Should Harbaugh have stuck with his original Offensive scheme?

He did stick to the same scheme he just put it in shotgun formation. Pretty much everything we do is the same thing we did in his first few years here. The only difference is the players aren't as good and we're somehow even less likely to make adjustments than we were back then. Which is saying something.

No

It’s a horrible take. If your friend can’t see how offenses have evolved over the last 6 years, I don’t know what to tell him.  You can’t simply add a couple of wrinkles and tweaks to an offense that defenses figured out a decade ago.   

He didn’t really change anything in the first place. He needs to go. I’m gonna be furious if he’s not gone on Monday. What more needs to fucking happen for him to be canned??

Should Harbaugh have stuck with his original Offensive scheme?

No, but he overpaid for Gattis and JH/Gattis are probably not a great fit because Gattis is inexperienced, and JH doesn't know the intricacies of the spread and can't help him.  He should have poached a guy with more experience from a smaller school.  Then again, there are plenty of successful plays that are being left out there due to poor execution.  If OSU was executing these same plays we'd probably be score 50 pts a game.  Is it the play calling, the o-line, the drops, the missed reads, or the overthrows?  It's hard to distinguish, but probably a bit of all of them.  When there are so many things wrong where do you start?  This is probably why the coaches also don't have an answer.  It's going to be a long season that hopefully ends in a coaching change to someone that can put it all together better.

I like the hybrid offense we have now, I just don't like the coaching, the scheme is fine....coaching and execution is sorely lacking.

No he needed to adapt. What we miss is the Original Harbaugh recruiting, game management, and desire. He lost all of that, time for a change. 

yes

well, maybe

actually probably not

so, no

Fisch is the guy that made that go it appears.

Its one thing to have the same scheme, its another to actually know when to call those plays.

Play calling is an art, like boxing....I don't know who was calling plays, but there seemed to be a decline after Year 1 following Fisch and Wheatley's departures.

What offensive scheme ?  

No. The problem isn't the scheme, that's why no matter what the scheme is we have the same problems. The problem is he thinks the point of offense is to create favorable conditions for our defense to win the game. Even when the defense isn't very good.

Just try running the damn ball outside instead of in the back of our center who is already 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Our O-Line is a major problem impacting the run game and passing game

I think that the offense would be more smooth if he had just stuck with his original offense.  I don't think that offense would be enough in todays game.  Either way, he hasn't recruited well enough for either.  He has no match-up problems at the TE position which his original offense badly needs. 

The offense needed to adapt, he just isn't the guy to oversee that process. 

No. The original offensive sucked just as bad. 

You mean the offense that seemed like all 11 players had to solve a calculus problem each play and then it looked like they all got a different answer? No, I don’t think we should do that anymore. 

It bears repeating, endlessly.  Michigan's woes do not start with the offensive scheme.  Harbaugh could have a couple of books entitled 'bama Offense for Dummies and a Cliff Notes addition of Urban Meyer's "Everything You Need to Succeed on Offense" and it wouldn't make a lick of difference.  It wouldn't make any difference because it isn't the offense, or the defense, or special teams that is losing games, it is the utter lack of discipline and execution (though execution is a byproduct of discipline) which has befallen the team.   This is solely a human coaching problem, a problem which starts at the head and rots downward.

No. This offense has 9 new starters and one of the returning guys was out yesterday (along with the other starting tackle). Replacing that much on offense is always going to be painful. The fact that there was no spring practice and a shortened fall camp makes the impact of turnover even worse. I'm confident that the offense will get better over time. We have a new QB behind a new OL throwing to new receivers.

Now the defense? Yikes...

No. That wasn’t getting the job done against OSU either. Harbaugh had to take a chance and be willing to try something else. 

No. That offense would be worse. 

No matter what offense have we must have a defense that will be consistent from game one to the bowl game. 

IT IS THE SAME FUCKING SCHEME!

That is the problem.

Thanks for playing.

No. Next question. 

I actually think they'd be fine with his old offense. It only got bad when they didn't have a QB and the OL was thin and weak.

The Offense plays to slow