Glow
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Top 10 is an arbitrary cutoff, Michigan classes were still good (47 bluechips on roster) they were not Rice classes but that is besides the point which is that you don't need to assign backward-looking odds or theorycraft re: the question of whether players with game tape are good when you have the tape of them matching up in big games and you can go read what scouts are saying about the players.I completely disagree. Do you know what the chances are that a team hits on all of their recruits at this rate when not having Top 10 classes. It’s almost impossible.
The more logical and rational explanation is that their coach recruits players of a certain type, size, demeanor, and then he and his staff get the most out of them through great coaching, scheme fit, and play calling.
I’ve already seen several posts on social media lauding their defensive scheme/play calling, and saying that it’s NFL level with the concepts that they’re running.
Whether you believe it or not, our Canes have recruited just as well, but have not put our players in the best position to win repeatedly. This problem has been plaguing our team for almost 2 decades.
This game isn’t complicated. Recruit talented players and scheme to their greatest strengths, while not shooting yourself on the foot with horrible game day coaching and poor decision making and play calling. All of our coaches during the last 2 decades have tried to fit squares into circles and have failed miserably while trying to reinvent the wheel.
It's not either/or. Michigan's split zone and simulated pressure scheme was confusing QBs and their defensive line was winning 1-on-1 matchups at the point of attack on the line of scrimmage and their players on the starting defensive line were better players than the players that started on the line for UGA and Bama this year. Michigan getting pressure against UW with a 4-man rush wasn't galaxy brain scheme stuff that part was line talent.
Check back to see the NFL grades for Michigan's defensive starters this year when the time comes, especially on the line and DB1.
This idea that Michigan's defense was out there with no talent is not necessary to make any broader point I dunno why people feel the need to push that idea in order to argue that coaching matters, a team with NFL coaches that committed no penalties and communicated well and rarely busted coverages or missed tackles was clearly well-coached. Michigan switched from base man coverage because Ohio State's roster full of NFL WRs was always cooking Michigan's secondary back in the Urban Meyer days so clearly there is a coaching component in the overall story.
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