WTKA Roundtable 1/20/2022: Who Is Little Wayne
Things discussed:
- Pre-show: Jim Harbaugh thoughts at the tail end of The Michigan Insider.
- Question: Interim tag? What about co-head coaches?
- Harbaugh: Likely to return to Michigan, wants to see if the NFL is interested but we only see the Raiders as potentially interested.
- Mike Elston: One of the guys. If you’re going to be a lifelong DL coach might as well come home.
- Let’s play if he goes: Hart? Gattis? Macdonald?
- Outside options? We haven’t changed.
- Likelihood it happens? Only Raiders, G-Men seems like it would be weird. If the NFL really wanted Jim Harbaugh he’d be in the NFL right now. It would have to be a team that wants to make the whole operation Harbaugh’s because your GM has to be the rare type of boss who can get along with him.
- Jacksonville? Not with Baalke there. But Jim’s good friend is director of player personnel.
- Do we care that Michigan has a coach looking around? If it wasn’t Harbaugh, probably.
- Hoops: Played with guts in Champaign, PG coming around, Frankie’s not a shooter but had a super spreader event at Crisler.
- Hockey: Got lucky to win 2 against PSU, go to Minnesota when they’re trying to find a goalie (can’t have ours again).
You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream.
Segment two is available here. And you can watch the video here:
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Fortunately that was a very socially distanced crowd.
January 20th, 2022 at 11:37 AM ^
I don't feel as though Gattis is quite ready for HC at a place like Michigan yet, but I am coming around to the idea that he may be the best viable option *as an interim* if push comes to shove. Give him a season as an extended job interview and see what he can do.
My money is still on Jim staying... but I'll only go as much as $10 on it.
January 20th, 2022 at 11:55 AM ^
I have never understood the speculation about Gattis as a head coach. (I am agreeing with you, to be clear.) The guy is still young, and he has had one (very) successful year as an OC. I just don't see what sort of proven experience he has that would make people think he is ready for the responsibility of a head coach. Maybe he is. But it puzzles me how, after a year of success, in a year that in some ways seems golden (D much better than expected, Haskins becoming a beast, DEs who played out of their minds, young players stepping up), he is suddenly qualified to take the reins of a major program (even programs like Virginia or VT, much less a program like Michigan).
January 20th, 2022 at 12:49 PM ^
Sam's suggestion that the appetite for Harbaugh is stronger in Ann Arbor than in the NFL is a reminder that the NFL is a billionaire's league of owners.
And the really really rich like to see themselves as unusual and quirky. It's hard to see many of them enjoying a coach who's quirkier than them.
January 21st, 2022 at 1:42 PM ^
I think most owners like winning and the revenue it brings much more than how "quirky" they are in relation to their employees. If an owner thinks JH is going to get their team to the playoffs, I'd bet they'd suffer the loss of their status as "most quirky person in the organization."
January 20th, 2022 at 2:07 PM ^
Seth, Gattis only had Shea for one year. If you wanted to be pessimistic you could point to the drop off in Shea’s production as a reason to doubt Gattis’s abilities.
To be candid, I look at it as a reason to be optimistic, he has o my had one year of solid qb play and he turned that into a Broyles season
January 20th, 2022 at 4:06 PM ^
If he goes, I'd just go with Hart
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