Indiana Snowflakes: The Coaching

Herbert wanted to.  He was pissed, yelling screaming and pointing at the IU coaches.

I would not have shaken his hand.  Would have told Allen exactly what I thought with no filter. And next year, I would run up score.

I wonder if some of the cramping was a response to the way Indiana plays football.

Harbaugh would never tell anyone to “sweep the leg,” but I can see him telling his players not to ignore cramping symptoms.

I will say it because Harbaugh can’t: Fuck IU, their asshole head coach and John O’Neill. 

I haven't noticed much of a cramping issue except this game and ND. I think that part of our issue this game was that everyone was standing around while Edwards was being tended to.

With how the refs have called Michigan for bs penelties while hitting the QB, I don't think you can do much without getting a roughing the passer. The play should have been blown died, the QBs progress was stopped and his knees were getting bent in a very ackward way. You can't have rules that protect QB, making a lot of hits illegal then allow a QB to continue after being in the defenders grasp for several seconds before escaping. 

I also disagree with your assessment that the playcalling was cowardly. 

I really want to believe that the red zone dagger repertoire is being held back for the OSU game.

We did have the Gentry TD opportunity wide open.  He made a poor catch on a poor throw.  Tarik Black had a TD on a ball he needs to catch.  Don't recall if that was inside the 20, but it was close if not.  

I mean, it might. The defense is pretty great, and we still scored 31...

Indiana also had 21(!) first downs which seemed to annoyingly happen on 3rd and longish where Ramsey would scramble or dump to a slant or cross to a vacated middle of the defense. They continually called blitzes that left that part of the field wide open and got burnt multiple times.

I used to agree, but this has been a trend under Harbaugh.  Play calling seems to get conservative and the intermediate passing game has been lacking this season.  So much of the passing game is deep shots off play action, and that's not an option in the RZ which may actually hamper the offense.

The problem is Purdue is even dirtier.

Agree, this is really my only strong quibble with the offensive decision making. Couple places I'd have rather seen a pass attempt in the red zone but... eh.  Maybe didn't block quite as well as they have been in the red zone. Given JBB being out it will be interesting to see the UFR on Stueber. 

Yeah, that's the one thing with the coaching I want to complain about. The clock management thing was at least partially an officiating screw-up. The red zone thing was mainly some bad execution. But the second half looks different if the 8 point lead is a 9 point lead instead. That's stuff you only do at the end of games or when you have a trick up your sleeve.

Why do so many fans want to have relations with O'Neill?

That's an interesting point, honestly. I guess the hope is that you can half-ass it to a commanding lead and then pull everyone, but that really doesn't work unless you're playing Rutgers. Maybe could've saved a lot of trouble today if we just went all out from the jump

Ummm...no.  Michigan was not playing it safe or vanilla.

Not really.  M always manages to win.