If Jim Harbaugh can’t get Michigan to where it needs to be, who can?
If Jim Harbaugh can’t get Michigan to where it needs to be, who can? The “Son” of Bo and a winner everywhere he has been; the quintessential Michigan Man, Harbaugh is underperforming five years in. But if he can’t take us to the Promised Land, who out there legitimately can?
Is there a deeper cultural problem that exists (Is Michigan too “Clean” to be able to keep up with the Alabama/Clemson/OSU’s of the world? Do we care too much about academics?)?
How do we escape BPONE?
September 21st, 2019 at 10:21 PM ^
Is Army “too Clean”? We just got out hearted today. It’s not a recruiting issue.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:22 PM ^
yep. Harbaugh is a broken man and the team plays scared. No toughness or swagger
September 21st, 2019 at 10:45 PM ^
Confidence... none. That's on our million dollar jokester
September 21st, 2019 at 10:24 PM ^
'Out hearted'? Hmmm
Who's fault who'd that be? Coaches
September 21st, 2019 at 10:29 PM ^
whose*
September 21st, 2019 at 11:03 PM ^
Necessary?
September 21st, 2019 at 10:35 PM ^
Matt Campbell
Mike Leach
Brent Venables
Mike Norvell
next question
September 21st, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^
Venables would be my choice. I said it before, but I’d give Stoops a call. Can’t hurt to try.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:53 PM ^
I vote for Sister Jean.
September 23rd, 2019 at 12:46 PM ^
Stoops can flat out coach.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:57 PM ^
Campbell is from Ohio, coached a lot in Ohio, and would be able to recruit it well, that's for sure.
September 21st, 2019 at 11:22 PM ^
Three guys who have never won anything and one whose never been a head coach
September 22nd, 2019 at 12:14 AM ^
Was Lincoln Riley a head coach before Oklahoma hired him? How about Dabo Sweeney? How about Day down in Columbus? How about Smart at UGA? That's 4 of the top 6 teams currently who hired coordinators to be their head coach.
September 22nd, 2019 at 9:43 AM ^
So Gattis then!?
September 22nd, 2019 at 12:16 AM ^
Three guys who get more, from less, and one guy with 2 NC rings.
Who wouldn’t want to see Leach run our offense (aside from our opponents)?
September 22nd, 2019 at 12:34 AM ^
What is the fascination with Leach other than interesting Q and A? Honest question.
September 22nd, 2019 at 9:16 AM ^
Agreed. Hard pass.
Also, hello, fellow Durham wolverine.
September 22nd, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
Hey there!
September 22nd, 2019 at 12:18 AM ^
No chance of Leach (terrible cultural fit) or Venables (known to be a shady recruiter).
September 22nd, 2019 at 3:06 AM ^
Is Leach the one who just lost 67-63 to UCLA?
No thanks.
September 22nd, 2019 at 9:36 AM ^
And, locked one of his players in a tool shed.
September 22nd, 2019 at 11:21 AM ^
Yeah, but that was Craig James kid, so who cares. CJK5H
September 22nd, 2019 at 2:57 PM ^
He ALLEGEDLY locked Craig James’s son in a tool shed, just like CJ ALLEGEDLY K5H.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:47 PM ^
Its coaching. Our players expect to walk on the field with a nail file, get their hair cut, and win without sweating.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:52 PM ^
The out of country trips are working great for on field chemistry. /s
As a student for them however is pretty awesome!
September 21st, 2019 at 10:52 PM ^
This tends to happen every time we're on the road.
What is lost in all this is how many Ohio players Bo had and even how many Dantonio had, when they were both strong... because the players from that state have so much on the line, vs their rivals.... Tressel shut us out of the state and since then, its been pain, and this is no coincidence. Instead Harbaugh has all these Californians and Georgians who transfer out...
September 21st, 2019 at 11:13 PM ^
I’d like to see the # of kids Army has in General Studies. Lol I’m not even sure that’s a thing at Army.
September 22nd, 2019 at 8:09 AM ^
It's not.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:21 PM ^
No escape. We are doomed. Our schedule in 2020 is even tougher than this year. Probably looking at 5-6 losses this year and next at least.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:25 PM ^
Rutgers is a win, I'm struggling to figure out where Michigan might find others.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:43 PM ^
Thanks Warde. He probably. thought we had a legit million dollar coaching staff.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:44 PM ^
What about wisconsin ? How many wins do you see them with this year and next year oh great swammi?
