Warde's process: an explanatory note to rookie tea leaf readers

And here I thought it was just me 

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With this fanbase, about 6 games.

Oh, the amount of shitting on current and former players based on their effort and how Campbell would need to import "his" guys would be unbearable.

Michigan winning a title relies on a ton of things beyond any coach's power, and so there isn't any real timeline you could predict.  I mean, if OSU and Alabama crumbled under NCAA sanctions following next week's game I'd say the time is a year or two.  But barring that, I don't know if Campbell or anyone else can legitimately coach Michigan into a title contender.

We hired Harbaugh, a guy that turned Stanford into a football power, developed Luck into an NFL qb, transformed SF into a super bowl contender.  Our expectations were extremely high, understandably.  From my standpoint, Matt Campbell doesn’t need to win a NC in 6 years, but I think he needs to challenge OSU by year 3, win a BIG in year 5 and be in the playoff conversation by year 5.  Oh, and dominate MSU every single year.  Those would be my expectations.  

The expectation is to win the big ten. 

 Harbaugh was supposed to do it in Year 2 or 3. 

Let's be clear: no one was expecting our 5-7 2014 team, which lost to Rutgers and Maryland, to be a couple of years away from a national title.  

Harbaugh overperformed expectations in year one and that caused them to go sky-high.  Problem is, he's been unable to improve upon that performance.

I don't expect a national championship. But I do expect a coach to be able to recruit and coach a really good quarterback at this level. That seems to be the one position that is a question mark every year, and one that the team has to have to be successful at the level of an Ohio State. And yeah, I know that Ohio State, and Alabama for that matter, don't put out a lot of NFL QB's. That's not the point; the point is that their qb's make their teams better, even if they're not Heisman candidates. There should be no weekly griping about the quarterback position anymore. 

I don’t recall a lot of people saying Harbaugh needed to win a championship in 2-3 years. Maybe be trending towards competing for one but most people recognized there was a lot to rebuild. The issue, at least in my opinion, is that trend peaked in year 2 and doesn’t show any signs of being able to regain momentum.

Depends on what faction of the fan base you ask. The ones that think Michigan should go undefeated and beat Ohio State every season or the head coach is a total failure will probably say by year 2.

Realistically, if Matt Campbell or whoever the next coach would be in this hypothetical-for-now scenario we're to have them competing for championships by the time the players from their first recruiting cycle have exhausted their eligibility, so 4-5 years.

Michigan is not a complete rebuild, but does require some cultural changes, time to absorb their new playbook and adapt to the new philosophy of the program. I think by the end of year 3, you will have your answer as to whether or not the program is headed in the right direction. 

The expectations would just to field a competent team in all aspects. 

An offense that has some sort of identity. 

A defense that doesn't break down 10/10 times to simple concepts taught in HS football. 

And for God sakes a team with desire, enthusiasm, and a collective team that gives it their all on every play.

OSU, Bama, Clemson are professional football teams under the guise of an educational institution - Michigan will never be this. The best Michigan can do is somewhere in that of the Notre Dame levels - make the playoffs once or twice a decade and be reminded that they are an educational institution and not a football program as they get stomped out. 

So national championships? Be real, not happening. How about just a competent program year after year? That's the best Michigan is going to do. 

I don't see it written anywhere that he is wearing pants during the process at all.

Old crow.

He’s a man of culture.

R&R since he is so invested in saving the university money. 

Wild Turkey, a Christmas gift from Uncle Eddy.

Strange.  It looks great on my laptop screen.   Maybe browser related issues?    I'm a fan of brief bullet points, but they formatting is apparently bad on phones and some browsers.

Brown would have been gone regardless. Neither Harbaugh nor any new coach could have kept him. The firing gave Brown an opportunity to find another gig earlier.