It was a no-brainer to stick with Harbaugh

It was odd how much this blog slobbered over Campbell. I’ve never thought he’d be an upgrade 

Oh this is something that bugged me.  Ace kept calling Matt Campbell "Soup."  Michigan football has already had a Soup Campbell.  You can't have two.  Them's the rules.

Plus, losing Hutch, Cade and several other starters to injury, our safety coach being AWOL, and various other craziness.

It was clear that we needed to move on from Don Brown though.  Very glad Harbaugh pulled the trigger and listened to his brother's advice.

Bruh…

You were calling Michigan “Big Blue”. Everybody was downvoting you for that. And if you think he took a pay cut for the good of the university, I don’t know what to tell you.

You are so right.  If I were Harbaugh, THIS is what would bring me down and depressed.  

By the off-season, I had said I’d be fine if they parted ways after last season.  Not because I thought there was a better option but because there seemed to be baked in problems that weren’t getting fixed like the defense and failing to recruit key positions groups. Not an “unacceptable” type but I was ready for a new approach from a new coach.
 

ill gladly own up to being proven wrong. Harbaugh had it in him and he pulled together a group of coaches and kids who put together a magical season. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say we wouldn’t have gone 11-1 and nearly undefeated with whatever coach we hired. Seems incredibly unlikely. More importantly, the program feels alive again and like there May be better years ahead, finally. 

that said, Harbaugh was rightfully criticized for not getting it done for half a decade and that season last year looked all-around awful. You can’t be too upset with people for wanting something to change. And being proven “right” in this context doesn’t mean you were right, it means it turned out the way you hoped. A lot of us hoped it would turn out this way year after year. You just lasted a little longer;)

but I’ll eat a big bag of shit and crow and whatever else you want to say I was wrong and it would have been a mistake to replace him, knowing what I know now.

more importantly let’s stop bitching about this idiotic subject and be behind this team who got it done. Taking a victory lap so you can dance on your fellow fans grave is unseemly and dickish. Yes there were some obnoxious Harbaugh haters but they all wanted the same thing you did. This is a big part of what’s wrong in this country right now. Pick each other up instead of othering the people who want the same shit you do. Like a family let’s realize some of us did and said some dumb shit and get back to the task at hand of cheering these boys on, together.

I will fess up, after 2020 on top of the thousand cuts that had preceded it, I was pretty much done with Harbaugh because it felt like the team had just quit, as evidenced by the Wisconsin night game.  I wasn’t about to buy a torch and pitchfork only because I didn’t see a clear cut better alternative and because if there was ever a year to chalk up as an anomaly, it was last year.

So, based on that tiniest of footholds, I was like ‘sure, let’s roll the dice with another year because it can’t get any worse and maybe this time things will be different ’. Bit by bit, he proved me wrong and I am happy he is our coach.  

Idk, I will willfully admit I was wrong when I predicted 7-5 before the season and said I wouldn't mind if they parted ways with Harbaugh (though I didn't think they'd really consider firing him until after next year given the extension). I mean, the 2020 team was just *so* bad, how could anyone have predicted this year in their wildest dreams? 

However, after the Wisconsin game I did start to come around and admit the team might actually be good. After the MSU game, where Michigan was clearly jobbed, I said I'd wait until PSU and OSU to decide whether it was really "the same old problems" that Harbaugh supposedly couldn't get past. When they beat PSU for their second 4th quarter comeback on the road this year, I firmly decided it would be insane to fire Harbaugh and the OSU game shouldn't be the deciding factor. Even if they had finished 10-2 and lost to MSU and OSU, this year would clearly have exceeded expectations, and that by itself was enough for me to come around to the pro-Harbaugh camp.

Uhhhhh, Michigan's base offense is a split zone spread package with zone read, arc read, RPO, etc. being their bread and butter. They didn't line up under center once yesterday.

A win there definitely would have changed the narrative around the program.  But, we would have still had to deal with the back to back subpar recruiting classes from 2014 and '15.  Those two classes created depth problems, which we papered over in Harbaugh's first two years, but then reared their head in '17 and to a lesser degree in '18.

For sure. Campbell would not have taken 2020 Michigan and done this with it the following year. In fact, I don't think there is another coach on the planet that could have.

Iowa State historically is worse than Rutgers...by quite a bit. That being said Campbell didnt have an impressive season this year at all after last year. He may need to regroup and change some things.