Parker (Iowa DC) is Your Broyles Award Winner
December 5th, 2023 at 2:09 PM ^
Then Sherrone should win coach of the year
December 5th, 2023 at 3:42 PM ^
At least coach of the quarter year.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:47 PM ^
Technically a third of the year
December 5th, 2023 at 9:40 PM ^
BiO is correct. I’m sure WQ forgot about the game earlier in the year. You know, the “other” suspension!?!?
December 6th, 2023 at 1:51 PM ^
what's 4/15ths? :)
December 5th, 2023 at 2:10 PM ^
Would have loved to see Sherrone get it, but can't complain in Parker winning. Go Blue.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:13 PM ^
We can complain a bit. Sherrone scored 26 on him and got the W. Plus the whole fill in coach stuff.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:17 PM ^
We scored 26 but our longest drive was 53 yards, and our next longest was 28. We had a 5 yard touchdown drive due to the punt return and a 6 yard touchdown drive due to the fumble. Iowa's defense struck me as miles better than anything Penn State or Ohio State fielded.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
True, but we didn't gameplan for Iowa's D all year and didn't want to show much before the playoffs.
Regardless, I agree that Iowa's D looked better than OSU's and PSU's and Phil Parker is fully deserving of the award.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:56 PM ^
The "didn't want to show stuff" arguments are almost always bogus. Teams surely keep something up their sleeve for bigger games, but at the end of the day their objective is to win this game. If Iowa had a better offense or Michigan was facing OSU in a rematch for the B1G championship, they would have pulled out some more tricks without hesitation. CFP opponent's also have an entire season of tape to scout with already.
This board also thought not throwing bombs to Nico or running some QB options in the past was about "not putting the best stuff on tape," but then none of the "best stuff" that hypothesized about ever appeared.
Michigan ran the offense they thought would beat Iowa, which was essentially an "all high percentage/low risk" playbook, which is more of a testament to Iowa's defense than not wanting to put stuff on tape for playoff opponents.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
Actually, we did throw some bombs to Nico against OSU in 2018 - it was the one thing OSU couldn't stop that day.
However, you are correct that the Board's "FEED NICO" chants went unfulfilled in 2019. Puzzling to this day.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:12 PM ^
Drops by Loveland and Barner and the softest holding call ever on Jones arguably kept 10-18 points off the board.
I like our guy better. Much respect to Parker.
December 5th, 2023 at 8:54 PM ^
And JJ slipping kept another 7. Without those the final score is 57-0.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:22 PM ^
Parker was the second most deserving. Congrats to him.
December 5th, 2023 at 6:51 PM ^
As much as I wanted Sherrone to get it, I can't fault this pick. If not for Parker's defense, Iowa would have been one of the littlest dogs in the B1G West. Instead, it made it to the conference championship. If they'd had an offense that was worth half a damn, who knows how far they'd have gone.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:30 PM ^
Well isn't our defense better than theirs? I mean they just gave up 26 points to our 0. We gave up fewer points all year. Why not give it to Jesse Minter then. I would still complain about Parker winning.
December 5th, 2023 at 4:40 PM ^
I am sorry, sir. You are not a ball-knower if you just look at the points and don't understand how well Iowa's defense played. Iowa had 3 turnovers on downs, 3 fumbles, and gave up a long punt return to the 5. Effectively Michigan was +6 in turnover margin. Despite being constantly on the field, Iowa's defense held Michigan to 3.3 yards a play. I like Sherrone, but he got his ass kicked by Parker in that game, plain and simple.
December 5th, 2023 at 4:49 PM ^
i agree with the sentiment, but more because having a better defense doesnt mean you are a better coach. Iowa did what they did with much less talented players, and with zero help from the offense. Our defense can rotate 6 DTs and only has to worry about 7 drives a game 'cuz the offense boa constricters all the time away. The fact that they are even in the same zipcode is a testament to the work Parker has done.
December 5th, 2023 at 4:49 PM ^
Did you even read the post you responded to? Are you saying Iowa’s defense was better than Michigan’s defense in this game or all year? He sad Minter deserved it over Parker, and that would absolutely be correct.
