Harbaugh’s Attitude
I don’t want anyone but Harbaugh, but his attitude sucks.
Clapping on sideline after we go down 14-0 is absurd. Reminds me of Hoke.
Refusing to say a loss is a setback. Cmon man just say, it is what it is.
No in your face coaching to the online when they were getting crushed.
Can the real JH please stand up for the sake of our livelihood as fans and for your team.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:24 AM ^
John Cooper would probably disagree.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:57 AM ^
"a loss"... That is being singular. We lost FOUR games in a row. FOUR!
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
He wears the M hat... and then wears a sweater with the M in middle... Looks very incongrous and stupid, like a fan boy... The hat is enough, or the sweater is enough. One needs to look the part and wearing two Ms looks very silly.. so were the Woody eyeglasses, things seem to sour around then.
And take off the old man glasses..... He looks spent.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:32 AM ^
Woody is his idol.
September 3rd, 2018 at 4:58 AM ^
Ha, I’ve been saying for a while that those glasses were cursed! We seemed to start getting worse after he starting wearing them.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
He's checked out.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
Its a bit funny because you accept an at best 50-50 road game in non-conference and then if you lose...you throw everyone under the bus. So you literally put yourself in a position where half the possible outcomes lead to you flipping and thinking the world has come crashing down. Thats an extremely morose mentality. We talked about this in the summer...this fanbase has a collective neurosis. And that probably has hurt the program more than anything Harbaugh has said or done.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:53 AM ^
Care to qualify your remarks? What quality team have we beaten lately? When was the last time we beat a ranked team on the road? When was the last time we won the B10 title? These aren’t neuroses but facts. You speak as though our expectations should be in line with Indiana fans (apologies IU).
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:03 AM ^
Its neurotic to convince yourself that anything but a win in South Bend vs a good ND team is unacceptable. Thats nothing to do with IU or the last time we won a game on the road vs a ranked team. Your personal feeling of being ‘due’ a road win vs a ranked team doesn’t make the team more likely to win.
The very idea that your feelings or expectations entitle you to antything is highly neurotic. It doesnt help anyone, its just another stone around the neck of the coaches, the players.
Realistically Michigan winning 9 games this year would be a good season. Thats still possible.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:03 AM ^
So what should the expectation be for a coach making $7-$9 million a year and a seemingly unlimited pool of money to hire assistant coaches. Is 1-6 in rivalry games, 1-2 in bowl games and a couple of 3rd place and a 4th place finish in the Big Ten East a good return on investment?
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^
It wouldn't be in Columbus.
September 2nd, 2018 at 1:11 PM ^
Damn right, they set much higher standards for their coaches.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:46 PM ^
There's a pretty big distinction between losing to a good team on the road while still looking competitive and losing to a good team on the road because you're a dysfunctional fucking mess.
Michigan has been the latter for most of the last 15 years and pretending otherwise is why so many other college football fans hate us. That's the true Neurosis of this football program, continuing to assume that this team has been a temporarily inconvenienced "great team" when they've really just been a slightly above average team who occasionally had a good season.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
I mean the clapping is something a lot of coaches do. Its just kind of subtle "let's go"
Harbaugh is a lot more calm than when he first got here
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
This is not the JH I went to school with or saw playing on the field in college or the NFL. Has he mellowed? I don’t know. Is it maturity, being a parent, or something else? Sometimes, high performers don’t make the best coaches or managers. In the four years at M it is hard to see how JH has inspired the teams to perform their best. Now, I’m not saying that he needs to be throwing Line markers, kicking buckets and the like, but I have yet to see his teams come out prepared, pumped and witness the marginal players play beyond their abilities. Instead we we see play like yesterday; the kids don’t quit but they let three picks go through their hands, receivers don’t go up and fight for the ball, and the OL can’t block a sack of flour. It’s almost that they don’t understand the distinction between practice and game time.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:05 PM ^
Last year against OSU when we had one of the worst quarterbacking seasons ever. Came out with an excellent game plan and the players played their hearts out, and above their level, and could have won with even the slightest better qb'ing doesn't count?
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
It actually doesn't count because it was still a L. Nobody will remember that in a few years. They will just remember that they haven't won a big game or beat OSU in ages.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:53 AM ^
Can the mod(s) please ban this troll?
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
Mods please ban this stupid HICK Wyandot Blackeyes Fan. Ban him immediately, if not sooner.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:13 PM ^
I love how certain individuals on here go running to tell on others' whose opinions they don't agree with. I bet you certain people are a blast to debate with or even to occupy the same room with.
September 2nd, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Because you dont come here to have an adult conversation like some other rival fans do or have an "outsider" view on things. You come here to be a little bitch and throw jabs every opportunity you get.
September 2nd, 2018 at 3:14 PM ^
You aren't here for any kind of rational debate. You're just here to gloat and generally be a dick.
September 2nd, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
Ban me for what?
September 2nd, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^
Ban you for the simple fact that your wife is also your sister.
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
I think you need to take a nap.
