Bacon's Latest: New Coach Won't Be a Surprise Name
John U. Bacon on WTKA this morning:
- The new coach won't be another RichRod (an outsider).
- The new coach won't be another Hoke (a mid-level relative unknown who does have Michigan ties).
- The new coach WILL be one of the 4-5 names that won't go away: Jim Harbaugh, Les Miles, etc.
He claims no inside knowledge - these are just gut feelings. Nothing new really, but when JUB speaks, it's always worth a thread.
November 21st, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 10:52 AM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 10:58 AM ^
If we get Greg Schiano I will be forced to stop being a Michigan fan.
November 21st, 2014 at 12:06 PM ^
Why? I know he had the drity end of game hit the QB thing in the NFL (garbage move), but is there anything else what makes GS so deplorable?
November 21st, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
He's not that good of a coach.
November 21st, 2014 at 9:43 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^
He's quite an asshole. Imagine Bill Belichick except more angry and no success. WIthout the success part, Schiano just comes off as a prick.
November 21st, 2014 at 12:19 PM ^
I don't know how much of a dick he is but he's a horrible coach who is living off of one good year a decade ago at Rutgers.
November 21st, 2014 at 2:02 PM ^
I'm not saying he should be the coach at Michigan, but it seems like taking Rutgers to a team that averages 8 wins a year (over his last 5 years, AFTER his 11 win season) and lands talent like Ray Rice is a pretty far from terrible. Pointing to his record is only vaguely more worthy than pointing to Rodriguez's at Michigan. The overall arc seems positive.
The failure at TB is more concerning, but that happens to lots of college coaches. Pete Carrol, Nick Saban, etc.
Not sure I want him at Michigan but based on what he did at Rutgers he deserves another major conference job. If Harbaugh falls through I wouldn't rule him out, personally.
November 21st, 2014 at 2:56 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 2:05 PM ^
He made that program relevant, recruited well (for that school) with around 15 guys in the NFL today from his time, and like him or not, did an objectively good job at Rutgers. The NFL was a different story granted, but that doesn't eliminate him IMO, lots of guys fail in their first NFL job.
Insight Bowl-L | |||||||||||||
2006 | Rutgers | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .846 | 12.88 | 1.11 | 7 | 12 | Texas Bowl-W | ||
2007 | Rutgers | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | .615 | 6.75 | 0.44 | 16 | 10 | International Bowl-W | ||
2008 | Rutgers | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | .615 | 6.35 | -0.26 | PapaJohns.com Bowl-W | ||||
2009 | Rutgers | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .692 | 6.34 | -2.12 | 25 | St. Petersburg Bowl-W | |||
2010 | Rutgers | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | .333 | -6.76 | -0.76 | |||||
2011 | Rutgers | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .692 | 6.42 |
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His record the last six years at Rutgers, after his first two were 2-9 and 1-11. there's no way you can say he had one fluke year
November 21st, 2014 at 1:40 PM ^
Schiano was 68-67 as a head coach at Rutgers. He was 11-21 at Tampa Bay. He combines all of the abrasion of Jim Harbaugh with Brady Hoke-like results.
November 21st, 2014 at 3:02 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 2:56 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 3:28 PM ^
However, JH is considered an asshole, so that part doesn't carry much weight.
November 21st, 2014 at 4:14 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 8:20 PM ^
Kept Bobby Knight employed for 20 years.
But then when he stopped winning but still insisted on being an asshole . . . .
November 21st, 2014 at 11:01 AM ^
give me a chance.
November 21st, 2014 at 11:05 AM ^
Guys, chill out. It's someone from Krazy Jim's coaching tree. Football team will have burgers, basketball team will have subs. Everyone will be well-fed and we'll win a lot of games.
November 21st, 2014 at 11:06 AM ^
fails the first test. He's an outsider.
November 21st, 2014 at 12:21 PM ^
Why? Doesn't he wear a headset?
November 21st, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^
The Michigan Schianovines.
Get used to it.
November 21st, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
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November 21st, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
Would be more apropos.
November 21st, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
Just sayin'. Bo Blue
November 21st, 2014 at 1:19 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
The Baconator has a lot more administrative connections than Sam does. In my mind he is the most reputable source of this entire saga. Love the Bacon.
November 21st, 2014 at 2:08 PM ^
Also, although Tom Beaver is an ass, he always seems to know some stuff when a coaching change is going on. Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems to be the case with the Beav
November 21st, 2014 at 3:50 PM ^
I have a scout subscription, mainly for Webb's recuriting knowledge, but Beaver does seem to have contacts that know stuff about the coaching change situation, as does Sam. Beaver's annoying as hell though and he types like a 5 year old. Wouldn't be mad to see him booted from scout at all.
November 21st, 2014 at 4:02 PM ^
Tom Beaver. He's hilarious. He doesn't post anything except retweeting breaking recruiting news at least 24 hours after the fact. He also will post links to scout stories like a week after the fact. He is technologically illiterate.
November 21st, 2014 at 4:12 PM ^
I have heard story after story of him banning members for disagreeing with him on a recruiting story, or him stealing their info and posting it as his own. I don't know how he has lasted this long.
November 21st, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^
Sam Webb's "Gut Feeling" Tautology:
Sam: "I think A will happen, but it's possible B could happen."
If A happens:
Sam: "I told you A would happen. No one listened to me!"
If B happens:
Sam: "I kept telling you that B might happen. No one listened to me!"
See recruiting of: Da'Shawn Hand, Malik McDowell, and 20 other guys who didn't go to UM.
November 21st, 2014 at 10:52 AM ^
His gut feelings are the same as my gut feelings...
DO ME AND John U. Bacon SHARE THE SAME GUT!?!?!
November 21st, 2014 at 11:01 AM ^
Did you guys eat Mexican last night? Maybe it's just gas.
November 21st, 2014 at 11:50 AM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
Holiday Inn Express
November 21st, 2014 at 4:36 PM ^
Well, doctors are now doing fecal transplants these days.
November 21st, 2014 at 10:55 AM ^
If you told me that our next coach was going to be either Jim Harbaugh or Les Miles, I would be ecstatic.
November 21st, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
Me, too. And I would go back to my Monday tune-in's of the live stream of the press conference. I don't know if they even do them live stream with Hoke like they did them with Rodriguez, but either Miles or Harbaugh would be infinitely more entertaining.
November 21st, 2014 at 11:38 AM ^
With a little more talent than us, he has better defenses and equally awful offenses. I'm not seeing him being a significant upgrade
November 21st, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
err
102-28 at LSU in toughest conference?
6-3 in major bowls, including 1-1 at national championship?
Sorry they are having an off year - you know losing to #1 bama #1 MSU #4 auburn
November 21st, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
look, maybe I'm very wrong. But whenever I watch LSU, I feel like I'm watching Michigan's offense. They're usually terrible. I wouldn't mind him coming if he figured out how to offense