Lloyd Carr approves of Jim Harbaugh
So Harbaugh has that going for him, which is nice.
Carr also thinks that technology has made coaching more difficult and that the P5 will have fewer teams in it going forward.
http://www.mlive.com/sports/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2015/06/former_michigan_football_coach.html
Rational, coherent thought isn't very popular over there, either.
No. Technology has helped coaches greatly. That sounds like someone who could never adapt to the spread.
It makes certain tasks easier, but the challenge is, it's made it easier for everyone. So whereas back in Carr's day you could schedule a game with an FCS school and expect them to lack the resources to do in-depth scouting, these days an intern can download enough game footage to exploit weaknesses in your offense inside a week. In other words, even the FCS schools have technical capabilities the biggest dozen programs in the country would've considered prohibitively expensive 20 years ago.
So, it's gotten harder for big programs, in as much as they "only" have name recognition and better facilities and more money, but they lost some of their cheat codes. Boo-hoo.
But to be fair to LC, we never scheduled an FCS opponent until you know when. We were a few years to late to hitch up to that gravy train.
That's on Barnacle Bll Martin... not LC.
Why would the power five shrink? I know it had been projected that one of them (B12 or ACC) would be catabolized by the other, stronger conferences (SEC, B1G, PAC), but is Lloyd suggesting that programs will fold? Drop down to FCS? Leave to a lesser conference?
think that the smaller P5 schools won't be able to keep up with the big boys in the financial arms race. What exactly that means for their programs and/or conference alignments, no one knows.
Does anyone really think Purdue should be in the same conference as OSU and Michigan?
"Yes"
Signed, Indiana and Northwestern football
I think his point is that schools like Purdue, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, TCU, Kentucky, Utah, etc may eventually decide it is too expensive trying to be competitive with schools like Michigan, Alabama, OSU, FSU, USC, Texas, etc in football.
The Power5 conferences could feel a lot of pressure to keep those schools in the conferences for all other sports while letting them play a lower level in football.
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I had the opportunity to attend the Big Brothers Big Sisters event last night that Coach Carr was at. Before dinner, I had the chance to introduce myself and chat with him for a few minutes. I had planned on quickly mentioning that I'm in my 8th year at UM (undergrad + PhD will do that to you) before talking football and memories of the old days. Instead Coach steered the conversation toward the state of academia in the state and country. We each had our 2 cents to share about it and ended up talking about that for the entire time, before I ended by mentioning that my fandom began when attending my first game, 1997 vs. Iowa, a comeback win that he remembered as "a pivotal game" that season.
And no, I didn't ask for a selfie with him.
/coolstorybro
I remember thinking the offense looked unprepared and lethargic and special teams again seemed like an after-thought despite a really dangerous opponent.
The second half of '97 Iowa has become my coping mechanism to face the fear of Michigan trailing at half-time and looking unprepared as they have too often in the recent past.
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never forget that AWFUL performance in the 1st half, only to turn it around and win. Brian Griese had a great 2nd half and the defense stepped up.
Pretty vanilla, which is what I expect from Lloyd. Interesting that he's famous for the ONE time that he snapped at someone.
I wonder if someone followed up on the technology thing, or it if the writer didn't report his full answer. It's possible he's comparing things to 70s recruiting where a guy like Bo would get his men and announce who they were in spring. MUCH less drama. Easier in that sense? Wish they would've asked...
It was just ONE???
And even then, he didn't really "snap" at they guy. He just sort of gave him the evil eye and then slowly backed away without answering his question (which, IIRC, had to do with why Lloyd didn't try to score when he got the ball back about :30 before halftime with a 2 TD lead on OSU).
Lloyd lives down the road from me. Has been nothing but wonderful every time we have spoken. He was an underrated coach probably, I was an ardent defender of his in the Fire Lloyd years of 05-07(ish). But after how he handled the 07 coaching search and RichRods tenure, I can't look at him quite the same way.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. More good than the other two catergories, but oh man does the ugly stand out (IMO) more than the good. It's probably since he won the NC so earlier in his career that the Ugly is more easily remembered since it happened at the end, but you can't deny how bad it got.
But I wouldn't lump Huntington-Wheatley into the same conversation as a certain game from 2007 that I will not mention. She deserves farrrrrrrrrrrrrr better than that.
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't me, but I'll respond anyway.
RR failed at Michigan for many reasons, some his own fault, some not.
RR's fault:
Complete lack of defense. This in my opinion is the main reason he failed here. The only team that should be putting up 65 points against Michigan is the New England Patriots. Hoke's first team went 11-2 mainly because defense was more than an afterthought.
Not understanding expectations. A few things can go here, number one being that a 3-9 season is never acceptable at Michigan. Also, he kept trying to force unqualified players through admissions. Michigan is a top academic school. RR never seemed to understand that.
Not RR's fault:
Lack of institutional support. There were people in the AD (and media) that wanted him to fail from day 1.
RR had the WORST special teams I've ever seen at Michigan as well.
We put 10 guys on the field more than once last year. Utah ended up returning a punt for TD because of it.
And those special teams were still better than they were under RR.
Come on. Have you forgotten what it was like to not be able to hit 30 yard field goals?
They dropped punts like crazy, almost never brought a kick past the 20 and his last year at Michigan they averaged like 7 yards a punt return.
I would take Hoke's special teams over that every day of the week.
It was Norfleet (a Hoke recruit) who broke the kickoff return yardage record. Breaston is still #2.
What are you talking about? You can look it up right here, on the Michigan football statistics archive:
http://statsarchive.ath.umich.edu/VS-Football/indmaster.php
Here's the top five if that doesn't come through:
1. Dennis Norfleet - 2,203 yards
2. Steve Breaston - 1,993 yards
3. Anthony Carter - 1,606 yards
4. Darryl Stonum - 1,538 yards
5. Desmond Howard - 1,211 yards
My comments are based on nothing?
His kick returners averaged 21 yards in 2010.
I also remember RR trying every option he had at punt returner because they couldn't stop dropping balls. Look, it's an article dedicated to this same subject!
http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2009-03-23/football-spring-practice
It was all around bad, man. We can agree on that, no?
We can't talk nice in a RR thread. Flamewar only.
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