Harbaugh is Bo

Lol at a Michigan fan who uses “Bo” as an insult. You are a fool and really the advice to find another team to cheer for is definitely underused around these parts these days. 

Bo didn't get blown out by OSU or in bowl games at least.  These kind of losses are humiliating for the program and for all of us fans.  

The difference was Bo would get the team so keyed up for Ohio State that they'd win and limp into the bowl game completely out of gas. The standard now is to blow the wad by mid-November, get housed in the OSU game, then hope against hope that there's something left come bowl season.

No he's not.  Not even close.  Stop.

Ironic how

1) Harbaugh publicly roasted Bo at some football gathering about never winning a title (and I think his bowl record too), yet he hasn't won even a BIG title yet.

2) people forget how the elder Harbaugh was fired from Bo staff for ineffectiveness yet now seems to be the sage.  

3) same with Mattison. 

I must have missed where Harbaugh won a Big Ten Title. 

But his 1-9 record vs top 10 teams and 1-3 bowl record are very Bo like. 

Bo feasted in an era of regional football.  Harbaugh's Michigan is on the national stage, and he simply can't compete with with the national powers with his style of football.  He will never change.  We better get used to being OSU's bitch and a national also-ran.

Bo Pelini

Yes. Minus beating osu and winning big ten titles. 

Bo beat OSU regularly. Harbaugh hasn’t beaten them once.

Harbaugh =\= Bo. But both of them shit their pants in bowl games and can’t win national titles so I guess they’re similar in that regard. 

I was going to say - Bo without beating OSU and without winning conference titles, lol.

Slow your roll on Bo - he won/shared 13 Big Ten titles in 21 seasons.  So, basically he'd win the title 2 out of every 3 years.  Yes, he pooped the bed in the Rose Bowl, but Harbaugh hasn't sniffed a Big Ten title yet - hell, he hasn't even made the title game.

Also, Bo beat Ohio State more than he lost to them.

I loved Bo, however, realistically, Bo was a great Big 10 coach when the BIG was only OSU and Mich when both were mirror images of each other.  Neither Bo or Woody would adapt their approach.  As soon as Hayden Fry came along, with QB's that could throw, Iowa was right there with both of them, often beating them both.  The Pac 8/10 coaches most years showed how faster, but less physical and talented teams with more multi dimensional offenses could prove superior.

Watching Michigan in any big game under Harbaugh now is like watching Bo's teams struggle in soooo many Rose Bowls.  

JH as of now is a good HC, not great HC, has not lived up to his reputation, especially as an offensive coach.  Still has plenty of time, however, has to keep adapting.  No one is firing JH for 10-3 seasons.

1) Bo Beat Ohio State

2)  10 wins meant more when you played 11 games

UM won Big Ten titles under Bo. He *did* win championships.

Michigan is fine with 9-10 wins annually. If people expect them to be like OSU or Alabama...it’s not going to happen.

I'm saving this post. If Jim does something positive down the road it will be fun to see who made such "great" takes. We'll see who's fair weather. 

"because he could at least beat Ohio State"

Which makes him far inferior with similar talent and the exact same playbook.  

Harbaugh is Bump Elliot.  A program legend as a player but stale as a coach.

Bo was a total outsider who came in and took this program to another level when OSU was dominant.  We need new blood.  Rrod was the right idea but so poorly executed (we couldnt give him 250k for him to bring his d coordinator, but we gave Hoke 1M for Mattison) and had no institutional support.

Modern football favors passing based spread offenses.  We need an innovative coach who will embrace this

Well, there are many similarities with their team records and offensive philosophies. I remember fans being frustrated with some of our conservative offenses back in the 1980's. 

We were usually good enough to win 8 to 10 games every season, but the offenses were hardly ever good enough to win a National Championship or many bowl games.

The Big 10 was much easier for us to win back in the 80's and OSU played the same boring conservative style of offense. 

Therefore we could often beat them during that time.  

Bo was celebrated because of the dynamic man and leader he was, who turned around our program for a generation.  Harbaugh is also celebrated because of the dynamic man and leader that he is.  I'm as down as anyone, and a bit dismayed by the state of our program after a season of great expectations.  But give him some time -- it takes a while to achieve greatness in a clean program.  In Dabo Swinney's fourth season, Clemson went 10-3 and lost 70-33 to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl.  Living in South Carolina, I well remember how despondent the Clemson fans were over the state of their program.  Chins up, fellas.

“We want the Big Ten championship and we're gonna win it as a Team. They can throw out all those great backs, and great quarterbacks, and great defensive players, throughout the country and in this conference, but there's gonna be one Team that's gonna play solely as a Team. No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team? 

Because you can go into professional football, you can go anywhere you want to play after you leave here. You will never play for a Team again. You'll play for a contract. You'll play for this. You'll play for that. You'll play for everything except the team, and think what a great thing it is to be a part of something that is, The Team. We're gonna win it. We're gonna win the championship again because we're gonna play as team, better than anybody else in this conference, we're gonna play together as a team. We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other. And when we play as a team, when the old season is over, you and I know, it's gonna be Michigan again, Michigan."

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For the love of God, quit playing that video at the Big House. Present day Michigan betrays everything Bo stood for and how he coached his players to approach the game and life.

"The Me, The Me, The Me, The Me"

Harbaugh is.... John Cooper. Had a lot of flashy recruiting classes, but shot the bed in the big game for years. 

This thread is so sad.

Close the book on this season and let's move the hell on. 

Scott Frost will be jail sexing Harbaugh in the near future too