Reaction: Coaching costs Michigan potential upset bid vs. No. 1 Oregon
ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Wolverines may not have been good enough to beat No. 1 Oregon on Saturday in Ann Arbor, but that does not mean that it played a good enough game, either.
Blunders all over the field, whether it be on offense, defense and special teams in key moments, let the team down. By extension, the coaching staff has to take shoulder much of the blame of what happened at the Big House.
TheWolverine.com’s Anthony Broome and former Michigan defensive lineman Ryan Van Bergen discuss the 38-17 loss to the nation’s top-ranked team on Saturday.
“I feel like the coaching is what let these guys down today,” Van Bergen said on the show. “Were there some individual things that happened that performance-wise wise could have impacted the game? Sure. But the penalties [cost them], especially pre-snap penalties, the lack of situational awareness, those types of things, especially in November. We’re now in November football, and those are the type of things that you shouldn’t have exist on your team at this point. It does feel good to see some progression in some areas, but I feel like we’ve taken some step back in other places where we’ve moved forward here, we’re backwards here.
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“When you play noncomplimentary football against a team like Oregon, they’re one of the best teams in the country. I have no doubt about it. They’ve earned their ranking. They’re definitely in the top five. I think that they’re at a tier along with Texas, who we also played. With the guys that we have on our roster, we probably can’t compete nine games out of 10 in those scenarios, but I thought that this team could have given themselves more opportunities to be there and be within a little bit closer reach at the end.
“But I do think that coaching in all facets, there were some defensive mistakes, offensive mistakes, special teams mistakes, coaching all around. We got out-coached and outplayed in certain positions. And this is the end result.”
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