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The issue isn't if Jim Harbaugh is good or not.  He is good.  The issue is he is being paid so much to be elite and he is not elite.

These college sports programs have it backwards.  They pay coaches hoping they perform, not after they do.  Look at Cal with the Wilcox extension and Brohm at Purdue.  They went 7-5 and 6-6 respectively, but both got big raises, Wilcox with all guaranteed money (Cal always negotiates against itself).  

JH should be paid at the $4-5 million range, as that is commensurate with other coaches who are as accomplished as he is. But instead, he's paid at the level of Urban Meyer and Jimbo Fisher, even more than Dabo Swinney, all coaches with National Championship wins.

He got paid to resurrect Michigan, and had the track record, having resurrected Stanford (going from 1-10 the year before he was hired to 12-1 four years later.  He then resurrected San Francisco,taking a team who had not had a winning season in almost a decade to the Super Bowl.

That’s what Michigan played for.  Mick has described Michigan pre-Harbaugh earlier in this thread.  He has dramatically improved the team, though he has fallen a bit short of being truly elite.  That being said,  there’s probably a 90% chance that anyone they hire is a downgrade.

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[BostonCard]

The issue isn't if Jim Harbaugh is good or not.  He is good.  The issue is he is being paid so much to be elite and he is not elite.

These college sports programs have it backwards.  They pay coaches hoping they perform, not after they do.  Look at Cal with the Wilcox extension and Brohm at Purdue.  They went 7-5 and 6-6 respectively, but both got big raises, Wilcox with all guaranteed money (Cal always negotiates against itself).  

JH should be paid at the $4-5 million range, as that is commensurate with other coaches who are as accomplished as he is. But instead, he's paid at the level of Urban Meyer and Jimbo Fisher, even more than Dabo Swinney, all coaches with National Championship wins.

He got paid to resurrect Michigan, and had the track record, having resurrected Stanford (going from 1-10 the year before he was hired to 12-1 four years later.  He then resurrected San Francisco,taking a team who had not had a winning season in almost a decade to the Super Bowl.

That’s what Michigan played for.  Mick has described Michigan pre-Harbaugh earlier in this thread.  He has dramatically improved the team, though he has fallen a bit short of being truly elite.  That being said,  there’s probably a 90% chance that anyone they hire is a downgrade.

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