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Fabbri was certainly a bad match with Larkin and Raymond. Larkin's limitation seems to that he can't adjust down to the players he is stuck with. If they can't all get on his wavelength his productivity doesn't just fall, it craters.

Hey - the line forms on the left, buddy!

exactly. It's completely logical to give the kid extended time with a good lead and keep the experienced guy at the helm when the pressure is high. But not Harbaugh - no, he has to try to be clever and keep doing the 'unexpected' - that is stuff that he thinks is unexpected even if we've all come to completely expect and anticipate Harbaugh's idea of the 'unexpected'. In the meantime he keeps learning (or really, not learning) that the reason stuff he is doing *should* be unexpected is because they are generally losing strategies. He seems to be fine man, and I give him a lot of credit for being a coach that seems to do want to do right by players - his support of the easier transfer rules where he is at odds with most coaches is an example -- and all the extra outside experiences he has tried to provide his players, but my lord, whatever his other virtues, he is such a terrible field general.

2:1 Cade goes through the portal. He can see McCarthy is the golden boy. If I were Cade I'd be tired of criticisms and a coach that didn't feel he needed me in the game in critical situations. Objectively we can argue whether he had actually done enough to merit that level of confidence, but that's immaterial to whether the young man decides he would rather play somewhere else.

IDK, at the time Harbaugh was the hottest thing on the coaching market - past UM resume or not. It may have given him more rope, but Covid and financial considerations probably have more to do with why he is still here. I don't think R Rod was done in so much because he wasn't an Alum of the program as much as because Carr (and so in turn his loyalists) just plain didn't like him and had wanted someone else. As it transpired, maybe they did know more about him personally than the people that hired him. In any case I don't know how you separate how much of that dislike would have been any different if he had happened to have played football or coached here before. The 'Michigan Man' thing may be a convenient wrapper for the narrative and all things being equal I'm sure it figures in the overall story, but I think on the whole it's overrated. While playing to a market is certainly in their handbook, major college admins are in general not romantic people. The funny thing is that even as Bo most famously used the term, it had nothing to do with being an alum of the U or the program because Frieder certainly already was - he was the coach. Bo's issue wasn't where Frieder had come from, it was where he had decided to go - as in he had decided to leave. To Bo, all that made Steve Fisher the "MichiganMan" as opposed to Frieder was that he was 'loyal' and Frieder had not been. Had nothing to do with either person's history. So the whole damn Bo historical "Michigan Man as a 'son' of the school" meme is based on nonsense.

Can't. Fielding Yost is about to become another face erased from the team pictures. (This one's probably merited though...)

are we still holding out any hope for McIsaac, or is he a write off? Smith's security is that he's about the closest thing they have to an enforcer.

Maybe one's roots have found the sewer line......💰

upgrades needed for Fabbri and Gagner. Velano could be one.

According to today's NYT story the gun was supposed have blanks in it and did. But somehow there was also a live round in it with the blanks. So maybe we have to allow for the other possibility to be an act of criminal sabotage. Maybe no-one associated with the film put the live round in the gun along with the blanks. It should still have been caught before someone got killed though....

but maybe there was supposed to a "bullet" in the cylinder. Supposedly it was to be a camera shot down the barrel. We've seen that shot before and you expect to see 'bullets' in the cylinder. Now on a set they should not be bullets that can be fired - that's exactly the question. The reality is they handle guns on sets every single day, thousands of times, and no-one gets hurt - so they know well enough how to do all this stuff right - they just didn't.

not that long - they won't renew him but but he will probably finish this deal. This was such a typical Harbaugh loss though - A trick play that didn't work, and refusal to just stick with what is working: McNamara arguably rising to the occasion having the best day of his career, but Harbaugh has to be distracted by the shiny new toy and the result is a stalled drive and a turnover. Harbaugh to a 'T'. If the phrase "doesn't know how to win" has ever applied to anyone at the tactical level, it's Harbaugh. Not to mention after 7 yrs his defense is still getting beaten to the snap. Stuff that should never happen.

LOL - yes that is the one saving grace for M - If not LSU then somewhere else and probably soon.

The tough thing is I don't know how they get out of this anytime soon. For the reasons above I doubt they are going to fire Harbaugh - he will be here until his deal is up after next season, and they are just getting further and further behind the recruiting 8 ball with all the big game and rivalry losses.

this is correct. To be brutally honest, it has only been Tucker's success up I-96 which has raised the expectations for what MI have have been able to accomplish this season.

Anibal was kind of the poster boy for going from no-hits after 4 innings to down 4 runs in a hurry!

they had it and they let it get away. Sounds like that will the eventual epitaph on Harbaugh's MI coaching career.

well - same issue - Schlissel probably couldn't care less about the football program right about now. He's just been screwed over by the Regents. I really have a hard time seeing a scenario where he decides his last big public act is to fire Warde and/or Bo Jr. opps - that was supposed to be an edit - ended up a repost - my bad...

well - same issue - Schlissel probably couldn't care less about the football program right about now. He's just been screwed over by the Regents. I really have a hard time seeing a scenario where he decides his last big public act is to fire Bo Jr.

There are organizational issues that might make it hard. Manuel would have to go to Schlissel with a request for a big pot of $$$ and Schlissel is a lame duck, he's going to prefer to punt the decision to his successor. Maybe if Manuel can line up the money himself or maybe there are a enough football fans on the Regents that one or more of them could back hiring a new coach from the board. Otherwise he probably gets 2022.

/..sigh.../ not what I hoped for but what I expected - other than the amount of scoring, which I didn't expect on from either side.

After watching Tyler Matzek in this series maybe we can feel a little more optimistic about Jose Cisnero.

I'm with Snitker. Having a no-hitter going at the end of 5 is so far away from the actual likelihood of throwing one that even for it's own sake it shouldn't have figured in his thinking, let along that saving his pitcher to get another good start out of him is far more important to winning the Series than getting only one great start. And as has already been pointed out, he may not have given up a hit but he was not all that sharp - the handwriting was on the wall.

is this just for the game Bert misses or is someone getting sent down?

LOL - I'm hearing Danny Glover's voice when he walks in the bar where he meets Kline and Glenn in Silverado.