November 9th, 2013 at 6:51 PM ^
He's more like our Ron Zook. He's our Hooke.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:09 PM ^
When's the last time anyone had negative rushing two games in a row?
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
When wwas the last time had negative rushing yards 2 games in a row? Even if they didn't attempt a single run next game they would beat their last 2 outings combined.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:51 PM ^
Ha!
Even if we have 20 QB kneel-downs, we'll be our rushing total from the past two games.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
Not the coaching,we just need to execute better. Whatever that means!
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
Not the coaching,we just need to execute better. Whatever that means!
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
EXACTLY
I believe in Hoke (mostly). But if he doesn't fire Borges/Funk, then Hoke should definitely go b/c that means that he won't accept what's wrong and/or make the difficult choices to change it.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
Fire em all. Dont care that we'd probably lose Hand and Peppers. Getting top recruits isnt worth shit if they play like this.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
Gardner is awful..
Borges is awful
Hoke has no clue
Mattison is average
November 9th, 2013 at 8:30 PM ^
Mattison was facing a freshman QB. I don't know if he gets the average tag but it up for debate.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
6-6 here we come.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:56 PM ^
The back to back runs post muffed punt....I was ready to fire entire staff prior to 3rd down.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
When Nebraska is literally blitzing two guys right at EVERY running play, you're tipping things. Every time we run. If you're that predictable, you get back to back negative rushing performances, plus the Penn State debacle. That's now something like ten utter debacles in three years for this offensive coaching staff. Some of that's on Rodriguez's offensive line coaching, but I think at this point most of it is on Borges.
Hoke's supposed to be a CEO coach who is a badass recruiter and hires excellent people as his assistants. If that's the case, he needs to fire Borges, or what's the point?
November 9th, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:53 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:02 PM ^
RichRod would not have won 11 games, not with his 3-3-5 defense and Tony Gibson coaching DBs. Let's not write off everything Hoke has done.
I agree that we are currently headed in the wrong direction though. He can take a page from Beilein and shake up his staff if he wants to get the ship turned around.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:08 PM ^
Yeah there's not a chance in hell RR would have won 11 games the way his defenses played, and I even wanted RR to get another year.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:46 PM ^
I don't get why you think Hoke can meaningfully imrpove on this (likely) 7-5 season next year (with a younger OL and losing your best receiver) with a staff shakeup but you don't think RR could have done really well by a change in his defense.
Glad to see you're finally coming around on this season though and recognize we're heading the wrong direction (which still would have been the case if we somehow scratched out a win today). You've been whistling through the graveyard all year.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
This is why the B1G is an embarrassment. Terrible coordinators like Bollman, Roushar, Shoop, Borges and many others put garbage on the field and still keep their jobs. Keep them around, we don't want to hurt their feelings.
If Al Borges was coaching in the SEC, Big 12, or Pac 12 and put this on the field every week, he would have been fired last year.
We can not keep someone on staff who keeps us from winning games. We're here to win, he's not getting the job done.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
we really need to fire HOKE, this job is way over his head. He continuously lie to us. Green is a much better blocker than he let's on. He calls very very dumb timeout, in the first half. He cant coach. This job is way over his head. you can see it on the side line. Neb. is playing with 3 back up linement may be 4 and they are winning no excuses. I cant understand how in the world this guy will get an extra year. He lost this team a sign of a weak coach and a sign of things to come
November 9th, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^
Hoke is the captain of the sinking ship and the team has regressed the past 2 seasons
November 9th, 2013 at 6:59 PM ^
Love how he recruits and represents the program off the field.
But running a big-time BCS conference program is not for everybody. He's a good, solid mid-major coach.
Out of his element.
In over his head.
You've lost me coach. And from the looks of things, you've lost the players, too.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^
Do we still have RichRod's number? Haha. Ha. Ha. I'm such a kidder.
No, seriously, do we?
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:51 PM ^
Mattison is not blameless here either. Northwestern gave up 13 pts last week ON THE ROAD with a roster full of 3 stars not counting the last second hail mary. (one TD was scored by Neb defense). IT's a bad offense with 1 player on it who is a playmaker. Nebraska was playing its 2nd and 3rd string QB. People here think this is the offense of 2012 or early in the year. Kenny Bell is hurt and maybe running at 60%. 2 starting OL came into the game out with injury and a 3rd went out in the 1st half. They still drove 15 plays in the 4th quarter for the winning drive. Mattison is also driving me a crazy.
UCLA beat this team by 20 in Nebraska. Please.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
Play for a field goal and have Mattison's D give up a long drive to an unknown QB...it's been a 'whole' 3 weeks since I've seen that....
November 9th, 2013 at 6:52 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
We have no offensive answers for what the defense does. We run into stacked boxes, we pass against two high and try to throw deep against the blitz. Borges and Funk need to go or Hoke needs to go. This is as bad as the Rodriguez defensive ineptness. This staff did their best work with Rodriguez's talent, and the people who blame this on O-Line youth need to shut up. You have two very good to great tackle and I've never seen an interior line, even an inexperienced one, look this bad, although most of it is Borges setting downs on fire by running from obvious formations into a stacked box. This is complete and utter bullshit, and this staff poo poos the spread. I'd rather be a wussy basketball on grass team than whatever the fuck this is.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
Well, I think that Beilein and the rest of the staff have proven themselves very capable of developing talent and melding that talent into a team. Looking forward to a great Michigan Basketball season!
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:52 PM ^
November 10th, 2013 at 11:05 AM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
i think hoke is a position coach.. he talks like one and spends most of his time with DL. i don't think he is a head coach at least not in a big time conference, proabably whe he had success with Ball State and SDS. they need to hire a legit HEAD COACH who care about both the offense and defense. ever wonder why borges only stays at a school for a few years.. fired or quit?
November 9th, 2013 at 10:42 PM ^
I agree that Hoke is a position coach. He reminds me of Rod Marinelli and his "pound the rock". He even sounds the same in press conferences. You just get the feeling he has risen to the level of his incompetancy!
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
No more snowflakes! It hasn't snowed all season. The rest of this season will be deja vu. We'll lose every game that we're supposed to win and get pounded on the ones we're the underdog.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
Borges & Funk have to go. Hoke and the rest of the staff can stay mainly due to recruiting ability. But, they get 2 more years. If things don't change by 2015 we need to change them too...sorry. At least I hope this coaching change doesn't cause us 4 more years to overhaul the roster for the 3rd consecutive time.
November 9th, 2013 at 6:52 PM ^
to get rid of funk and borges.
November 9th, 2013 at 9:00 PM ^
he should demote himself to D-line coach and lead recruiter.
Brandon can then hire a new Head coach and OC, & we lose none of the Hoke benefits!!!
It's so crazy it's Les Miles-approved!
November 9th, 2013 at 10:45 PM ^
A couple more years with Hoke, then we can finally hire Miles. Only 8 years too late!
Did Carr cost Michigan in two straight coaching searches by undermining Miles? Does anyone know the inside story?
November 9th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
That was the worst game i have ever seen him call and thats coming from a Borges defender. Only to screens, only saw one draw and ridiculous lack of hot routes. It was awful, he called that game like he was playing MSU again which Nebraska is all kinds of not.