Can anyone on here calling for Hoke's head really explain why firing him is worthwhile beyond "Grr, this is Michigan, we should be Top Ten?" I think replacing Borges, even if we strike out entirely and wind up with a replacement level coordinator such as Jim Bollman or Greg Davis, is productive for the following reasons:
Can anyone on here calling for Hoke's head really explain why firing him is worthwhile beyond "Grr, this is Michigan, we should be Top Ten?" I think replacing Borges, even if we strike out entirely and wind up with a replacement level coordinator such as Jim Bollman or Greg Davis, is productive for the following reasons:
-Borges has been outperformed by both of those guys this year.
-Borges has yet to include a fully integrated series of plays that the defense can't tee off on. This week's telling example is the inside zone-bubble screen combo. Iowa figured it out, but I wonder if Borges couldn't have caught them cheating by calling a pump fake bubble where Gallon starts streaking downfield. He seems to be playing rock paper scissors and refusing to throw scissors. He doesn't even mix up rock and paper that well.
-He kills drives by calling speed options with fullbacks, bak-to-back reverses, and a brutally predictable 1,2,3 of slam, PA waggle, then speed option/bootleg in goal line situations. Count the number of drives where you can say "Al killed that," a game and it's about four every game.
-Total lack of willingness to play to strengths and weaknesses. Perhaps you noticed on the final drive when Iowa blew up two running plays where our guards pulled. Our first year guards cannot pull, have not once demonstrated that relatively advanced ability, we should not ask them to with the game on the line.
-He's gotten our quarterbacks killed. This plays off the last one. Gardner's hurt and Denard couldn't feel his elbow last season. Calling them soft after the amount of shots they've taken being asked to play against their skills and the skills of the offense is ridiculous.
-The quarterbacks have regressed under his tutelage. In three years now, they've looked more confident, heady, and mechanically sound at the start of the year than they did at the end. He is the QB coach.
So because Al Borges categorically misidentifies his personnel's abilities, fails to develop their talents, and drive-butchering playcalling, he should be fired.
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Can anyone on here calling for Hoke's head really explain why firing him is worthwhile beyond "Grr, this is Michigan, we should be Top Ten?" I think replacing Borges, even if we strike out entirely and wind up with a replacement level coordinator such as Jim Bollman or Greg Davis, is productive for the following reasons:
Can anyone on here calling for Hoke's head really explain why firing him is worthwhile beyond "Grr, this is Michigan, we should be Top Ten?" I think replacing Borges, even if we strike out entirely and wind up with a replacement level coordinator such as Jim Bollman or Greg Davis, is productive for the following reasons:
-Borges has been outperformed by both of those guys this year.
-Borges has yet to include a fully integrated series of plays that the defense can't tee off on. This week's telling example is the inside zone-bubble screen combo. Iowa figured it out, but I wonder if Borges couldn't have caught them cheating by calling a pump fake bubble where Gallon starts streaking downfield. He seems to be playing rock paper scissors and refusing to throw scissors. He doesn't even mix up rock and paper that well.
-He kills drives by calling speed options with fullbacks, bak-to-back reverses, and a brutally predictable 1,2,3 of slam, PA waggle, then speed option/bootleg in goal line situations. Count the number of drives where you can say "Al killed that," a game and it's about four every game.
-Total lack of willingness to play to strengths and weaknesses. Perhaps you noticed on the final drive when Iowa blew up two running plays where our guards pulled. Our first year guards cannot pull, have not once demonstrated that relatively advanced ability, we should not ask them to with the game on the line.
-He's gotten our quarterbacks killed. This plays off the last one. Gardner's hurt and Denard couldn't feel his elbow last season. Calling them soft after the amount of shots they've taken being asked to play against their skills and the skills of the offense is ridiculous.
-The quarterbacks have regressed under his tutelage. In three years now, they've looked more confident, heady, and mechanically sound at the start of the year than they did at the end. He is the QB coach.
So because Al Borges categorically misidentifies his personnel's abilities, fails to develop their talents, and drive-butchering playcalling, he should be fired.