Is Pep Hamilton an issue

He maybe a good enough NFL OC, but not necessarily a good college OC. Compared to Fisch, his design is definitely much worse. That's why I was very worried when Fisch left since Harbaugh gave him so many high phrase for his design of passing plays in the press after many games. You can see the creativity he brough into the team. There is large correlation on Speight's regression withouth Fisch too, since they two are very close toegther.

We don't know who make the offensive call, but it's clearly worse. didn't help the player to succeed.

 

I don't want to give Jay a pass. we need elite coach in every position to compete with OSU, especially when our recruits talent is not on par with them yet. we need every single ounce of advantage on coaching.

His offense does nothing to help his QB out.

O"Korn had to make more and harder reads tonight than McSorley did. 

McSorley was given simple A or B options all night long, with A being some type of run and B being a fairly simple pass.  At no time did I recall seeing him make a progression of passing reads while in a pockt under pressure.

 

  

The field level replays of o’korn getting sacked seem to show the same routes every time. One guy middle,left and right covered running an in route

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RBs seem to be improving. I don't think Jay is the issue. But no matter how you slice it, Harbuagh has not apporached offensive coach hiring the same way he has for defense.

Harbaugh is the issue. I’m a Harbaugh fan, want to see him here a long time and think he’ll eventually fix this. He fucked up. Too many cooks in the kitchen. No identity. No cohesion. I don’t think it’s a Drevno issue as much as people want to say. What Pep and Frey want to do does not mesh with Drevno’s better offenses in the past. Up until this last recruiting cycle, Michigan has gone for bigger, stronger lineman. Frey has had success taking TE’s and converting them to undersized lineman. Pep wants to run a pass first, down the field offense. Michigan doesn’t have the players for that. It’s going to take another 2 year’s at least to convert this offense to that style successfully. I’m not a fan of a big time program like Michigan who’s in a cold weather climate trying to build a finesse offense that isn’t consistent running between the tackles. I think Harbaugh needs to scrap this plan and go back to a between the tackles, run first, playaction offense. If Harbaugh wants to keep Pep and Frey, he’s got to get rid of Drevno because he doesn’t fit. Then fans will have to accept that we are not going to see anything resembling a potent offense until 2019.

You came so close, even had all of the right words...

Pep Hamilton is an issue 

 

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Joe Moorehead turned the PSU offense right around from the Christian Sackenberg offense using a guy now that just arm punts.

Tom Herman turned the OSU offense right around with guys that are not great passers. Herman left and the OSU offense struggled. 

We have tall receivers, but don't utilize their height advantage. We have running backs that can catch out of the backfield, but we don't use them.

Drevno  or Drevno and Hamilton need to go. Surely there are young creative OC's at smaller schools that have a great resume and would love to be here.

 

 

 

 

Here's the problem. We have one guy--Hamilton--who wants to go 4-wide. We have another coach--Drevno--who wants to run power I-back sets. We have a third--Frey--who wants to run zone. We have a young team that's clearly having trouble being reponsible for knowing three conceptually different offenses for each game. Harbaugh needs to figure out what kind of offense he wants, find an o.c. who runs that offense and allow the o.c. to play call. 

Is bad, it doesn't help this years QB situation out and it probably won't next season. Changes need to be made offensively. The scheme, particularly passing scheme is terrrible.

Thats like asking if the sun is hot. One could throw in Drevno and then say we have issues.

part of the problem. 

The passing concepts are not helping O'Korn. They are taking a mediocre o-line and a QB that has a good arm, but is not very good at the rest of the position, and making it very easy for opposing Ds to exploit the weaknesses. 

Problem goes beyond Pep to JH and Drevno. 

Drevno has the wrong story.  He keeps trying to get water from the dry pump, but we are past the midway point of the season and it is not working. 

Here is a story that would work a lot better, given the youth and personnel issues on offense:  When you have lemons make lemonaid.  Devise game plans and make situational play calls that make it easier rather than harder for your o-line and QB to get it done.  Stop the game plans/play calling that assumes you have a QB and o-line that can do things that they are not yet capable of doing. 

JH:  He needs to look at Penn State 24 months ago (2015 season).  Team was a disaster, especially on offense.  Franklin went out and hired Joe Moorehead from Fordham (!!!).  Controversial at the time, but turned out to be a very smart hire. 

Moorehead's game plan last night was brilliant.  He was a lot smarter last night than JH/Drevno/Pep.  Created receiver mismatches all night with alignment and pre-snap movement.  That is smart football.  That is taking your personnel and maximizing its potential, creating the best probability for the personnel to have success. 

JH/Drevno/Pep?  Nope.  They just keep rolling out the same basic concept on offense each week without much adjustment or intelligent adaptation to Michigan and/or the oponent's personnel.  Just hoping that the water will finally come out of the pump.

JH needs to be his own and his program's sharpest critic and make some coaching staff changes in January/February.  Play action on 4th and 11 captures what has been wrong on offense all year long.

Fire Pep and Drevno. Send Jay Harbaugh to Baltimore again. Start there.

Anyone within 2 degrees of separation from that decision should be fired for malpractice.

I'm no expert but the schemes don't fit the down and distance. If we need 6 yards, why is every receiver running to Pittsburgh? Your O line is a sieve, why run the longest routes possible to develop? If pep is just assuming guys are going to do their jobs the way guys do in the NFL, then yeah. I guess it could work. But this is college, and not everyone is a freak of nature, and the freaks of nature that you do have are fresh out of high school. Seems like he's expecting NFL'rs to do NFL things rather than play to his player's strengths. (I don't know what those are yet either)