2019 Michigan Season Thread

[ELA]

sucks. hopefully he works it out and gets back with the team.
this shift of offensive philosophy with Gattis now in charge- if true- and I'm starting to believe it is- benefits Chris Evans most outside of those WR's. Evans has a real shot to become something special in this type of offense. Won't have that shot though if he's in hot water off the field.

Officially gone.

[Mdot21]

Officially gone.

HUGE blow. Can't be spun any other way.
He was primed to take off in this new offense. He's a match made in heaven for this style of offense. Sucks.

Terrible news that Evans is gone. But there was also some great news: Pep is gone! Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

Correction: Not officially gone. Officially suspended. Sounds academic, serious, and self-inflicted. But the door remains open to return. I'm not sure he'll pull it off. And clearly he won't participate in fall ball.

[ELA]

Correction: Not officially gone. Officially suspended. Sounds academic, serious, and self-inflicted. But the door remains open to return. I'm not sure he'll pull it off. And clearly he won't participate in fall ball.

I assume you mean spring ball?  Fall ball being the most important of the seasonal balls

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep. Meant spring.

[Temp430]

I'm less optimistic about Evans being back in time for the Fall.  I hope it happens but if the suspension was academic that's going to be hard to overcome as a near senior.  What's he going to do to get back?  Take some low level courses at a community college this Winter and Spring?

[Anonymous Coward]

It depends on the nature of his problem. He was said to be skipping class last week. So in theory it could be an in-house suspension to correct his behavior. Or he could be truly ineligible in NCAA terms. In which case, I guess we have to ask whether that's by overall GPA or single semester GPA. One of those is automatically corrected by time (as long as he does fair work going forward). The other would depend on how bad he beefed it. If a failure or two knocked him below the career GPA eligibility threshold (2 F's is an extreme example and somewhat doubtful given how these guys' grades are hawked), it would realistically take him 2 semesters of honest effort to pull back above the limit. Which is how many semesters separate us from Fall camp.

[Temp430]

OK.  Is Evans still attending class?  If so that's a huge positive.  If he's not enrolled at the U, it's really bad and that was what I was thinking.

No word on Spring practice or game that I could find.  

And I have a warm fuzzy over McDaniels as QB coach.

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe he is still enrolled. If he's not, it's over. At least for 2019, so probably forever. But either way, no one expects him to participate in spring ball. So one way or another the consequences are real.

[Mdot21]

Pep Hamilton to the XFL.

[847badgerfan]

Pep Hamilton to the XFL.

We must question the judgement of who hires all of these failed coaches. There are so very many.

[FearlessF]

the XFL in Dallas hired Bobby Stoops???

[Mdot21]

We must question the judgement of who hires all of these failed coaches. There are so very many.

The XFL is the kind of leauge you'd expect to be filled with coaching rejects. Pep belongs in the XFL.
All the insiders said that Pep was told to look for an NFL job right after the Ohio State game. Harbaugh apparently didn't have the stones to just fire his ass. The problem is no one in the NFL wanted his ass. Pep wound up right where he belongs- in the WWE's football leauge.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just saw this Family Matters recruiting spoof. Lighthearted and grabs at my childhood programming, so it landed for me:


https://mobile.twitter.com/UMichFootball/status/1093261076496551937

Also: man am I glad that Don Brown will get a chance to work with Daxton. Phew!