Jim Harbaugh gone to NFL

Hiring a big name coach isn't the key to success. Just look at Urban Meyer and all these ex-Belichick assistants that couldn't win squat. It would be best to hire a young coach with an upside.
 
White Knight said:
Hiring a big name coach isn't the key to success. Just look at Urban Meyer and all these ex-Belichick assistants that couldn't win squat. It would be best to hire a young coach with an upside.
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It's such a crap shoot. For every successful big name hire you can name 2 that failed. At this point I think it makes way more sense to risk it on a younger position coach than trying to hire away a coach who was successful at another program.

An interesting thing pointed out in a conversation I was having with a friend, Michigan just hired Mike Elston away from ND. Why would he do that if he knew Harbaugh was going to the NFL or even thought it was a real possibility? Elston was promoted to Associate head coach at ND in 2018....could it be that Michigan was hiring Harbaugh's successor if he leaves? Just a thought. Seems weird that he'd come on, have Harbaugh leave and then have someone else come in and potentially not retain him.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Yeah. At this point I’m not thrilled about the idea of being someone’s backup plan if they can’t get an NFL offer. The AD should make him choose. NFL or not. If he can’t get a job in the NFL and chooses NFL, oh well. Meanwhile signing day is Wednesday and he’s flying out to interview for another team in Minnesota.
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I also would’ve fired him by now.

Dude is fucking unbelievable. Does he have a clause where he gets more money if he gets fired?
 
broncosmitty said:
I also would’ve fired him by now.

Dude is fucking unbelievable. Does he have a clause where he gets more money if he gets fired?
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And people were surprised when San Francisco fired him?
 
White Knight said:
Any team that would sign this bozo has a dysfunctional front office.
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I just saw a stat on Twitter, if Harbaugh goes back to the NFL he'd have the highest winning percentage of any current NFL coach.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I just saw a stat on Twitter, if Harbaugh goes back to the NFL he'd have the highest winning percentage of any current NFL coach.
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I may have to look that up. Sounds like garbage, but with the small sample size he has it's probably true. Even over McVay?
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I just saw a stat on Twitter, if Harbaugh goes back to the NFL he'd have the highest winning percentage of any current NFL coach.
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Looked it up, I think it is right

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His win percentage is .695

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Active coaches that are the closest are McVay (.679) and Belichick (.669)

side note: If McVay wins the SB that will tie him with Halas in win percentage at .682
 
ellupo said:
I hope he stays, the Buckeyes will win at least 75% vs his teams over a long run.
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Not if Ryan Day doesn't figure out how to get his defense to play against physical teams.

Day is really good at recruiting skill position talent, but I've never seen an OSU defense as soft as the defense they had last year.

OSU played 3 teams who played physical in the trenches last year. They gave up almost 40 points a game to those teams and well over 200 yards rushing a game.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Also gave the whole staff the week off. Only good thing is that our class is basically already signed. I don't think we have anyone lingering at this point. But super bad optics; especially if he doesn't get an NFL job and returns to Michigan.
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Transfer portal beckons.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Michigan just hired Mike Elston away from ND. Why would he do that if he knew Harbaugh was going to the NFL or even thought it was a real possibility? Elston was promoted to Associate head coach at ND in 2018....could it be that Michigan was hiring Harbaugh's successor if he leaves?
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This is why I always assumed Harbaugh was studying put. Don’t know why Elston would go to Michigan if he thought he was leaving. Then again I thought he was staying (perhaps believing he’d get promoted to DC). When that didn’t happen (and when he shat the bed in the Fiesta Bowl) the writing was on the wall for him so he’d try his luck at his alma mater.

Elston turned down Kelly because he didn’t want to relocate his kids from SB.
 
jjc2009 said:
This is why I always assumed Harbaugh was studying put. Don’t know why Elston would go to Michigan if he thought he was leaving. Then again I thought he was staying (perhaps believing he’d get promoted to DC). When that didn’t happen (and when he shat the bed in the Fiesta Bowl) the writing was on the wall for him so he’d try his luck at his alma mater.

Elston turned down Kelly because he didn’t want to relocate his kids from SB.
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It makes no sense.....unless he was offered something we don't know about.
 
ellupo said:
I hope he stays, the Buckeyes will win at least 75% vs his teams over a long run.
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I hope he stays as well since Harbaugh has proven no matter how what he can’t beat Tucker. Tucker owns Harbaugh.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Not if Ryan Day doesn't figure out how to get his defense to play against physical teams.

Day is really good at recruiting skill position talent, but I've never seen an OSU defense as soft as the defense they had last year.

OSU played 3 teams who played physical in the trenches last year. They gave up almost 40 points a game to those teams and well over 200 yards rushing a game.
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He basically fired the whole entire defensive staff so that was a good start.
 
Tom Brady retires from the NFL.

Harbaugh goes to the NFL.

The Wolverines keep their Michigan Man Culture intact by replacing Harbaugh with Brady.

It's all starting to add up.
 
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