ESPN profile on Jim Harbaugh: "Comfortable in Chaos"
Warning: may exascerbate pre-existing conditions of intense desire to have him return to AA. Do not read this article if you prefer to stay emotionally distant from Michigan football and the imminent head coach search at this point.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11625088/san-francisco-49ers-head-coa…
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:03 PM ^
Luckily for Jim we seem to have chaos in spades these days.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:05 PM ^
Jim Harbaugh is going to do great things in the NFL.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:06 PM ^
I think there is a very good chance that Harbaugh will listen at the end of the season. The deciding factor will be the amount of control he is given. If the next AD is a meddling type like David Brandon, Harbaugh will say no. If he gets a combination of a President who doesn't pay attention to football except on a superficial level and an AD who lets him do his job, I think he will end up in Ann Arbor.
We'll see...
October 2nd, 2014 at 7:38 PM ^
I don't know dude. I want Harbaugh as bad as anyone. I think he is one of the few that could actually do for the program what I've been longing for since 1997, win an outright NC. I think if Jim came to A2 he would bring several NC's.
After reading that article in it's entirety I'm left thinking he won't change his course until he has at least one ring, perhaps not until he has two so he can say he beat John. Everything is a competition for him and the article says:
"Pride would prevent him from returning to college ringless"
I hope I'm wrong about this. God I hope I'm wrong. I may have to admit Jim isn't going to be coming to AA which would be thoroughly disappointing.
The only things in the article that gave me hope was the talk about how hard he works the players, which will wear thin in time, and all the trouble he has with the FO. Plus there is this:
"...neither the Raiders nor the Dolphins, the teams most often mentioned as trade partners, have a franchise quarterback, a new stadium..."
October 2nd, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
This is the place and the team of his very core roots. He knows we have talent and he could win right away. He knows how big this could be and knows this might be his last, best, and only shot. Brandon must go......or completely roll over and beg.
October 2nd, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
This is the place and the team of his very core roots. He knows we have talent and he could win right away. He knows how big this could be and knows this might be his last, best, and only shot. Brandon must go......or completely roll over and beg.
October 2nd, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
This is the place and the team of his very core roots. He knows we have talent and he could win right away. He knows how big this could be and knows this might be his last, best, and only shot. Brandon must go......or completely roll over and beg.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:06 PM ^
Maybe what we're seeing was Brandon's plan all along...
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:12 PM ^
inb4WD
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:14 PM ^
Don't want Jim, there will be several NFL teams who will by the end of the season. I don't see Jim coaching here for another 10 to 15 years, when he tires of the NFL! Wow, we may have to wait until 2025 for Jim and our return to greatness!
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:11 PM ^
Who knows what the guy's going to do, but unless an NFL team let's him be coach and GM, I'd be surprised if he took on any of these NFL rebuild jobs.
These NFL teams that will need coaches next year will be awful, no Phi (Chip Kelly), Lions (Caldwell), KC (Reid), etc. These are bigger rebuilds than most realize.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:31 PM ^
There's another thing to realize here and that is that if they part ways and other teams will most certainly offer him he has to reflect on what just happened and consider that it's likely bound to happen again.
"If I can't make it work in SF then it's possible my style won't work in any NFL city."
Of course the optomist would say no way, new NFL city different set of circumstances. Others might say even with a new environment my coaching tendencies, which are not going to change because I'm right, are going to bring similar results regardless of where I go. I will eventually alienate both players and FO like before with my manic style of fanatical coaching.
He's truly like Bo in so many ways. Bo knows college football.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^
Congrats to the next NFL team that hires him.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^
...I've come to see this next three or four months of Michigan football as boiling down solely to the question of whether or not the stars will align so that Harbaugh ends up here. This is likely a recipe for misery, but here I am.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:31 PM ^
Don't mind me, just gonna grab this chair next to you during the wait.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
...and other basic supplies.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
Room for 3? I'll bring beer and a bucket to barf in after Cam Cameron is hired.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:47 PM ^
I'll get us a case and a deck of cards to kill the time.
October 2nd, 2014 at 3:18 PM ^
My wife is a seriously amazing cook. Love to make tailgate / game day food. If we bring food, can we join?
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^
Want
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:16 PM ^
If he is comfortable with chaos, I wonder how he fares in a raging tire fire?
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:28 PM ^
Hire this guy.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:15 PM ^
I know, right? I read the OP's disclaimer about the article making us want him more, but I didn't give it enough credence. After reading the article, I wanted him ten times more than before - and that's saying something.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
to inflict him on our kids or not. Maybe as he mellows slightly, he is the perfect college football coach. Pitiful that--as Bacon claims--Brandon never took him seriously in the first place. And commercialization or no, this is my biggest complaint with Brandon: we all have egos, but he has allowed his to harm the program.
October 2nd, 2014 at 3:44 PM ^
I hear you....but I think in order to match Narduzzi and Dantonio's intensity it will take a guy just like Jim.
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October 2nd, 2014 at 1:36 PM ^
I don't see Jim coming here anytime soon.. But my god would that be awesome. He's a football coach with absolute confidence in his philosophy, as he should have. The guy wins and wins fast. I just haven't seen the will from him to want to come here. I wish he wanted to be in AA
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:36 PM ^
Going to be Pat Narduzzi.
/s or not /s. You decide.
