Peach Bowl Snowflakes: The Coaching

This whole staff is a bunch of arrogant overpaid fucks and the players are starting to see through it. If Harbaugh truly cares about Michigan football he will leave.

Too bad there wasn't any

In all seriousness if you think Michigan is getting its money’s worth from this staff I’ve got a chunk of land on the moon for you very cheap, because only suckers would think this staff is holding up its end of the bargain!

Thank goodness Beilein's MBB is playing tomorrow.

Michigan needs a good Offensive Coordinator more than anything else.

Someone that Harbaugh will listen to and respect.

We've got skilled play makers. The offense is not being coached to win, but to be afraid of losing.

Harbaugh, when you played you weren't chickenshit. Why coach chickenshit?

Let the players ball out! 

#Confidence

Harbaugh said, "“We’re beaten by -- on those days, we were beaten by better teams. So, we have to persevere, be persistent, keep working and put it over the top.”  That is troubling.  Those better teams were all underdogs and the last two gave us the worst back-to-back beatings (drubbings?) I can ever remember happening to a Michigan team.

There’s only one coach who doesn’t do the halftime interviews and gives basically one word answers to post game questions, because he thinks he’s untouchable well somebody (Warde) needs to ask some tough questions to  the  $7 million man!

Watching Clemson and Alabama they have dominant lines. Until we get those again, we won't challenge for a championship. We have the skill players, just as good as those guys.  JH will get us there.

Let’s be honest . Michigan football has become the Calvin College basketball of d1 football.  Both have a stubborn coach who is gun-ho about his shitty “system” having to work but consistently lose to its rival

We aren’t even a fucking top 15 team after four years of Jim. We have a problem. The first step is admitting it. 

Other people on the board have mentioned this, but what pisses me off the most about Harbaugh is his attitude. Rude to reporters, never answers any questions, acts completely above everyone else. Hell, even Saban—six rings and all—gives a few answers. He’s just not a good person, and I’m sure players realize Jim is more about himself than anyone else. 

This meltdown is so annoyingly predictable! Three team leaders - talented players - headed for the NFL don’t play for whatever reason, and before the game the fans are saying, “No big deal, this game is meaningless.”

Michigan loses - and Winovich explained that on defense missing those guys made a difference, in addition to the guys who got hurt - and the fan base blames the coach. Suddenly the meaningless game is important. Off with their heads!

Obviously the guys not playing affected the outcome. So what does the fan base do? Acts like babies and explodes, but not at the guys who decided not to play; they’re off limits. They blame the coaches who led the team to a ten win season, in itself not an easy task.

Regardless of what we think players have a right to do - I certainly think they have a right to play or not play - there are the issues of team, of sportsmanship, of loyalty. Any team would lose cohesion under these circumstances, and that is simply not on the coaches.

As for the conservative play-calling, yes, perhaps that’s on the coaches, but I also understand also that they may have wanted to control the ball to keep a depleted defense off the field, since they knew it was going to be a much tougher slog without those players - and Don Brown said so before the game. He was not kidding himself.

In view of this trend where players sit out bowls to protect their future pro careers, my take is that, like it or not, the bowl system is obviously dead. College football is a junior pro league where it’s about money, not sportsmanship and all the rah-rah stuff. Have an 8 team playoff, call those 4 games bowls or whatever you like, because they’re all that matter to anyone, and kill the other bowls for Division 1 or whatever it’s now called.

As for those interested in seeing non-professional athlete students play other non-professional athlete students for the sheer sportsmanship of it, there are other leagues, like the Ivies. The idea that Michigan athletes would sit out a bowl game bugs me an awful lot, and I’ll admit it makes me lose interest.

Harbaugh has brought us back to the Carr level (minus the one year with a special player like Charles and how everything fell in place), which is much better than the RR and Hoke years. I don't think Pep was capable of designing plays, others than the ones we have been running all season. Harbaugh needs to hire the best modern OC out there and let him design the offense and call most of the plays. It seems like we will have a lot of talent on offense and will need to find a go to back. A lot Michigan fans are unrealistic in goals. There is no way Michigan is even close to the top teams in college football. May be over time Harbaugh can recruit and build a team that may one day challenge the elite teams but it may be several years away. The only thing I don't like to see is how the team has fallen off at the end of the last two seasons. I like to see the team improve throughout the season and not peak in October and fall off in November and during the bowl game.

Comparing Harbaugh's in-game coaching to Lincoln Riley's, one guy wanted not to be embarrassed, and ended up being embarrassed, and the other guy coached from beginning to end to win, not caring about how badly he could lose.  I didn't think Harbaugh would be such a pussy--very disappointing to see him give up. . .it has to affect the team also.  Riley went for it all night, and his team ended up putting up a good fight, nothing to be ashamed of.  Harbaugh and Michigan were shameful, and once again Harbaugh is mocked for his puny results.    

Frankly, it won't matter who the titular OC is until Harbaugh stops trying to be 21st Century Bo.

The pattern is all too familiar count on superior talent combined with conservative playcalling to beat up on (minimize risk in losing to) those 8-11 opponents a year that are overmatched, then stumble against OSU and the post season against teams that are better matched. This risk averse strategy minimizes losing against inferior teams, but is bound to fail against teams that are just as physical, just as fast (or faster), and are willing to be more daring.

Before heading over to Gillette to tailgate, after yesterday, I hope the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets Jets, are dumb enough to make the Godfather offer to Harbaugh and he accepts.  Took me 4 years to go to the dark side.  

M is what it is; a top 15 to 25ish football program without a good recruiting base. a program with a solid, but not innovative or inspiring coach. a program that is top 20ish because it has great resources and some cache, but not enough of the other elements necessary to consistently be top 10ish (at the end of the year) and almost never top 5. 

Again, M is what it is. i think a lot of M's expectations go back to Bo. i've been around for 60 years. Bo wasn't the Bo of current M legend. and consequently, M isn't the potentially elite program that some suggest. Bo was an almost great coach and a very inspirational man. Bo was a winner, but Bo wasn't Bud Wilkinson, Bear Bryant, John McKay, Urban Meyers or Nick Saban. And M isn't Bama or USC or OSU. Very good, but not elite in football. 

Good point on Riley coaching to the end. 

JH quit against Osu with 6 or 7 min to go also. Peter's throws a perfect td pass ...then puts Milton in right after.

I think it's time for Don Brown to re-think his primary strategy.  You can't play press man coverage on every down and get no pass rush an d think you will be effective.  I understand that we had two main starters sit out on defense, but if you knew that going in, you have to adjust your gameplan.

That is one thing this entire staff cannot seem to do on either side of the ball.  Both Brown and Harbaugh are so single-minded and stubborn they cannot change how they attack when their original plan doesn't succeed.  I now see the benefit of the head coach not wearing a headset

If Harbaugh didn't interfere with the offensive play calls maybe we could run a tempo offense some times.  And if Don Brown took a head coaching job somewhere we could possibly not get trucked by every team with a competent QB.

My belief in this staff every getting to a B1G championship game is now 30%.  My belief in this staff getting a team into the playoff at 25% and winning a National Championship  . . . 1%.

As long as Clemson and Alabama use churches to funnel money to players and their families, they will continue to get the best players and everyone will have to watch these boring playoff games.

Every game yesterday was unwatchable, the outcome was obvious after 1 quarter in almost every game.  Michigan had a chance until about 6 minutes left in the second then that was over too.

We all better get used to 10-win seasons and meaningless bowl games as the ceiling around here unless we get on board with how the best programs operate.  This holier-than-thou attitude is a "no one cares anymore" scenario.  We are a middle tier program with a huge stadium and a cool helmet.