Quinn Ewers returning for senior year
Sorry for another post as there's so much going up on the board these days (Rightly so!) but as this directly affects the second opponent next year I thought it worth being discussed.
Also, I did not see this posted and did search, if I'm wrong of course remove.
Although it had been rumored and assumed, Quinn Ewers confirmed today that he is coming back his senior year (making $ from a trading card company in the announcement video). This will of course be a tougher game with an experienced QB instead of the big name, but very green, Manning under center. Hopefully U-M can continue to shut down high level passing offenses on D and use the D line to get after him and disrupt.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:09 PM ^
Has Sark officially declined the Alabama job yet?
January 11th, 2024 at 2:11 PM ^
Texas is a much better job than Alabama, imo
January 11th, 2024 at 2:11 PM ^
Who would want to follow Saban? You'll get paid but you're almost automatically a failure.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:16 PM ^
That is my opinion as well. The bar is set at an insane level and those fans are animals. I'm not taking a job where if I can only win 1 title in my first 5 years, I'm considered a failure.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:17 PM ^
I mean, yes, it's difficult, but high level football coaches are some of the most self-confident individuals in existence. And the roster already has more 5* players than the whole B1G.
*I* wouldn't want the job, but it's not like not being Nick Saban is going to hurt your chances at another job afterwards and you'd be making insane money.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:37 PM ^
But you would never leave a job like Texas to take the Bama job.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:51 PM ^
If there is any job where it's even easier to recruit five stars than Alabama, it's Texas.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:18 PM ^
You'll get paid but you're almost automatically a failure.
Shit, I've been failing for free all my life. I'm guessing someone's willing to get PAID paid to do it for a couple years.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:35 PM ^
You are correct. Though they will land a big name. It takes a competitive-above-all mentality to be a coach, and anyone with that mindset would have a burning desire to prove himself not just worthy of succeeding Saban, but building upon what Saban did. And chances are, whoever that guy is will bomb out and the next one will be the right hire.
January 11th, 2024 at 3:32 PM ^
Norvell. Raback it.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:52 PM ^
Tuck comin'
January 11th, 2024 at 4:12 PM ^
never, NEVER be the guy that replaces the legend. it, like, NEVER works out.
(moeller would have, in my opinion, but that's obviously a different conversation)
what you really want to be is the guy that replaces the guy that replaces the legend. you get compared to the failure, not the guy in the statue.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:15 PM ^
Agree. Hoke was setup for success if he only wore a headset.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:40 PM ^
Well "legend" might be stretching it for Hayden Fry, but maybe not for Iowa fans, and Ferentz has been a successful succesor.
January 11th, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^
actually, that’s a terrific counter-example. hayden fry was, indeed, a legendary iowa coach. which reminds me that bert did pretty well taking over for barry alvarez.
January 11th, 2024 at 5:30 PM ^
By that logic our next coach won't be in the greatest of positions. Whenever that time may come.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:30 PM ^
I bet RichRod wouldn't turn them down this time.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:16 PM ^
Agree hard on this - back in the '00s everyone thought SC and UT would last forever because of unbeatable recruiting advantages...The same thing everyone said about Clemson, Bama and OSU in the late teens.
I will beat on the drum that Penn St is a super underrated job, especially in the new Big Ten where they aren't matched up annually with two top5 programs every year. Oregon doesn't really have any of the advantages of UT, USC, PSU or OSU. Clemson, UGA and Bama are in a recruiting hotbed but it's a very competitive hotbed (Tennessee is right there too and FSU as well). UF has to compete with FSU and the U. I think they're all in a recruiting rich area but...so are Texas and SC.
Texas and USC are the jobs with the most built in advantages, IMO.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:57 PM ^
LSU would be another one. Ridiculous number of NFL players out of that state and just one major P5 program.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:13 PM ^
IF JJ leaves maybe we can get the loser of the Manning-Ewers battle in the Spring- what are the dates for the Spring portal?
PS- I realize this is the longest of longshots.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:15 PM ^
It's not the craziest idea if 1 of them wants to bolt. Though it's hard to imagine a Manning coming to Michigan bc the family is still butthurt about Woodson.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:16 PM ^
Would we even kick those tires?
Gotta imagine if he's gonna leave Texas now it's gonna to be go somewhere that's gonna let him throw the rock around, Washington or Oregon maybe? Hell, he might consider Alabama before us.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:17 PM ^
A Manning at Bama would be pretty funny
January 11th, 2024 at 2:21 PM ^
Oregon already brought in two transfer QBs and you are calling for more? :-)
January 11th, 2024 at 2:54 PM ^
I was unaware of this.
January 11th, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^
Just unaware or fully unaware?
/asking for a coach
January 11th, 2024 at 2:30 PM ^
He’d for sure leave if Arch beats him out. Not sure about vice versa, though.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:22 PM ^
For some reason I think JJ will come back for one more year and JH is going to stay.
Got the feeling after they returned to AA from Houston, and talked to a bunch of fans that night.
Here´s to wishful thinking!
January 11th, 2024 at 2:30 PM ^
I'm hoping JJ and Coach return but I'm not expecting it. With the killer schedule next year a regime and QB change could be bad.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^
Harbaugh loves big games. I think the strength of schedule is one of the reasons he would choose to stay.
January 11th, 2024 at 3:12 PM ^
The schedule is tough, but Washington and USC are taking a step back. Oregon who knows, they couldn't beat Washington either time. Texas and OSU are the toughest games and we don't even know what OSU QB is even going to be like but I guarantee he isn't Stroud.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:46 PM ^
Not sure who has better odds of returning. Both feel 50/50ish to me. I would lean Jim honestly
January 11th, 2024 at 3:19 PM ^
Harbaugh will leave. McCarthy should stay.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:01 PM ^
I am 100% convinced that Harbaugh is staying. I am almost as certain that JJ will move on. JJ has accomplished every goal at this level. I think Jim cares more about Michigan than anything to do with the NFL. As a wise man once said, we will see.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:51 PM ^
I admire your faith, but Harbaugh couldn’t have made his intentions any clearer. For McCarthy, staying would to be to his benefit because it would allow him to develop further before he hits the NFL and likely improve his draft position. As we all know, QBs don’t get the reps in Michigan’s offense that they do at other schools.
January 11th, 2024 at 5:06 PM ^
I don't think Harbaugh staying has anything to do with whether that's what he wants. And if it's left up to contractual wording and morals clauses, as a lot of others seem to think in other threads, then he's likely gonna leave because Michigan won't give him the assurances (or the bear hug, if you will) that he is looking for.
In that sense, for me anyway, Harbaugh would not be leaving Michigan would be pushing him out by not catering their contract to the man who brought them back to prominence and brought them a national championship.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:40 PM ^
At least their two stud WRs, Mitchell and Worthy, have declared for the draft. That should help...
January 11th, 2024 at 2:45 PM ^
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:16 PM ^
Arch Manning want a new home yet? Michigan might have a QB slot open next year...
January 11th, 2024 at 5:00 PM ^
I don't care who's coaching or QBing Texas next season, Michigan's going to beat them. Bring it.
January 11th, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^
Will their DT's still be there? More worried about them than their passing attack against our defense.
January 11th, 2024 at 5:24 PM ^
Ewers is coming back to meet Mason Graham a few times