[Mick]

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With respect to both C.al's improvement from 1-11 to 6-7 and Washington's improvement, I am reminded of an NFL head coach (sorry, can't quite recall who it was) who spoke of the ease of going from terrible to mediocre and the difficulty of going from mediocre to pretty darned good.  He said something like "Going from 4-12 to 8-8 in a season is easy.  Going from 8-8 to 12-4 the next season is darned near impossible."

So I suppose I'm saying that I doubt that either Yikes or Washington will do much more than .500 ball this year.

What was Harbaugh's progression?
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I'd say he achieved the darned near impossible.  Now we'll see if he can do it with formerly 5-7 Michigan.

[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=12423.msg125804#msg125804 date=1440732352]
With respect to both C.al's improvement from 1-11 to 6-7 and Washington's improvement, I am reminded of an NFL head coach (sorry, can't quite recall who it was) who spoke of the ease of going from terrible to mediocre and the difficulty of going from mediocre to pretty darned good.  He said something like "Going from 4-12 to 8-8 in a season is easy.  Going from 8-8 to 12-4 the next season is darned near impossible."

So I suppose I'm saying that I doubt that either Yikes or Washington will do much more than .500 ball this year.

What was Harbaugh's progression?
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I'd say he achieved the darned near impossible.  Now we'll see if he can do it with formerly 5-7 Michigan.