November 9th, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:42 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:46 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 8:50 PM ^
Well yeah; he should TOTALLY call his OC out in the press because YOU need it. That'd be really productive.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:27 PM ^
Hoke will never publicly throw any player or coach under the bus. I don't recall Lloyd doing it either.
AT this point I think the OL coach needs to go, at a minimum. The kids we recruited - ok I get it they are not experienced, but they cannot be this inept either.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
Maybe not individually; but when you say, "We didn't execute," you're basically throwing your players under the bus.
Give the other team credit, say you need to do a better job coaching, BUT DON'T say the players didn't execute. I'd be pissed if I was DG or JG or TL right now. Coach em up; that's why you make 4 million dollars.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:16 PM ^
Against a team that had given up an average of 183 yards of rushing before this game. Borges needs to go. Not only is he killing us on the field, but he's hurting recruiting too.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:31 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:17 PM ^
I hope Brady Hoke realizes that Borges is going to cost all of them their jobs. It's time to give Scott Loeffler a call. I say that because not only is the offensive gameplan terrible, but our QB has terrible coaching also. Loeffler takes the place of both.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:32 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:18 PM ^
I am so on board with firing Borges. He calls plays like he is coaching a pee wee team and he only has four plays they have learned so far. No creativity. No sense of awareness to down or distance. No coaching of the QB. We need a new OC and QB coach.
My question is who is available? Any bright young assistants out there that we can lure away? Scot Loeffler is OC at VTech. Bring him back? He could do double duty.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:23 PM ^
Runs manball, coaches the OL. Can recruit players to stanford.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
You think Stanford's OC is going to leave Stanford for anything other than either a head coaching job or an NFL gig?
November 9th, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
he's dying to get out of the hell hole that is Palo Alto.
Maybe he'd walk here to get the job . . .
November 9th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
Agree. Who ever that is. But I don't see why he would leave Stanford's success for UM's non-success right now. We'd have to pay him a lot, for sure.
November 9th, 2013 at 10:24 PM ^
If he can get Navarre drafted, the guy is only missing a cape. . .
November 9th, 2013 at 7:20 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:21 PM ^
Sadly, I'm not sure if we still have Carr on the sidelines. Bend don't break defense. Play calling that a 3 year old can predict, and mismanagement of staff. Sounds like he's on the sidelines.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:48 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
Good day.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:26 PM ^
we could get a definitive answer on who is responsible.
Does Borges actually have 100% autonomy? Is Hoke hamstringing him a-la Rich Rod into these unflexible gameplans?
must. focus. angar.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
On a positive note, we now know what type of defense Iowa, Northwestern, and Ohio are going to throw at us for the rest of the year.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:29 PM ^
We probably will end up with negative rushing yards against Ohio, too. I'm still hoping for positive yards against NW and Iowa.
November 10th, 2013 at 1:04 AM ^
I am just hoping that we don't end up with negative total yards against Iowa. Getting shut out is not outside of the realm of possibility with Borges at the helm.
I honestly don't think that the offense could play any worse if Gardner just got in the huddle and started drawing up pass patterns on his hand like in playground football.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:31 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:39 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 7:44 PM ^
I don't see how. Borges keeps his job. The drive after the fumbled punt is what sealed the deal for me. How can he just run the ball into the middle fo the line like that, knowing we can't run the football?
I know our offensive line can't block, but good grief, there are ways to gameplan around a poorly performing o-line. Part of that plan can't be to continually run power running plays up the middle for no gain and drop-back passes that take forever to develop and are massively succeptable to blitzes. Yeah, we finally made a few adjustments at half-time. Bully for Al. WTF was he doing in the first half and then again in the 4th quarter?
Absolutely embarassing. If Borges stays our O-Coordinator, we just have to accept that he will continue to repeatedly call stupid plays that would leave even an average high school coach shaking their head.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:48 PM ^
Bizarro World.
Fuck Borges and this shitty toilet fire we call an "offense".
November 9th, 2013 at 8:30 PM ^
Exactly. We've gone from no defense to no offense. Pathetic.
November 10th, 2013 at 12:23 AM ^
interesting choice of words. a smellier version of a dumpster fire, i like it.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:37 PM ^
double post
November 9th, 2013 at 7:49 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 8:33 PM ^
with the same excuses (execution), but this time writing it twice!
November 9th, 2013 at 7:49 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
we get the tears of unfathomable sadness.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:53 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
November 10th, 2013 at 12:27 AM ^
I think he is a victim of circumstance. The Space Coyotes of the world may be able to debunk this, but I think he is hurt by A) scheme - not a Power I type back, more of a spread type, and B) clearly running behind a terrible line. He has had some great games for Michigan during his career, we shouldn't forget that.
November 9th, 2013 at 7:52 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 8:00 PM ^
I'm so pissed off that I just want him gone in any way possible.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:04 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
After watching his offense run the ball repeatedly into the line for no gain/negative yards, do you think anyone would ever trust their money to Al Borges? Good grief, he'd probably be trying to convince people that Enron was going to be recovering "any day now".
November 9th, 2013 at 8:01 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 8:32 PM ^
I might sit Touissant but Gardner? You think a freshman Morris is going to do well with this O-Line blocking for him? Come on.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
Gardner is not the problem. The O Line is awful.
November 10th, 2013 at 1:11 AM ^
The line is not doing Gardner any favors, but he seems completely shell-shocked at this point. He is terrified of throwing a pick, so he holds the ball too long, and when he does throw his accuracy has been pretty suspect.
November 9th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
I wonder if ours guys are starting to have trouble with the dong forrest in practice
November 9th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^