SimPLLLLLLLe Jim "6-13" Harbaugh (B1G Suspenders McKhakiPants, Cheater Cheater Booger Eater)

[Jake]

Jimmy's Greatest Hits

 

[NFBuck]

Jimmy's Greatest Hits

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[Trevi]

For so long those who have been faithful to Michigan football have been willing to forgive and forget Harbaugh’s losses while clinging to the hope that better days were ahead. They ignored Harbaugh, the man, to embrace Harbaugh, the idea.

But by now they're waking up to the disquieting realization that Harbaugh is who he is.

He’s a coach who continues to offer up words of resignation, regret, denial, defiance and projection while facing uncomfortable questions about his management of a program that under his watch is 3-8 against its two greatest rivals and still searching for a championship of any kind.

It’s what everyone has now come to expect from Harbaugh, and that has to be the greatest disappointment of all.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...augh-michigan-football-wolverines/6132464002/

 

[colobuck79]

Let’s not over react here. Every team loses big games from time to time. The future is bright. A few bumps in the road will build character and make this team a championship contender. And let’s not forget, Jimmy did win a share of the Big Ten East championship. Stay the course. Don’t make any rash decisions that you will regret later. Jimmy is the right man for the job.

 

[ScriptOhio]

BASICALLY BO PELINI. When Jim Harbaugh arrived in Ann Arbor, Wolverine fans were acting like Michigan had just hired the second coming of Bo Schembechler to ignite another 10-year war with Urban Meyer.

Instead, they hired Michigan Bo Pelini to average a 9-4 record and lose to Ohio State in increasingly epic fashions.

Some will still say that talk is crazy, given that Harbaugh is 48-19 overall and restored Michigan to competency after the failed tenures of Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke.

But you know who else was 48-19 through 67 games? Bo Pelini at Nebraska.

The good news is, that's still a marked improvement from the last two coaches, somehow.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...m-harbaugh-is-just-michigan-bo-pelini-and-the

Just sayin': Out of the three (i.e. DickRod, Hoke, and Hairball), I still think DickRod was the best. He took over a team where the "cupboard was bare" and had the team going in the right direction. Each year they won 2 more games, he should have been given (at least) another year to see what his recruits could do....

2008: 3-9
2009: 5-7
2010: 7-6

 

[Oh8ch]

Just sayin': Out of the three (i.e. DickRod, Hoke, and Hairball), I still think DickRod was the best. He took over a team where the "cupboard was bare" and had the team going in the right direction. Each year they won 2 more games, he should have been given (at least) another year to see what his recruits could do....

2008: 3-9
2009: 5-7
2010: 7-6

If he had stuck around Michigan would have gone 25-0 last year.

 

[Zurp]

Just sayin': Out of the three (i.e. DickRod, Hoke, and Hairball), I still think DickRod was the best. He took over a team where the "cupboard was bare" and had the team going in the right direction. Each year they won 2 more games, he should have been given (at least) another year to see what his recruits could do....

2008: 3-9
2009: 5-7
2010: 7-6

I don't know if I would agree that DickRod was the best, but Hoke did an opposite trajectory
2011: 11-2
2012: 8-5
2013: 7-6 (not fired)
2014: 5-7 (now, he got fired)

7 wins and a positive trajectory wasn't as good to the Michigan fanbase as 7 wins and a negative trajectory. Beating a Virginia Tech team and a Sugar Bowl win (or was that Orange Bowl?), and beating Ohio State in 2011 and being a "Michigan Man" must have bought him that fourth year.

 

[Oh8ch]

Trajectories aside, the 42 losses in those 7 years are more than OSU this century - and that doesn't include Hairball losses.

 

[exhawg]

Maybe Hairball is actually a pretty good coach, but scUM just isn't a top tier program anymore. A team can catch fire and jump into the top tier for a year or two, but IMO there are only 3 true top tier teams over the past decade.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Maybe Hairball is actually a pretty good coach, but scUM just isn't a top tier program anymore. A team can catch fire and jump into the top tier for a year or two, but IMO there are only 3 true top tier teams over the past decade.

They have been losing 3 games a year over the past 40 years like it's their job.

The mindless hype of the media (and 13 years of John Cooper) is what has kept people associating tsun with being a top tier program all this time (and it continues today).

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

They have been losing 3 games a year over the past 40 years like it's their job.

The mindless hype of the media (and 13 years of John Cooper) is what has kept people associating tsun with being a top tier program all this time (and it continues today).

Yeah so you and @exhawg seem to be saying the same thing. And I agree, they are a middle of the road program, like 30 other programs. They can occasionally rise up and outperform, but generally they are going to be average. Their home state is not particularly fertile ground for football talent, although perhaps slowly improving, so it’s not like they have a particular advantage to give them an edge.

If at some point they land a truly exceptional coach, they could go on a run and overachieve for that period, But it would be just that, overachieving. For a century, they have been a mostly average team, so that is who they are.

 

[colobuck79]

Yeah so you and @exhawg seem to be saying the same thing. And I agree, they are a middle of the road program, like 30 other programs. They can occasionally rise up and outperform, but generally they are going to be average. Their home state is not particularly fertile ground for football talent, although perhaps slowly improving, so it’s not like they have a particular advantage to give them an edge.

If at some point they land a truly exceptional coach, they could go on a run and overachieve for that period, But it would be just that, overachieving. For a century, they have been a mostly average team, so that is who they are.

So Fuck'em?

 

[NFBuck]

Since the advent of the forward pass, _ichigan is an (on average) 8-4 team. They're a top-20 or top-25 program. The myth that this is some blue-blood program is built on a foundation of beating teams like this:


They're shit.

 

[colobuck79]

One of those years they beat Lake Forest. Not Wake, Lake Fucking Forest.