WTKA MGoBlog Roundtable

"Buttgers" - so original and clever!  

I'm just wanting to see something from this coaching staff to give me hope first. 

I get it. The funny thing is I actually felt I saw resilience last year that gave me hope When they came back against Northwestern and played some disciplined football that took care of the football. I really felt like we were on the right track.  When they threw in some QB runs I felt even better, though tweaks like that happened rarely. 

Where I get frustrated with the spread zealots, particularly the MgoBlog staff, is that last year we had lots of comments about “non modern” offenses; and how the pep offense wasn’t utilizing our talent etc.

now, the coach hands over the keys to a “fully modern” offense guy and I hear that “we adopted it too late defenses have downloaded the scheme”.

so... where is the win point for a staff? Implement/create a new scheme no one has thought Of to catch the rest if college football off guard? If you go spread it’s modern but downloaded. If you go pro style your archaic and out of step with college football. So... what??

i wish we had never changed. I’m a bit hypocritical because I was hoping for so much for this offense. But frankly last years with another year of seasoning sounds like it would have been so much better than the hot mess we have now. 

I appreciate this blog and everything everyone does on it. So this is a minor nit in the giant scheme of things. But goodness it would be nice if we recognized the nice things we had, even if they weren’t perfect, when we had them rather than looking at the world through spread colored glasses. The more I look at UM over the past 20 years the more I’m convinced scheme < execution. A scheme can paper over some gaps in talent... but it can’t fix bad execution. Bad execution will destroy any scheme. And one of the ways to fix bad execution is to concentrate on your players strengths, simplify, and rep rep rep. 

Its not always exciting. It may not be explosive. But I feel it more often than not is more reliable than trying to find schematic lightning in a bottle.

Sorry, just complaining. 

The notion that Sam is just a cheerleader slappy who never has a negative word is nonsensical bullshit pushed by people who either don’t actually listen to his fucking show every day or simply don’t like him.

“Getting dominated like this makes it gut check time for this team ALREADY, just three games into the season... and the schedule just gets tougher from here. To play this poorly coming off a bye is beyond concerning. They’re in trouble and don’t have a lot of time get on track.”

That was him on Saturday. He’s had a steady stream of on-air guests all week—including former UM players—who’ve been forthright and direct in their criticism of the program, the players, and of Harbaugh. At no point has he been trying to paper over or cover up the team’s issues. 

What people like you apparently can’t deal with is that he’s an optimistic, glass-is-half-full person by nature—he’s never going to wallow in BPONE.

This is on top of his role as a de facto liaison between Michigan sports and the broader fan base through his role on WTKA. Every fucking week he’s hosting and interviewing UM athletes, coaches, administrators as well as media people—football, men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, softball, lacrosse, gymnastics, wrestling, swimming, track, CC are all regular guests and subjects on his show. It’s goddamn moronic that people think that he needs to rip on UM athletic programs like he’s some idiot on Detroit radio in order to prove his sports coverage bona fides.

I don't get mad at Sam for toeing the line. I like him and listen to the podcasts nearly everyday. It's just fun to take a light jab at him from time to time when it's obvious he's deflecting.