Harbaugh plans to sign with the Vikings (Per Chris Balas at ON3/TheWolverine

You're going to get negged for this because there's a lot of piss ants on this board but it's completely human to have a negative reaction. I'm pretty fucking ambivalent about him at this point if he leaves. Stay at Michigan and become a legend or stay in the NFL a max 3-4 years? I appreciate what he brought to this program and what he built but also screw him for leaving us like this. Puts to question a lot of the platitudes and he said about Michigan and it being such a special place over the years.

I'm in this boat, too, but more like, "F him." A kinder, gentler FU. I'm not an NFL fan so I likely won't think much about him should this transpire. My report card for Jim would be, "Had one pretty spectacular season, five seasons at expectation, and one dreadful season, likely due to circumstances beyond his control. He seemed to have lost his mojo for awhile, for reasons unknown. He was better than his predecessors but probably didn't live up to the hype, excluding his last year. He will be remembered as a good, solid coach who managed the program with integrity."  

Because he knows he reached the top here. We aren’t gonna do any better than this year with our administration 

All this talk of UM looking to keep the staff intact forgot that Jim can just take whoever he wants with him. 

Yeah I agree. To leave right when he looked like he was gonna get us to the next level sucks. Its his life and he can do what he wants but it sucks

In no way will Harbaugh now be a legendary coach, but a guy who resuscitated his career with a great season and moved on. I too have remained a fan, but this move--even if the personal rationale is, for him, sound--cannot warm the cockles of anyone's heart. 

Rule is a guy who people will warm to early, anyway. There would be too many questions around a Gattis or Hart. Gattis had only definitively turned things around this year; in time he could well prove worthy, but for now would be doubted. Hart was in year one, right? 

I think he peaked this year, and I think he knows it too.  No Hutch, Ojabo, or Hill next year.  OSU will be elite again.  It’s not difficult to see the writing on the wall.

I agree except I only wish him well in his personal life. I hope the Vikings finish dead last in the NFL North and he gets blown out at Ford Field. 

Beilein is revered here, and for plenty of good reasons. But he did not handle leaving well. 

Beilein was a college coach through and through. The NBA didn't fit him. Harbaugh was a damned good NFL head coach. If Aaron Rodgers moves on from GB even a mediocre coach could take the Vikings to the playoffs.

NFL guys spend 4 months coaching/traveling and the rest with their family and working locally.

CFB guys spend 4 months coaching/traveling and then most of the rest in high schoolers' living rooms across the country who will most likely not sign with them listening to their stories about prom

I think the new "transfer portal" rules and NIL agreements have totally changed college football. I can see why Jim would want no part of that. Especially if we're not going to go all in on that type of recruiting. 

CFB is much harder on coaches. Recruiting takes up 70 percent of their time, as does constantly having to deal with the whims and needs of teenagers and their  aggro parents. 

I agree. I would love to see Hart here eventually if he has the chops for it but I feel Hart needs to be an OC first for a bit before leapfrogging into a head coaching job, especially at this level.  It would be interesting if Gattis got the nod and Hart was promoted to OC. 

Please. Not Gattis.

Well old friend, come down to my level and we can troll until our hearts are content.  There will be endless streams of idiotic hot takes that I am going to take a big steamy dump on.