Skip Bayless: "I think Jim Harbaugh has proven to be the best coach in colllege football"
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
Didn't read but...no he hasn't?!
Great hot-take attention-seeking headline but...he hasn't. He's near the top probably but he's got work to do.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:31 PM ^
Um, no? That’s just dumb. And I love Jim, but come on...
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
If you listen to what he's actually saying in that segment, I don't necessarily disagree with him. I'm pretty far from being a homer, I think, but I mostly agree with the nuance of what he's saying. That said, results are what count. Need to win.
August 22nd, 2018 at 3:42 PM ^
Skip Bayless being nuanced is unfathomable.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:31 PM ^
Skip being Skip
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
With friends like this, who needs an enemy.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
Not sure skip Bayless is the guy anyone wants to use as a reference.....
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
Skeeeeeeeeeeup
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August 22nd, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
Never listen to idiots.
Positive or negative comments
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:04 PM ^
Undisputed. Just win the right way, baby. Win and your in.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
He's fishing for clicks. Especially saying this on a day when thousands of OSU fans are glued to their keyboards waiting for news on Meyer.
I doubt he actually believes it.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
First impression was that they must be close to canceling the show and Skip is REALLY trying to get attention in any way he can.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
". . . even though I cannot defend Jim Harbaugh's results so far"
You are, um, what your record says you are.
I'd hold off on "best coach in college football" until that record catches up a little bit.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
I think many coaches can win with Alabama talent. Lets be real. Not sure I'd single out Harbaugh but Nick Saban is overrated as a coach. Recruiting yea..well...pages could be written about that.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:41 PM ^
Last I checked, recruiting is a part of coaching in college, so while quite a few coaches could win with Alabama's talent, very few can acquire talent like he does.
At the end of the day, Saban has 6 national championship rings, so it's nearly impossible to overrate him. Dude straight up gets results better than anyone else currently coaching.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
Whatever buddy. So when they got that #1 class for the first time in like forever nothing shady happened? Give me a break. Like medical documents 10+ years info is purged. Cant go back and accuse them but now they have a machine and easy to recruit.
Yes recruiting is part of the process, but no way you can attract talent to Tusca-f'in-looca when Bama had nothing to show for it and still got them in initially.
Thanks for the math lesson on 6 rings though.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:04 PM ^
Have you seen the girls in Tuscaloosa? Yes, Bama pays its players, but also, 18 year old guys care about that.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:20 PM ^
Have you seen the girls in Ole Miss? Suddenly they all look terrible but for a brief second were top notch to get Laquan, that DE and LT that one year...
Money talks and thats what it was initially (possibly still happening). Now the rich get richer, but its dirty money that got them there.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:29 PM ^
You’re right about Ole Miss. All I’m saying is that Tuscaloosa is a fun college town, and the girls are pretty. I can see why someone would want to go there, if academics were not the highest priority (even though I know plenty of very smart people who went to Bama for undergrad). Not sure if you’ve ever been, but that was my experience.
August 22nd, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
Also, SEC football is the number 1 sport BY FAR in Alabama and the surrounding states. It'd be pretty exciting for a kid to compete in that environment.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
Damn it Skip, don't offer opinions about our program please.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
The dude is just trolling other fan bases.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
Sorry I don't agree. Still need to beat our rivals.....
Then maybe we could talk.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:41 PM ^
Not sure what he has been watching. Currently not even top 3-4
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:43 PM ^
I'll be sure to let all my OSU friends know of this fact when we're discussing Meyer's non-punishment.
My guess is they'll see it a bit differently (as might Alabama, Clemson, Michigan State, Penn State, Wisconsin and Georgia fans) but hey - if Skip says it, it MUST be true.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^
He makes a good argument, but not for Harbaugh being the best coach in college football. What he is saying is a good argument for why he is underrated by the general public.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^
Clickity click click click-BAIT!
