February 28th, 2015 at 8:41 AM ^
Looks legit to me.
February 28th, 2015 at 8:59 AM ^
Perhaps he's being Harbaughed.
February 28th, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^
Who among us is not scared of Harbaugh?
February 28th, 2015 at 8:42 PM ^
Never look him in the eye, or run away, he can sense your fear. Look to the side and back away, slowly.
February 28th, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^
He damn sure should be! Talent plus actual coaching makes for bad things for the rest of the conference!
February 28th, 2015 at 9:05 AM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^
I fully expect for JH to ascend the peaks of LC.
February 28th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 9:55 AM ^
I'm guessing Lloyd Carr.
February 28th, 2015 at 10:40 AM ^
LC was notorious for sticking with his game plan for too long and not adapting! Jim Herrmann made me want to pull my hair out! (I'm a black man with very short hair, tweezers would definitely have to have been used) You are correct, Michigan was considered to be the place where superior talent came to die! But this is the polar opposite, we have talent on this roster! Coaching will get all we can out of that talent and translate in onto the field.
February 28th, 2015 at 8:55 PM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
At least we got a championship. Otherwise we'd only have a handful of people alive today that could say they saw Michigan win it all. I mean.... do you know anyone who was alive in 1948 and remembers us winning the championship?
February 28th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
If OSU is the yardstick then LC's record is unfortunately underachievement. And I don't know many people here who are willing to concede superiority to OSU for good.
February 28th, 2015 at 11:41 AM ^
a lot better than the 1997 nc. . .
February 28th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
Yeah, the nation would also remember our last championship being in 1948 if 1997 hadn't happened.
February 28th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^
Do you really want to bring up BCS bowl game record? I don't see anyone around here discrediting Bo over his abysmal bowl record.
The michigan fanbase is so shitty sometimes....... g'damn
February 28th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
I know I need to get my mind out of the gutter- but that just sounds gross...
February 28th, 2015 at 9:04 AM ^
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February 28th, 2015 at 9:20 AM ^
Love it. Can someone with skills put M gear on Harbaugh and replace Newton with Meyer?
February 28th, 2015 at 9:22 AM ^
I'm sure Meyer isn't really scared of Harbaugh, but to all the OSU fans out there who say they're not even remotely worried about Harbaugh, all I've got to ask them is the following:
If almighty Meyer struggled the last 3 years to beat a Brady Hoke-coached team, do they think it just got any easier now that we actually have a great coach roaming the sidelines?
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February 28th, 2015 at 10:33 AM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
I'm not overly concerned with Harbaugh for three reasons:
1) I don't expect for him to recruit to OSU's level. He never showed particularlly strong recruiting skills at Stanford-- he wasn't bad, but he didn't set the world on fire. He hired several people for his staff that are from the NFL who don't have relationships with high school coaches or much experience in dealing with kids that age, and he's competing with people that have been building those relationships for decades. It's Michigan, so of course he's going to have top 15 classes, but I very much doubt if he'll be consistently top 10, and shocked if he ever manages a top 5. That's going to be a significant talent gap.
2) He's running the pro style offense. I don't know what college football will look like in 10 years, but right now, in 2015, that's an enormous handicap. It works okay if you're Alabama and have an absurd talent advantage over almost everyone you play, but it simply won't win you championships otherwise. It's the perfect offense for scoring 27 points on a blustery November day while pinning your opponent inside his own 20 four times. Which isn't going to win games against good spread teams, who don't care in the slightest whether they start at their 10 or their 20, and are going to score 30+ points on a bad day.
3) He has worn out his welcome to an almost unfathomable degree at his last two jobs, and to a lesser extent at the one before that. There's going to be needless friction and drama because of his personality, he's going to slowly lose the backing of his superiors, and he's going to be gone within 6 years.
I'm pretty confident in the first two, and they're sufficient even if I'm wrong about the third. The great thing is that we'll actually get a factual answer with the passage of time; it's not like arguments over things that can never be proven or disproven.
February 28th, 2015 at 4:03 PM ^
yeah, no way this was a home run hire to have JMFH back at his alma mater.
Go jump in one of our many lakes.
February 28th, 2015 at 4:13 PM ^
1. Stanford was an absolute wreck before Harbaugh arrived, even a great recruiter would not be able to walk into that place and bring in top 10 recruiting classes. Stanford's recruiting classes in 2009 and 2010 (after he had established himself) were both significantly better than anything Stanford had brought in prior to Harbaugh arriving. Before arriving at Stanford he was also not on most people's radar as a great coach, that is clearly not the case this time around. Given the fact that Hoke and his staff were able to bring in a couple of top 10 classes I think you are being somewhat delusional, if you don't think a guy with Harbaugh's pedigree and his staff can't do the same.
