Footballscoop: Don't Bother Reading This

 

To commit seppuku hara kiri do I use the big knife or the little knife first? I may as well get it done correctly.

 

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It is going to be a roller coaster ride of twitter posts, obscure sources, and over zealous fans in the coming days/weeks until Michigan has a new coach. Prepare to hold on for the next 3-4 weeks until we have a new coach.

The idea that Harbaugh was coming was always a farfetched idea. I work with gentlemen who has known the Harbaughs for a long time and he thought it wasn't going to happen.

 

Then we could have nice things again

Now gearing up for a protracted roller coaster of a search.

If true, this is terrible news. Les Miles needs to be the coach if Harbaugh is not a candidate. We are assuming Carr is the ring leader of the "no Les to Michigan" campaign, and if so, he needs to GTFO. He's hurting the program by doing this.

Harbaugh will be here people, relax.

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The media is being played like a violin.  This is a very complex negotiation with a lot of moving parts.

WELP

I guarantee you it's because of Sarah.

Who the fuck is footballscoop and why should I believe a word he says?

My sources say JH is already the coach of Michigan. /probablyjustascredible

BREAKING NEWS: It's almost lunch time. 

Unless Harbaugh wanted his current team to quit on him now, or he intended to quit on his team now, of course this is the message he and everyone is putting out.  I would put more stock in this report if the 49ers season was over.  For now, it's just another fart in the wind.

Listen people, unless the prime target just falls in your lap because he's out of a job (like Urban Meyer), or is in an obvious situation where he would be looking to move up in the coaching world (like Charlie Strong) a coaching search isn't as simple as just pointing at a guy and saying "I'll take him."  

At the end of the day, we're going to be in a better position after hiring a new coach than we are today, assuming we hire someone with a proven track record and give him the unconditional support of the administration.  Basically if we combine what we did in the last two coaching searches.

There's going to be articles saying Harbaugh isn't coming and articles saying he is coming everyday for the next month so I'm not concerned. If the part about Les Miles is true then those people need to be fired from the Athletic department ASAP.

Sounds like even if MIchigan does hire Miles there will be a faction in the athletic department that wants him to fail and be gone.  We know how that worked out last time.

Now I know this is a little crazy, but hear me out.  I think we might actually have a better shot at landing John instead of Jim.  

1- He has already won a Super Bowl.  There is nothing left for him to accomplish in the NFL, unless he wants another ring.  And speaking of that ring, has anyone seen the inscription inside the band?  The Team The Team The Team.  So the guy obviously has some affection for Michigan Football (or at least for Bo).

2- When he was asked about taking the Michigan job a few months ago, he didn't outright deny it.  In fact, his statement seemed to leave the door open quite a bit.  I'm paraphrasing but it was something to the effect of "I won't pursue that job while my friend Brady Hoke is the coach".  

So maybe Jim stays in the NFL until he gets his ring, and John comes here to beat the ever loving crap out of sparty and urbs.

Of course it would be nice to have Harbaugh.  But a definitive "no" now keeps us from pissing away weeks wondering whether he would leave the NFL to come coach here.  So I'm choosing to view this as "goat rodeo avoided".  Again, if true.

Assuming Hoke is let go, I think there are other suitable candidates out there who would like the job.  We'll be OK. 

Am i the only one that took a bit of good news out of this?

"Multiple sources we spoke with feel Michigan will ultimately wind up going “outside the family” for their next head coach."

our family is obviously disfunctional and not capable so let's clean house

One of two things is going to happen...

1. You'll hear Michigan insiders start trickling out that he is not as interested as people might have earlier thought very soon

2. You will hear the 'status quo' or even a refutation of the football scoop article...

 

We'll see. It's sometimes tough to understand how much of the pessimism about Harbaugh is that he's not interested vs. a lot of these sources being 'NFL sources' with a bias towards the league.