The truth about Harbaugh.
There are some thing we can rightfully question.
The fact remains:
The two men that he has relinquished control to, and have counted on the most to do their jobs....
Have completely let him and us down. As have their subordinates (namely Warriner and Nua).
The buck stops at the top, ultimately.
Go Blue.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:05 AM ^
I knew the truth was out there.
September 25th, 2019 at 8:23 AM ^
Which I feel is 1000% appropriate considering this steaming pile of a hot take.
Edit: I'm referring to the OP.
September 25th, 2019 at 9:22 AM ^
Glad you replied to an unrelated comment to get yours at the top.
September 25th, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
You're not wrong
September 25th, 2019 at 9:26 AM ^
Young Hank Moody would've banged the hell outta Mulder and never called her back
September 25th, 2019 at 11:36 AM ^
Uhhh... I think you mean Scully.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:05 AM ^
You thought of that all by yourself? Impressive. No one has voiced a similar thought around here. Thanks for posting.
Getting on the board the last couple weeks has basically involved opening 20 tabs, clicking one, downvoting OP, closing tab, repeat.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:26 AM ^
Maybe I should have said:
Look ya"ll. Harbaugh is really trying to self reflect and improve.
He actually went against his instinct, and fully handed the offensive reigns to another man......nearly half his age!
He said Don Brown is the head coach of the defense. And even when Hubris gadget Doc has fucked us, never threw him under the bus.
Qb's.....no excuse.
The idea was to lay it out and let the intelligent minds discourse. Bringing up these many important points up along the way.
Instead, its a bunch of smarmy fucks like you, bitterly knee-jerking all the time.
Go Blue.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:45 AM ^
Are you on drugs?
September 25th, 2019 at 3:01 AM ^
Maybe because I am (maybe) but that shit is funny.
September 25th, 2019 at 5:22 AM ^
Hey Wings. Keep posting. While you are correct that the coordinators and assistants share plenty of blame this seems to be a vision, talent and spirit thing. This is systemic and goes straight to Harbaugh. We lack an overall vision about who we are and how we play. We are talent deficient (Spielman is right) and that goes to recruiting. We look like we're disinterested and disconnected. First and foremost, Harbaugh.
And I say that with far more sorrow than anger.
September 25th, 2019 at 7:36 AM ^
No one should ever say "Look ya'll"
September 25th, 2019 at 8:58 AM ^
I'm a middle-aged, mid-western dad. I like to start most of my pointed sentences with:
"Listen here, buddy!"
September 25th, 2019 at 9:45 AM ^
the board would be infinitely better if we all adopted a fake 1930s patois - "say, sport..."
September 25th, 2019 at 10:05 AM ^
I, for one, would like to see more posts start with a good southern "I do declare . . . " or "Mercy me, . . ."
September 25th, 2019 at 7:01 AM ^
These worthless threads are fine because they give us a chance to neg the thread creator.
September 25th, 2019 at 9:01 AM ^
Amen to that. What never ceases to amaze me is the utterly predictable progression of thread creation around here following a tough loss
1. Day of game - 48 hours post game - UNACCEPTABLE threads, Fire everyone threads, I'm giving up on M football threads, appreciation to random player threads
2. 3-5 days post game - "Perspective" threads, It's really not that bad threads, Things only I have thought of threads (even though the thought has been covered ad nauseum in countless other threads), we may suck but Sparty sucks even more and this is why threads, trust the coaches threads, the coaches are all idiots and this is why threads
Day before next game - We're gonna kick ass threads, Bet we dont lose another game this year threads, we're gonna get beat 100 Jillion to nothing and will never win another game threads
September 25th, 2019 at 9:54 AM ^
Perfect...
But you missed the “I was watching team XYZ do so and so”- I’m so jealous we can’t have that offense, or - at least we’re not them.
often included...”we should hire coach ABC from XYZ (when they are up 2 TD’s during the late game) or “At least we don’t have coach ABC leading our program.
Amazingly, these comments can come within 15 min of the same exact game...see Leach, Mike last weekend.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
You forgot X backup QB is better than Y starting QB.
If only the coaches understood as much about Z as I do, a fan who never played or coached, the thing would be a lot better.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
The Mike Leach thing was the best. That stupid photoshop of him in maize and blue flying around Twitter. Just delightful. Losing to Wisconsin in year 5 would never happen if we had MIKE LEACH!
But just for fun let's look at Washington State in year 5 of Mike Leach:
Lost to FCS Eastern Washington in their season opener. Should I go on? Can we just stop there?Can we use this as a blanket answer to any coach bullshit? Can we stop pretending no other coach loses games?
