The previous coaching staff - Where are they now?
This article is a slideshow, which I loathe, but it does have info on where all of the previous coaching staff landed. Presented without further comment.
Hoke - Unemployed
Jackson - Unemployed (probably by choice)
Nussmeier - OC at Florida
Ferrigno - ST / TE at SJSU.
Funk - OL at Akron.
Hecklinski - QB Coach and PG Coordinator at Colorado State - Pueblo.
Mallory - Secondary Coach and PG Coordinator at Wyoming.
Manning - OLB Coach at Washington State.
Smith - DL at Florida Tech.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2015/07/where_are_the_ex-michigan_coac.html#0
Didn't he land at Toys 'R Us?
How well Nuss will do at Florida? His offense last year at Michigan was terrible. I just wonder how much of it was due to Hoke and manball!
A QB would have helped
QB. It was a cluster fuck
Gardner had talent, he just never got proper coaching!
I agree that Gardner was talented but he was broken by the time Nuss got him
An OL and some receivers would have helped.
Devin Gardner was a pretty darn good quarterback in 2012 and for parts of 2013. And it's not like he had absolutely elite wide receivers. His best WR was an undersized kid who hasn't really been able to latch on in the NFL (Gallon, obviously).
I don't see how people can watch Gardner's career and say, "Oh, he wasn't a good quarterback." He *was* a good quarterback. Then other s*** happened. If anything, it should teach some of us that there's a lot more that goes into QB play and team success than just the QB.
Do you atribute the horrible throws and decisions to the quality of the players around him or his own fault? that's really what it comes down to. Personally I think he's an average QB whose coaches failed him. I don't think he would have hit Conner Cook levels of experience, but he definitely wouldn't have been the disaster he was last year.
Florida had no QB last year either.
Nuss will be helped that his new HC is an offensive coach himself that developed a heck of a QB at CSU. Most coaches specialize on 1 side of the ball or the other and at least had coordinator experience. Nuss did not have that here - I imagine he was mostly alone without help on offense from the HC.
Florida's offenses have sucked since Urban & Tebow, et al left. Nuss isn't going unscramble scrambled eggs.
Akron's O Line will suck this year and get worse over time
Relax
still an indictmant on the Hoke staff. In over his head!
Nussmeier, Hecklinski, Mattison, Montgomery, Manning...that's it.
What's even worse is we had 3-4 BELOW average coaches under Hoke. Which really set us back.
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Nussmeier was horrible at Michigan. How could you say that with a straight face?
But he's not a horrible coach.
I said we had 5 good coaches...I never said they were good at Michigan, Nussmeier is a quality football coach. As are the other guys I mentioned. As is Rich Rod...it doesn't mean any succeeded as Brady's Hoke's assistant (or in the case of Rich Rod, with a ton of things stacked against him).
Hopefully that makes sense now.
Nussmeier has to be one of the most overrated OC's in football.