Fair to say when he was hired, it seemed like a recruiting get you the league big win.
Unfortunately none of his recruits have panned out, and the roster is at MAC level, with no sunshine moving forward.
Not really sure how much admissions standards can be that different from football.
If it's really that hard to get into UM basketball, then coaching candidates are not viewing any opening as favorable.
Interesting that Northwestern can at least load up, and compete. Likely that this staff is just not capable.
At the end of the day we're looking at a long process to get this program back to respectability , which is something I don't think anyone would say they saw coming.
Reading this blog, you'd think OSU is looking to fire him for 3 straight UM knockouts.
They aren't going away, enjoy what we did against him, but they recruit nasty, and haven't had their DL/LB results lately, which is why they lost a few.
Cmon, CMU can't identify its own staff, within 1 second, please.
It's CS, and CMU is facing some blowback , and knows it.
It's almost as puzzling as UM's staff thinking Conner was some savant, enough so to have him constantly standing with the head coach, and coordinators, and dialog going on.
Let's just say that, grown men with coaching resumes, allowed this. Not suspicious.
Conner has been a prick since grade school through high school, constant bullying of all kids wearing MSU gear,
Lake Orion Schools, Mom and Dad both teach at the high school.,
This is our fan boy at the BIG House, in his Michigan Maniac costume mommy and daddy bought,
Used to hang outside the stadium trying to get petition signatures to become the official team mascot
Wore this to school, all my nieces and nephews know him well and vomit every time he gets tv time, by the way Conner, your 10 year reunion was last weekend, where were you superstar.
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Bank.
UConn wins both.
Bank.
A bit surprised, assuming he's got his degree.
Starters minutes in the MAC, several other leagues.
More minutes at UM unlikely, and not a player who's game is going to improve on defense.
Definitely nab potential transfers in Davis, Goldin, Martin.
Davis is a Cassius Winston clone in style and results. Goldin is a great 6th man, Martin knows the coaching system and will be ok.
Don't know if any of them are graduates, so that's the only stopper.
After that Coach can offer alot of minutes to prospects.
Have a feeling we're looking at at least a middle of the pack BIG team line-up, which is good trajectory year one.
She sold out every…
Yes.
She sold out every away game all season.
I saw it in person vs Northwestern, fans were lined up 2 hrs b4 tip for general admission. First sell out in history for WBB in Evanston.
Nobody draws like that .
Now the crowd is mom and dad with daughters, but who cares about MBB anymore.
Not blaming anything on Warde, have never played that.
We have simply have little evidence that he has the skill set to sell buy-in with a coaching search.
This tournament shows there are plenty of decent coaches out there with good schemes and roster building abilities.
Half of the Tournament teams have very small NIL war chests.
The main issues with all these candidates is that none of them are in a bad situation nor are they underperforming
The UM job right now is a very hard draw, that would lively require a 5 year highly guaranteed deal sweetened up to attract a replacement.
Difficult to attract a decent coach wanting to overhaul a program.
Haller did it for MSU with the Smith hire, and he kept the $ sane this time
Hopefully one of these guys will take on the challenge for the money and the Michigan brand.
Warde better have some secret abilities none of us know of!
So every Underdog winning coach in the Tournament is a candidate.
Great.
How many coaches with nice contracts and good recruiting/results want the UM 3 year minimum rebuild to tournament status job.
Crickets.
Michigan couldn't have won the MAC this year.
Boo Buie enrolled during Obama's last 2 months in office.
No 👎
Grad transfers do not pursue grad degrees.
That would require two yrs, and they get one year.
Unless you know of a one year degree
He won't be back,…
Stop it.
He won't be back, and hopefully neither will this topic.
It is a power play apparently
Too lazy to look up the last several final CFP rankings, seems a stretch that four SEC/BIG teams were in the top 14 at the same time.
If it works out that way, so be it.
8 out of 14 teams every time is not the intention of the expanded field.
Well yeah, it's a demolition and re-build venture to a lot more than 70%, as it involves underground facilities support.
The project is privately funded by the the Ryan family, and will be the most high end stadium in the BIG.
