Just another phenomenal year of going to the Kentucky’s Finest Horse Piss Bowl!
Basketball exhibition is in Glen Rice days!
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I expected to lose, but not to give up on Harbaugh. Which I’ve just done. Not much confidence in a good, smart coaching search, but let’s have a coach search anyways.
Talk before the season started was that the defense hadn’t lost any of its speed. In fact, some said this defense was Brown’s fastest yet. After watching today’s game I see what they’re saying. The defensive players moved backward really fast after making contact with Wisconsin’s blockers. At times it was a blur.
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Gattis’ early struggles should be pinned squarely on Harbaugh. The offseason coronation of Gattis as a great hire included these delicious details in a story in The Athletic – “There was no interview. No face-to-face meeting. No get-up-on-the-board-and-show-me-how-you-run-this session. Not even a tell-me-about-your-offensive-philosophy discussion.”
Harbaugh basically put the future of the program on a 20-minute phone conversation, which is a bit like getting engaged after the first drink on a first date.
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Pretty awesome when our best football player ever can say that on national TV. Good times.
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Perhaps it is the fastest yet. However, they’re weak as hell. They get pushed back way too easily.
I’m thinking the offseason hype was probable due to an overrated offense playing an overrated defense, making both seem better than they are.
With that being said, let’s give up on Harbaugh at the end of the season.
In the small chance that he’s able to beat ND, MSU, OSU, I think people will warm up. Chances are probably he loses 2 of those 3 or maybe all 3, and then we can call for his head. A non-division loss to Wisconsin is quite the odd time.
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Two questions for everybody: At what point if any did you begin to expect that Michigan football might be in trouble? And: At what point yesterday did you turn off the football game if indeed you did?
I certainly had my hopes aroused by the Gattis hire, but I was very put off by the Florida bowl loss last year. I can tolerate a lot of kinds of losing, but indifference and and ineptitude at the wages we pay Jimmy. . .
I turned it off as they neared the end of the first half yesterday and made my family a solemn promise that that was it for me for this year. I say that with no pride, but sitting around the house feeling tense through endless commercials, uninspired rhetoric from announcers on a crisp fall day. . . knowing my fifteen-year-old daughter may only be around for a few more years. . . feel like I’ve been dumb to give football so much time.
I don’t know why I feel a little different about basketball. Call it the Beilein effect.
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Well, at least we were well prepared…again.
Question 1: I would say Michigan football has been in trouble for the past 20 years, with 2006 being an exception, and by “in trouble”, I define that as falling short of expectation–right or wrong–that the football team will a run at a B1G championship and be in the discussion for the football playoffs every year. Yesterday, however, was an uninspired dumpster fire that no fan, no matter how die-hard, could be proud of.
Question 2: We left the bar after the first quarter; it was clear they had no idea what to do against a better coached team that was playing like the game mattered. To your point of reallocating time spent on a Saturday, I’m pretty much going to watch Maize and Blue again around, oh, Nov. 5, when the lights at Crisler Center switch on.
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2017 against IU for me. We were on vacation in Savannah and everyone else was out having a great time around the city. I was sitting by myself in a bar watching us play like clowns against IU. Again. Kind of realized Harbaugh had us on the track to nowhere at that point. He has not disappointed since.
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Ohio State 2018 smack down. Pretty self explanatory. The bowl game where the players looked disinterested was also concerning and seems to have carried forward to this year.
I just don’t know what happened to the guy who had such incredible success at Stanford and San Francisco (and his first couple of years at Michigan). He seems like a different person on the sidelines these last couple of years.
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I see a lot of this as a talent issue. Mich can.t control the line of scrimmage on either side of the ball. Wisconsin’s big uglies we’re way better than Mich’s big uglies and the team will have the same issue against any ranked team this year. We only have a couple of receivers who can separate Bell being one of them. But who gets separation if your line can’t block or your running back can’t pick up a blitz.
It’s mostly down to recruiting and mismanagement of the quarterback position.
Receiver is the only position group on this team that might be better than Ohio State, one for one. Zero depth at running back, and lack of skill/tackling at linebacker and safety. I understand the defense’s regression given the talent lost, but the truly elite programs reload annually. Michigan isn’t that.
Quarterback speaks for itself. We’re in year five and Harbaugh still hasn’t had a full-year starter who he recruited. Three transfers and a Hoke recruit. He was supposed to be this QB guru who resurrected Smith’s career and turned Kaep into a top level QB. Instead we’ve had a revolving door of mediocre play.
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Don’t have to convince me.
How does that happen? Especially after an OT scare to Army. Especially playing the #13 team in the country. Especially coming off a bye week with two weeks to prepare.
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