08-17-2021, 10:03 AM
I'm with Mick and Goose. And, weird as it sounds, Harbaugh was the perfect fit at Stanford 2007-11 and, apparently, is not the best fit at his alma mater. He's a poster child for why the "Top 100 Coaches" lists really miss the point with all of the apples-to-oranges comparisons. Based solely on what he did at Stanford, Harbaugh would be in the top 10, IMO.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)