I would bet on it. Mario is not trying to be the smartest guy in the room. He sees how bad our QBs look. TVD is a good player and the other two have talent. It shouldn’t be this bad.
Then he obviously didn't do his due diligence and ask around about Gattis and watch Michigan film to see the type of coach he is.
This was known.....by all. The only thing he could say is he got "tricked" by Gattis saying he would tailor his offense to player strengths. It was all lip service. Gattis is outcoached every single game.
Here's my biggest issue with this season. Regardless of the players.....the injuries, the blown assignments, the fumbles/INTs, the effort at times (tackling in particular).....this number of games in, you should see SOME type of improvement or culture being set. The trajectory should be starting to go up by now. You should see slight improvements in play of young guys. You should see players starting to be in the right places more often. You should see guys with garbage effort being weeded out. You should see players getting mad and showing emotion, putting in the extra effort in games or on the sidelines and hearing about that effort off the filed as well. Yet, after 9 games, the line only gets lower. That is 100% on coaches. As a staff, you are either poor at your craft from a fundamentals/scheme/technique standpoint or you are poor at getting through to players. It matters little to which is the reason (maybe both) when the staff is paid as much as this staff currently is. I personally am not seeing good technique or fundamentals....hand usage, tackling, angles, **** poor route running that consistently puts 2 guys in the same area, spacing, etc.....and bad Oline play, which is the LAST thing i expected to see. All we kept hearing during the hiring process is "Mario has a plan" and that's why it took so long. This is what took so long? This disjointed mess where it appears that coaches are already on the chopping block year 1? Good god. What could we have gotten if hired were made within 2 weeks? A winless season?
It's a good thing Norvell can't recruit because he just wiped the mat with a team of lesser ranked talent. Their entire OL is 3-star players across the board with 3 transfers.....So Carolina, ND and Charlotte. 100 of their 225 yards receiving were RBs bc our LBs and Safeties struggle in space. Jordan Travis, who has been mocked endlessly on here, outplayed UM's three 4-star QB recruits. This wasn't just a loss. It was a beatdown by your single biggest rival, who's not even that good, in front of all those recruits you are trying to sell on a future.
