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That was exactly the trade-off and kind of a rock/hard place thing for fans. Denard was magic. Forfeiting his potential (on purpose!) was criminal. And yet, this millennium ... perhaps no one has more positively altered the trajectory of Michigan than Greg Mattison

that could be possible I guess...anything is possible.  We will never know- because that's your speculation. Never heard of it before- running a read option, which leaves people unblocked- and instructing team to just take first option.

but- there is no doubt that the play ran, and the formation, was a zone read with an RPO, even if it was just a decoy.  and that's all that was ever being debated-- it was never an off tackle dive or a draw.

first - you should listen to better "experts" like me
second - I will give you that

Fearless would coach the heck outta that team.  

I'm available for a small fee

say, what Pelini and Riley made combined

that seems fair

You know, I wonder exactly how some of us might do in that sort of scenario...

I.e. if I got the Purdue job, could I do better than Hazell? Just by, perhaps, trying to do my best to hire the right coordinators/assistants, handling it like Herm Edwards as the "GM" approach, and letting them do their thing?

I think at the very least I'd come in with the humility to listen to the people who worked for me, and really only getting involved as the veto in case I thought they were absolutely going the wrong direction. 

Obviously I wouldn't "elevate" the program... But could I have achieved >= results to Darrell Hazell? I'd have taken the job for half of what he made [and would have lobbied the AD to boost my coordinator/assistant salaries in turn]. 

You would have?if you get a big raise don't mention it around here

I just did. And I didn't offer to give any of it to anyone. But it's not exactly "B1G football head coaching" money, and the cost of living in Orange County isn't quite the same as it is in West Lafayette lol...

I'm surprised by the seemingly near-consensus of "the play didn't work, so it was a bad play call" here.  


Consider the OL blocking, what in the hell play call would have worked??????  They called the play they called for a reason.  It didn't work.  This does not make it a poor play call.

They called a running play for their running back. The running back had not been able to run the ball against OSU all night. It was a bad call.