AP Poll: Michigan 18, coaches: 17

Yes you are correct.  Early opinions can often be wrong and these things eventually sort themselves out over the course of a season. 

Just like how there were idiots in the film industry who actually thought The Pumaman was going to be a good movie. It was not.

EDIT: Embed fail, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXsu0ueiB9k

EDIT2: Just an FYI, David From Wyoming, your avatar is awesome.

>>We're doing this all by ourselves.

Ain't that the truth

What do you want the coaches to do?  Bite the heads off bats and scream at these kids in front of cameras so you can see it?  Maybe you want to see video of them all running the steps at the stadium for 5 hours straight?  People who run around and scream stuff is unacceptable and the team is this or that have not a clue.  All you know is how the team is performing on the field, period, and you otherwise have theories as to what is going on for which you have no data nor evidence beyond your thoughts.  Here is the data and observations I can see based on the performance on the field:

1)  Gardner carries the ball very loose when running and scrambling.

2)  The offensive line does not do a very good job of keeping Gardner clean in general.

3)  Our QB's confidence and his ability to throw those darts he threw against ND is erratic.  Might have something to do with being his 9th start, might get better, might not.  He tries to do too much sometimes and carry this team.  Might have to do with the lack of experienced talent at WR beyond Gallon and the 3 middle o-lineman.  Maybe sitting and watching Denard for the past 3 years might have had an impact on this.

4)  Our defense actually played fairly decent yesterday, giving up only 7 real points as they did not give up the fumble return for a TD and they did not screw up the punt.

No doubt we could list a bunch more, which would be an exercise that would at least provide some rational basis as to what is going on and what might be done to fix it.  I doubt the issue is complacency, rather it is talent and experience and learning how to play your position and depend on others to do their jobs which is most likely in play.

Because Hoke doesn't call people out in the media or yell at guys on the sidelines, fans think that's exactly what he's like all the time in practice and in the locker room. It's idiotic.

I've read in multiple places things such as "Blocking isn't rocket science! The coaches need to get these guys fired up and just hit people!" Yup, that's the problem. "I've seen more emotion from DIII teams!" Yes, getting emotional is going to help the OL be more technically and fundamentally sound and not make mistakes. "DG doesn't even look like he cares!" That may be the opposite of true." The defense has their head up their ass and can't even think!" They may be over thinking things, which is why Mattison said they need to go back to fundamentals. "Where's the intensity!" It's not intensity that's missing, it's doing fundamentals correctly. It's knowing what your assignment is and doing it. It's why the coaches are trying to simplify things so they can look more aggressive and more natural. 

All these people that think football is about yelling at a reporter when your team is playing back, or cussing players out on the sideline during the game when they are obviously tight and pressing is the right answer, well, I hope those people aren't coaches, or managers, or in any position of leadership because they are severley lacking in that category.

But I promise you, these coaches are very intense in practice. They are pushing these players, not coddling them like people in these posts want to act like. They have high expectations for themselves and the players, but doing nothing but yelling, yelling at them on the sideline, isn't going to teach them to be better. It's a balance, and I promise you they are playing that balance and are yelling at times and are always intense. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not true.

Lastly, these people think because "this is Michigan" we should be able to just physically dominate and push people willy nilly anywhere we want, get your head out of your ass. All these players, regardless of how good they are, are going the strength programs and doing just as much work in that regard as the Michigan guys. It's about technique and doing things correctly that make a team like Michigan better, and the fact that if guys aren't better they should have ones that are behind them. The fact that they don't right now is because of a lack of depth and youth. But these aren't the days where you can simply just run over people because you're Michigan and they aren't. 

They played against 22 very convincing imposters.

Each and every one of those players/kids on the football team has given more to Michigan and you and I have. Stop pretending they aren't good enough (for you).