When you lose a football game (even when it's against a rival), you have to look at what went well, what went wrong, learn from it and move to the next game.
Today, the Wolverines need to do that. They need to heal, learn, practice, and prepare for Iowa. It was about 50/50 on people who thought that Michigan would win last weekend. Most people don't believe Michigan has a chance this weekend against Iowa. Even Vegas says that Michigan will lose by just over a field goal. Monday is the day to focus on whats next and whats next is Iowa on Saturday.
Per Sam Webb on the radio this morning. Denard addressed the team on Saturday after the game. He stood up and took responsibility for the loss and told his teammates," it will never happen again, never." If that report is accurate this young man is one special football player but it sounds like a even better person.
Turn the page Wolverines, focus on Iowa. They have had two weeks to focus on you.
- Here is Dee Hart's entertaining announcement video.
- TomVH from Mgoblog gives us a quick update on weekend visitor, Devondrick Nealy. Devondrick called the visit, "Tremendous". He didn't commit but is close.
- RR will have his regular scheduled Press Conference today. What will be interesting is the status of Mike Martin's injury. For Michigan fans if MM is out for Iowa, expect to see Big Will get some playing time. He was in late during the MSU game after Mike went down.
More to come today after RR's meets the press..................
2 comments:
Denard Robinson is a man of character. He's a proud man who can take personal responsibility for what he's done wrong. He doesn't need to take responsibility for the loss. I understand our passes were dropped, the defense gave up five hundred yards, a field goal was blocked, etc., etc., etc. That is not all Denard.
However, it would be great if the other players would all stand up and take responsibility for their own play and promise that it will never happen again. The players need to have a player's closed door meeting and deal with real issues, while holding one another accountable. The same thing with the coaches. Trust me, there's enough blame to go around. MSU is a good team but they were not unbeatable; they simply didn't beat themselves this game, Michigan helped them a lot.
You're also correct from your previous post, players need to get better from week to week. Players need to develop. Coaches are responsible for that while players with character follow through. The key reason why Charlie Weiss was not doing well with all of that talent that he had was that he was not developing those players. He was great at developing schemes but players weren't getting better. He inherited great players that were already developed and they won with his schemes but when he brought in new players and coaches he wasn't able to develop them. Our coaches, particularly our secondary coaches need to know how to develope these guys. I'm not sure they can do that. RR rewards loyality for sure but I'm not that he rewards competence. My concern is that "maybe" performance is being skewed by friendships. I hope I'm wrong about this.
In any case a head coach is ultimately responsible for his teams improvement not the QB.
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