I have an out of the box suggestion for solving two big problems: Ask Jim Harbaugh to be the AD. Thoughts?

Is that the burrito Brian is going to roll himself into?

I thought he was the President???

/no politics

I'll definitely give you that. We all wanted this to work out and win championships but it just hasn't. But he's represented the institution and the program very well. He got us back out of the depths of misery, but it just doesn't look like he can take the program to the next level.

Are you really comparing Barry Alvarez or Bo to Jim Harbaugh?

We might be a year or two away from NIL finally becoming real. Once that happens, Michigan will be near the top in recruiting every year. Not sometimes top 5 and sometimes 10-15th, but top 5 every year. That’s step one, and it’s inevitable.

Step two is having a coach in place that knows how to utilize and deploy that talent. We clearly don’t have that right now. The talent gap on the field today was MASSIVE. An above average coach always wins games like this, easily. 
 

Once NIL is here, we don’t need a coach who is a great recruiter; that’ll take care of itself. We need the best in-game coach we can find, which is likely not a big name. I’ll repeat my recommendation from another thread here: Chris Klieman from K State. Previously at NDSU where he won multiple FCS national titles, and he’s punching way above his weight class with undoubtedly inferior talent at K State. Just imagine that with Michigan’s resources. But our shit for brains stubborn blue haired alums need to get out of the way, or we’ll have head coach Scot Loeffler in the near future. 

Harbaugh is highly desired in the Pros.  You are kidding yourself if you think other wise. 

I can’t imagine Harbaugh will ever be hired as a tv analyst. I can admit that the guy is freaking weird.  The Harbaugh that was on Saved by the bell and the guy who stands on our sideline are two totally different men. 

Have you seen some of the dudes coaching pro teams? Matt Patricia? Joe Judge? Adam Gase? A pro team would be happy to take him regardless of what we think today.

Then you’d be wrong. He’s won at that level and he’d be easily handed the keys to a team Lille the Jets, the Falcons, or even the Chargers, who have a bright shiny QB already, in a city he has coached, in a state his wife would surely not begrudge returning if this season goes how it has the last half decade. Or even Dallas after McBigMac has shit the bed with all that talent—making Jason Garrett look like a genius by comparison. There are always 5-6 NFL teams, including the Bears, whose coach was praised as an offensive guru yet makes JH’s issues look small.

He’s an NFL coach who can do well with identifying talent and developing it at individual levels with his coaches, but he does not have the killer instinct in him to be cut throat after a loss. You can lose five or six games in the pros and still win the big one. That’s where his whole workmen philosophy fails at college. 

He instills this mindset that a loss is okay, even if that ain’t his actual message. It’s always “we will look inside ourselves and get better,” though, when it should be “dammit, we lost and we know we should kick ourselves for losing to an inferior team and losing our chance for any title” or “we we lost and that’s all that matters.” 

“We lost, and we shouldn’t have lost.” 

The elite teams will not be surprised like Haskins was that they lost, because they won’t let that happen. I’ve lost the little hope in JH left that he has that fire in him to give his college players. I’ll no longer feel guilty for lowering my expectations of his college teams.
 

It’s his job to raise them through their play, and keep them there.

I don’t fault any college fan for doing the same thing anymore. He’s still a good coach, but I think his best fit is in the NFL. And I think NFL teams would love to get two or three playoff years out of him, bare minimum. See: Gruden.