Digging into Michigan's struggles, Jim Harbaugh, Don Brown and more
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In an admittedly lengthy episode, we review how Michigan has gotten to this point, what’s next and tackle listener questions about Jim Harbaugh, Don Brown and more.
We open by resetting our conversation from Sunday’s episode, looking at the seat temperatures of Brown and Harbaugh. We then go big picture and look at what has gone the most wrong in the Jim Harbaugh era, diving into defensive tackle woes, slow-to-adapt offenses and defenses and possible program-wide overconfidence. We also look at the recruiting side of things, discussing arguable shortcomings at defensive tackle, cornerback, quarterback and more.
In the second half of the show, we do more coaching-change discussions. We look at the viability of firing an assistant midseason, why the cons outweigh the pros to waiting until the season ends, what we would do in Michigan’s shoes with Don Brown and a potential Notre Dame comparison.
We then discuss Jim Harbaugh’s status with the program, including what we think will happen, coaching candidates we’d look at first if he left, what is going through Harbaugh’s mind and the Athletic Department’s role in what has happened to Michigan and what’s next.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.1 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:08.7 | Check out all of our stories over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.24-7 sports.com, lots of stuff |
| 0:14.2 | previewing Wisconsin. Still a few stories kind of talking about what's happened with the Wolverines |
| 0:19.6 | one and two start. |
| 0:26.3 | We also had a podcast on, well, we recorded Saturday and I think it came out on Sunday, |
| 0:29.2 | recapping the Michigan's loss to Indiana. |
| 0:33.6 | And kind of, we actually did do a hot seat temperature check. |
| 0:38.2 | But as I said in that episode, the state of the program questions that came from that loss, I wanted to save for a true listener-driven episode, just kind of looking at how Michigan |
| 0:47.8 | got to this point, what could be next, what should be next. Lots of little debates within the grand discussion. |
| 0:56.4 | So that's what this episode is. |
| 0:58.6 | I think every question that was asked before we recorded, we'll get to. |
| 1:05.8 | Thank you to our listeners for sending some great questions. |
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| 1:19.8 | either on Twitter or over at the Michigan Insider.com. So first, quickly to recap last week, or not last week, last episode, we gave Don Brown a nine or a ten out of ten on the hot seat. |
| 1:35.3 | I think you and I are in agreement. |
| 1:37.0 | It's just really hard to justify him still, him being the defense. |
| 1:43.3 | I mean, finishing out the season, we'll talk about |
| 1:45.3 | mid-season firings versus post-season ones later on this episode, but kind of viewed him as |
| 1:51.5 | someone really hard to envision him being the defensive coordinator for Michigan beyond this |
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