October 4th, 2014 at 2:40 PM ^
1a 1b Harbaugh either one
3 Les
4 Mullen
5 Teryl Austin
October 4th, 2014 at 4:22 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 4:38 PM ^
IMO he's going to get his shot soon. He'll be a hot name after this season. I'm amazed at what he's doing with scrubs in the secondary in Detroit, not to mention one decent linebacker. With all the injuries he can obviously scheme and gameplan around his strengths and weaknesses. That's the man I want to talk to.
October 4th, 2014 at 5:39 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 6:00 PM ^
People will take notice after this season.
The Lions are allowing 180.7 yards passing per game, which is third in the league, and 63.7 yards rushing, which is second. Add it all up, and they're allowing just 244.3 yards overall per game. That's 24 yards clear of anyone else. All with serious injuries in the linebacking core and secondary.
October 4th, 2014 at 2:41 PM ^
Our best shot at landing Mullen is if Florida goes after Rich Rod instead.
October 4th, 2014 at 2:43 PM ^
RR at UF? That sounds scary.
October 4th, 2014 at 2:49 PM ^
The expectations and pressure have to be far less onerous at AZ than in Gainesville, and he has access to the fertile recruiting areas of southern CA and Texas.
October 4th, 2014 at 2:52 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 5:30 PM ^
Isn't Florida tailor made for his spread offense or did they go away from that after Urban left to spend more time with his family? Seems like the transition wouldn't be that drastic for him at FL.
October 4th, 2014 at 2:53 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^
I think programs around the country are beginning to realize that it was anything but RR's fault.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:06 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
In any interview he's going to say, Well, I wanted Casteel and Michigan wouldn't pay him, so my defenses were awful and make his hire contingent on Casteel coming with him.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 2:51 PM ^
Someone called the Miss State win over A&M on a different CC thread. Props to whoever that was. I'd love to see Dan Mullen in Ann Arbor next year.
October 4th, 2014 at 2:54 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 2:56 PM ^
At this moment in time it isn't even close, Miss St is the way better job.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 4:17 PM ^
Miss St is winning and doing it the right way in the toughest division in the country. Miss St has a real home field advantage, unlike the Big House which don's the phrase "The most quiet 110,000 in the country". Miss St has real recruiting advantages, and does not have the ridiculous expectations placed on them each year. Michigan is a mess, why do you think more people turned away from the job than actually wanted it? It's time to realize that the Michigan job is not what it used to be.
October 4th, 2014 at 4:29 PM ^
The Big House has shed the quiet stadium meme - I believe with the installation of the boxes. MSU only has a home atmosphere because they break the rules and use noisemakers
Mississippi State's recruting advantage is only that they are near good players. Those good players still choose to go to Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, etc. anyway. Even in Michigan's greatest era of crap in 50 years, in a relatively less fertile recruiting territory, we still out-recruit them
October 4th, 2014 at 3:01 PM ^
Thank you!!! Someone acutally looking at the facts!
October 4th, 2014 at 3:00 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 5:15 PM ^
Starkville is a pit, but Ole Miss may be the most beautiful college campus I have ever seen.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 3:36 PM ^
MSU's ceiling is 13-1 with a Rose Bowl win. Uhhhhhhhh
October 4th, 2014 at 4:49 PM ^
A lot of things went right for them last season. Michigan down, not playing a ranked team until the CCG, OSU being a paper tiger, and getting matched up with a Stanford team that, in all reality, wasn't that good.
October 4th, 2014 at 4:32 PM ^
MSU's "ceiling" is the playoff....that's a pretty high ceiling unless you're hoping they'll win a Super Bowl one day
October 4th, 2014 at 3:13 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
I don't disagree but MSU was beat pretty bad by Oregon not that long ago. I would say Alabama is the manball flag bearer.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:11 PM ^
TAMU is overrated this year.
October 4th, 2014 at 5:12 PM ^
Tell that to South Carolina.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
That was only true of his time at Michigan.....certainly not the case at WVU and seems to be turning Arizona around nicely. What with his wins over top 10 teams 2 years in a row now.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
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October 4th, 2014 at 3:27 PM ^
The infighting here and the way we treat our coaches will keep any quality coach other than the Harbaugh's from coming here. I don't think Les would want to come here knowing how half the fanbase would prefer Charlie Weis as coach to him.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:30 PM ^
Who the hell would prefer Charlie Weis over Miles at UM? Are you being sarcastic?
October 4th, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^
Maybe Charlie Weis was a bad example, but there a ton of people surrounding the football program that want absolutely nothing to do with Les Miles. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Hence the Charlie Weis reference. I can't imagine that Miles doesn't know that, so why on earth would he come here when he know's that so many people despise him and want him to fail from the onset. He would be RR 2.0
October 4th, 2014 at 4:29 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
I do not like Les Miles and do not want him as our coach. However, one thing I do admire about him is that he is fearless. He doesn't give a damn about me or anyone else who doubts him.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:20 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 3:30 PM ^
but the thing is, it's much harder to win here with all the back-stabbing we do than it is to win at Miss St. Every coach in America see's that and it's going to be much harder to attract quality candidates because of it.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:38 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^
How else do you describe Carr's action's at his end? Or the lack of support RR received throughout his whole tenure? Or the blame we have placed on Hoke for the Shane Morris incident. Every since Carr has retired, we have a history of sabotaging our coaches whether they receive it (in Hoke's case) or not i.e. RR. This is not a pro-RR anti-Hoke post, I'm just taking a step back and from afar, we do not treat coaches very well. It's much harder for a coach to win when he has as little support as the Michigan football program seems to give them.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:55 PM ^
Hence why pretty much everyone wants athletic department cleaned out before a new coach is hired...
October 4th, 2014 at 4:50 PM ^
October 4th, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
It's not harder to win in the B1G than in the SEC West. Wish I was wrong, but I'm not.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:27 PM ^
All of the SEC coaches would love to see Mullen in Ann Arbor, too.
As for him going to Florida, I don't think it's as much a no-brainer slam dunk as people think. Remember, he had a ringside seat for all the crab the fanbase put Urbz through, and Spurrier was getting flak, which is why he took the Redskins job.
The worst thing that can happen to a HC at Florida is to win big, because once that happens, anything less is grounds for vitriol.