The athletic department must show support for Jim Harbaugh

If the fan base can effectively have a hand in getting rid of Brandon how hard could it be to get rid of Manuel ? Bacon or some other insider must know what kind of support Manuel has with the regents and Ono ! 

The football program is in the best shape its ever been in. The team is one of the best opposing coaches have ever seen. Harbaugh could not be doing a better job. Pay the man. 

Good luck getting a top tier coach if you run off your two time back-to-back Big Ten champion coach.  No doubt you would have lots of canidates but the top of the top would certainly notice what happens to Jim. 

The fact that Harbaugh’s contract still ain’t completed should tell you all you need to know about the level of support he has from the athletic department. 

I'd like to know who's in Ono's ear.  Whomever it is, I hope they're telling him he should have Warde Manuel on the clock, and if a strong statement of support for harbaugh isn't made publicly by the time that clock expires, Manuel should be asked/told to move on.

NIL opportunity.  

Free Harbaugh t shirts.  Or any applicable concept. All proceeds to go pay for JH's salary when he renews.  (s/)

I would say Warde is collecting a paycheck for doing nothing. Unfortunately what he's doing is worse than nothing, he's actively hurting the institution for which he is paid to help.

For what though? Most are likely waiting until more information comes out, they don’t want to be like the band playing on the titanic.

Don't you think it's incumbent upon the AD to first determine whether Harbaugh knew (or should have known) about the sign-stealing thing before giving him a vote of confidence? Or do you think officials should just automatically offer knee-jerk defenses?

Drives me nuts that we literally had the incredible stroke of fortune to have an elite and extremely successful coach who literally grew up around the program, played at UM and loved the school so much that he was willing to come here over staying in the NFL and we're probably going to drive him out due to ridiculous internal politics. 

We were wandering in the wilderness living with BPONE and literally the best possible coach that you could possibly get and who has an immense amount of ties to your program wants to be here.  Does Warde think that's going to happen again?  Does he not realize how insanely fortunate we are that this happened in the first place?

"ALL IN FOR MICHIGAN" TOWEL ORDER. NOW.

Warde should get Jim signed before the NCAA meeting and give full support otherwise Warde should immediately quit and let Santa tell the NCAA Michigan will pursue all legal means of ensuring both its compliance and ferreting out any enforcement bias sources lest uneven enforcement could occur. Unfair and highly damaging enforcement would remove national faith in the entire NCAA (and ensuing blizzard of media stories) and I am sure they would not want to let down the collegiate students so dependent on this bastion of virtue.

Let's just wait a minute. This sign stealing story gets worse every day.

If Harbaugh directed the scouting are we unified as a fan base we still want him? Because I don't know.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think sign stealing is why we were good, that's being pretty overblown, and Harbaugh's great, we owe our success to him,but people saying we've lost the moral high ground absolutely have a point.

I'd settle for the moral low ground right now.

Make it stop.

Warde  will screw it up while bending over for the NCAA 

As a Chicago bulls fan.. I know this story. Jerry(ward) thought he would win without Jordan(Jim). "organizations win championships, not players". Boy was he wrong and it's had an effect on Chicago ever since (FA know how the front office shows support, they don't!). This will kill the next coaching search as well if Ward is still here.

Fuck. Let it GOOOOO! You people are adding NOTHING OF VALUE with your personal hot take. Make a friend who will listen to you. Or get a puppy. Just something else!

As I recall last week when this story broke, Warde made the public statement to the effect that they will fully cooperate with the NCAA. It was a feeble comment. It lacked any convection and came across as a CYA (Cover Your Ass) thing.

Can or will Warde change and at least show support for Jim and his program? Right now, it's crickets on the corner of State and Hoover streets.

So when are the kids gonna go to Ono's house like they did when it became apparent the Brandon had to go and the only way to make that happen was direct action?

I’m sending a strongly worded letter and a box of donuts to Warde’s office to get this done. 

Jim gone. 

I truly never ever believed he would leave (and I was right) -- this is the first time I ever think he will leave; and who can blame him!?

We HAVE to win this year. 

Fuck Jim Stapleton, that is all. 

Warde Manuel is the Jerry Krause of Michigan football.

I think Harbaugh is likely gone which sucks because he was supposed to sign a big extension. He's losing so many players to the draft this year, including his fav JJ. Next seasons team isnt likely to be good and the media noise will be deafening about how this proves he was cheating. If this all happened in 2022 and the roster was returning then I think he would stay.

I think best case scenario is Michigan wins it all, JJ wins the heisman, and Harbs jumps to the NFL.

OR the dream scenario is all that good stuff happens, Harbaugh stays, and then in the offseason Michigan donors decide as payback to all the shit talkers they fund the largest NIL operation CFB has seen. Alright I'll stop dreaming.....

I support Jim Harbaugh as Michigan QB until 2050 minimum.

The university should rally around Harbaugh and show him all the support he deserves. It’s the right thing to do. But if they don’t I wouldn’t blame Harbaugh for holding it against them later, especially after all he’s given them. 
 

It’s all a hit job and the university shouldn’t give an inch.