Michigan Football: What is wrong with the Wolverines?

1. Coaches are too stubborn

Let’s be honest you don’t get to the position that Jim Harbaugh and the other coaches are by not being somewhat stubborn. You have your core beliefs on how you want to coach and your own philosophies and that is great. You should never change those. It is what got you to your position and you shouldn’t just abandon it when you get there.

But at the same time the best coaches are ones that can learn with the changing of the times and make adjustments. That doesn’t mean you can’t still coach how you want and run the system you want, but you have to be willing to change.

The problem with the Wolverines is that the coaches don’t want to for whatever reason. They are stubborn and feel like there way is going to work. Well new flash, it isn’t. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. That is exactly what seems to be happening now.

Harbaugh brought in Josh Gattis to “mix up” the offense, but it still looks like too much of the same thing. They still try and run the ball when it isn’t working. The receivers struggle to get open and everything on offense just seems so difficult.

Don Brown’s defense has looked great in the past against bad teams, but their are glaring weaknesses and the good teams exploit them. Does he do anything different? If he has, I am having a hard time seeing it. He wants to play his defense and doesn’t make any adjustments to what the other team is doing. No other defense for a “good” team has the obvious weaknesses that the Wolverines do every year.

These guys are smart guys and got to their positions for a reason, but man are they bull headed. Harbaugh is going to coach his way no matter what and it seems like his assistants have fallen in line with him.

They need to open up their minds and be receptive to change, or nothing is going to change. Things are working right now, maybe they need to look into the mirror.