"They had really bad players" - Mack Brown referring to GERG coached Michigan defenses

I'll stick up for GERG even though I was apopletic when we hired him (because I looked at his resume and couldn't figure out what the selling point was other than being DC for a couple of Denver Bronco Super Bowl winners... with halfway decent but not great defenses).

The personnel that year was a total clusterf**k.  I'm sorry, but there was no scheming around having guys like James Rogers (total Michigan Man for playing his hardest, but not a corner) and 2-star true freshman Ray Vinopal (also a good kid, tough, likeable, not remotely ready to be on field) starting on your D.  Greg Mattison could not have schemed around that and the rest of the inexperience and lack of physical maturity.  He couldn't do it when Florida was too young, and the same group matured into a Steel Curtain type substance a year after he left.

Plus, what if you had required Mattison to

1.  use the 3-3-5 (and whatever that morphed into later), which he had no experience with

2.  use the coaches on the staff already, not bring in his own dudes

3.  use the 3-3-5

Seriously.  That deck is stacked like... uh... linebackers playing a 3-3-5?

Texas' D sucked last week, they'll suck next week, and probably beyond.  Hard to believe if you look at the relevant recruiting classes. 

Oh really?  Those same players that constituted a top 20 defense the very next year?  That's weird.

on defense when greg showed up.   that's it.  other than brandon graham (magnus' avatar here) he had what, one or two guys of signif talent?  add to that rich rod's mandating a 3-3-5 defense which greg had never run before and which is not going to get it done in the big10 and you had receipe for disaster. 

greg has coached a lot of winning teams, has two superbowl rings to show for it.  easy to snipe when you can load every negative thought or deed unto one guy, and you look past 30 years of coaching, most of which was very good.  

I'm sure anyone that follows M ball at all is aware that Carr left the program with 21 defensive players on scholarship; roughly 1/2 the number of any major D1 team. And, of course, they were all upperclassmen with almost the entire starting 11 graduating in '08.  That leaves inexperience even among those few that would return. You do recall having to play three walk-ons out of necessity, not because they were scholarship caliber when they started, don't you? Rich Rod was not only tasked with totally rebuilding the offense, an offense in which he inherited a total of one year's experience returning from an OT and had to start another walk-on who couldn't throw the ball 20 yards without begging the question, Did he kick that fucker or throw it?  RR couldn't be too damn picky. He had to get some damn players who, of course, due to the above were forced to start way earlier than the norm.  His composite recruiting score per Rivals was only .69 total less than the last three year avg of Carr's. So Mack might definitely be on to something, but we all know where the blame lies for those three tough, but understandable years. The one thing that pisses me off about those years, yup only one, is that some no writing mother fucking UM grad who was, probably not employed at all any longer, employed by one of the local rags sold what little was left of his soul to ensure that the University that he took his degree from would carry the stigma of a major infraction, only because the NCAA says anything not listed as minor is automatically considered a major infraction.  Rosenberg, coupled with Carr had as much to do for that three year period than any coach we employed during that time frame.  I suppose Mack has a bunch of bad players at TX all of sudden too. BYU set records for rushing yards allowed by TX, most rushing yards ever by BYU and most rushing yards ever by a BYU QB. Hell, if Denard had played against them Saturday, he would have gained roughly 1,000 in the first half.  Mack is whack. 

he's right.

That was totally Mattison's excuse for a bad defense his first year here.

Oh wait.

Mack Brown has just made the "hire of death" for his coaching career at Texas. 

The best was when the reporter asked the question, "So what happened at Syracuse with Greg Robinson?" 

Have fun, Texas.

Just don't come to Ann Arbor looking for a new d coordinator

I say it's 50/50 that he will get the Texas job next year.

But it's time for somebody to take you out to the pasture to be shot.

So THATS why Mattison turned the defense into a top 20 defense the following year GERG cratered it to 110th.

Mack you be cray cray.