Joel Klatt: Notion that Harbaugh is underperforming is "false" and "petty"

Wisconsin looks the most vulnerable, would love to see that defense we saw against the gators again.

With this team every game is going to be close. The defense is too good to let a game get away. That said the variance for errors is even lower than normal. Our offense should run like the Ravens team that won the championship. Two rules A) Don't fuck up. B) Give the defense a chance to rest. The mindset should be field position. If we get the ball on our own 20 we shouldn't be thinking we are going to go 80 yards and score. We should be thinking don't go 3 and out. I think Harbaugh thought maybe this offense had a chance to be a weapon. It's clear now that it's not. I think you will see a change in mindset going forward. We will use our offense as a time eater. When our defense does something great we will have a short field and then take some shots. It works it just makes every game close. Against good and bad teams. And that means when an oh shit moment happens it will cost us much more than usual. Oh shit moments are going to happen. Time for everyone to recalibrate expectations. This team was always going to be a 9-3 team then we lost our best WR and our starting QB. I mean come on, guys. This isn't the end of the world. Snakebite seasons happen. Don't throw the Harbaugh out with the bathwater.

Meyer 27-4 Harbaugh 24-7 Saban 23-8 Meyer inherited a loaded team. Jim and Nick inherited dumpster fires.

Yeah...  The idiocy starts with snowflakes harping about a single loss on the season for a top 10 team with a brand new offense.  The 'sleepovers and Rome' crowd scream about results now, but then give Will Muschamp 5 years to 'build' a program at South Carolina without any complaining about mediocre seasons.  

Brady Hoke lit the dumpster on his way out of town, Harbaugh is still putting the fire out.

It's just sad how some people have reacted. Primarily because those same people that are complaining don't have in their minds an alternative. It's just bull crap piling on top of bull crap. When we play; for the first time in 8 years or so we expect to win! Wanna know why? Harbaugh! Our coach has put confidence back into our fan base and is being betrayed by some for being good! Amaizing

Harbaugh will be fine.

I would like to see him win a surprise game that he's not supposed to though.  For his own sake.

One of those Dantonio / Ferentz specials where he pulls a rabbit out of the hat.

It's happened to him enough times that the law of avereages should put him on the other side of it for once.

 

Anybody who "gives up" on Jim Harbaugh 2 years and 5 games into his tenure after taking over a complete trainwreck program . . . is an idiot.

 They won't listen to you anyway.

 

Oh, c'mon.

1.) He has top-10 overall talent in the sense that his only two recruiting classes (really only one to himself) were top 10 classes, but they're too undeveloped. It's not like Alabama or OSU where they've had top classes for the past five years and each year's starters go in with the same cumulative experience as the previous year's. This is how the adjustment works. Honestly, the standard that Don Brown has held this defense to since last year is a miracle in and of itself, so we should just be grateful for that.

2.) The offense is in the midst of three assistant coaching changes and are without their three best players at each's repected position (Speight, Black, Newsome). It is what it is.

3.) You damn well know the first MSU game and last year's game in Colombus were flukes, so don't even try that.

Nobody should in any corner of the world be thinking Jim is on the hot-seat, and it shouldn't even be put to language to even have to refute. It's ridiculous. The last two offenses were better than the most recent, but that's for a number of reasons, none of which include Jim's coaching pedigree. Don't forget which team had the most players picked in the NFL draft this past year...

For the reality check.

Last year, we had the highest scoring offense ever at Michigan. The year prior, he doubled our win total and made a transfer from Iowa who was run out of town into a very good player who’s now in the NFL. QB play last year was good, and he turned Speight from a lightly recruited 3 star to one of the big tens most efficient passers. I’m not sure if you’re not crediting him for his defenses just because he’s not the coordinator? That wouldn’t make any sense. He’s had good defense everywhere he’s been, at the very least because of the toughness he instills. Plus pro style teams give the defense more rest because the control the ball for much more than a spread offense does. It’s no accident he’s always had good defenses, and I’m not sure why he wouldn’t be credited for his whole team. Additonally, part of the head coaches job is hiring assistants. Great head coaches hire great assistants. So if you’re going to blame him for Drevno, Credit him for Don Brown and the Defense. It’s not just you acting as if he has nothing to do with the defense. Really the only part of your complaint that holds up to any scrutiny, is that this years offense has been down. Which when you factor in our youth, can be partially explained.

That implies we’d be moving to some alternative if he doesn’t. We all really want him to beat OSU. And we truly might, our D is elite. But at this point in his tenure, saying Harbaugh ‘needs’ to do anything is dumb.

Unless we mint a new RT I'm not optimistic

to call (fight) you, you should post your number.