After Saturday's Win, Do You Trust Sherrone Moore to Turn Michigan Around?

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Jim and Jon discuss whether Michigan Head Coach Sherrone Moore can turn the program around in the next couple of years.

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00:00The question then is, did it restore any faith that Sharone Moore will get it right?

00:07It's not right this year. It's not going to get right this year.

00:11He's going to have to hit the transfer portal. He's going to have to own the transfer portal for O-line.

00:17Really for a lot of different parts of the team because the talent that he does have this year,

00:23a lot of it will be in the draft and won't be back next year.

00:28So you're not going to have a Will Johnson, I would assume.

00:32You're not going to have a Mason Graham or a Kenneth Grant or a Colston Loveland.

00:35Now the tight end position is pretty stacked. Hogan Hanson is pretty good.

00:39They've got a lot of talent there, but you're going to have to find talent at almost every position in the transfer portal.

00:46Sharone Moore is a good recruiter coming out of high school.

00:51Do you believe he'll be a guy that will be good in the transfer portal?

00:55Because at no point in college football history are you able to change the trajectory of a program quicker than you can now.

01:04Yeah, I thought it was encouraging that the quarterbacks seem to be set up for success.

01:08I mean, they are what they are, right?

01:11When I saw it was Davis Warren, I go, oh boy.

01:14And I think you knew even before I did, but I'm going, oh boy.

01:17And they had him with safe completions early. Now he missed some stuff.

01:21He is still Davis Warren, but he didn't turn the ball over, which is a huge win for him.

01:24And he had a couple nice throws when he needed to.

01:27And the misses were more in the second half. He missed the first pass of the game, but then he completed 10 in a row.

01:32And it wasn't until like completion 6 or 7 where it was actually past the line.

01:36Yeah, I know. But it felt like they knew what they were working with.

01:40They were going to make the most of what they were working with.

01:43And I think it's incumbent on them this offseason to be working with more next season.

01:47And there's an advantage. This is such a silver lining.

01:51Because they're bad, they're going to get to go at the front of the buffet line.

01:55To the portal? Yeah, they're going to go to the portal and they're going to say, I want some lobster.

01:59I want some steak. I'm going to come up for seconds and thirds, as opposed to last year when they could have done a better job.

02:04But the buffet line had already been picked through a little bit.

02:07It's going to have to be an aggressive offseason for them. It may mean coaching staff changes.

02:11I have not been overly impressed with Kurt Campbell, Wink Martindale.

02:14I don't know if he's a college coach long term, and certainly his defense is disappointed this season.

02:19Does Sharon make a tough call on one or both coordinators?

02:22Does he bring in a quarterback and a coordinator combo meal?

02:26We see more of that in college football. I'm not giving you anything specific.

02:29But I am curious to see how he reflects on this year afterwards and can try to make more wholesale changes in the moment.

02:37They got to win the Northwestern game to get to a bowl game.

02:40I don't expect them to beat Oregon or Ohio State or even Indiana.

02:43How they look in those games. Yeah, that will matter for perception.

02:47There's no moral victory, but perception for the program.

02:50You can't lose by 35 to Ohio State. You can't lose by 28 to Oregon this week.

02:55So here's what you need to see in the Oregon game.

02:58It needs to look better playing against Oregon than you looked against Texas.

03:03So that there is a way to show, OK, it feels like you are improving as a program.

03:09There is actual development. There's actual coaching going on.

03:14Take the line aside. I don't even know what it is right now.

03:18No one is going to pick Michigan to win outright against Oregon coming to town.

03:22I'm probably not picking either.

03:25But how do they look compared to how they looked against Texas when they play Ohio State at the end?

03:31I know it's a rivalry and all that stuff, but how do they play in that game on the road in Columbus

03:38versus how they played at home against Texas and Oregon?

03:42Some ticket text. 248-539-9797.

03:45This win restores zero of my faith in the Michigan coaching staff.

03:49Wink Martindale and Jerome Moore both need to be fired.

