On Jim Harbaugh

Why fire Don Brown if you are not staying?  

For those of us who will always follow Michigan football, there was a season this year.  Michigan was hardly involved.  I don't even know why their season ended after five or six games.

Despite the terrible, unmotivated team, the recruiting class held mostly together.  There are some large holes, e.g., defensive line, however.

The whole thing is about as stupid and lame duck as a president who doesn't give a shit about anyone else but himself.  The transition from John Beilein to Juwan Howard worked out fine.  If you don't want to stay, go.  The confirmed, real news (Detroit Free Press and Detroit News) is that another huge, multi-year and many millions contract is on the table.

NFL owners are bigger retards than college football fans.  Who knows if one will offer him.

So John U. Bacon says it is 80/20 Harbaugh will stay at Michigan.  I say it is 99/1.  Given his ego he may believe he could be successful again in the NFL.  That same narcissism, like Trump, will not allow him to accept defeat.  

He will not leave Michigan with a losing record (this season; 2020).  He knows that his legacy will be ruined and he would not be welcomed back.

At first I thought, if the NFL, there would be no better option than the Lions.  That would be impossible with Detroit fifty miles from Ann Arbor.

The clock, or the calendar, is ticking...  Every day he waits it looks worse.  If you are enthusiastic about it and are all in, do it.

Over the last five years under Harbaugh there have been some glimmers of hope, but generally the team has gone downhill since the first year with Jake Ruddock.  As the existing player talent departed, it got worse.  Coaching turnover has been high.  Can Harbaugh turn it around?

I doubt it.  That appears to be what is in store.

Right now the defense looks very thin for 2021.  Come to think of it, so does the offense.  There just are not a lot of stars.