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

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ShakerBuck said:
To be fair, he deserves credit for job he did with 49ers. That was his crowning achievement

3 years before his arrival 7-9, 8-8, 6-10
his 4 years 13-13, 11-4-1, 12-4, 8-8 (became his typical toxic self) --> shown the door
4 years after leaving 5-11, 2-14, 6-10, 4-13
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Nope. He lucked into the perfect situation with Kaepernick, the qb who had literally been there at the invention of the pistol offense. SimpLLLLe Jim ran that O with the ideal guy to run it and took the nfl by surprise. As soon as defensive coordinators got up to speed on defending it, Harbaugh was exposed.
 
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I think it's fine to say he was a good coach in San Fran as far as actual coaching goes. That just lends itself to the hilarity of it all.

- He sucks at recruiting, so he's not a good fit for the college game......but the college game is a good fit for him because he's such an asshole that his act wears on NFL players who are going to be around longer than the CFB team life cycle.
- He actually is good at getting a down trodden NFL team to become really good*, so that IS a good fit for the NFL.......but again, he's an asshole and those tactics only work for so long until it stops. Thus, the NFL isn't a good fit for him.

It's like a poetic tragedy....except it's fun.



*small sample size and all
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Nope. He lucked into the perfect situation with Kaepernick, the qb who had literally been there at the invention of the pistol offense. SimpLLLLe Jim ran that O with the ideal guy to run it and took the nfl by surprise. As soon as defensive coordinators got up to speed on defending it, Harbaugh was exposed.
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And yet, a coach with his reputation of developing QB's somehow failed to develop Kaepernick into a long-term NFL qb..... Strange, isn't it?
 
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ShakerBuck said:
To be fair, he deserves credit for job he did with 49ers. That was his crowning achievement

3 years before his arrival 7-9, 8-8, 6-10
his 4 years 13-13, 11-4-1, 12-4, 8-8 (became his typical toxic self) --> shown the door
4 years after leaving 5-11, 2-14, 6-10, 4-13
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I'm a Niners fan. I can speak (reasonably) intelligently to this.

Harbrau walked into a petty good situation. That was a very talented roster, particularly the OL and on defense, that he inherited. They just suffered from years of poor coaching...Erickson, Nolan then Singletary. Two years before his arrival, they went just 8-8 despite outscoring the opposition by 49 points with 5 Pro-Bowlers.

Harbaugh came in, assembled a very good coaching staff and finally got the team to play to its ability. The first 1.5 years they were your typical smash mouth offense, strong defensive team that would suffocate teams. Then, mid way through year 2, Alex Smith went down and they caught lightning in a bottle with Kaep and the pistol offense that mixed in a lot of RPO to take advantage of Kaep's freakish athleticism. They rode that all the way to the SB. The last drive of that SB is, to me, where things started falling apart. They had a 1st and goal on the (IIRC) 3 yard line with a chance to win. They also had one of the best OLs in the league and one of the best RBs in league history. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Nope. 4 pass plays. They lost.

In 2013 they still ended up with a very good season going 12-4, but cracks were appearing. They reached the NFCCG, but lost to rival Seattle after a lot of questionable second half play calling.

In the off-season leading up to 2014, everyone was already tiring of Harbaughs shit. A few weeks into the season, it was clear the harbrau-49ers partnership was untenable. They tried to turn Kaep (a one-read QB if there ever was one) into a pocket passer. It went poorly and the team imploded over the last two months. Injuries piled up and it was clear the roster didn't want to play for him anymore.

BTW, a majority of that talent that harbrau inherited was courtesy of Scot McGloughan, not Baalke. Baalke had a solid first couple of drafts after taking over, but then tried to get too cute. Their 2012-2014 drafts were large-scale disasters and the major reason for the plunge into the abyss following harbrau's departure.

Harbrau deserves credit for turning around a hugely underachieving team, but it wasn't like he took a bunch of scrubs to great heights, or turned over a lousy roster. I've said before, in the short term, he's very good at whipping talent into shape and getting the most out of them. He's just really lousy at sustainment after a couple of years.
 
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By the by, that harbrau up there today, in 2019, isn't the same guy that coached at Stanford, SF, or even the first year or two at tsun. There's no fire in his belly, no passion. Now he's more interested in dressing up like a social studies teacher from 1966.

And he used to hire very good coaching staffs. His staffs up there have deteriorated to where, now, I don't see anyone that any program of note would even look at, let alone hire.
He got hoodwinked in some 20 minute phone conversation and hired a guy to overhaul his dead dick offense based on hype alone and it's been a complete disaster.

And he ain't recruiting any Andrew Luck up there to ride to 12-1 seasons, either.
 
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Thump said:
Serious question, could he be suffering from the early effects of CTE?
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This is the same slappy that ran out into traffic with a coat over his head and got hit by a mail truck as a child.

I'm sure concussions haven't helped but let's call it like it is, he came out of the chute fucked up.

If we are going to blame it one something, blame our overly tolerant society.

His mother should have hit him in the head and sold the milk. Society has paid the price for her weakness these past 50 some odd years and, what's more, will continue to pay the price because as most mental defectives seem to be, he is exceptionally fecund. He has, allegedly, sired 7-8 kids. It's like Idiocracy.
 
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MGMT said:
She’s not actually a presiding judge at that juncture, correct? Isn’t that show just third-party arbitration?

Not criticizing her, just saying that’s pretty sweet to be filthy rich to listen to stupid small claims shit.
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Yeap, and not a terribly bright one.
"Ruled" on child custody at one point... im sure it made for great tv.
And a right mess for the family since she was completely out of her jurisdiction as a mere arbitrator playing pretend judge.
 
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