Michigan Football Needs Jim Harbaugh As Head Coach
By David Cuff
@DaveCuff
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The University of Michigan needs to make a change to their football program. Brady Hoke has tried and is currently failing at turning the program around. The sideline incident on Saturday between Hoke and defensive coordinator Greg Mattison is the latest in a long list of problems Hoke has faced.
Enter Jim Harbaugh. The current head coach of the San Francisco 49ers played at Michigan from 1983-86 under legendary coach Bo Schembechler and is the perfect man for the job.
Harbaugh has a career 58-27 record as a college head coach for both San Diego and Stanford. At Stanford, he took over a 1-11 team coming off of five straight losing seasons. In just his third year with the Cardinal, he led them to a winning season, and in his fourth year the team went 12-1, including an Orange Bowl victory. After leaving Stanford for the NFL, he quickly turned around the 49ers franchise, leading them to three straight NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl berth. His success speaks for itself.
Harbaugh is a Michigan man through and through. He spent part of his high school years in Ann Arbor when his father was an assistant for the Wolverines under Schembechler. He played at Michigan for four years, starting at quarterback for three of those years. He is what Michigan needs to right the ship.
His ability to develop quarterbacks would have done wonders for a guy like Devin Gardner. His passion would have lit a fire under a Michigan defense that can’t seem to put together a complete game. Most importantly, his knowledge of the game of football would have solidified Michigan as a dominant program.
The Wolverines don’t belong as an average team in a weak conference. Michigan football belongs at the top of the totem pole. The maize and blue used to be a team you knew was going to punch you in the mouth. Now the program is continuing on the downward spiral that started when Lloyd Carr retired after the 2007 season.
I only trust one man to bring this program back to prominence. I trust one man to take a once storied football team and lead them back to the top of the Big 10. I trust one man to follow in the footsteps of Fielding H. Yost, Schembechler and Carr as the next great Michigan head coach. That one man is Jim Harbaugh.
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