OT: Jim Harbaugh to the Lions?
http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/01/are_lions_interested_in_in…
I hope he's not desperate enough to come here and take this gig. It will be the end of his coaching career if he does.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:23 PM ^
I would be cool with that. Maybe then he could steal Cam Cam away from his brother.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:24 PM ^
Or the beginning of an outstanding retirement plan!
January 5th, 2009 at 4:53 PM ^
anyone is qualified for the job. You can't do any worse!
January 5th, 2009 at 5:19 PM ^
you think Stanford isn't a dead end?
January 5th, 2009 at 8:07 PM ^
Uh, no actually, I don't. Never mind the fact that Willingham was hired by ND & Washington after coaching at Stanford. Harbaugh has a very good recruiting class coming in this year by Stanford standards. The Detroit Lions are a graveyard for head coaches. Only Bobby Ross got another HC gig after leaving the Lions and that was at Army.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:07 PM ^
Lane Kiffin and Pete Carroll disagree. You can bomb in the pros and get another college gig. He might have trouble getting an NFL head coach job without being a coordinator or assistant again, but most real franchises wouldn't hire him without that experience anyway so that point is moot.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:29 PM ^
Carroll didn't really bomb in the pros. He went 33-31. Yeah, he got fired twice, but both were questionable decisions. He probably could have eventually gotten another NFL job if he'd really wanted one, instead of going back to college. But obviously he's in his element at SC.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:35 AM ^
Quit trying to confuse my argument with your "facts." Kiffin is the better example because Oakland is a career killing job much like the Lions. Didn't Callahan coach Nebraska after getting canned in Oakland too? Maybe the Raiders are the new launchpad for traditional power house college head coaching jobs. Art Shell will probably coach Notre Dame when Weis gets fired.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:30 PM ^
It would be a shame to see him walk away from Stanford, since his teams really seem to be improving. Additionally, he seems to be recruiting pretty well. I like him a great deal (and had the opportunity to work with him Baltimore when he was the QB there), and I would like to see him take his time building a good program at Stanford. I think that he will eventually get an NFL gig, but it would be nice to see him stay a while and bask in the glow of something that he built.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:00 PM ^
I completely agree. Watching the UA game last night, it seems like Nunes and Patterson will develop into very nice players. He needs to stick around and develop Stanford, in order to land a top job. Side note, if I were a star athlete, Stanford would be my second choice...
January 6th, 2009 at 12:47 AM ^
However not as good as when Harbaugh scramble the preseason field at the Silver Dome for that one glorious day.
He is building something nice at Stanford, but at this point in time winning a game in Detroit with that steaming pile of a roster will make you the modern day equivalent of Vince Lombardi.