Parallels to year 8 Harbaugh year 6
Beilein took over a mediocre Michigan team, and built them back to being respectable. Year 8 hit, and they got blitzed with weird injuries and bad luck, along with playing a bunch of new (young) players. Every post I saw on here was FIRE BEILEIN! Obviously, that didn't happen, and he turned it around. He left on his own terms, and left Michigan in a MUCH better position than what he inherited.
Harbaugh took over a team that was more than mediocre. They were absolutely awful. He came in and immediately brought Michigan back to respectability (raising the fan base's expectations to the level of unreasonable). Year 6 has been crushed with injuries, bad luck, COVID related silliness (less games, no spring practice, season canceled and then reestablished, and last minute opt outs of a few of our best players), and trying to replace the roster with young and inexperienced players. Every post on here is FIRE HARBAUGH!
If our own history of post "FIRE CARR!" hasn't taught us anything......or other "blue blood" programs struggling to find former glory, after replacing coaches......then look no further than our very own basketball program. The difference between a terrible season and a good season could just be 1 year of some experience, less injuries and more experience away. ?
November 22nd, 2020 at 9:50 PM ^
Fire Bakich
November 22nd, 2020 at 10:14 PM ^
It's been said here before, but I'll say it again. The way that game was stolen from him in 2016 broke him, and he has never been the same.
November 22nd, 2020 at 11:38 PM ^
Only problem is the expectation of the basket program was never as high as the football program. But may be Michigan is evolving into a basketball program and they will extend Harbaughs contract and the University may having an average football program is now alright since the fans are use to it since about 2008.
November 23rd, 2020 at 9:49 AM ^
Lets not kid ourselves. Harbaugh was hired for 3 reasons.
1. Beat our rivals. OSU, MSU and Notre Dame.
2. Win Big Ten Championships
3. Put us in contention for National Championships and win Bowl games.
So where does that leave us? What are his results?
Against OSU: 0-5, likely to be 0-6 at the conclusion of the 2020 season.
Against MSU: 3-3, not good considering they have not been that good other than 1 or 2 seasons since he has been at UM.
Against Notre Dame: 1-1
Big Ten Championships? Barely sniffed them, they run through OSU and we have only been competitive once in 2016. In those 5 games OSU has average 44.2 pts while UM has averaged 25.2 pts, thats getting blown out of the water. The last 2 seasons OSU has averaged almost 60 pts per game! This year we may see the highest score ever, I'm thinking somewhere close to 80 pts.
National Championship> LOL!!! In Bowl games alone he is 1-4.
We are constantly losing the last 2-3 games of the year, every year for over a decade. Since the 2017 season, Harbaugh's team has been dominated in bowl games and against OSU. As HIS players have taken over the team, they have somehow gotten worse. I'm not even getting into no upset wins in his tenure, very few top 25 or road wins. Nothing about his tenure suggests he should get an extension or remain coach past the end of this season.
November 23rd, 2020 at 9:54 AM ^
Year 6 has been crushed with injuries, bad luck, COVID related silliness (less games, no spring practice, season canceled and then reestablished, and last minute opt outs of a few of our best players), and trying to replace the roster with young and inexperienced players.
For the most part, hasn't every other college football team had to deal with many of the same issues? If we are being honest, I'd say Rutgers and state had more issues to deal with than we did. We barely beat Rutgers and we lost to state.
Sometimes, no matter how bad it hurts, you just have to cut your losses.
November 24th, 2020 at 12:44 AM ^
Umm, Beilein had hardware and a national title game appearance at that point? Do you really not see the difference?