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i like the dusty may hire. that's been the best thing warde has done. moore is like hiring juwan: he was the only viable option at the time, everyone loved him for sentimental reasons, and he was cheap (for a top head coach). he started out great when he had the last coach's players and then collapsed because he'd never really run anything before. sounds a lot like sherrone moore, actually.

he's hired, so now they have to support him and give him the resources to do his job. my worry at michigan - well, one of many - is that he will divide the administration if he starts losing and eventually he will be undercut. internal politics will take away his resources so he will fail. his early returns arent great but its only been two games without harbaugh. give him some time to get his team in there and see if the nil is working. i just think this is classic peter principle in action. you appointed a guy with zero track record to take on one of the biggest jobs in college football because he won 4 games with the best team youve had since the 1970s (maybe even the 1940s). sherrone moore is a young offensive line coach with no head coaching experience, this is a MASSIVE gamble and people are treating like "he'll be fine, look at last year!"

based on what?

they couldnt get to the qb because he got rid of the ball so quickly to open short routes. take away the shoer routes and they would have gotten to stafford because he would have nowhere to throw quickly. again, that's the theory.

**** the bears.

he didnt have time to throw deep. so take away the short stuff. that's the theory, at least. i dont know what that would entail in practice.

sherrone moore was the easy thing to do. it took no effort. NOT hiring moore would have been a radical move that - if it failed - would have cost the AD his job. but hiring moore will have no consequences because that was "the only thing we could do and hey he was coming off a natty." hands washed. pension secured. i dont know if it would have been possible to convince someone like deboer or jedd fisch to wait until harbaugh left. i doubt it. but i hope conversations were had. i also doubt that. regardless, they are stuck with moore now and we'll see how he does. so far he's hired a DC from the nfl who is failing already, he's taken an oline stock full of 4*s who are redshirt juniors and seniors and instead played 3* sophomores at the key positions of right tackle and center. the right tackle was so bad against texas it was comical. the oline has been poor. yet no changes have been made. his "best player" is a wide receiver masquerading as a running back. his actual best player is a running back who he never plays, instead he insists on watching donovan edwards miss holes and run into the back of lineman or just bust everything outside. he has a few low 4* receivers but he doesnt play them. instead he plays walkons. in fact, he uses multiple bad receivers instead of playing mullings or multiple tight ends. why? i dont know. but its a disaster so far. at qb he has a walk on to start, and a three star running back pretending to be a qb as backup. who is apparently so bad at throwing the ball they refuse to let him do it (after telling us all spring how great he is at it). something tells me if harbaugh were still coaching this team it would 80% run formations and MAN BALL with some major action to multiple tight ends (the only group on offense where michigan is loaded). instead we get edwards. still running right into his blockers. now is a bad time to ask about michigan. they just got obliterated by a very talented team. outcoached significantly. this year looks very very bad right now. lets see if moore has the creativity and the talent and the leadership to pull them out of it, or if this is the beginning of michigan sliding back into post lloyd carr irrelevance. after moore was hired that's the trajectory i thought they were headed in. only this time there isnt an obvious harbaugh candidate to bail them out.

you get the good and the bad with harbaugh. he created a program - the ONLY PROGRAM - to win three big ten championships and one national title without consistent top recruiting classes. no one else has come close. that was all harbaugh. even before the last run he brought michigan back from the dead and made them relevant again. he returned them to their usual spot as a team that could be anyone other than ohio state or in a bowl game. he's one of the best coaches in football. he's a hall of fame coach. but. you also get the bad. he's a crazy person. he's not that bright. he's easily distracted by shiny objects and needs someone (like his brother) to focus him. to bonghit's point, he turned a molehill of an ncaa violation and turned it into a show cause mountain. only because he wouldnt play the game and act like he was sorry. yes, its a cheeseburger and ncaa rules are stupid and they wanted to get him really bad. but why? because he cant handle dealing with authority and for as annoying as the ncaa can be, that was part of his job. he also let the program drift. there were lots of disciplinary issues and the stallions fiasco. again, as stupid and meaningless as that rule is, and as ridiculously self serving and stupid as the reaction was in the media, its still a rule and someone on his staff broke it and embarassed the program. he wasnt paying attention. i dont put some nefarious plot on him as to recruiting. harbaugh was, by all accounts, always up front with recruits that if the nfl came to him he was going to leave. the roster this year was always going to be a challenge, but to refute G2's usual harbaugh bashing, he was trying to leave after the previous year when the team that came back was his best. he didnt leave this year because he knew he couldnt win at the same level, he left because the nfl offered him a job. but this team is 75% his fault. he left and michigan had no backup plan other than sherrone moore. i know it looked like some great hire when he won 4 games with the best team in college football, but sustaining a program is a lot different when you arent better than 98% of the teams on the planet. were seeing that this year.