Check out the site plans on line, will be a true destination weekend and season tickets would be a great investment .
I've bought season tickets for several years as they are stupid cheap, and you sell all but a few games either MSU/UM.
Every fan base makes the trip to watch their team, usually 60% visitors.
Good for Northwestern.
It's hard to get real feel for his skill set in the NFL based on his usage.
The one consistent was him notching it up against higher competition when it mattered.
Had great completion rates to secure big wins, and played game manager within the UM scheme, as he wasn't needed to do it all.
The combine will clear things up, most likely bumping him up the QB draft order.
Doesn't matter if Juwan is back or not.
We are at a damage control point now at historical levels.
Next year's recruiting class comprises a 5'11" and a 6'2" pair of point guards, with 6'8" swingman.
Little to no interest is likely from the portal with the state of the program.
There isn't a line of HC's lining up for this rebuild, which could easily require 3 recruiting cycles for a turnaround.
Fans can voice their opinions without it being called out as it "being very much your thing", whatever that means.
This is a blog which means everyone has their own thing.
Right now the thing is an apathetic knot regarding the program.
Warde, start the process please
Fair to say when he was hired, it seemed like a recruiting get you the league big win.
Unfortunately none of his recruits have panned out, and the roster is at MAC level, with no sunshine moving forward.
Not really sure how much admissions standards can be that different from football.
If it's really that hard to get into UM basketball, then coaching candidates are not viewing any opening as favorable.
Interesting that Northwestern can at least load up, and compete. Likely that this staff is just not capable.
At the end of the day we're looking at a long process to get this program back to respectability , which is something I don't think anyone would say they saw coming.
Fair to say when he was hired, it seemed like a recruiting get you the league big win.
None of his big recruits have panned out, and the roster is MAC level, with no sunshine moving forward.
Not really
Alot of first year Quarterbacks.
Oregon, UM, OSU
Means Alot of inconsistencies, our defense will make up for things, just wait
UM is…
Train wreck pending?
UM is a destination, and Moore will work it up within a few seasons.
He is a great front man for recruiting/parent buy-in.
Things go through cycles, 3 1/2 years ago it was time for JH to get fired based on this blog.
My money is on this new coach.
Not the best of news for year one under Moore, good staff gets opportunities.
Gotta believe we have a return pipeline in place, and will have JH sending us some return on his pillaging.
We apparently have solid player buy-in, so not the end of the world.
Still the top 1st/2nd team in the BIG.
Excited to see a young Coach build for the future.
Agree with not what he's here for, but I'd throw out there that his background should resonate with recruits.
We have some D coaches that are recruiters, need a couple openings filled with younger energy guys.
Sort of like a few Jedi apprentices, presenting candidates to Yoda, for validation.
He's definitely not here to do the legwork, more of a NFL trainer/ get you to the league DC.
UM doesn't lose very many guys to the portal that rocked it , maybe Tennessee and UCLA got something.
BAMA just lost multiple 5 stars within a week of Saban out.
If the players weren't behind Moore, some would have jumped into the portal already, they have what , a month to do so now.
I feel confident that any attrition will be minor, too much being made of impending doom.
I think Moore will be a big draw both in recruiting and retention.
Yes he's got some staff issues now, but let this play out.
This board is sounding like OSU/Clemson hurt.
At some point you know, Ryan Day is 56-8 as HC.
Reading this blog, you'd think OSU is looking to fire him for 3 straight UM knockouts.
They aren't going away, enjoy what we did against him, but they recruit nasty, and haven't had their DL/LB results lately, which is why they lost a few.
Will have the TV on as backdrop noise, but this is a matchup of no interest teams.
Do you understand what you just said
Herbert's contract in a trade bankrupts the Chargers, but go with your Lion analogy.
Well they have the wrost post players in the league, absolutely no inside game.
Alot of BIG teams are going to feast on this weakness.
That really is a disappointing crowd for a BIG opener.
Alot has changed in two years, hopefully Howard can right the bus.
He's definitely not trending towards job security.
It's early and things can change, but a few more weak recruiting classes will be fatal.
Unfortunately FSU would have been 21 point dogs vs anyone, the current teams are the best competitors.
