Lifetime Contract For Harbaugh?
https://twitter.com/MikeSullivan/status/933047579222396929
Brady Quinn's source says it's in the works.
Thoughts?
November 21st, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
Stupid for the University to do this. And has zero guarantees of Harbaugh staying.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
yeah that would basically just be reassurance to everybody that Harbaugh is not leaving for NFL.
But also Mike Sullivian via Brady Quinn... maybe a time filling topic for a radio or TV show but I would not put much into this. Lots of hawt Harbaugh takes flying around at any given moment.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:19 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
UM will always be able to get rid of Harbaugh, and Harbaugh will always be able to walk if he wants. In both cases, it is just a matter of what price you have to pay to do so. That is really what a contract dictates -- the alternative to staying locked together.
So what good does a "lifetime contract" give each party? Pretty much depends entirely on what the terms are for exiting/breaching the contract.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:24 PM ^
This makes me happy. We are not going to find a better coach.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
Exactly. If Jim Harbaugh can't compete for National Titles at Michigan then no one can. It's that simple.
November 21st, 2017 at 6:50 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
I believe the best is yet to come with Harbaugh. Keep him for the next 20 years if he's willing.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
a lifetime contract isn't for a lifetime, just like a seven year contract (in most cases) isn't for LITERALLY seven years. As some have stated above, there will be clasuses for both parties. I love the blog and some of you need to take a deep breath and examine the situation before saying DON'T DO THIS, DON"T TIE THE UNIVERSITY TO A SPECIFIC COACH FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
November 21st, 2017 at 5:01 PM ^
Or how about we just stop with the fucking gimmicks and win something first. It's been fun with the hype and all but a lifetime gimmick contract? That just sounds silly and screams "we are not serious."
November 21st, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
is a bad idea. If this is about "rumors" than Harbaugh could just address any rumors publicly and dispel them. If Harbaugh is asking for some kind of lifetime contract to stay here, hell no, that isn't right. If this is nothing more than a gimmick and it doesn't mean anything than don't do it for that reason.
In any case, no.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
At least with regards to the rumors, he's basically addressed them without addressing them, if you will, in that on numerous occasions throughout these last three seasons, he has said several things which, if one listens, would give you the impression that he is exactly where he wants to be.
I think it is more about the NFL beat writers simply being unable to comprehend fully that someone would actually leave the league once they got there, especially someone like Jim Harbaugh, who did well for himself.
Does he really need to devote a block of time to this? I don't think anyone who knows anything is that worried about it if they are worried at all.
November 21st, 2017 at 3:07 PM ^
really dumb idea... what is his record against MSU and OSU..
and when we start losing to ND too... then freaking what !!!!!
Folks are really stupid.
November 21st, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
Reminder - if it wasn't completely obvious with this post - that GordonG is a troll.
November 21st, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
I am for it. Doesn't Kirk Ferentz have one of these contracts with Iowa right now?
November 21st, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
and also with the Devil.
November 21st, 2017 at 4:32 PM ^
Yes, and it is widely mocked as one of the worst contracts ever.
Harbaugh is a great coach and the best Michigan could get in the next 5 years, but what's wrong with his current contract?
November 21st, 2017 at 2:32 PM ^
Michigan is not getting anyone any better and I am sure any such contract would include the usual termination for cause terms that account for the unexpected. There will also always be buyouts that our cash-flush University, alumni base and athletic department could always afford.
I love Michigan as much as anyone here, but you are absolutely delusional if you envision a scenario where Harbaugh fails and the next coach who comes in will succeed where he has failed. If Harbaugh is let go, the program will basically have announced at that point that it is chasing the dragon and will never get back to where it once was. More importantly, what rational, attainable and desirable head coach will look at Jim Harbaugh's resume prior to UofM, see that UofM let him go, somehow dissatisfied with his results, and think that UofM is a place where he can succeed and thrive and spend the rest of his days?
