Peach Bowl Snowflakes: The Coaching

This offense and program will go nowhere unless Harbaugh mans the fuck up and hires a creative OC and Jim leaves his hands out of it. Honestly, we can blame Pep and drevno and this person and that person but the buck starts and stops with Harbaugh when it comes to the offense. And Brown needs to look elsewhere also, CP will do just fine.

not trying to pile on the disappointment, there has to be some concern of players jumping ship and others looking to get out of their LOI. That performance from the coaching staff was... flat out bad. Without hyperbole, remincenit of a Brady Hoke coached team performance. Execution: bad, play calling and identification: bad, in game adjustments: bad, clock management: bad. It would serve Jim Harbaugh will to step up to the microphone in his post game presser and acknowledge that was not an acceptable performance and changes need to be and will be made. He needs to show that he is aware that this is not what his players and recruits signed up for, or I am really becoming concerned this thing is going to unravel. Unfortunately he’s put himself in a position where more of the same in 2019 is really going to hurt the program to a point where it may not be fixable.

I would just like to see the best athletes on the field, I do not care their age or experience. At some point the people on the field are not getting the job done, so if the players are not changing then the coaching is the issue. I realize the DL was at its max today, but the OT's got burned all game and not one RB could gain a yard or seem to make a cut to gain more. Best players are all out wide and can be game planned against. If the spine is weak the body will fall. The spine is weak for Michigan, especially on D.

Seems like the majority of the fan base has turned on Harbaugh.  He has done an excellent job in recruiting, and was spectacular in developing the team with Jake Rudock.  But his fearless approach to the game seems to have left with Rudock.  No real innovations to expose opponents weaknesses, Very conservative playcalling, when boldness is required. And the lack of a 2 minute offense is baffling.  I think the old fiery Harbaugh was great.  I wish he would come back.

Pay Leach $5 mil/yr and give him complete control of the offense.

We need bigger and faster guys on defense. 

Everything else is cream cheese.

Jim can go to the NFL for all I care...4 years and we shit the bed....constantly

One thing I noticed: post game handshake or lack thereof. All this Michigan difference talk and Harbaugh can't even take more than a second to congratulate Mullens on kicking his ass?

There are other things to get on him about, which are relegated to actual coaching, but that was pretty ungracious and regardless of his competitive nature (which ought to be directed toward his own team), it was bush league and not becoming of someone who is supposed to be leading young men.

I know, I know, I'll get off your lawn now.

2-7 in rivalry games

O-4 in THE rivalry game

1-3 in bowl games

1-9 vs. Top 10

$7.5 MIL/year

This may give context to the arguments of 'We can't get a better coach' and '3 10 win seasons'. Gus Malzahn has beat Alabama twice and they want to run him out of town and even Tom Herman beat OU in his second season. 

I feel quite a few coaches not named Hoke or RR could've achieved the above AND had better stats in the above games.

Shambles. Unprepared. Sloppy. Poor tackling. No energy. 

I actually think JH lost his team in the 2nd half vs OSU and never won them back. They still looked tired & uninspired today.

At a friend’s request: Don Brown is like an 80s porn star. He has a big schlong, one move, and once teams realize that they’re no longer intimidated by his slaps to the face. 

This team is broken and I fear he lost them quite a few games ago. Here’s my guess as to what’s happening. The grind of Harbaugh and how hard he works them in practice all year with the hitting has taken its toll. Gary’s mom mentioned you don’t play at Michigan unless you practice (Gary was dinged up so couldn’t participate in hitting) which shows they go hard and it wears them down after long season hence awful endings.

I think Black felt like he lost his spot due to injury. Add in some players possibly unhappy with playing time like Ambry, Tarik, Solomon and then getting whipped again with an ice age offense and Harbaugh has a locker room problem. Half the team looked like they didn’t want to play. They didn’t play for Harbaugh and sure as hell not for Michigan. 

The offense looks like they have no confidence they can pull off what is asked. Harbaugh has to look in mirror and make changes like both Saban and Kelly have to get to the next level. Just maybe, they can turn it around with the talent, but if next year resembles anything like this year, it’s game over for Jimmy. 

I am a big conspiracy theorist so sometimes I latch onto things that aren't there but it seems the depth chart is handled in a peculiar way. 

Black has been healthy over two months and barely gets any snaps while Bell keeps getting snaps while not doing much with them. Same for perry.  Same for McKeon.  Seems that when Eubanks is on the field he makes something happen. 

Other bowls I watched this year they talked about players winning a spot in the month practice.  It seems that the position is yours at UM until you get hurt then it is the person's behind them until they get hurt. 

Play calling being questionable is one thing, but the really inexuscable shit is the dreadful clock management at the end of the first half, which has been a recurring problem under Harbaugh and getting a delay of game after a change of possession. That is just infuriating. The fundamental offensive philosophy is outdated and is preoccupied with time of possession and body blows when the rest of the country realizes it is about generating as many points as possible 

This game was destined to be a loss, what with JBB, Devin Bush, Higdon, and all the other NFL-er's sitting this one out. Is it fair to blame the coaches when they literally don't have the best players on the team? Also makes me wonder about the Ohio State game, and whether all those same players were just playing it safe, to avoid injuries, knowing they were leaving. Not saying they were; just wondering if that factors in mentally. Honestly, I'm not even sure why we play in a bowl under these circumstances.