Postby Eric » Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:46 pm
When Michigan screws up, Harbaugh fundamentally blames the players. Watching his reaction to his players' screw-ups, his body language tells me that he feels he needs to coach them harder to be perfect. Any smart college coach has the probability of failure factored into the way they call games. You can't be perfect and you need to exploit bad defensive breakdowns in order to get ahead in college at the highest level. If you can't do that, you're wasting your time. I've complained about it before, but you can't play for 3rd and 5 100% of the time. Ohio State doesn't think about first downs, they think about how they can pick up 30 yards on a given play. Harbaugh doesn't want to adjust. Then Don Brown continues to leave his DBs on islands, and Ohio State has more passing yards than Michigan's total yards allowed per game at the half.
If Kliff Kingsbury is on the market, you have no reason continuing to employ Pep Hamilton. Harbaugh needs to turn over control of the offense to somebody who knows how to get the ball to wide receivers, and if Harbaugh wants, they don't have to go up-tempo and forgo TEs and FBs; all Kliff would have to do is know WHEN to call the RIGHT play and use a screen or some misdirection that actually works.
WR is actually one of the strengths of this team, but they can't get separation in this offense due to the playcalling. They have physical ability but they lack that "wow" factor where they can go up and get the ball and make an amazing catch. They need to be coached better because they have potential. QBs are timid and not comfortable throwing deep passes. It's been that way since Jake Rudock was here. Rudock got better as the year progressed, but Speight, then Peters, and now Patterson can't hit a fly route down the sidelines to save their lives. I watch Haskins and Tua do it multiple times per game and we're just hopeless.
Honestly the only way out of this is if Dylan McCaffery turns out to be the second coming of Andrew Luck. Otherwise, this team will never click until we get a stud NFL prospect at QB for 3 years. Instead Harbaugh is misfiring in recruiting and banking on these transfers that got ran out of their schools for very obvious reasons.
Running bowl/MSU/OSU record '05-present: 11-32