John Beilein Appreciation Thread

Submitted by Harballer on

Days like today make me grateful that we have one sport to look forward to consistenly.  Really makes me appreciate what Beilein has been able to do here.

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Marshall44

September 20th, 2014 at 7:04 PM ^

He is the antithesis of our football program right now.  He takes "lesser" players and makes them perform at the highest lever.  In football, we take the "highest level" players and make them lesser.  I'm up for Beilein coaching football.  Or maybe his brother.  Or his son.  Or his wife.  Or his dog...You know, whatever. 

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cp4three2

September 20th, 2014 at 7:56 PM ^

You shouldn't fire coaches with good track records because of a mediocre third season. He also shows how powerful Michigan can be when we don't have a team built on a rigid ethos that declares that there's only one way to do thing.

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The Denarding

September 20th, 2014 at 9:07 PM ^

He has a system but it is adaptable.   He puts his players in a position to win.  He is nearly impossible to prepare for in any limited period of time.  He has amassed a tremendous amount of knowledge but has continued to be innovative.  He teaches the fundamentals but has a process where there is perpetual improvement if you STICK TO THE PLAN.   He hires those who want to learn from him, are willing to advance his learning in return and that form a cohesive unit that is built on trust but is flexible and adaptable in learning and execution.  Most importantly, he has built and innovative system that grows to the game, is designed for success, built on fundamentals but adaptable as the game changes becuase HE is willing to change.  The last one is key because cultures don't have to be destroyed but they need to adapt.   

I hope he stays here, retires here, LaVall Jordan becomes the next coach, JB becomes the new AD and the football program is consequently returned to glory.   Until this occurs we will be stuck in an unforgiving wasteland that his actually existed long before Brady Hoke or even Rich Rodriguez was here.   The day Jim Tressel marched into Michigan and beat the Wolverines, was the day everything changed for this program.   There has been a sense of entitlement that this fan base has had for a long, long time when 9 and 10 wins consistently even with occasional blips was just not good enough.  We have lost inexplicably with superior talent before.  That is nothing new.  But the cultural identity of the team win or lose was never different.  It is why it got stale.   We tried to change it and there was a very vocal constituency that went bananas at the thought of destroying something venerable.   The hiring of Hoke and more importantly his necessity to stick to the past insistently is the death knell for this because even if he rights the ship (which is possible) there is no possibility of achieving greatness.   We will never try different things because we, the people on this blog, do not control the brand.  We have no say in its growth or its need to adapt to the times.  We will be forced to watch this paleolitic offense get trotted out repeatedly and just pain in watching a team with less talent play to its strengths in a coordinated systematic fashion that it commits to.  Even its position switchers are consistent.   

I think Devin Garnder represents the fan base in a way.  We are all fifth year seniors stuck in a malaise of ennui hoping something magical, radical and different will happen.  Even if this team wins every game remaining, with the mentality we have, we will never be great.   It will never happen because greatness requires either a consistent philosophy that adapts and grows to change with changing times or one that attempts to force feed its belief on to everyone and everything around it hoping that the system won't notice.   We are not feared anymore but more to the fact we are pitied.  We have other teams come to our stadium and throw up gang signs.  This is an ignominious middle because sadly it isn't the end.

Either a new AD shows up that is willing to try to be adaptable yet consistent and brings in someone who fits that mold or we get Jim Harbaugh.  Short of that, doesn't matter who the coach is because the expectation is to win the Michigan way but that is just culturally soft now.  Because Bo is dead, Lloyd is gone and their memories are what is left coaching us.

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