Clink is Returning to Michigan

Harbaugh gets a lot of credit for what he did while he was here.  But he left and taking all of the coaches who were the culture with him is garbage.  There is no excuse for it.  He is the biggest threat to Michigan football out there.

Martindale coached with Jack Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh (sort of) in 2001-2.  If Jim is helping refill the coffers with his buddies while giving our other coaches opportunities I’ll forgive him, but it might take a few days.

Exactly, EVERYTHING we have is because of Harbaugh. He took over the barest of cupboards...do you ever think about the origin of "cupboard"? Cup....board, boards to set your cups on, makes sense, but what always makes me ponder is the cupboard doors, were there always doors? If so they probably wouldn't have been called cupBOARDS but maybe cupCLOSETS? So people used to just have shelves in their kitchens? Dusty cups, gotta add the doors...And when did the term cabinet come in to play and how does that differ from a cupboard? This is how my brain works....

No doubt the school screwed the pooch. Contract extension should have been done sooner and proper guarantees for Jim.

Why do we keep having to rehash this:

"Harbaugh wanted to challenge them on the claim that he deliberately was misleading about the burger receipt."

--> What are you complaining about, according to you, Harbaugh got his way. Michigan has received the Notice of Allegations from the NCAA and is in the process of filing their response within the 90 days. Had the NCAA accepted the 4-game ban, which you are so angry about, this whole issue would have been put to bed. Instead, Michigan still has the chance to fight the Level I allegation. Michigan also has to still deal with the 4, Level II allegations of which there is no defense. 

"Later, Michigan pulled the plug on the TRO attempt the day before Harbaugh was going to get his chance to testify."

--> Michigan didn't pull the plug; the judge DENIED the TRO which Michigan filed and scheduled a hearing for the following week on a motion for a preliminary injunction against the B1G. Of the B1G mandated 3 game suspension, Harbaugh had already missed 1 game. The hearing was scheduled the day before the 2nd game, and it was heavily rumored that a decision wasn't going to come down until after the 3rd game. Even at that point, reading posts from the various attorneys on this board, there was no guarantee that Michigan was going to get the injunction. The B1G came forward and said, if you stop, we will. Michigan had just fired Chris Partridge so what was the point of still going forward? Does everyone go down with the ship or at some point can we start getting people on the lifeboats? 
 

"Then, while the Chargers were pitching woo to Harbaugh, Michigan decided to play hardball over the same clause Bill Self got, telling him in effect, "We'll offer you more money but there's no guarantee you'll actually see it."  The Chargers' deal offered no such strings attached."

--> It's always surprising to me that people never mentioning that Harbaugh even if he agreed to everything in a contract extension was not going to sign the extension until mid-February. The reason being that under his current deal, he had a $1.5 million buyout but under the new deal, he had a $4 million buyout. 

Does Harbaugh love Michigan? Yes. It is plain to see though that he kept moving the goal posts on the extension until he had exhausted his NFL opportunities this hiring cycle. Don't pull some type of fake threat to Harbaugh's job. The only way in which Harbaugh would have been fired is if something really bad came to the surface in which Harbaugh has been lying all along about. If that were the case, no 3-panel hearing board and whatever other considerations Harbaugh had wanted would have saved his job.