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
How bad of a pundit do you have to be when you make a statement suggesting someone is "the best" at something and even literally his biggest fans all think you are totally nuts.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
I'm a JH booster 2_the_max and think he is an exceptional football coach. I believe he can win it all but, seriously, until that day comes it's hard even for the most homer of us to say he's the best.
However, I do expect us to be saying this in a few years after he wins back to back to back to back to back national championships!
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
Thats not a homer take at all.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
I love Jim but that's ludicrous.
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
He’s not even top 5...unfortunately.
August 22nd, 2018 at 2:53 PM ^
The problem is that there is a high variability in college football. A couple fumbles, a key injury here and there, and some officiating blunders are the different between 5 losses in 3 years and 25 losses in three years.
Too much perception is in the W/L column. I think Harbaugh is a top 5 coach, but he has had a massively unlucky streak in his tenure here. A ton of things outside of his control have derailed a lot of the good stuff he put in place.
Now OL and QB development are on him, but even there, key injuries exasperated his weaknesses. Great coaches have enough talent and tricks up their sleeves to overcome these things. Harbaugh came SO CLOSE to overcoming these in four of the losses to MSU and OSU. Win those, and the dialogue changes immensely. I hate to be an apologist, but out of his 11 losses, many were attributable to key injuries and fluke plays, sometimes both. Even then he almost pulled out most of them. FSU, Iowa, MSU x 2, OSU x2.
In 39 games, he has only lost 4 of them by more than one score. This is through many, many QB horrors, reffing blunders, key injuries, and fluke play.
"Well..." you say "what about the close wins?"
Harbaugh has NEVER won a game by less than 7 points since he got here. If even 3-4 of the 7 single score games went our way, we'd be in a totally different state of mind.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:02 PM ^
You think Ludicrous is the best coach? He's not even the best actor in the Fast and Furious franchise. /s
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:33 PM ^
He did far better than Ja Rule, to be fair. Not as charismatic as Tyrese. So he's the middle child of "rappers who tried to make their movie careers via Vin Diesel and Paul Walker."
He's just lucky LL Cool J was busy
August 22nd, 2018 at 5:32 PM ^
You talking about Ludacris?
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:55 PM ^
At first glance, his opinion is ridiculous, but after seeing the video I see what he's saying. I still disagree because recruiting is definitely part of coaching, but he's coming from more of an on the field coaching/strategy angle in this discussion. Jim has proven he's a great coach at all previous stops, it just hasn't shown on the field at Michigan yet (although I'd say I'm happy with what he's done so far even though we'd all like more rivalry wins).
August 22nd, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
Yeah, I like Harbaugh, I think he's done well considering what he inherited at Michigan. But he still has plenty to prove.
It's really hard to say Saban isn't number one. And saying he's the best recruiter but not the best coach doesn't make sense since recruiting IS PART OF BEING A COLLEGE COACH!
August 22nd, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^
He inherited 2 top 10 recruiting classes. Two classes that incidentally are ranked higher then his 2016 and 2017 classes.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:06 PM ^
No. Not yet, at any rate.
However he is clean, so... Cleanest?
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:07 PM ^
I think he makes an interesting argument. That said, I think attempting to rank coaches (and even players) is rather pointless.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:16 PM ^
1-I love Jim Harbaugh and think he is an elite coach and may be the best coach but that is a subjective term. I think the Camaro is better than the Mustang but that doesn't mean that it it, just that I think so
2-Nick Saban and Urban Meyer (putting aside biases and ethical considerations) are both more accomplished college coaches and it's not really close
3-Why am I wasting my time thinking about Skip Bayless?
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
Did Nick Saban retire or die and I am not aware??
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
I'm a pretty big Harbaugh apologist, but I'm not ready to stake that yet. Let's talk in 5 years after we beat Nick Saban a few times.
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
Skip Bayless’ brother Chef Rick Bayless has his PhD from Michigan. Skip has always been sympathetic to Michigan
August 22nd, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
But what does Stephen A say?