September 21st, 2019 at 11:12 PM ^
Eh. MSU loses a ton. UW and OSU are tough. The rest are not that challenging.
September 22nd, 2019 at 10:56 AM ^
WiSC
OSU
PSU
ND
All losses.
MSU is essentially a coin toss.
4-5 losses this season. No clear path to improvement. Challenging schedule next year.
TLDR version of my rant below: "Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Get Urban Meyer now."
The Khaki era is over. Dead coach coaching. And I despise it.
If we can get Urban Meyer, we should get him.
The sad truth is the NCAA has effectively made it policy that violations are recognized as necessary to field competitive teams and that as long as NCAA maintains its own cloak of plausible deniability, that the violations aren't too egregious, it doesn't care if you cheat.
It's only cheating if you get caught. That's the battlefield we're on in 2019, like it or not. I hate it, but that's the way it is and how the NCAA wants it.
So it's just as important to get a coach who knows how to not get (the NCAA) caught, as it is to get one who knows how to recruit, put in an effective contemporary defense/offense, and develop a network of contacts across football nationally.
Urban Meyer is very good at that.
The actions sanctimonious stuff is about winning a sport that doesn't exist any more. The second the NCAA demonstrates it is serious about genuine enforcement instead of cosmetics, then yeah, get clean.
But these days, the opposite of clean is not "dirty." It's "ineffective." By NCAA design.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:23 PM ^
After years of defending Harbaugh I would now be open to replacing him. But yeahhhh I cant think of any available coach that would undoubtedly be better.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
Not only availability, but you'd need to find someone who wants to come here. The shine of the UM head coach job has severely faded. It's hard to entice someone to come here with the pressure from fans and that machine of an elite program in Columbus on the schedule every year. OSU is so many years ahead of UM that it's not even funny. It's just pathetic at this point how far UM is behind OSU.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:39 PM ^
You’re a bitch
The next coach of Michigan will recognize Michigan for what it is, not the fact that Michigan hasn’t beat OSU in several years. And that fact does not mean our current or future coach will not have success.
There are so many examples I could name that would make you feel like the whiny bitch you are, but Instead I’ll just let you know that I know that youre just a big whiny bitch.
‘Umich will never hire a coach to beat OSU, never ever ever. We lost to Wisconsin. That’s you a whiny bitch from Australia
September 21st, 2019 at 10:41 PM ^
LOL. wow, man. Triggered much? Jesus christ, dude. GTFO of here.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:43 PM ^
I’m not triggered at all. You’re just whiny. Like most people that speak in emojis and LOLs you’re prob a loser.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:45 PM ^
I see the program as it is. I'm not sorry you don't.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:47 PM ^
I just think that getting lucky with a coach a la Saban/Alabama is just as likely to happen at Michigan as it is Alabama. Shit happens, sometimes good sometimes not. Certainly I won’t cry like a whiny brat when it doesn’t work out in my favor and say it’ll never ever happen.
you also literally just stated you wanted to leave the big ten so umich didn’t have to play OSU. I’m sorry dude we approach life very differently.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
Interesting comment considering I never claimed it would never happen.
September 21st, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
Double negative. Good talk bro. Keep it up with your 50 posts/hr.
September 21st, 2019 at 11:08 PM ^
That is not a double negative, man.
September 21st, 2019 at 11:23 PM ^
but you did say you wanted to leave the big ten so umich wouldn’t have to play osu regularly. Which says a lot about a person who posts ~ 3,000 times in 30 days.
September 21st, 2019 at 11:36 PM ^
Yeah, I did say that. It's also completely different than what you are suggesting I said about it "never ever happening." I fail to see what my amount of posting today has to do with anything. Also, get it right. It's more like 4,000.
September 21st, 2019 at 11:53 PM ^
Agreed, he is a whiny bitch.
The fact that you have to argue that you're not a whiny bitch may be an indication that you are a whiny bitch.
September 22nd, 2019 at 8:01 AM ^
September 22nd, 2019 at 10:04 AM ^
No, you being a whiny bitch makes you a whiny bitch.
Having to defend yourself from that accusation should have tipped you to your bitch status.