<p>I agreed with him last week!</p>
<p>Fire Borges, fire Funk. Hire the best OC and OL coach you can. Get an actual QB coach. Continue to develop Gardner over the year/offseason. </p>
<p>We arent helping Gardner at all. Poor play calling. Poor OL. No running game. It is unfair and ridiculous to pin everything on him.</p>
<p>It is unfair and ridiculous to pin the entire failure of our offense on any one element. bearcats is basically right about Gardner, the fact that he was actually garnering pro hype before the season is laughable. Borges is giving Gardner absolutely nothing to work with because Borges is a pathetic joke of an offensive coordinator. Similarly, Gardner is being given very little by his offensive line, which is similarly a joke (the regression of the o-line means Funk needs to go as well). He also isn’t getting any help from mediocre running backs who are unable to create anything for themselves. The one bright spot our offense has is a pretty good receiving corp, but obviously when the other 4 main elements of your offense aren’t getting it done, those receivers are essentially nullified.</p>
<p>So don’t pin this squarely on Gardner, or squarely on Borges, or squarely on the o-line. Pin it on all of them. They are all at fault, and at a certain point firing Borges doesn’t necessarily change things and you have to look at Hoke for causing such a systematic breakdown of an offense. The fact that Borges is likely not getting fired tomorrow reflects poorly on both Hoke and Dave Brandon, who if he has any integrity should overrule Hoke and can Borges tomorrow.</p>
<p>Nebraska wasn’t a well-coached, talented, motivated, passionate, proud team</p>
<p>Nebraska made bone-headed mistakes that we couldn’t do anything to capitalize on…they dropped a punt, we recovered it and all we got was a field goal.</p>
<p>I don’t really care when the football team loses. It’s absurd how much hysteria a dumb team receives. The tailgate experience is great but the fixation with “student” athletes is tragic.</p>
<p>Parent08765. There would be little to no tailgating without some “fixation with students athletes.” Whether you like it or not, big time college sports bring a lot of attention to the university. Most of the attention is good!</p>
<p>I wonder if Gardner starts next yr. Yes, he is not close to the entire problem on offense but who is QB is always interesting as the centerpiece of the offense.</p>
<p>The QB situation will be an interesting one. If Morris is as good as advertised, it won’t take much for him to unseat Gardner. While I do not blame Gardner for our offensive woes (those are, in my opinion, mainly attributed to horrible OL and RB production), Gardner has shown poor judgement so far. I try to remember that he has be QB for less than a year, but even in the last 3-4 games, he has not shown much improvement. Unless Gardner and Co. can turn things around in the next 4 games (including a Bowl game), I think the coaches will let the Spring and Summer camps determine who gets to start next season.</p>
<p>An excellent article on espn sports comparing Hoke to great coach’s performance in their third and fourth years like Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr.</p>
<p>[Big</a> Ten weekend rewind: Week 11 - Big Ten Blog - ESPN](<a href=“Big Ten weekend rewind: Week 11 - ESPN - Big Ten Blog- ESPN”>Big Ten weekend rewind: Week 11 - ESPN - Big Ten Blog- ESPN)</p>
<p>The point is most great coaches were getting great performance by their third year of coaching. In some cases it took four years. If the rest of Michigan’s games remain bad, Hoke may only have one more year.</p>
<p>Yep - 3 yrs. Kill is in his 3rd yr. same yr he turned around N IL and S IL. Many good coaches get it done in the 3rd yr of much lesser schools</p>
<p>Lesser schools = lesser competition</p>
<p>Plus he only has 2 full recruiting classes, not 3. </p>
<p>He’s going to get at least another year no matter what happens. We have a good to very good D, but no one to develop the O. We are bringing in top level talent. We just need not Borges on the other end.</p>
<p>As I predicted, Da’Shawn hand has chosen to go to a winning program. He is off to Alabama, and I wish him well. He will accomplish great things there. I definitely think he made the right decision. Hopefully, Hoke will wake up and fire Borges.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I don’t know if it is true or false, but I heard that Hand went to Alabama because Brady Hoke refused to allow him to major in Civil Engineering and pushed him towards Sports Management while Bama encouraged him to study CE if he so desired.</p>
<p>^^^I thought the above poster was banished from this board?</p>