u$c is going to slaughter them.

he'll leave as soon as his kids leave and then claim everyone was racist for criticizing him.

its worse than you imagine. there are a ton of issues with this team. this is going to be a rebuilding year. although given how theyve run the offense and defense so far, i have bad feelings about the future. if those are the best players they can put on the field they have a serious problem in recruiting. if you can get ohio state at anything less than -20 right now, you should take it.

st brown and laporta were blanketed by backups. not a good game. give their track records, i'm more likely to attribute it to rust than a problem. although not having a legit X receiver threat could be an issue to watch moving forward. hopefully one of their recent pickups helps. as for the defensive ends getting pressure, THEY BETTER! theyre playing guys who are going to be out of the league in 3 weeks. they performed as expected and were only thwarted by stafford. to the points on the secondary being young, yes they are. that's going to be an issue all year, imo. i like the players, but it takes time to grow corners. on the brightside, at least its not cam sutton and kindle vildor.

its only one game and they won. the margins are close in the nfl and the fact they won a toss up game bodes well for the season. game two could look totally different. its a week to week league. just win baby.

the rams have talent. if the lions were missing sewell, decker, glasgow, arnold, davis, and st brown, you'd be saying this wasnt the real lions team. and you'd be right. but that's what the rams were missing. look, a win is a win, there will be games the lions are beat up and they lose because of it, but lets not think this was some great victory. they got carved up by stafford. the corners either couldnt play press enough to cover the receivers or they were super scared to get beat deep. either way, they got carved up like a turkey.

is this your first game thread? tp and mcs will be calling for campbell's firing by the second series of game two. HOW DARE YOU RUN ON SECOND AND EIGHT????? DAN CAMPBELL DOESNT CARE ABOUT THE FANS FIRE HIM!" happens every year like clockwork.

laporta and brown werent open, that's why they didnt get targetted. and when they threw to brown he either fell down or the ball was picked.

its better to be detroit today than green bay....or atlanta....or cincinnati. or carolina but theyre the worst team in the league. again.

i didnt think that was impressive. a win is a win in the nfl so we'll take it but it wasnt impressive. they had the same problems as last year: couldnt get to the qb and couldnt cover. that rams team was not a "playoff team." they lost both starting tackles, their starting guard, and then their backup tackle. plus nakua got hurt in the first half. stafford showed what a great qb he is. just like when he played for detroit he made chicken salad out of chicken ****... ...and lost. the offense was out of sync. goff didnt play particularly well and no one but jamo could get open. and the rams were playing without their starting corners too. perhaps they are rusty because they didnt play in the preseason? hope so. the rams front isnt that bad, so it was nice to see the lions all over them in the run game even if goff did get some pressure. the nfl is a week to week league. they have time to get a third receiver up and running from the practice squad. that should open things up a bit. turn the page and beat the bucs.

they dont have a qb. they have one good receiver and he's a tight end. their oline hasnt developed and theyre starting 3* nobodies for some reason. theyre going to be 7-5.

yup. moore will be gone in 4 years. maybe by then another jim harbaugh will fall in their laps? cause that's the only way they've been able to have any sustained success in the last 15 years.

lol. miss jim harbaugh yet?

Not a good trend for a small defenseman.

8 x 8.5

ok. DD's genius was identifying major league talent and dealing marginal minor league talent to get it. if harria can do that, they should be good to go next year. unfortunately there is still a ton of avila-detritus still around. it will take a while to get rid of that before they can become a great team again. that said, i still think they have a shot this year to make it, and that's with only one starting pitcher worth a darn. its been a masterful aj hinch performance this year.

they need to go 12-11 in their remaining games to not break the mets' record for 120 losses in a season. theyre more likely to lose 130 games. this has been the best white sox season i can remember in a very long time.