Snowflake Thread: Coaching

is what he is, and most of us know that he is, well, a REALLY NICE GUY. Every now and then it's going to come down to him, and we will all be crossing our fingers. He muffed that game, no two ways about it. 

MANBALLLLL!!!!

Rich Rod probably had a white out in his pants after watching that meltdown.

If I see another fitz up the middle call in OT my head will fucking explode. Borges was horrendous in OT. Just utter shit. There was a 78 year old lady next to me calling the up-the-middle calls in advance. Our coaches, all of them, get a D minus.

Hey at least we didn't have any alternative uniforms right???!

It's completely on the coaches. Horrible clock management at the end of the game. Horrible play calls throughout the game. I mean Fitz had TWENTY SEVEN carries, for TWENTY SEVEN YARDS. STOP FUCKING RUNNING THE BALL ITS NOT WORKING.

And we dont play to win the fucking game. Conservative conservative conservative. Oh, and your 6'5" 240 lb WR who happened to have two TDs, was not targeted ONCE in any of the FOUR overtimes. Fucking ridiculous.

Rich Rod probably had a white out in his pants after watching that meltdown.

Of the game while traveling for a wedding. I caught the last 5 min of regulation and all of overtime. I think I'm gonna drink now after watching that.

Sadly I'm starting to think that Hoke is like RR in one awful regard.  His assistants are HIS ASSISTANTS no matter what they do or how they perform.  Unlike our basketball coach who had the balls to take out underperforming assistants and replace them with better talent our football coach is loyal to HIS GUYS and wont make a move.

Al Borges = Tony Gibson

This is completely on the players.  We don't have a guard on this football team right now and THAT'S why we can't run the football.  That rushing performance was EMBARRASSING!!!!  With Lewan hurt we have 2, maybe 2 1/4 if your being nice to Kalis. We couldn't run worth S#*T!!!  On top of all that Devin Gardner over came a horrendous 1st half performance to put us in a position to win that football game only to have the defense give up 80 yards in about 50 F#@&ING SECONDS to allow a FRESHMAN to tie the game!!!  Then apparently we can't kick a field goal to save our lives!!!  Then on 4th and 1 for the win we can't get a stop!!!! We can't run, we can't kick, we can't win on the road and there goes the B1G Title hopes cause there is no way this team goes on the road to beat Sparty and we have a snowball's chance in Hell to beat NW and I wouldn't get your hopes up about Ohio either.

The last part of the 4th quarter and almost the entirety of OT was not coached well. I'm sure the coaches will take the blame for as much as they can.

But what do the coaches adjust going forward? Do they scrap the power? The offense looked quite good in the second half after almost wholly abandoning it.

I'm intrigued.

There isn't an excuse for what happened tonight.  There literally is just not one single excuse for this coaching staff doing what they did. 

Hey, look on the bright side of life. The MGoBlog upgrade may have killed the moderation system, but at least the server upgrades have kept the website up for all of us to vent our rage. If this had happened last season the web site would have died at the end of the 4th quarter.

How does Hoke not call a TO on the 4th quarter delay of game.  That's coaching, or not coaching.

I still can't figure out what the look on Hoke's face was during OT.  I think he knew they screwed up.  The coaching staff totally pissed their pants tonight.  

However, we should have never been in a position to have that happen.  ALL of the problems start with our offensive line.  

We can't run the ball and we're constantly in obvious passing situations or bad down and distance.  This constantly puts all the pressure on DG.  He is making mistakes and then he's forcing things.  Some of the turnovers just happen - that's the nature of the game, but the excess TO's can be avoided with DG getting help.  These turnovers and inconsistent drives put extra pressure on the defense.   We end up giving up points that we normally wouldn't.  We tire out defense out with extra snaps.  When combined with average at best D-line and soft coverage, we have a recipe for doom.

As bad as the game management was, fixing the O-line situation has to be priority number 1.  /sigh....

Get the vasoline ready for the next 4 games.This is gonna hurt.

Gardner is not a drop back passer.  Either put in the full Denard package, or throw him back out at WR and hand the keys over to Morris.  This season is lost anyway.

How longs this line....

I don't want Hoke fired, but he's partially responsible. Wear a headset. Yell at a guy with a headset. Instruct Borges to be aggressive. Enough is enough. If you're not going to fire him, override him. Borges tucked his man parts between his legs and called like a coward, with an offense actually looking productive in the second half. If you're not going to fire Borges, at least take responsibility and be in his ear.

/endrant