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There's no doubt in my mind that this has to be weighing (pun not intended) on the tsun administration. The thought that a recently great / high profile job will open in the SEC means that the tsun job will have diminished shine (can't shine a turd, I know) than if it was out there alone as an available position.

I think that Foley can wait around significantly longer than Brandon can.

So, yes... A game of chicken it might be, but when tsun is driving a Ford Pinto in reverse and the other team is driving a flaming dump truck that misfires on three cylinders, I'll take the dump truck any day.
 
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They are in a really tight spot right now. The 2011 recruiting class that followed DickRod's ouster has been a disaster and is one big reason that they have been in a downward spiral the past 3 years. At best, scUM can hope to match that quality in their small 2015 class. Even when Hoke was recruiting "well", the results have not been there. He and his staff really do rival Cholly Weis for turning blue chip recruits into chalky dog poo. Aside from Devin Funchess, he has not "developed" one of those highly touted recruits into anything. It is an astonishing record of ineptitude.

The next coach is going to have to take a gaggle of poorly developed former prized recruits and break them down to build them back up. Since Hoke has been there, the only thing those kids seem to have is a tremendous sense of entitlement. The right coach might be able to turn them around in a year or two. I don't know who that might be, but he will definitely have his work cut out for him because that is a BROKEN program. They might actually be lower than they were after dickrod...and it's hard to fathom how that is even possible.
 
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NFBuck said:
They are in a really tight spot right now. The 2011 recruiting class that followed DickRod's ouster has been a disaster and is one big reason that they have been in a downward spiral the past 3 years. At best, scUM can hope to match that quality is their small 2015 class. Even when Hoke was recruiting "well", the results have not been there. He and his staff really do rival Cholly Weis for turning blue chip recruits into chalky dog poo. Aside from Devin Funchess, he has not "developed" one of those highly touted recruits into anything. It is an astonishing record of ineptitude.

The next coach is going to have to take a gaggle of poorly developed former prized recruits and break them down to build them back up. Since Hoke has been there, the only thing those kids seem to have is a tremendous sense of entitlement. The right coach might be able to turn them around in a year or two. I don't know who that might be, but he will definitely have his work cut out for him because that is a BROKEN program. They might actually be lower than they were after dickrod...and it's hard to fathom how that is even possible.
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I've seen Urban Meyer walk into a program inheriting a team with an under performing O-Line, dysfunctional WR corp, and a QB that didn't know how to play the position from the neck up and turn that group into a 12-0 squad. Michigan does have some talent on its roster. If Urban were the coach of that team right now against that schedule I think they'd be 5-2 at worst (still lose to Utah and Notre Dame).

It is not a broken program yet. However, if pizza boy keeps dragging this out and refuses to pull the trigger while the recruiting class falls apart, Michigan is going to wind up in a bidding war and beauty pageant against a few other prestigious programs that drags into mid-January.
 
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Dryden said:
I've seen Urban Meyer walk into a program inheriting a team with an under performing O-Line, dysfunctional WR corp, and a QB that didn't know how to play the position from the neck up and turn that group into a 12-0 squad. Michigan does have some talent on its roster. If Urban were the coach of that team right now against that schedule I think they'd be 5-2 at worst (still lose to Utah and Notre Dame).

It is not a broken program yet. However, if pizza boy keeps dragging this out and refuses to pull the trigger while the recruiting class falls apart, Michigan is going to wind up in a bidding war and beauty pageant against a few other prestigious programs that drags into mid-January.
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Agree. A good coach can turn around a program in a hurry. Problem is, I don't see many of those out there. Jim Harbaugh could probably do it. But, I still think a Harbaugh coaching up there is a pipe dream. Mullen is the hot name right now. But, two things there--1.) scUM will have to beat out UF for Mullen, and I don't think that happens, 2.) Mullen was actually starting to catch some heat coming into this year. I think they're (Miss St) good, but I think their surprising season has a lot to do with a very down SEC this year. He had a pretty middling record coming into this year, so I don't think he turns them around fast.

