saveferris

September 24th, 2014 at 7:53 AM ^

"This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!"

superstringer

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:27 PM ^

Did the author of that 'news' article get paid?  He should be arrested for robbery or larceny or some other crime that ends in a "y."  He didn't say a freaking thing that anyone making WAGs hasn't already done.

I actually feel dirty for reading the link and then posting this.  Do we HAVE to live with all this stupid Harbaugh (him or the other one) speculation for THREE MORE MONTHS?  Guhhh.

harmon40

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:28 PM ^

"Things aren't going well in either place, maybe this could happen??"

Currently there is nothing apart from circumstances to indicate any interest from either side.

Personally, I would love for JH to come back to AA. Harbaugh said what he said a few years back, so what? To grab a coach of that caliber, and a former star QB to boot, would be recruiting/game prep/execution/rivalry game gold

Double-D

September 23rd, 2014 at 11:42 PM ^

I would be very surprised if deep down the opportunity to follow in Bo's shoes, who was so close to Jim and his family at a place they all find so special, at time when they are loaded with good young talent, and at what might be the last chance in his lifetime......he might give some serious consideration. But only if Brandon is gone as part of the deal.

Class of 1817

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^

This is kinda embarrassing, folks...

Just stop with the Harbaugh-star wishing. This is truly reaching insane levels.

Our program needs all the help it can get staying in the reality...regardless of how unpleasant that may be.

Monkey House

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:44 PM ^

yeah in this coaching search lets never attempt to bring in the best coach possible (ie PSU,OSU) and do what we did last time and get a .500 Mac coach just because he has eaten in our cafeteria before. why not discuss JH? its not impossible he doesn't come here.

SFBlue

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^

This is just setting Michigan up for failure.  There are plenty of good coaches who are not Harbaughs, who have never coached at Michigan, who do not have relatives who coached or played at Michigan, and/or who have never even rooted for Michigan.  This obsession over Harbaugh, while understandable, is not healthy. 

alum96

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^

John Harbaugh has not had to run a major or minor college football program.  He has not had to glad hand alumni, talk to parents, kiss players asses, run a recruiting campaign, fundraise etc etc.  He is not the better candidate in terms of being a college coach - he is an unknown as a college head coach.  He might be the better X's and O's guy and the better football coach for all I know but he is not a better candidate for a college program based on experience.  Jim has been there and done that.

HeadAsplode

September 24th, 2014 at 9:32 AM ^

How did that work for Jim Mora at UCLA?  No college coaching experience apart from being a GA.  I think we would all take those results on the field, along with his currently fundraising for a new football performance center.  



After his first stint in the NFL, Pete Carroll came back to run USC with only assistant coaching experience in college and yeah.



Even Bill Walsh came from the NFL to Stanford.



I don't think this argument is valid.  Or at least as big of a deal as you think.

JamieH

September 23rd, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^

Miles actually liked his current job and was in the running for the national title at the time.

 

If Harbaugh was currently heading for the Super Bowl and actually got along with SF management then the situation would be similar.  But all indications are that he hates the people in charge at SF and would welcome coaching somewhere else if the $$$ and situation are right.

Fuzzy Dunlop

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^

I would absolutely love it.  It would almost make the last seven years of frustration worth it if, at the end of it all, we finally wind up with the right guy to lead the program forward for the next 20 years.

I know OP is going to get slammed for posting speculation, but it does seem that the stars are aligning in a certain way.  Four years ago when Harbaugh (supposedly) turned us down for the NFL, we all figured that was all she wrote -- there was no way that Michigan would be looking for a new head coach in just a few years, and if we were there was no way that Harbaugh would be disillusioned with the NFL in such a short time.  Yet it looks like that may be exactly what is happening.

 

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alum96

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^

First let me preface this by saying I'd take Harbaugh in a second due to success at Stanford, 49ers, his demeanor (which fits college perfectly), etc.  Could care less if he is from Michigan or not - just a bonus.

But if by some great miracle he does decide to leave his stated goal of coaching at the highest level to save the program (I could see Harbaugh going to Florida just the same if he decides to go to college) the minute he turned around this program there would be talk of the NFL coming back after him.  And every opening every year we'd be in a Saban situation where talk was of suitors for Harbaugh.

Now again, with the situation we are in I'd accept that - give me back a viable Michigan team in return for rumors every off season we'd lose our coach.  But that's the reality of how it would turn out.  And I doubt he'd stay here for 15 years or whatever romantic notion people have. 

Again those are first world problems.  But we are not used to having a head coach other teams actually covet - Bo was the last one and once he turned down A&M (early 80s) we've never dealt with it again in 3 decades.  We've also never had a coach who was a success in the NFL.  If you bring either Harbaugh here it is all you will hear all off season and even during the end of the season.   Most highly successful NCAA coaches never had success in the NFL so we'd be in a very unique situation if this happened.

GoBLUinTX

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^

full of themselves now.  This year they've forced an NBA owner to sell off controlling interest, they forced FSU to alter the suspension of their star player, they forced another owner to sell his stake, yet another owner was forced to make a public mea culpa, they collectively decided that the commissioner of the NFL must be forced out no matter what he says, so going after the AD and HC of a school of former glory is mere business as usual. 

814 East U

September 23rd, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^

There needs to be a MGo Sign Up sheet of people who say 100% no he is not coming, Yes he is coming and a group who does not care just let me know when there is a new coach. Then let the negbangs and posbangs commense when the results are in.