This theme has been building for years with me.
We pay somewhere around $8 million dollars a year for a Jim Harbaugh who ran sprints with his San Diego team and was involved in dotting every i and crossing every T of his Stanford strength and conditioning program that turned an academic basement dweller into a giant crushing, consistent national factor, based largely on football strength and toughness.
Spread this type of focus across all areas of a football program and you have a guy self-described as a Jack Hammer who earned that mantra.
Since December of 2016, we haven't seen a jack hammer. We've gotten fits and starts - a sputtering Jack Hammer.
There are moments when we see the contrast between Jack Hammer Jim and fits and starts Jim. After a BRUTAL 2017 off season and brutal 2017 season - the first half of the Ohio State game was surprisingly beautiful. Jack was pistol whipping Urban with chalk to start that game. There was zero question who won the game prep for that one. The Jack Hammer. We just didn't win the adjustment game on D, because - well, because OSU adjusted to our D at halftime 2017 and hasn't looked back.
Don it seems was been left alone by the sputtering Jack Hammer. Declared as the greatest - which he isn't - and left alone. Damn good, but he could have used some Jack Hammer help in elevating over OSU. Not sure he got it. Seems he got left alone on that side. As such he did what he does well and never overcame what he doesn't.
2019 Wisconsin - no show. 2019 Penn State and Notre Dame - real fire. Offense with a young coordinator started to ascend - likely due to some of Jim's focus and help.
Minnesota we were dialed in after a stressful prep. MSU, it looks like the jack hammer took up residence in a hammock.
Signing day - the jack hammer was humming.
Now, where's it at? Is the broken spirit of this team being nurtured right now? Or is the jack hammer on the shelf?
Fits and Starts hasn't and won't cut it. The Jack Hammer needs to hum and if it can't and won't - then I too am ready for the next generation.
So as we look for silver bullets in the form of coordinators - I'll say this - our success with Jim depends a lot more on the elimination of fits and starts than it does with who is hired.
If we see the Jack Hammer, we'll see successful hires. If we don't, we won't.
We pay somewhere around $8 million dollars a year for a Jim Harbaugh who ran sprints with his San Diego team and was involved in dotting every i and crossing every T of his Stanford strength and conditioning program that turned an academic basement dweller into a giant crushing, consistent national factor, based largely on football strength and toughness.
Spread this type of focus across all areas of a football program and you have a guy self-described as a Jack Hammer who earned that mantra.
Since December of 2016, we haven't seen a jack hammer. We've gotten fits and starts - a sputtering Jack Hammer.
There are moments when we see the contrast between Jack Hammer Jim and fits and starts Jim. After a BRUTAL 2017 off season and brutal 2017 season - the first half of the Ohio State game was surprisingly beautiful. Jack was pistol whipping Urban with chalk to start that game. There was zero question who won the game prep for that one. The Jack Hammer. We just didn't win the adjustment game on D, because - well, because OSU adjusted to our D at halftime 2017 and hasn't looked back.
Don it seems was been left alone by the sputtering Jack Hammer. Declared as the greatest - which he isn't - and left alone. Damn good, but he could have used some Jack Hammer help in elevating over OSU. Not sure he got it. Seems he got left alone on that side. As such he did what he does well and never overcame what he doesn't.
2019 Wisconsin - no show. 2019 Penn State and Notre Dame - real fire. Offense with a young coordinator started to ascend - likely due to some of Jim's focus and help.
Minnesota we were dialed in after a stressful prep. MSU, it looks like the jack hammer took up residence in a hammock.
Signing day - the jack hammer was humming.
Now, where's it at? Is the broken spirit of this team being nurtured right now? Or is the jack hammer on the shelf?
Fits and Starts hasn't and won't cut it. The Jack Hammer needs to hum and if it can't and won't - then I too am ready for the next generation.
So as we look for silver bullets in the form of coordinators - I'll say this - our success with Jim depends a lot more on the elimination of fits and starts than it does with who is hired.
If we see the Jack Hammer, we'll see successful hires. If we don't, we won't.
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