To me, this is one of many signs that the coaches know NIL is lacking and the already difficult job of recruiter is going to be infinitely harder moving forward at UM

I'm over Jim Harbaugh.

He clearly wants whats best for Jim not Michigan. I want whats best for Michigan not Jim.

At least I now have an NFL team to actively hate and root against.

Our strength coach and recruiting director Jim? With each poaching I'm further convinced he's been gone from the NFL too long and this is gonna be ugly. 

Most highly paid executives have nonsolicitation agreements with their employers, where they can't poach people to a new place for a year after they leave 

Maybe those aren't standard in coaching contracts but I'm kind of surprised they aren't 

I think Harbaugh is a great coach, who's very good with his personnel choices.

I'm beginning to think he's also a prick.

Good feelings about Harbaugh evaporating rapidly.

I have to presume that out of courtesy, Harbaugh called Sherrone and asked for his blessing to interview / lure Elston.  At least I hope that happened.

WTF Jim!!!!  What about leaving us in the best position?

Just for some perspective, the LA Chargers revenue in 2022 was $518M. The NFL salary cap was $208M. The University of Michigan’s athletic department revenues were $210M. 
It’s easy to hate on Warde, but he’s in a quarter billion dollar hole relative to the Chargers. When the Spanoses finally decided to open the checkbook and try to win a Super Bowl, that’s the day that Michigan’s future was in trouble.

Anyone who thought Jim was going to somehow do the program a solid after leaving was out of their mind.  He coaches to win games; he’s not a fan of Michigan the way you or I am; he’s coached and played for what, dozens of teams?  And for each one of those he’s done absolutely everything he could to win them games as long as he played or coached for them.  Every time he gets a new gig, that team is the only one that matters.  
 

I’m only surprised that he couldn’t find better NFL talent than Elston, because Jim isn’t hiring out of loyalty for the aforementioned reasons. 
 

Sherrone better be great, because maintaining continuity was his biggest selling point as a hire and that’s going to be pretty hard to do with the head coach and half the staff gone.

Does Jim really care about Michigan as much now that he is gone?   Seems to me he doesn't.   

This could mean that there is a plan and Cullen or Clink have the DC job.  Probably Cullen and they don’t want to announce it yet because Taylor Swift’s boyfriend said he can’t.  (Just kidding, he’s got a Super Bowl to coach.)  Elston didn’t want to stay since he lost the DC job and took NFL money.  This makes sense it that Minter was always gonna leave so Moore and Warde obviously should have had a plan. 
 

Or, it may be that Moore and Warde had no plan and were stringing Elston along while they tried to figure it out.  Jim gladly took advantage of the uncertainty and grabbed a top coach. 
 

Or, it could be something else entirely since I’m just a random guy on the internet and haven’t a clue what I’m on about.  
 

So, I guess I’ll get mad and demand that we fire Brian since I keep reading bad news on MGoBlog!

What are the chances that Sherrone texted Jim today saying “what’s your deal, man?”

The University of Michigan has announced it is relocating to Los Angeles. 

Old enough to remember when retaining Moore meant staff and culture continuity.

This board will blow up once Graham and Grant are gone, paid by schools who value transactions.

Recruits read this blog. And so do their parents. So maybe all the "This is Hoke 2.0"  stuff isn't helping the cause.....

Don’t blame the guy actively poaching our coaches.

After all, it’s his prerogative to build the best staff he can no matter the cost to people or programs he claims loyalty to.

Where do you expect his loyalty and love to be directed? To Sherrone Moore, a person? Or to his shiny new corporate gig and their bottom line? Frankly, it’s absurd to expect JJH or any of the coaches to feel any loyalty or brotherhood to the players they recruited, the program itself, or their fellow coaches, especially one who just got promoted and is in the riskiest position of them all. Nobody should expect these guys to have any consideration other than for their immediate self-interest!

/s, painfully

At the end we see, “Who’s got it better than us?” always really meant, “Who’s got it better than me!”

That said, if the environment at UM is truly as toxic and penny-wise-pound-foolish as many believe, then an exodus like this is the expected result. Every system is perfectly designed to get the results that it gets. But if that’s the case, either a change needs to be made, or the future is hopeless. My greatest fear is that cheapskate, risk-averse, and ineffectual management is what the highest-ups really want out of an AD. Frustrating all around.

The only thing Harbaugh care about is himself. It's always Harbaugh #1 and Michigan #2, but that doesn't mean he doesn't love Michigan. The sooner you understand that Harbaugh only cares about himself, then it makes a lot of sense with his recent actions in the last few years. 

Welp look at the bright side, nobody can say Sherrone Moore was born on third base 

All our privileged white people left. 

huge coaching turnover + brutal schedule next year, might not be fun

yes I am now in the BPONE, I'll own that