And again, Iowa’s defense played well, but Michigan stopped themselves from scoring on most drives. Between dropped passes, terrible penalties, and just some poor execution on other plays.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:11 PM ^
Sherrone was overqualified for this award.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
If you're head coach for 1/3 of the season, are you DQd for an assistant coach award? I mean he only asst coached 2/3 of the games.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:15 PM ^
He was both head coach and assistant coach at the same time!
December 5th, 2023 at 2:36 PM ^
Correct. He needed someone he could trust.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
Moore for HC of the year?
December 5th, 2023 at 2:13 PM ^
This was a tougher choice than Bama vs. FSU for the CFP. I still think the powers that be got this one wrong as well but it was a closer call IMO. Parker is very deserving of this award (and a head coaching gig at Iowa maybe?).
December 5th, 2023 at 2:17 PM ^
Makes sense. Pretty much 90% of their success is due to him (the other 10% being special teams).
Their defense really had to perform well every game and pretty much every snap for even a remote chance at a win.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:23 PM ^
More like their Defense was 120% and ST was 30% bc their offensive non-Offense contributed-50% to their success.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
We're going to get snubbed on Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, and Best Original Screenplay, but win Best Picture.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:24 PM ^
I'll take it.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:42 PM ^
So we’re Shawshank Redemption? I’ll take it
December 5th, 2023 at 2:50 PM ^
Nooooo! (unpopular take: Tim Robbins sucks and his only good movie was Erik the Viking.)
December 5th, 2023 at 3:05 PM ^
I will agree with that take.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:08 PM ^
*Hudsucker Proxy, but yeah fair enough
December 5th, 2023 at 3:10 PM ^
Hudsucker Proxy is good, too.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:39 PM ^
Not a fan of Shawshank (students used to love it), but do you not have any love for Bob Roberts? Bull Durham? The Player?
December 5th, 2023 at 7:31 PM ^
Top Gun! He was Merlin fergodsakes.
December 5th, 2023 at 3:31 PM ^
We’re a shoe in for best costume design.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
deserved
December 5th, 2023 at 2:22 PM ^
You can't be serious!!?!?!?
December 5th, 2023 at 3:02 PM ^
most of these I never want to see again
December 5th, 2023 at 3:28 PM ^
The funny/sad thing is that I was standing like two people away from Patriots hat guy and was briefly on tv when they panned away from him...
December 5th, 2023 at 2:26 PM ^
Sherrone probably wins if they didn't give it to a Michigan OC two years ago. Oh Gattis, what an arc that guy has had lol
December 5th, 2023 at 2:50 PM ^
Arc, as in shooting something out of a cannon that screams skyward towards the heavens, but then faceplants unmercifully into the ground? That sort of arc?
December 5th, 2023 at 2:27 PM ^
Both coaches were deserving, but I think this was a pretty clear decision. Iowa is having an unprecedented level of success compared to how dismal their offense is, and Phil Parker deserves a lot of credit for that. Sherrone is an incredibly impressive coach overall, but I'm not sure his stint at head coach should affect an assistant coach award.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:27 PM ^
Honestly, I'm surprised Parker hasn't won it about 5 times now. But I'm not sure he desered it anymore than Sherron this year. Phil only had to mind his defense, while Sherron had to deal with so much more...
December 5th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
Sherrone never should have been up for the award. Half the time he wasn't even an assistant. He shouldn't even have been eligible. Blue Wall!
- RCMB and 11 Warriors, probably
December 5th, 2023 at 2:31 PM ^
I think he deserved it. That defense took a team that should have won ~4 games and got them to 10 wins.
December 5th, 2023 at 2:51 PM ^
Were it not for an official's error (IMO) on a punt and the subsequent return, Iowa would be an 11-2 team.
If it wasn't for Parker and their D - I'd guess the current 10-3 record for the Hawkeyes would be closer to 6-6.
Congrats to him. And, sincere thanks to Sherrone for everything he's done with Michigan this season.
Go Blue!
December 5th, 2023 at 5:14 PM ^
Honestly, without an elite defense team easily loses 5 more games.
December 5th, 2023 at 8:39 PM ^
They have an elite defense and the worst offense in FBS. Without the former, the latter would be even worse (fewer yards & pts per game) and I would guess 6 more losses (easily 5 +1).
It is far more conceivable to have the inverse statistically for offense and defense. How his defense stayed fresh despite massive TOP disparity and kept playing hard despite no chance against good teams is amazing.