gehringer_2
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I think the question for Michigan and Harbaugh is whether he's going to get bored and lose focus or start pining for one last shot at the NFL again or whether he's settled on the thing to do he really wants to keep doing. He's always seemed like kind of a restless soul type to me. Saban won a natty at 69? Harbaugh is 58? So if his mind doesn't wander off somewhere and he can keep bringing in good young position coaching talent I'd figure he's got a little more than 5 yrs - maybe say 10 yrs left - if he's healthy - and keeps winning of course! But that's a long time - who the heck knows what college football even looks like in 10yrs? -
and there's issues and then there's issues. What if a guy K's a lot but also walks and hits a lot of HRs? What if a guy swings away a lot with the bases empty but always shortens up with a runner in scoring position and less than 2 outs? You can look under the covers of almost any statistical measure and find more nuance.
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IDK - you don't think Michigan is up for the PSU model? How long did PSU let Paterno hang around?
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TBF, not that many college teams can both run and pass well. We said that given their run game, M would be as good as the passing game allowed them to be - well they passed pretty well yesterday, and that ability to do boh is going to be hard for any college D to handle.
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he did change defensive co-ordinators - but maybe Knowles isn't the right guy for the job either.
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I'll grant your point about recruiting, but to go back the idea about OSU's defensive identiy, it seems like recruiting or not, and JTT not withstanding, this OSU team doesn't seem to haved produced a Bossa type player from those recruits this year like they have so often in the past. And sure, that probably goes back to the coaching. You (the generic 'you' ) hate to have to admit it, but just because Meyer is a scumbag doesn't mean he wasn't a good head football coach.
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except for the $30-40million difference in attendance income, but who's counting?
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JTT is a good case in point though - one dominant game a star does not make. He may get high on some draft boards based on athletic potential like T. Walker did, but not so much based on 28 tackes and 3.5 sacks on the season.
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I'm hoping they have enough pitching to be no worse than they were last season, but you never know..
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the Waterboy's gonna be running the team!
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Maybe it's that Day isn't in Meyer's league as a recruiter or maybe it's just that OSU is facing all the same kinds of issues every other school is in terms of figuring out what to do next, but did you see a single really dominant, disruptive player on the defensive side of the ball for OSU? These don't seem to be your father's Buckeye's anymore.
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it's funny, you mentioned them not sticking to the inside running game, but you see coaches fall into the "it's not enough" trap with stuff that is actually working all the time. Harbaugh not the least in his 1st couple years was constantly going away from whatever was working. Nature of the beast I think. It's a constant trade off with trying to stay unpredictable.
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IDK, OSU had pretty good success on the edge runs early. The diff was M apparently adapted. One thing that stood out to me was that OSU doesn't seem to make any attempt to disguise their defense, something M does almost to a fault in wanting to line up so late they sometimes get caught. OSU would bring everybody up or they wouldn't and always left it pretty obvious which. TBH, OSU never really seemed in particularly in sync on O or D. Looked like a team expecting to win without a battle. OTOH, the near death experience against the Illini was probably just what M needed going in That plus the lack of discipline. the PF's cost OSU big time and of course that's pure poor coaching.
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his D got a good number of stops in the 1st half. If you think you are going to get stops you can play field position. If he had gotten them he probably wouldn't be getting criticized so much in hindsight.
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If Schlissel had gotten himself canned a year earlier and Harbaugh had jumped back to the NFL, Fickell could have followed Ono to Michigan. alt.history.edu 🤔
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why is that a downer, wouldn't you have liked to see the all the best players on the field? That is getting to be the problem with football everywhere - they are pushing schedules out beyond human endurance in pursuit of $$ and by the end of season you don't see coaches and players competing as much as medical staffs. Morris did show up in the box, but wasn't out there much. Same for Schoonmaker I think.
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extra credit on that one
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If those guys all crash into sub replacement players like the others he has let go, I would hope he would non-tender them instead of hanging on to failed picks or trades hoping for miracles.
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IDK - -joking aside it looks like he's gone corporate like the rest.
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Neon Deon at the home of the Hoover Institute? Crazy Man!
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Stroud's worst play was probably the late INT on the attempted shovel pass. That was a just a bad play - you have to know when to take the sack/throw it away. BTW - That impresses about JJ, you don't see him force a play very often other than on long shots down the field where a possible INT amounts to a punt by other means. Maybe that's Harbaugh's tutelage, maybe it's also from playing along side McNamara, whose biggest asset was his lack of panic.
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Good for M that OSU didn't have JSN. Would have been even more fun to see this game with both JSN and Corum healthy.
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In college it's hard to seperate failures in scheme vs recruiting. People have been talking about OSU's secondary being down almost since Odukah went to the NFL. It's maybe a little odd - you might expect a team to be able to defend what they do well on offense because they have to go against those guys in practice, but the OSU secondary made a lot of mistakes and their technique was poor when they were where they were supposed to be. But there isn't much in the way of great passing teams in the B1G to exploit that weakness.
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It will be more like $150-175M when they are done, but yeah I hope we do too.....
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Like I said, I think the reality is that Harris is going to spend the budget he has been given. He cut the guys he cut because he thinks he can make more effcient use of the saved resource somewhere else. The thesis you are positing is that Harris is going to throw back unused dollars to Ilitch for a pat on the back. Even Al Avila didn't do that, he always spent his full allotment by the time the season started and I'm guessing Harris will try as hard as he can to do likewise.
