Harbaugh LITERALLY 1 win from 3 playoffs

He is also 22 losses away from being undefeated and just 5 wins away from beating OSU 5 times.

Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha

Wow.

Jim Harbaugh has had 3-5 losses every single year of his coaching tenure at Michigan. He can’t and I repeat he can’t win on the road against a good ranked team. His teams are lifeless in those game and this board tried to get on a soap box about a second half in the PSU game they still lost in 19!!
 

The OP can talk about how “close” Jim was but the facts are he hasn’t got it done. Based on the last 6 years there is ample evidence that he won’t get it done..

Stop finding everything possible to scapegoat Jim’s failure. He can’t inspire kids. He can’t relate to people who aren’t like him. This alone makes him a crappy teacher and incapable of creating the correct winning culture necessary.  For crying out loud every Monday in his PC he says he hasn’t watched film yet. That is unacceptable. 
 

So Michigan fans can continue to make the excuses but if you take a second and examine similar situations around the sporting world the next year is rarely better in fact for the most part it usually leads to a firing.

Warde is delaying the inevitable 

Nobody is unlucky forever.  

Except Michigan?  

Go Blue. 

EXCUSES!!!! MORE FUCKING EXCUSES!!! 

We unfortunately play in the same division as 1 of the 3 semi-pro college football teams in the country.  Bama is slightly better than the other 2 IMO, but the dropoff from Bama, OSU and Clemson programs year after year to the rest of the college football is huge.

If UM played in the Pac 12 or Big 12, and OSU wasnt our main rival, Harbaugh would have multiple playoff appearances and blowout losses already, just like Notre Dame.

This is one of the worst ones.

Your point?

Its amazing how something thats not true becomes something people think is true if it gets repeated enough. 

2015...wtf man? That team had 2 losses going into OSU. They would have had to win the Big Ten championship game in 2016 and 2018 to make the playoff. They were never once one game away.

Christ. 

We are all very aware of his shortcomings.

And you’re not even right about 2015

What the fuck is this?  Gimme a break.  Number two still has a lot of ifs, but I get it, can get on board.  

Juwan Howard is our basketball coach.  

2015 wouldn’t have made it even if he beat OSU.  

Thanks. This makes me feel much better.

This is literally the dumbest post of the day.

I'm not good at math... but that appears to be 3 victories from 3 different years

I know others have mentioned your mistakes here but I'll pile on:

1. Take away the muffed punt and OSU would have gone to the playoffs since they curb-stomped Harbaugh in Ann Arbor that year, finishing the Big 10 season with just one loss to MSU.

2. It was JT Barrett, not Braxton Miller. I know it's confusing because there are so many OSU dual threat QBs who have run roughshod over Michigan these last 15 years. Regardless of what team you are, if your chance of winning depends on a holding call in the 4th quarter against OSU in Columbus, you're probably not going to win. I know it's bullshit but it ain't changing. What sucks most is Michigan really doesn't get the same kind of home cooking that OSU does. Not that they don't get ANY home cooking, but I vividly recall in 2011 Michigan almost lost because a controversial spot for a 4th quarter TD was OVERTURNED despite the lack of indisputable evidence. But I digress. Point is, figure out how to get the home cookin' OSU does or don't let your games depend on one missed call.

3. The blowout losses, especially to OSU, are THE number 1 problem. It's a trend. Three of Harbaugh's five games against OSU have been absolute slaughters. This year would have been a slaughter too if not for the cancellation.

And in ALL of these, Michigan would still have had to win the BTCG. So Harbaugh was 3 wins away in 2015, and 2 wins away in 2016 and 2018. Incredible.

Michigan dominated the 2016 Ohio State game with a broken quarterback. They out-schemed 2017 Ohio State with a bad quarterback. They should be 6-0 vs Michigan State in all honesty, the fluke 2015 game is somewhat forgivable but should totally fall on coaching. The 2017 game plan sucked and this year, well we won’t go there. I believe Harbaugh can right the ship if he wants to, he didn’t forget how to coach but I also believe he can do better with some things. 

Close only counts in horseshoes.  And hand grenades.  Oh.  And archery.  And probably a few other things too.  But it doesn’t count in Big Ten football, I know that.

Kay but we DIDN’T win them and our program doesn’t appear to be close to replicating those seasons right now, let alone winning the games we would need to win like those ones. 
 

So what’s your point?

This post is LITERALLY not correct.

Post of the double kind

Braxton?  Wasn't Taylor Decker a Minnesots TE?

But sure, you're not wrong about 2016.  Though we still had to beat Wisconsin.  But here we are in 2021 (post-2020) after a more than abysmal season and 2 hamblastings by OSU the preceding years...and a future of at least 2-3 years before being highly competitive again.  It's a mess and more about the negative trend than "what was" 4 years ago.

We get it. Harbaugh has raised the floor but not the ceiling for the program.

Now we just gotta hope for a Clemson-like miracle on year seven

Well, that's the glass half full attitude. It's all supposition and doesn't change the past.

(I like the mutliverse comment above) It may happened in another universe and OH State would have been 2 and 4 this season.

Keep this guy around. 
 

I’m talking about the OP. 
 

Go Blue. 

Yes, this is entirely the problem. It is always a "woulda, coulda, shoulda" or "if only this didn't happen" excuse that reflects a passive reaction or taking our foot off of the gas, rather than a proactive approach to putting our opponents away. There is a mentality of playing not to lose rather than playing to win. The program needs a new sense of urgency along with the pride to feel that losing as often and in as embarrassing fashions as they do is inexcusable and a blight on the history of program. That fire is not there and they are always the laughingstock team on the  wrong side of epic collapses, comebacks, or beatdowns. Just look at the highlight reels. Rarely does Michigan look like conquering heros. Time to find some gumption. Not just a Harbaugh problem, this goes back to Bump Elliot and Bo's teams.

Do you know there’s a big 10 championship game right?
 

Then again, why would Michigan fans know that?

This is why I’ve pretty much stopped following UM football. Those who stay will be close.

See? I barely know how to post on this stupid has-been site.

The muffed punt not happening would not have gotten Michigan into the CFP. They would’ve still been 10-2. Lost to Utah and they would’ve still for sure lost to OSU. Maybe they get an NY6 bid, but CFP does not happen. No way. 

This team would’ve still gotten crushed by Clemson in the 2016 and 2018 CFP. Even if it had still snuck past OSU. 

This reminds me of my time with Kate Beckinsale.. 1 sexual experience away from having a sexual experience with her. 

... and *IF* my aunt had balls, she'd *LITERALLY* be my uncle. 

This is getting negged hard, but it’s a good point. We just can’t get over that “big game” hump 

Win the fucking game 

The muffed MSU punt not happening would not have gotten M into CFP.  Had two other loses, destroyed by OSU & lost to Utah to open season.