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Not sure if you read Mgoblog, but earlier this season, he did an analysis of all of the QBs that Al Borges has recruited the last 10 years or something. His track record was terrible.
Throw on top of that their switching of Gardner around from QB to WR back to QB, and you have what they have. You can go all the way back to DR....lots of athletes playing QB and no coaches to teach them how to be QBs that are athletic.
I think that speaks to development more than anything. As a raw product, I don't think Gardner was much different than any of the Ohio guys. Shoelace had the nerve thing, but his play regressed after these guys came on board too.
This staff definitely didn't know how to use Denard. I know why RichRod was fired - the D was terrible. But he certainly would have been awesome to have with Denard's last two years.
He wasn't good because they allowed him to play with injury and they kept shifting him around position wise. That happened because the staff stunk at development.
Yeah but things can change overnight. UCLA didn't have a good QB in 20 years before Brett Hundley showed up. The team started winning under a better coach and now some of the top QB recruits are coming to the Bruins. Michigan is still a destination team. You've had some down years but it will all change with the right coach.This is all very depressing.
I fear they may miss the target and be hosed, though
He's pretty much a consensus 1st round draft pick. With no guarantee on who will be coaching next year and with Shane Morris probably slinging it, why risk poor performance and/or injury?
I get it....I haven't looked at the projections, but if he's at the bottom of the first, he could easily get up into the top with the way the TE is changing in the NFL. I just think he's going to be more like Ebron than anything else. It's going to take him a while to improve to NFL levels IMO. He's not there right now.
If I am to believe what I'm told they have begun the "reach out" process this week to gauge interest if plan A doesn't work out....want to have it wrapped up by the end of Dec. So we are now entering all the "Michigan had to settle for option 9" phase you mentioned a couple pages ago.
I honestly just don't believe this is true. Unless Jim and John have told them there is no way they are coming then I doubt anyone would get any offer.
A guy who is 47-40 at Duke. They tried to go the obscure route the last time. They need a big name to restore the program quickly, IMHO. So far the source is just one guy tweeting.
Cutcliffe isn't an obscure coach...he's a well known commodity. However, he is coaching to coach because that's what he loves first and foremost. He has no interest in the rat race of a big program. He's doing amazing things with a program that was striving for 3 wins a season prior to his arrival. I trust the guys here locally that it was a reach out to see if he was interested. It wasn't an offer.
I cannot see a scenario where he is the current #1 choice. I doubt he was given an offer either. Wouldn't make much sense at this point to do that.
Hoke was everything you would want in a coach except a winner. Hoke belongs at an Ivy League type of school or even a high school where if you are a 500 team and your kids graduate everything is perfect. The demands of coaching a high level program that draws 110.000 people a game and has the largest living alumni base in the country was way too much for Hoke.
Not my first choice by any means. Dantonio was not a sexy hire when MSU brought him in being only 18-17 at Cinci, but he had that "toughness" rep. The only thing is that Shiano will bring a toughness mindset that Hoke just could not do.
you guys are killin me
7 years ago I would have loved it. Les is 63 now and we may get maybe one full class out of him?
