CC: Tony Elliott
November 29th, 2020 at 2:21 PM ^
Let me take a look.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:22 PM ^
Id prefer someone who has at least been an HC, but hes one of the top coordinator options.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:40 PM ^
Swinney was never a head coach. He was never a coordinator. He was a position coach at a mediocre program. Who the hell knows what the right resume is.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^
The right resume is chest your ass off. Something not allowed in Ann Arbor.
cheat*
November 29th, 2020 at 3:22 PM ^
Chest your ass off. Interesting visual.
November 29th, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
So true--and who thought Harbaugh wouldn't be? Who thought he'd no longer be Jim "What's your deal" MF Harbaugh?
November 29th, 2020 at 5:08 PM ^
What does Dabo have left on his contract. Hell UM has stupid money. Buy out his contract and offer him 10 million a year to come here. What the hell swing for the fences and see what happens
November 29th, 2020 at 3:57 PM ^
What about Steve Sarkisian? He’s doing a fantastic job as Bama’s OC. He could keep Gattis on the staff for some continuity.
November 29th, 2020 at 5:18 PM ^
You want to bring in a dude who couldn't win at USC? We need someone who wins with less, he's dogshit in that regard
November 29th, 2020 at 5:41 PM ^
Still my favorite candidate. HC experience, worked under Pete Carroll and now Saban, NFL experience, one of the best offenses in the country, obsessed with Xs and Os...
If he's got his drinking under control, I think he'd be a home run hire with his connections in the coaching world and west coast/south recruiting.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:58 PM ^
Good thing the Excalibur restaurant in Southfield seems to be closed.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:13 PM ^
My favorite comment of the day.
November 30th, 2020 at 6:02 AM ^
He didn't even get a year and a half at USC, so I don't think his record there means much, but it was not impressive. He was at Washington for 5 years and his best season was 8-4, finishing 5-4 in conference. Sure, Oregon and Stanford were better then, but Washington is a pretty good program. It's better than those 2 historically, although Oregon obviously has been the best in the north for a couple decades now. It's not like he was at Iowa State.
I really don't get so many people's infatuation with Gattis. At best, if Harbaugh is in control, we have no idea if he's good or not. I guess people just like him because of Moorhead but we've seen how coaching trees don't mean shit.
November 29th, 2020 at 4:52 PM ^
I normally would prefer someone who has head coaching experience, but then again maybe not -- Alabama, Clemson, Ohio St, Oklahoma, and Georgia have arguably been the top five programs of the past few years, and 4 of those 5 are run by guys who had no previous head coaching experience
Bigger concern to me with Elliott is he's never coached outside the state of South Carolina.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:26 PM ^
We know he can develop QBs
November 29th, 2020 at 2:31 PM ^
Dude would know exactly what to do with JJ McCarthy
November 29th, 2020 at 2:27 PM ^
C.C. Everyone.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:19 PM ^
CC: Bill Elliott.
Okay, just hear me out. He may no longer be alive--I need to check on that. But he was a champion NASCAR driver, and that should really translate into recruiting ability. Talk about #SpeedInSpace--who would get that better than a NASCAR driver?
November 29th, 2020 at 2:31 PM ^
No.
I don’t see the point of these threads. Harbaugh isn’t getting fired. He probably will be extended.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:32 PM ^
I think its more likely that Harbaugh walks away
November 29th, 2020 at 5:07 PM ^
If he leaves, yes. I just don’t think he is going to quit with a team this bad. But maybe he will. Could happen.
I just highly doubt that he will.
November 29th, 2020 at 3:22 PM ^
You are the worst poster on this site for your need to post this in every single thread like you know. And yet I specifically remember you saying "Harbaugh isn't coming" in 2014.
Do you want to tell me what the difference is between now and this? Looks pretty much the same to me on the field.
November 29th, 2020 at 4:54 PM ^
Would wager a significant portion of the 'Harbaugh is staying' people also said 'Harbaugh isn't coming' back in December 2014.
November 29th, 2020 at 5:10 PM ^
Two different situations. Harbaugh was clearly being pushed out. Hoke was floundering.
Here we have Michigan floundering again but Harbaugh has a year left on his contract while coaching in the middle of a pandemic.
People are not considering the pandemic and how that may be perceived by those who actually matter when it comes to the future of the football program.
November 29th, 2020 at 5:05 PM ^
You are the worst poster on this website because you because post the same bitchy thing in every thread. All you do is bitch.
I am not defending Harbaugh. I am pointing out that he isn’t getting fired nor is he going to resign.
You don’t matter. No one here matters to the powers that be. Get it through your fucking skull. Michigan doesn’t care about your opinion.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:08 PM ^
Bringing him back for a final year is not the same as extending him, could definitely see them letting him coach out his last year but unless something drastically changes the last 3 games I don't think there is anyway in hell in they extend him.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:22 PM ^
He will get an extension..
November 30th, 2020 at 8:30 AM ^
If fucking Vanderbilt, who actually views football as basically a side distraction, can fire their coach during a pandemic then what are we doing here?
