Inside Michigan Football: Penn State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QhFh5D93Lo
For those interested. Cheers.
October 22nd, 2017 at 7:38 PM ^
He was seeing the field better last night then MSU or Indiana.
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October 22nd, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
Well, the highlights and coach interview aren't great in a loss, but the Ironman of the Week segment might provide some info about the featured player that you didn't know, and I find the segments about something historical about or something interesting going on at Michigan to be worthwhile.
October 22nd, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^
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October 22nd, 2017 at 4:43 PM ^
People underestimate the impact of inexperience and injuries.
Look at what has happened to the following top teams from last year because of it:
- FSU
- USC
- Michigan
Conversely, look at what has happend to these former "hot seat" teams as they got older and healthier this year:
- Notre Dame
- Penn State
- Arizona
There are more examples like this. Same coaching staffs, but very different results year to year based on being older and/or healthier versus younger and/or injured.
Those coaching staffs did not suddenly get smarter or dumber.
Yes, Alabama and OSU can blissfully play on for championships no matter what, but nobody else really can. Not even recruiting superstars FSU and USC (and us!)
In modern scholarship-limitation, everybody-is-on-TV college football, older/healthier players will beat younger/injured players most of the time.
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Icy Watt Ewe Did Their
October 22nd, 2017 at 4:53 PM ^
and I don't want to hear how proud we are to get shellacked by Ped State
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October 22nd, 2017 at 11:46 PM ^
Bama I get.
What still kind of amazes me is that the other half of that pair is Ohio State.
Not USC, not Texas, not LSU, not Florida or FSU or Miami.
Ohio State. Rust belt, cold weather, declining population Ohio State.
Pretty much the same profile we have.
I'm still amazed by that.
They do have a few advantages we don't have in recruiting: a stronger base, lax academics, a track record to sell. But nothing even close to what those other southern and western programs have.
When Meyer came in, I thought he would upgrade them somewhat, but nothing close to what he's done.
It sucks for us, being in their division, but it really is kind of amazing.
At least we know it can be done. I would have never thought so.
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at virtually every position last year and managed to lose 3 games....
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October 22nd, 2017 at 8:29 PM ^
And Speight was injured for some of Iowa and all of OSU.
October 22nd, 2017 at 9:26 PM ^
What did anyone expect. Lost 14 guys to the NFL, 1 starter returns on D. Even though the recruiting classes were ranked pretty high, I think a lot of recruiting mistakes were made pre-JH. Almost as if the recruiting was done by the 247 composite. We are still paying the price.
Remember the last 10 years and have patience. Expectations are high.
October 22nd, 2017 at 11:38 PM ^
1. McCray matched up against Barkley several times. He got beat every time, and Barkley actually dropped a few. How does this honestly happen? Gotta think after 1-2 times, you have ANYONE on the field as LB's or secondary on him and not McCray as he's your slowest defender by far. Baffling!!
2. How bad are the passing routes? 4 and 3 and not one guy runs a route less than 15 yards? Never utilize middle of field. Never any screens or short passes to help the line? Ever see any rub routes? Crazy how many sets we do with 0 or 1 WR. I watch some NFL, I don't see NFL teams running that sort of set. We talk this as a pro style offense, but this is way worse.
Honestly after rewatching a bit, can't believe how much we beat ourselves with bad coaching decisions. Tonight rewatching shows me it's a lot more than youth and instead a lot more in not putting your guys in the best position to succeed. Offensively their system and passing game for WR routes is just some of the worst I've ever seen. Yes, lots of youth and not a great QB or line (to put it mildly) but we do them Zero favors.
My two cents. I think more is coaching and system than anything else. I think Harbaugh and crew, especially offensively, need to really look in the mirror rest of this year/off-season with big changes for '18.
October 23rd, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^
Anybody else remeber running RR out of town after a horrible year one and then 2 years of improvement? Remember when we thought/felt we had the luxury to say "it's year 3, he didn't find a good DC at a cheap price. Get him out!" Remember watching an unpridictable offense play a modern scheme? Remember scoffing at it in years 2 and 3 as not good enough because he wasn't beating OSU?
Remember requesting the return of manball? Remember getting in Hoke? Remember firing him? Remember getting it again with JH? Remember thinking he will turn it around immediately? Remember JH having the same exact 3 year record as RR when he was at Stanford?
Now we want to fire JH and the offensive coaches and replace them with Power Spread saviors, whatever and wherever they are?
Guess what, we are screwed. We have to hope he can pull it together. We have to accept our current joke status amongst our rivals. We have to stay the course until it is absolutely clear to every other coach in waiting that Michigan gave the current guys all the time in the world.
Wake up folks. The revolving coaching door got us to where we are. I can agree that Drevno may need to go. That is about it and I'm not even sure about that. God, have we not learned anything? RR is now 5-2 in Arizona by the way. I wonder if they are clamouring to fire him.