Realize that FSU 2nd string QB would be available, so it's a poor decision letting Bama jump in.
Michigan QB, isn't on crutches til February, get real.
Really, what about JJ on crutches til Feb.
Get real FSU can't beat anyone in the top 10 anymore.
Michigan just needs to prove itself.
You must want to play against a third string QB, the committee doesn't.
FSU wasn't going score more than 3 touchdowns against anyone, today's version of the Seminoles are best defense, with wrost offense.
They didn't get screwed.
WR go to OSU, look it up.
No chance this offense beats any team in the CFP, unless FSU gets in ,
You all saw the teams playing conference games.
We can't outscore them.
This offense is not going to get it.
What team they going to outscore in the playoffs
Cmon, CMU can't identify its own staff, within 1 second, please.
It's CS, and CMU is facing some blowback , and knows it.
It's almost as puzzling as UM's staff thinking Conner was some savant, enough so to have him constantly standing with the head coach, and coordinators, and dialog going on.
Let's just say that, grown men with coaching resumes, allowed this. Not suspicious.
No one knew.
No my nieces and nephews all make 2.5x + bonus a year than fanboys 55k, with their inferior MSU degrees, in fact the 4 of them pull in 950k
Wahhhhhh
Conner has been a prick since grade school through high school, constant bullying of all kids wearing MSU gear,
Lake Orion Schools, Mom and Dad both teach at the high school.,
This is our fan boy at the BIG House, in his Michigan Maniac costume mommy and daddy bought,
Used to hang outside the stadium trying to get petition signatures to become the official team mascot
Wore this to school, all my nieces and nephews know him well and vomit every time he gets tv time, by the way Conner, your 10 year reunion was last weekend, where were you superstar.
This is free player, no cost. Thank you captain negative
They have the weakest sos in the entire BIG.
Have watched 6 teams that would neutralize this offense.
Keep playing cupcakes, until playoff reality.
Easiest schedule in entire big.
One game vs a ranked opponent.
Watched at leat 5 teams that will neutralize this offense
Actually kind of cool, indoor game when your pretty much guaranteed nasty weather,
Will be a full house as season tix holders will be seated, what 55,000?
Thorne looked like crap last year, was likely injured and his passes looked like it.
He had plenty of WR support and missed at least half of his 3rd down attempts.
He isn't going to be drafted, SEC is above his pay grade.
No, the team can't compete running through Hunter.
I bet you see a much more watchable scheme next year
Thanks, but good luck elsewhere, time for a new direction.
Not sure I would enjoy another year of watching the offense run through Hunter again. Thanks, but that ship has sailed.
Let coach form a new identity to the team, next few seasons will show if he can prove he's a long term solution.
There's going to be some transfers out to clear room for portal targeting.
Not crapping on the program or being a bad fan by acknowledging the facts.
* Could lose 2 to the draft
* Could lose 2 more transfers, Baker, Llewellyn
* Could be a couple more firm handshakes.
Likely to be 4 openings after the dust settles.
More concerned about commitment level with just 2 incoming recruits. Neither one is going to be a first year BIG
I hope we all get surprised by Kobe, and maybe Hunter coming back.
Coach has got a major rebuild on his hands if everybody clears out.
Nobody is cheering for any of this, relax.
Tough year watching wins slip away.
Incoming class will likely not make a great impact.
Hitting the transfer lottery is a tough road, and is Howard's only option, once the NBA questions get answered.
Amazing how quickly the roster situation has gotten so bleak.
Losing Hunter, Kobe, and Jett sets the program back a few recruiting cycles.
Need at least 2 of them to return, and I think that may just happen.
Still hard to figure Howard's coaching system, as he is not keeping guys long enough to really establish his identity.
Pisser is how close this team was to at least 2nd seed BIG, Shannon ruling changed alot.
Time to detox from too many holy shit endings, here's to better next year.
Ok, Purdue won regular season, and the BIG tournament.
They have Freshmen guards, which is somehow the excuse used here.
They choked in a easy win game, and we've done it like 10 x.
NEVER think an NIT Championship means anything.