UM Football Recruiting - by WM Wolverine

[hack]

That is one (1) very good post. I agree.

[lineygoblue]

Hack understands me .. :-)
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.. come to think of it, that's a scary thought ...

[Da Geezer]

Well, Liney, I've watched the fourth quarter of that MSU game and I think JH could have done one thing better. That is he could have been more judicious with his timeouts. Certainly, he saw there was no one back on the punt receiving team, and it would have been nice to call a timeout. He was letting the clock run down to the very last second and then calling timeout. We should have gotten the punt off, but a timeout at the end would have been nice. Even taking the penalty would have been OK in order to get more blockers.

It is kind of nice to be bitching about small stuff. Two years ago at PSU was the worst coaching I've ever seen at the U of M.

[lineygoblue]

But a timeout there also helps MSU. Since they were going all-out to block the punt, they'd use the time out to get their best 'blockers' into the game.

You're right about it being small stuff. I don't think Harbaugh had any reason to believe that the punt snap would be the problem on that play.

[iam416]

Well, Liney, I've watched the fourth quarter of that MSU game and I think JH could have done one thing better.

Yeah, they were a trainwreck in the 4th. It was almost like they were coached by someone who has never coached before.

And against OSU I've never see a less prepared team for "The Game" in my life. It was embarrassing.

[Rocky Bleier]

Well, when M faced MSU, they were 5-1, had just completed 3 straight shut outs including #22 BYU and #13 NW, and looked like they had a defense that could pretty much shut down anyone.

The MSU game went down pretty much as expected save the failure to get ONE more first down just ONE on M's last drive to keep the ball out of MSU's hands. I think a lot of people would have done things differently on the last series of down's M had the ball and on the punt that got blocked handing Dantonio a win he rightfully deserved for hanging around until the end and finding a way to win. Great coaches do that. Good ones usually can't make those kinds of things happen on a regular basis.

I shouldn't even have to answer your question, "based on what" v. osu. You just don't get blown out like Harbaugh got blown out in your first game against osu. A hard fought, close win? Fine. What actually happened, not fine.

I figured you meant before the season started. At that time I felt there was no way I they would win either game even with Harbaugh. I thought there was a chance on the day they played MSU, but, as you know, I believed they would get ripped against OSU. HARBAUGH! did not take a hit for me. He had MSU beaten and had no chance v.s. a superior OSU squad.

[Rocky Bleier]

And against OSU I've never see a less prepared team for "The Game" in my life. It was embarrassing.

Yeah, right. Those RichRod teams were so much better. Score was 14-10 at the half.

[iam416]

In RichGOD's only home game against Ohio State, he was losing 14-3 at half and managed to make sufficient half-time adjustments to only lose 21-10. Just saying.

BTW, this is the "troll the other team" thread, right? Could have sworn that's what was going on here in some of the posts here completely unrelated to recruiting.

F Who Dey.

[Jeff Buchanan]

My fault for recognizing Harbaugh will probably not be the coming of Jesus.

Still about the jimmy's and joe's and we're a ways from seeing how well he can overcome the last decade of dispair, build some pipelines and get the program where it needs to be to compete with CFB elite programs ....... A long way to go, IMO.

[iam416]

Well, to be bring it back to topic, he's recruiting well -- Walker should finally announce for you guys this week. He'll almost certainly continue to recruit well (though Partridge won't quite have the same connections the further removed from HS he gets...heh). So, he'll get his players in.

It still seems like 2017 is going to be a harsh year, but that's probably the final bump in the road. Next season should be good if they can find a QB. However, their schedule is considerably more difficult, IMO. They could easily fail to improve...and if they can't find a QB they'll be worse.

[Hannibal]

Next year's schedule is easier.

[Prime2]

Meyer managed to beat out Temple, Massachusetts, Albany, Rhode Island, Stony Brook, Towson and Wagner for three-star athlete Jahsen Wint of Brooklyn (N.Y.) over the weekend.

Harbaugh & Meyer have a hell of a lot nerve taking these 3-star guys.

[Da Geezer]

Liney said:

I don't think Harbaugh had any reason to believe that the punt snap would be the problem on that play.

I agree. But when he saw nobody back, and 11 guys rushing, does it make sense to have gunners? I think JH was surprised by Dantonio going for the block rather than a runback and laterals. I'm just saying it would have been nice to have an extra timeout rather than the 4-8 seconds extra he got by calling timeout at "1"as the clock ran down.

Dang, Talent, take a pill or something.

[Paul L]

You just don't get blown out like Harbaugh got blown out in your first game against osu. A hard fought, close win? Fine. What actually happened, not fine.

Agree 100%; Harbaugh was knocked down several pegs in my eyes because of that absolute abortion. Inexcusable.

[jaadam4]

Not I.. What do you want Harbaugh to do? This team lacks talent at QB, RB and WR on offense. The defense has been good all year but we were really thin by the last game of the season with a lack of depth and the injuries mounting.

If Harbaugh has anywhere near the talent OSU had stacked I'd take M any day of the week. Harbaugh and crew masked this teams deficiencies all year. There's only so much they can do.