Your question for Warde to ask Jim
So if you could plant one question for Warde to ask Harbaugh in his interview, what would it be? I suppose I would go with: “I need a coach who can beat Ohio State and make this a rivalry again. You have not. Can you be that coach? If so, what specifically do you need by way of support to accomplish that?”
Another one might be: “What happened to the fiery coach I hired several years ago, and can we get him back?”
Or maybe a little thing like: “What does Bob Shoop do and why are we paying him?”
December 9th, 2020 at 8:19 AM ^
Do you read MGoBlog?
December 9th, 2020 at 9:03 AM ^
Because some of the posts over there are just f@#% ing ridiculous.
December 9th, 2020 at 11:38 AM ^
I resemble that remark
December 9th, 2020 at 6:43 PM ^
At the movie theater, which armrest is yours?
When pronouncing the word “scent”, is the “s” silent or the “c”?
Which came first, the egg or the chicken?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:24 AM ^
Is “Sal Q” a first cousin or an offspring of yours?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:25 AM ^
What on earth is going on with our recruiting because we can't seem to find/development cornerbacks and defensive tackles anymore?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:25 AM ^
"What question do you want a guy's boss to ask in order to satiate Internet Guy?"
December 9th, 2020 at 8:57 AM ^
He'd nail this one.
December 9th, 2020 at 9:22 AM ^
I can't stop laughing!
December 9th, 2020 at 8:31 AM ^
Or maybe a more productive question...
"What can I do for you to help you better succeed here?"
December 9th, 2020 at 8:40 AM ^
That would be more of a rhetorical question because Harbaugh has lacked for nothing since he was hired. On the contrary, even beyond his own astronomical salary, Harbaugh has been showered with an embarrassment of riches by the university, the AD, donors, and fans.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:10 AM ^
That may be what it looks like externally, but it has also been reported by reasonable posters that seem to have pretty decent sources/insight that part of the problem here has also been the administration. And I want to be clear on the word "also." These posters never give Harbaugh a free pass or claim no faults, but they do point out that there are some real problems higher up that have been roadblocks. Food for thought.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:29 AM ^
But those comments generally seem to be pretty vague:
1. Are there assistants that Harbaugh wanted that the administration said no too?
2. Have they prevented him from recruiting any players?
3. Are there other resources he asked for that he did not get?
Unless the administration has said that he couldn’t replace Brown, that it forbade him from recruiting cornerbacks or defensive tackles or that it didn’t allow him to recruit a quarterback that he wanted, it is hard to see why the administration is to blame.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:49 AM ^
My read of the posts you are referring to about administration support is that the leadership of the university is not "all in" on fielding a top 5 football program and everything that goes along with that (cutting certain academic corners, turning a blind eye, etc.). They are willing to pay Harbaugh and his staff commensurate with a top 5 program, but that's where they draw the line. No shenanigans! It's this tone from the top that creates a culture that can't cut it against the elite programs over the long run. I think this is the main point that posters like Sal Q and others are saying when they say it doesn't matter who the coach is and that we're always going to be a 9-3 program.
With this said, it does not explain our other struggles in the Harbaugh era. It's one thing to not beat OSU and Bama, it's another thing to be a consistently terrible road team over Harbaugh's entire tenure and to get blown out the past couple years by Wisconsin (among many other struggles). Those are Harbaugh issues and to me the reason he needs to go.
December 9th, 2020 at 11:23 AM ^
I can see this argument... People have to actually spend time on campus, etc. However, Notre Dame seems to be doing OK even with the integrity handcuffs? Why can't we? We probably not at the same "blue blood" level, but are we close?
December 9th, 2020 at 12:12 PM ^
No shenanigans is a reasonable demand from a school that rightly prioritizes its overall reputation over its football team. To a top school, football is great but far from crucial. Posters who want Michigan to cheat have no perspective and belong at MSU.
December 9th, 2020 at 12:56 PM ^
I would say the people lacking perspective are the ones who accuse other teams of cheating often without much evidence while ignoring the evidence that there are in fact shenanigans going on here.
December 9th, 2020 at 12:20 PM ^
It is interesting that people even bring up that an issue may be that the administration doesn't want to cut certain academic corners, because it was Jim who once made the comment when he left Michigan that he disliked the fact that he and / or other players were asked to take easier course loads, etc. So it would be hard for me to think that he would even want to recruit kids that could not cut it academically. Strawman argument in play here.
December 9th, 2020 at 12:58 PM ^
I am curious as to which Administrative faculty members have run off coaches like Partridge, Wheatley, Baxter, etc., have failed to recruit the defensive tackle position with any major urgency for going on three years, have decided not to recruit cornerbacks who are fast and athletic enough to keep pace with Ohio State's athletes, got into a spat/tiff with Dylan McCaffrey which lead to his transfer, and which faculty members are responsible for the football team's lack of 2-minute-drill-urgency/awareness at the end of halves and end of games.
