Harbaugh - For Serial?
First and foremost I support Rich Rod and am definitely in the "firing RR would do more harm than good" camp (hopefully I'm not the only member after this past weekend), but I can't believe how Jim Harbaugh has shot to the top of everyone's list for "potential replacements." Doesn't anybody remember this??
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/destroy-harbaugh.html
Is this the guy we really want to take over at Michigan?? I'd much rather take 7-5 seasons with the 100+ worst defense in the nation before bringing on a supposed "Michigan man" who spit on our program only 3 years ago.
(Note: If you don't get the tagline, you obviously have never heard of ManBearPig either - "the single biggest threat to our planet.")
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:24 AM ^
Well I am still hoping for a 9-3 season. Lets hope all this conjecture proves pointless and the hot seat becomes cool as a cucumber.
November 1st, 2010 at 11:43 PM ^
My concern, and I was at almost every home game the guy played at Michigan, is that even if he came here, it wouldn't be a terminal job for him. Not saying it would be for RR, but it was for Bump, it was for Bo, it would have been for Moe, it was for Carr. However, I don't really believe it would be for Harbaugh. Maybe, but I don't think it would, there would always be the NFL out there. Maybe that's ok, just saying, it is something to consider. I guess if he got it going, and left in 5 years, at least he got the program back. That might be what the program needs. At the very least, and people probably don't remember this, but Harbaugh would have to make that Bo decision, the one where A&M offered Bo a lot of jack to go, but he stayed true to Blue.
November 1st, 2010 at 11:46 PM ^
FWIW, I have heard Harbaugh's name as a potential replacement in San Fran for the 49ers if they continue to sail below expectations.
Also, Brandon and Harbaugh are good friends, that will undoubtedly come into play at some point.
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:07 AM ^
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
Izzo.
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:09 AM ^
Didn't work for Weis. Well, actually, it did in recruiting. He just couldn't coach.
November 2nd, 2010 at 4:21 PM ^
It worked for his contract, but I'm not sure it ever was a factor in recruiting...I don't think he ever had enough legit offers to make it look like he was turning anyone down. The fear of it just made ND do something stupid. But it's not like he could say "I turned down the Vikings to coach YOU, son".
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:05 AM ^
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:17 AM ^
And yet, RR's press conference style is so much like George W. Bush.
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:51 AM ^
While I do love Warren the Ape, your comment is wildly off-base. Obama inherited two failed wars and a near-depression. RR inherited an 8-4 team and turned it into a depression that lost nearly every war it waged.
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
What does the op title mean? Serial killer?
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:58 AM ^
Southpark refrence. "ManBearPig is real and a serious threat, I'm super SERIAL"-Al Gore
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:53 AM ^
Don't underestimate what the NCAA could do to Michigan. That is going to be a BIG, BIG factor in how this all plays out at the end of the season.
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:53 AM ^
A stupid comment
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:50 AM ^
I'm bias! If RR doesn't pan out here then I'm all on board for hiring Jim. He was QB while I attended UM. He was quite a team leader who had a cocky sense of confidence. Something we may need in this program. I guarantee, if he was hired as our head coach, during the first day he would send a message to old sweater vest about how things were going to change!
Jim would make a great coach here and if he wins us a national championship, I would suspect he would get an NFL coaching gig. That would be fine by me.
If Michigan doesn't hire him at the end of the season. He will be an NFL coach somewhere.
November 2nd, 2010 at 6:41 AM ^
Evidence for this? Not your opinion or your hope, but evidence with a source?
November 2nd, 2010 at 6:46 AM ^
I'm far from a Harbaugh fan and have been a strong supporter of RR, but that's just a silly statement. Jimmy Hairball has proven that he's a damn good head coach at two schools, one of them below FBS level. RR has been a damn good coach at two schools, one of them below FBS level. He's been, so far, a huge disappointment at a third school.
November 2nd, 2010 at 7:21 AM ^
Harbaugh still hasn't even won a bowl game! He hasn't won a conference championship. Rich Rod has been successful everywhere he's been. He made West Virginia into a national championship caliber program. At Michigan Rich Rod has had numerous problems with player loss on the defensive side of the ball. If Harbaugh was coaching this defense he too would be unsuccessful. The failures at Michigan have to do with talent, they are not a result of poor coaching.
November 2nd, 2010 at 11:06 AM ^
Rich Rod has been successful everywhere he's been.
Except Ann Arbor - and that's the problem.
November 2nd, 2010 at 8:22 AM ^
I don’t know if this is just Jamie measuring his words, but he didn’t exactly serve up a wild endorsement of Rodriguez and admitted that Harbaugh would be welcomed back to U-M if he were the Michigan football coach at some point beyond RR’s tenure.
That's from Jamie Morris by the way, the guy who was really pissed off at JH's comments.
November 2nd, 2010 at 11:26 AM ^
I certianly agree. If you walk into a job and accuse managament of misappropriating funds or misleading the public about its employees, guess what? You don't get hired. I am willing to bet that Lloyd, Brandon, and some of the other Bo disciples still remember that.
November 2nd, 2010 at 6:26 PM ^
what about a coach like urban meyer? Also, I think this is all a little premature... :/