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Harbaugh back to the NFL?

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The Big 10 wasn't worth half a **** this year and to his credit, Harbaugh made the most of it up until they met Georgia at Little Bighorn. Good a time as any for him to strike while the iron is hot if he is so inclined to head back to the NFL.
 
Liberty City El said:
It’s what he’s done his whole career...

Comes in with insane hype, underachieves for years, finally makes one solid run, loses in the big game & then takes another job. He did it at Stanford to the 49ers & then from San Fran to Michigan.

I think he’s going to stay another year at Michigan, but he will definitely try to see if the Bears will give him a big contract once they fire Matt Nagy or if the Raiders will give him a 10 year $100mill contract like they did with Gruden.

Maybe, he might go to Denver if they fired Vic Fckin Fangio. Don’t think the Giants or Seahawks would want him.
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Na, hard disagree. Harbough has not underachieved. Especially not with Stanford or the 49ers. Michigan, sure a bit.
 
Brickell said:
Who would Michigan go after if that happens?

Matt Campbell is the only big name I could think of who would take the job.
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They might elevate Josh Gattis from within, like Notre Dame did with Freeman.

Or, they may go for a splash hire & because Michigan has a lot of money they could entice quite a few coaches to leave their current situations if they were interested in the them.

PJ Fleck, Mark Stoops, Matt Campbell & an outside chance of Kalani Sitake would be some of the names initially mentioned. But Michigan’s boosters believe wholeheartedly that only a Michigan Man can lead them, they very much prefer to hire an alumnus rather than go outside the family.
 
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LuCane said:
Dolphins need a Miami Hurricanes-like restructuring of their admin/organization.

I bet Ross and Frenk do yoga together. Who's the Phins' equivalent to Rudy Fernandez?
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They needed a complete rebuild, but settle for half measures. It’s always a coach being forced on a GM or GM with coach.

Grier sucks, he’s been here since 2001. Flores isn’t terrible, but he’s too ****** dealing with the offense.
 
calinative umstudent said:
Na, hard disagree. Harbough has not underachieved. Especially not with Stanford or the 49ers. Michigan, sure a bit.
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He had one good season at Stanford...

And while yes, he did very well with the Niners, he did lose 2 NFC championship games & lost a Super Bowl.

Did I a great job getting them their, but couldn’t close the deal, so maybe semantics, but the point being, is most of his career has been getting a team right to the point of winning a title, losing & then leaving to another team, that was the overall point of what I was saying.
 
calinative umstudent said:
Na, hard disagree. Harbough has not underachieved. Especially not with Stanford or the 49ers. Michigan, sure a bit.
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Yeah he took Stanford from a 1 win program to Orange Bowl champs (with the only loss at Oregon, who played for the title that year). Then San Fran was floundering when he got there and made the Conference Championship game his first 3 years before things went south with Baalke his last year.
 
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One of the greatest football coaches of all time. Nick Saban was garbage in the NFL. Takes a special breed. He's no Jimmy Johnson but he's up there.
 
Liberty City El said:
He had one good season at Stanford...

And while yes, he did very well with the Niners, he did lose 2 NFC championship games & lost a Super Bowl.

Did I a great job getting them their, but couldn’t close the deal, so maybe semantics, but the point being, is most of his career has been getting a team right to the point of winning a title, losing & then leaving to another team, that was the overall point of what I was saying.
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So because you make it to 3 conference Championship games (when the team hadn't been In the playoffs for basically a decade before he got there btw) it means you are underachieving? Yeah man I just really have to disagree with that. And maybe it is just semantics, but there really is a big difference. Not finishing sure. But that's like saying he got an A instead of an A+ and claiming its basically the same thing as getting a C....

Regarding Stanford, what he turned them into is the very definition of overachieving regardless if he ever won any National Championship or not. The 5 years before he got there they won a combined 16 games. He took them to an Orange Bowl victory by year 4 and top 4 ranking and set them up for the future for Shaw to build on. That doesn't at all for in the losing the big game and leaving "trend"...
 
calinative umstudent said:
So because you make it to 3 conference Championship games (when the team hadn't been In the playoffs for basically a decade before he got there btw) it means you are underachieving? Yeah man I just really have to disagree with that. And maybe it is just semantics, but there really is a big difference. Not finishing sure. But that's like saying he got an A instead of an A+ and claiming its basically the same thing as getting a C....

Regarding Stanford, what he turned them into is the very definition of overachieving regardless if he ever won any National Championship or not. The 5 years before he got there they won a combined 16 games. He took them to an Orange Bowl victory by year 4 and top 4 ranking and set them up for the future for Shaw to build on. That doesn't at all for in the losing the big game and leaving "trend"...
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Fair points, I agree.
 
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LuCane said:
Dolphins need a Miami Hurricanes-like restructuring of their admin/organization.

I bet Ross and Frenk do yoga together. Who's the Phins' equivalent to Rudy Fernandez?
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Dolphin Denny was at one point. Sadly he passed in 2007 of cancer.
 
919cane said:
Yeah he took Stanford from a 1 win program to Orange Bowl champs (with the only loss at Oregon, who played for the title that year). Then San Fran was floundering when he got there and made the Conference Championship game his first 3 years before things went south with Baalke his last year.
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Balke is major reason Jags will continue to be lousy, ask the 49ers fansif they should have kept Harbaugh or Balke>
 
His 49er teams just looked different, for a period of 3 years anybody that watches NFL football can tell you they were dominating the running the ball with Frank Gore and the offensive line and with elite defense with two elite linebackers Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman, it would be hard to replicate that type of run again. I don't hold the NFC championship game losses against him especially the one against the Giants his punt returner fumbled 3 times and they still had a chance to win. The Seattle loss had very questionable calls that went against them as well. I'd be thrilled if my bears could sign him.
 
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