Neat Harbaugh post game at Kinnick story

That's a long time to wait to even some scores.  I think we all know that Jim keeps tabs on all that shit.  And it probably has a LOT to do with Chuck Long.  Another shit bust of draft pick from the Lions.

By all measures Harbs had (has) a way more accomplished career as a player & coach than Long ever did.  Long is currently corching in the XFL.  Both were Heisman finalists.  

Here's the kicker.  Harbs was coaching University of San Diego and somehow put them on a map of some kind for the 1st time ever.  A DII school.  USD is a tiny Catholic school with maybe a 5K enrollment but plenty of $$$.  San Diego State is literally 8 miles down the freeway with probably a 40K enrolloment.  SDSU never even interviewed Harbs.  At the time he had a couple kids in local high school (Coronado).  I can almost guarantee he would have jumped at the SDSU job.  But they hired........Chuck Long.  Then fired him a couple years later when Harbs was then at Stanford.  

I've been on this site for 12 years and have never seen a triple digit upvote.  I got you to 99.   Vaya con Dios.

"play football as long as you possibly can, then become a football coach, then die"

I'll bite.  What was your Grbac question?  

Kreator is awesome 

First true road win for the boys in a tough environment. The 2016 team and his loss in 1985 likely made this even more special. 

Coaches just have different perspectives. Fans want perfect games...coaches want wins.

It becomes dangerous at times because sometimes you win and think you're something you're not (I'm thinking about those Hoke wins when we'd look terrible and beat shitty teams by a FG and Hoke would act like we were crazy for thinking Northwestern shouldn't always come down to a 4th down stop).

So there is a balance, but this was a great win.

Some things to clean up, this performance doesn't put you at a level where you're CFP ready, but it's baby steps.

Klatt had a great observation. This game felt a lot like the game @Wisconsin did last year. I thought the same. That game wasn't clean (that drive to end the 2nd quarter still pisses me off), but it was a hard road win.

The PSU game will likely feel like @Nebraska. Just survive and get to your bye week. Win that, rest up...and you've got another shot at Sparty as you try to run the table before taking on the Buckeyes.

The whole fired thing was always ridiculous. You don't fire a coach, pay all that money, when you don't have a pretty clear option to get better. 

It's not that Harbaugh didn't deserve criticism. He did.

He deserved the pay cut, too. Performance matters.

But Michigan never had a better option. If you thought he was the 10th best coach in the country...we weren't getting any in the Top 9 (nor were we getting 10-15).

You don't fire Jim Harbaugh for Matt Campbell, lol. That is asinine.

You'd have to go throw $12.5M at Lincoln Riley or Dave Aranda...something crazy, and I don't know if either is better (I don't think they are). You weren't getting Saban, Smart, Dabo...fuck Ryan Day, Urban Meyer and Brian Kelly. Luke Fickell wasn't ever coming and he's not an upgrade.

You never had a better option. Matt Rhule? LOL, stop it.

Harbaugh is a Michigan Man, he's been on the cusp, he's been to a Super Bowl, he restored Michigan from the depths of Rich Rod. The only thing you can do is try to give him every resource possible to win.

Anything different is a waste of time and money.

(Some of us still have our reservations about certain aspects, just as we would with almost any coach. No coach is unimpeachable, after all, and except for maybe Saban and Belichik, it's pretty easy to identify weaknesses with any of them. But when major critiques center around certain results in certain games and certain achievements, and then those things are accomplished, certain critics can either accept that they were at least significantly incorrect or go sulk in a corner. And let me tell you that I was too delighted last November to go sulk anywhere.)

I don't think Harbaugh is glad-handing for show. He is a genuine guy. Different, but likeable and real. Perhaps he is more gregarious when he is in a good mood after a big road win... and really, who wouldn't be? But I think he's doing that because he wants to. 

What would it take to silence the other 3%?

Ehhhh I doubt it. With how weak our schedule is, we’re almost certainly going to have to beat OSU to make the playoff.

The SEC is already guaranteed a spot. They could very well get two depending on how Georgia and Alabama fare the rest of the way this season. Clemson has already passed its two toughest tests on the schedule. Even if they lose one, as long as they win the ACC they’re in. USC will get priority over an 11-1 Michigan as long as they win the PAC-12 and lose no more than once, which it looks like will be the case.

There would have to be a lot of chaos elsewhere for Michigan to make it in at 11-1. In a few years when it expands to 12 teams? They’re absolutely in. But now? I doubt it.