Harbaugh ranked #1 NFL HC candidate by 45 analysts
And so it begins. I guess at least they put his face in the upper left of their front page picture, instead of directly in the middle. So we got that going for us, which is nice.
1. Jim Harbaugh: 95 points
Current job: Michigan Wolverines head coach
NFL experience
Former 49ers head coach (2011-14) In Harbaugh's one NFL stop in San Francisco, he took over a 6-10 team and went 44-19 over the next four seasons -- which included a heartbreaking three-point loss in Super Bowl XLVII.
Before that, he inherited a 1-11 Stanford team and went 29-21 over four seasons.
Most recently, he inherited a 5-8 Michigan team and has gone 28-11 in the three seasons since.
January 3rd, 2018 at 6:07 PM ^
Knows Harbaugh isn't a quitter and isn't going anywhere. These threads need to stop. On to greatness.
January 3rd, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
Of course Harbaugh isn't leaving, and anyone who thinks so is ignorant.
But, I love the "Harbaugh is the most desired coach in the NFL stories."
Why?
Because it's good for a kid with NFL dreams to see that the University of Michigan Wolverines are coached by man whom the NFL would love to steal but cannot!
January 4th, 2018 at 2:01 AM ^
But I also think it is a double edge sword, since many of the coaches we compete over recruits with use it to their advantage by telling recruites that Harbaugh will soon depart for the NFL.
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:53 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^
Who gives a fuck, don't post this shit
January 3rd, 2018 at 6:18 PM ^
All this does is feed the trolls. Good job op.
January 3rd, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
The OP is a known troll, so...yeah.
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:05 PM ^
Fuck off, troll
January 3rd, 2018 at 10:27 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
WARMED UP OATMEAL
NEXT
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:19 PM ^
Agreed, but who knew that Oakland might still be in play!
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
But I've read on this board that he is no better than Brady Hoke and the worst coach in the B10 east. Who do I believe?
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
Being intentionally dense is fun isn't it?
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:10 PM ^
Can you explain to me why clearly superior coaches such as Urbz, Mork, and Field Goal Franklin are not at the top of this list?
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:15 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:16 PM ^
you can't really equate success at one level tranlating to another.
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:31 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 10:38 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:47 PM ^
Folks have to calm down...
1st off...Mork won 3 games last year...his team was in complete disarray this summer...his 1st 4 years he went to bowl games, you know what? HE LOST ALL 4!
We have such recency bias and act like we don't follow the program like we do.
1. As I've said for years...there are THREE elite coaches in college football. That's it. Let's stop acting like so many other team have something we don't. Add Peterson and Patterson for the next level of coaches #4 and #5 in whatever order you want to put them in.
After that...it's a mismosh of coaches and Harbaugh's in that group. His OCs? Not so much. But Shaw, MORK, Petrino, Leach, Kelly, Franklin, Chryst, Richt, Gundy, are coaches in that next group with HARBAUGH...and you can make any argument you want for one over the other. I probably left off a few (Smart?), but you get the point.
There are THREE coaches clearly better than Harbaugh right now...two probably better...everyone else? Meh, we're right there. It's not like we've got Hoke. It's not like we've got some MAC coach who had 1 hot year.
Fix the offensive staff, finish the recruiting class, get better and let's roll. Harbaugh's the perfect coach for Michigan. Beilein isn't Coach K, Izzo, etc. - but we're getting by in other ways. We don't have to have Nick Saban to win a national championship, but we need to right assistants, recruiting the right players and calling the right plays...so far, we're not there. But we're not 3-9 or 4-8 with a shit ton of players getting suspended either.
January 3rd, 2018 at 7:56 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
Maybe they were NFL players because of Harbaugh you stupid cunt.
January 3rd, 2018 at 11:45 PM ^
this is a great post- Hoke recruited well. I keep wondering at all the people out there saying we can't do better than JH- there are real good coaches out there. I do believe that JH can get us a Big10 championship- I am not so sure CFB motivates him enough to actually do it.
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:09 PM ^
You actually had the balls to come back after your pathetic goodbye post? You do realize you sounded like a little bitch, right?
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:56 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 9:26 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:15 PM ^
He did a nice job at Stanford, not that the Pac 12 counts into the grand scheme of things
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:46 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:11 PM ^
Fuck off, troll.
January 4th, 2018 at 2:18 AM ^
Several 49er players said he treated them like college players instead of pros, and they went to complain to the owner and the owner dumped Harbaugh. I'm glad he did and I'm still enthusiastic like nothing known to mankind that he is our coach. Give him a few years, once he starts winning a lot of games and reaching the playoffs, Harbaugh will have his pick of the top recruits. It seems like many people on this blog do not have the patience for the Harbaugh recruits to mature and become champions. if I had to wait 6 years and through two underwhelming coaches I sure as hell can wait another couple years for Harbuagh.
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
It only took 2 days into the off season...
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
and be ranked #1 FBS HC.
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:57 PM ^
That would be pretty good.
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
him going to Bama once Saban retires.
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:45 PM ^
Saban like Vampiretonio will never die. Just quietly dissappear when he is tired of making himself falsely look old.
January 3rd, 2018 at 10:43 PM ^
Nope, that is Dabo.
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
I can't believe they put him ahead of Don Shula, who is also primed and ready for a return to the league.
January 3rd, 2018 at 6:52 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 8:17 PM ^
87 years old.
January 4th, 2018 at 1:36 AM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
He's the new Jon Gruden.
But to be realistic, if some NFL team really wanted him, they could get him. Offer him personnel control and an ownership stake and he's gone, IMO.
I doubt he wants to leave UM right now, but everybody has their price.
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:20 PM ^
"I doubt he wants to leave UM right now, but everybody has their price"
nope. once you get paid a certain amount, salary doesn't matter. Harbs makes more than any person will ever need (or even their children will ever need). Money shouldn't be a deciding factor.
Therefore:
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:30 PM ^
But to be realistic, if some NFL team really wanted him, they could get him.This supposition is easily disproven by the fact that he isn't going to any NFL team, despite being the "#1 candidate."
January 3rd, 2018 at 6:52 PM ^
January 3rd, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
It wouldn't matter how badly any NFL team wanted him.
Harbaugh isn't going anywhere. This does strike fear into the hearts of certain fanbases even with the bowl outing we just had.
January 3rd, 2018 at 5:00 PM ^
I love OSU trolls that tell me how terrible of a coach he is, then the next time any NFL job is brought up they say he is taking that job. He is such a terrible coach that every NFL job wants him? Makes sense.