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

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Too young and too driven by his ego.. If he has success and the NFL bangs at his door offering 10M a year, there's no way he doesn't go chase his little brother. For such a raging narcissist, there's no way that little bro having a Super Bowl ring does not grind his sack.

Not that he's going to have success as long as Urban and Dantonio are pulling the train on him.
 
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Dryden said:
Nah. 1-9 is wishful thinking, he's too good of a coach for them to be that bad over 5 years. I'm not predicting a winning record necessarily, but it won't be that bad.
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I don't think it will be that bad either but if it started out say 0-6, it would get real fun.

They are all in on this clown, the scUM faithful will rationalize any failures with a ferocity unknown to mankind in order to keep the dream of Bo's heaven sent savior alive.

That said, 0-6 in the first 3 years would have to push them to the breaking point where they start wondering 'If JH couldn't save us, can the program be saved?" kind of stuff and that is when I most likely die of a priapism.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I don't think it will be that bad either but if it started out say 0-6, it would get real fun.

They are all in on this clown, the scUM faithful will rationalize any failures with a ferocity unknown to mankind in order to keep the dream of Bo's heaven sent savior alive.

That said, 0-6 in the first 3 years would have to push them to the breaking point where they start wondering 'If JH couldn't save us, can the program be saved?" kind of stuff and that is when I most likely die of a priapism.
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As much as we like to joke, the guy (Harbaugh) has serious issues with being a normal human being, much less the figurehead at a prominent institution, which are going to come roaring to the forefront with anything less than perfection on the football field.

The first people off the bandwagon are going to be the Michigan powers that be who deal with Harbaugh on a daily basis, and the schism within the fan base itself is going to be legendary.

Then again, the dumbest fan base in America should be experts at transitioning from true koolaid drinking believers into emo haters at this point; the only question is how long it will take this time.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
As much as we like to joke, the guy (Harbaugh) has serious issues with being a normal human being, much less the figurehead at a prominent institution, which are going to come roaring to the forefront with anything less than perfection on the football field.

The first people off the bandwagon are going to be the Michigan powers that be who deal with Harbaugh on a daily basis, and the schism within the fan base itself is going to be legendary.

Then again, the dumbest fan base in America should be experts at transitioning from true koolaid drinking believers into emo haters at this point; the only question is how long it will take this time.
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Agreed. He could do well at Stanford when they were terrible. He could even recruit well after good seasons, but they weren't really in the spot light until his last year. He can coach, but is almost nonfunctional as a person. When every wacky thing he does is on national television are recruits going to want to play for him? With the guys he currently has I can't see him doing better than 8-5 year 1 as they work to learn his system. Which is an improvement. Their class last year was a punt. This year will be in the 15-20 range. But if he keeps acting like a weirdo and ties that with an 8-5 season and then another 8-5 or 9-4 season how will their 2017 class turn out? He needs to recruit a couple of freshman starters in '16 and 17 if he expects seasons 2 and 3 to go well and right now he doesn't have them. If he makes it that far and stops being such a freaking weirdo I think he can beat Msu in year 3 or 4 and he could survive the long haul and get them to a rose bowl. But running around with his shirt off around a bunch of kids in a field in Alabama isn't helping him.
 
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If he doesn't beat MSU or Ohio State the first two years AND get to a major bowl, I think the wheels will come off pretty quickly after that. Third year, he'll be on the hotseat and barring a major turnaround that year, it'll all implode in the 4th.

One thing that a lot of people don't realize is the Bay Area media is not like NYC or Chicago. They tend to be very rah-rah boosters about anything local rather than remorselessly going for the jugular like the latter two cities. At Stanford, he had next to no national media spotlight and a cheerleading local press. With the 49ers, it was the national NFL media that went after him, not the locals. Now, he has a press in Detroit--and Chicago to a lesser extent--that won't act as his pr outlet along with a much bigger national media spotlight than at Stanford. I think the crazy bastard will crack once the heat gets turned up. We could possibly see another Jim Kelly like episode, which would thrill me to no end since it would force the pr obsessed UM administration to fire him on the spot or be exposed as utter hypocrites for letting him keep his job.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
If he doesn't beat MSU or Ohio State the first two years AND get to a major bowl, I think the wheels will come off pretty quickly after that. Third year, he'll be on the hotseat and barring a major turnaround that year, it'll all implode in the 4th.

One thing that a lot of people don't realize is the Bay Area media is not like NYC or Chicago. They tend to be very rah-rah boosters about anything local rather than remorselessly going for the jugular like the latter two cities. At Stanford, he had next to no national media spotlight and a cheerleading local press. With the 49ers, it was the national NFL media that went after him, not the locals. Now, he has a press in Detroit--and Chicago to a lesser extent--that won't act as his pr outlet along with a much bigger national media spotlight than at Stanford. I think the crazy bastard will crack once the heat gets turned up. We could possibly see another Jim Kelly like episode, which would thrill me to no end since it would force the pr obsessed UM administration to fire him on the spot or be exposed as utter hypocrites for letting him keep his job.
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There's that, and the fact that everything thought to be quirky and colorful at Stanford is now showing to be harbaughs lack of ability to interact with people. The fact that San Francisco was willing to burn it down rather than keep him as coach should show how bad dealing with Jim is.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
If he doesn't beat MSU or Ohio State the first two years AND get to a major bowl, I think the wheels will come off pretty quickly after that. Third year, he'll be on the hotseat and barring a major turnaround that year, it'll all implode in the 4th.
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I can't wait until year 3. I may be out on a limb thinking 1-9 in 5 years, but 0-4 in the first two years, which the players he currently has is entirely possible. Their 2014 recruiting class was pretty shitty, but the 2015 was about as bad as it can get for a major program. 2013 and 2012 were Hoke's great recruiting classes, and a ton of those kids haven't panned out yet. In the 2016 season he will have a senior class that were elite (in HS), but basically missed 2 years of development under Hoke. 2016 could be a worse year then 2015 for him. In 2017 the upper class-men will be that 2014 class and empty 2015 class. Oh yea, I can't wait until year 3 under Harbaugh. His seat could be getting hotter and most of the HS talent he walked in with gone.
 
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