Kinda Interesting Jedd Fisch Discussion
I realize there is no real reason for you to believe this, but I’m going to post it anyway because it’s true and somewhat interesting.
I was speaking with a good family friend of Jedd Fisch tonight. According to him, Fisch was in line to be the next OC at Michigan and had already been in negotiations with Harbaugh at the end of last year. He said they were both expecting Drevno to move back to California (I don’t know why). When that didn’t happen, Harbaugh obviously couldn’t fire Drevno so Fisch left for UCLA. Fisch desperately wants to be a head coach, and apparently he hates Jim Mora. He’s privately hoping Mora is fired and the offense is good enough for him to be named the HC.
Take it for what it’s worth.
October 8th, 2017 at 10:50 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
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October 8th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 11:12 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 10:53 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 11:54 PM ^
No, but his good family friend might.
October 8th, 2017 at 10:54 PM ^
I hope Drevno moves back to California after this season. Man has he been shit.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
Fisch is also a better recruiter than Drevno too.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:13 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:18 AM ^
Fisch is an interesting speaker as well.
He's very unorthodox in his communication, but in a good way.
He's like the antithesis to "coach speak".
Would be weird if he somehow ended up back here....but then again, judging from the last 18-24 months of American life, apparently a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g can happen!
Here's to hoping!
October 9th, 2017 at 2:49 PM ^
Fisch = good sh*t
Drevno = sh*t
Am I getting that right?
October 8th, 2017 at 10:59 PM ^
If Harbaugh thought Jedd Fisch should be the OC and he's not because Drevno didn't move to California, that's deeply concerning. Loyalty over results. Things like that will keep you at 10-3.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:11 PM ^
To be clear, the decision to promote Fisch was discussed once it was believed that Drevno was moving. To my knowledge, Harbaugh never thought Fisch was preferable to Drevno.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:15 PM ^
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. Hopefully Drevno will head to California after this year.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:05 AM ^
to California or he's going out to the farm with all the other inept coordinators.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:17 AM ^
There has to be a PSU or OSU win in there though.
October 8th, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^
Why did it take Hoke 3 years to fire Al Borges?
Same shit.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
Borges > Drevno > Nussy
October 8th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 12:01 AM ^
trying to turn the most exciting college player into tom brady? ya, that worked out well. worked out well, too, for gardner.
October 9th, 2017 at 9:02 AM ^
Remember Borges' play-calling against Penn State? Toussaint had 27 carries for 27 yards. Now, how is that better than Drevno?
October 9th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
it was Dave Brandon's playcalling... Hoke and crew were that guy's puppets.
October 9th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
it was Dave Brandon's playcalling... Hoke and crew were that guy's puppets.
October 9th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^
In all reality we are alot closer to a 27 for 27 type of game than you want to believe - Maybe not in the running game but this offense is so bad it could easily have a performance that poor.
October 9th, 2017 at 12:17 AM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 8:56 AM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 5:17 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 11:12 AM ^
Give Denard Robinson to Drevno and I think you'd find Drevno > Borges > Nussy.
Notwithstanding, this Offense is in a world of hurt as much because of a lack of experience and talent as a lack of schematic advantage and coaching. We've seen what this staff can do with experienced players who can execute reliably and not make mistakes as recently as last season. Yet, the loss of Fisch is not insignificant, and may have something to do with the offensive drop-off, at least in part. It makes one wonder if the replacement of Pep Hamilton and the addition of Greg Frey completely compensates...
Letting Drevno go/encouraging him to go west, and replacing him with Fisch may be worth considering, in so far as Frey has an established competency in cultivating an OL, which may be redundant with Drevno, so the downside risk at this point of such a move may be mitigated.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:31 AM ^
Was anyone calling for Drevno to be fired after last year or 2015?
October 9th, 2017 at 7:48 AM ^
Nope... And the offense showed a lot of improvement in those two years, also. I don't know what the fuck happened this year. But clearly, Drevno/Frey/Hamilton/Harbaugh << Drevno/Fisch/Harbaugh...
The offensive staff and philosophy needs to be fixed sometime between now and next year. Now sounds good to me...
October 9th, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^
Tom effing Brady wouldn't have looked good in that game. It was raining buckets. Like Forrest Gump in Viet-fucking-NAM buckets.
RELAX. R-E-L-A-X.
October 8th, 2017 at 10:56 PM ^
a swing and a miss, if true.
October 8th, 2017 at 10:59 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 11:20 PM ^
Or simply encourage him to move to California, similar to Saban encouraging Nuss out of Alabama.
Also curious what it was Harbaugh saw in Drevno to prefer him over Fisch.
October 9th, 2017 at 7:53 AM ^
Drevno's track record as an OL coach is tracking on HoF worthy. He built Harbaugh's OL at San Diego, Stanford, and San Francisco - putting 4 of his 5 OL into the Pro Bowl in San Fran. His one year apart from Harbaugh was making USC's (very) young OL perform very well in 2014. His performance prior to Michigan has been stellar everywhere he's been. He's earned Harbaugh's trust and loyalty through continuously excellent results.
Whatever is happening this year is not all on Drevno. There's something going on in the coaches offices that isn't working well, and its translating to the field.
October 9th, 2017 at 8:00 AM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 9:09 AM ^
Great question! And unfortunately, one that we can't answer because we don't know what's actually going on inside the Fort. My take: he needs to decide on one OL blocking scheme - gap or zone (I'd prefer gap, since that's what they were doing the last two years) - and name one OL coach, one OC, and one WR coach.
WR is another group that has showed exactly ZERO improvement through the five games...
October 9th, 2017 at 10:29 AM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 8:54 AM ^
"He built Harbaugh's OL at San Diego, Stanford, and San Francisco - putting 4 of his 5 OL into the Pro Bowl in San Fran. His one year apart from Harbaugh was making USC's (very) young OL perform very well in 2014. "
In San Francisco - he was co-OL coach with Mike Solari. San Diego, I can't find any stats for.
At his other OL coach jobs -
SJSU
2 years before: 3.6 yards per carry
Drevno: 3.6 yards per carry
Idaho
2 years before: 4.3 yards per carry
Drevno: 3.6 yards per carry
Stanford
2 years before: 4.0 yards per carry
Drevno: 5.3 yards per carry
USC:
2 years before: 4.8 yards per carry
Drevno: 4.0 yards per carry
He may be a good OL coach, but I've seen no evidence he's particularly spectacular.
October 9th, 2017 at 9:06 AM ^
What were the circumstances with those other jobs? Were they experienced crew, or young? Did they have a good offense, or was it generally poor? Did they have playmakers for that level? Too many variables to rely on pure stats... The simple fact is that Harbaugh has kept him near, and we all know Harbaugh doesn't suffer poor workmanship.
I don't know the answer. But I don't think its all on one person - there are too many things wrong with the offense.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:02 PM ^
Going by George's typical commentary contributions, I give this news a big Donkey Lips fart noise.
October 8th, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^
October 8th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
Too soon.