Greg Jackson - We just knew to follow Jim, because we'll win
Just a quick reminder of how awesome the new coaching staff is.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2015/03/new_michigan_staff_meshing_tog.html
In total, Michigan's staff has a combined 34 years of NFL experience as a head coach, assistant coach or team staffer. There's also the 49 years of combined NFL playing experience held by Harbaugh, Jackson, Zordich and Tyrone Wheatley.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
Beat the crap out of Penn State. I would love for the game to be one of their 'whiteouts' at night with us crushing them.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:40 AM ^
Im just happy the big 10 is coming back as a power house. Us (hopefully), Penn State, Minny, OSU, MSU. As much as I hate losing to them I would love for us to be known as the power conference again.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
Really? I want OSU to suck forever.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
I like it much better when we beat them at the top of their game. Leaves no room for excuses.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^
but the selective memory of that fanbase amazes me to this day. It's okay to mention the years in a row they beat us, yet we had the darkest period in the program's history under RRod and Hoke, yet when we mention the beat downs of the 90s its "The Cooper Effect" and those don't really count.
Can't have it both ways, guys...
March 31st, 2015 at 11:29 AM ^
While I agree with that statement, it is silly at this point to brag about the 90s dominance. This is 2015.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
I don't give a shit about their excuses. Winning is all that matters.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
I bought a washcloth when i worked in Ohio. So i could think of the Fuckeyes everytime i washed my ass lol.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^
so I think we can give you a quick break on this, but we try to avoid cute nicknames like fuckeyes. We leave that sort of behavior to them, but name calling is something we try to avoid. Besides, there's other subtle ways to get under their skin around here...be creative.
I guess i didnt see it as name calling. I literally have zero respect 4 OSU in every way possible. And thats how i refer to them in all aspects of life. I cant stand their program or their fanbase. And to be honest im the only person i have ever heard call them that so i thought i was being creative.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
Screw the rest of them.
March 31st, 2015 at 10:42 AM ^
Oh, but according to some moronic MSU and OSU fans, Harbaugh and his staff won't do much at Michigan because their programs are "so much farther ahead" than ours. MSU isn't that far ahead, OSU is, but this staff can bring UM much closer to being competitive a lot sooner than they are hoping for (if they're hoping at all).
March 31st, 2015 at 11:04 AM ^
March 31st, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^
But....but....according to MSU/OSU fans, Harbaugh isn't really that good of a coach, and we'll be lucky to win 8 games a year as long as he's here. Didn't you hear? They're not even remotely worried about Harbaugh.
I'm not expecting overnight results, but what I have to wonder with OSU fans who say that having Harbaugh here won't change anything is this: if Brady Hoke almost beat Urban's teams each of the last three years, what does that say about Michigan's chances of beating them now that they have one of the best coaches in America roaming their sidelines? Now we've got a guy who's played in The Game, has won it on multiple occasions, and more importantly than that, he knows how to coach and motivate his guys. He has brought in great assistants, and guys who will light a fire under our player's asses to really try and make them better.
We thought Hoke's teams looked motivated against OSU? Harbaugh's teams will play like they're out for blood. The days of a loss to OSU being a foregone conclusion are over. The days of getting pushed around like rag dolls against MSU are over. I'm not saying we're going to beat both of them next year, but Harbaugh will never allow his team to be a doormat to its rivals.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
The funny thing about MSU and OSU fans is that when RR was fired and Harbaugh was a possibility, some of them were saying/wishing that we didn't get Harbaugh because he would be great for Michigan and bring back winning football. Well, it didn't happen then and we obviously got Brady instead, so naturally they did not feel threatened. Well, now that we DO have Harbaugh, their attitudes have changed to not thinking Harbaugh and Co. will do much and how MSU and OSU are too far ahead of Michigan for us to be competitive again. Well, times are changing and I have a feeling MSU and OSU fans are not going to be happy in two or three years when our team is winning a lot more games than we have been lately.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
Thinking Michigan is going to get significantly better and being afraid are two different things.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
but remember that the majority of bucks fans we deal with, not associated with this blog, aren't the rational beings that you and RationalBuckeye are. To many of the cooler-pooping fanbase you're saddled with (yes, we have our own mouthbreathers), losing The Game sends shivers down their spines, especailly since they've gotten used to the pattern of the last 10 yrs. Over MY lifetime, the series is just about split down the middle. That's what I'M used to.
This is just another bump in the road and soon the rivalry will be back to its normal back and forth, I have no doubt. However, there are bucks fans that if they say they aren't scared are either A) in complete denial/lying to themselves or B) stupid.
