Michigan OC theory
Really starting to think that JH is just going to call all the plays with the input of the Pass Game Coordinator and Run game coordinator. Its just been to quite and it seems if a hire was going to be made it would have been made by now. I am guessing our OC is going to be Mr Jim himself. Not sure if anything or rumors have been posted or anything I may have missed.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:21 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:32 PM ^
I was just about to post that the Raiders (Pep's rumored suitor) just officially announced the hire of 13 assistants (http://www.raiders.com/news/article-1/Raiders-Hire-13-Assistants/439157…), no Pep, but it appears that they still don't have a QB coach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_National_Football_League_…), which is in Pep's wheelhouse.
That combined with umbig11's definitive-sounding post last week ("1 Down 1 to go" http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/bruce-feldman-pep-may-have-potential-new-ho…) makes me hopeful that more change is coming.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:35 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:39 PM ^
OC listed either.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
And this is the answer to all the "why should we care what they make" people. When you give decidedly not top of their profession people a contract with a salary at the very top of their profession, and then you decide you need to make a change, your dumb contract has fucked you.
Michigan can say "hey you should look around" but thanks to his contact and the ungodly amount they gave him for no damn reason, he can just say no and force them to buy him out.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
I mean, with the way the NFL and CFB recycle coaches I can't see that being much of a consideration. Getting fired is part of the job.
January 19th, 2018 at 6:58 AM ^
Actually, it's really not. But A for effort.
The argument you're referencing entails evaluating the job a coach has done. The argument you're now trying to invoke deals not with job performance, but with job turnover. The salary may matter in this instance, but it's not even close to what most people were thinking. You're seriously conflating two ideas here that shouldn't be.
January 18th, 2018 at 5:06 PM ^
Brandon Peters and Pep have a very strong relationship. You could argue that Pep is Brandon coach, he works with him more than 75% of the time based on what I have seen. I'm not saying one has anything to do with another, however. If Shea is ruled not eligible, Pep staying on is probably what we all want. Pep can and will if given the chance make BP better. I know some think that even a great BP is probably not beating out Shea and after the bowl game admittedly that is where my mind has begun to go.
January 18th, 2018 at 5:29 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 8:36 AM ^
So there's no doubt who's responsible for the gigantic regression-filled turd sandwich Peters served up in Tampa after weeks of preparation and 1st team reps. I think we're done here.
Side note - thanks for all the info btw.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
You should listen to Nick Baumgardeners podcast. This was already the situation...
January 18th, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^
You got a link? I'd love to give it a listen
January 18th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
It's a podcast. It's by Nick Baumgardner. Look it up.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:32 PM ^
Nick-what? Pod-who?
January 18th, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
Buy a map & Fuck off
January 18th, 2018 at 3:17 PM ^
...Kids today with their podcasts, and their pumpkin-spiced lattes, and their parachute pants, and their fancy complicated phones, and their rock-and-roll music, and their...
January 18th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
Tide Pods?
January 18th, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
Thanks for responding because the comment was so dumb it didnt deserve a response lol
January 18th, 2018 at 2:53 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
The grass is always greener
January 18th, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
Have you ever watched any amount of college and professional football in detail? Pep installed mostly NFL route trees with a lot of option-routes that relied on the QB and WR being on the same page and making coverage reads mid-play. This was disastrous with an incredibly young receiving corps, and, after Speight went out, a QB who could not accurately read defenses. We were not running NFL route trees under Jedd. This was not a compliment of Jedd or an attack on Pep, this is just what they (objectively) did differently.
This is a very high level summary of course, but if you couldn't see this on the field I don't think you'd care much about the details.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:17 PM ^
You are on the internet and you just declared you are are so much smarter. I do care about the details so please teach me more
So we ran a pro style offense the 1st 2 years with a a spread route tree or a high school route tree?
Test question: How were our hot routes determined in this complicated system?
January 18th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
What college folk call pro-style is no longer actually the style of play in the pros, FYI. We ran more classic west coast offense route combos two seasons ago. Pep brought a modern NFL route system in. If you ever watch the Pats, sometimes you’ll see Brady seemingly throw a ball into the abyss. That’s because he and his receiver were supposed to read the coverage post-snap in the first few steps of the route and the receiver did not see what Brady did. The fact that even the Pats can’t always run this perfectly tells you how appropriate it was to install at Michigan with a bunch of teenage receivers.
January 18th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
That's basically how the Ohio State game ended too, right? From what I remember reading, O'Korn read the coverage right presnap, threw it to a spot, and Crawford didn't read it right and wasn't there.
January 18th, 2018 at 6:42 PM ^
Yes, except that Crawford was the one who read it correctly lol Crawford broke off his seam route into a hitch because OSU was in zone and JOK threw the deep ball instead.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:53 PM ^
Peps routes were noticeably longer, even heard a couple commentators talk about it when it was 3rd and short this year, they were running 10-15 yard outs for some reason when we needed less than a handful of yards. NFL players are faster, a 10 yard out isn't a big deal, but with freshmen running option routes of 10 yards, it becomes confusing for them.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
Jedd's passing scheme included wide receivers. :)
January 18th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
Jed had some and unlike Pep's his were old enough to be potty-trained and everything.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
...and the QB looked downfield for longer that 1.5 seconds. It seemed that the "hot" route was the only route viewed by the QB this season.
Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but it is crazy that there were 92 receptions to the RB/TE positions and 93 to the WR position. One of the reasons that I believe Patterson (or even McCaffrey for that matter) will really help the offense, simply with the ability to extend plays with their feet and keep their eyes downfield.
January 18th, 2018 at 5:32 PM ^
Jedd and Pep--sounds like a spin-off show from the Beverly Hillbillies.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:35 PM ^
No chance at that
January 18th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
There is no chance at that.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:42 PM ^
The OC was in each of us the whole time.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:25 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
Thanks for your useless comment
January 18th, 2018 at 2:39 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
Watching on TV is directly contributing $ to the program so....
January 18th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:48 PM ^
Well don't act like you are all high an mighty for not actually going to football games. Many fans are in a position of being priced out of even being able to support their team that way. The student athletes need that support in the stadium, and football does more that just support itself. The athletic department as a whole needs that football income.
Whatever. Someone else will buy that same ticket. Buy those clothes. Because many people can look at the past three years and see that Harbaugh has done better with this program than anyone else in the past 10 years. They can see that a Harbaugh coached team has a hard floor of 8 wins (not 3 or 4 like our rivals).
You can be disappointed. Hell, I was from this past season too. But damn dude. You're trying to act like he left a visably concussed QB out on the field or something. Like Harbaugh doesn't have a track record of success, or improvement.