Ok, folks this season is done and Michigan is looking at a losing season right in the face. Yes, Michigan played better and did score some points on Saturday, but lets face it they are playing at a Rutgers level right now and not at a Michigan level. It's just not good enough.
Most of you feel (67%) that Brandon should be fired first. I agree with you but I'm not sure that is how it will happen. As I have mentioned before, if you fire the AD you better have someone willing to take the job the next day. Michigan does not have the luxury of firing their AD at the end of the season or even later and then picking a new head coach. There just isn't enough time.
As a Michigan fan, you have to be somewhat "conflicted" in what you want right now. Of course you want Michigan to win football games but then again you don't want to leave any doubt that there needs to be sweeping changes from the AD to the entire football staff. This is just a throw away year and it sucks being here in early October. The schedule shows there maybe one or two winnable games left on their schedule.
The upside here is the Auburn example. It took a year like this to take out that coaching staff, they hired the right guy and the next year they are very good team. This team has talent, they just need the right coach to lead them.
Michigan's recruiting class which was almost full is now starting to fall apart at the seems, which you might expect:
- Kirkland visited ND this weekend
- Chris Clark will take all 5 of his officials
- Darian Roseboro is already gone
- Taylor will take visits
The only good news on the horizon is that reports from the NFL are that Jim Harbaugh won't be back with the 49'ers no matter what happens this year. The issues will be: does Jim want to stay in the NFL? Or is he willing to go back to Ann Arbor to turn around his alma mater? It seems that Jim's wife likes the bay area but I assume he is smart enough to not take the Raiders job.
BTW: How Smart is Vegas? Rutgers was favored by 2 points.
2 comments:
Ahhh, the wife... Thats a problem even Jim Harbough and his power personality might not be able to overcome. Although if we are stuck with Dave Brandon, I even doubt Jim Harbough would want to come to A2. Dave Brandon does not equal finding a top tier coach. Coaches do not want to come in and deal with his arogant, prick, intrusive ways. Nor does a top coach want to come in and get hired by a lame-duck AD who might also be gone in a year.
If I was the President, I dump Dave Brandon as soon as I can line up a replacement. Hopefully that process has already started behind close doors and I get that done by mid-November. In the meantime,I hire a search firm to start compiling data on a list of top coaching prospects. Once the new AD is hired, his first order of business is to go through back channels to let each and every one of the top 10 candidates know we want them and to gauge their interest. Once the blood bath of the Ohio State game is over, you make a power move and go to that coach and offer him $5 million+ and total coaching discretion to come and save our proud program. Money talks. And for God Sakes, enough with the "Michigan Man" criteria. Just find someone with integrity, and a proven NCAAF track record who can bring in a winning culture. I dont give a flying fuck if he was Bo's former assistant coache's next door neighbor and poker partner.
And speaking of culture, we need a total cultural overhaul here at Michigan. Our way does not work. See RichRod example. And to over haul a culture, you need to clean house. Another reason why we need Brandon gone. And the new coach has to have a power personality, like a Jim Harbough. Some one who can come in and immediately assert himself and trump all the arm-chair QBs that make up our fan base of fatal traditionalists and loyalists to a bygone era of Michigan football that is dead and gone. Someone who can come in and tell the masses, this is how its gonna be done, deal with it.
We are a broken mess right now, and frankly, I am a bit troubled if our Unversity Regents and the Presendent are not approaching this siutation with the utmost sense of urgency. This new President is a big concern of mine right now.
I hate that there isn't more of an uproar over the horrible Darboh play.
People will say, well one play doesn't make a game, well in this case it does.
People will say we don't deserve to win because we gave up 400 yards passing - but the same people fail to realize Rutgers was about to lose anyway.
For whatever reason, this team has zero luck. And how many more times are we going to be screwed by replay calls.
Rutgers was falling apart at the end just like against Penn State.
Rutgers deserved that win, not this one.
It easy to dismiss because hardly anyone cares anymore and just says we are no good.
Its a game of inches and the amount of times we come up short even in situations where we had a positive play is unbelievable.
There is being bad - which we are and then there is having bad luck - which we seem to have a massive amount of.
Its almost like everyone is expecting it - you got a good group of players who do things the right way.
I truly believe karma exists and we will have some good fortune soon. You can't have this much talent and be that unlucky.
I sense a huge upset coming (laugh at me now) but something will work out for us very soon.
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