How can you still be on board with this guy after what's happened at Michigan so far this season?
His star has definitely lost a bit of its shine and he would be a more attractive candidate if we were doing a reclamation job on Sam rather than moving on to the next rookie to freak up, but he still ticks a number of the boxes that matter to me (history of running a full program, prior success in the NFL, proven expertise with QBs).
I think he gets a partial pass for Michigan given the quality of players he was given to work with. When the best QB you've had in 6 years is Shea Patterson and the best wideout is Donovan Peoples-Jones it's hard to see what more he could have done other than recruit better, which I accept is at least partly on him but also not something that's really an issue in the NFL. In his time they've had 5 skill players drafted to the NFL and the best one is Jake Butt. Harbaugh gets his share of the blame for that, both in recruitment and development, but I don't look at those teams and think that someone else could have done a lot more with them. They've had great defenses and offensive lines, but poor skill players.
