January 7th, 2011 at 11:44 AM ^
With Luck coming back, Harbaugh now has all the power. He can ask every NFL team he meets for the world and see how many continents they offer him. If he isn't impressed, he can always go back to the solid team he's built at Stanford, get a huge raise, and see how much more they're willing to offer him next year.
Another year of Tony Sparano or Jason Garrett can make an owner do crazy things.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:43 AM ^
just makes me hold out hope that he'll end up with us. Don't want anyone else unless Bo can come back from the grave.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:05 PM ^
Now there is an idea!
January 7th, 2011 at 12:25 PM ^
Farted.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:35 AM ^
...because the most interesting players in this have not said a single word that amounts to more than a hill of beans. The speculation that this has lead to, particularly through the media, has been hilarious. The walls are going up, and they look like they will be higher and stronger than ever. And I, for one, could not be happier.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:37 AM ^
HOw do I start a Thread I may have some insight as to who the coach will be TOMMOROW
January 7th, 2011 at 11:39 AM ^
...just say what u need to say here.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:40 AM ^
iphone or nothing
Why don't you just post it here?
January 7th, 2011 at 1:18 PM ^
You really think they're going to hire a new coach on a Saturday?
I guess it's possible.......
January 7th, 2011 at 11:43 AM ^
cures all.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:53 AM ^
WHO FVCKING CARES if he is an anti-gay!!?!!
/pissed off
January 7th, 2011 at 12:05 PM ^
... I guess it would depend on how vocally anti-gay. DB said it himself, Michigan Football is the face of UM. Our face should match what our institution embodies.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:13 PM ^
NON bigots maybe?
January 7th, 2011 at 12:18 PM ^
How does one go about being an anti-gay activist?
Does Dungy just run around yelling at dudes, "Put on a more subdued shirt. Stop working out so much. You don't need all that mid-century modern furniture. Quit looking at each other's bottoms!" Then his head explodes.
This is how I picture it. Just looking for confirmation.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:56 PM ^
Confirmed.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:39 AM ^
I think that every MINUTE that Harbaugh is not at some NFL podium increases the likelihood that he ends up at Michigan.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:42 AM ^
You really got to learn how to let go.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:43 AM ^
Give everything to get Harbaugh back in the MAIZE AND BLUE!!
January 7th, 2011 at 12:54 PM ^
1) all his eligibility is used up
2) he'll transfer to have a better shot at starting
3) Cam Newton's dad is negotiating better cash for him
January 7th, 2011 at 11:49 AM ^
Disagree. Every minute that he doesn't take this job shoots himself in the foot, should he finally take it. Not that it won't happen, but I think at this point it's pretty clear he wants to go to the NFL, and if he doesn't like his options now, then he goes back to Stanford with Luck to take a run at the NC next year. Then tests the NFL waters again next year. The only way he ends up here is if it was a huge damn conspiracy, which I think is highly unlikely.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:39 PM ^
I think at this point it's pretty clear he wants to go to the NFL
Or...that he's simply making a giant money-grab. Jim doesn't strike me as lacking cunning or ambition. He probably has no qualms performing this NFL interview charade-tour in order to get what he wants out of Stanford, U-M, or the highest NFL bidder (money or power). Three NFL "interviews" for the most sought-after free agent coach in any level of football, and none of them work out? Something smells here.
I add this to the list of cons for JH as U-M HC. This just isn't a character trait that we've historically valued.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:41 AM ^
I think getting Dungy would be a coup. The man does not have a blemish on his record from an ethics or character standpoint. Also, based on what he did for Vick (personal feeling for Vick aside), you can not tell me that would not pave the road to AA for recruits...but, I HIGHLY doubt he'd come back to coaching let alone the college ranks
January 7th, 2011 at 11:42 AM ^
He has literally kept our name on TV 24/7 during college football championship week. They will talk about us tonight as well as this weekend. On Monday, when all eyes will be watching college football we announce our hire.
I originally thought DB was wrong with his process, but now I think he is playing a master class game of marketing.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:42 AM ^
I have info that Les Miles will be named head coach tommorow and that Bo Pelini will slide down south to take the LSU job per Pelinis Agent. My dads friend has someone in the AD at michigan and he got the information directly from Pelinis agent.. FWIW
January 7th, 2011 at 11:45 AM ^
As for voracity -- probably crap but better information than anything else we know so I appreciate it
As for reaction if true -- ehhh... at some point getting lucky time after time becomes statistically significant, and he does win. And oversigning can be stopped. It's not like he ignores head injuries and locks kids in closets and I've seen support for Mike Leach.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:46 AM ^
We're naming a coach on a Saturday? I don't buy it. But if so, I hope they announce it late at night so I can be sufficiently intoxicated.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:07 PM ^
Just start drinking early in the morning like I plan to - then you're covered either way.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:47 AM ^
Please tell me you are an online version of a funny guy? No, not the Hatter!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!
