CC - Pick 'em
UPDATE - Final Results:
Les Miles - 663 (59.62%)
Dan Mullen - 449 (40.38%)
Votes from 13 countries.
Assuming neither Harbro is available, whom would you want to be our next HC?
Miles crushed Schiano...but what about Mullen?
CLICK HERE for the new poll...I will post results tomorrow.
I'll keep posting polls this week until we have an MGoBlog champ.
UPDATE: Next poll will have all non-Harbaugh options.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:43 PM ^
One poll per day, please. My mouse can only take so much.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^
December 1st, 2014 at 4:44 PM ^
How about posting one with more options than Miles and Mullen. I think that'd be more interesting to see.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:49 PM ^
Either of the first two would have to win multiple pair-offs to be deemed the most desirable candidate. The last candidate introduced only has to win one.
It's a flawed methodology.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:45 PM ^
If you eliminate the Harbaugh's I would love to see Gary Patterson or Kyle Whittingham.
Although a Miles/Pelini reunion in Ann Arbor sounds appealing also.
Of all the "plan c" type candidates I like McElwain the most.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:49 PM ^
December 1st, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
There's no way Gary Patterson leaves TCU so no reason to consider that. Kyle Whittingham is a possibility, but I still don't think he's done all that much.
McElwain? What has he done? 10-2 at Colorado State after not playing anyone good? Big deal. He has accomplished far less than Hoke did before coming, and has far fewer years experience.
December 1st, 2014 at 10:21 PM ^
Patterson and Whittingham is just my non-Harbaugh wishlisht. I don't think either of them are coming.
RE: McElwain - I think fans to come to terms with the idea of neither Harbaugh, Miles, Mullen, or any other candidate in those top two tiers coming to UM. You look at the hot coaching candidates these days like Sumlin, Briles, Mullen, Gundy...instead of trying to pry them from their current/established position, go find the next guy whose on his way.
So when you look at that crop of candidates, guys like McElwain, Chuck Martin, Frost, Herman, Doeren...I prefer McElwain. I like that he learned from Saban and has CSU trending upward. I like that his offense fits the current personnel and that it's effective. CSU's offense was at the bottom of the barrel and after one transition year they've been top 20 the past two seasons. I think he's projecting to be a successful coach in college football.
December 1st, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 4:46 PM ^
I didnt think that would be so difficult to answer until I was faced with the question.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:53 PM ^
would be your starter next September if you were forced to decide today?
P.S.
Please take a plane. The bears in the Rockies are dangerous.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
December 1st, 2014 at 5:22 PM ^
Speight. Same age as Morris. Didn't miss his senior season because he re classified. Built like an artillery piece.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
On a lot of levels they're all on level ground, all the same kind of qb and none of us including the new coaching staff has a clue what they're really capable of. I'm sure the new coach (whomever that is) is going to take all three guys in the spring and give them their shot and pick a winner and if its filthy ugly, start looking for a fifth year transfer.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:51 PM ^
Monkey rodeo
December 1st, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
MILES
The guy is a winner, period, and that's what we need right now. Harbaugh is first but Les is the clear number 2 in my opinion. Yes, he's 61, but shit, Saban is 63. You wouldn't take him becaue of age? Beilein is 61, but we still like him and think he'll be around for years to come. Les is clearly still young at heart and absolutely loves Michigan. He'd be welcomed as a savior and would be given a great chance to be extremely successful and round out the last decade of his career bringing Michigan back to national prominance. Mullen, while a good choice, would bring a lot more question marks than Miles and would require a greater roster overhaul to win.
We also know that Les is interested in coming back. It's been coroborated by numerous insiders and Bacon's said very plainly that Les is very interested in the job. If Harbaugh falls through, please give Les Miles the next call.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
I probably agree though I've been intrigued by Mullen since he whooped us in the Gator Bowl a few years ago. He's really turned a giant turdbasket of a program into a consistent winner.
My big question about Mullen, Miles and pretty much every SEC coach is whether they can do what they do outside of the south. What I mean by that is (1) without the level of athlete they can get down there (2) Without the low admissions standards they can get away with and (3) without the look-the-other-way police/league officials/boosters/press prevalent in the south. You'd have to literally have a recruit caught taking money directly in front of an NCAA official during a live tv broadcast to get busted down there.
December 1st, 2014 at 7:49 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 7:56 PM ^
People often say that, but then either just leave it there or anecdotally refer to a time or two when they thought he should have managed something slightly differently. The proof is in the pudding, and he's 103-28 at LSU. That's a 74.6% winning percentage. If he's such a poor game manager, it's somehow inexplicably not affecting his on field success too much. Or maybe, just maybe, that reputation he carries is undeserved.
December 1st, 2014 at 10:06 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
Here's a great article on Dan Mullen and developing players at MSU. It sounds like he could be a Beilein type hire for the football program.
December 1st, 2014 at 6:45 PM ^
without the bag men?
December 1st, 2014 at 8:24 PM ^
why is this asked about Mullen but never about Les?
December 1st, 2014 at 8:50 PM ^
December 1st, 2014 at 9:37 PM ^
if anything that means he'd have a harder time adjusting to life without inbuilt SEC "recruiting advantages"
December 1st, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
If we can't get Harbaugh, and he has refused a 10 million a year offer (nows not the time to be cheap), I will gladly take Miles...... should've happened in 2007 sigh.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:08 PM ^
Why do people keep pretending like both Harbaughs are a thing? John Harbaugh has about as much of a chance of coming as rich rod does of coming back. Sure both could technically happen but literally nothing anyone has said for the entire year has even remotely touched on the idea of John actually leaving the ravens, let alone for it being a college job, where he has never really coached.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:10 PM ^
Jim Harbaugh defintily a shot. John? Not so much.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:10 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
Thats the same chance of Rich Rod coming back.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:09 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 5:09 PM ^
Wishes:
1. John Harbaugh
2. Jim Harbaugh
3. Mullen
Expectations (or expectorations):
1. Lesticles
2. Mullen
3. Dave Doeren or Todd Graham (tie)
Brian, better beef up the server. It's fixin' to melt.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 8:27 PM ^
Les pulled a scholly from a kid who had already moved into the dorms... where was the 200 reply thread about how he was not Michigan material?
December 1st, 2014 at 5:15 PM ^
Why are you doing 1 v 1s? Just put all the CCs in 1 poll and do the poll.
December 1st, 2014 at 6:06 PM ^
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December 1st, 2014 at 5:39 PM ^
only 33 coaches, a bracket of 32 with Harbaugh getting a bye all the way to the final!
December 1st, 2014 at 5:30 PM ^
December 1st, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
dan mullen is a poor fit culturally and schematically. do not want.
December 1st, 2014 at 5:44 PM ^
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