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Bingo Teejers. No speed, no separation. Plodding. Boring. No place for Jones and Peat to go. Pressure with a three man rush. Kickoff out of bounds. I miss Harballs.

I miss Harball's recruits (and staff).

You are aware that Michigan went 2-4 last year and has lost its most recent bowl games four consecutive times in a row?

Facts.

It’s difficult to win consistently. It’s difficult to recruit consistently. It’s difficult to win bowl games. 

This mythical Harbaugh character has won only one bowl game at Michigan - his first - and it wasn’t a NYE6 bowl game, then he lost four consecutive bowl games, then he had a record so poor they didn’t qualify for a bowl game, and yet somehow the person “mired in a quicksand of its own making,” the one “not going out with a bang but with a whimper,” is somehow Coach Shaw? And you are so convinced “1-4 Bowl Game Harbaugh” would have done better?

If it is so easy to consistently hire a Fangio, a Shaw, a Hamilton and a (Randy) Hart, why didn't 1-4 Bowl Game Harbaugh do that in the last 5 years so he could actually win a bowl game?

I was talking about Harbaugh's recruits and staff at the time, not generally speaking. Something I still long for. The drop-off in talent between then and now has been more than evident for both programs (UM and Stanford). BTW, insofar as winning/recruiting consistently? Perhaps taking a cue or two from Alabama, Clemson, Oklahoma or (horrors) Oregon or Notre Dame or Ohio State -- as déclassé and unpalatable as this may seem for many Stanfordites -- might prove useful?

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Bingo Teejers. No speed, no separation. Plodding. Boring. No place for Jones and Peat to go. Pressure with a three man rush. Kickoff out of bounds. I miss Harballs.

I miss Harball's recruits (and staff).

You are aware that Michigan went 2-4 last year and has lost its most recent bowl games four consecutive times in a row?

Facts.

It’s difficult to win consistently. It’s difficult to recruit consistently. It’s difficult to win bowl games. 

This mythical Harbaugh character has won only one bowl game at Michigan - his first - and it wasn’t a NYE6 bowl game, then he lost four consecutive bowl games, then he had a record so poor they didn’t qualify for a bowl game, and yet somehow the person “mired in a quicksand of its own making,” the one “not going out with a bang but with a whimper,” is somehow Coach Shaw? And you are so convinced “1-4 Bowl Game Harbaugh” would have done better?

If it is so easy to consistently hire a Fangio, a Shaw, a Hamilton and a (Randy) Hart, why didn't 1-4 Bowl Game Harbaugh do that in the last 5 years so he could actually win a bowl game?

I was talking about Harbaugh's recruits and staff at the time, not generally speaking. Something I still long for. The drop-off in talent between then and now has been more than evident for both programs (UM and Stanford). BTW, insofar as winning/recruiting consistently? Perhaps taking a cue or two from Alabama, Clemson, Oklahoma or (horrors) Oregon or Notre Dame or Ohio State -- as déclassé and unpalatable as this may seem for many Stanfordites -- might prove useful?