Blurb on playcalling in Freep

[Michchamp]

From the "Ask Nick" mailbag:

From everything that can be gathered at this point, it seems clear that Pep Hamilton is the main voice upstairs who works with Harbaugh on what to call during games. They no doubt work together on game plans throughout the week, and like any head coach, he takes input from everyone on his staff. .
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But the bigger issue right now is overall is two-fold: Michigan's offense has to be able to comprehend what's going on, which is on the coaching staff. And Harbaugh needs to be willing to adjust and adapt quicker in games when adversity hits.

Simply putting "offensive coordinator" in front of someone's name won't fix those things.​

I'm not so sure about that last part. I wonder if the lack of identity, or consistency stems from giving position coaches input into what plays should be called. Maybe expected that the "passing game coordinator" is going to push for passing plays to be called, regardless of whether they've been running the ball well or not.

if you have an OC above all that, he can script a gameplan, and tweak it as the game goes on and weaknesses are exposed.

There may be other issues, sure, like OL depth, but you can't keep playing like shit every week, or struggling against every half-decent opponent because of thr same problem going on 2 seasons.

 

[Michchamp]

Looking over the box score and drive charts, we actually did run quite a bit (31 attempts excluding sacks vs. 36 passes) but inexplicably went away from it, or went one-dimensional twice.

I'm thinking of that 3rd possession where we had 2nd and goal from the 2, then followed it up with a sack, incomplete pass, and settled for a FG.

and the starting drive in the 3rd... completed that long pass, then one for 12 yards to the ND 16, then... three straight incompletions and a botched FG.

score a TD on the first and a FG on the 2nd and you have a tie game. A TD on the second and you have the lead.

I think we can eliminate the mistakes, but I don't know how these guys figure out the playcalls, given the track record.

 

[biggunsbob]

Pep Hamilton is making 4.25 Million divided by four as a assitiant at Michigan .

So far he is not worth it in my opinion.

 

[thewolverines24]

Mgoblog did a nice write up on the playcalling against NDSucks. It wasn't bad playcalling. They were trying to compensate for the fact that we don't have a LT.

Runyan is trying his best, but he's being thrown to the wolves. He is not a LT and should have never been put in this position.

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[rumseyhouse77]

Where is the score prediction thread for tomorrow's game???

 

[Michchamp]

Mgoblog did a nice write up on the playcalling against NDSucks. It wasn't bad playcalling. They were trying to compensate for the fact that we don't have a LT.

Runyan is trying his best, but he's being thrown to the wolves. He is not a LT and should have never been put in this position.

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okay, I read it.

It's a good analysis, but I don't know if I agree with the conclusion that the playcalling wasn't bad given the weakness at LT.

they touched on that a bit with the comment on why they didn't use a FB more and run and pass from under center.

they also agreed with running from the 2. run blocking went better for us...

I don't really have the time to look at stats by Q right now (just that we threw 36 times to 31 runs) but it seems like in many of our losses last year, we should've been overwhelmingly run heavy, and only passed in opportunistic situations. Instead we killed drives by getting sacked and put in 3rd and longs. then from there the opponents built a modest lead, and you'd feel the panic set in and all the momentum shift.

maybe you don't pick up a first down if you run on 2nd and 7, but 3rd and 3 or 3rd and 5 is a lot easier to execute than 3rd and 7 or more.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Pep Hamilton is making 4.25 Million divided by four as a assitiant at Michigan .

So far he is not worth it in my opinion.

That would mean he?s also making $265,625 x 4.

Is he worth THAT?