November 29th, 2020 at 3:48 PM ^
I don't expect Harbaugh to be let go unless he refuses to make any changes to his defensive staff. Then, all bets are off.
November 29th, 2020 at 5:24 PM ^
Agreed. I’m not sure it’s the correct move, but it’s what I think will happen.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:19 PM ^
Salvatore.. you and I have had our share of disagreements, but you are usually pretty logical. On this topic, I agree with you totally. Harbaugh is not getting fired. All of this is a waste of time.
November 29th, 2020 at 6:51 PM ^
People are not considering the pandemic and the losses from that. I think the administration sees this as practice year as much as that infuriates fans.
Harbaugh will be back.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:52 PM ^
Ok so take 2020 with a grain of salt:
Still never beaten osu, gone to Indy, 1-4 in bowl games, HAS NEVER won a game as the underdog. Mel fuckinng Tucker has done it twice in his first year. Jim Harbaugh is much like Buzz’s girlfriend.... woof.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:24 PM ^
So then stop commenting on the threads. It’s a blog, nothing more, nothing less. You have ZERO knowledge of what JH or the administration are going to do and these sites exist for hypothetical discussion.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:31 PM ^
definitely.
in addition to the usual suspects of Campbell, Hafley and Fickell i have some guys as darkhorses:
Leonhard, Elliot and Clarke Lea
Elliot is the only southerner though and is a former Tiger and graduate, so not sure how he would be as a recruiter in the midwest.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:35 PM ^
And Lance Leipold. This guy won 6 D3 National Titles. Look what he's done at Buffalo. Worth a look if the supposed top candidates don't pan out or Coach Jim stays.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:53 PM ^
But but he’s not a “Michigan Man” Michigan only interviews and offer guys that are connected to the school. If you’re not forget it. Rich Rod didn’t work out so no other guy without Michigan ties should ever even be considered. That would just be ridiculous and stupid to think that a guy without Michigan ties would work in AA. The only candidates should be Charles Woodson, Mike Hart, and Nick Sheridan. Doesn’t matter if they have ever been a head coach before or even want the job. They played for Michigan therefore they are the best and only candidates qualified for the job period end of discussion!!
November 29th, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
I'm actually ok with those guys.
November 29th, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
Played against his UW-Whitewater teams (twice), and live close enough to Buffalo to keep tabs on what he's doing there, and although he's not my first choice, i wouldn't be opposed to this, as long as he hires the right staff
November 29th, 2020 at 3:50 PM ^
What school did you play for? When? I watched many games during his tenure and knew some guys on his teams.
November 30th, 2020 at 10:41 AM ^
St. Norbert College...opened both the '04 and '05 season against them....it didn't go well....thankfully i missed the playoff drubbing the following year
November 29th, 2020 at 3:32 PM ^
Just have him wear his championship rings when he visits a recruit.
November 29th, 2020 at 4:41 PM ^
I was thinking about Leonhard as well. I would prefer him over Fickell.
November 30th, 2020 at 2:30 PM ^
Elliott cut his teeth recruiting Georgia and Florida, trust me if you can recruit those areas you aren't going have any issues recruiting the midwest.
November 29th, 2020 at 2:39 PM ^
We all know that Clemson has been successful for a while now but it was Chad Morris who developed that offense so I wonder how we can even evaluate him. He has no head coaching experience, no ties to our primary recruiting areas and we know that Clemson has had questionable recruiting practices anyways.
November 29th, 2020 at 3:18 PM ^
So is he a disciple of Chad Morris, he of the 18-40 coaching record at SMU and Arkansas?
November 29th, 2020 at 3:32 PM ^
Why does head coaching experience matter? You know who didn’t have head coaching experience? Dabo, Stoops, Riley, Smart, and Day among others.
November 29th, 2020 at 3:39 PM ^
Yeah and every time Georgia plays in a big game it shows that Smart is not a great coach... Day took over a machine that Meyer built. I’m not saying every coach that doesn’t have experience as a head coach will fail but sometimes you hit sometimes you miss but you should take a big swing. Michigan can not afford to miss on another coach. The program had a huge setback from the 2 coaches before Harbaugh. He brought them back to being respectable. Now it’s time to get a coach that can get them to the next level. Like B1G championships and beating their rivals more than not. Winning a game as an underdog, starting a QB that they have recruited before year 6. Especially when the coach you hired was supposed to be a QB whisperer. Then they guy you finally put out there was a known project out of high school with a composite ranking of 473, pro style 15. This is the best Michigan can do?? Those are things that State should be doing. Michigan used to trot NFL caliber QB’s out there every year during the Carr and previous regimes before him. But I digress... and the team has a tendency to regress
November 29th, 2020 at 4:59 PM ^
People said Michigan couldn't afford to miss on another coach when they hired Harbaugh. For better or for worse, Michigan's missed 3 times in a row on having a world-beater. They'd survive another miss too. Still have the big house, still have a huge fanbase, NIL rights should help with recruiting... obviously we don't want to miss again, but it's not like there's a "sure thing" out there, and I don't think it's likely that the program winds up less exciting to recruits 3 years from now than it is now, even with a "miss".