Michigan vs Texas: Two different paths

OU went 1-1 against OSU in 2016 and 2017. OSU has not consistently been much better than OU the last 10 years. I’d bet the record between the two would be closer to .500 over that time.

I’m just referring to the fact that they don’t keep a coach around who isn’t meeting expectations. I’m not commenting on the quality of their hires. I do know that Sark will likely not be around if he goes 0-5 against OU, 1-4 in bowl games, 3-3 against a team like Baylor, and never makes an appearance in the conference championship.

....and we hired Brady Hoke.  Sark > Brady, but Brady does hear football better!

Uh no, it sounds like humor.

A play on "OK cool, Hook'em" that was tweeted by Tom Herman to give the OP the biz because he wishes he was rooting for Texas. 

Seems about right. Are Texas fans excited about Sark? It be one thing if they were getting Meyer or someone, but making a coaching change is not guarantee of success. Herman was once seen as can't miss coming out of Houston.

That's not to say that Michigan is making the right choice with retaining Harbaugh. We'll figure out who comes out ahead in the next few years. If I had to make a wager, I'm guessing neither of us are in the playoffs or consistently beating our main rivals in the next few years regardless of this coaching decision.

The one difference with Texas is that Strong was brought in to clean up the program.  He did that part but didn't win enough to keep his job.  Herman had no instructions other than to win and he failed at impressing the fan base. 

OSU is recruting the state of Texas better than Texas right now.

Over the past 4-5 yrs I’d agree. Doesn’t excuse the fact that we were losing to them well before Urban lifted their recruiting another couple notches. 
 

A big difference between UM and UT can be snapshotted by looking at what is the quintessential moment in Michigan athletics and the Administrative reaction to it. The fab five scandal. Michigan’s reaction was to cut its balls off forever. To give preference & power to personalities that represent a balanced perspective in regards to athletics. Lloyd Carr was the poster boy for this and his early success gave capital to the idea that you didn’t have to be cut throat to the razors edge of allowable/traditional/moral in order to win championships. Texas still has a strong portion of its “ behind the scenes” power players that don’t mind talking about winning without adding some perfunctory comment about “the right way” or “with class” or some other ultimately racist at its core quip. 

IMO we won’t be a serious contender in football again until frankly a generational shift is COMPLETE within the UM power structure. When I contemplate Harbaugh and whether he can get the job done I have to sit back and imagine what that would look like and ultimately it looks pretty much like 2016. Except that instead of cutting our coaches balls off and forcing a fundamental change in his personality, The OSUs & Bama’s of the world would double down on THEIR ASSHOLE. They would expect the man that they have chosen as their leader to return nastier, meaner, shorter with press & administration types. They’d expect him to be shaving a few nice kids scholarships to make room for a transfer and open spots for a couple higher caliber players that are walking on campus to play football. Not playing football while they’re on campus. It’s not some magical X’s & O’s formula or a new coordinator or whatever. I’d argue that doubling down on the original Harbaugh offensive style and making Mattison the DC adhering to his style would have had a better record than we’ve been able to achieve since. 
 

I think it is possible to win big with JH as our coach. But not JH light. That guy is trying to please too many people outside of his program and not step on the wrong toes. He’s chasing instead of leading. He came to M with a football philosophy that contrary to popular opinion here, is a viable and functional system. He implemented it and took us a bad spot away from the CFP. At that point the UM voices should have collectively paid his fine and encouraged him to scream it from the rooftops that we got jobbed if that’s how he felt. We could have been screaming for more FBs, bigger OL maulers, MORE HARBAUGH!! Fuck winning by chasing the next mousetrap. Win by force of WILL!! 
 

But, ultimately we don’t want to come off as assholes like the OSU fans. So let’s keep chasing. 

How they pushed Mack Brown out is eerily reminiscent of how we pushed Carr out.

Fortunately, we did not also sink the B1G by being a diva program, but aside from that Texas and Michigan have a lot of similarities.