If Jim Harbaugh can’t get Michigan to where it needs to be, who can?

Submitted by dmac24 on September 21st, 2019 at 10:19 PM

If Jim Harbaugh can’t get Michigan to where it needs to be, who can? The “Son” of Bo and a winner everywhere he has been; the quintessential Michigan Man, Harbaugh is underperforming five years in.  But if he can’t take us to the Promised Land, who out there legitimately can?  

 

Is there a deeper cultural problem that exists (Is Michigan too “Clean” to be able to keep up with the Alabama/Clemson/OSU’s of the world? Do we care too much about academics?)?

 

How do we escape BPONE?

 

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Alumnus93

September 21st, 2019 at 10:52 PM ^

This tends to happen every time we're on the road.

What is lost in all this is how many Ohio players Bo had and even how many Dantonio had, when they were both strong... because the players from that state have so much on the line, vs their rivals....     Tressel shut us out of the state and since then, its been pain, and this is no coincidence. Instead Harbaugh has all these Californians and Georgians who transfer out...

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freelion

September 21st, 2019 at 10:21 PM ^

No escape. We are doomed. Our schedule in 2020 is even tougher than this year. Probably looking at 5-6 losses this year and next at least.

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BlowGoo

September 22nd, 2019 at 10:56 AM ^

WiSC

OSU

PSU

ND

All losses.

 

MSU is essentially a coin toss.

 

4-5 losses this season.  No clear path to improvement. Challenging schedule next year.

TLDR version of my rant below: "Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Get Urban Meyer now."

 

The Khaki era is over. Dead coach coaching. And I despise it.

 

If we can get Urban Meyer, we should get him.

 

The sad truth is the NCAA has effectively made it policy that violations are recognized as necessary to field competitive teams and that as long as NCAA maintains its own cloak of plausible deniability, that the violations aren't too egregious, it doesn't care if you cheat.

It's only cheating if you get caught.  That's the battlefield we're on in 2019, like it or not. I hate it, but that's the way it is and how the NCAA wants it.

So it's just as important to get a coach who knows how to not get (the NCAA) caught, as it is to get one who knows how to recruit, put in an effective contemporary defense/offense, and develop a network of contacts across football nationally.

 

Urban Meyer is very good at that.

 

The actions sanctimonious stuff is about winning a sport that doesn't exist any more. The second the NCAA demonstrates it is serious about genuine enforcement instead of cosmetics, then yeah, get clean.

But these days, the opposite of clean is not "dirty." It's "ineffective." By NCAA design.

 

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MichiganStan

September 21st, 2019 at 10:23 PM ^

After years of defending Harbaugh I would now be open to replacing him. But yeahhhh I cant think of any available coach that would undoubtedly be better. 

 

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UM Fan from Sydney

September 21st, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^

Not only availability, but you'd need to find someone who wants to come here. The shine of the UM head coach job has severely faded. It's hard to entice someone to come here with the pressure from fans and that machine of an elite program in Columbus on the schedule every year. OSU is so many years ahead of UM that it's not even funny. It's just pathetic at this point how far UM is behind OSU.

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Sandy Lyles Revenge

September 21st, 2019 at 10:39 PM ^

You’re a bitch

The next coach of Michigan will recognize Michigan for what it is, not the fact that Michigan hasn’t beat OSU in several years. And that fact does not mean our current or future coach will not have success. 

There are so many examples I could name that would make you feel like the whiny bitch you are, but Instead I’ll just let you know that I know that youre just a big whiny bitch. 

‘Umich will never hire a coach to beat OSU, never ever ever. We lost to Wisconsin. That’s you a whiny bitch from Australia  

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Sandy Lyles Revenge

September 21st, 2019 at 10:47 PM ^

I just think that getting lucky with a coach a la Saban/Alabama is just as likely to happen at Michigan as it is Alabama. Shit happens, sometimes good sometimes not. Certainly I won’t cry like a whiny brat when it doesn’t work out in my favor and say it’ll never ever happen.

 

you also literally just stated you wanted to leave the big ten so umich didn’t have to play OSU.  I’m sorry dude we approach life very differently. 

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