They lost to Boise to open that year 0-2. They lost to Minnesota in the Holiday Bowl that year. They finished 8-5 to match Harbaugh's worst season in Ann Arbor. Mike Leach is 1-6 against his main rival, UW. They lost to Michigan State 42-17 in 2017. Washington State sucks ass.
But we don't see them suck ass regularly like we see Michigan, so everything must be better everywhere else.
September 25th, 2019 at 9:20 AM ^
Ruthless... but funny at the same time...?
September 25th, 2019 at 1:05 AM ^
Good thread. LOL.
September 25th, 2019 at 8:42 AM ^
Right? Well I’m here anyway, so what does that say about me??
September 25th, 2019 at 1:06 AM ^
Aaaaand I'm going to bed.
September 25th, 2019 at 9:55 AM ^
So... what you're saying... is that you're joining our team because they've been asleep for the last 5yrs?
September 25th, 2019 at 1:18 AM ^
i think this is great, most people probably didn't notice that he wrote in iambic pentameter
September 25th, 2019 at 1:43 AM ^
Not even a poor man's Shakespeare.
Mayhap my true passion for Michigan football hath stumbled upon such.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:35 AM ^
keep your head up brother! we all love Michigan football
September 25th, 2019 at 3:14 AM ^
I did not. However, I did notice that he could not spell Warinner properly or use the correct spelling for reins.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:49 AM ^
Time to raise the points threshold for starting a thread.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:59 AM ^
Maybe so.
Imagine if every asshole couldn't respond also....
September 25th, 2019 at 3:30 AM ^
It's easy if you try
September 25th, 2019 at 10:27 AM ^
No Bolivia below us
September 25th, 2019 at 2:31 AM ^
Panic much?
September 25th, 2019 at 2:52 AM ^
Is there a gym somewhere in AA where we can all meet up and I can punch all you stoopid fuks that make these threads in the face? Can we please set this up?
September 25th, 2019 at 6:12 AM ^
Nor every stupid fuk is in Ann Arbor. Have to have a national network of people to punch the stupid fuks
September 25th, 2019 at 4:14 AM ^
I’m excited for Saturday, since Michigan has had two bye weeks in a row, they should be ready to go! Hopefully they can bounce back from that army game.
September 25th, 2019 at 5:36 AM ^
I'm all in. What's next....the players need to earn their wings?
September 25th, 2019 at 6:11 AM ^
Thanks for sharing your “fact” with everyone
September 25th, 2019 at 6:16 AM ^
THIS is the perspective we all needed.
September 25th, 2019 at 6:18 AM ^
FFS - the board is so cluttered with threads that should just be nuked.
September 25th, 2019 at 6:23 AM ^
One would think JH would review the game plans with the coordinators...
September 25th, 2019 at 7:19 AM ^
Wait a minute…
how do you not relinquish control of the offensive and defensive line to the offense and defense Line coach?
Better title would have been: The truth about every football program in the nation.
September 25th, 2019 at 7:24 AM ^
Wariner is fine. He has a proven track record. If you’re going to blame something on the offense...it falls on Gattis and the chaos that came with the install. He’s young and unproven.
There isn’t enough data on Nua yet. I get the impression he’s not a big fan of the Midwest. I’d be surprised if he is here for too long.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
And how do you get that impression, exactly ? By facial expressions on sideline ? In private talks with him ? He's been doing well it seems, on the recruit trail, too.
September 25th, 2019 at 7:27 AM ^
This post let ME down.
September 25th, 2019 at 7:43 AM ^
This definitely deserved its own thread. Maybe start a blog about it!
September 25th, 2019 at 7:47 AM ^
The reality is we are not as good as we hoped this season. I also doubt JH is gone after this year unless it gets really bad. But, my hunch is he rallies to troops for 6-8 wins and he sticks around. Next year will be a new QB, another year to figure out of the offense, a year for the freshman DTs to develop, etc. Two 6-win years in a row could mean he's gone, but if he returns to 9-ish wins in 2020 he's the man to stick around as long as he wants so long as the floor is 6-7 wins and he can hit 10 somewhat regularly. Here's to hoping a new QB and another year of learning the offense and/or learning to blend JH & Gattis' offenses together into something functional will be what we need to be competitive with OSU.
September 25th, 2019 at 9:55 AM ^
Two 6-win years in a row could mean he's gone, but if he returns to 9-ish wins in 2020 he's the man to stick around as long as he wants so long as the floor is 6-7 wins and he can hit 10 somewhat regularly.
Low expectations.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:10 AM ^
You do realize that 6 or 7 wins means that you lost to every non-tomato can on the schedule, right?
And 8 or 9 wins means you lost the majority of your games to non-tomato cans?