March 31st, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
I'm not saying you necessarily need to be afraid. Hell, I know Urban isn't afraid. But I've just never understood the viewpoint of parts of your fanbase that insist that nothing will ever change with Michigan and that Harbaugh won't win football games. I keep hearing the "they'll never be better than 8-9 wins" and I don't really understand it.
March 31st, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^
That is because they're extremely spoiled and a bad season for them is losing two games. They have convinced themselves that Michigan will never catch up and we will only win two or three against them every decade, which is just fucking stupid to think.
March 31st, 2015 at 12:42 PM ^
I mean Michigan only has 8 seasons of 10+ wins in the last 25 years. Even if you include the '80s, Bo's final decade, they were only a 10 win team 4/10 years. You're only a 10 win team about 1/3 of the time in the lifetime's of most internet savvy fans. It's not unreasonable to think 9 wins is what you do now. On the other hand, and I lean toward this hand, Harbaugh is a great coach, and the seasons are longer now, so he should hit 10 wins 70% of the time. I know I expect that.
had 14 since 1990. Considering that Michigan has been a tire fire since Lloyd left, our wounds were self-inflicted for the most part.
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Very true, but the resources, fan support, and all that good stuff are there for Michigan to eventually (and the key word there is eventually) be on the same level as OSU. I'm not so blind as to think that change will happen overnight, but given Harbaugh's track record both in college and the NFL, there's no reason to think he can't get Michigan there in the coming years.
What's been the main difference-maker between the programs has been the coaching. OSU has had strong continuity of great coaches over the last 15 years. Michigan....well....it hasn't. Not to take away from OSU's successes against us, but a lot of Michigan's problems have been self-inflicted. Refusing to move on from Bo, setting RichRod up to fail, and hiring a lame duck in Hoke have inhibited Michigan from moving forward over the last 6-7 years.
Michigan finally seems to have found its guy: a proven winner that the whole fanbase can rally around. For Michigan's sake, I hope he's the right guy, because if he's not, I'd have to seriously question if Michigan could ever be a consistent national power again.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
Of course the Buckeyes are scared, who wouldn't be scared of a coach with a 58% college win percentage?
March 31st, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
Here's another stat: Jim Harbaugh ranks #5 in all time winning percent for NFL Head Coaches. Has Urban even been asked to coach in the pros?
March 31st, 2015 at 11:39 AM ^
I think you replied to the wrong person...
March 31st, 2015 at 11:48 AM ^
March 31st, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
March 31st, 2015 at 11:54 AM ^
Well, the web site has it wrong, but it doesn't matter because I'm sure people can figure out to whom he is replying.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
Of course they're scared. Who wouldn't be scared of a a coach with a college win percentage of 58%?
March 31st, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
How about you fuck off and eat a dick? I foresee your account being deleted anytime now.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
certainly not scared of proofreading.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
That's gotta be the worst. Do you even remember how laughably bad Stanford used to be?
March 31st, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
Harbaugh got a late start in coaching because, you know, he could actually play football unlike some other coaches who were bench warming DB's at small schools who know nothing about the highest levels of football.
Stanford might have been the worst Pac 10 program of the last thirty years when Jim took over. Throwing winning percentages around when analyzing the job he did there is pure intellectual dishonesty.
What he did there was a miracle. He left before he could chew up successive ten wins seasons and pump up his W/L.
Instead, he went and won seventy percent of his games in the pros with average at best quarterback play.
OSU fans root for a program that got fat off a cheater's mill under Tressell. The NCAA came to town for two weeks and let the whole thing just slide by with no meaningful investigation. A decade of a coach who preached integrity, qualifying borderline students and keeping them compensated with a network of freebies and do nothing summer jobs.
To prove they learned no lesson, they hired Meyer and his unmatched record of criminal coddling down at Florida
Their fabulous record during that stretch is the product of everything Michigan refuses to ever be.
We should be glad of it.
if we should be "glad" for it, but I understand your point. It does make me wonder if the bag man is playing a role in some of these recruiting battles that we're losing to OSU lately.
IIRC, that confessions of a bag man article referenced a certain unnamed school up-north that uses SEC tactics to buy players.
before Harbaugh got there. And he did an amazing turnaround
But the worst Pac12 team for over 30 years? Not even close.
You've got the Robber Barons confused with the Beavers on that count.
Oregon State is pretty much the Indiana of Pac 8-10-12 fooball.