Life after Lloyd Carr
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 @ 6:03 pm | Michigan Football
Jake over at Motown Sports Revival offers some great in-depth analysis about who the next Michigan football coach should be.
Random musings of a law student from the Midwest about to enter the “real world”.
Jake over at Motown Sports Revival offers some great in-depth analysis about who the next Michigan football coach should be.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Hey — Thanks for posting my very first blog-comment!
Well, I just want to take the opportunity again to invite all Michigan fans to take another deep breath and think about what just happened to OSU last night. Now think about Poisson Statistics. Exactly HOW SURE are you that you’d prefer Jim Tressle over Lloyd Carr? I mean if you almost shot yourself after the USC game, what would you have done last night?
Obviously Lloyd won’t coach forever, but I think he’s done a really great job. (You need to compare his record to any other coach over the same 12 or whatever year period.) The options are to make the coaching change an evolution or revolution. I would say evolutions are far less risky and are appropriate when you have a program like Michigan–able to contend in any year. Revolutions are appropriate when you have nothing to lose. But honestly, Michigan doesn’t have much to gain, as bad as it has seemed recently. Face it: Even though you THINK USC and OSU have each won three national championships in the last five years, in reality each have only won ONE (believe it or not, since they have been crowned so many times by denny green haters). Yes, Florida kicked the absolute shit out of OSU last night, roughly 10 times more embarassingly than USC did of Michigan last week. But let’s recall: They were butt-ass fricking lucky as all hell to even play the game. Just take one idiot Arkansas punt returner out of the picture and you would have had an epic Michigan-OSU 6-3 battle, I suppose. We absolutely KNOW that Lloyd can get us in the championship picture, and it’s not fair to say “that’s just because he’s at Michigan.” Can you say the same of other programs that have it “easy?” FSU? Miami? Penn State? Oklahoma? Nebraska? UCLA? Notre Dame? Those case studies pretty much prove that Lloyd and his staff are pretty valuable.
So, yes, it sucks losing heartbreakers and embarrassments. But we are ALMOST there, and it’s not worth tearing the whole thing apart to take our chances on the next Stoops, Calahan, Saban, Alabama coach or whoever.
And for comic relief, check out my first and so far only blog: http://testingtfv.blogspot.com/2007/01/could-human-have-picked-more-offensive.html