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I had to kind of imagine Yost was alive today, and thus knew about modern schemes. I wanted the guy who could adapt and get the best football out of his guys. I also wanted a man who could represent the program, and had an eye toward the future. Yes, the point-a-minute teams pre-dated the forward pass. And the magnificent run ended exactly after the forward pass entered football. But that's also the time when a lot of major programs rose out of the dust, and Michigan stopped playing nummy nums (which had the unfortunate side-effect of 5-game seasons). And yet in a time when there was no recruiting, Yost still hung on for almost another two decades, winning the Big Ten title five times out of the first nine years of our involvement, won two more national championships, and had four more undefeated seasons. You've heard of the Rose Bowl? That thing started because the West Coast wanted to show it could play football as well as the "real" teams. At the time, it was unheard of, and Yost traipsed into Pasadena and beat Stanford so handily the Cardinal left the field in the 3rd quarter, and the city felt an elephant racing a camel would be less lopsided entertainment going forward. But our coach had the foresight in 1902 to realize the value in what would become college football's signature bowl game for five generations. He also built the Big House, at a time when few imagined it was possible to put even half as many as it held that far from a major population center (automobiles were still pretty young). That, to me, sounds like the kind of football coach who transcends his time, and could have functioned at that level no matter what year it is. His guys were as tough as Bo's teams, as schematically sound (he was an engineer, remember) as Crisler or Rich Rod, and in a time before recruiting, made Michigan such a national power that he managed to hoard more top talent than Bo and Moeller and Kipke combined. Even when Michigan faltered for a decade in the middle of the 20th century, the tradition and the very stadium that Yost personally designed kept the program from sinking anywhere near irrelevance, and it's the cachet that he built that still makes Michigan the place that can, say, pull a guy like Rich Rodriguez out of his home state and a near national championship-caliber team. Michigan has had some fantastic coaches. But Yost is the best football coach who ever lived, period.