Does Warde Survive This?

Submitted by FlaWolverine22 on January 24th, 2024 at 7:10 PM

The calls for him to be fired will be deafening now. His legacy is running Harbaugh out of town and hiring Juwan.

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Blueisgood

January 24th, 2024 at 8:00 PM ^

I don't believe for a second that Warde being there wasn't part of the problem. But I also don't believe Jim left just because of Warde. Warde is Ryan Day. He was born on 3rd. He inherited a bunch of A+ coaches, who are now mostly all gone, if not all gone. I don't blame him for firing Mel, but the lead up to it was super clumsy. In reality, he's not that great of an AD

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ST3

January 24th, 2024 at 8:56 PM ^

He was not born on third base. That take is lazy and dumb. He started at Buffalo (1st base), was successful there, earning him a step up to UConn (second base). He was AD of the year there. He capitalized on that and hit his home run becoming UofM’s AD. He’s had ups and downs since, but he wasn’t handed anything and he certainly wasn’t born on 3rd base. The guy had a career ending neck injury at UofM and instead of packing it in, he moved over to the track team. He used his athletic gifts to get 2 UofM degrees, and later went back for a third.

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U.P.Dave

January 24th, 2024 at 8:21 PM ^

Every major program under his watch has taken a step back.  That is not happening under a good leader, or a competent organization.  One of the two is broken.  And Harbaugh overcame despite the hurdles, only to see Michigan jerk him around with contract language for 6 months.  If we wanted him we should have given him the farm.  Not playvthis ridiculous negotiation over contract language game.

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ESNY

January 24th, 2024 at 8:44 PM ^

You are just ignoring the elephant in the room - Money contract language, indemnity language is not the NFL and wouldn't have done shit.

Whether it was a big smokescreen or just fallback in case NFL options fell through, nothing was keeping Harbaugh at Michigan if he got an NFL offer he wanted. He not only telegraphed it for three years but was practically out the door two years ago and you are naive or fan-blined to not see that and want to keep acting like he's some jilted lover that made a hasty decision because he didn't feel loved

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Shorty the Bea…

January 25th, 2024 at 12:23 AM ^

He kept an NCAA immunity clause out of the contract until Jim had pretty much completed the hiring process with the Chargers.

Educate yourself on politics. That's how you make it look like you want someone to stay while denying them what they need to stay so when they leave it had nothing to do with you. So you could install YOUR boy.

Whether it happened exactly that way or not he lost control of the narrative with this dragged out affair. Combined with other acts like skipping the football banquet and Santa Ono announcing the extension last year and not him.. you need to wake up. Whether he ran him out or not he has run out of deserving trust in his ability to do his job.

Warde needs to be gone. Yesterday.

Jim never said it was about the NFL first. He made it very clear it was about the love. Take Jim at his word. He was pushed out by admins withholding the love he needed until it was too late so it looks like it was only the NFL all along. 

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ThadMattasagoblin

January 24th, 2024 at 7:16 PM ^

I don't think that this is really the worst moment of his tenure. I don't know how anyone could say that he is good however. He seems disorganized and stubborn. It seems like he has been here forever and I can't really come up with anything that he did that was a really good decision. Even keeping Harbaugh seemed more like luck that it worked out and he slashed Harbaugh's salary in half which seemed unecessary.

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MaizeBlueA2

January 24th, 2024 at 7:17 PM ^

Exactly. 

The Warde stuff is so tired.

 

If Warde should be fired for anything, it's Juwan Howard...not Jim Harbaugh. 

There is no AD in the country who could have managed Jim any better. Jim is Jim.

And oh by the way, the majority of ADs would've straight fired him after the COVID season.

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U.P.Dave

January 24th, 2024 at 8:27 PM ^

And why is Juwan still around?  Loved him as a player but his only success as our coach is with Belien's upper classmen.  And that's on top of him continuing to embarass us by acting like an child twice a year.

Why did he let Bakich walk?

So no, it just isn't a Harbaugh thing.  It's Warde's horrible track record.

 

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Michfan777

January 24th, 2024 at 7:11 PM ^

He survives this since this was expected for years to happen, though I think an eventual accumulation of coach hirings/issues under him will be his downfall.

 

That said...

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Sonny Jim

January 24th, 2024 at 7:34 PM ^

Maybe U of M and Warde decided it would be better and easier for U of M and Warde to just accept the sanction, especially since it was Jim Harbaugh who took the punishment, not U of M or Warde.  Maybe that was a big consideration in Jim’s decision.
 

I’m sure winning a Super Bowl is a big draw for Jim.  It would be for any football coach.  I just have a hard time seeing the LA Chargers winning a Super Bowl in the next five years or so, whether their head coach is Jim Harbaugh, Bill Belichick, or Vince Lombardi.  Jim and his agents probably looked at pros and cons of each job and decided the Chargers were his best option.  The actions taken by U of M and Warde over the last year or so probably added some significant cons to the U of M scenario.

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U.P.Dave

January 24th, 2024 at 8:30 PM ^

If being a Lions fan, and seeing first hand how an incompetent organization produces no success, Jim isn't winning a Super Bowl or anything with the Chargers.  The Lions all of a sudden became good when there was organizational change in leadership at the top.That isn't a coincidence. 

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Bando Calrissian

January 24th, 2024 at 7:12 PM ^

Warde isn't great, yes, but it now seems obvious there were no amount of Brinks trucks and contract clauses that could stop JH from going to the NFL after finally getting over the CFP hump. The decision was made. He just kept the ruse going long enough until the contract was in front of him. Can't hate on that, it's what Jim wanted after finally getting the other thing he wanted.

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