What if I told you they could do both? If winning national championships isn't the priority it should be, just rename the place Harvard West, go to D-III and be done with it. 

Underwood will end up at LSU. They'll win a national championship. Michigan will never win anything. But they'll act superior anyway.

Speaking just from the Hawks' standpoint, it's got as much to do with waiting a year to start the clock on Fantilli's first contract as it does with his development.

Nazar will be back. If the Hawks end up picking 2nd, I don't think they'd be upset if Fantilli spent another year in Ann Arbor, too.

This. They were laying the groundwork for the project while I was in school there. I turned 30 this year.

Reclassifying and heading to South Carolina.

Personally, I think the goal should be to beat them more than once a decade. 

Yeah, so when OSU beats Harbaugh's 3-star mafia by 50, you can brag about how Michigan got their heads kicked in the right way. 

To employ him? I agree.

If Harbaugh truly doesn't want "big money recruits" and it's not just the University of Shoot Yourself in the Foot doing what it does, then he should be fired. Yeah, let's get fired up for the season where the absolute best-case scenario is getting embarrassed in the playoff again. Woohoo! Catch the fever!

Yes, that's why I said "everybody."

Yes.

Fire everybody. This program's a joke.

Well done, BoBanders.

Notre Dame actually did lose their coach this off-season and all he's done since he left is tell the world what a dump ND is relative to the big boys. Kelly left a job where he had it made for one where he's going to be in the same division as Nick Saban and if he doesn't win a national title in the next 5 years, he's getting fired. And yet, Notre Dame is able to recruit. Negative recruiting's not an excuse for Michigan. The staff just sucks.

And they had more there. Because they can recruit. Michigan can't. Or won't.

So NIL better. Otherwise, this program is going to remain completely irrelevant.

This staff couldn't recruit a starving man to a buffet.

OP is actually underselling it. Fisher let the clock run down to set up for the field goal with two timeouts left.

Shea had three picks, but Stribling had two of them, so there's that. He's still a much better option than Lynch. To be honest, the whole league kinda stinks.

Thanks, Jim, for screwing around with the Vikings, a team with as good of a shot at a Super Bowl as a bunch of actual Vikings.

Gattis, thanks for nothing, hope you're a bust, like everyone else there since the move to the ACC.

As a Bears fan, it would suck if he takes the Vikings job. Because I love Vic and thank him for what he did here in 2018. As for Harbaugh himself, I look forward to being on the fun side of the Justin Fields vs. Jim Harbaugh match-up for however long it takes for the Vikings to get fed up with Harbaugh with the team still winning nothing. The Bears weren't interested because Harbaugh told them what he wanted and McCaskey (correctly) said thanks, but no.

See ya, Jim, thanks for all the nothing you won at Michigan.

I'm tired of Harbaugh's underachieving. And I'm not even talking about the OSU stuff - they're a historic power going through a boom period. It's the record against the MSUs and Wisconsins of the world that I'm really sick of.

I'm tired of Warde and the university and their refusal to do what it takes to be an elite program.

I'm tired of the people that are happy with going 9-3/maybe 10-2 every year as long as they just beat OSU every now and again and being lightyears away from a national championship. 

There, I'm pretty sure that offends everybody. If there's anyone I missed, let me know. 

He was so eager that he asked the Bears for over 100 million dollars.

Brian Brohm is Jeff's brother, not his son, but the point's the same. 

Yeah, about that - I've seen his name connected to the Bears job, too.

Bama has the Heisman winner at QB and two excellent receivers. We started a decent QB and good but not great receivers. There you go. 

It's not the beginning of anything until recruiting improves significantly. Let's call it for what it is.

Nah. Cut his salary in half again, but quintuple the bonuses. I mean, cutting his pay worked once already and he said he'd do it for free anyway. 

Let's set our sights considerably higher than Wisconsin, shall we?

Very good. Now Michigan needs to apply that same concept to recruiting. Until they do, the beatings will keep happening.

That machine wins national championships and produces a large chunk of the 1st round of the NFL Draft every year. Yeah, that sounds terrible.

Nobody thought 10 wins was possible, but everybody thought Wisconsin, Penn State, and Indiana would be better than they are. If you had told me before the season that this was what Michigan's opponents would look like, yeah, I'd have said they'd have 10 wins right now.

LSU got a championship out of Orgeron. I'd gladly take their situation over the football purgatory Harbaugh has Michigan in.

How is Michigan not "stuck in the muck?"

Who's "we"? I'm sick of that crap. 

Were you also in a bar in Ohio?

Andrean, Michigan City, and Valparaiso are all legit. Planning on seeing him play Friday.

I only regret that I have but one downvote to give. 

It would be hard to give a good, thorough answer in this space, so assuming it's alright, here's my blog from yesterday about it. Link.

(If this isn't allowed, mods, I sincerely apologize.)

This year would have to be a real disaster for Nagy and Pace to get fired.

Taylormade R11s driver: 9 degrees, stiff shaft

Taylormade RBZ2 Tour 3W: set at 14 degrees, stiff shaft 

Taylormade M1 2H: set at 17.5 degrees, stiff steel shaft

Taylormade Burner irons 4-PW, stiff steel shaft 

Titleist Vokey wedges: 50, 54, 60 degrees

Nike Ignite 01 Putter for now, just ordered a Wilson Buckingham 

Nike bag, 14-way divider

Ball: Bridgestone B330-RX, but I've started to play around with the e6 and just picked up some second-hand Pro V1s and Pro V1xs the other day. 

Nah, the Cubs actually won something this millennium.

Yeah, people that lost their jobs/businesses/livelihoods, or whose mental health is suffering due to a lack of human contact, yeah those people are really dumb.

What are the incentives, though? If he gets that $8 million for anything less than a national championship, Warde's gotta go. 

If true, then this is straight-up incompetence on Warde's part. They haven't played in over a month and you wait not only until after signing day, but until Black Monday to announce an extension?

Best: Purdue 2012. I had front row seats and Michigan steamrolled them.

Worst: Purdue 2017. It was roughly eleventy billion degrees.

Think about it - why are we talking about a coaching change? Because the team sucks. They needed 3 OT to beat Rutgers and got embarrassed by a team that lost to Rutgers and you think keeping that staff around is a positive for recruiting? How's that work? "Hey guys, come play for me, my team looks like hot garbage in year six of my tenure here!" I'm sure all the top guys will be beating down the door to come play for that guy.

McCarthy is better than he is already. 

The one that resulted in Spencer Hall getting a Michigan tattoo a couple Charity Bowls ago.

Yeah, who needs to be able to breathe to play football?

Nelson's OL coach just got fired by the Bears. His replacement - Juan Castillo, who was an analyst at Michigan last year.