Columnist: U-M offense will be 'terrible'

Submitted by jaba on
Seems a Mr. RadioMan says "

Welcome to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mr. Rodriguez. Now, despite the fact that you are implementing a radically different offensive scheme, you will be expected to win at least eight games this fall. Good luck, coach!

Now back to reality."

 

He further goes on to state,

"Coach Rodriguez's offensive system depends on a mobile and heady quarterback to run the show. Michigan currently does not possess that player on its roster, sans incoming freshman Justin Feagin, who went under the recruiting radar for much of last year. Feagin's skills do fit the spread offense, but a true freshman running the spread will lead to miscues more often than not.

No offense to redshirt freshman Steven Threet, but he is not a spread offense quarterback. Threet will likely be the quarterback when the Wolverines take on Utah to start the 2008 season. Good luck with that."

 

He goes on to say "The long and short of this year's Michigan offense—it will be terrible."

 

He ends up saying Michigan will finish the season 5-7.

Here's the link:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/36780-michigan-football-rich-rodrigu…

 

What do you think?

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Blake

July 11th, 2008 at 9:33 PM ^

The Free Press has turned into such a hack publication. Their constant negativity about Michigan, Coach Rodriguez, etc. is tasteless and unprofessional. I can't believe you can call yourself a hard news source when you make a story out of some random website from a "columnist" named "RadioMan". They want to think that Blogs and alternative media don't exist so they can keep subscribers, yet they have to have someone just surfing the internet all day just looking for negative drivel to put on their site to try and increase the number of page views. Maybe I should write a story, post it somewhere, make up some random name for myself and e-mail the freep and see if they'll link to my opinion (of course, only if I write negatively about Michigan football). Brian, from this point forward, I suggest that if similar information is available elsewhere (like the Detroit News), link to those stories as opposed to the crap the Freep pushes off as actual news. Oh, and their comments section is especially annoying. Thank god for mgoblog where reasonable people can have actual discussion about Michigan football.

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Tim Waymen

July 12th, 2008 at 11:14 PM ^

Never take anything from the Bleacher Report seriously. I don't have the link, but I once found an article written by a 9 year old. For serious.  Funny enough, I accessed it via google news.  I wasn't very surprised though.  Just about every writer has the emotional maturity and intelligence of a child.

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poguemahone

July 13th, 2008 at 12:11 AM ^

In terms of journalistic integrity, it's a dead heat. Can someone please tell me how Michigan doesn't win 8 or 9 games this year? I see two losses that seem almost automatic - Wisconsin, and Ohio State (not bragging, just being as honest as I can). Other than that, who's going to beat M? Penn State might break the streak, yeah, but Notre Dame? Utah? Little Brother? Come on. Anyone predicting less than 8 wins is a negative Nancy.

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Farnn

July 13th, 2008 at 12:37 AM ^

I don't think predicting less than 8 wins is being a pesimist.  I grant you it looks doubtful that we will beat Wisconsin or OSU, but I don't think we are gauranteed to beat the other 10 teams.  Utah I do not see being a pushover like many think.  For one, it is better than most of the creampuffs we play and it is also the first game for the new offense which means we could have 4+ turnovers.  I also think we may have other games during the season where we perform below expectations and lose a game we could have won.

 

Predicting less than 6 wins would be pesimistic in my opinion.  6-8 wins seems realistic, though I do believe we have a chance at going 10-2, or even 11-1, if everything works out perfectly. 

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imafreak1

July 14th, 2008 at 11:11 AM ^

First, Mr. Pogue, as an OSU fan you are contractually obligated to support MSU (because of Dantonio) and snidely defend them in these arguments. When necessary just invoke the MSM intangible that they are ‘up and coming’ and refer to the recruiting as ‘much better.’ It is useful to leave ambiguous what MSU’s recruiting is ‘way better’ than (Michigan’s, Johnelle’s, Central Michigan?).  Look at the way MSU is dominating instate recruiting and that’s just the beginning of what Dantonio is building!  See, it’s not so hard.

 

I think discussions of Michigan’s record get bolluxed up with idea of how good of a football team Michigan will actually be. Michigan will be an average-ish football team. However, they only have to beat the teams on their schedule and the schedule is not so hard especially considering specific match-ups. The Big Ten is still full of teams with better than average defenses and conservative ball control offenses. The only real live good team is OSU and even they have their faults. There is reason to believe Michigan will have a serviceable defense but the offense will be inefficient. So any team that can score prolifically will present a serious problem even if their defense is bad because Michigan’s offense will stop itself. Fortunately, there are few teams like that on the schedule. As Michigan fans know all too well, you can dominate a team but if you don’t put up points the game remains close. Consequently, if the offensive line isn’t horrible (the basis for truly bad seasons—see ND), most of Michgan’s games will be winnable. 8 wins will make me very happy. 7 wins less happy but fine. Less than 7 wins and I will be disappointed. With lots of luck and significant offensive line improvement Michigan can win more.

 

Will Michigan be significantly worse than when Mallett started last year? Despite faxing the offensive play calls to the other sideline, that team smoked ND, beat PSU, and had a chance against a Wisconsin team that dominated them.

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mjv

July 13th, 2008 at 10:56 PM ^

Even when we were beating OSU regularly, many of us were still pessimists at heart. This jaundiced view of the world has developed by Lloyd and Mo (and Bo in the Rose Bowl) by losing to teams like Purdue '96,'00; Northwestern '95,'96,'00, Michigan State '91,'93,'95,'98,'00; Notre Dame (Other than 1993, whenever we have lost to them); and OSU '01,'04 (not to be rude, but we should have been able to win those games given the how both teams played all year leading up to the Game). I know that we have a new regime, but I clearly fall into the seeing is believing camp. On the flip side, unless we have a ND 2007 type season, I won't judge RR's ability by W-L in 2008. (Unless we look as poorly coached as ND looked last year, regardless of the number of wins.)

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Jim Harbaugh S…

July 14th, 2008 at 12:04 AM ^

Michigan State '91,'93,'95,'98,'00; We lost to them in 99 and 01 (both times at sparty stadium. They haven't won in the big house since '90. They won in '90, 93, 95, 99 and 01.

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mjv

July 14th, 2008 at 12:18 AM ^

Thanks JHS. My recollection should have been better as I was at the first three and probably would have attended the last two if I didn't have friends getting married both of those days. Michigan ALUMS getting married on the day of the MSU game... Crying shame... I will attempt better fact checking in the future. And I don't know which of the MSU losses irritates me the most. Getting robbed by a non-PI call in 1990, getting absolutely trashed by Sparty in 1993 (we looked like absolute s*** that day -- the only Michigan performance I witnessed to that point that might have been worse was FSU), us taking the first half off in 1995 only to comeback and then spit the bit at the end, or f***ing Spartan Bob working the clock in 2001.

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