Have you ever had year start really well and then go really bad? Case is point, Sherrone Moore. He is the OC of the National Championship winning team and he receives the full time head coaching job when Jim Harbaugh moves to the NFL. Spring Ball goes ok, outside of Michigan losing a captain to a knee injury.
Then the season starts and its nearly a complete disaster. His offense is one of the worst in the nation and he has hired a washed up DC that wastes 3 first round draft picks on defense. Embarrassing loses to Washington and Illinois make this a .500 team with maybe a Music City Bowl invite as a reward for a bad season. That is a long way from the National Championship game.
How does Sherrone save his job and respond to people like the one that runs this blog, who thinks he is over his skis with this role?
He works with his new GM, fixes NIL, strangely gets an Oracle Billionaire who doesn't seem to have any ties to the school or program to land the #1 recruit in the nation who happens to live in U of M's backyard. I have no idea if or why Larry Ellison is helping fund a Michigan NIL collective but I'm very thankful for the support!
The highest ranked recruit in Michigan history QB Bryce Underwood flipped from LSU to Michigan yesterday. I know some of you are thinking: How do we keep Bryce in the boat until signing day? That is a fair question, but signing day is early this year on 12/4. That is a week from Wednesday.
Pulling Bryce is very important and getting him on campus as soon as possible is more important for next years team. The next big thing are the recruits that follow Bryce to Ann Arbor. Including Derek Meadows a 4-star WR who is considering flipping to Michigan or ND after also leaving LSU. Michigan could easily end up with a top 5 class if things go well in the next 10 days.
Today is a good day and Sherrone did a fantastic job in landing the biggest fish in the country.
- Michigan Basketball played better in the 2nd half again and blew out Tarleton State. If Michigan can fix the turnovers and rotation, this could be a decent team this year. Not sure what is going on with Vlad as he is missing a ton of easy shots.
The Northwestern Preview will be out later today. Which is clearly not the biggest news of the week!
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A great day in signing Underwood, and will certainly help in bringing in not only some of the nations top receivers, but other top recruits that Michigan is currently pursing on both sides of the ball.
A couple moves I'd like to see going forward ...
1) Bring in a top Offensive Coordinated that runs a balance offence, develops quarterbacks, and is fun to watch.
2) Bring back Michigan's secret weapon, the X-Factor, Ben Herbert. Now under a five-year contract with the chargers that guarantees him $1 million annually, Michigan should make him an offer that he can't refuse. Buying out his current contract and offering him between 1.5M-2M a year with season bonuses. His proven worth in building a Championship team is undeniably.
3) Also undeniable is that coach Moore having no prior head coaching job has been learning on the go, showing itself on & off the field. I trust that Harbaugh had seen in Moore what it takes to take Michigan once again to the promise land in recommending him, let's bring in Biff Poggi as Moore's right-hand man as he was with Harbaugh, helping in accelerating that learning process ... sustainably.
I'm all for a balanced attack, but generally elite QBs and WRs don't come to "balanced" offenses! They want to light up the score board and put up several hundred yards of passing offense/game.
No clue if Bryce lives up to hype. I’m eternally hopeful, but def wary about this much money and what it will do to the kid.
Voice of reason here: anyone find it weird that Bryce took to Instagram and said he'd honor his commitment to LSU, only to take that post down shortly after? And as of early this week Michigan was trying to flip Maryland's QB recruit. Reading between the lines so to speak, could it been an "advisor" told him "you HAVE to take Michigan's money". Maybe he connected with Sherrone Moore, grew up a Michigan fan, loved the campus, etc. But the ugly side of college football right now is that its been reduced to being transactional. Hope it works out! Hope he has the best 3 year run as any Michigan QB in history. But I can't help but thinking Quin Ewers and OSU or Dante Moore and UCLA.
MichiganMan
My insiders are telling me Bryce Underwood secretly committed to Michigan
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November 20, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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MichiganMan....your Mommy isn't an insider. Glad you trust her but she's not a "credible" source. Memo: Anytime someone on here says "my insider says...", then you can ignore what comes after...they are posers.
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Where you at Dummy Tubbs....Hiding....nothing but an idiot...
Guys just because we have a 5star QB doesn't mean we are going to the top...lets see what he does on the field....good news for sure...
