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Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:27 am
by bluehenbillk
feel free to discuss
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:46 am
by CAA Flagship
The power of the khaki pants.

Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:09 am
by clenz
He's never not won wherever he's gone
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:12 am
by clenz
This is why I love Harbaugh
Up 31-0...forced a stop on 3rd and 13 in the third
Refs missed a hold call and he was still fighting for the call
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Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:35 pm
by 89Hen
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:48 am
by GannonFan
Amazing. I thought it took 5 years and 3 prongs to bring a program back to prominence. Harbaugh must be a genius.
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:06 am
by Pwns
Of course, Brady Hoke did okay his first year at UM...
Would love to see Baylor versus Michigan. Baylor's offense is silly good this year.
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:23 am
by clenz
Pwns wrote:Of course, Brady Hoke did okay his first year at UM...
Would love to see Baylor versus Michigan. Baylor's offense is silly good this year.
Brady Hoke stepped into an offense that was top 10 in the nation, and unlike anything the B10 had ever seen in conference, that scored 35 points per game....and that includes scoring just 30 total points in their 2 losses and 23 in the Sugar Bowl win.
Had Rich Rod had any kind of defense (his defenses ranked between 107-119 every year at Michigan) he would still be the head coach and Michigan would be averaging close to 45 ppg and 9 to 11 wins per year.
What Hoke did, that first year, was allow Denard to do what Denard did. He focused entirely on the defense. Took them from 107th to 6th (giving up just 16 points per game that year and he always had a top 10-15 defense while at Michigan).
The issue is he didn't/doesn't understand offense. The offense fell from top 6 to 100+ under Hoke. Over 50% of run plays were negative yardage. Over 40% of total plays were negative yardage. They simply couldn't score...or even move the ball really.
Harbaugh took that defense to another level this year, and has brought a true identity to the Michigan offense. It looks like a true old school offense, but some of the wrinkles that are being run out of it are pretty crazy. He's doing that with a 5th year grad transfer QB that was run out of Iowa City and didn't get to campus until August.
Hoke consistently had top 10-15 rated recruiting classes as well. He just couldn't get the offense moving.
In comes Harbaugh with a new attitude, new message, new focus, and a roster with pretty good talent on it...and...well...

Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:35 pm
by GannonFan
In one year, with no prongs, and with a transfer QB to boot! Geez, wonder if UD will change their uniform style now so that we don't have even a shadow of an affiliation with a school that, while playing "winning" football, is clearly doing things the wrong way.

Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:51 pm
by uofmman1122
Yeah...we know.
- Niners fans

Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:52 am
by Skjellyfetti
GannonFan wrote:Amazing. I thought it took 5 years and 3 prongs to bring a program back to prominence. Harbaugh must be a genius.
Could say the same about Gus Malzahn.
Inherited a 3-9 Auburn team and took them immediately to an SEC championship and National Championship game.
... now he's sputtering.
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:54 pm
by Ivytalk
That's how Coach Clenz would play it!

Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:31 pm
by clenz
Ivytalk wrote:
That's how Coach Clenz would play it!

You don't tell second and third string guys to not try when they are out there. Coaches should coach just as hard at that point
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:02 pm
by Pwns
And the media jinxed Florida and Michigan talking about what a big surprise they both were...
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:50 am
by clenz
All he had to do was not drop the snap...that's all he had to do.
Oh well.
Time to finish 9-2
Re: Jim Harbaugh...Genius
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:52 am
by AZGrizFan
clenz wrote:All he had to do was not drop the snap...that's all he had to do.
Oh well.
Time to finish 9-2
And failing that, all he had to do was drop ON the snap....