The difference in this game, JJ mccarthy had a
few of those fu throws too in there, but
he made more of the layups. He made more
of the easy throws. There were way too many
easy balls near the line of scrimmage that ended up
in the dirt for Kyle mccord. The offense relative
to what we expected from their run game was able
to open up some holes against a really good Michigan
defense and they had this close the entire time.
It was a turnover within the body of the game
because final turnover came on that last drive for uh
Kyle mccord and this Ohio State offense, but really
the turnover was the difference in the whole game.
And then dad, I wanna give credit to Sharon
Moore. I said it after the game and I
understand the signs sting scandal might cloud some of the
opportunities ahead. And people inside Michigan think, hey
, if Harbaugh jumped Sharon Moore looks like he could
be the heir apparent. That guy's a head coach
and the that he approached the two biggest challenges of
Michigan season, the adjustments he made against Penn State
in that game, the fourth down aggressiveness in this
game, the way that he helped his tackles out
against these great Ohio state pass rushers on the edges
, all of it. The endgame decision making that
Jim Harbaugh couldn't help him out with. Jim Harbaugh
was around during the week. But when it came
to how he managed the football game, did Sharon
Moore going back to early in the season. Well
, remember Jim Harbaugh suspended for those first few games
, gave coaching opportunities, the head coaching opportunities to
some of his assistants including Sharon Moore. You're seeing
the value in that for a guy who is always
gonna be a head coaching candidate. The 37 year
old Moore had been a great job as their offensive
line coach back to back Joe Moore winning offensive line
, offensive coordinator full time. This season was the
co coordinator before that he demonstrated with real reps in
a game where he could not be helped by his
boss. Why I think he's going to do a
great job as somebody's head coach in the very near
the not so distant future, whether that is Michigan
or whether that's somebody else. I thought he stepped
up big time and against Ryan Day who despite what
Ohio State fans say, I think is a pretty
good coach, went out here and really outdueled him
at certain points. Ryan Day has six losses in
his tenure and all to rank teams. I mean
, it's the only losses he has unfortunately, three
of them have now come to Michigan. And we
were saying the same thing about Harbaugh a few years
ago when he lost a couple in a row but
was still winning outside of that. It's like,
how long do the alumni?