I also some other good news....there is another 5star secretly committed....
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How many think he's going to start as a freshman? Hopefully this will be a building block to recruit better receivers off of this
I couldn't stand Bo's run heavy offense in the 80's, and was prob the reason he never won a National Championship. To still be using an antiquated offense is ridiculous. You can have both, a dominant run AND pass game. Just look at the Lions.
Bryce is a freak. Hes been reading defenses since he was 8 years old. This is a LeBron and Kobe type of athlete. Michigan coaches will need to figure out if he needs a hands on approach or a get out of his way approach.
As of right now, we have no one else. He'd have to start.
Brady, cool! But we've been hearing that about Michigan QBs since Tom Brady. But lets forget the physical ability, I just find it weird that as of Monday I was reading articles about Michigan making a run at flipping Malik Washington from Maryland. And I'll keep going back to the Instagram post. Dude like I said I hope he goes down as the greatest QB in UofM history, but I can't help but feel this is just a money grab and by the end of next season he'll be in the portal and he'll have taken Steve Miller's advice and "take the money and run"!
MichiganMan, Goosefraba. Keep saying Goosefraba until you have inner peace.
MM, at least we agree, we know nothing until he snaps up the chin strap and walks out on the field.
I think Michigan still needs to add an experienced QB from the portal. I personally don't think starting a true freshman from day 1 is a great idea. It generally doesn't work out well. You want to design some packages for him and do a JJ, and put him out for a series or 2 a game till he adjusts to the speed of the college game, cool. But day 1 freshman QBs have mixed results at best!
That's the beauty of sports. Gotta let it play out and see what happens. Seems like Bryce has had Michigan in his blood his whole life and groomed to be a NFL quarterback. This guy is a rare breed.
Look I might be full of sht, but to me the kid really wanted to go to LSU but an adult in the room stepped in and told him "no, you're taking the money". If I'm right, its probably not going to end well.
Brady, not sure I've heard the same thing. Everything I heard he REALLY like Baton Rouge! It wasn't until Michigan came calling with a bigger bag of money did there seem to be any interest. Michigan's offense isn't conducive to elite QB play it just isn't. you telling me by the start of next season Michigan will have rewritten the entire playbook? Ok, cool
Whoever ponied the money now controls him, not coach Moore. You tell him to run bleachers you might just get flipped off. Personally, I don't see how one person is going to turn around a WHOLE team. Hope I'm wrong. Two things: money is a short-term motivator, and the fish usually stinks from the head down... Or so my inside sources tell me...
What you're saying is true and what happened at Texas A&M, the NIL boosters insisted that their investments got on the field ASAP and it turned into a cluster bleep! Look, getting the #1 overrall recruit is better than not, but their are no guarantees in today's college football landscape.
Chowman- That would be the preferred method for Bryce. Ease him into things. But as Ferris Beuller said, Life comes at you pretty fast.
A QB can make a living off of 5 routes- an out pattern, a slant, a crossing, a hook, and a go pattern. Then you flip the field (strong side to weak side) and you have just doubled the playbook. QB needs to learn cadence, reading defenses, knowing when to audible, and timing. Some QBs can dictate the direction of blocking slant of the o-line (left or right) in their signal calling.
Bob perhaps we should be thanking his girlfriend Luci Guo founder of Passes -
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Odds of Underwood being the starter day 1 if healthy ... 99.9%
We will never know what is inside the brain of a 17 year old that makes them want to commit. That's why I never read articles about kids that might be interested in playing for Michigan. Let me know when they sign, that's all that counts.
Football is the ultimate team game, but QB is the most important position that can have the greatest impact. Michigan has a GM to help aquire talent. We're not even close to being done yet.
Michigan beating NW and going to a bowl game would create an opportunity for Bryce Underwood to practice with the team this year. Must enroll early.
You think that gives you credibility? Dude....you are an ass clown. Better to be silent and just thought an ass clown than to get on your keyboard and prove it. It's probably time to feed your four cats. Moron.
JUST IN- Brady Hart says he has no problem with the Bryce commitment, welcomes all competition, and is stoked for the recruiting momentum of the program.
I like this kid.
Jadyn Davis did that last year but it didn't seem to help him. Speaking of which, if I had a kid that refused to play, I would cut him so fast his head would spin.
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