Michigan Football

I got on Twitter last Friday because I had quit Facebook and thought I'd at least give it a try.
I had been watching a lot of the press conferences leading up to the Michigan Iowa game that was coming up on Saturday.  I thought I could use Twitter to follow some of the Michigan fans and writers to get a little insight into the behind the scenes.  There were two Detroit News writers (Wojnowski and Chengelis) and the announcer Jim Brandstatter.  Please forgive me not looking up the spelling.  It was kinda interesting as things unfolded.  Brandstatter tweets quite a bit and that's what's fun to me.  He tweeted a little about traveling on a chartered plane out to Iowa.  

Wojo keeps his tweets pretty much on message regarding Detroit area sports.  Chengelis only became active at game-time.  I think her tweets are job/career related.

Well, I watched the entire game and was very disappointed in Michigan's performance.  Not in the players' efforts nor their desire.  I think the problem lies in the coaching approach.  Look, these coaches have been at this game for many years so maybe my opinion is worthless.  None the less, that's what sports is all about and I'm so happy I can express my opinion on my Blog.  


I felt the same way I did when Michigan was Playing Michigan State.  Didn't we prepare for them to have some strategy to use against us?  They had a bye week to prepare for us!  Did we really think we could just adjust to what they were doing "On the fly"?  Well Iowa didn't have a bye week, but if they just listened to the pregame press conferences they would have known we were expecting them to be pretty one dimentional in their approach.  It was going to be a slugging contest.  To some degree that was right but I think they had a plan on defense that we never did catch on to.  I think our approach needs to be more aggressive.  We need to go out on the field and make things happen.  Make them adjust to us.  Take the initiative.  Our defense played well enough to win.  Our offense was just too predictable.  I believe the offensive team is not being motivated properly.  We need to get our lead early in the game Execute, Execute, Execute.  Take the fight out of them and their fans.  We need to Blitzkrieg these people. 
Bo was a great motivator and I would bet all of the great coaches were great motivators.  If that's missing at Michigan, someone needs to step up.  If nothing else, have the team watch the movie,"Patton" before each game.