Harbaugh delivered on everything we could have hoped for and much more.
The culture has been restored better than ever.
Until the big coaching decisions are made, don’t worry about transfers or transfer portal activity.
Even if 2024 is a season of the young guys learning on the job, and perhaps we lose a couple of guys to transfer, Michigan won’t see the mass transfers from Bama, nor will we see the desperate actions of coach 3rd base paying for every mercenary player available, and hiring a bunch of has-beens and never-weres pro coaches in his last chance to save his job.
Michigan is not a team of those kind of players..the team is not going to suddenly lose 10-12 guys because Harbaugh moved on to climb Everest.
Stay true to the culture they all built together. This version of Michigan Football was not built by Harbaugh alone..it was a total team effort of the team and coaches working together to create Michigan Football 2.0. As witnessed by Harbaugh’s 6 games missed…this is a team that is not a monarchy, it is a collection of everyone creating a team that showed it can coach itself without its HC without missing a beat. That is a major part of Jim’s legacy, along with recruiting with the staff’s own eyes instead of an arbitrary talent rating system that isn’t just subjective, it’s produced by a network of journalists who became “insider experts” just by collecting frequent flyer miles. I’ve seen the birth of this ratings phenomena, observed its accuracy over a couple of decades, I’ve seen it’s hit rate/bust rate be no better than a coin flip, then watched Harbaugh win more games than anyone but Georgia over the last 3 years with 1 less victory, and dominate with a team of 3 and 4 stars, totally whiffed on 2 stars, and a couple of 5 star players playing old school smash your face in football in the 7 on 7 age..ultimately becoming 15-0 National Champions. I see no reason why that formula can’t continue to be successful as long as Michigan is grooming its next OCs, DCs, and HCs who have been immersed in the Michigan Football Culture and understand the soul of the program thoroughly. Michigan is a unique program, and I think we all learned the AD just can’t hire someone from outside Schembechler Hall if the school wants to maintain Michigan’s culture set by Schembechler half a century ago.
We are back boys! We should be ecstatic over what Jim managed to pull off …as he might have been the only guy who could do it. As long as the AD follows the plan, continues to make progress on NIL..but those that think we will ever compete with those programs just loading up on 5 stars with 10s of millions from sources unknown as NIL collectives..get used to the fact that Michigan will never be a “by any means necessary..don’t ask don’t tell NIL funding” program..ever. The only way we will ever be on a level playing field is if radical change happens, the players become employees paid out of the TV money deals, and school run NIL collectives are eliminated with the players agents responsible for generating NIL endorsements. The only thing that sucks about Jim leaving is he was the LONE power five coach advocating for that kind of change. His opinion carried weight, and now that his is in the pros, I believe nobody else will pick up the torch and Jim’s radical ideas for positive change will be suppressed and forgotten.
If that’s the case, Michigan will have to make keeping the programs culture alive and well, along with hiring young nfl guys who need experience to continue with a program of talent evaluation and player development. It’s the only way Michigan can continue with what the kids and Jim built over the last 3 years and dominate teams loaded with 5 star mercenaries like desperate coach 3rd base is attempting to do…and I calling it right now, November 30th is Just for Men Ryan Day’s last hours as coach at ohio after his 4th straight defeat by a mauling physical Michigan team.
We are in a good spot boys…ask yourself how you felt by the end of Hoke’s last game, then compare it to the last 3 years of Michigan Football. You should feel extremely positive about the future of this program.
Thanks Jim! It went EXACTLY how we wanted it to go. - Argus
The culture has been restored better than ever.
Until the big coaching decisions are made, don’t worry about transfers or transfer portal activity.
Even if 2024 is a season of the young guys learning on the job, and perhaps we lose a couple of guys to transfer, Michigan won’t see the mass transfers from Bama, nor will we see the desperate actions of coach 3rd base paying for every mercenary player available, and hiring a bunch of has-beens and never-weres pro coaches in his last chance to save his job.
Michigan is not a team of those kind of players..the team is not going to suddenly lose 10-12 guys because Harbaugh moved on to climb Everest.
Stay true to the culture they all built together. This version of Michigan Football was not built by Harbaugh alone..it was a total team effort of the team and coaches working together to create Michigan Football 2.0. As witnessed by Harbaugh’s 6 games missed…this is a team that is not a monarchy, it is a collection of everyone creating a team that showed it can coach itself without its HC without missing a beat. That is a major part of Jim’s legacy, along with recruiting with the staff’s own eyes instead of an arbitrary talent rating system that isn’t just subjective, it’s produced by a network of journalists who became “insider experts” just by collecting frequent flyer miles. I’ve seen the birth of this ratings phenomena, observed its accuracy over a couple of decades, I’ve seen it’s hit rate/bust rate be no better than a coin flip, then watched Harbaugh win more games than anyone but Georgia over the last 3 years with 1 less victory, and dominate with a team of 3 and 4 stars, totally whiffed on 2 stars, and a couple of 5 star players playing old school smash your face in football in the 7 on 7 age..ultimately becoming 15-0 National Champions. I see no reason why that formula can’t continue to be successful as long as Michigan is grooming its next OCs, DCs, and HCs who have been immersed in the Michigan Football Culture and understand the soul of the program thoroughly. Michigan is a unique program, and I think we all learned the AD just can’t hire someone from outside Schembechler Hall if the school wants to maintain Michigan’s culture set by Schembechler half a century ago.
We are back boys! We should be ecstatic over what Jim managed to pull off …as he might have been the only guy who could do it. As long as the AD follows the plan, continues to make progress on NIL..but those that think we will ever compete with those programs just loading up on 5 stars with 10s of millions from sources unknown as NIL collectives..get used to the fact that Michigan will never be a “by any means necessary..don’t ask don’t tell NIL funding” program..ever. The only way we will ever be on a level playing field is if radical change happens, the players become employees paid out of the TV money deals, and school run NIL collectives are eliminated with the players agents responsible for generating NIL endorsements. The only thing that sucks about Jim leaving is he was the LONE power five coach advocating for that kind of change. His opinion carried weight, and now that his is in the pros, I believe nobody else will pick up the torch and Jim’s radical ideas for positive change will be suppressed and forgotten.
If that’s the case, Michigan will have to make keeping the programs culture alive and well, along with hiring young nfl guys who need experience to continue with a program of talent evaluation and player development. It’s the only way Michigan can continue with what the kids and Jim built over the last 3 years and dominate teams loaded with 5 star mercenaries like desperate coach 3rd base is attempting to do…and I calling it right now, November 30th is Just for Men Ryan Day’s last hours as coach at ohio after his 4th straight defeat by a mauling physical Michigan team.
We are in a good spot boys…ask yourself how you felt by the end of Hoke’s last game, then compare it to the last 3 years of Michigan Football. You should feel extremely positive about the future of this program.
Thanks Jim! It went EXACTLY how we wanted it to go. - Argus
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