One HUGE thing tOSU had going for them going into 2012 was a true difference maker at QB. scUM does not have that. It already seems like everybody is ready to move on from Suga Shane after 2 starts. They're bringing in a mid 4*-type in Alex Malzone, and have a big pocket former 3* Wilton Speight on their roster as well. So, unless the new coach can somehow wring a Chad Henne-like frosh season out of Malzone, or get Navarre-like production out of Speight, they have a major question mark at QB. They do have some good RBs in Smith and Ty Isaac. Maybe the right coach can even get whatever it was that made Derrick Green a 5* recruit out of him. And he will have a number of underachieving former blue-chip OL recruits. Maybe the right guy can make them a functioning unit. WR will be a huge ? as well as Funchess will be gone, and he's basically all they have right now.
 
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Aside from Devin Funchess, he has not "developed" one of those highly touted recruits into anything. It is an astonishing record of ineptitude.
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To be fair, Hoke has never had to "develop" anything. All he has done is sign "Michigan Men", and they arrive on campus fully formed as the paragon of excellence in college football (and life in general). Just ask them.
 
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NFBuck said:
They are in a really tight spot right now. The 2011 recruiting class that followed DickRod's ouster has been a disaster and is one big reason that they have been in a downward spiral the past 3 years. At best, scUM can hope to match that quality in their small 2015 class. Even when Hoke was recruiting "well", the results have not been there. He and his staff really do rival Cholly Weis for turning blue chip recruits into chalky dog poo. Aside from Devin Funchess, he has not "developed" one of those highly touted recruits into anything. It is an astonishing record of ineptitude.

The next coach is going to have to take a gaggle of poorly developed former prized recruits and break them down to build them back up. Since Hoke has been there, the only thing those kids seem to have is a tremendous sense of entitlement. The right coach might be able to turn them around in a year or two. I don't know who that might be, but he will definitely have his work cut out for him because that is a BROKEN program. They might actually be lower than they were after dickrod...and it's hard to fathom how that is even possible.
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They're far worse than they were with RR... I think he would've consistently put out a 9-win team. If he dropped that ridiculous 335 in a power run conference, maybe even the occasional 10 or 11 win season.
He wouldn't have been the improvement on Carr they were looking for, but ... certainly better than the dumpster fire there now.
They dug that hole for themselves on "Michigan Men" myth.

Outside the pipe dreams, M. Stoops is probably the best coach they have a chance to get. His HC chops are still a big unknown - but a perennial bottom feeder is showing signs of improvement beating some mid-table teams like SCe. Moreover, he's proven he can recruit Ohio and I have a feeling he's at least competent at developing talent (unlike Hoke). He seems like the kind of coach that could, at least, put them back on the right track.
So I hope they don't get him, or he turns them down to stay at a basketball powerhouse, or they never consider him because he doesn't speak French ∴ !Michelin Man.
 
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http://www.michigandaily.com/sports...ave-brandon-athletic-department-ticket-prices

Athletic Department to lower student-ticket prices 40 percent for 2015 football season

The Michigan football team has a much stronger home schedule next season than it does this fall. And it’ll cost students a lot less to see the Wolverines play.

The Athletic Department, in conjunction with the Central Student Government, announced Thursday it will lower student season ticket prices to $175 for next year’s seven-game home slate. At an average of $25 per game, the price decrease is a 37.5-percent change from this year’s cost of $280 for the season.

“We listen,” Athletic Director Dave Brandon told The Michigan Daily Thursday afternoon. “We’ve been listening. … We really learned that two really important components to re-engaging with our students in trying to create a more robust, more enthusiastic and larger student section for next year’s football season was price and strength of schedule.

“A nearly 40-percent reduction in ticket prices is, I think it’s fair to say, unprecedented.”

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