Eh I dunno. I'd take Saban 100 times out of 100 over anyone else but the fit with one of the best coaches in football who was also a star from your own program is hard to deny.
The offense, while horrible this year, averaged 40.3 points per game last season and was pretty good the last half of 2015. Calling them “terrible” his whole tenure is extremely disingenuous. He definitely deserves criticism for what they’ve done this season to date, but let’s not get carried away.
Defense scored three touchdowns last year, two of which came in the season opener against Hawaii. We also returned a blocked extra point for a 2-point conversion in the Orange Bowl, which is also when our other defensive touchdown occurred.
Edward Aschoff ESPN Staff Writer This is NOT a good stat: Michigan is now 1-6 against AP Top-10 teams under Jim Harbaugh
Eventually Harbaugh needs to get to the next level at Michigan but do people remember Michigan before him? Had to clean up some shit.
Again perhaps I’m missing a culture issue but didn’t he inerhit a team that had like 35 rookies in NFL training camps this year? Seems like he inherited a pretty talented program they were just lead by a moron I know this situation well
He inherited a shitty team, nothing more. There was quite a bit of raw talent but he had to mold it imo. I understand the skepticism though and that he doesn't "deserve" the salary.
I also hate pro-style offenses in college and Jim runs one So that is a strike against him. Unless you dominate up front, with guys that can run and pass block well, you're taking it in the keester imo.
I'd say so, but idk what Michigan fans wanted/expected. I think he's a QB away from them being what people expect though.
Where were all the people talking about how talented the roster was while it was going 5-7 and losing to Minnesota, Maryland and Rutgers in 2014? I don't remember a lot of people talking about that team being primed to win a national title in the first few seasons until he got there and it suddenly became the expectation.
Tenure has kind of been Bo Pelini like so far. Win 9-10 games but lose against all the good teams you play. The losses just haven’t been massive blowouts like Pelini’s were other than the PSU game.
Didn’t you guys have some very good recruiting classes under hoke? Atleast top 6 classes in back to back years I can’t go back in time but anyone who looked at the team harbaugh inherited on paper and saw no talent...idk what they were looking at
And by the way, I still think harbaugh is a damn good coach. He is a funky dude though, if he was normal that would be a no brainer to keep him for another 10 years and he would win you a championship. Michigan will always be good under him, just need a solid qb and he will be fine
It's Michigan. There was some talent there. The only reason anyone held the program to the expectations of "anything less than B1G titles and national titles is a failure" his first two seasons is because Harbaugh was hired. Literally any other hire who had hist first two seasons would have been considered a massive success.
Michigan had talent. Michigan was not "if it doesn't win a B1G or national title in the next two years it will be a failure" talented.
And it’s year 3, the honeymoon is over. First 2 years he was considered a top 5 coach while not doing much. Now it’s time to show the results....usually that is when he bails