January 7th, 2011 at 11:50 AM ^
Anything more substantial than your dad's friend? I'm already hesitant to believe this since from last night to now it's switched from your dad's work partner's friend who had recent talks with Pelini to dad's friend talking directly to Pelini. Couple that with being a member for less than a day and your inexplicable repping of the toledo area code in yesterday's posts....well you can see why I'm remiss to take anything you say seriously...
January 7th, 2011 at 11:51 AM ^
You might have convinced me if you only told us about the Les Miles part. But Bo Pelini to LSU at the same time? Seems far fetched.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:09 PM ^
Its not entirely uncommon to see co-ordinators leave one school to take an HC job, then return to their former school as HC
January 7th, 2011 at 11:58 AM ^
If you are right about this, I think a massive pos-bang should be coming your way.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:01 PM ^
You will either be legendary or hated around here soon.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:11 PM ^
January 7th, 2011 at 12:14 PM ^
... friend of a family member in the AD... Joined just yesterday... Pelini already going to LSU... Come on guys, you can't possibly be so naive as to believe this. Can you?
Damn it, man. Get ahold of yourselves.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:20 PM ^
This was reported on some Notre Dame boards two days ago FWIW. The alleged source was also Pelinis agent. To me, this sounds like the very typical internet rumor - like the Tiger flight to Phoenix for emergency dental surgery, etc. that supposedly came from someone connected with Tiger's agent.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
ok
[looks around to the people around him]
anyone know this asshole?
[no response from the people around him]
nice story. now run along and let the grown-ups talk some more.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:28 PM ^
Haha I would posbang the shit out of you until you were dizzy if I could. That was classic.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:14 PM ^
Why would your dad's friend's friend in the Michigan Athletic Department have gotten this information from the agent of the coach that is not coming to Michigan? And why would the agent be willing to spill the beans about a major coaching change prematurely to someone not involved with his client at all in the first place? And if the people involved are being so loose-lipped about this, then why hasn't any semi-reputable media outlet said something about it?
I don't necessarily think you're making this up, but I do think that your third-hand source doesn't know what's going on or the message was garbled somewhere between the source and you. I say this because I received information from a similar source (a family member of my brother's girlfriend in the AD) stating that Rich Rodriguez would not be fired because Harbaugh and Hoke wouldn't come. I didn't post it because I had the sense to realize that it was nonsensical.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:24 PM ^
This is the most made up pile of garbage I've read in a long time.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:43 AM ^
Late morning? Like I just woke up, man. I had good dreams though.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:51 AM ^
I hate you. In an I'm-jealous-of-your-schedule kind of way
January 7th, 2011 at 12:09 PM ^
I just woke up, but live on the west coast and have a schedule similar to yours. Tired.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:47 AM ^
Daniel Howes had an interesting line in his article today on Brandon's decision being the defining moment of his tenure of AD. In discussing how Bill Martin basically threw Rodriguez to the wolves in hiring him 3 years ago, Howes defined the Michigan program and its powers-that-be as:
. . . a Michigan football machine encrusted with 40 years of inbreeding and Bo adulation.
I think I tend to agree with this definition, at least with respect to most influential persons involved with the program. What do you all think? Does this description offend you?
January 7th, 2011 at 11:51 AM ^
Sometimes the truth hurts.
January 7th, 2011 at 11:52 AM ^
It's mostly correct. Last night one of my good friends told me he didn't want Hoke becaue he didn't have any connection to Bo (he only worked for Lloyd). Which... like... really? Maybe it's because I was born about when Bo retired.
PS I had a Domino's ad. Is DB sending us a message?
January 7th, 2011 at 11:52 AM ^
Brandon has a chance to change it with this hire. Someone like Patterson or Gruden would go a long way toward shattering that nonsense. Even Harbaugh and Miles have done enough away from Michigan that their candidacies make sense regardless of prior affiliation (and enough of the insiders seem to hate them anyway).
If he hires Hoke then the program has officially disappeared up its own asshole.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:03 PM ^
Possibly for Miles, but for Harbaugh. Any hatred coming out now is because we didn't take our offers, on both counts.
January 7th, 2011 at 12:11 PM ^
It seems like there are more than a handful of people who don't want him because of that. Not to mention the DUI/divorce comments that keep popping up.
I doubt it is an overwhelming sentiment, but I imagine there are plenty of folks who don't like him because for whatever reasons he rubbed them the wrong way over the years.