That is SimpLLLe Jim in a nutshell, going back to his SF days. He puckers in big games, and unless he has an overwhelming talent advantage, he will always struggle in pressure situations. He's hardwired to choke on his own vomit.
Fill your players' heads with the idea that they really won when they lost, and they deserve things without working for them.....this is what you get.I'm going to repost this here, so that it might outlive the game thread because it is really mind bottling when you delve into it. They started coasting five minutes into the 2nd quarter. You would think that every single member of that team, particularly the seniors and juniors, would be foaming at the mouth like a serial killer to humiliate the team that has owned and humiliated them for so long. You'd think they would want to sweep that team's leg and deliver a beating so bad that JT Barrett would wake up in a pool of his own urine and sweat 40 years from now thinking about it.
But no, they decided it was time to coast. What a poorly coached and poorly motivated bunch of nutless prima donnas, and that starts with a poor coaching staff. If that is how that program and those players approach The Game, there is no amount of rap videos, sleepovers, trips to Katmandu, and shirtless tree climbs that will save it. They are doomed, and you know what?
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2017/11/michigan_players_we_coasted_le.html
Sounds to me exactly what we should have expected from these pricks. Entitled arrogance in the face of overwhelming facts to the contrary isn't just a trait of the fan base. Indeed, we should have seen this coming when they hired the quintessential "Michigan Man" Because, frankly, he is.I'm going to repost this here, so that it might outlive the game thread because it is really mind bottling when you delve into it. They started coasting five minutes into the 2nd quarter. You would think that every single member of that team, particularly the seniors and juniors, would be foaming at the mouth like a serial killer to humiliate the team that has owned and humiliated them for so long. You'd think they would want to sweep that team's leg and deliver a beating so bad that JT Barrett would wake up in a pool of his own urine and sweat 40 years from now thinking about it.
But no, they decided it was time to coast. What a poorly coached and poorly motivated bunch of nutless prima donnas, and that starts with a poor coaching staff. If that is how that program and those players approach The Game, there is no amount of rap videos, sleepovers, trips to Katmandu, and shirtless tree climbs that will save it. They are doomed, and you know what?
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2017/11/michigan_players_we_coasted_le.html
Funny thing is, the guy who actually attempted to modernize them was run out of town. Now, to be sure, Dick had his own shortcomings, but the reality of it is his teams were improving (record wise) even if he would probably have always struggled to beat Ohio State (I think at one point we thought he may be their Cooper) and I doubt he would have ever fielded a championship level defense. But, he did at least have a modern mindset. I mean, remember how AWED they were by Barwis? Like no other team had ever considered a strength and conditioning program that was more than a trumped up Lifetime Fitness Center? Ran that guy out of town ... to hire true "Michigan Men."
It’s interesting to me to compare the Hoke brand of “Michigan Man” arrogance with Harbaugh’s version.
In fairness, we rejected our own transplant from day one as well. But, we DID modernize the program as a result of him. Before Coop, we recruited regionally almost exclusively and we had coaches who would coach up otherwise marginal talent, whereas Coop took us national but couldn't coach his way out of a 1 man tent.
Accepting players from east coast schools who already ran out of eligibility really doesn’t work as well as it used to. Hell, they got caught and kicked out of the B1G for it from 1907 to 1916. Shockingly, following more focus on their blatant cheating, they haven’t matched the early successes.
