umbig11

May 5th, 2015 at 5:29 PM ^

Whether he wants to be or not, he will be! He has united the former players, administration, fan base, alumni, and students. Jimmy is just the guy we needed to right the ship.

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Danwillhor

May 5th, 2015 at 6:29 PM ^

when it was clear he was the guy. I proposed, or rather asked, what we'd do of he failed. Imagine we're a perennial 8 win team after 4 years. Imagine Jim pulls a Jim & gets an offer in the NFL he can't refuse. HYPOTHETICAL! lol. What do we do? IMO, Michigan has to officially kill the personality cult of Bo or remain mediocre. I think we'd have to happily accept the best coach available, WITH UM TIES OR NOT, support & start a new chapter. We don't want that to happen but in an odd way I don't want Bo to get to JoePa personality cult levels & we're very close to that. In some ways we're worse (accepting any outsider). Jim has to succeed. He has to. Failure is not an option this time mainly because of what it'd mean for the UM program methos, identity, etc. This IS the guy & if he isn't then the "6 degrees of Bo" game has to die. The scary thing is that I don't think UM well let it, we'll let it. We'd be our own worst enemy. We'll eat each another alive.

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bacon

May 5th, 2015 at 8:38 PM ^

The biggest advantage I think harbaugh has is that there will be great patience on the part of fans. I fully expect to see improvement in short time, but regardless I can't see Michigan not giving harbaugh as long as he wants to turn things around. Therefore, I think it's really when, not if, he turns the program around.

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pasadenablue

May 5th, 2015 at 5:30 PM ^

He's not a robot without emotions, he's not what you see
He's come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
He's not a hero, he's not a savior, forget what you know
He's just a man whose football team must reclaim the Rose Bowl
Reclaim the Rose Bowl, we all need Rose Bowl
I need Rose Bowl, we all need Rose Bowl

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west2

May 5th, 2015 at 5:38 PM ^

implies something different.   He states that he alone is not a "savior" but that the success in his previous coaching stops was a team effort that happened by everyone contributing.   So to think that he doesnt expect to win and that Michigan isn't going to be successful is not what he is saying (I know-I know, a double negative).  He is saying the success was a team effort and it will be here at Michigan too.

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ClassOf14

May 5th, 2015 at 5:52 PM ^

The title is misleading, all the savior is trying to say is that it's a team effort and that we're all the saviors. What a selfless guy, I like our savior even more now.



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ThadMattasagoblin

May 5th, 2015 at 6:50 PM ^

Harbaugh won't fail. He's done it at San Diego, Stanford, and San Francisco and he's only 51. I don't know who else you could get that's better. Nick Saban? He's close to retiring.

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BluCoast

May 5th, 2015 at 8:24 PM ^

This is not about Harbaugh as alum or savior...but simply this: He's an incredible young coach who has had phenomenal success at every level of coaching from SDSU to FURD to the NFLs 49ers! ANY program would be ecstatic about his leadership and have EVERY empirical reason to anticipate / expect future success.

So take the Blue & Gold goggles off for a moment and take your excitement rationally!!!

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LSAClassOf2000

May 5th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^

"Saying 'Jim flipped it at Stanford' makes it sound like a personal accomplishment, which it wasn't," Harbaugh replied after being asked about how he makes a team tougher. "It was a team effort at all those places. That's the answer. You win as a team. Everybody does a little and it adds up to a lot."

I do get what he's saying here, I think, mainly because you have to get buy-in from the ground all the way up to the coordinators to make this work, to allow someone with as strong a personality as Jim Harbaugh to be a success. His success depends a lot on the people and players around him. That being said, he never really says what the article's title says, and it doesn't seem like something he would say now or at any point. 

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Don

May 5th, 2015 at 11:19 PM ^

It directly implies that Harbaugh stated "I have no interest in being Michigan's savior" when there isn't a single fucking statement anywhere close to that anywhere in the article.

In fact, the only instance of the word "savior" comes in this graf:

"Asked about the expectations around Michigan with his arrival as some kind of savior and the pressure that comes with it, Harbaugh said he doesn't know when it hasn't existed. "I can't even think of professions where you don't have the pressure to perform and do a good job," he said before a long pause."

So, in the only instance in the article where he is apparently asked about being a savior, he sidesteps it entirely, and instead responds to the question about pressure.

Feldman's a hack throwing out clickbait, just like the vast majority of sports "journalists."

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uminks

May 5th, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^

It may take a few years to get into the playoffs but I think once he builds a team that will get into the playoffs quite often, then he will win us a NC or several?

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RGard

May 6th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^

So we're sitting in the college counselor's office in my son's high school last week and she asks my son why Michigan was on the list of universities he was considering.  We're in VA and he also listed UVA and William and Mary College.  My son is your typical 17 year old who is mortified to be in the presence of his parents in a public setting and doesn't answer her.  I pipe in and explain his great grandfather, grandmother and I attended Michigan.

She seems satisfied with the answer, but a couple of minutes later in the meeting asks me if I am happy with Michigan's coaching hire.  I respond, "yes, it's the second coming of Harbaugh".  She smiles and my son is mortified even more.

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