Will You Root For the Chargers? and Will Jim Win A Super Bowl With the Chargers?

Harbaugh will go to the Chargers and he will succeed. It is known.

No.

Probably.

Nope. Enjoy the NFL, Jim. Great to see what you support. 

Yes I will continue to root for JH.  No, I do not think he will win a Super Bowl.  I think he will do fine with the Chargers, but a Super Bowl is a whole new beast.

too soon

No, but if half the people in this thread start rooting for the Chargers, that will double their fan base.

Like most of you, I have many thoughts about Jim rolling around in my head. Thankfully you asked specific questions, so I'll just answer those while I process everything else going on.

I root for all former Michigan players and coaches as much as possible, so yeah, I'll root for Jim and the Chargers some. My AFC team has been the Ravens since '98 or so, so as long as it doesn't conflict with that, sure, go Jim.

Overall though, I'm a Lions fan, so that's my rooting interest most of all.

Will Jim win a Super Bowl? He has a good shot at it. He almost won one with the Niners, he already has a good QB, and you know he will field a great defense since he will take Minter with him. My guess is he'll either win one in 3-4 years or not at all, since his shelf life with an NFL team will only be 4 years or so.

As far as a firm prediction, I will say he will reach a Super Bowl, but he won't win. The AFC just looks very strong for the window of years he'll be in LA.

I'll root for Jim Harbaugh to lead the Chargers past the Swiftie Mahomies, that's for sure! 

And the Russ Wilson/Sean Paytons, the Mark Davis', pretty much the rest of the AFC. Although someday I'd be ok with it if the Bills finally win one!

And should he get past all those obstacles (I'd bet he wont unless Mahomes got hurt) I'd root for the Chargers over any NFC team except my Niners or the Lions.

So yeah, I hope he does well, but I have zero emotional attachment to it!

Go Blue! 

Its NOT just that he let Harbaugh Go...Hes Let Bakich go...He let the succesfull Water Polo coach Go...He Fired a Final 4 Hockey coach ...he let the National Champ Mens Gym coach go and he couldnt retain Belien and he hired Juwan Howard who is a disaster...Im sure there are others as well but his track record has been ABYSMAL...Manuel has to GO

1. Yes

2. I wouldn't bet against it

No, I will not. Fuck the Chargers.People in LA don’t root for them. I’ll always root for the men in Honolulu Blue though. 

Definitely and probably 

I will root for Jim, but I don't give a fuck about the Chargers...  

Yes.  Probably not

I don't care about the NFL and don't have a team I follow. I root for individual players and, sometimes, coaches. I look forward to rooting for Harbaugh to succeed, just as I enjoy watching Jourdan Lewis, Rashan Gary, etc. I am especially excited to see the next crop of Michigan rookies, many of whom are in my pantheon of favorite players.

Go Blue.

I haven't paid attention to the NFL since I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. For some reason Michigan changing players every four years was fine (perhaps because I was used to it from the start) but once my childhood idols retired I lost all interest (was lucky that Montana->Young was seamless). I will try to become a chargers fan but we'll see what happens.

Rooting for the Chefs.  Happy wife, happy life.

I'm not rooting for the Chargers to be better than the Dolphins.

I'm a Lions fan....screw the Chargers, I hope they go 0-17

Yes and no.  Will I tune in to watch?  Maybe for the playoffs.

Maybe.  If they were playing someone I didn't have some other attachment to, which is most of the league.

I mean, I wish he'd stayed but I don't blame him for wanting to chase a Super Bowl.  Or get away from the NCAA.

Yes, will always appreciate Coach Harbaugh and his 9 years here and will always root for him. No I don't think the Chargers will win a Super Bowl while they are in Los Angeles.  Imho, they don't fit or belong there.  Then again probably a lot of ex and old Cleveland Browns fans  thought the Browns would never win a Super Bowl in Baltimore, and they did with a Coach Harbaugh.   Would be quite a coincidence if Coach Harbaugh won one with the L.A. Chargers.  Finally, I think Coach Harbaugh is a great coach and his track record is proven, so he just might at that.  Going to miss him badly as our Michigan coach for sure. 

Ill be like a Chargers fan. Ill check the score from time to time. Maybe watch them play a road game in LA vs the Raiders. We shall see. Probably check him out in the playoffs, superbowl and since I dont watch ESPN/Sportscenter anymore that would be about it.

No, I won't be watching the Chargers.

I do not care about the NFL.

What I do care about is if Minter, Herbert, or anyone else gets strip mined out of the Michigan football program to join the Chargers.

I think it's kind of interesting that the obstacles in his path to a Super Bowl are largely the same as he faced here:

- a more talented in-division team with a better QB (Chiefs/OSU), relegating him to a backdoor playoff entrance.

- a talent-acquisition model that doesn't favor him (Spanos-notorious-frugality/Michigan-NIL).

He eventually overcame those hurdles by building his Michigan teams from the lines out and using the portal extensively, and by allocating the NIL money towards proven performers and not highly rated high school recruits.

It is possible that he will be able to open the purse strings a bit, and build two solid to great lines, and just like that he'll be in the picture.  It's also possible that Mahomes keeps stuffing the Chargers into a locker and denying Harbaugh his dream.

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Clearly, he should have maneuvered Andy Reid into retiring so he could take that job!

Will always root for a Michigan man.  Tall order to win a Super Bowl with the Chargers.  Too many teams that are too strong.  But he will do whatever he can to give them the best opportunity.  Curious how long he lasts.  Would not be shocked if one day he ended up back in Ann Arbor.

Heck, why not. Nobody else is.