Lost Letterman on Harbaugh at Stanford and Michigan temptation
Much new here (at least to me).
And please Jaysus H. Christo don't bite my head off if this has been already posted. I don't live here. I'm just a visitor.
http://www.lostlettermen.com/jim-weber-column-answering-the-big-questio…
November 29th, 2010 at 11:22 PM ^
Is someone counting how many threads have been started about Harbaugh/RR job security today?
November 29th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^
But instead I just turned this all into a drinking game.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:45 PM ^
Please for the sake of your family and friends do not make a drinking game out of this shit. You might end up dying of alcohol poisoning.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:51 PM ^
But I feel this is something I hve been training my whole life for. ansd byt that I mean since 21, as thats the legal age.
If I don;t make it, it's been a pleasure posting with all of you
November 30th, 2010 at 10:45 AM ^
Its not worth the suffering since you are sure to die a slow, painful death after the 100th beer/shot. Just put a bullet in your head like I'm going to do and end it quickly. There's no fun to be had here.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:37 AM ^
The more rampant the Harbaugh speculation, the sweeter it will be when Coach Rod leads us to a BCS Bowl next year.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:04 PM ^
*****THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POST TO READ BECAUSE IT'S 'THE' TRUTH*****
#1) Michigan is NOT Jim Harbaugh's 'dream job.' He wants an NFL job, because him and his brother are so competitive. SD, SF, Oak and Car (and maybe even Dal and Min) are all going to be fighting over him this off-season.
#2) Dave Brandon is going to be doing absolutely everything he can to convince him to come to Michigan over the next month.
#3) In all likelihood, Rich Rod will be brought back (signing a two year extension after the bowl game), and Greg Robinson will be replaced (along with the 3-3-5). Ron English is supposedly an early DC candidate.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:31 PM ^
Put me down for one. But in all fairness I was just trying to show that the Cleveland media actually treats RR better and more fairly than the Detroit media does. But it was a RR/Harbaugh thread so guilty as charged.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:31 PM ^
Please...
November 29th, 2010 at 11:34 PM ^
No, no, this is really very illuminating.
They ask Harbaugh "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"
Must read.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:47 AM ^
Could it be... A CARDINAL?
*rimshot*
November 30th, 2010 at 10:47 AM ^
You forgot to pray to 6lb. 10oz. Little Baby Jesus. (No religious insult intended!!! For those that don't know, its a Will Ferrell line from Talladega Nights.)
November 29th, 2010 at 11:33 PM ^
Thanks a lot David Brandon for ruining a perfectly damn good blog. Domino's pizza sucks as well.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
a Hot-n-Ready any day
November 29th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
Domino's is pretty tasty D:
November 30th, 2010 at 3:21 AM ^
Co-signed. I submit that Domino's has always been tasty.
This might be blasphemous, but enjoyed the old, Brandon-era Domino's even more than their 'new and improved' pizza. Maybe it's just U of M loyalty, but I miss those beautiful, greasy pies.
These new Domino's pizzas try to masquarade as actual parlor pizza and fail. The old pizzas embraced their place as quick-and-dirty delivery fare and greased it up in style.
And so ends my digression.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:44 PM ^
Harbaugh wins and he wins big, recruits high-character players and has never been accused of or an NCAA violation – none of which Rich Rodriguez does.
Bullshit. Yes, there have been NCAA violations. But, to accuse RR of not recruiting high character players is a disrespectful lie of Freep proportions.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:56 PM ^
You beat me to posting this, by exactly two minutes.
What a ridiculous fucking jackass Jim Weber is. I encourage everybody to email him and tell him so.
I quit reading at that point. But by then I had seen Weber's comment on how badly Harbaugh can treat the press. Everyone in the press, that is, who (and here I'll employ the kind of imagery that a Harbaugh might appreciate) isn't willing to suck his dick.
Please, share your ideas and suggestions with Mr. Jim Weber:
November 30th, 2010 at 8:27 AM ^
I think that might be a reference to the DD situation. Although, it is worded in a way to make it sound like RR never has recruited a high-character player. It should read "recruits ONLY high-character players". Then it would be accurate (assuming Harbaugh only recruits high character players, I have no idea about this).
November 30th, 2010 at 10:48 AM ^
That is all.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:49 PM ^
This column isnt as superficial as most in sports writing but still the writer is playing off of whats reported in mainstream media. So he's listened to whatever vomit Joe Schad or Herbies put forth, or read the Freep drivel. His profile of Harbaugh's beginings at Stanford was interesting though.
Had RR pulled any of those moves the blue hairs and tradtionalists would have shat themselves.
Not making any arguments either way, but this column, like all columns, makes the issue too black and white when I think our fearless leader knows this shit is nothing but gray gray gray.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:51 PM ^
Well I guess I will have to say DB will pick 
Sorry, I had too much today.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
today is the first time I can remember of being ashamed of this board. There was no presser, there was no announcement, there was no indication, there was nothing today from the AD.
If RR was going to be terminated, he would have been already. He ain't going anywhere folk. Brandon is smart, or so the Pimp Hand suggests. He would have brought that db Harbaugh in today if he were going to be a coach here next year. Guess what? He's still not coming. Why? Because RR is the coach and will be the coach in 2011.
