Jaybaugh is a good coach and should be recognized as such

Beat staee

You might be a redneck if you live in a rural area and behave as such

I wholeheartedly endorse this view.   It seems to me that Michigan fans will only value JayBaugh when he is gone.  Unfortunately, he is going to be gone soon because he is going to be picked up by a MAC team or similar mid-major program to be an OC or possibly the HC.   He knows recruiting, he knows football, and he is being groomed for bigger roles.  I think his resume is strong enough that someone will grab him in a year that will have a stunning number of coaching changes.

I think he's fine. The areas he is responsible for certainly seem to do well. A lot of people criticized his RB coaching because the RBs in past years didn't seem to quite make the right cuts or reach their potential. How much is due to his coaching and how much is due to their performance is unclear; multiple guys under Jay frustrated us by picking bad holes, but Haskins is excellent this year and he really developed into the #1 type that pushed out Charbonnet under Jay. One thing that has been visible is that Michigan running backs got really good at blocking under Jay, including guys like Karan Higdon for whom it wasn't their calling card but became a weapon.

A lot of people blame him for things that aren't really his call, like rotating 4 RBs last year. Whether he was a good RB coach is tough to tell, but I never saw him as a negative. He certainly does seem to be good at recruiting, and seems fine as a staff guy who is producing good special teams performances. Of course, part of the special teams thing is just having good kickers this year, and there's absolutely no way Jay can offer any meaningful coaching to strengthen the kickers, since the position is notoriously challenging to coach as it is.

We are lucky to have Coach Jay at this point. If he were not Coach Jim Harbaugh’s son, he probably would have left for a promotion by now. We should be thankful for his loyalty to his dad and this program. We are getting quite the bargain. 

I never thought he had the resume to warrant his position, but since being an assistant at UM he's proven he's not only a good coach but also a good recruiter.  I'm sure he doesn't have the technical knowledge that Mike Hart does coaching RBs.  But, his units have always performed well and I've never heard any of his players say anything negative about him. 

Dorothy Manthooth is a SAINT!

Preach Brother!  I have been saying this for a while.  When he took over the special teams in 2016, they were as good as the year before with a ST guru running the show.  He moved to the RBs, and as a group they were team strength.  Back to ST, and the beat goes on.

Jaybaugh would benefit from moving to another school and coaching for someone other than his dad.  Not because he needs to improve professionally (although that is always a goal), but so he can get out from under Jim's shadow and be recognized for his own merit.

I think a lot of posters can’t get over that he is Jim’s son … overlooking that college football coaching is seldom actually a meritocracy.  Most guys get their big break through personal connections.

He's an elite recruiter and special teams coordinator, and his TE groups have been better than the TEs with any other coach in the Harbaugh era. He's good.

Hart is still a huge upgrade as RBs coach.

Lot of observations in this post by the OP. Enough to know this topic has been discussed as nauseam. 

Jaybaugh has been excellent for years, and this year is when the fruits of that excellence are most fully on display. His recruiting in particular has been a huge asset to the program. So if that's a "nepotism hire," then it's one that's worked out better than just about any other example I'm aware of, in any field

No one claimed nepotism when Rex Ryan hired his brother Rob in Buffalo......

Now do me!

While nepotism may have helped get him through the door, his competency at every position he's been assigned to has kept him in good standing.  He is a very good, young, coach that can recruit and teach.  He may not have played the game at a high level, but he's learned it from family members that have significant coaching accomplishments: won a college National Championship through an actual playoff; won multiple NFC/AFC Championship games; won the Super Bowl; held head coach/coaching positions across a bevy of nationally recognized top performing organizations; are still held in high regard by peers across the football world.

The kid knows football, he knows how to teach it, and he knows how to recruit for it.  

I'll reiterate what was said earlier in this thread, though.  He needs to get out from under Dad and Uncle to make his own name.  He'll be successful wherever he goes - so I hope it isn't to a program that will compete with UM.  But honestly, I hope he sticks around a couple more years...

Beat State.

Or, to echo DetroitBlue's use of that old standby, Beat Staee.

I'm just going to come out and write that Jay will end up being a better college HC at Michigan than his Dad.

It was a nepotism hire, of course it is going to come under scrutiny. However, I think it's clear he has passed. 

At this point, this is among the coldest takes out there. I keep hearing about this supposed "discontent" however I'm not sure I've ever actually seen it in the wild.

From the Jon Jansen podcast earlier this week, it was Jaybaugh who recognized the opportunity from Northwestern's specific punt formation for a block, and singled out Cornelius Johnson to practice a "one-shot" play to pull it off. I thought that was pretty cool. 

He's a virtual lock to be a head coach someday. Maybe even here, who knows?

Always been a good coach in my book.