CC: Bob Stitt Followed Dave Brandon on Twitter

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FWIW. Football Beilein? 

bluecanuck

September 29th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^

If this guy is indeed someone expressing an interest in the job and/or indicating contact with Michigan and SMU by following ADs on Twitter he is literally the stupidest person in the history football (maybe hyperbole, maybe) and he is showing that he deserves to be nowhere near a spotlight program such as Michigan.

go16blue

September 29th, 2014 at 7:09 PM ^

I'm sure he's a great coach for his current situation, but being HC of a DIII school and being HC of a premier DI school are very very different jobs. I just get the feeling that he will not have the track record to demand the respect of the players here, nor the experience around big ego's to keep them in check. I think it's pretty clear that our problems go far beyond X's and O's, and if we want to fix them I think we'll need a guy who's more than just an offensive innovator, we're going to need a big name, hardcore leader. If not Harbaugh, at least someone with similar experience on a DI level.

Michigan4Life

September 29th, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^

but if you hire a coach from a small school who can turn a program into a national power. You would still pass up the chance to hire them? That's dumb.  Look at OSU, took a chance on Jim Tressell who is a small school coach at YSU.  They won NC with him even though they had a NCAA scandal with Tatsgate.  Also look at Stanford who hired Jim Harbaugh and now Stanford is a national power.

With no HR candidates in the horizon, sometimes it's best to hire a up and coming coach from small school and he can instantly turn them into a national power. I rather roll the die and take on young, up and coming coach who can actually innovate the way football is being played as opposed to taking a retread or coach who had okay success in D1 program.

alum96

September 29th, 2014 at 7:49 PM ^

If Brian mentions you on a well followed blog to bring you out of obscurity - well then yes you are.

p.s. Stitt has indicated he would be willing to leave his job to be an OC somewhere instead of HC but only if he is given full control over the offense.  Again I think the chances of Stitt coming to UM are along the lines of John Cooper advising the next coaching search but I don't mind have fun with Brian's rabbit holes.

JamieH

September 29th, 2014 at 8:19 PM ^

Anyone claiming Beilein was a "Division II coach" is off their rocker.  Beilein was an established winning Div 1-A coach at WVU before we grabbed him.  Yeah, he hadn't exactly been dominating the Big East, but jeez, Big East basketball was super tough and he was at freakin' West Virginia.  To have them 3 games away from the National Title was pretty amazing.

It was probably the Big Ten equivalent of having consistently good teams at Minnesota.   He was no small-school wonder by the time we poached him. 

 

 

snarling wolverine

September 29th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^

And the other thing is that Beilein continually climbed the ladder over his career, switching jobs about every five years, whereas Stitt has been at the same school for 14 years now.  When a guy stays at a tiny school that long, that's odd.