I'm tired of the conjecture, the speculation the 'omg Jimmy Harbaugh, I love you' speak. If it didn't happen today, it's not happening this year. Lets move on and discuss more relevant things such as the weather for the Big Chill or what fashion statement Stonum will make at the next presser or anything else. please.
I feel like this cat trapped in the shower:
November 30th, 2010 at 8:06 AM ^
You just made me laugh out loud at work with that damn cat picture! I think we're going to need LOTS of cat pics to get through this December - OY!
November 30th, 2010 at 12:18 AM ^
November 30th, 2010 at 12:28 AM ^
Make this shit stop... I just want to win our bowl game and Rich Rod to come back and shut the haters up... 2012 is gunna be a magical year!
November 30th, 2010 at 8:29 AM ^
I feel like I've heard the "Just win X game and the haters will shut up" line at least 10 times during RR's tenure. He has probably only won a couple of those, but it still didn't shut the haters up. At this point, RR will always have haters. There is nothing he can do about it.
November 30th, 2010 at 10:05 AM ^
he would not be in this position. Especially if some of those X's were OSX, MSX, and PSX.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:07 PM ^
At this point, RR will always have haters.
Hit the nail right on the head with this one. He could win National Championships from now through 2020, 22 first team All-Americans per year, a Heisman winner each year, sweep awards each year, and blow teams out of the water 130-0 every game, and people will find something to complain about.
"I'm sick of watching our team win everything, it's boring"
"How come we didn't have TWO Heisman winners this year? WTF FIRE DICK ROD"
etc
November 30th, 2010 at 10:24 AM ^
Why so impatient as to demand results of RR within five years? Why not say 2020 just to make sure it's not somehow all Lloyd's fault still?
I'm fine with giving RR one more year, but if Harbaugh took the job tomorrow I'd support that decision too. If the defense and ST don't improve by a HUGE margin next year though, I don't even want 2012 to be an option.
Let's remember that the seven teams we beat were mostly chumps, including ND, Indiana. Our most quality win this year was at home vs. Illinois. BFD
November 30th, 2010 at 12:31 AM ^
Harbaugh is an asshole who threw his alma mater under the bus. I've stood by this assertion since the summer 2007 and I continue to stand by it. Reading about how little class he has, and taking into consideration the DUI in 2005, I do not want him as HC at Michigan, guarantees be damned.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:34 AM ^
The description of Harbaugh is fair and accurate. He would be very successful at Michigan, but he is an arrogant bully (approaching Bobby Knight level) who frequently says or does things that make you cringe. He loves the limelight and if he takes the UM head coaching job it will be for his own ego and not because of his love for his alma mater. He is prone to "unfortunate" comments and antics and will constantly be rumored to be jumping to the NFL. Note to Dave Brandon and UM fans -- be very careful what you wish for.
FWIW, I think we can be just as successful with RR and should stick with him at least one more year to find out. IMO, if we can win championships with RR, we will be much better off because he is the type of person who is easier to be proud of as your coach (e.g., Bo, JoePa, Mack Brown) and is likely to stay at Michigan longer.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:47 AM ^
RR seems like a terrific human being who has brought great kids into the program. IIRC, in his time with us, the team as a whole has also had very good academic performance, and he seems to have the right values up and down the line. His only blemish is the NCAA violations, and those were more a creation of the FREEP than anything he did.
November 30th, 2010 at 8:33 AM ^
His only blemish is the NCAA violations, and those were more a creation of the FREEP than anything he did.
FWIW, he did commit the violations whether the Freep reported it or not. The University admitted them. So I would say it wasn't something the Freep "created", but got us in trouble for.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:25 PM ^
No no no no!
The University admitted to violations, regarding Allegations 1 through 4. Before any hearing. Based on the combined investigation of the University's lawyers and the NCAA enfrorcement counsel.
Allegations 1 through 4 did not name Rich Rodriguez. They did not "go to" Rich Rodriguez. They were more or less, and in some cases very specifically, aimed at persons not named Rich Rodriguez.
Allegation 5 of the Notice of Allegations was aimed wholly at Rich Rodriguez, and it alleegd that he personally had "failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance." And Rich Rodriguez contested that allegation. And the University joined him in contesting it. They demanded a hearing, and defended against that charge. And as a result, the NCAA transformed the allegation; the NCAA withdrew the "failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance" charge, and instead made it an allegation, against the University, of a "failure to supervise."
In the Byzantine world of NCAA enforcement, that is just about as close to a personal exoneration as you can get. Granted, a lot of people, including people whose name almost no general sports fan would recognize, doing jobs that the public barely knows exist, got University letters of reprimand in their University employment files. and Rich Rodriguez was one of those people.
But your comment above is almost wholly incorrect; and worst of all, you probably represent the great majority of casual Michigan football enthusiasts who share your misunderstanding. It is an outrage, attributable to a lazy and vicious press.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:31 AM ^
I thought this was going to be about dave letterman
November 30th, 2010 at 10:08 AM ^
I thought to myself "Holy shit this is getting out of hand. Even David Letterman is commenting on the Michigan coaching situation. I wonder what Lindsey Lohan's take is?"
November 30th, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
To say that RR has not recruited high-character players is a bogus, ignorant, cheap shot. He has.
This article is basically a too-long crock of shit.