His record is basically the exact same as Dabo Swiney in Dabo’s first 6 years.
Who are they going to find better right now? They might as well extend him and make the buyout basically non-existent so they can fire him if he doesn’t bounce back in a big way in 2021.
Harbaugh’s offensive staff has sucked donkey dick. There have been years where they didn’t have a WR coach or QB coach or RB coach. Is this normal? I don’t think it is. Sheridan has developed QBs at Indiana and Mike Hart has developed RBs. Something Harbaugh and his staff flat out aren’t doing at Michigan.
Both those guys would die to coach at Michigan if given the opportunity. They both bleed maize and blue.
The rejiggering isn’t the problem. Harbaugh is the problem. He has never taken his hand out of the cookie jar in 6 years. He is heavily involved in the offense. And he’s basically an offensive retard when it comes to football. Brandon Jacobs wasn’t lying about the guy.
Outside my sort of general disdain for one of those terms, the bolded basically makes me say, if that's the case, then any argument for keeping him seems like triage.
That Dabo had the same record is somewhat immaterial. He went 11-2 in year 6 and 10-3 in Year 7. Michigan ain't near that. And yes, Dabo in Year 3 took the rare route of getting more hands off on offense, but he was always a monster recruiter and worked well with their scheme to pay recruits.
Maybe the answer is to just keep the powder dry, keep a "problem" who is an offensive coach whose offensive chops you generally detest. But chances are, it's not gonna work. It's nice to bring in IU's offensive staff that played at Michigan and really wants to come back. But I've seen them roll in a smattering of name assistants, and it's yet to produce teams that make folks happy.
Let me put it this way. Each of the past few years, you've torched the guy. Again and again and again. If that's the case and he's the problem, then another year is almost assuredly not going to fix that. It's wishful thinking. And I suppose it’s fine to endure an extended lame duck stretch until you think a better candidate is good, but that’s what it’s gonna be. It’s possible he suddenly snaps to it, but at this point, it would basically be an accident of faith more than a plan.