October 2nd, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
the blood oath one must take to coach at msu wouldn't allow it. He'd record the conversation, decline, hang up and use it as a recruitment tool. He's been promised the HC position there, imo. Not the better overall job but if they keep going the way they are it might be enough to want to stay. Only a Jim type guy can come in and murder their intensity/arrogance with his. They'd shit a brick, contemplate their existence and quit when they ran into Jim Harbaugh's intensity. lol
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
I don't know why everyone is so down on Harbaugh coming to Michigan. With a competent, intelligent AD who lets Jim have control, this may happen.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:42 PM ^
That made me want him even more. I remember when jim was our starting quarterback and i used to like because his last name was funny. I was little. But after watching him grow i stopped laughing and he became one of my first idols. He is a bad ass in every true sense of the word, just like i try to be and how my grandpa was. How Bo was. I love him and he is truely the type of coach that we beed to turn this embarrassment around
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October 2nd, 2014 at 1:46 PM ^
are we waiting for?
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:47 PM ^
Michigan people want a Bo Schembechler type of coach, well here is your modern day Bo Schembechler. This dude is nuts but I love it.
October 2nd, 2014 at 1:52 PM ^
You want competence, real toughness, and fire? This is our man. No more talk of toughness and tiddlywinks.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:01 PM ^
I get the distinct sense from this profile that Harbaugh is not a man motivated by money. If he wants to come to Ann Arbor he will. If he doesn't, I can't see any salary we would pay him being enough to convince him otherwise, even 10 million. The line about him not being able to admit defeat by going back to the college ranks struck me as true.
IMHO, he's going to need to see our situation as one he could come in, rectify it, and become a coaching icon, to satisfy his desire for greatness. I think the situation in Ann Arbor is perfect for that.
The stars would have to seriously align for him to go back. I wouldn't doubt John would encourage him to take the Michigan job as well if he himself doesn't want it at the moment.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:04 PM ^
I think the fact that gets overlooked or that we at least don't want to admit is that he's already HAD his dream college football job at Stanford. He's said so. This all goes back to him wanting to play at Stanford where he felt he could have studied what he wanted, etc. etc. Not to open old wounds, but Stanford meant a lot to him, the resistance he felt he faced at UM regarding academics, that all adds up. Don't think the affection for his alma mater is what we want it to be. Don't think he's coming. Simple as that.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:09 PM ^
He's not coming here. The sooner we can all come to terms with that, the better.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:12 PM ^
1) Obviously DO WANT.
2) Unfortunately, I don't see how anyone reading that article thinks he will leave the NFL before a) Winning a Super Bowl, or b) death.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:23 PM ^
I think him coaching another NFL teams comes down to how badly he wants to stay in the NFL (obviously?). Remember that everyone's big argument is that his wife wants to stay in NorCal. If he doesn't take the Raiders job (frankly, it'd be suicide) then he'd have to move somewhere anyway. If he has to move, why not consider Ann Arbor?
Secondly, he could come to AA and probably go to the NFL any damn time he wants, he's still young enough and he'd leave the NFL with some degree of dignity that people would keep calling. He could be a true hero in AA then go back to the NFL and win a ring. The timing just seems to be working in our favor this time especially b/c the allure of the NFL might be wearing off a bit for him. Wishful thinking, I know, but better than if he was 2 years into a 6 year contract instead of where he is now.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:25 PM ^
but realistically there's a lot of people setting themselves up for disappointment.
Anything can happen, but when the day comes and UM introduces its next head coach and it's not this guy? It could just get ugly again.
I just think so many people have this name and this name only in their heads and whoever it ends up being, won't get the chance.... because many will have seen it as a failure from day one... not the guy we really wanted.
I'm probably going to be guilty of that as well... as I look at the names, there's only one that I say I'd be willing to pitch in to get...and that's Jim.
I hope there's some secret formula we can all take that will allow us to be happy with the man who actually takes this job...
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
The job would be his if he wanted it.
I just have no idea if he wants it. He wants a Super Bowl ring so badly that that probably trumps everything. But every time I read an article about how his rah-rah act is wearing thin in the NFL, all I can think of is, "that act never wears thin in college Jim, because the kids graduate and you get a whole new batch to indoctrinate in the church of Jim Harbaugh."
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:42 PM ^
famous Harbaugh post game pat on the back. And Urban asks "What is your deal?"
And to see Jim go up against Dantonio would be awesome.
The entertainment value alone is staggering.
And when one considers how he is the perfect choice to bring back the stubborn winning ways of Bo Schembechler I have to believe that divine intervention will happen and Jim Harbaugh will become our next head coach and lead the Wolverines for the next 20 years.
This is a pivotal moment in time for the University. They must see this. We must help them see this.
-Fire Brandon Petition Signature # 3784
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:48 PM ^
The QB who guaranteed a win over OSU as a player - and delivered - returns to AA to lead UM back to being an equal partner in the greatest rivalry in sports?
October 3rd, 2014 at 12:53 AM ^
"greatest rivalry in sports" is a bit much at this point
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October 2nd, 2014 at 4:18 PM ^
Harbaugh would put out the tire fire in AA, and the flame would go right to Columbus and set fire on the esophagus of Meyer
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:42 PM ^
What a great read. He was and still is my favorite wolverine. I used to tell my son when he asked about my old number four jersey that the guy who wore number four was like Denard is to you, to me. He was never afraid on that field, not for one second. I know there's little chance that he ever comes back but I'd sure be happy if he did.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:45 PM ^
My first two years at Michigan were his last two, so I had the privilege of watching him play. Talk about having a great feeling as a fan when your QB trots out onto the field.
October 2nd, 2014 at 3:03 PM ^
I wore #4 (or #14 when #4 wasn't available) in every sport I played at every level because of Jim Harbaugh.
October 2nd, 2014 at 2:43 PM ^
It would be a 47-year-old man cartwheel, but I would do one