Those must be far-reaching roadblocks if they are manifesting themselves that regularly during the games that are being played, and in the living rooms of the recruits that we are not recruiting.
December 9th, 2020 at 11:46 AM ^
It's too fucking late!
=You ask him this question before you hire him in the first place.
Then you repeat it at every meeting you ever have together. every time.
After 6 years you either got the wrong answer, got lied too, or were too stupid to ask it in the 1st place. Harbaugh must go and possibly Warde too if it wasn't asked already.
December 10th, 2020 at 12:14 PM ^
Yes, because money for you, money for your assistants, money for recruiting, some of the best facilities in college football, the support of 100,000+ fans every home game, and the winningest tradition in college football aren't doing it? Do you need a pony?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:32 AM ^
How would you rate yourself against OSU, MSU, PSU and Wisconsin?
December 9th, 2020 at 9:08 AM ^
I like to imagine it is your avatar pic asking the question.
December 9th, 2020 at 8:32 AM ^
Obligatory: Warde didn’t hire Harbaugh. Hackett did.
December 9th, 2020 at 8:35 AM ^
Obligatory: OP didn't say anything about Warde hiring Harbaugh.....
December 9th, 2020 at 8:42 AM ^
Another one might be: “What happened to the fiery coach I hired several years ago, and can we get him back?”
Straight from the original OP.
December 9th, 2020 at 8:43 AM ^
“What happened to the fiery coach I hired several years ago, and can we get him back?”
December 9th, 2020 at 8:56 AM ^
Congrats guys...you win the internet today
December 9th, 2020 at 10:10 AM ^
Hoisted by my own petard.
It's like I used to tell my wife: I do not apologize unless I think I'm wrong. And if you don't like it you can leave. And I say the same thing to my current wife and I'll say it to my next one, too.
December 9th, 2020 at 8:33 AM ^
How have sleepovers with recruits helped us win football games?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:45 AM ^
We probably don’t win the opener against Florida in 2017 without Nordin...
December 9th, 2020 at 8:58 AM ^
That's one game....
December 9th, 2020 at 9:44 AM ^
Well... you asked and you got the answer. Maybe tomorrow you will win the internet.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:01 AM ^
To be fair, since critiquing posts is an MGoBlog specialty, I did say games. Which I do believe means more than one....but hey, you jumping in seems about right.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:21 AM ^
Actually the context with which the word was used implies either singular or plural. 2 times wrong in this thread alone! You're on a roll!
December 9th, 2020 at 10:30 AM ^
Let's go for three then. If I meant for it to be plural....can anyone name me another game that Nordin has won......? Also, it should be two, not the number. But, hey, you are the one with the funny memes.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:43 AM ^
If you were a person with self-awareness, I'd say you must be fun at parties. But in assessing your posts in this thread, both prerequisites to make that comment are probably false.
December 9th, 2020 at 12:03 PM ^
LOL. Please don't make assumptions about my actual personality based on some posts showered in internet snark. I just don't care about negs and refuse to let one person who critiques me stop me from responding. It is what it is my guy.
December 9th, 2020 at 10:55 AM ^
Also, it should be two, not the number.
Eh, I'm too lazy to hit 2 extra keys when typing the number.
But, hey, you are the one with the funny memes
So true. Please try to control your envy.
December 9th, 2020 at 8:33 AM ^
Why should we cut you some khaki, err, slack for this year and bring you back for next year?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:35 AM ^
Do you practice tempo just in case the game situation presents the need or do you believe using the entire play clock proves you are in control?
December 9th, 2020 at 8:36 AM ^
can you please give me a list of your present prescriptions?
i feel bad writing that, but i do think there is something there about how our team is doing vs. how we were doing with fairly similar talent even as recently as last year. something is up.
December 9th, 2020 at 8:56 AM ^
XM, not a popular thing to post, but I believe you are correct.
Something has clearly happened to the “Jim Harbaugh” of the last 15 years. Today he is not the same guy. In the big picture, I don’t care about winning games, I just hope that if there is something “wrong” JH gets all the help he needs.
December 9th, 2020 at 9:51 AM ^
People and their energy change. I'm sure when he came to Michigan he figured he was the man for the job, and losing a couple very close games to OSU, seeing his defense under-perform, getting upset a couple times, and not having perfect answers has beaten some of the vigor out of him.
Not sure that means it's appropriate to speculate on whether he's depressed or needs medication... I'm not depressed, but my energy and enthusiasm for Michigan football has definitely changed in the last 10-12 years...
December 9th, 2020 at 10:45 AM ^
I understand that people change. But if you had a close friend or family member whose personality changed as much as JH's has the last 3-4 years, I would hope you would be concerned.
I also understand JH is a public figure. Perhaps his public persona for the last 15 years has been a schtick and the JH we are seeing now is the "real guy". All I know is, his personality change has been drastic from the guy we see now and the guy that was here the first two years.