Name me another team who's fired a coach after four seasons who's won at least 10 games in 3 of those seasons. I'll wait. You idiots are treating your delusional OSU bias as fact. There's no precedent there with any other team.
If we didn't have Haskins back there, I'm guessing our game plan would have been different.
Few teams are michigan. You guys are supposed to be a blueblood, which means at least playing for your conference crown one time in 4 years. You have unlimited resources and tons of talent, yet you are still clearly a notch or two below the top teams, even after 4 years.
So is ND. So is Texas. So is USC. Modern football is a different beast. Michigan has had a hell of a challenge digging out of the hole we created; made even worse by the division of football we play in. With PSU, OSU and MSU challenging for the division in the last few years, it's not the ideal scenario to also trying to be rebuilding in.
Brian Kelly? Tom Herman? Jimbo Fisher? Frost? Chip Kelly? Should I go on?
Could that be because, being an OSU fan, you're more aware of Harbaugh than any of those other coaches? Or the fact that Harbaugh turned down the NFL to come to Michigan, which no one expected? Harbaugh's hire was certainly a shock to more people than many of those hires. But there's been a hell of a lot of hype about most of those other coaches going to the programs they are currently at. Hell, Jimbo leaving a blueblood he won a national title at for A&M? Can't get more hype and media attention drawing than that.
USC is their own victim. They tried going with two known dumbasses at HC with Lane and Sark, then replaced them permanently with an OC who wasn't even that good as a coordinator despite NFL talent all over and playing in a defensively mediocre conference in Helton.
There was also 4* Andrew Hendrix and 4* Malik Zaire who never did much of anything. So he's had 8 QBs, and all but two were 4*, that he's recruited, one made it to the NFL and is fighting to stay in the league. Moreover, none of them has ever performed well on the biggest stages outside of some mid-level bowl games against decent at best teams. Above that, his offenses have only been in the top 10 once in his 9 years in efficiency, despite having tons of high-end talent at all skill positions and on the OL.
And I don't think Kelly is that good of a coach, either. His hype still wasn't on Harbaugh's level. He and Harbaugh both need to bring in much more progressive OCs than what they have if they want to compete with the big boys, because their defenses aren't in that upper echelon elite level to be enough to carry the teams.
Your average recruiting class has been 11th nationally since Kelly has been here. You've had so many 4* just TE I lost count, but you've also had plenty of 4* WRs and RBs since he's gotten here, and outside of Kyle Rudolph and some inconsistent production from Will Fuller and Tyler Eiffert, none of your skill position guys are doing much.
Michigan has been in the national title hunt twice, and beating by OSU at the end of the season. If the ref calls that final play differently in 2016, who knows what could have been. The fact that we're right there at the end of the year is exactly what Harbaugh was brought in to do. He just needs to finish the job. And I don't think we're far away from doing that; at least in terms of a B10 title.
