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There is literally no excuse for a coach to be in a position that long and field such a wretched team. Especially in a program such as Michigan that's supposedly elite.
that poll HAS to be backwards! If Michigan fans want to keep Harbaugh they are basically saying "we're just fine being a mediocre team and we don't really care about post season games or championships"
There is literally no excuse for a coach to be in a position that long and field such a wretched team. Especially in a program such as Michigan that's supposedly elite.
I wouldn't necessarily call Michigan "elite", one National Title in the last 70 years (1997), no Big Ten Championships in the last 16 years, and going 2-17 against Ohio State over the last 19 years is definitely NOT "elite"!
Michigan definitely has a name brand and did great back in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, but it seems like they are trying to live off that history and make people believe they are an elite program, when in reality they are not, maybe back then, but not now.
I see what you're saying, but it shouldn't be good enough for a program like Michigan to settle for being extremely mediocre just because their head coach is a well known name.
Who do they replace him with? I don't know personally, and maybe the Michigan fans out there don't know, but someone in Michigan should have an idea, it's their job to look into what is best for their program that has become irrelevant. It doesn't need to be a well established name either. Look at Ohio State, Urban Meyer steps down and they promote Ryan Day to head coach. His name held no weight, no one outside of Columbus knew much about him, and the Buckeyes could have attracted any big name out there to come join, but Urban Meyer and Ohio State didn't publicly need to research the next guy in line and include the fans in the search, they did it all internally and made a really good choice. In fact, recruiting has even gotten better since Urban left. No slight against Urban, but the point is if Day can do it, then certainly someone can help do that for Michigan. Harbaugh will not beat Ohio State this year, unless a miracle happens, and I don't know how Michigan can accept a high profile coach being 0-6 in his first 6 attempts against the Buckeyes.
This is just my opinion. Again, I'm not even a Michigan fan. But as a Buckeye fan, Harbaugh no longer concerns me like he did when he was first hired at Michigan. And sadly, every other program, and recruit, likely feels the same way.
I agree.
Every major D1 school pays an athletic director big bucks to know the answer to that question. Any AD who does have a "list of prospective coaches" on hand at all times should be fired.
that poll HAS to be backwards! If Michigan fans want to keep Harbaugh they are basically saying "we're just fine being a mediocre team and we don't really care about post season games or championships"
While Michigan had a terrible season in 2020, it was also a rather different season than anything seen before or since.
The reality is that Michigan and Jim Harbaugh negotiated a new deal that makes it financially easier for Warde Manuel, the Michigan Athletic Director, to terminate Harbaugh's contract. Additionally, Harbaugh has shaken up his staff, replacing a great number (possibly half) of his assistant coaches. And there's always new recruits - Harbaugh may not get so many top recruits like Alabama or Ohio State does, but Michigan usually does better than the rest of the Big 10 in recruitment.
I think that Jim Harbaugh has at least one and possibly two seasons to put together a program that is highly competitive in the Big Ten. IMO, in the next two years he needs two good seasons, at least one victory against OSU, and a berth in the Big 10 Championship game, else he's probably out the door. I do acknowledge that there are some in the Michigan fan-base who are perfectly content if Michigan remains at the competitive level of Iowa, but I believe that most Michigan fans expect more than being the sixth best team in the Big Ten.
As to who replaces Harbaugh if he's shown the door sometime in 2022 - Warde Manuel has 12 to 24 months to conduct a search.
I wouldn't necessarily call Michigan "elite", one National Title in the last 70 years (1997), no Big Ten Championships in the last 16 years, and going 2-17 against Ohio State over the last 19 years is definitely NOT "elite"!
Michigan definitely has a name brand and did great back in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, but it seems like they are trying to live off that history and make people believe they are an elite program, when in reality they are not, maybe back then, but not now.
Michigan these last 15-20 years has been that suburban high school with middle to upper middle class families who swear their kid's school is good because well their kid goes there, and they would never send their child to an inferior school or one that was not living up to it's potential. That's Michigan in a nutshell. Michigan is good because it has history on it's side. It has that block M to fall back on. It has that famous helmet decal that has been around ages to fall back on. Michigan lives off the notion that it's impossible to be bad because well we're Michigan!!! We can't be bad.
On a side note, I was having a discussion with a friend of mine who is a huge UofM fan and we discussed or at least tried to discuss how is it that during these last 20 years, tOSU has been through 4 coaches and UofM has been through....4 coaches, yet one program has come out the other side time and time again as the superior program and by all accounts has pushed their program into hyperdrive and left the other one behind. It's not as if UofM is the lil sisters of the poor.
Will UofM return to what they were in the late 90s / early 00s?? Time will tell.
If you're a UofM fan just be thankful you don't have RichRod leading the way. That one is still a head scratcher.
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