How are we supposed to maintain a culture recruting pitch?

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you need to log off of the internet for a bit. 

The sheer panic that has come out of this fanbase, yourself included, over the past week is ridiculous. 

Harbaugh took some coaches. Every coach that leaves takes coaches. Sherrone Moore has support from a variety of people, trust that you might have something good still without panicking that it just got up and left and it's the Hoke days all over again.

I would be pitching two things:

** The players that stayed made Team 144 what it was. They stayed. They won the title. And they did it together.

** Players at Michigan get developed, then decide to stay, then get developed some more, and when they finally do end their careers, they get drafted into the league.

It's a difficult hurdle to get over losing coaches, but that's how I would do it.

You're worrying WAY too much.

Change happens in life.  Especially in college football.  It's inevitable.  May as well yell at the clouds.

But Michigan remains a blue-blood program with a shit-ton of structural advantages versus most other schools.

That doesn't guarantee future National Titles, but Michigan will always be fairly well positioned to do well.

You’re probably right, I can’t see a single kid wanting to play for Michigan anymore moving forward.
 

What do you think they’ll turn the Big House into now that football’s done?

"All our assistants"?

IIRC Jim Harbaugh claims Moore made him love football again. The culture will be more than fine.

Edit: added IIRC because I could not find the quote.

I understand where you are going, but I don't agree.  Harbaugh is a unicorn, and also just a weird dude.  My honest sense from his introductory press conference is that he always wanted to be in the NFL where he could compete for a Lombardi Trophy, but that having watched his beloved Michigan toil through a decade of disaster, he felt an obligation to come back and right the ship.  I always got the sense that he came he with a specific mission - restore the program, get us back on par with Ohio State, win a big ten championship and hopefully a national championship.  Then he could go back to the NFL knowing that he did what he felt needed to be done for his school.  And he did that. 

And when a head coach leaves, it is common for members of his staff to follow him.  Some of those following Jim out also followed him in.  Ultimately, the culture starts with the head coach and Moore is a branch of the Harbaugh tree, and will certainly be retaining a number of staff members.  In addition, the culture is fostered by the senior leadership on the team.  While a lot of our guys graduated or are on to the NFL, we have a ton of returning upperclass leadership to keep the culture vibe going.

A coach who led the team to the national championship and then accepts a job coaching an NFL team is chasing "the first shiny new thing that's out there"? 

The pitch is that if you commit yourself to being a Michigan Man and to doing what's best for The Team, you will win now AND later.

Jim didn't stop being a Michigan Man when he signed on to coach the Chargers, just like he didn't stop being a Michigan Man when he coached Stanford. He managed to reach the pinnacle of college sports and now he is gunning to reach the pinnacle of professional sports.

This is what players talk about when Michigan pitches the 30-year plan. Sure, if you go to some other schools you might make more money coming into the door. At Michigan, though, you're set up to succeed for life, both financially and professionally.

The message doesn't change, only the messenger does -- and not even really the messenger. Moore has been doing an incredible job of making the Michigan Pitch for the last few years, and now he's just doing it as the head guy.

"all our assistants are jumping ship?"

We've lost 2 assistants by my count.  One of which was never going to stay in college and the other likely got offered an unreasonable amount of money.

Anyway this is Moore's program now, who better to carry on the program culture than the guy who was Harbaugh's explicit understudy?

Having a strong culture and playing for team doesn't necessarily mean that everyone stays together for a hundred years. For everything, there is a season.

It's not like Harbaugh came to AA and left 18 months later for greener pastures and a stack of cash. He was extremely committed to this team and culture while he was here, stayed for nearly a decade, led the team to incredible success, and now is onto a new chapter.

This is Michigan, fergodsakes

I know some of you are young and your only point of reference to Michigan winning is Jim Harbaugh, but Michigan has a huge history of winning under many different coaches.
 

Let’s not pretend that Harbaugh owns the Michigan culture.  

Everybody on the team, the team, the team, coaches and players alike, aspires to one day make it in the NFL. Harbaugh has been up front with the team about this. 

Fire Warde. My toddler could do better. 

Sherrone has been around the sport a while both as coach and player.  He relates to players very well by all accounts.  He was arguably the top recruiter on the staff.  Most players envision going to the NFL, so having coaches that jump to the NFL is a pretty good selling point IMO.  

It will be OK. This too shall pass.

The University of Michigan athletic department is in for a rude awakening as college football has morphed into this quasi-professional league. Thriving on brand and institutional recognition alone will not produce championship level teams. Michigan has to be willing to compete in all areas at the highest level including staffing, recruiting, managing PR, and NIL.

There are a lot of cope and hope posts on this forum that seems to be disconnected with reality. We are hoping Moore does well but no on really knows if he will. We are hoping that the next S&C hire will be just as good but we don't know. We are hoping that the Michigan name will rise above that of Ohio State spending 10 million+ dollars on their NIL recruits.

I have seen a poster stating next year being house money but I know that is stupid. If we lose at Texas at home by a large margin then we will all come back down to reality.

You are not the leaders and best because you decided to label yourself as such, you need to earn it and keep earning it. The idea that we deserve to stay on top regardless of what happens because we are Michigan is an attitude of entitlement. The Michigan athletic department cannot make poor decisions and hope that the Michigan name can overcome it.

Warde is definitely a bad hire that needs to be fired. Moore is a great guy and a good coach but he is being setup for failure. If the team goes 9-3 or worse next year and losses to Ohio State then the honeymoon is over. He will be given roughly four years but if they yield poor results then we very well could be looking at three to four years to recover from what is essentially an experimental hire. Eight years of mediocrity for recovery is a long period.

As for me, I think I am done being a diehard fan, I can no longer worry about a program that I have no control over and be this emotionally interested in it. I am getting too old. The end of the Carr run (except 2006), the RichRod years, the Hoke years was a long stretch of mediocrity. The adding of a million commercials and four hours of watching on essentially what is between 50-60 minutes of content doesn't help. I'll still support the team and take my mom to the games but I am moving beyond letting the program affect my emotional well-being.

Id imagine many players figured this would happen. The fact that Moore, Paige, Stewart, and Edwards all elected to return probably indicates that they were made aware Moore is the HC, staff shakeups are afoot, and that they can play a pivotal role in repositioning the program as leaders. We may lose a player in the portal, I expect it. It’s the price of being good and losing a coach, it was bound to happen with Harbaugh at some point. Also he’s allowed to take his staff, he owes Michigan nothing more, and if our staff is good enough to all go to the NFL, it shows how well coached and prepped the players were. Can’t be mad at coaches like players wanting to go pro.

It's amazing the wording some of you use to blame Harbaugh for everything.  Is it possible he saw the NCAA coming after him if he stayed at Michigan and the Board, AD, and President refusing to support him publicly?  He was asking, in writing, for support from all of the above if the NCAA decided to come after him again.  He wanted written protection that he wouldn't be the scape goat for an AD who Harbaugh didn't ultimately trust. I actually think Warde is happy about this situation.  Harbaugh has earned the right to have whatever protection, pay, and benefits he wanted written into his contract.  They refused to give it to him.  That proved to him that his career at Michigan going forward was in limbo.  If your career was in limbo at the place you love, would you take the next best offer?  It would be utter stupidity for him to stay knowing he could get fired the following year for what we all know is nonsense.  

At least the current trend of #13, #9, #16, #17  team in the class is a low bar to clear.