Hey Guys:
I am not a lollipop and roses type of guy so my question is did the spread offense effect our team in the rain at Notre Dame? I know not all the problems were spread related (st's fumbles) and such, but being in the spread where we are in the shotgun so much how much of the problems could be made because we were in the spread.
Tim
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Thanks for the question.
The spread offense was not the problem Saturday. Lack of execution and poor fundamentals were the major issues.
You cannot have the offensive line pushed two yards into the backfield on third and one. You cannot have passes to split ends and slots that force them to adjust to the point that they are unable to use their skills for yards after catch. You cannot spend the game fumbling, taking silly penalties and throwing interceptions, and expect to beat good teams. In this offense, you cannot be in second down and long yardage situations as many times as Michigan was, and be successful. You cannot have running backs and receivers trying to beat contain across their face and them not getting maximum yardage.
Do ErocWolverine and CoachBt prefer a pro style offense similar to the one USC and LSU use or the one that Michigan used in the bowl game? Hell Yes we do! But to blame this loss on the offensive scheme is misguided. The reason is your not counting on your quarterback so much along with if the defense is stopping one thing you can go to a different thing where the read option spread your basically stuck with what you have.
It just seemed to us that Notre Dame wanted this game more than Michigan. If you get an opportunity, re-watch the film and pay attention to Michigan’s effort when trying to recover fumbles. Notre Dame put the ball on the ground also, but it was Notre Dame who was diving, hustling and scrapping to get to those footballs, and it paid off.
written by CoachBt and ErocWolverine
3 comments:
"Do ErocWolverine and CoachBt prefer a pro style offense similar to the one USC and LSU use or the one that Michigan used in the bowl game?"
Ah, so it seems you guys were in the Les Miles to Michigan camp. Well he isn't coming to Michigan ever, and Rich Rod and his system will be here for quite awhile. Get used to it. There is no way in hell that our current personnel can run Michigan's Capital One Bowl offense. Michigan's coaches called a good gameplan IMO, but the players didn't execute. We still racked up nearly 400 yards; Rich Rod's system is starting to come together. Just need to have patience.
Anonymous:
Funny story ... Well let me refresh you a little bit. When the App. St. and Oregon games happened last year so many people were talking about Les Miles and myself and others knew that Les Miles would never be offered the job as long as Bill Martin and Lloyd Carr had a say in the matter. During that time I was a "hater" towards Les Miles with my comments.
Well after Coach Carr retired and the names of Ferentz / Schiano / DeBord / English kept coming up ... you bet I was supporting Les Miles. Who wouldn't be especially he was a guy that took LSU to the NC Game and ended up beating the snot out of our biggest rival.
Also you say (whoever you are) that this team couldn't run the "Bowl game spread" which I disagree 100%!!! This team would be more prepared and be more effective with that offense than the current one especially with so many new guys on offense that knew what that system was and wouldn't of had a new system to learn.
Now to Coach Rod ... we know he will be here for awhile and if he isn't that means Michigan football went very badly and nobody wants that to happen.
Regarding the gameplan people always blamed the coaches the last couple of years for a lose and how they did things. While this year it is the players who aren't executing what the coaches want. Well maybe the coaches should call plays that the players can run.
Remember when Coach Rod first got here and he kept saying that he would adapt to the talent.
We like a lot of things that Coach Rod has done so far, but there are some things that we are not sure about yet and one of them is recruiting certain kids and certain areas.
We are behind Michigan and want to see them win no matter who the coach is ... get use to that ... anonymous!
Since when has giving a honest opinion of what is happening with UM football, or of players preformance meant anything but there are aeras UM needs to improve. This has nothing to do with Les Miles or any one else. This is about what I have after 28 years in business have learned about the game of football. it is not personal, it is all business.
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