From a friend who is a Michigan fan: "DeBord is widely disliked by Michigan fans for running the most predictable offenses of the Lloyd Carr era ("When Mike Debord plays rock-paper-scissors, he always picks rock."). He was also the OC when Michigan shredded the Gators in 2007 (when Florida had Tebow and Urban) and that offensive game plan was great. Maybe he's learned?"
Do you have to be classified as a "hand-wringer" for simply wanting someone who has actually called plays in the past year or so (let alone the past 8)? That's too much to ask, is it?Probably right... but not the smart money.
For the most part, we criticize things that have happened... not things that we speculate.
Hendrix left the program and most likely because of his relationship with the staff. They didn't want to lose him... and he would have contributed. That happened and was worthy of criticism.... as did the Vandy loss and the two UF losses.
DeBord may or may not fail... but none of the handwringers have any way of "knowing" that he will fail.
Do you want your son to end up with the "comfortable" girl or the prom queen?
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I think some of you may be overreacting. I've seen pictures from DeBord's last season as a coach, and they seemed to be using the forward pass in a pretty inventive way.
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With a different coach and qb style!
Perhaps but if you watch that beat down of UF you'll see some definite similarities in their offense and ours. I know it was a close game in score but UM dominated that game offensively; they overcame 4 turnovers to beat UF. That was a revised gameplan because Debord knew they couldn't beat UF with the offense they had run through the regular season. Carr took the shackles off and Debord won that game for UM. I will take a coach like that all day any day. Add to that Debord has extensive experience on the Oline and this is a solid hire.
If we hired Sanford the board would be falling all over themselves to compliment him. The last imported OC from Boise didn't work out for UF and he had a more extensive and impressive resume than Sanford. Guys just have a little patience before you eviscerate someone. At best you're going to have to eat crow at worst you may blow a blood vessel.
I agree the recruiting deserved it's own celebration!Good hire? Bad hire? I don't know. It's not my job to know.
So far Butch has impressed in the various parts of being an HC. I'm willing to go along.
I do suspect that it will be more complicated than just hiring DeBord. There will likely be a significant realignment of the staff. I doubt our very promising QBs will be left to the tender mercies of a GA.
There are some posters saying Butch didn't make the announcement to keep from hurting recruiting or some other such nonsense. Bat feces. The recruits and the fans needed to have NSD stand on its own. It needed to be enjoyed on its own. It would be stupid to combine such different news items. They should not have competed with each other for attention.
I think the point is Butch wanted the offense to remain his system, and hiring someone else would have meant Butch having to let that O.C. run what he wants rather than what Butch wants. Also making Azzani Co O.C. or passing game coordinator keeps him on staff.
I can understand Butch's thinking and it has a pretty good chance of working seeing as he will just be running the same system.