Team 137 by Jim Harbaugh. Football talk and Predictions.

[whodean]

Screw that, we're allowed to bask without that turd jumping in our pool

[hack]

Thanks, Mike.

[hack]

Good catch, Hack.

Thanks, Mark.

[Prime2]

Spent the day in Columbia, SC today, just got home, glad I don't fly peasant class these days. Most yokels had no idea who Rashan Gary is, which actually illustrates my greater point precisely.

Congratulations on the 2nd best class in the B10 according to each of the 4 services who rate such things.

LOL
I will take Rivals at #4 nationally about as accurate as the other 3 IMO. Suppose if Elliot & Hamilton stay, Michigan probably finishes ahead of OSU with that totally subjective metric scoring system. With a year of relationships established, expect JH to really slam it home next year.

Harbaugh, in one recruiting cycle, has closed the decade-long gap in recruitment between OSU/M. I'd even say Harbaugh has established superiority by landing the #1 consensus recruit in the nation, Meyer has surely taken notice.

[Pasadena Blue]

Imagine a jumbo TE package next year with TyWheatleyJr on one side and Devin Asiasi on the other --- actually throw in JBooty for a 3-TE package --- that would be something.

[lineygoblue]

You may see something like that in goal line situations.

[WM Wolverine]

Remember HARBAUGH'S!!! 3-stars are 4-stars and his 4-stars are 5-stars!

[hack]

His 5-stars are 12-stars.

[UMStan White]

Dantonio: "Stars? We don't need no stinkin stars!"

[Rocky Bleier]

Many have tried to channel Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh?s intensity. At one point, he even got professional help.


?It was a series of a couple things,? Harbaugh explained on Dan Lebatard's show on ESPN today, as he toured the Super Bowl?s radio row in San Francisco. ?One was a recess incident, I remember. The other was the gym teacher at St. Francis elementary school in Ann Arbor had a problem stemming from being too competitive. I think the final straw was in a game of dodgeball, I took that red ball and hit somebody in the head with it in third or fourth grade. That was the final straw, when they felt I needed help.?"Help" was seeing a professional.
?I was getting in trouble in things like that, and they recommended that I see a counselor,? he said. ?I did see a psychologist at one point (later) -- I think it was 11 or 12 years old -- and that?s what the psychologist said: I was too competitive, too intense, wanted to win too much.?
He said that was a reason that he didn?t have many friends growing up and the reason he stayed so close to his brother John, who could tolerate him.
So why didn?t the psychologist visit help? When Harbaugh left the appointment, his father, Jack, dismissed the assessment.
?I remember my dad telling me, ?Don?t change,?? Harbaugh said. ?He said he was proud of me. I never did have to go back to that counselor.?

[Prime2]

49ers great wonders if franchise 'can recover' without Jim Harbaugh
By Ryan Wilson | CBSSports.com
February 14, 2016 1:21 pm ET

Randy Cross played 13 seasons with the 49ers where he was part of four Super Bowls. He saw firsthand how Bill Walsh and Joe Montana did their thing, and the results were a lot of winning.

The winning continued when George Seifert and Steve Young succeeded Walsh and Montana, and to a lesser extent when Steve Mariucci and Jeff Garcia succeeded Seifert and Young. But things went south in 2003 with Dennis Erickson, and from 2003 to 2010 the team didn't once finish with a winning record.

In fact, over that eight-season span, the 49ers went 46-82. That all changed when Jim Harbaugh arrived. From 2011-2014, the 49ers went 44-19 (think about that -- they won two fewer games in four fewer seasons), won the division twice, made two NFC Championship Game appearances and were one 4th-down conversion away from a Super Bowl title.

But differences between Harbaugh and 49ers president Jed York led to Harbaugh bolting for the University of Michigan after the 2014 season. Assistant coach Jim Tomsula was promoted and, predictably, he was fired less than a year later after the team stumbled to five wins. Chip Kelly was announced as the newest coach last month but Cross doesn't know if it will matter.

"I'm gonna be honest with you -- I'm not sure if they can recover from that decision to get rid of Harbaugh, which brought on the wave of talent going away, some guys just walking away, others choosing to go somewhere else in free agency," Cross told SiriusXM NFL Radio's Alex Marvez and Zig Fracassi, via TheScore.com.

Not helping: the exodus of on-field talent out of San Francisco, whether due to free agency or retirement.

"The drain out of the building is something -- from a talent standpoint, mentality standpoint, football knowledge standpoint -- that's gonna take them, best-case scenario, at least five or six years to replace," Cross continued. "Line of scrimmage, quarterback, head coach, everything about it.

"I wish (owner Jed York) the best of luck. I think the league's a lot better when the California and Bay Area teams are relevant. But I look at that place right now as being in pretty dire straits when it comes to what's going to happen."

Kelly's first order of business: Figuring out what he has in quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who flourished under Harbaugh but was so lost last season that he was benched for Blaine Gabbert. For what it's worth, York has complete confidence that Kaepernick can return to the form that made him one of the NFL's most exciting young quarterbacks.

"There's no question in my mind," York said last month. "I've always had a very, very high opinion of Kap. Kap's a great kid, he's done a lot of great things for us. And again, this is a fresh start for everybody."

Whether that fresh start will translate into more wins is another matter.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Cross is right to worry. York is an egocentric, his way only, buffoon operating at a level well above his skill set. Money is the only thing he has that is equivalent to the rest of the league owners. He's destructive with regard to the 49'ers very much like Brandon was destructive to M football.

Goes without saying. A team's success in the NFL is about being able to aggregate the huge amount of talent that plays in the league and turn it into on field success. That is Harbaugh's MO and he does it just as well in the college game with less talent. He's a leader with prodigious skills in that regard. Being brilliant doesn't hurt either.

[edindetroit]

Drew Dull put up an anti HARBAUGH!! article and didn't let people comment on it.

[Ghengis Jon]

Don't link to that douchebag's drivel. His bonus is, in part, linked to the number of clicks. Hold him up for public mockery and shaming yes, but don't reward his feeble attempts at sport reporting.

[WM Wolverine]

With Mason Cole practicing at center, it nearly writes off Patrick Kugler's career. Haven't heard much about him since he was a redshirt freshman, thought he played a few series last year...

Derrick Green is just the start of offseason attrition... Khalid Hill is being tested at full back, Harbaugh hasn't recruited a fullback so I'll assume he'll over recruit tight ends and move them to fullback. Chase Winovich moved to tight end (from LB) last fall, interested to see if he stays there in spring practice...

Other notable position switches to watch for is Reuben Jones and Lawrence Marshall, a couple defensive ends who've played some LB in practices and/or games.