January 19th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
How about just when Meyer retires? I don't care who they have lined up after that guy. Unless Saban decides to come out of retirement just for shits and gigs, whoever they hire after Meyer is an automatic downgrade.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
we get good QB play?
that has been the difference in out last 2 games against them - period
January 19th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^
That would be good. But don't be fooled. Haskins looks like a better player than Barrett so it better be outstanding QB play.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
It also assumes that Meyer would have called the same ultra-conservative game plans both years even if Michigan had a great QB and were racking up 40 points per game. Just because they scored 31 last year does not mean they couldn't have taken some moderate additional risks and scored 42.
For some reason, fans always talk about hypotheticals in which every other team stays the same while their team improves.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:33 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 5:53 PM ^
Thanks for the voice of reason
January 19th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
That is a pretty bold statement considering all that Barrett accomplished in college, and it remains to be seen how good Haskins is. The kid is obviously talented, but that is a really small sample size. Even O'Korn looked awesome when he stepped in for the injured starter at Purdue.
Haskins threw a jump ball down the sideline that the receiver made a great play on, hit two simple crossing routes the led to huge YAC, and had one big run where the whole defense had their back to him. Again, he is talented and could end up being great, but don't put him in Heisman conversation based on a couple of plays in a relief appearance.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
Sounds like Haskins did more in one quarter than our QB's did all season. Trying to minimize his performance doesn't do anyone any good. He picked on Watson and Metellus who were weak spots all year. Coming in cold and making all those plays made me sick.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 3:38 PM ^
What about the Michigan football or basketball programs make you feel well?
January 19th, 2018 at 4:06 PM ^
Wasn't downplaying as much as I was putting it into perspective. To my point, in the Purdue game O'Korn came in cold and proceeded to complete 70% of his passes for 270 yards. Haskins completed 6/7 for 94 yards. While he looked impressive in his little playing time, those few plays make it seem like much more.
January 19th, 2018 at 5:54 PM ^
Exactly.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^
Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't we have a failed two point conversion a few years ago decide the game on the last play, didn't we go into overtime in their shit bowl stadium with the crowd against us the refs against us, and didn't we kick their asses most of this years game except we couldn't pass the ball with a third string QB. This isn't over till we say its over. was it over when the germans bomb Pearl Harbor? well its not over now. Fuck the Cooler Poopers, whos with me
January 19th, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't we lose all those games?
January 19th, 2018 at 3:50 PM ^
that the buckeyes fans want Jim H. to coach forever.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^
We offered a kicker out of Northville yesterday.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
Pun intended?
January 19th, 2018 at 2:32 PM ^
I'm shocked. S-H-O-C-K-E-D. /s
I don't blame him one little bit for his decision.
Let's see.....go play for a team that competes for national championships every year, has won at least 12 games every year save one that Meyer has been there, or go play for a team that has been searching for its identity and some respectability for over a decade? A team that can't stop getting in its own way and can't seem to ever figure out how to finish. If I'm a neutral recruit with no prior loyalties, I know where I'm going and I wouldn't think twice about it either.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 2:42 PM ^
It's more to it than that, and I think Harbaugh's recent hires shows he knows that his staff last year lacked the necessary recruiting chops. Never seen UM miss out on so many players since I've been following this. In fact if Michigan doesn't sign Otis Reese it will be the first time in 18 years that UM has failed to sign a composite top 100 recruit.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
Holy shit. I knew it was bad but damn, that is pathetic.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
To make matters worse Penn State and Ohio State are going to sign top 5 classes while Michigan will be lucky to stay in the top 15. That's fine if you play in the Big 10 West, but not so fine if you don't.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
Neither are in the composite top 100.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
That's the 247, not the composite. But when the others update theirs, Mcgrone and Hutch both could be in the composite 100. This guy is just freaking out.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^
247's composite is linked below and I don't see them.
https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings?Ins…
January 19th, 2018 at 3:27 PM ^
That would put him at 17th in Ohio State's class. That's not competitive.
January 19th, 2018 at 4:05 PM ^
January 20th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
And yet despite virtually no changes in the staff save for Wheatley and Fisch from 2016-2017, they somehow forgot how to recruit from consecutive top-10 classes?
I don't buy it. Changes needed to be made, but I don't think pulling in an OC from Arkansas and a defensive line guy and a TE coach from local-ish schools was some massive play for recruiting.
January 19th, 2018 at 5:10 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
as opposed to inside
January 19th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
...for not landing their higher-rated targets and leaving us Friday.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 2:43 PM ^
The coaches kind of took 2017 off. Letting OSU steal this recruitment is one of the results.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
same thing that Ruckert kid did. They both put Michigan and Alabama in their top 3 list when all along each kid was a silent commit to OSU ... all stagged by the OSU coaches to make it look like OSU won a big recrutiing battle against Alabama and Michigan. Just another Meyer recruiting tactic. Friday was never coming to Ann Arbor. Yawn ...
January 19th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
I think you are under rating the guys we've brought in the past couple years.
January 19th, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
January 19th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
What a HUGE FAIL by the staff. Been a lock for this guy forever. Losing has consequences!!
January 19th, 2018 at 3:19 PM ^
How is this a huge fail byt the staff?
Not sure if you knew this but the recruits do have a say in where they want to go to school..
Michigan has argueably the top D line coach in Mattison and the same for CP as a recruiter.....you'd think that should be enough to sway the kid.....evidently not. Maybe Friday really wanted to go to OSU.
January 19th, 2018 at 9:31 PM ^
January 20th, 2018 at 10:15 AM ^
How is it not.
January 19th, 2018 at 2:56 PM ^
Do the Glasgow's have any cousins that play football?
January 19th, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
In the end I don't know if he wanted to play 3T. If Rashan Gary couldn't convince him to come to Michigan, then maybe it was more about how he stacked up on our depth chart than anything. We have some pretty solid tackle types on the roster currently. This definitely hurts as Friday could have helped us depthwise right away, and worked his way into a major piece on the defense, but it might be a positive sign for what we have currently.