So Michigan's annual beatdown at the hands of Ohio State was cancelled this year because of the spread of coronavirus. 40 players wouldn't have been able to play on Saturday, which tends to do things to your depth chart.
This was truly for the best. Michigan has never looked so disjointed, out of whack and badly-coached as it has in 2020. Why Harbaugh was so eager to play this year is impossible to understand. It looked good against Minnesota...but the Golden Gophers turned out to be a shell of last year's superb team. Other than that, Michigan's play has been error-riddled, perfunctory, lifeless and bad on fundamentals.
Hard to watch, so I haven't much.
The overall body of work still looks good, but if you focus on the last three years, not so much. He has the 9th rated recruiting class in the wings, but if you can't develop them--and he sure hasn't developed a quarterback during his tenure--then it's just an empty power ranking. It would be nice to give him a dignity-saving parachute out of A2, which brings me to...
Our tragic farce of an NFL team dispatched its coach and general manager after a lifeless performance on Thanksgiving. I don't like seeing people lose their jobs as a general rule--work is essential to keeping mind and body together. And I didn't dance in the streets when Patricia and Quinn got their pink slips. But yeesh--it was deserved. Patricia's post-game conferences were the same word salad of "gonna look at the film gotta work harder at our end gotta coach better focused on the next game" -- lather, rinse, repeat for every loss. And Quinn's drafting decisions were not stellar, apart from the offensive line and finding Golladay in the third round.
Patricia's kids' summer camp version of the "Patriot Way" left the locker room grumble free, but also listless. That can be seen in last week's miracle win over Chicago: the Lions still made mistakes, but they played with energy and enthusiasm.
The odds that Darrell Bevell is the next head coach are really low, unless the team runs the table. Not going to happen, but it least it shows that the current collection of players has some fight in them.
So, as to the long-term replacement? Mutterings about Harbaugh heading east along the I-94 are out there. And his tenure in SF was stellar, bringing a storied franchise up from the depths.
I doubt that this is likely, but it would help both, and in one fell swoop.
A guy can dream.
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