Harbaugh
- Thread starter Cydkar
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OSU can't recruit everyone from Ohio, and Harbaugh is actually a pretty good recruiter working at a place that isn't hard to recruit to. Just can't recruit as well as the team to the south.
smh. The point you are making is nonsense. Kid choose schools for many reasons. None of those reasons are the coach in another state was not originally from that state. If Campbell took the Michigan job it would give him more power in Ohio than any other coach in that state minus Ohio State. Not that he would take the Michigan job butthe theory you have is garbage.
Bo was an Ohio guy who coached at OSU for Woody. So the thought that an Ohio guy can't get Ohio recruits or beat Ohio State is just foolish. In fact if I was Michigan, I would hire an Ohio guy. The only success they have had against OSU. That being said, CMC is a family man, so if momma and family is happy like everyone is saying then no problem.
What has changed?
I doubt high school coaches in Ohio were very somehow friendly to Michigan in 1972.
The internet and tOSU winning national titles and Michigan not even sniffing the playoffs.
The hatred between Ohio State and Michigan is a lot older than the Internet. It is probably the most (or at least one of the most) intense rivalries in all of North American sports.
Michigan wasn't doing so hot before Bo came up north. The coach before him went 51-42-2 from 1959 through 1968 (2-7-1 against Michigan State and 3-7 against Ohio State). They won on Big Ten title in 1964 and won the Rose Bowl over Oregon State after that season. Otherwise? Meh.
They fired him (Bump Elliott) after Ohio State beat them 50-14 and went and got Bo to turn it around. Bo was born in Ohio, played for Miami-Ohio, was an assistant coach for Ohio State and Bowling Green State before becoming the head coach at Miami-Ohio and then moving up to Ann Arbor.
Sorry, but there simply is a major precedent of an Ohioan saving Michigan football out there. The situations really are not all that different -- Woody won two natties during the 1960s.
I do not think Campbell is leaving for Michigan. I do not think they are about to fire Harbaugh. But the precedent of looking south for somebody (e.g., Luke Fickell or Campbell) is there.
Heck, McCarney was a Hawkeye right off the Fry tree, and now he's one of our beloved elder statesmen.
Can we talk about stuff that has actually happened in my lifetime and not the time period where my parents were infants?
Maybe the coaches were not friendly but Ohio players must of been. 43 Ohio guys on the 1972 roster!
Maybe the coaches were not friendly but Ohio players must of been. 43 Ohio guys on the 1972 roster!
Now do this year.
That’s a trend. I bet that number shrinks evn more next season unless Michigan is getting so desperate that they’re taking like 3 star #12 in the state of Ohio guy.
