Rank Your Top 3 Michigan Head Coaches of All Time

Submitted by FlaWolverine22 on November 1st, 2023 at 5:16 PM

It's a slow day on the board so I thought it would be good to start a discussion. A few days ago I saw someone on the board refer to Harbaugh as the greatest Michigan coach of all time. It's hard to put anyone ahead of Bo but I can't say I disagree. Although I'll admit I'm very biased toward Harbaugh because in my lifetime I had only witnessed the end of the Carr era and the down era.

My top 3 Michigan head coaches of all time are

1. Jim Harbaugh

2. Bo Schembechler

3. Fielding Yost

 

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UMForLife

November 1st, 2023 at 5:45 PM ^

I have to say it is nice to have a slow day on the board after the last 10 days or so. 

Yost has to be on the top. 

Bo

Carr

If Jim wins NC this year, he is 2nd on the list for me. 

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Hensons Mobile…

November 1st, 2023 at 6:53 PM ^

Sigh. I'll do this because you asked so nicely.

TBH I'm not positive which part Truferblue means. Maybe all of it. I assume since he said "personal vendetta" he's talking mostly about Carr's rocky relationship with Miles, although despite any objections Carr may have had over Miles, Bill Martin still was going to do it. He just failed at it. Possibly as he tried to placate Carr as much as possible.

The rest of it you can read from Brian's Three and Out review:

https://mgoblog.com/content/three-and-out-takes-carr-rodriguez-martin

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ERdocLSA2004

November 1st, 2023 at 8:13 PM ^

Partially this, although Lloyd dragged his feet on his retirement announcement. Because of this, we basically had a lame duck coach for half a season, got started on a coaching search later than we should’ve, and this basically destroyed that recruiting class.  After he announced his retirement he aided in the transfers of numerous players.  I don’t think Lloyd had a vendetta, it was just an extremely poorly handled changing of the guard that was the first domino in what became the lowest years of our Michigan fandom.  

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thethirdcoast

November 1st, 2023 at 9:43 PM ^

Sure, Lloyd did not handle his retirement from coaching in the best possible way.

However, let's not absolve the AD at the time from blame. Any professionally run AD office at a major football program should have some kind of basic contingency plan and regularly updated short list of candidates should something sudden happen to the HC.

Given the way the Michigan AD acted at the time, in my eyes, it's not clear they had much of a plan at all.

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truferblue22

November 2nd, 2023 at 11:56 AM ^

HAHAH just going to ignore all the shit Lloyd did before RR even got here? 

 

I'm not Jim Stapleton, I don't STILL think RR is a good coach despite all evidence to the contrary. I do think that he was never given a fair shake here, but that doesn't matter at all now, and is the LEAST of my concerns regarding Carr. 

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blueheron

November 1st, 2023 at 5:50 PM ^

No comment, for now, on who should be in the football list, but here's a suggestion: Use an 80:20 approach when evaluating the coach. Specifically, if you have enough years, remove the top 10% and bottom 10%.

Example of this thinking: Remember how people used to beat Harbaugh over the head with James Franklin's single (and flukey) win over OSU? I didn't think that was fair.

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truferblue22

November 1st, 2023 at 5:51 PM ^

Yost is the GOAT but literally none of us were alive when he coached and probably the vast majority of us never overlapped on this planet with him.

 

Which is a weird way for me to say I agree with your list, as is. 

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UcheWallyWally

November 1st, 2023 at 5:55 PM ^

Not to thread jack, but when the F is someone , anyone going start doing some MF damage control here? Insiders? Enough of the BS already , unless there is some insane plot twist that suddenly flips the script coming it’s time to start doing something already.  The fact that absolutely no one is frankly is really starting to make me think we are screwed here.  Everyone’s convinced themselves this is no big deal but perception is reality and the narrative has turned this into a huge F’n deal getting worse by the day 

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