MightyMatt13

February 1st, 2022 at 7:54 PM ^

I believe the speculation that Kwesi needs to sell ownership on Harbaugh. If any of their 3 other interviews from yesterday/today stand out - that makes the sell more challenging. It's foolish to think this is a done deal from the NFL perspective.

And boy is it going to be awkward if these last few jobs fill with other names in the next couple days.

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LakeWylieBlue

February 1st, 2022 at 7:10 PM ^

At this point, whatever is going to happen will happen. IF Harbaugh leaves, I will be disappointed that he allowed this to impact the team and the University of Michigan to the extent it has. On the flip side, this is a business and he has been upfront with his intentions to the recruits and parents.

Onward and Go Blue no matter what happens

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Darker Blue

February 1st, 2022 at 7:11 PM ^

Goddammit 

I knew it was coming but I fucking hate it 

Thanks for everything coach. I think you are a fantastic leader of men. 

We'll always have 42-27.

Go Blue

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cobra14

February 1st, 2022 at 8:19 PM ^

I said in another part of this thread but I’m genuinely excited he is gone! This year changed nothing for me on Jim. I truly believe it was an anomaly year under Jim and it wasn’t going to last

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jdraman

February 1st, 2022 at 7:38 PM ^

In no way did Rhule "rebuild" Temple. Temple's record the four years prior to Rhule's HC tenure were: 9-4, 8-4, 9-4, 4-7. 

Sure, he helped rebuild Baylor, but left after exactly one season of any real success. And he had 0 marquee wins that year at Baylor (unless you want to count beating a 7-6 ISU team by 2 points or beating an 8-5 OSU team). His successor, Aranda, has already outclassed Rhule's best results at Baylor in only his second season as HC. 

I don't doubt that Rhule is a fairly good coach, but he would be a very underwhelming hire for Michigan. Especially since Rhule is directly responsible for the dumpster fire that is currently the Carolina Panthers. 

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Toasted Yosties

February 1st, 2022 at 10:19 PM ^

Even better, he took over Temple as they moved from the MAC conference to the more competitive AAC, facing a whole new slate of unfamiliar opponents. The W/L records you mentioned were mostly against MAC opponents. Maybe the AAC isn’t the SEC, but it’s definitely a tougher conference than the MAC. What he did at Temple, and later at broken Baylor, was impressive as hell.

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jdraman

February 2nd, 2022 at 12:17 AM ^

Except the AAC, at the time Rhule coached Temple, was not what it is today. 

Cincinnati, the best program in the AAC, has only recently been a top-15 program. When Rhule coached Temple, Cincy was terrible. 

UCF had their two amazing seasons under Scott Frost after Rhule had already left to go coach Baylor. While Rhule coached Temple, UCF was bad more often than not.

Memphis was nothing special during Rhule's tenure.

Houston was a fringe top-25 program while Rhule was at Temple, except Rhule never beat Houston while he was the HC for Temple. 

His Baylor resume is pretty good; turning around a program that was almost nuked is certainly impressive. However, Baylor played in arguably the weakest P5 conference at the time and Rhule had 0 marquee wins to speak of while at Baylor. In that 11-win season, Baylor had 0 wins against Top-25 opponents. Baylor lost all 3 games against ranked opponents. Baylor was 4-3 against opponents with a better than .500 record. I just don't see what's so exciting about a coach who has bounced around to different places and found success by beating inferior/almost equivalent teams. 

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