From Harbaugh himself: "I'm not confirming anything or denying anything"

I know it's raw right now, but the way Ohio has been recruiting and playing, anyone short of Nick Saban wasn't going to do much better than Harbaugh.

He gave it his all, remember jumping into swimming pools with recruits, Signing of the Stars, taking them on international trips, all the satellite camps.

Thanks for the memories, a great 2021, and good luck with the Vikings coach.

Yep. Just a matter of waiting for the announcement now. 

Let's move on.  

to the next coach?  amirite or amirite?

Yeah, he's gone. And that's alright, the NFL is obviously where he wants to be, so he should go. 

It creates a turbulent situation for Michigan, but Jim Harbaugh could not control when he received an offer he was willing to accept from an NFL team. Michigan will be fine. He did some good things over the past year to put Michigan in a good spot to move on without him.

Michigan has some decisions to make as to whether or not they want to try and maintain some level of continuity with what Jim has put in place for 2022, or roll the dice with whats left in the carousel and prepare for what should be a relatively minor program remodel with a coach from outside the program.

Will be interesting to see which direction they decide to go.

As an outsider, it’s been obvious he was moving on since he returned his borrowed DC.   IMO, he got the salary cut he rightfully deserved, and that public shaming set the current course of events.   If you cut my salary in half and it was public, deserved or not, I’d say FU to my employer as well once I had the opportunity.   JH was fortunate to benefit from a borrowed DC, extra Covid eligibility/upper classmen  heavy team, and perfectly  parlayed those circumstances and talent into a CFPB team. He set the high water mark, with limited opportunity to surpass it.  Now he can tell Warde “FU”.  If the rumors are true, and the coaches have been given a week off starting with a half-day on national signing day, the writing is on the wall.  The biggest question now is how to avoided a Hoke type of hire. 

Never heard of a coach interviewing for a job on national signing day. Especially as the coach for the university he played for and graduated from. Don’t know if Urban Meyer would do this.

Bacon with another big miss

Looking like he’s leaving but you never know. He still hasn’t been offered the job and all everyone knows is he will accept if offered. 

Kelly did the right thing by taking his faaaamily with him.

BK left in the middle of the night with no warning. Would that have been so bad on Jan. 2? Dragging this crap out for a month just to leave on NSD II feels just as bad Bible Belt Brian.

We’re not signing anybody. The whole class already signed. The Signing Day aspect of this is really irrelevant.

Change is death is the most pessimistic euphemism imaginable - hang in there my man. It will all be okay. Change is hard, but it is rarely death. Often, change is good!

I'm in a really negative mood, but change is LIFE. 

Change is hard. Change is uncomfortable. But change is what turned us from a single cell bacterium to the most intelligent species on our planet. 

Hang in there, my dude.

Sounds like your life and work both suck. That is an evaluation, not an insult.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Ugh, my clarification didn’t get published for some reason

My point was actually that I think all change is a kind of death, and by mourning things such as moving away, graduating, etc. we get practice mourning the “big stuff”.  I often talk with patients about this when they find themselves saddened about various transitions in their lives, even ones that appear to be positive on net. 

As such, I was reflecting on that fact, and not suggesting any sort of equivalence with actual death. 

Don't forget that the guy whose name is on the business school apparently offered to pay big bucks for losses. 

Yeah, it's  a bit depressing for sure .  Let's go Warde, time to step up!

Warde Manuel doesn't have the horsepower to push Jim Harbaugh out the door, no matter what he thinks about it.  But he's going to gain a lot of power here shortly - because he'll own the next football coach of the University of Michigan.  If that guy is successful, Warde will own Ann Arbor.  If he's not, Warde will get run out of town.