Todd Graham?

[mhughes0021]

Whittingham....from Utah. Not Willingham, formerly of Stanford and Notre Dame.

Whittingham is 55 years old, has a great record in the Mountain West but not so much in the Pac 12, but has won a BCS Bowl game and his Utah team looked good smacking UM around back in September.

If Michigan hires Steve Addazio, I may be right there with you. I don't have an AA membership to have refunded, but I may just become a Pitt fan. Paul Chryst is better than Steve Addazio. He's 55 and only been a head coach for 4 seasons. I'd rather PJ Fleck than Addazio, and I refuse to accept that that's the best UM can do.

Now, if we learned that 19 other candidates were offered the job and refused, (including Ron English for Christ's sake!) and Addazio was number 20, ok. But we all know that's not going to be the case.

this might be thread worthy...."what team is your new team when we don't hire a harbaugh" thread. Kind of like the old lions fans that adopted the saints as a team cause they were the only other team that sucked so bad on a consistent basis. Hmm....I think id have to pick TCU. Nothing more intimidating than a purple horned frog.

 

[josh200612]

If we hire some jackass I'm going with lsu.

 

[bphillips4gg]

If we hire some jackass I'm going with lsu.

Nah. Go with Bama. May as well pick a winner.

 

[josh200612]

Nah. Go with Bama. May as well pick a winner.

Nah I at least have to have some Michigan ties plus I've hated Alabama since I was a kid.

 

[bphillips4gg]

Nah I at least have to have some Michigan ties plus I've hated Alabama since I was a kid.

Fair enough. But if you are a Michigan fan and I believe you said in a thread recently that you're a Reds fan as well then rooting for Bama should be a kiss of death for them. Of course the Reds kod was extending Jocketty when he deserved to be fired.

 

[lostleader]

I find it funny that people want to discount the quality of the Big East conference as it was just a few short years ago. The conference had a winning record in BCS bowls, including some complete ass whoopings of national powers. Given the state that the Michigan program we're discussing has been in and considering there were in any given year in the past 7 years at least 2-3 teams in the Big East that would have beaten the shit out of Michigan, it's pretty fucking stupid to write it off as "but it was just the Big East".

Stop recycling the bullshit that the talking heads spouted for years. Every time they brought it up a Big East team went out and beat someone from the ACC, Big 12 or SEC. I know I for one am happy that Michigan didn't play Louisville, Cincinnati or WVU over the past 7 years because it would have been pretty hard to stomach it when a "lowly Big East team" came into the Big House and beat the shit out of Michigan.

Look the Big East has some good teams, but its not solid like the other conferences. Maybe the B1G isn't either, but that is another argument.

I know you are a UC fan, so don't take it personal. (nice win today FYI) But after Miami left it wasn't that impressive. WVU had a good run and Louisville had a few good years, but they are not perennial contenders like, OSU, Bama, Oregon, and USC. RR had it good, Charlie Strong is a good coach, but that doesn't justify Schiano's hire at UM.

UC was throttled both years they went to a BCS bowl, and couldn't hang with OSU this year. Granted Brian Kelly left them high and dry one year. The Big East is the Big East and there is a reason why no one would accept several of their schools during the expansion a few years ago.

 

[thewolverines24]

Harbaugh wouldnt win here next year. Jesus Christ wouldnt win here next year. I agree with your statement for the most part but I wouldnt expect a major turn around yr 1 for any coach.

I don't expect a good season next year no matter who we hire. We don't have a QB.

 

[mhughes0021]

this might be thread worthy...."what team is your new team when we don't hire a harbaugh" thread. Kind of like the old lions fans that adopted the saints as a team cause they were the only other team that sucked so bad on a consistent basis. Hmm....I think id have to pick TCU. Nothing more intimidating than a purple horned frog.

Unless we hire gary Patterson....then I reserve the right to change my pick.

 

[bphillips4gg]

Look the Big East has some good teams, but its not solid like the other conferences. Maybe the B1G isn't either, but that is another argument.

I know you are a UC fan, so don't take it personal. (nice win today FYI) But after Miami left it wasn't that impressive. WVU had a good run and Louisville had a few good years, but they are not perennial contenders like, OSU, Bama, Oregon, and USC. RR had it good, Charlie Strong is a good coach, but that doesn't justify Schiano's hire at UM.

UC was throttled both years they went to a BCS bowl, and couldn't hang with OSU this year. Granted Brian Kelly left them high and dry one year. The Big East is the Big East and there is a reason why no one would accept several of their schools during the expansion a few years ago.

They lost to Va Tech 20-7. Not exactly throttled, but I get what you're saying. They got smoked by Florida by the same score that OSU did the year before, as you said with an interim coach.

My point was that while they may not have had one school that was a perennial contender, they usually had at least one in the mix. If not for a second being added to the clock in the Big 12 championship game, UC plays Bama, Kelly stays and maybe they put up a better showing. I'm not suggesting that the outcome would've been any different, just that the Big East would've had a team playing for a title. You can say all you want about the Big Ten, but the bottom line is it was never nearly as far ahead of the Big East as most people liked to believe.

And I am not suggesting any of this about the American. This league is trash and I hope against hope that the rumor of the Big 12 adding UC and Memphis is true as much as I hope Jim Harbaugh is the next coach at Michigan.

And please don't remind me that both of my teams lost to those cocksuckers this year. It's still too fresh. UC won the conference championship without the benefit of a defense. I also realized that Spielman isn't as much of a chode when he's not calling a Michigan game.