Bacon's Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. You Won't Like Plan B.
John U. Bacon on the Huge Show this afternoon, offering his updated assessment:
- Plan A is (in no order) Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh or Les Miles.
- Plan B is Greg Schiano. Dan Mullen was part of Plan B, but he's fading.
- Plan C is another Brady Hoke.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:09 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
I am not at all unenamored of him.
November 24th, 2014 at 7:22 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 7:45 PM ^
It's 2:30, do you know where your children are?
November 24th, 2014 at 8:27 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:52 PM ^
deleted
November 25th, 2014 at 9:04 AM ^
I just don't like him.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
People almost beg him to guess at what will happen.
He eventually obliges, saying something like "I do not have any inside information, but if I had to guess..."
Then people get knock him for pushing agendas or guessing.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:36 PM ^
He could just choose to stop going on the radio about it, or giving interviews about it, or generally talking about it.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
"Hey, person who makes a living as a writer and opinion giver, please stop writing and giving your opinion."
November 24th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
I forgot he's only allowed to write and talk about who Michigan will hire as their next coach. He's milking this.
November 24th, 2014 at 7:24 PM ^
I'd wager that he would love to talk about anything else, but the Michigan coaching search is all anyone else wants to talk about. What is he supposed to do? Ignore their questions and just answer with other random topics?
November 24th, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^
talk about the play on the field?
November 24th, 2014 at 7:50 PM ^
you had me going there for a little bit, you really did
November 25th, 2014 at 10:15 AM ^
Everybody loves kittens
Especially kittens with silly hats!
except Urban Myer, I heard he kicked a kitten once. Just Sayin'
November 24th, 2014 at 8:08 PM ^
"Hey ESPN, I know you're calling me and want me to appear on your national news channel to discuss the Michigan coaching situation, but I'm concerned that the visitors of Michigan related message boards might get too sick of seeing my face and hearing my opinion, so I'm going to have to respectfully decline your offer of free publicity and likely increase in money into my pocket. Unless, of course, you want to discuss anything other than that thing that gets you ratings."
Don't blame the effect, blame the cause. Bacon getting asked to be on radio and tv shows all over the place is the effect of Michigan sucking hard and having to look for a 4th coach in under a decade. I have little doubt that 99% of the population would be doing exactly what he is doing right now.
November 24th, 2014 at 8:40 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 9:01 PM ^
Just annoyed that we have to have continuous "Bacon" updates. As to your question, it depends. If I were going to make significantly more money that I needed, I would probably do what he's doing. Otherwise, it would be a tougher decision. That isn't how I wold like it to go, but money is pretty much everything in this world.
November 25th, 2014 at 1:20 AM ^
November 25th, 2014 at 10:13 AM ^
Then don't click on the thread, man.
November 25th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^
You're not the boss of me.
November 25th, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
You need to more carefully review the MGoBlog bylaws.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:48 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:49 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:35 PM ^
So it may seem like JUB is coming off as
A bit overtop about the subject, but I really don't think he is when you look at it closer.
November 24th, 2014 at 6:44 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^
What he's guessing would reflect a very passive approach. Once you get past his plan A choices he goes straight to those that would be 100% sure of taking the job. I'm inclined to think the names below Jim H will actually be much different.
November 24th, 2014 at 9:49 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
I really don't think Rich Rod was a plan B type guy for Martin. I've heard Bill speak pretty candidly about the process he went through for the 2010 hire, and Rich Rod was definitely either choice 1 or 2.
November 24th, 2014 at 11:38 PM ^
November 25th, 2014 at 12:48 AM ^
yeah, hiring a guy who went 60-26 at a P5 school and was coming off a season where his team had risen to #1 in the country in the final week of the season was a real panic move.
The retconning of the 2007 coaching search into some kind of disaster wherein we hired some super unqualified candidate is disturbing to me. That was the best hire possible, one that nobody had even imagined possible. Rich Rodrgiuez had been Alabama's first choice before even Saban the previous season. It's pure hindsight to act like that hiring was a harbinger of doom
November 25th, 2014 at 11:53 AM ^
November 25th, 2014 at 1:46 PM ^
where were you with these opinions in 2007? Where were to warn everyone that NOBODY WITH A SOUTHERN ACCENT CAN SUCCEED AT MICHIGAN when this blog was awash in orgasmic excitement at that hire? Fuck off with the bullshit... you were probably just like everyone else, celebrating right up until the Toledo loss at which point you invented some nonsensical "cultural fit" crap as justification for your butthurt.
November 25th, 2014 at 2:54 PM ^
November 25th, 2014 at 5:56 PM ^
Cali, RR wasnt epic fail. Michigan didnt support him from day 1. Your acting like all those michigan that though any coach that michigan hired should win right away but RR didnt because he was undermine by everyone.
Brady Hoke is epic fail. He one of Carr Assistant that Carr want someone from for his staff to be head coach in which he got one to become Head Coach. Look at how epic that was. fail, fail and fucking fail.
November 25th, 2014 at 9:48 PM ^
November 29th, 2014 at 1:25 AM ^
I've been waiting for the secret decoder ring to his posts as well.
November 25th, 2014 at 3:12 AM ^
Rodriguez was considered a great hire at the time. People were ecstatic when it was announced. A few years later, not so much.
November 25th, 2014 at 8:57 AM ^
Would agree more, but you can't have more than 100%, so...
November 24th, 2014 at 6:47 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 6:52 PM ^
On a side note, I don't think it's thread worthy either. But oh well.
November 24th, 2014 at 7:13 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 7:18 PM ^
you are so connected to know its not true s/
November 24th, 2014 at 7:38 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 7:42 PM ^
you're not more connected to the athletic department than Bacon. I guess that answers my question.
I appreciate that you are spectacularly invested in defending the status quo--Hoke, Brandon, Lloyd etc--but you should have some basis for it beyond your fact-free contrarian opinion.
November 24th, 2014 at 7:46 PM ^
November 24th, 2014 at 8:05 PM ^
The point of the book was that there were many other factors, some outside of RR's control, contributing to that disaster besides RR being a terrible coach. Which he clearly isn't. If Arizona played us tomorrow I think we'd lose by about 50.
November 24th, 2014 at 8:46 PM ^