Harbaugh through 30

sometimes (okay more than some) i really, really hate our fanbase.  

So much positve energy around the program since he got here.  Plus, Coach Harbaugh hired the Chief Dude, great defensive backfielld Coaches, and was able to retain Coach Mattison.

I don't know anyone who wants him fired.

Multiple National Championships from this coaching staff.

I think they do too.

personnel he has. He just adapts. That's the record of his achievement. He went to the Super Bowl with a starting qb who is no longer in the league. He won at every level of college competition and his best quarterback at Stanford helped him win more dynamically but didn't alter the fundamental success and growth of his team. Because that's the thing with him, improving performance through disciplined attention to doing things the right way and then correcting mistakes so they aren't repeated.

I mean that his why Brady is a great quarterback and still playing. The best coaches win repeatedly because they are disciplined about what it takes to succeed.

If you ever want to encapsulate what makes Jim Harbaugh succeed, it's just his competitive nature and passion to teach and improve. Hence, this week isn't a bye week, this is improvement week.

I mean as Michigan fans, all you got to do is look at his family and what it stands for and lives life, and you know you are in great hands. It's always about team and family. And the Harbaughs demonstrate it daily.

Harbaugh's teams have never been the best, they just pushed themselves and played that way.  And that's what it takes to win most of the time, which is what his teams do.

Has anybody worth speaking to actually said Harbaugh is anywhere close to being on the hot seat? Seems like the jump off for a pointless argument.

Harbaugh is an amazing coach and the best we could possibly hope to lead this team, so the idea we would replace him is...wat?

That being said, it is perfectly valid to have complaints, as we as Michigan fans have suffered over the last 8 years, and in a fair universe, we deserve every break.

When Harbaugh came in, he was touted as an offensive genius and quarterback guru. Brian & co. have had regular posts about the "Stanfordization" of this offense.

But when you look at our record, most of the success is on the back of some of the best defenses Michigan has ever fielded. Harbaugh deserves a ton of credit for finding DJ Durkin and replacing him with Don Brown, possibly the best assistant coach of Michigan history? (Would love a WD special on that topic...)

Those defenses have been anchored by players from Brady Hoke's amazing defensive recruiting classes. It seems people only point at the terrible offensive recruiting under Hoke and ignore the other side of the ball. That being said, given the early returns on Harbaugh's recruiting classes and the play from the underclassmen, there's no reason to think this level of play on the defensive end is unsustainable.

The main source of heat is with regards to the offensive production. Yes, Hoke left nothing of substance on the OL. But Harbaugh had some major misses his first go-around that are really coming back to bite us. The experience of our OL is in the 100s nationally, but something like half of the top 10 OLs in the country last year had less experience than our current line. Point being: teams have done much more with less. This is a historically bad offensive line. And while Harbaugh has recruited some elite linemen, the relatively poor OL development in year 3 is a cause for concern moving forward. 

A second source--new this year--is play calling. When Harbaugh & co. took over for Borges, it was such a breath of fresh air. The running game isn't working...wait...we're not going to keep pounding our head against the wall? Wow. What a novel idea! The gameplans just. made. sense. But this year, there are a lot of head scratchers, and it seems like the gameplans lack the same vision. It is especially puzzling after the offensive scheme totally changed after the 1st quarter of this game, and with the back-up QB. I think there are legit concerns with the offensive staff moving forward, but given the new hires and youth on the offensive side of the ball, Drevno's seat is merely warm, not scorching.

And then we get to the QB. This dead horse would be rotting in its grave had there been any corpse left to bury, so I'll keep it short. The source of the angst is that many fans' expectations were way too high (definitely mine included). I expected Harbaugh to recruit the next Andrew Luck by his first year. And a RS freshman or sophomore super-recruit is lightyears beyond the QB play we've had so far this season. However, no reasonable fan should be worried that we won't see that level of QB play in the future--and probably soon--but those of us who had unrealistic expectations are disappointed. So shoot us.

At the end of the day, like I said, Harbaugh is the best coach any of us could ever hope for, and he will lead us to glory. There are some of us who just think we suffered so much that we deserve it immediately.

and get into the playoffs. I was not expecting it from such a young team but you can never say never with Harbaugh as your coach. I would just like to see the offense improve through the year and may be upset OSU at home! But not expecting Harbaugh to have a championship caliber team until 2019.

kick back and enjoy every year we get to have Harbaugh as our Coach.

The "metrics" of success are going to happen.  I'm firmly of the belief that a NC run needs a few bounces of the football to go your way.  Last year it bounced the other way.

The defense has been completely overhauled and  is playing at light speed and I can only imagine Urban Meyer's hand wringing that his "novel" offense is about to be permanently cracked by the Stache.  I feel like the graduation of JT Barrett is going to be about like the graduation of Connor Cookie.  

I see the seniors on this team and it looks to me like the cogs are there to reload.  Thinking Cole and Kugler = Ruiz and Chuck Fil-A, Plenty of QBs, Herculean young RBs, stable of TEs. We have a kicker who can hit from Main Street,

I think Brown and Mattison are going to continue to build this juggernaut.  Towit: next dude up on the DE list is a guy Brown combed off the streets of.....Rhode Island...  Enuf Said.

Its Happening.

That being said, can he just fucking beat OSU please? What is the over/under on the number of years it takes for us to finally beat them?