Well, it's more than the "old school" running in my mind

by Greg, seemingly ranch, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 12:21 (5796 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)

When he arrived at San Diego, they were a mediocre program at best. He took them from a standard offense to a pass-happy one and they went on to the best stretch in their history. In one year, they were seriously considered for the 1-AA playoffs despite being a nonscholarship school and really not being able to or expected to compete at the 1-AA scholarship level. He turned the switch on the program to "on" and in doing so merited the Stanford job, apparently.

At Stanford he made a big splash by calling out Petey and beating him in Jimmy-boy's first season at Stanford. Then after making that splash, he jumped with both feet into the Gearhart-based offense and made "some people" think he was great because he was running the ball. But in my mind he did so because Gearhart was what he had -- witness the development of Luck last year, and hanging 55 on the Trojans (yes, some by the defense), as proof that Jimmy wants to score points, not just grind clock.

I would guess, though I have no knowledge, that Jimmy will use Luck quite a bit this year and will surprise people who think that he's a run-first guy. At San Diego, he definitely spread the field and passed and I think that if he has the horses to do it at Stanford that's what we'll see.

Ultimately, he may not deserve a big job yet, but he probably has come to deserve the chance to coach Michigan, because it's his alma mater and because it's falling apart and because his recent history at two jobs shows that he can turn things around relatively quickly and will make use of what he has on campus to do so.