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Get StartedI agree, but there's more to it than that. 2018 Michigan-Ohio State defies all explanation. And something has seemed broken since then. I don't know what, and I've pretty much quit digging for analysis in the media or on blogs because nobody has said anything that sounds like they understand it either.Why fire a coach because of this ridiculous season? that makes no sense.
Why fire a coach because of this ridiculous season? that makes no sense.
Michigan was 5-7 the year before Haurbaugh was hired. The next year, Michigan was 10-3 and ranked 11/12 in the nation. What changed?
I haven't heard anything anywhere that sounds like a good theory as to what is baby and what is bathwater. It's not just that this year was bad, but it's also too much to conclude that Harbaugh's not a good coach.
Quit using "covid" as an excuse. It isn't just "this year."
I'm not. I think November 2018 is when it broke. I just don't know what broke.
2018, Ohio State puts 62 on Michigan with Don Brown as D-coordination. That year they scored less on almost everybody else, Rutgers, Tulane, Nebraska, Maryland... OSU never scored that much on Michigan ever, in a hundred and whatever years. Something snapped. That's an all-time OSU offensive peak and/or Michigan defensive failure. All-time. Never happened uder Hoke. Never happened under Rodriguez. It happened with the defensive coordinator that was cranking out top 5 (or top 1) defensive teams stats regularly.
There was no slow decline. It just snapped, all at once. To me, that requires an explanation that nobody has come up with yet.
There have been some real head scratching statistical aberrations in the last decade...
the 2016 refs thing in the OSU game was sketchy as hell. How does that happen, refs who were previously banned b/c of bias suddenly get to officiate THAT game? I guess someone just pulled some strings one (1) time, but everything else has been above board?
Then OSU got stomped in the playoffs, 31-0 to Clemson... kinda reminds me of the way they'd eke out wins against Carr, then get blown out in the NCAA title game against SEC teams. WTF happens there?
Then there was that other thing.., was that in 2018? Someone noted that we almost never got holding calls against us, which was absurd when you consider a lot of the guys from those Michigan DLs are playing on Sunday now. Like not only were we statistically the lowest in the conference getting those calls, we were a whole standard deviation below the next worse team.
It happened, of course... MGoBLog or someone proved it. No one delved into HOW does that happen though, which would be revealing.
I think - yes, teams have always cheated, and I'm sure we're not perfect either. But sometime in the Mid 00's maybe, the cheaters started running the show.
No one is going to change my mind about any of this, and it's one of the reasons I don't blame Harbaugh for the situation, and I think he can coach as long as he wants to. I'd rather not have a football team, than have a football team that runs the university & is dirty as fuck. We need to maintain standards here.
The fans that just like football & don't give a fuck about the university & its standards can go root for a dirty program, if winning is all that matters to them.
We aren't just struggling against the dirty programs. Wisconsin has beat us into the core of the earth two games in a row. They barely practiced for three weeks before the game this year and we looked like the completely unprepared team.
We are 1-1 against Iowa while averaging a pathetic 11.5 PPG. It's not going to look any better after Saturday night.
IU beat the shit out of us.
.500 against MSU and PSU.
The issues go beyond just getting killed by OSU.
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