Hoke's 2014 against Harbaugh's 15 and 16
All,
I, like many of us, lost my mind on Saturday both during and after the game. In fact, I posted a comment saying I was done for the season. After talking myself off the ledge, I have provided the following stats, which don't fix the results of this past Saturday's game, but should hopefully help some of us step away from the ledge. All comparisons are made to Hoke's last season.
2014: Hoke's Final Year
Points Per Game: 20.9
Rushing Yds. Per Game: 162.8
Passing Yds. Per Game: 170.2
Total Offense: 333 yds. per game
2015: Harbaugh Year One
Points Per Game: 31.4 (+11)
Rushing Yds. Per Game: 158.2 (-4)
Passing Yds. Per Game: 237.7 (+60)
Total Offense: 395.9 yds. per game (+60)
2016: Harbaugh Year Two
Points Per Game: 40.3 (+20)
Rushing Yds. Per Game: 213.3 (+50)
Passing Yds. Per Game: 212 (+50)
Total Offense: 425.3 (+92)
Who cares, right? /S We aren't beating MSU or OSU, and with Harbaugh came promised results and championships and total world domination!!! Yes, this may be a down year (but who knows because the season isn't over in October) and some of us might have had too high of expectations. You can't except a guy who wears the same outfit every day to do things differently, the expectations of the offense and the way he coaches will remain the same. I maintain that things will get better, hopefully you all can do the same.
October 10th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^
-Learn to win on the road
-Learn to win the big game
-????
-Profit
October 10th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
Will obviously never give up on the team, the team, the team. However, we have every right be pissed off when we lose games like we did on Saturday. Getting Harbaugh was the BEST thing that could have happened at Michigan after RR and Hoke. Is he perfect? No.
But he's the right guy for this job. He's not God, but he brings so much to this University. That said, he's probably bought into his own hype and thought everything he touches will turn to gold. The reality is that is not the case. So I think most of us agree, that he needs to do what's best for the football team (players, fans, boosters, University) and make some changes among the offensive coaching staff. That will (help) right the ship in my humble opinion.
Regardless of how pissed and demoralized I am right now, and even though I told myself I don't care what happens against Indiana, by Thursday I'll start getting myself hyped for us to beat Indiana. At this point, it's truly one game at a time.
GO BLUE!!!
October 10th, 2017 at 3:23 PM ^
when they start comparing Hoke's tenure to Harbaugh's. damn.
Truth: best case scenario is that when Harbaugh leaves in 2 years -- Harbaugh always leaves -- Michigan gets a young up and comer, Bo-style.
October 10th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
October 11th, 2017 at 1:28 AM ^
This entire web page is all about people trying to one up someone else to predict the future better than them. I guess this is what sports chatrooms are generally supposed to look like (because this is the only one that I ever surf to). And even God himself (you know Brian and Ace and those people) are also dong the whole predicting the future thing.
The arguing is pretty ridiculous when you take a step back. Why even attempt to predict the future when it comes to how a college football game turns out the way it does? The game is played with a oblong ball. That's pretty random when it bounces off the field. Sometimes it bounces off a punt returners hand and then when he is shoved to the ground, it ends up bouncing right into his chest.
The freak-out thing where people are all up in arms is one thing. If that's what you like then go for it. Its another when one person wants to tell someone else that thier evidence based prediction is wrong compared to someone elses evidence based prediction. This is college football. It is exciting because it is kind of random and doesn't make sense sometimes. I bet 90% of you are doing this thing right now where you can kind of rationalize how if things just break our way then we can maybe bear OSU this year. There would be worse upsets this year. Our defense can score 14 and hold them to 13. These things can happen if you start to get out into the edges of distributions.
I don't maintain any predictions about the future except that I will really enjoy Michigan football for a long time. If any of you want to predict more, than go ahead. (Oh and I will also predict that we will destroy Indiana and we will all see another dissapointing outing from the O. 24-3)
October 11th, 2017 at 11:52 AM ^
No more Hoke comparisons. Putting them in the same sentence undeservedly diminishes Harbaugh.
October 11th, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
We're at 167.8 YPG and 27.2 PPG. The schedule is getting tougher, so unless we destroy Rutgers again, those numbers are likely to go down. Who knew that losing 3 senior offensive linemen, and our 3 top receivers would hurt this much? Actually, I had a gut feeling there would be some regression on offense.