2. You can win with any style. Harbaugh didn't have Alabama like talent at Stanford either, but that didn't stop him from going 12-1 in his final year. Offense regardless of what a team runs still ultimately comes down to execution and having a good gameplan. Acting as though a defense can't slow down a spread offense with a good gameplan and execution is also silly. You are also assuming that Harbaugh is more rigid than he actually is, his teams at Stanford while being heavy pro style also utilized some spread elements and SF was also one of the first teams in the NFL to start using the pistol. Harbaugh is not Hoke, his staff will call the game in the manner that it takes to win.
3. If he wins more games than the previous two HC's here none of that will matter. Winning solves everything. I am also not sure where you getting that he wore out his welcome at Stanford to an unfathomable degree, he left for he thought was a better job. Do you really think Stanford would not have wanted him back? He led them to a level of success, which was a pipe dream before he arrived
February 28th, 2015 at 7:51 PM ^
Stanford had a nice extension on the table for Jim when he left for San Fran. That wouldn't happen had he worn out his welcome unfathomably (whatever the hell that looks like; maybe Mussolini hanging upside down?)
February 28th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 6:16 PM ^
We'll see. Other than Michigan fans, the rest of the football world is pretty much united in being stunned by how *little* public support he got from any of his players at San Francisco. To say that "all" of his players lobbied for him is a statement so disconnected from reality as to make me question whether you get your news from anywhere other than mgoblog.
And we'll also see how well that pro style offense does for you. The evidence is super clear: for the rules that are in college right now, with the way those rules are being enforced, the physical limitations of the players, and the limited number of hours they can practice, the spread offense that so many schools are moving to is just clearly superior. You can thank the fact that Texas is moving to it for your QB: a 4* they no longer wanted because he runs an outdated system.
The most that Harbaugh proved at Stanford recruiting-wise was that he could be above average. He didn't wow anyone with his recruiting, and to pretend otherwise is wish fulfillment fantasy. Then he went and selected a coaching staff based on how well they could scheme and teach, with little apparent regard for recruiting experience. He might wind up being great, but there's no evidence at this point to believe that he will be; you're pinning all of your hopes on "but he coached in the pros OMG!!!", which shouldn't mean anything more to a recruit than "4/5 of our offensive line was drafted and played in the NFL their rookie year", or any of the other impressive evidence that other top coaches can give to high school students that they are able to develop and place players in the pros.
February 28th, 2015 at 7:03 PM ^
These posts and those who post them always crack me up. They come seek us out just to post how irrelevant we are in the football world. Sorry bud, but if you truly felt like we're a non-threat, you wouldn't even bother. So why are you even here? Actions speak far more loudly than your empty words.
Thanks for the laughs.
February 28th, 2015 at 9:18 PM ^
February 28th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
he was recruiting to stanford. you might be unfamiliar with that school, but they are likely employing many former buckeyes, as janitors and such. stanford is like northwestern, a private school with a ripping good academic reputation unlike...ohio. so he recruited smart, talented football studs. ohio players on the other hand didn't 'come to play school' and it shows. credit to your football team, but please don't mistake that for who can recruit to an exceptionally difficult school to qualify for, a fine academic school.
February 28th, 2015 at 6:31 PM ^
Your attempt at burning OSU's academics is cute. Having graduated from the #4 college in the country, the difference between UM at #29 and OSU at #54 seems pretty meaningless: you're both just Big10 football schools to me.
February 28th, 2015 at 7:00 PM ^
I attended a school from which I can say that, according to you.
(and I'm one of about a thousand on this site).
February 28th, 2015 at 7:49 PM ^
as to your post above, i guess you could find a survey that says that (i never have), but most put michigan as one of the top 25 schools on planet earth, the top public university on the planet (with occasional shifting with berkley and/or ucla), and ohio is somewhere in the coach section, if they can be found at all.
please tell me what school you graduated from. for that matter, please scan and post your diploma. i guess it could be true but then it seems that much more strange that you would care about tattoo-land.
and on your comment above about the 49'ers not loving harbaugh, you missed many a discussion on this board during that time. i can assure you that not only did the players love him, but so did the 49'er legends like lott and montana - friends of our family and who have weekly contact with my oldest brother who played at northwestern. as for me, i haven't spoken to them since i gave the eulogy at my sister-in-law's funeral. i had time to speak with them afterwards, at the wake. they had no problems with harbaugh and they think the 49'ers were fools to let him go.
February 28th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
while it should be recognized that ohio had a great run this year and good for them (as far as i'm able to try and say that), they would be fools not to have fear and trepidation over harbaugh.
we know that nobody has it better than us, and so does ohio!
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February 28th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
Saban shows up and the heart condition rears it's head..
February 28th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
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