(10-17-2021, 01:37 PM)82lsju Wrote: Fiorina, I was gone before Whitman arrived
I have two great Fiorina stories. Not for a public board.
(10-18-2021, 08:04 AM)BostonCard Wrote:(10-17-2021, 10:41 PM)teejers1 Wrote:(10-17-2021, 02:19 PM)Goose Wrote: Was Harbaugh a genius at Stanford or was he lucky? I think probably both. As we have seen, he can't replicate that success on demand.
This is the second time I've seen this sentiment posted here (maybe you did it both times).
Regardless, hasn't Harbaugh been wildly successful at all his head coaching stops? (Along with being wildly a pain in the ass?).
Harbaugh lost Patrick Willis and Willis' replacement Chris Borland his first year, and started the year 9-1, going 13-3. This was a year after Singletary/Tomsula went 6-10. He went 11-4-1 and 12-4 the next two seasons, with 8-8 as his final year record. Total four year regular season record, 44-19-1 with three of the four 10+ win seasons since 2002. Compared to Shanahan's four year record of 33-45, I'd say Harbaugh did pretty well.
Given that he replicated his success at the 49ers, and then at Michigan (the year before Harbaugh was hired, Brady Hoke went 5-7, and while Harbaugh hasn't brought Michigan any Big Ten championships yet, he won an average of 9 games his first five years there, and this might be the year he broke through).
The question is whether the conditions exist at Stanford for anyone to replicate what Harbaugh did. The two Johns plus Bowlsby created a much more favorable environment for football than Mark, Prell, and Muir.
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