Jim Harbaugh?

[Benton]

(12-06-2020, 09:54 PM)PhilHos Wrote: There's no denying his NFL resume but if he can't even succeed at the college level, what chances are he's going to duplicate his  NFL success in Cincy?

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Depends on the definition of success. It's not the NFL where the goal is a Lombardi.

For starters, Michigan is in the Big 10. Harbaugh has to walk into a kid's locker room and say "Hey, how would you not like to play in the SEC? Want to go to the second best conference!? Looking to reduce your chances of going to the NFL!? I'm your guy!"

There's some sarcasm there, but at the start of the season, the SEC had four times as many players as Big 10 in the NFL, which was the second highest. It makes it hard to recruit.

Second, Harbaugh's worst season (until now) was 8-5.  Half the time he was 10-3. In NFL terms, that's postseason, where anything could happen. Postseason with a team full of SEC players. Record-wise, he's got half the career length but about the same results as Carr and that guy from the 80s (although, admittedly, they had more Bowl wins).

Harbaugh isn't my favorite, but he's done decent as a college coach and did well as an NFL coach.