More Harbaugh speculation
This just popped up on my facebook page.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/23/michigan-could-be-movin…
The media is stoking the "fire"
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:25 PM ^
when will this end
September 24th, 2014 at 7:53 AM ^
"This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!"
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
My guess is January.
September 23rd, 2014 at 6:44 PM ^
It will end when there is a new coach and his name is either Jim/John Harbaugh or Les Miles.
September 23rd, 2014 at 10:39 PM ^
September 24th, 2014 at 7:59 AM ^
When Michigan finally turns the corner and beats MSU.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:25 PM ^
Nothing gets clicks like Harbaugh to UM speculation.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:27 PM ^
Did the author of that 'news' article get paid? He should be arrested for robbery or larceny or some other crime that ends in a "y." He didn't say a freaking thing that anyone making WAGs hasn't already done.
I actually feel dirty for reading the link and then posting this. Do we HAVE to live with all this stupid Harbaugh (him or the other one) speculation for THREE MORE MONTHS? Guhhh.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:28 PM ^
"Things aren't going well in either place, maybe this could happen??"
Currently there is nothing apart from circumstances to indicate any interest from either side.
Personally, I would love for JH to come back to AA. Harbaugh said what he said a few years back, so what? To grab a coach of that caliber, and a former star QB to boot, would be recruiting/game prep/execution/rivalry game gold
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:29 PM ^
Not gon' happen, folks.
September 23rd, 2014 at 11:42 PM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
This is kinda embarrassing, folks...
Just stop with the Harbaugh-star wishing. This is truly reaching insane levels.
Our program needs all the help it can get staying in the reality...regardless of how unpleasant that may be.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:38 PM ^
I for one welcome our new baseless speculation overlords.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:44 PM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 7:17 PM ^
"It's not impossible he doesn't come here" properly reinforces exactly what type of hail mary wishing this is.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
Oh boy, 2 more months straight of this headline.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
This is just setting Michigan up for failure. There are plenty of good coaches who are not Harbaughs, who have never coached at Michigan, who do not have relatives who coached or played at Michigan, and/or who have never even rooted for Michigan. This obsession over Harbaugh, while understandable, is not healthy.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
We shouldn't insist on a coach who has Michigan ties. On the other hand, we shouldn't disregard a great coach just because he has Michigan ties.
Harbaugh may still very well be a pipe dream, but can you name one coach with a better resume who would even consider us right now?
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:48 PM ^
[C]an you name one coach with a better resume who would even consider us right now?
What about: John Harbaugh?
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
John Harbaugh has not had to run a major or minor college football program. He has not had to glad hand alumni, talk to parents, kiss players asses, run a recruiting campaign, fundraise etc etc. He is not the better candidate in terms of being a college coach - he is an unknown as a college head coach. He might be the better X's and O's guy and the better football coach for all I know but he is not a better candidate for a college program based on experience. Jim has been there and done that.
September 24th, 2014 at 9:32 AM ^
How did that work for Jim Mora at UCLA? No college coaching experience apart from being a GA. I think we would all take those results on the field, along with his currently fundraising for a new football performance center.
After his first stint in the NFL, Pete Carroll came back to run USC with only assistant coaching experience in college and yeah.
Even Bill Walsh came from the NFL to Stanford.
I don't think this argument is valid. Or at least as big of a deal as you think.
September 23rd, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
As alum96 notes, John H. has not had experience dealing with some of the elements unique to college football. That said, I'd be pretty damn thrilled to get him as well.
September 23rd, 2014 at 7:38 PM ^
I am not saying don't consider him, but let's not set ourselves up for failure by making getting Harbaugh the measure of a successful search.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:45 PM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^
No! If I could, I would buy his ticket back, drive his moving van, or even carry Jim Harbaugh to Ann Arbor on my shoulders.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
And now PTI is discussing Harbaugh and Michigan. Boy, this is escalating quickly..
