CC: Chill the heck out, JH is NOT the only option
and NO, I do not mean Brady Hoke. Hells to the No on that.
There are plenty of up and coming D1-coordinators we could hire to be our next coach. We tried the whole, lets-hire-the-guy-who-is-hot-right-now thing and it did not work. The big east sucked balls when RR was there and is no different now (Case in point the 2010 Uconn Huskies). I suspect the pac-10 is nominally better than the Big East but not by much. JH does come with some bonafides that make his probability of success here high but he is by no means our ONLY SAVIOR.
I for one would want a careful search conducted by DB even if we can't get JH and not just some panicked declaration of RR being retained because "OMOMG there are no other options out there".
Chill out, yes we will probably suck football dongs in 2011 but that is not going to change one little bit even if RR is kept around (unless of course NCAA changes the rules such that offensive yardage decides the winner of football games, in which case RR will win MNC's from now until the end of times).
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:22 PM ^
Point is that other head coaches with similiar or even superior experience to Harbaugh are said to be available as well. So, the question is one of:
JH
RR
Other current head coach, NOT NECESSARILY UNPROVEN GUY TO COACH
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:19 PM ^
The "chill the eff out" meme is my favorite. Yeah. Right.
We're all on the internet, in the middle of a work day, obsessively checking for rumors about a possible coaching change for a football team that doesn't play another game for 240+ days. Anybody watching the Stanford game tonight? I hear their coach is pretty good.
I think we could all relax just a little bit. :-)
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:32 PM ^
...has given me a viable alternative. Any coordinators? I think not. Hoke? His resume is less than RRod was three years ago.
I am open to hearing options, but I have heard none so far.
January 3rd, 2011 at 1:43 PM ^
and The Knowledge when we really need them!
January 3rd, 2011 at 2:04 PM ^
Me and my friends play football every Saturday at my neighbor's house. There is an old man who always shows up and wants to coach my team. In two years we are still undefeated. Would he be willing to coach at UM? I don't know but i could ask him.
January 3rd, 2011 at 2:46 PM ^
Pat Edmund Kennedy Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Anything less in UNACCEPTABLE.
January 3rd, 2011 at 2:57 PM ^
How do people feel about Pat Fitzgerald from NW?
The Wildcats run a spread, and I feel with the considerably larger recruiting pool that he would have access to at Michigan, it might be a good hire.
January 3rd, 2011 at 5:12 PM ^
Someone in the pages before this mentioned Mike Leach's name (I scanned so pardon the repetition if this was discussed in depth.)
I think we have the pieces for an Air Raid Part V(?): This time the QB is made of dilithium.
Thoughts?