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:30 PM ^
You know what, I'll get off from posting. But I'll leave with a few thoughts. I hate Michigan, I think the entire ichigan fanbase is delusional. I hope you guys suck the rest of time. And you can take that toilet bowl you watch games in and shove right up your ass. Come Nov. 24th scUM's ass is grass.
September 2nd, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
At least our coach is on the side lines douche bag. Go back to your trailer and have some ice cream and cool off.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
If he acts like a clown and screams at kids you guys get mad. If he relaxes and is positive you guys get mad. Must be fun to be Jim Harbaugh... This fan base is absurd.
September 2nd, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
I would agree with those who believe Harbaugh has definitely changed since the day he took the job. In his first year, he was definitely a lot more energetic (almost hyper), animated on the sideline, outspoken, etc. Since then, he's gotten a lot calmer and more subdued. And coincidental or not, the results on the field have been getting worse. Whatever he was doing with Stanford and the 49'ers doesn't seem to be working now, and that's a little hard to understand. The medication explanation is plausible. Whatever it is, I hope Jim works through it and figures out how to get the mojo back.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
He is busy planning his spring trip to South Africa.
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
Michigan Football CC est. 2015
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
+1. 100% correct
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
I feel like Harbaugh has changed since he and and wife had their last child. Like he's to exhausted to put the energy he did the first two years into the program or something.
But it might just be Jedd Fisch was a terrific coach and added enough great play calls per game to cover up the tire fire underneath. I'll never understand hiring Pep Hamilton, not after Cleveland. We've looked absolute shit on offense since he joined the staff.
September 2nd, 2018 at 1:29 PM ^
JH looks tired.
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
At least he can sleep on a bed of money.... Tired? Tired? He is a professional. This is his job. How many people can go to work and be like well I am sucking at my job because I am tired.... and the people relying on them will be like oh that is ok, you are tired...
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^
Let me add. I don't doubt Harbaugh is working as hard as he ever has, but that's a lot harder to do when you have a newborn in the house. Picture 16 hour days plus and coming home for your 5 hours of sleep but waking up at 3am every day for the baby. That pulls you down after awhile. There's a reason young parents look exhausted. Harbaugh is doing it in his 50's.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
I wouldn't blame Harbaugh for not having any functioning OTs - bad luck (Newsome), bad recruiting (Drevno), poor development (Drevno). We just don't have the horses upfront to handle teams like ND. Can't rush effectively, can't pass pro, can't move the sticks consistently. Two easy games to get it together and then Nebraska under the lights. This season isn't a bust yet.
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
The coaching between the second half of the Outback Bowl and the first half vs Notre Dame was worse than anything I’ve seen at Michigan including Rich Rod or Hoke.
The Outback Bowl left me with deep doubts about Harbaugh, last night deepened those doubts. Good coaches don’t field talented teams that look that bad.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:21 PM ^
Username...doesn't check out
September 2nd, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:08 PM ^
It’s been 12 years dude. This blind faith thing needs to go away.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:07 PM ^
He’s not the coach we hired. We’re paying the guy that got his STANFORD 2 stars to play with such a chip that they upset USC in their heyday. Not whatever the hell this is who can’t get his players up for a big game in 3+ seasons.
To me, this game was as eye opening as the Akron/UConn games where the curtain got pulled down on something very very wrong with the culture / coaching of the program. Just more of the same.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:13 PM ^
People are over-analyzing. We went 8-5 last year because we just weren't that good of a team, especially at QB and OL. This year we may have improved at QB but the line is still looking like a disaster. That's a much bigger issue than how hard/often Jim throws his clipboard.
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
He has lost his edge and soon will lose the team. All these recruiting antics and doesnt have an o-line. cmon.
September 2nd, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
I said it in 2016 against OSU. That loss seems to have shaken him up. He’s lost the energy and fury on the sideline. His sideline rants were sometimes unecesary but it gave the team energy. I think that loss really took a lot out of him
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
They really haven't been right since that game. It is like he was shook by his questionable play calling in that game when hey turned the ball over late. Now we have gotten an emotionless medicated looking coach with an offense that has no identity.
September 2nd, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
I agree, he seems medicated. The 2015/16 Harbaugh would have fixed any team/program issue in a second. Now he just stares off into space it seems.
September 2nd, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^
I feel exactly the same way. JH lack of aggression and emotion does not match this ‘enthusiasm unknown to mankind’. I’m tired of the cookie cutter answers, ‘we need to work harder, they just made more plays than we did, I saw some good things, we move on to the next one. It’s making me disinterested with any updates as I can predict it before I read it.
September 2nd, 2018 at 4:02 PM ^
resolve, dig deep, lol.... i agree... unfortunately mankind knows this level of enthusiasm.
September 2nd, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^
There is no enthusiasm, there is no organization, there is no discipline. No spark. There is a general lack of thought and ingenuity on offense. Plays aren't building off each other. Nothing is being set up. There is no pace. .... How about being accountable. A loss is a setback. They still control their own destiny, but man this wasn't the performance of a playoff caliber team.