Michigan Monday: Why?

I started my post game article with a picture of Captain Obvious.  The reason I did that is because everyone can see the issues Michigan has.  Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst was rumored to have said, "this is the worst defensive line you will see all year".   Wisconsin just got done running up the score on USF and CMU.  

The media also took the bait and decided to write a ton of articles on what is wrong with the Wolverines.  Many of these folks are fine journalists, but that isn't the story, the story is why?

Harbaugh coached with energy and passion at Stanford, 49'ers, and the first couple years at Michigan.  Then something happened and he became a robot coach.   Is he like that in staff meetings?Is he like that at practice? Because he sure is a Robo Coach on the sidelines. 

Why?

If your ill a good doctor doesn't just treat your symptoms, he or she treats the person and what is causing the symptoms.   As Michigan fans, everyone and their brother can see the symptoms very clearly, what we don't know is what is causing them.  

This is why Jimmy makes the big bucks, everything starts and stops at his desk.   Has he lost this team?   The buzz coming out of the 49'ers locker room is that they were done with Jimmy's antics and had tuned him out.  That organization couldn't divorce themselves from Jimmy fast enough.  Is there something going on at home?  I don't know.  

I do know Don Brown is not helping.

Michigan under Jimmy has always had a good to great defense.  Tape is out how to beat Don's defense and everyone has it.  I like Don and he would be great to have a beer with, but he is an old dog without any new tricks.   I don't know who the hell should run the defense the rest of the year, but it shouldn't be him.   I'm guessing this is why he has had so many jobs.  Damn it Temple, Don could be your head coach right now. 

This isn't a surprise

It's been coming for nearly a year.  Michigan hasn't played well on the road in 10 years and its been nearly a year since they put "good play on tape".   The Peach scrimmage was foreshadowing for this years team, which spent the entire off season and fall camp not getting better.   

Can Michigan get better?

Sure they can and they can take Penn State a few years back as an example. Penn State got "boat raced" in Ann Arbor and ended up winning the Big Ten.  Michigan is a long ways from that but they do have the talent to get better with some better coaching and schemes.   Time to George Costanza Schembechler Hall.  With QB injuries we could see Joe Milton start on Saturday anyways. 

from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2019/09/michigan-monday-why.html