Bacon on the huge show right now. "It's going to be a long two weeks"

Submitted by Brandon_L on
He says Harbaugh is candidate 1,2,3,4. Harbaugh is the likeliest candidate right now for the Michigan job. Money will not be an issue. we can take Miles off the list. Miles doesn't seem to be the direction Michigan wants to take. He says it will be a long two weeks of speculation. We could be waiting until January 5th, but if he were to bet on a date it would be January 1st at the latest.
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sierragold

December 17th, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^

We do want the Big Ten to kick the shit out of the SEC, don't we? I would like to see a really good showing from the Big Ten in all of the bowl games.

I have to admit though, you are probably right about Ohio State. I'm iffy on Michigan St. & Baylor. The rest of them are winnable. Still need to root for Big Ten. Getting our asses kicked in Bowl games is getting old.

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alum96

December 17th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^

I am ok with Wisconsin or Nebraska or Iowa or whomever having a "good showing" in bowls and playoffs. 

But f*** MSU and OSU ever having good showings.  0-12 annually works for me.

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MadLandoGOBlue

December 17th, 2014 at 4:25 PM ^

The problem with this approach now is that OSU getting destroyed hurts the big ten for future CFP placement. The Big Ten got preferential treatment this year. OSU drops an egg, as enjoyable as we all would find that as fans, down the road if Michigan is vying for a spot, that treatment may not be there.

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alum96

December 17th, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^

Disagree.

I would have agreed with you until this past month.

OSU got into the playoffs with 2 quality wins all year - MSU and Wisconsin.  Both are questionable.  MSU did not beat a ranked team all year and Wiscy was so uncompetitive it calls into question their season.  Both MSU and Wiscy basically beat up on middle tier to lower tier Big 10 teams and bad OOC (Wiscy lost to LSU).

So even those "quality wins" are of question to a degree.

But biggerr picture they beat up a bunch of nobodies, 2 "quality teams" and lost to VA Tech at home.  And got invited.

Any Michigan team that goes 11-1 will get into the playoffs.  Or 12-1 with a Big 10 CG win of course.

If you are arguing we should root for OSU to win a NC so that we can get into the playoff some year with a 10-2 record I say hell no.  They are already reaping massive benefits from our walk into the forest and getting national acclaim, higher level recruits and more Urban Meyer love is the last thing we want.

UM just has to repeat what OSU did - beat a few quality teams, lost to 1 mediocre or good team, beat a lot of bad teams and they will be in the playoffs.

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mgoblue0970

December 17th, 2014 at 8:56 PM ^

Why cannot Michigan tamper?  Has Michigan signed an agreement with the NFL?  It's only tampering if one is bound by professional association.  I'm unaware of Michigan maintaining any such relationship.

Michigan surely isn't talking to JH right now -- but I bet they have at least indirectly spoken with his agent.

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alum96

December 17th, 2014 at 4:01 PM ^

IF... if this all works out, I think whatever happened 40 hrs ago when many "inside" sources all went very positive, and Les Miles concurrently went "off record" to say "not coming" was when the agreement (in principal, aside from some NFL bombshell) happened.  While the Les speak was normal coach speak it was a strange circumstance and makes one think Hackett told him we are going in another direction (no...for real Les). 

There just seems a lot of smoke around that one 4 hour period Monday evening, the day after the 49ers were eliminated and suddenly a lot of people seemed to get "much more positive" at once.

Hopefully Bacon writes a long a$$ article down the road on how it all went down since he is very close to the man himself.  That is when Harbaugh gives him 2 minutes of his very regimented day in between tasks to make the Michigan Wolverines top dog again.

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AMazinBlue

December 17th, 2014 at 4:15 PM ^

I cannot root for Urbs and the OSU.  I once rooted for OSU and it was the year they played Miami (YTM) for the National Championship.  It was like rolling in the gutter and then falling into a pile dog shit and then using a muddy cow pasture to bathe in. 

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sierragold

December 17th, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^

I have never actually watched a bowl game with Ohio State or State? I usually just wait to hear the results of the game and everyone else saying how bad the Big Ten is. I root for the Big Ten, this is different than rooting for team like ohio or state.

This year we have alot of games to choose from. Which is good and even more sad that Michigan is not one of them.

That is Why Harbaugh is coming home!

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mgoblue0970

December 17th, 2014 at 8:49 PM ^

Rooting for Moo U. is worse...

I'll pull for tOSU all day long... because in the national media's eyes, tOSU has been there before.  They expect tOSU to be a national contender.  It's not far-fetched for tOSU to be where they are.

If Moo U was there, the amateurs in East Landfill -- already some of the  worse fans in the nation, would be coming out of the woodwork and running their mouths and jumping on the bandwagon.

If we get Harbaugh, I expect the ship to right itself.  Bo did something in practice every day to prepare for tOSU.  Jimmy will too.  Michigan won't be soft anymore either.  Jimmy will toughen them up and hit those fucks in green right in their fucking pie holes.  I cannot wait for the icy post game handshakes and shots across the bow at press conferences when Jimmy and the head sparty punk get together.

Pride before the fall?  Fuck you Dantonio... I hope Baylor puts a Ray Rice beating on you

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MGoVictory

December 17th, 2014 at 4:17 PM ^

Okay, so Huge has been poo-pooing Harbaugh for weeks, even promoting P. J. Fleck as a Michigan coaching candidate (probably because he interviews him regularly), and now he is saying Harbaugh to Michigan is a done deal when Bacon is on?

Sounds about right...

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Coach Carr Camp

December 17th, 2014 at 4:27 PM ^

I think its actually clear to me now. Brian said something earlier today to the extent of its not that Harbaugh is flakey - as of now it would be Michigan, but if new info came to his attention that could change things. JUB just tweeted that NFL teams can't tamper with Harbaugh until after season, in which case they will pounce on him. I think Harbaugh is interested to wait and see what those NFL offers will be. Obviously he can predict what jobs will be open, but maybe there's a mystery job out there that might open the coffers - Cowboys? New Orleans? Cinci? Maybe there's an attractive job (at least in comparisson to Oakland and NYJ tire fires) out there that is willing to dump a semi-successful coach in hopes Harbaugh brings a super bowl.

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alum96

December 17th, 2014 at 4:46 PM ^

That is sort of the feel I am getting too reading between all these lines. It is sort of a "Harbaugh is Michigan's to lose" but if we lose him it won't have anything to do with Michigan but something out of left field from the NFL, that is not currently on anyone's plate.   But that would bode well in that the current obvious openings (or soon to be openings) are not the type of thing to sway him.

Anyhow, it's going to be a long few weeks.  Still.

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