They should lock him up now and foreclose 90% of the dumb chatter that surrounds the program in the form of either: a) Harbaugh's leaving for the NFL (or UCLA, apparently): or b) Harbaugh isn't meeting expectations - time to look elsewhere!
November 21st, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
But, we'll never have a better coach than Jim Harbaugh. There are many better days ahead.
November 21st, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^
MSU had a down year: 3-9
ND had a down year: 4-8
FSU having a down year: 4-6
Texas had many down years after sMack Brown was retired.
Tennessee is in the middle of many down years.
We have 8 wins this season in a down year....and the sky is falling for so many.
I am totally on board with crushing our rivals regularly. But I'm willing to wait for it.
To have no down years (let's just throw out OSU) its going to take the recruiting pipeline to be built and flowing...and this is not done in 1 or 3 years.
I would be super happy to have Harbaugh stay as long as he possibly can. Dick-move by Herbstreet, I called him out the minute he mouthed off on that BS (not that HStreet can actually hear me you know). But, I think its the only way to stop that negative recruiting.
Here's the other thing I've thought of. At this point, Harbaugh's legacy is affixed with UM, like it or not. Were he to leave now, or even soon, the narrative would be forever written with easystats that he couldn't win the big games and got out. The program would probably implode again and that would further taint his legacy that the Great King bailed on us.
My theory: if the budget can handle it and its within the rules, and JH wants it...let him have it!
November 21st, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
where do I sign?
November 21st, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^
I really don't think Harbaugh is getting that much critism. A few disgruntled "fans" and some trolls trying to make some noise and stir up trouble.
November 21st, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
has anyone seen the rumors of shea patterson visiting michigan for "The Game". In my honest opinion I would fully accept him being here cause in all honesty he'd only be here for one year or so, and I think he'd give us something we have never had in a quarterback. In parallel with harbs contract if he could pull in shea and get this contract I would be one happy michigan fan.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:12 PM ^
Sarah likes California
November 21st, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 9:03 PM ^
Funny, she was just on the family podcast a few weeks ago and was talking a lot about how much she loves it here. Talking glowingly about thier neighbors, the town, the kids school, how welcoming the office is when Jim needs to watch them, that her in-laws are right next door, and that the community has absolutely welcomed them with open arms at every turn.
But you keep on trolling about things you know nothing about, Mr Leach.
November 21st, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 9:09 PM ^
I agree. Let's have Mr. Quattro tell him / her what a terrible poster they are. That'll teach 'em!
November 21st, 2017 at 2:55 PM ^
I think it's pretty premature to go that route, honestly. Would be dumb and unnecessary on Warde's part at this stage.
Talk about this in December 2019.
November 21st, 2017 at 2:55 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 2:57 PM ^
For those that don't thing Jimmy is the BEST possible coach we could have over the next decade....who the FUCK would you rather have?? Or do you just like to bitch and moan?
I hate losing, but I love our Coach and the direction of our program.
November 21st, 2017 at 7:45 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:02 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
NFL rumors would dwindle, but idiot fans bringing up his contract after every loss is already old before ink has hit paper......
November 21st, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^
negative recruiting along those lines no doubt. "You may want to play for Jim Harbaugh but you know he's going to the NFL." Very easy to plant in a recruit's ear and it will be "reinforced" by trolling media and social media. The "lifetime contract" offers some rebuttal, and also will be picked up as reinforcing narrative.
Also, for people nervous about anything "lifetime", contracts can be renegotiated. Harbaugh isn't about to do anything in bad faith - the man has too much character.
November 21st, 2017 at 3:12 PM ^
I mean if you think about it, unless you explicitly are a contractor/seasonal worker, the average full-time job is arguably a "life-time contract."
November 21st, 2017 at 5:08 PM ^
No. It's not. At-will employment is not like a lifetime contract at all.
November 21st, 2017 at 7:56 PM ^
November 21st, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
And give me Don Brown for lifetime as well.