Friday, September 21, 2007
Should Carr Step Down?
Michigan is a terrible team this year, plain and simple, nobody can argue that fact, but are they a bad team because of the players or because of the coach? Michigan is off to a 1-2 start, their one win coming after the way they handled Notre Dame this past Saturday. Unfortunately for Michigan, Notre Dame is not a great team either, they are worse then Michigan but that's another story. Michigan started the season 0-2 which according to http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070910/SPORTS08/709100347/1131/SPORTS0201 was the first time Michigan opened the season with two straight home loses since 1959. I personally am a die hard Ohio State Buckeye's fan but I am also a die hard college football fan and I will give credit where credit is due. In his prime coach Carr was a good coach, his teams were always in a national championship race and he got the nations top recruits as well as any other coach, I just think that age is setting in for him, sometimes you just have to know when to say enough is enough. He had 26 returning seniors to the team according to the roster on http://www.mgoblue.com/roster.cfm?section_id=258&top=2&level=3. Two of these seniors go by the names of Chad Henne and Mike Hart. For those of you who don't know these two athletes were the number nine and number five in the pre season Heisman trophy race as seen on http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/stories/012307aai.html. Another interesting thing about these two is that both of them could have skipped their senior year and went pro but no, they came back to win a national championship and beat Ohio State. How do they expect to do that if they can't even beat a one AA team? This is a perfect example of why Carr should step down because he is really just hurting the program. Michigan is not the type of team to fire a coach midway through season and I agree with them on that one, he has been with the program for so many years at least let him go out with some class. What it comes down to is Michigan's problem is not their players, it's their coach. At the end of this season regardless of the record the athletic director for Michigan needs to give Carr the option to retire and if he refuses then give him the boot, after that they can hire a younger coach and try to rebuild the team and get Michigan back to a championship caliber team, maybe they can even beat Ohio State someday...although they shouldn't count their chickens before they hatch.
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I would completely agree with this post becasue i think Carr is doing a terrible job there at Michigan. He has lost to Ohio State five out of the last six years which is totally unacceptible. The Michigan football team definately has the talent level to be a good team in the NCAA but because of pore coaching in the Oregon and Appalaichan State games they lost. He is honestly not soing a good job of caching and Michigan needs to realize this and they need to start the jon search for a new head football coach or bad things will start to happen to a very good football program.
"but are they a bad team because of the players or because of the coach?"
IMHO it's the coach. Carr's biggest fault is player development. (next on the list is his "play not to lose" philosophy instead of instilling a "play to win" attitude)
Great players will always want to play for the most storied programs in the nation. Michigan will always get quality players. On average, UM and Carr will get just as many four and five star recruits as the next big program will. As proof, Michigan has had a top ten recruiting class since 2003 (Number two in the nation in 2005).
It's what a program does with those players over three or four years to turn them into the best football player that they can be that makes the difference.
Chad Henne was a Rivals.com five star recruit out of high school. Mario Manningham and Jake Long were four star recruits. Along with pre-season Heisman hopeful Mike Hart and a lot of other quality players, this team has yet to beat Ohio State or win a bowl game with Carr at the helm.
Carr is 5-1 in his last six bowls and 5-1 against a Jim Tressel led Buckeyes team.
In 2002, Jim Tressel was playing players like three star recruit freshman AJ Hawk as well as pedestrian, un-ranked QB Craig Krenzel and winning National Championships with them.
Last year, Tressel played for another National Championship with eventual Hesiman trophy winner Troy Smith, who incidentally was not even recruited out of high school as a position player but just as an "athlete". (BTW, Jim Tressel has had only ONE top ten recruiting class since 2003 and has still managed to run with the big dogs)
All that to say, yes, unfortunately for Buckeye fans everywhere, it is time to drive the old Carr home, park it in the garage and buy something with a few "Les Miles" on it.
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