Rod Carey expected to be named Temple HC

We should look like a completely different team, on both sides of the ball, for The Game this year.

Spend the whole year practicing a game plan they have never seen and aren't prepared for.  Maybe even do a few of those scripted drives that always work against us.

I think it's called do something unexpected and different from this past season.  I think DB can figure that out.  He mentioned that during The Game he countered and OSU countered back.  They had thoroughly scouted him.  I think he knows he needs a fastball, curve ball and slider now to beat OSU.

those guys are only going to be able to tell Day what we did in that game.  Its the same thing we did in every game. We already know that doing the same thing again next year won't work irrespective of whether or not Mattison or Washington tell Day anything.   This is a complete 100% non issue. 

The outcome will be dependent on Brown being willing to have a Plan B that isn't "solve your problems with aggression."

If the 3rd CB isn't a +athlete that can run with OSU's 3rd WR (who will be a +athlete), he can't run Cover 1 or Cover 0 and refuse to help. The 3rd CB is going to be one of Gray/Sims/St. Juste/a RS freshman who we've never seen take a snap. As a recruit, Gray wasn't a "great" athlete. Sims is long but not super athletic and fast. St. Juste had the shuttle times of an elite athlete but has been hurt for 2 years. None of the RS freshmen where super athletes either. (This is all based off of memory from their recruiting profiles). There's no David Long/Leon Hall/Marlin Jackson in that group as currently exhibited on the field. Even if they put Hill in the slot (which OSU worked around anyways) he's not super fast. He's agile and can run better than Watson did, but when you have a hole on your defense, good coaches like Day will find them and run a crosser with an outside guy to get that match up.

If the DL can't get pressure on their own, he can't send 2 extra blitzers over and over again because of the CB problem and the massive cavern they leave behind the 1st level.

If the Safeties can't cover crossers either (Metellus is great against fades, not so much on corssers) then sending the second level of LBs on blitzes and going man will also leave caverns.

His change up against OSU in the second half was to run a shoddy zone that no one was comfortable with. Kinnel busted and gave up a wide open TD because he came down on a WR that had like 3 guys around him (and slipped). The play that Bush got hurt on had him in zone and a guy run right across his face, but he clearly wasn't comfortable sitting in a zone and anticipating guys moving around him.

I said it last week, Michigan has the athletes to just straight up beat 7 or 8 of their opponents in a given year. 2/4 other teams (Wisconsin and MSU) don't run a scheme that would cause problems because they're more run based and big outside WRs, not shifty slot bugs. That leaves OSU, PSU (if Franklin doesn't continue to bomb out without Moorhead/Barkley/Gesicki), and whoever they get in a bowl (SEC speed guys). Those teams have the players and the scheme to cause problems that can beat Michigan's straight Cover 1 or Cover 0 scheme.

So when Cover 1 or 0 won't work, what's the new approach? And will they rep it enough to pull it out and not trip over themselves when necessary?

The OSU offense only hung 55 on the D.

Larry Foote has no interest in coaching at the collegiate level. Won’t happen.

If those indeed are the hires, I’d be pretty damn happy with that. Recruiting would be the biggest question mark with those guys, but at this point, we need to coach up the guys on our rosters to become ass kickers and I think these guys can get them to that level. 

We can haz nice things!

We didn't match up well against OSU to say the least.  The problem of depth appears to be huge (in addition to other factors people are citing).

As far as Washington/Mattison, I still wonder how long ago those talks started.

Honestly - AW was hired to recruit Ohio, not coach LBs.  He had no prior LB coaching skills.  Michigan has always had strong DLs with or without GM.  Both AW and GM are replaceable from a pure coaching standpoint.  The uncertainty is on recruiting, especially keeping the momentum going in Ohio. The new DL coach needs to have Ohio connections like AW brought to the effort. 

I would like to see DB do the following:

1. Retain Zordich with more money and a title
2. Move Partridge back to LBs/Vipers and give him a raise
3. Add Devin Bush (senior) to the staff covering Safeties and recruit head for FLA
4. Add a young DL coach that can recruit Ohio

I think we can actually get stronger, coaching-wise, with the right guys aligned to their positional expertise on defense.

On offense, priority #1 is a new multi-year contract for Coach Ed.  Harbaugh is the OC, so changing out Pep isn't the issue.  The development of a more "wide-open" offense could use a catalyst however, like adding an offensive analyst expert in the college passing game as a consultant for JH and PH.  Heck, Shea could probably provide that kind of input.

That .328 Panamanian first baseman has just as many Bowl wins (in 6 less tries) than the current NIU coach.

Strange hire, IMO, either way for Temple.  They could do better.