Quote About Previous Coaching Staff From Jake Rudock Interview - 08/28/2015
As the season grows closer and closer my obsessive need for content has increased exponentially. I came across this interview from Jake Rudock and found it very interesting and very sad. It is just another example at the ineptitude of the previous coaching staff.
At the 0:55 second mark, he was asked about how he's been in 3 or 4 different offense's in 4 years and he interjects with this gem,
"That's Shane. He's learned like 5, or 6, or 10, or 20."
All of the interviewers laugh and I even let out a chuckle but as I thought about it further, my heart just started to ache.
My heart aches because 1) I think I may have either stable angina or psychogenic chest pain secondary to the panic attacks and hyperventilating from watching the past several years. Either one sucks. 2) I feel so terrible for these young men. They commit to a program and sacrifice so much day in and day out for the team, all while trying to earn a degree on top of it. I played college football in AZ so I know what it is like to go through that.
I know these players are now getting the teaching and coaching that they truly need and deserve. I feel terrible for those that never got the chance to be coached by actual competent coaches in the past 7 years and even more props to those that stayed through all of the garbage.
Here’s to a bright season and even brighter future of Michigan Football. Cheers!
Edited: to make the title less alarming
August 29th, 2015 at 11:16 PM ^
It sucks for Shane especially, because he's always been with the program and worked so hard to recruit others. And then of course the whole Minnesota debacle. Regardless of what happens with his football career (not looking good IMO), I'm rooting for Shane in life.
August 29th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
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August 30th, 2015 at 12:06 AM ^
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August 30th, 2015 at 1:49 AM ^
And in UTL II he threw 4 TDs against 1 INT and was our leading rusher that night. We won that game because of him.
August 30th, 2015 at 2:43 AM ^
In UTL II, Devin Gardner scored 5 TDs (4 passing, 1 running), passed for nearly 300, and was also the game's leading rusher.
If all you remember about Devin's performance that day was the one interception he threw, then I'm not sure that you have any business trying to critique Devin's ability as a quaterback.
August 30th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
And don't forget the 2012 Iowa game. 18/23 for 314 yards. Six TDs on the first six possessions.
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=323220130
We won easily 42-17 because Devin was so dominant.
August 30th, 2015 at 2:46 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 7:32 AM ^
Not to mention playing his guts out against OSU with a broken foot and an offensive coordinator with rocks in his head. Devin was a warrior and a great talent undone by terrible quarterback coaching. Harbaugh would've turned him into a first round draft pick. He had that kind of talent.
August 30th, 2015 at 9:05 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^
Devin Gardner basically had to run an offense dictated by David Brandon. It was the most predictable offense in college football because it had Brandon's hubris stamped on every play. From how other defenses reacted, often before the ball was snapped, it looked like whoever was going to get the ball was wearing a sign saying how he was getting the ball and where he was going.
August 30th, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
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August 30th, 2015 at 9:37 AM ^
He hates RichRod and all things (like Gardner) that can be associated with RichRod. It blinds him sometimes.
August 30th, 2015 at 11:41 AM ^
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August 30th, 2015 at 9:33 AM ^
This is the reason I wish I could buy points to send assholes like you to Bolivia.
August 30th, 2015 at 11:29 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
Clearly it's Gardner's fault that OSU scored 42 points on us that day.
August 31st, 2015 at 12:42 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 9:10 AM ^
gardner never had a chance under hoke. any rational coach wouldve spread the field with gardner (and spread all game / every game, not just during pitiful 2-4 minute O's), given him the simplest possible reads, checks, sight adjustments, route combos, etc, utilized some dangerous RPO sets, and just let him run the rock or make comfortable throws.
hokes stubborn O philosophy, refusal to adapt, weak skill player recruiting, terrible management, etc resulted in schizo schemes and injured QBs who lacked confidence. hoke envisioned winning with pro style O and pro style passers, reality and logic aside. and gardner still put up some crazy #s. he wouldve been a real threat under competent, flexible coaches like briles, meyer, patterson, etc
August 30th, 2015 at 6:01 AM ^
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August 31st, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
Nope. You're still the only one, only now you've doubled down on your assholery.
I replied to Gofor2 who posted something about Gardner selling insurance instead of playing in the NFL. That post has since been deleted.
August 30th, 2015 at 7:40 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
Gardner is the reason I get upset when I think about the Hoke regime. He looked like a future NFL quarterback his sophomore season after he'd been playing WR. The coaching was so bad that by the end of his senior year he was just a guy. So sad.
August 29th, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
August 29th, 2015 at 11:27 PM ^
Watching Devin get knocked on his ass to end the Notre Dame game last season was rough, but watching all of his teammates completely ignore it was so much worse.
August 30th, 2015 at 12:07 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
That gif is from the 2013 OSU game, I'm talking about the pick six at the end of the Notre Dame game last year.
August 30th, 2015 at 8:58 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
on Gardner it would have been 37-0 but the penalty made 31-0. Still pathetic! At least Michigan shutout ND 38-0 in '03, so ND never topped that shutout!
August 30th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
And we beat them 38-0 again in 2007.
August 30th, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
Darboh did seem to check on him, but he was the only one. To me that was a cheap shot and the OL should have shown their dismay.
August 30th, 2015 at 12:42 AM ^
August 30th, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^
that bothered me last year about the football program, was the failure of that team to stand up for each other. Now there are actually two plays that come to mind and both involved quarterback hits. One was the late hit on Devin on the pick six that was called back because of that penalty and the other was the hit on Shane Morris that no one on Michigan felt needed addressing in some form or fashion. I mean regardless of whether the hit on Shane was deemed legal, and that's questionable, there was no subsequent reaction from his teammates.
I mean we talk about stupid motivational things that drew ire and widespread publicity, like the stake plunging incident at East Lansing, then we about real stuff that you know under previous regimes and teams would never have been tolerated. The Morris hit to me signaled a number of issues with the Hoke regime besides those that actually prompted Harbaugh's hire.
Maybe that is the blow that needed to be landed to turn this ship around. But if a Michigan qb gets hit like that this season, I expect a different reaction from teammates and the sideline.
August 29th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
if he had received better coaching. I shudder to think what he and Denard could have done to opposing teams if a Harbaugh type coach had them for 4 years.
August 29th, 2015 at 11:43 PM ^
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August 30th, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
MSU seem to shutdown RR spread. Almost every good D shutdown RR spread. RR needed to score a lot of points since his defense gave up a lot of points.
August 29th, 2015 at 11:19 PM ^
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August 29th, 2015 at 11:30 PM ^
Yep, the defensive scheme under RR was bad, and he would've been much better off if he didn't force his 3-3-5 defense and let the D coordinator run the defense the way he wanted. But it says something that Michigan improved every year under RR, and that Hoke's first year was 11-2 with all of RR's players.
August 30th, 2015 at 3:32 AM ^
"it says something that Michigan improved every year under RR"
Mostly, it says that when you start off 3-9 you've got no where to go but up.