The Snowflake Thread: Coaching

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This is your snowflake thread for coaching decisions and overall coaching in the game. Tread lightly, as these threads are watched. 

UMMAN83

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^

half. you can blame Borges. Howerver, Gardner continues topaly with his head up his a@$. so balme that on Fester also. when will the embarrassment end.

EastCoast Esq.

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:30 PM ^

I laughed when Gardner fumbled the ball. I have NEVER laughed at my own team's misfortunes in my entire life...and I'm a Philly sports fan (where incompetence is a tradition)!

I am trying to find a reason to go to the Ohio game during the lead up to finals, and I'm struggling. Do I really want to watch Ohio players have fun sh*tting all over our team?

DPUblue

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^

There really is something to be said for the defense struggling because the offense was so putrid. No confidence that the other half of your team can actually help you. As a Chicago Bears fan, this team is ALL too reminiscent for bears early 2000 teams, with an OC of John Shoop (current OC of Purdue).



Just make it end. Happiness is a dying star right now. They explosion next week will be spectacular.

highestman

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^

Ha, I'm a bears fan and I've made that exact reference to the John Shoop era. It feels exactly the same. The worst part was that for both teams, whenever there was a rare moment the offense did open things up and try some new stuff, it worked! But its like both Shoops and Borges then think "Whoa whoa whoa. That worked once because the D didn't expect it. Now lets get back to running into 9 man fronts in the hopes of setting up one PA pass 7 plays from now".

Mike420GoBlue

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^

But I would only fault Al on about 8 calls today, better than the usual 15-20... This team is a shitshow. It's the coaches, players, trainers, the whole frickin team... How could anyone expect the d to hold up any longer after the O kept it up with the 3 and outs? How could we expect a 14 point lead to be enough on the road at the half? It's like we played well during the first half, then said ok Iowa, it's your turn, then watched as they took the game away.

Last week I thought we had no business winning that game the way we played. This week I feel we had no business losing this game we had our foots on their throat and let up.

Bobby Boucher

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^

I'm actually pretty worried about next week.  I really think that we could be looking down the wrong end of a shutout next week.  I think this game just justifies all the worries.  Whether play calling or shitty players, we just plan suck something aweful on offense and have no idea how to uh, well be an offense.  It's not something that'll be fixed over a couple of weeks of bowl prep.  Michigan fans...It's going to be a long offseason!!!

NFG

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^

Going 11-2 our first year was the worst thing that could have happened to us. Because now, we give the coaches so much lee-way and rope to explain by means of youth, inexperience and the implementation of a pro-style offense to be excuses to why we lose to teams like PSU, Iowa and Nebraska whose rosters can't compare to ours. The coaches, particularly Borges, haven't done a thing in my opinion to justify their income. Since Akron, how content are you with the teams progression and style of play? Since Akron, can you honestly say that we are headed in the right direction? Next Saturday, we will be out coached, schemed and out played by our bitter rival for the 10th time in 11 years. We've lost to State 5 out of the past 6. This program is nothing but a relic, of what it used to be. It is almost like when Bo died, the ability to be competent and win died with him. 

Blue Durham

November 23rd, 2013 at 4:21 PM ^

Sorry, but this is so much bullshit on so many levels, and such sentiment expressed in Brodie's thread a couple of weeks ago.

First, "we" didn't go 11-2 in our 1st year, Hoke went 11-2 in his first year at Michigan. And he did it exclusively with Rodriguez' players. The trajectory was there, and Rodriguez stated, long before he was fired, that he expected a great year.

All that first year do was paper over what was a very uninspiring hire. There was no major program in the country that EVER considered Hoke a viable candidate to coach their program at the time.

None.

Hoke was a mediocre hire but was provided with far more resources than Rodriquez ever was for assistant coach hires. The team has regressed to what he is (which, at Michigan, a coach is spotted a few wins, so mediocre is 8-5). None of this is surprising.

Next week will be painful for the team. But next year, with OSU, MSU and Notre Dame all on the road? A record of 9-4 is the most optimistic, with 8-5 probably the most optimistic. And 8-5 is what Michigan is. That is what Hoke's hire was all about, not 11-2.

Rodriquez' hire was a swing for the fences, Hoke's was an attempted bunt single.

M Fanfare

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Ann Arbor — 'cause Borges is a fuckin' lout.

ReggieNoble04

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^

Team 134 is the most hyped team that sucks dick. Lott industries would put up a better fight against Iowa than we did we suck dick. In fact more dick than a slut on the corner of grime and mcfilth street

AlwaysBlue

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:45 PM ^

they were outplayed. They once again had plays out there to be made and they miss a block or drop the ball or cut right when the lane was left. And the same is true of the defense. Mattison comes out of the locker room for the second half and says they can't give up any big plays...and they promptly give up a big play.

Maybe that's the problem with this staff. They try so hard to prevent mistakes they paralyze the players.

MI Expat NY

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:51 PM ^

Of course there were plays to be made.  Unless a team is playing baby seal U. it almost always leaves plays on the field.  Perfect execution is a myth.  Are we executing less often than most teams?  Absolutely.  But it's not all about talent.  This offense is far more talented than the 2008 team and the play has been as bad or worse than that team that had every legitimate excuse in the book for why it sucked.  At some point you have to simply accept the obvious explanation: our coaching staff, at least on the offensive side of the ball, is not very good.

Brayden09

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^

No ones allowed to talk about firing Borges around here. Its clear he or the entire offensive coaching staff is not capable of putting together a gameplan that allows this team to succeed. It really seems like a combination of lazy play calling and poor decisions by multiple players on any given play.

not TOM BRADY

November 23rd, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^

The fatso calling plays does this against every good defense. They do the same thing and he has nothing to counter a good blitzing defense or just any thing at all. He runs all the same plays and has zero creativity. He is the dumbest OC Michigan has ever had. There is a reason everywhere he goes he doesn't stay long. ITS BECAUSE HE SUCKS.