03:52It says, unfortunately, won't happen until the NCAA crap is over.

03:55Michigan will continue to be terrible for the next couple of years.

03:58Drew in Woodhaven.

04:00Well, if you don't believe he's going to do anything in the portal, then yeah, that would be the assumption.

04:07We saw Ohio State hit the portal heavy to try to get back into the title picture.

04:12I think Michigan will have to be unafraid.

04:15John, I don't know the financials. I don't know if they're going to throw $20 million.

04:18The point is it's going to have to be an aggressive offseason for Michigan because this is not acceptable.

04:21This is nowhere close to acceptable.

04:23Six, seven wins is three, four wins from acceptable.

04:26Here's the difference between Michigan hitting the portal and Ohio State.

04:29Ohio State hit the portal hard because Alabama was seeing a coaching change.

04:35They picked up a number of different players from really good programs that were seeing a little bit of a turnover.

04:40But they were adding to a really good base of talent.

04:44Michigan is going to have to have a lot of wholesale change.

04:48TicketTexture says, Spartan here. Big fan of Jonathan Smith.

04:51I do think he understands the rivalry we lost because of poor execution.

04:54However, I can't help but wonder if Cignetti would have been the better hire.

05:01I think both Michigan and Michigan State could ask that question.

05:03He's done such a remarkable job at Indiana of all places.

05:06Before I jump all over, I think Cignetti has done a really, really nice job in Bloomington.

05:13I need to see a full season and maybe even a second season because he did the same thing.

05:18He hit the transfer portal hard.

05:20Brought a lot of his JMU guys.

05:22I want to see what he looks like against Ohio State.

05:27Play the big boys.

05:30They're still off to their best start in 50, 60 years.

05:33It's crazy.

05:35If they only won another game this season, it would still be one of the greatest seasons in Indiana football history.

05:40I think they're going to win a couple games, still get the 10 wins and be in that conversation.

05:43To be a playoff team.

05:45Those 10 wins get them in.

05:46It's a big 10 team with only two losses.

05:48I think they'll be favored in all but one game the rest of the way.

05:50That's 11-1.

05:51I think they got a shot against Ohio State.

05:53As silly as that sounds, I do.

05:55I don't think very highly of this Buckeye team.

05:57I do think highly of Indiana.

05:59They'll have a puncher's chance in that game.

06:01I need to see it to believe.

06:03That's one I've got to see to believe.

06:05TicketTexters, 2485399797 with some of their thoughts.

06:09This one says,

06:11Jonathan Smith literally said he now understands how big the rivalry is,

06:14which means he didn't fully know what to expect.

06:17Says, I'd still take Jonathan Smith over coach Moore any day.

06:20Go green.

06:21TicketTexter says,

06:22Smith actually understood the rivalry too much.

06:25He knew he had to come in and run the football

06:27and win the battle of the line of scrimmage, and they did.

06:29The problem is they didn't do the other stuff.

06:31They didn't make enough plays in their passing game.

06:33They gave up too many plays in the passing game on play action.

06:36Yeah, it's an interesting read that he was too dialed in.

06:39People probably told him,

06:40if you win the rushing battle, you're winning the football game.

06:42And he's looking around going,

06:43what gives, guys?

06:44I won the rushing battle.

06:45You guys told me that's all I had to do.

06:47With the way that they came out, though,

06:49and dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball,

06:53I find it very hard to believe that he didn't have his team ready.

06:56Now, you could say error in game plan.

06:58They didn't throw the ball enough against Michigan Secondary,

07:00minus Will Johnson.

07:01Even if Will Johnson was there,

07:02they have really struggled against the pass.

07:05And I just,

07:07he's not the quarterback.

07:09The quarterback ultimately fumbled the ball.

07:11One time,

07:12I thought Ian Childs played a good game,

07:14but he made a mistake in that moment.

07:17And he's also not the kicker.

07:19And no, Kim is a good kicker.

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