn't get the ability to hire and fire a positional coach on his own. He has an input but the Head Coach is the only one with that control. I don't know where this got started but rarely if ever does a Coordinator have control over the positional coaches.
January 10th, 2014 at 2:52 PM ^
No word of the day. Fire him at once!
January 10th, 2014 at 9:34 PM ^
Got through about half of the comments on this thread.
The comedy is top quality! Wanted to insert comments that I thought were hilarious (but probably weren't) only to find even more (and actually) comedic responses.
MGoMakeFunOfAudioDifficulties really made me laugh in an auditory manner tonight.
Cheers!