OT Saban's house of rehabbing coach careers hits another peak.

This was basically the narrative when he arrived. That we should "get used to coaching turnover" because Harbaugh attracts so many ambitious coaches who will go on to bigger positions and promotions elsewhere. And that's just the nature of an elite program. ?

I don't have an issue with the assistants he's burned through.  In fact, I believe he kept a couple of them a year too long (Drevno and Pep).  What bothers me is the constant changing of scheme on the offensive side.  Went from manball in 2015-2016, to pro-something West Coast with Pep in 2017-18, and now Gattis' (lack of) speed in space in 2019-20.  It wouldn't be so bad if such drastic scheme changes didn't have to be followed up with changes in the type of players recruited.  The WR group is case #1 for this.  Every time you change scheme so quickly, you also have to change 'crootin to get the players you need.

I'm no expert here, but I can see the differences!  I used to defend them, saying he's trying hard to make it work.  I do still believe that - there is no part of me that thinks Harbaugh doesn't want it to work here.  But he's handicapping himself...

Did anyone notice that Saban has changed seamlessly from defense first, to run happy, to now being pass happy?  When, and how, did those changes occur?

...crickets...

Exactly.

Not only that, but you want assistants to be good enough to get promoted and leave.  There aren't enough Brent Venables to hope someone elite will stick around long.  It's a good sign if your assistants are highly sought after.  You'd rather have a year with Joe Brady and win a national title than some guy that isn't very good and no one else wants.

Michigan for the last decade has literally hired almost exclusively guys that other teams / schools didn't/don't want (both before and after they were at M): Al Borges, Doug Nussmeier, Tim Drevno, Pep Hamilton, the list is long, especially on offense.

Even Josh Gattis wasn't wanted by Bama as an OC.  Saban clearly has a pretty good idea of what makes a good OC and what doesn't (and yet, we're on his second reject in a decade).

To fairly compare Saban to Harbaugh I think you have to look at the roles the coaches are moving on to because my gut tells me the majority of Saban's guys are moving on because they are moving up and the majority of Harbaugh's guys are moving on because they haven't performed.

Off the top of my head: 

Saban: Smart, Pruitt, Locksley, Kiffin, Sarkesian, Gattis all moved on to better roles at good programs. 

Harbaugh: Fisch, Drevno, Hamilton, Brown, Mattison, Montgomery, Washington, Partridge, Wheatley. Of those, I would consider Partridge a definite left for a better job. Montgomery & Washington left for similar roles at similar schools, Mattison maybe left for a better role, Fisch, maybe. Drevno, Brown, Hamilton definitely not. Wheatley supposedly wanted to get out. 

Wouldn't be an issue if JH had the master CEO credentials to match his top 5 salary/ hiring hype.

Harbaugh isn't running a plug and play staff  program. Program identity has not been established to this point. That's on him and maybe we he isn't capable of adapting and maintaining one.*

Unless I'm missing it, when  has he established a team culture as a Xs & Os guru?

There are about a half dozen HCs that can replicate success with constant staff turnover, he isn't in that club.

He's entering year 7 still trying to establish consistency.

At some point, hopefully next season, improving to a higher standard begins.

This program/brand should not be regressing. To be at a point where the narrative is that we're still  an OC/DC away from improvement is getting stale.

Forget the can't keep a staff around thinking, that's for successful outcome programs.