Chill the Hell Out

To UM, 9 million a year is nothing...but as a public relations point, it's everything. The money is the reason your recruits and their families are waking up to national media articles and stories that Jim Harbaugh is overrated. The Jim Harbaugh hire was an emotional hire, but a good one. If Michigan would have paid Harbaugh for what he was, a damn good football coach with tons of promise and a cultural impact that has gotten extremely close but has never been able to fully get the job done as of yet, there wouldn't be such a negative national narrative around the Michigan program right now. But Michigan paid him like he was Nick Saban. That understandably comes with some conditions.you don't pay that kind of money for 10 win seasons. The best analogy I can think of is imagine you needed your roof fixed and I was the most expensive guy in town and you hired me...but then you found out other guys were getting roofs done faster and more efficiently than I did. You'd be pissed and the reason you'd be pissed was the money. BUT this leaves Harbaugh with an absolute golden opportunity. Take a pay cut. Would be the absolute best PR move in CFB history. He could use the "Michigan Man" narrative and say that he hasn't earned the money and that at Michigan you have to earn everything you get. That team would be ready to run through a brick wall for him and I think it would totally neutralize the totally irrational fan expectations that come along with a 9 mil a year salary. As an Ohio State fan, I would not want to face a Michigan team if Harbaugh took a pay cut and started getting hungry instead of the obvious mutual disdain the fan base and Jim mutually seem to have for each other at this point.

To UM, 9 million a year is nothing...but as a public relations point, it's everything. The money is the reason your recruits and their families are waking up to national media articles and stories that Jim Harbaugh is overrated. The Jim Harbaugh hire was an emotional hire, but a good one. If Michigan would have paid Harbaugh for what he was, a damn good football coach with tons of promise and a cultural impact that has gotten extremely close but has never been able to fully get the job done as of yet, there wouldn't be such a negative national narrative around the Michigan program right now. But Michigan paid him like he was Nick Saban. That understandably comes with some conditions.you don't pay that kind of money for 10 win seasons. The best analogy I can think of is imagine you needed your roof fixed and I was the most expensive guy in town and you hired me...but then you found out other guys were getting roofs done faster and more efficiently than I did. You'd be pissed and the reason you'd be pissed was the money. BUT this leaves Harbaugh with an absolute golden opportunity. Take a pay cut. Would be the absolute best PR move in CFB history. He could use the "Michigan Man" narrative and say that he hasn't earned the money and that at Michigan you have to earn everything you get. That team would be ready to run through a brick wall for him and I think it would totally neutralize the totally irrational fan expectations that come along with a 9 mil a year salary. As an Ohio State fan, I would not want to face a Michigan team if Harbaugh took a pay cut and started getting hungry instead of the obvious mutual disdain the fan base and Jim mutually seem to have for each other at this point.