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2014 at 5:40 PM ^
The media needs to shutup about this, if they keep talking about it and force Harbaugh to speak to it it could ruin our shot at him (however remote that shot is).
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:45 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^
Miles actually liked his current job and was in the running for the national title at the time.
If Harbaugh was currently heading for the Super Bowl and actually got along with SF management then the situation would be similar. But all indications are that he hates the people in charge at SF and would welcome coaching somewhere else if the $$$ and situation are right.
September 23rd, 2014 at 8:36 PM ^
Maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't Miles actually interested in our job despite the fact that he had LSU in the national title hunt . . . only to be done in by the adventures of Sailboat Bill?
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
I would absolutely love it. It would almost make the last seven years of frustration worth it if, at the end of it all, we finally wind up with the right guy to lead the program forward for the next 20 years.
I know OP is going to get slammed for posting speculation, but it does seem that the stars are aligning in a certain way. Four years ago when Harbaugh (supposedly) turned us down for the NFL, we all figured that was all she wrote -- there was no way that Michigan would be looking for a new head coach in just a few years, and if we were there was no way that Harbaugh would be disillusioned with the NFL in such a short time. Yet it looks like that may be exactly what is happening.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^
First let me preface this by saying I'd take Harbaugh in a second due to success at Stanford, 49ers, his demeanor (which fits college perfectly), etc. Could care less if he is from Michigan or not - just a bonus.
But if by some great miracle he does decide to leave his stated goal of coaching at the highest level to save the program (I could see Harbaugh going to Florida just the same if he decides to go to college) the minute he turned around this program there would be talk of the NFL coming back after him. And every opening every year we'd be in a Saban situation where talk was of suitors for Harbaugh.
Now again, with the situation we are in I'd accept that - give me back a viable Michigan team in return for rumors every off season we'd lose our coach. But that's the reality of how it would turn out. And I doubt he'd stay here for 15 years or whatever romantic notion people have.
Again those are first world problems. But we are not used to having a head coach other teams actually covet - Bo was the last one and once he turned down A&M (early 80s) we've never dealt with it again in 3 decades. We've also never had a coach who was a success in the NFL. If you bring either Harbaugh here it is all you will hear all off season and even during the end of the season. Most highly successful NCAA coaches never had success in the NFL so we'd be in a very unique situation if this happened.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 6:35 PM ^
This is true....but honestly any coach who is able to return Michigan to a powerhouse level will get NFL rumors, JH included. Even Brady Hoke was getting NFL chatter after his first 11-2 season here.
September 23rd, 2014 at 6:43 PM ^
Fair enough, but with Harbaugh I would have faith in his ability to establish a coaching tree to leave us in good shape even if he leaves. See Shaw, David.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^
full of themselves now. This year they've forced an NBA owner to sell off controlling interest, they forced FSU to alter the suspension of their star player, they forced another owner to sell his stake, yet another owner was forced to make a public mea culpa, they collectively decided that the commissioner of the NFL must be forced out no matter what he says, so going after the AD and HC of a school of former glory is mere business as usual.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
That's what they do.
September 23rd, 2014 at 6:23 PM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 7:00 PM ^
and too much blame at the same time.
How did they force the Hawks owner to sell? Didn't he scoop the media about his email and announce that he was selling at the same time?
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^
There needs to be a MGo Sign Up sheet of people who say 100% no he is not coming, Yes he is coming and a group who does not care just let me know when there is a new coach. Then let the negbangs and posbangs commense when the results are in.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
I am drowning
there is no sign of land
you are coming down with me
hand in unloveable hand
and I hope you die
I hope we both die.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:53 PM ^
Reminds me of these lyrics:
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
[You gotta really be a fan of that band to know the band/song.]
September 23rd, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2014 at 9:17 PM ^
Until the End of the World by U2. The End of the World as We Know it was REM (and I didn't have to Google that)
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
If the 49ers keep losing their press conferences could become interesting towards the end of the season.
September 23rd, 2014 at 5:38 PM ^
And another...and another...and another...